February 6th, 2007 Journal Gazette

Liberals forget who voted for war

How great it would be to be a liberal unencumbered by silly little things like facts when making an argument.

I wonder whether Tom Shoaff (who wrote the column “ ‘Long war’ logic absolves Bush,” Jan. 15) and David Tanner (who wrote the letter, “Bush fabricates truth for own ends,” Jan. 22) know that in his run-up to the Iraq war, President Bush made essentially the same arguments as President Clinton did on Feb. 17, 1998, in an address to Pentagon personnel. I wonder whether Shoaff and Tanner know that President Bush’s arguments essentially echoed the thoughts of such Democratic luminaries as Carl Levin, Jay Rockefeller, John Kerry and 10 other Democrats supporting military action against Saddam in an Oct. 9, 1998, letter to President Clinton.

How great it’d be to be an uninformed liberal, then I could call this “George Bush’s war” because I’d be ignorant of comments and votes in support of the war by Sens. Kerry, Rockefeller, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, et al. How great it’d be not to know that the Iraq War Resolution passed the House 296-133 with 126 Democrats voting yea and passed the Senate 77 to 23 with 25 Democrats voting yea. If I were a liberal, I’d probably have forgotten or never known that public support for the war was more than 70 percent at the start.

Now things in Iraq are hard, and many of the sunshine patriots and summer soldiers who voted for the war think that they should be president. And so, in an effort to appeal to the uninformed and maintain their own political viability, they are undermining the U.S. and the war they voted for by sounding as if they opposed the war from the start.

Uninformed liberal lemmings ignore hard-to-read documents like U.N. resolutions, UNSCOM (United Nations Special Commission) reports, floor speeches by Kerry, Clinton, et al., instead opting for a Michael Moore movie. This allows them to mouth absurd accusations against the president of the United States without so much as one sound bite or reliable document to support those accusations.

DOUG SCHUMICK

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