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 Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:27 am Post subject: Senate Regrets the Vote to Enter IraqABC News Survey Shows T |
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Senate Regrets the Vote to Enter IraqABC News Survey Shows That Knowing Then What It Knows Now, 2002 Senate Would Vote Against Giving President War Powers
ABC News asked Senators if they would change their vote on giving President Bush the authority to wage war in Iraq; 57 said they would not. (The Associated Press)
By JAKE TAPPER
Jan. 5, 2007 � As the new Democrat-controlled House and Senate take power this month, the Iraq war will be the front-and-center issue.
And as President Bush prepares to announce his new strategy for Iraq, which may include a surge in troops, the attitude of the Senate towards the war � and whether its members regret their overwhelming 77-23 October 2002 vote to authorize the president to use force in Iraq � is critically important.
ABC News decided to survey the views of the senators who served in 2002, most of whom remain in the Senate. The survey indicates that those senators say that if they knew then what they know now, President Bush would never have been given the authority to use force in Iraq.
[In my opinion, I think 9/11 may not have happened if the foreign correspondents didn't have so many of their stories canned by their executives, and people may not have ever had to go to Iraq.]
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/story?id=2771519&page=1 |
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Hater Depot
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| Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I think what they really regret is having voted in favor of something which is no longer popular. |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
| I think what they really regret is having voted in favor of something which is no longer popular. |
I think that is partially true, but I would say that some in the Senate probably believed the government. It is not like the networks warned the public about a possible attack before 9/11, investigated what Iraq did or did not have. It is clear, that the threat of Iraq was exaggerated as it was in the first war against Iraq. The difference was Iraq was not invaded by George H.W. Bush. He felt it was too risky to do so because there were so many ethnic and religious divisions to predict a positive outcome. I hope it all works out in the end. I wouldn't say that all the senators have changed support because it is simply unpopular some felt they were duped just like John Q Public. |
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