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[LWolf]

46. Only if you weren't paying attention.

I acknowledge that most simply focused on the fact that he publicly "opposed" the war before it started and before he got to Congress, and didn't pay attention to what he said and did after. Is that an excuse for "having no idea?"

As a matter of fact, both he and HRC voted consistently to fund the Iraq war up until 2007, when they were looking at the primary race. He did sometimes criticize the Iraq War; key word being "Iraq." He wanted to focus the war on terror in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

In 2007, he said he was open to unilateral action against Al Qaeda in Pakistan, with or without the permission of the Pakistani government. He also talked about wanting to send more troops to Afghanistan.

He was clearly hawkish on the War on Terror long before people started voting for him in primaries. So if Democrats "had no idea," why is that? Were they so caught up in the primary wars that they weren't paying attention? Was Democratic attention and awareness selective?