DO NOT BE FOOLED!!!

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197. In a Democracy that's how it works -- at least that's how it used to work.

Everyone is supposed to be acting in good faith for the good of the country, whether they agree or disagree.

Ted Kennedy has spoken about this. He said that he had access to confidential information through his membership on the Armed Services Committee, but most members of the Senate didn't have access to this information and had no choice but to trust the Administration.

Besides Hillary, there were a number of other prominent Democrats who voted yes: John Kerry, Joe Biden, and Harry Reid among them.


http://www.cfr.org/iraq/foreign-policy-address-edward-m-kennedy/p6834

QUESTIONER: My name is . I work for the State Department's Washington File. In the run-up to the war, Robert Byrd was almost the only voice in Congress making a case against the war. Where were the other members of Congress at that time?

KENNEDY: The question is Robert Byrd spoke out brilliantly against the war; where were the others? They weren't behind Robert Byrd where they should've been. I was glad to be there with Robert Byrd on that issue, but the— clearly, we shouldn't have been there. I reached that— my decision— as a member of the Armed Services Committee listening to members of the military testify and predicting exactly what was going to come. You listen to General Hoar , the principal former leaders both of the Marines and the military, men and women who had experience and had been over in that region of the world, absolutely predicted exactly what was going to happen. And it was so powerful, clear, and convincing, that the decision was an easy one for me.

Quite frankly, our colleagues, some of those that were on the Armed Services Committee, reached the similar conclusion. Senator Byrd is on that Armed Services Committee. But it was the— we— I think what they would say is they didn't have the kind of balanced information that many of the rest of us had. There's no question, as I mentioned in the talk, that the presentation that was made to the members of the United States Senate misrepresented and distorted the intelligence information. And we have to have, as any democracy has to have, confidence in both what the president is going to tell you and what the president's representatives are going to tell you. And when they had the kind of series of misrepresentations that I've reviewed, this is an indictment of this administration in its own words.