I Challenge ANYONE Who Claims that Hillary's Iraq Vote Disqualifies Her to Prove They Said the Same

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37. Berme has repeatedly stated correctly that he voted for that 2001 authorization for the War in

Afghanistan because Bin Laden and Al Qaeda attacked us from Pakistan.

The Iraq War Resolution that Bernie voted against was in the fall of 2002.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Resolution

I corrected this misunderstanding on the part of the poster to whom you are responding but apparently this misinformation continues to be spread on DU.

Bernie voted against the War in Iraq and for the War in Afghanistan.

Bernie has explained that he believes we should always try to negotiate before going to war but that he believes that war can be justified if we or our allies are attacked or if there is a genocide.

Remember that Bernie's family is Jewish and Bernie is quite aware of the Holocaust. He is not at all costs a pacifist. He does believe in self-defense and the defense of others.

The Afghanistan War fit his criteria; the Iraq War was a war of aggression and did not fit.

Here is Bernie's statement when he voted No on the Iraq War Resolution.

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/video/flashback-rep-bernie-sanders-opposes-iraq-war

Hope this clarifies these facts.