briansd1 wrote:Allan, I would

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=briansd1]Allan, I would submit that Democrats voted for the Iraq war because they feared being maligned as “providing comfort” to the enemy.

They voted very reluctantly for the war.

Democrats were lazy and they didn’t want to go to the public and make the case against war and against the Republican idea of the war on terrorism.

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Brian: If one Googles “democratic support for Iraq war”, one is directed to this link to Snopes.com: http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp

Since it is Snopes, it deals very fairly with both the quotes and their supporting context/additional text (some of the quotes were truncated). Read them through, its very interesting stuff. It also utterly demolishes your “reluctance” and “lazy” arguments simultaneously.

Enjoy.