I'm even more utterly mystified

[passiveporcupine]

93. How long will this lie circulate?

His first vote in 2001 was not to go to war with any nation, but to fund the necessary departments to keep this country safe after 9/11. The only war Bernie voted for was against terrorists, not a nation. And the reason he voted for three funding bills was because they contained something not related to those wars, but related to caring for our soldiers and veterans, or our own citizens after a disaster. And his fourth vote was the bill to end the war in Iraq. So he voted yea on four out of ten bills, but not because he was supporting the War in Iraq or anywhere else.

I know I can't convince any of you who keep using this meme...it would hurt too much to have to stop pushing a lie that tries to compare Bernie's record to Hillary's concerning war.

Here again is the link to Bernie's votes on wars and funding wars, and why he voted yay or nay.

https://pplswar.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/why-did-bernie-sanders-vote-to-fund-the-iraq-war/

Believe me, I understand that most of you will probably not even look at the link. It would be too inconvenient. It might cause some cognitive dissonance.

I'm adding a little info (not enough) to give you an idea of just why you might want to look at the link:

The point here is this: whenever you come across an article that makes some visceral, outrageous claim about something Bernie Sanders allegedly did or said, don’t jump to any hard and fast conclusions for or against him without first studying what he did and why. Then and only then can a sound political judgment be made.

Perhaps the most important metric for assessing whether these votes were right or wrong is to figure out how many living, breathing veterans would he have helped by voting against war funding bills that contained pro-veteran amendments? The answer is zero. And so while peace activists are lining up to condemn his campaign, veterans are lining up to join it.