Why do Democrats refuse to accept responsibility for the Iraq war?

Question

Check out this shocking list of top Democrats who pushed Bush into war with their vote demanding an invasion in October of 2002 - why does the media ignore this?

Joe Biden - Dem Vice President, Dem presidential candidate, Dem Senator from Delaware

Hillary Clinton - Dem First Lady, Dem Senator from New York, Dem presidential candidate, Dem Secretary of State

Harry Reid - Dem Senate majority leader; Dem Senator from Nevada

Henry Waxman - Dem rep from California, Dem house energy chairman, considered one of the most liberal house members

John Kerry - Dem Senator from Massachusetts, Dem presidential nominee, Dem Secretary of State

John Edwards - Dem vice-presidential nominee, Dem Senator from North Carolina, Dem presidential candidate

Richard Gephardt - Dem House majority and minority leader, Dem presidential candidate, Dem house rep from Missouri

Steny Hoyer - Dem House majority leader, Dem house minority whip, Dem house rep from Maryland

Charles "Chuck" Schumer - Dem Senator from New York, Dem policy committee and Senate rules committee chairman

Joe Lieberman - Dem Senator from Connecticut, Dem vice-presidential nominee

Charles "Buddy" Roemer - Dem governor of Louisiana

Carolyn Maloney - House rep from New York, prominent gun control activist

John Murtha - Dem rep from Pennsylvania, Dem house defense appropriations committee chair

Steve Israel - Dem house from New York, Dem congressional campaign committee chair

Tom Daschle - Dem Senate majority leader, Dem Senator from South Dakota, Dem nominee for HHS Secretary

Max Baucus - Dem Senate finance committee chairman, Dem Senator from Montana

Rod Blagojevich - Dem house rep from Illinois, Dem governor of Illinois

Dianne Feinstein - Dem Senate intelligence committee chair, Dem Senator from California, gun control sponsor

Isaac "Ike" Skelton - Dem house rep from Missouri, Dem house armed services committee chair

Chris Dodd - Dem Senator from Connecticut; author of Dodd-Frank financial reform bill

Byron Dorgan - Dem Senator from North Dakota, chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee

Maria Cantwell - Dem Senator from Washington, Dem chair of Senate committee on Indian affairs

Chuck Hagel - Nominee for Dem Secretary of Defense, Senator from Nebraska

Tom Harkin - Dem Senator from Iowa, Dem Senate health/education/labor chairman

Ernest "Fritz" Hollings - Dem Senator from South Carolina, Dem governor of South Carolina

Mary Landrieu - Dem Senator from Louisiana, Dem Senate small business committee chair

Jay Rockefeller - Dem Senator from West Virginia, Senate INTELLIGENCE (lol!) committee chair

Ben Nelson - Dem Senator from Nebraska, Dem governor of Nebraska

Bill Nelson - Dem Senator from Florida, Dem insurance commissioner

Zell Miller - Dem Senator from Georgia, Dem governor of Georgia

Blanche Lincoln - Dem Senator from Arkansas, Dem Senate agriculture committee chair

Jane Harman - Dem rep from California; member of Homeland Security Committee

Herbert "Herb" Kohl - Dem Senator from Wisconsin, Dem Senate chairman on aging

Dems pretend like this vote never happened - why?

Answer 1

Damn straight. Both Democratic and Republican party are complicit in that carnage... And now look what's happened. More terrorism than ever. Well done *******.



At least Cheney and his corporate cronie mates got their oil and construction contracts, even if thousands of US soldiers had to die or get mutilated for it. I hope they think it was worth it because I sure don't.

Answer 2

I suppose the phase that confounds most persons is the fact that, with a distinctive outstanding exception who will have had unterior explanations, all of us looked to be working together in concord, united in opposition to a original enemy, after which, all of the sudden, the individuals you so aptly described, went thoroughly partisan regularly trouble and put their own political ambitions ahead of the protection & security of the country. To make matters, worse, one of the Republicans began behaving like they were Democrats and had been spening money like a bunch of drunken liberals (sorry Uncle Teddy), and that used to be compounded through the President's refusal to undertaking the veto pen as as a rule as he will have to have. Now we have a obstacle the place the frontrunning candidate on the left is a famous and reputed criminal who, along together with her husband, not ever noticed a campaign contribution that they would not receive and who, alongside along with her husband, would sell their very souls (if in fact they came organized with souls) for a couple of bucks in bribes from the chinese govt. This harpie, and her fellow candidates, forgot their early professional-the united states stance and have suffered a convenience of reminiscence because it pertains to their earlier speeches and vote. On the opposite facet, now we have the erstwhile former mayor of recent York, who's mostly the one candidate on both aspect of the aisle with even a modicum of govt experience. He ain't perfect, however he's still the nice option available in the market.

Answer 3

Now let me be clear: I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power.... The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.



But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors...and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.



Barack Obama

Answer 4

Facts, no matter how well recorded, how well researched, or provable by the scientific method, are trumped by the feelings and doctrine of the left.

Answer 5

The Democrats wanted to murder Saddam and inflict genocide on Iraq. Republicans just wanted peace with Saddam, like here...



http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2003/03/11/rumsfeld-saddam.jpg



But the liberals forced our military to murder innocent people. FACT.

Answer 6

A lot of them lied about Saddam hussein having WMD's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i87cZ3Og6ts



@Wally

Clinton was the first to say Hussin had wmd's

Answer 7

because (as you can see from most of the answerers here!) they can blame Bush and get away with it!

Answer 8

It was none other than our own government solely who pushed us into the war. The people had nothing to do with it. It was all about oil. There is substantial evidence for this.

Answer 9

You pretty much just named all RATS.

Answer 10

their role model (B Hussein) lies so they follow his example like lemmings

Answer 11

Actually Bush was the one who decided to go to war with them because of nuclear weapons when they didnt even have any. Don't ask a question favoring one party or another because you will get trouble.

Answer 12

Those are all DINO.



Boy George Bushwad was the war criminal commander-in-chimp who sent our troops to die in vain for his lies.

Answer 13

living in a delusion and wallowing in perpetual ignorance is an all or nothing game.......

Answer 14

It doesn't sit well with their voters.

Answer 15

um, because liberals don't believe in personal responsibility, all their problems are other people's problems--our racist country, our evil, rich, white people, etc.

Answer 16

All were conned into the MWD lie. Remember?

Answer 17

they opposed the war