2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary supporters, how can you justify this? [View all]BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)to vote that way. Even Dems with LOTS more experience in government with foreign policy at the time, such as Joe Biden and John Kerry, voted for it.
But Hillary certainly was among the most junior Senators and she was, after all, the junior Senator from the state most traumatized by the events of 9-11. Do you even remember that era? I do. All too well.
Should she have done it? No, IMO. But it's done - and Dubya's war preps were supported by high percentages of the US population at the time. I remember that well because I was one of those who spoke out loudly and often to everyone I knew at the time against the terrible folly of going to war in Iraq. I was told that I was a traitor by some in my own family and some "friends" ceased speaking to me altogether. Others cast slurs on my character.
Remember how the Dixie Chicks were treated? That experience was replicated in many micro-environments - just not as well publicized because those treated that way did not have high profiles. I was one of them.
Like the Dixie Chicks, I have since been vindicated. But I will never forget.