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In reply to the discussion: Why on Earth should we nominate a presidential candidate who voted for war with Iraq? [View all]Nay
(12,051 posts)because somehow they were duped -- many, many people (and not just us keyboard commandos) saw through the whole charade. That's why 600,000 of us even marched on DC before the war. That's why Italy, France, and Israel, among others, were going WTF????
The Dems who voted yea voted that way for the most cynical and myopic reasons -- they didn't want to appear 'weak on defense' in contrast with the pubs. IOW, they were willing to send our kids to die, kill innocent Iraqis, and bankrupt the country just in order to look good for some future ambition of theirs. This is why we dems on this board have a terrible time with many prominent Dems -- they simply have no real standards of behavior, nor do they exhibit any inclination to lead the nation in a different direction; they just want to follow everybody else around nose-to-asshole and hope they can get a better-paying job out of it. It's simply disgusting. And don't get me started on the loony bin Republicans.