Finish her quote. She claimed she independently reviewed the information from sources she trusted. Then again, maybe she was just making that part up to suck up to the people she was talking to.
If you think Democratic leaders lied about their true beliefs for temporary political gain, I can go with that. It does seem to be a common trait. If you think they were merely gullible, or stupid, I can go with that, too.
Those are the alternatives to the assumption that both parties were simply working with the best information they had.
As for the posters here, I don't have the records, but I wonder how many back in 2002 thought Saddam was actually as pure, weapon-free, and harmless as the driven snow, and which ones simply thought that letting the U.N. continue to try and disarm him was a better alternative than going to war?
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- Study: Bush, other officials issued hundreds of false statements before Iraq invasion
- Why am I not surprised?
- Heh.
- Same analysis, different source
- Consider the source
- He got you guys again
- Clinton made us do it......
- Democratic "support" for Bush-Cheney based upon misguided trust.
- For those who are interested.