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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: POKERSAM who wrote (858254)5/18/2015 10:13:58 PM
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I agree that history has been edited. But it wasn't done by Democrats.

If you read the Congressional Record of the debate in the Senate, you see repeated references to more diplomacy, tougher sanctions and putting pressure on the UN.

For example, here is what Kerry had to say.

Let there be no doubt or confusion about where we stand on this. I will support a multilateral effort to disarm him by force, if we ever exhaust those other options, as the President has promised, but I will not support a unilateral U.S. war against Iraq unless that threat is imminent and the multilateral effort has not proven possible under any circumstances.

We hadn't exhausted all other options by the time we went to war. Others said similar things. Clearly many were under the impression that war was a last resort, not a first choice. And this resolution was so that Bush would have all options on the table when negotiating.

And it worked. Saddam finally agreed to have inspectors back in. But we went to war anyway.
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