What Leading Democrat Pushed For Ultimate American/Iraqi Victory ???

Question

Seems too strong, too Republican...Can you name the Dems that Thought Murtha, Kennedy, Pelosi, Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Obama, Biden & Reid...etc...Were wrong ???

Answer 1

Joe Biden originally supported the invasion of Iraq before he invested in defeat.

Biden on Meet the Press in 2002, discussing Saddam Hussein: “He’s a long term threat and a short term threat to our national security… “We have no choice but to eliminate the threat. This is a guy who is an extreme danger to the world.”

Biden on Meet the Press in 2002: “Saddam must be dislodged from his weapons or dislodged from power.”

Biden in October of 2002: “We must be clear with the American people that we are committing to Iraq for the long haul; not just the day after, but the decade after.”

Biden on Meet the Press in 2007, on Hussein’s WMDs: “Well, the point is, it turned out they didn’t, but everyone in the world thought he had them. The weapons inspectors said he had them. He catalogued — they catalogued them. This was not some, some Cheney, you know, pipe dream. This was, in fact, catalogued.”

Biden on Meet the Press, April 29, 2007: “The threat [Saddam Hussein] presented was that, if Saddam was left unfettered, which I said during that period, for the next five years with sanctions lifted and billions of dollars into his coffers, then I believed he had the ability to acquire a tactical nuclear weapon — not by building it, by purchasing it. I also believed he was a threat in that he was — every single solitary U.N. resolution which he agreed to abide by, which was the equivalent of a peace agreement at the United Nations, after he got out of — after we kicked him out of Kuwait, he was violating. Now, the rules of the road either mean something or they don’t. The international community says “We’re going to enforce the sanctions we placed” or not. And what was the international community doing? The international community was weakening. They were pulling away.”

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On Meet the Press, January 7, 2007, assessing the proposal of a surge of troops to Iraq: “If he surges another 20, 30, or whatever number he’s going to, into Baghdad, it’ll be a tragic mistake, in my view, but, as a practical matter, there’s no way to say, ‘Mr. President, stop.’”

On Meet the Press, November 27, 2005: “Unless we fundamentally change the rotation dates and fundamentally change how many members of the National Guard we’re calling up, it’ll be virtually impossible to maintain 150,000 folks this year.” (The number of troops in Iraq peaked at 162,000 in August 2007, during the surge.)

Biden on April 5, 2008: "The purpose of the surge was to bring violence in Iraq down so that its leaders could come together politically. Violence has come down, but the Iraqis have not come together...There is little evidence the Iraqis will settle their differences peacefully any time soon...I believe the president has no strategy for success in Iraq. His plan is to muddle through, and hand the problem off to his successor"

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The much experienced chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee has insisted repeatedly that the surge hasn’t/won’t work (well, after he initially supported the war in 2002 anyway), and that the Iraqi government would never come to terms. Let’s see now, violence is still down in post-surge Iraq, and the Shias, Sunnis, and Kurds are all working well together. Meanwhile, plans for a US troop withdrawal are within reach.

Answer 2

Joe Lieberman, and he got run out of the party because of it.

Answer 3

Democrats are only against this war to get elected, I doubt they actually care about national security or Iraq, Democrats, historically have tended be the war-mongers, democrats started the Vietnam War and Clinton attacked Kosovo and Bosnia. And I think the democrats want us to get involved into Darfur, we'll have more war then ever if Obama gets elected. Say no to Nobama!

Answer 4

The only one was Lieberman who is now of course an independent. Of course all those you mention came out initially supporting the war then a couple of weeks later switching to Saddam's side. I imagine they were all let in on ABSCAM John Murtha's sweetheart deal with the radical muslims with cash for dissent.