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Originally Posted by dissention
The Dems are as guilty as the Republicans are for Iraq because THEY ENABLED THEM.
Forget Bill Clinton, his Iraq policies were ten times better and 180 degrees different than Bush's. What people are getting at is that the Democrats are spineless cowards who did next to nothing when it came to preventing Iraq and then after we invaded, they praised it to the heavens for the most part. Wasn't it Kerry that said four months before Election Day that knowing what he now knows, he still would have authorized the war? Didn't Hillary Clinton call for more troops in Iraq last week? What a bunch of numbnuts.
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I think they did worse than enabling - I think they tried to play both sides against the middle and it backfired on them. They were hedging in case W actually easily won over Iraq, which very well could have happened with a little luck and given that much of the Iraqi refused to fight in 1991. They wanted to be able to say "Hey - we were with W" now reelect us. It backfired - pure and simple.
As for Clinton's policies - they were not that much different in that they both have killed in the name of political gain and under the guise of WMD. To be that makes them more alike than apart even though Clinton never advocated a preemptive invasion.