unlike sniveling cowardly Greenwald - Biden and Clinton stand by their Iraq War and Patriot Act

[Carolina]

41. Then he was inexcusably STUPID

to believe the administration!

Common sense would have told such political cowards as Biden (the alleged foreign policy expert), Clinton (who was aware of PNAC's plans during Bill's second term), and Kerry (who knew the Bushes were liars from his investigation of Iran-Contra) that a country that had been under UN sanctions since the first Gulf War (1991) and then periodically bombed during the Clinton years could not have morphed into a military threat to the US by 2002. Moreover what chemical WMDs Saddam had, had been given to him by the US during the Reagan-Bush years when Iran and Iraq were at war (1980-1988) and the US was aiding its puppet Saddam because it was still mad about Khomeini in Iran! Add to such background facts that weapons inspectors in 2002-2003 had found nothing and were not allowed to complete their task (read Scott Ritter).

Biden and those like him (especially Clinton and Kerry) showed no knowledge (or were willfully blind) of fact or history with their IWR votes. They acted cravenly with their eyes on the 2002 midterms (though their seats were safe) and the 2004 Presidential election. They are prototypical examples of Profiles in Cowardice. They had a chance to back their words with the action of voting NAY; they could, and should, have heeded the sage words of Robert Byrd and Edward Kennedy who gave superb speeches with lessons about pre-emptive, unnecessary, costly war... and voted NO.

But these duplicitous, career pols played the game, aided and abetted Bush by providing bipartisan cover, and lived to garner more power. They are thus just as culpable as Bush for the resultant death, destruction and debt. And if they are proud of themselves, then their shamelessness knows no bounds!