Reply #76: You are wrong. [View All]

It is LAUGHABLE TO CALL HER A BUSH-APPEASER. She did not vote for the war, she voted for authorization to go to war AS A LAST RESORT IN ORDER TO CONVINCE SADDAM TO LET THE WEAPONS INSPECTORS IN. Don't let the RW tell you that the senators whom voted for the war resolution actually voted for the war itself. They were misled by the president who said he only issued the resolution in order to show Saddam that he was serious about him listening to the UN.

Also, Hillary did not know that they would wage such an incompetent war filled with torture and high US casualities. She probably thought that they would use the Powell doctrine and wait for wide support of the American people and use a big, big build-up to overwhelm the enemy. She didn't realize that Bush would listen to the neocons who rushed us into a war without preparing for the aftermath of the invasion.

I know many, many rank-and-file Dems (many of whom are liberal) who initially supported the war. They felt that because Saddam was not listening to the UN, he needed to be stopped. Many thought the invasion would go well as it did under Bush I because Bush I planned for the war and knew where to draw the line. In hindsight, knowing that the Bush Administration would screw up the war and torture prisoners in the process, we now would not have supported the war.

Why do you think Lieberman led in the polls very early on? It was because, at first, there was wide support for the war as it appeared to be quick and effective. And, Democrats were not yet opposed to his foreign policy. It was only after it became obvious how badly Bush and company handled the war that Lieberman's candidacy based on support for Bush's foreign policy and oppistion to his domestic and fiscal policy sunk in the polls.