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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts) Wed Jun 18, 2014, 07:13 PM Jun 2014

Sen. Harry Reid Tweets: "The only thing I want to hear from Iraq war architects is..."

"an apology."

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Senator Harry Reid
@SenatorReid

The only thing I want to hear from Iraq war architects is an apology. pic.twitter.com/vPeGmOyP2W
12:26pm - 18 Jun 14

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Sen. Harry Reid Tweets: "The only thing I want to hear from Iraq war architects is..." (Original Post) Hissyspit Jun 2014 OP

how'd he vote on the war? NightWatcher Jun 2014 #1

+1 Scootaloo Jun 2014 #5

He said "I'm sorry I was misled" and that his vote was a mistake: Hissyspit Jun 2014 #6

Plus the ones like me who were disabled by the war Victor_c3 Jun 2014 #12

An apology isn't good enough. quinnox Jun 2014 #2

I'll only accept that apology if delivered MurrayDelph Jun 2014 #3

With an eternal threat of death (by hanging) Timez Squarez Jun 2014 #9

The only things I want to hear from Iraq war architects are guilty pleas. Scuba Jun 2014 #4

+1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000...000!!! lastlib Jun 2014 #13

I remember your vote Harry. I sat and watched with tears in my eyes Autumn Jun 2014 #7

Well, that's very nice of him to say and all, but since he voted FOR it, he's not exactly scarletwoman Jun 2014 #8

Harry nailed it! JEFF9K Jun 2014 #10

We used to complain about him but I really love this Harry Reid. jwirr Jun 2014 #11

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

1. how'd he vote on the war?

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 07:16 PM

Jun 2014

4486 dead American soldiers want an apology from him.

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)

5. +1

Reply to NightWatcher (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 08:37 PM

Jun 2014

I think Reid is hoping partisanship trumps principle, for Democratic voters.

Maybe he reads DU.

Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)

6. He said "I'm sorry I was misled" and that his vote was a mistake:

Reply to NightWatcher (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 08:42 PM

Jun 2014

http://www.huffpost.com/us/entry/5508588

Harry Reid On Iraq Vote: 'I'm Sorry That I Was Misled... It Was A Mistake'
Ryan Grim, Sam Stein06/18/14 02:42 PM ET
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday that he deeply regretted his vote to go to war with Iraq in 2003.

"Do you know how I feel about that?" Reid asked during a sit-down interview in his office with The Huffington Post. "I'm sure this is no big surprise," he said, pausing for ten seconds before continuing in a muted voice: "What a mistake."

"I should never have voted for that," Reid went on. "But I accepted what [former Secretary of State] Colin Powell and the others said. But it took me just a matter of a few months to realize it was a bad mistake, and my record speaks for itself. I've spoken out against what was going on, not once, not twice, but lots of times. And I'm sorry that I was misled, but I was, and it was a mistake for me to vote for that war."

Back in 2003, Reid was among several high-profile Senate Democrats who voted for the authorization of force in Iraq, a vote which gave the war effort the imprimatur of bipartisan support. That vote was used against him as his criticism of the war ramped up during the Bush years. When he took to the floor this Wednesday to criticize the neoconservative voices who were calling for President Barack Obama to engage more forcefully in the country, as it grapples with an extremist-fueled insurgency, conservative critics raised it once more.

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)

12. Plus the ones like me who were disabled by the war

Reply to NightWatcher (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 09:56 PM

Jun 2014

I (we) want an apology too.

quinnox

(20,600 posts)

2. An apology isn't good enough.

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 07:21 PM

Jun 2014

I want to hear them being sworn to tell the truth in official investigation hearings and then war crime trials.

MurrayDelph

(5,291 posts)

3. I'll only accept that apology if delivered

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 07:43 PM

Jun 2014

from within their cells in the Hague.

AFTER the conviction.

and a few years have passed.

Timez Squarez

(262 posts)

9. With an eternal threat of death (by hanging)

Reply to MurrayDelph (Reply #3)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 09:04 PM

Jun 2014

Old West style, string 'em up!

Start with Cheney, then disembowel him so his organs are useless.

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

4. The only things I want to hear from Iraq war architects are guilty pleas.

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 07:59 PM

Jun 2014

lastlib

(23,140 posts)

13. +1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000...000!!!

Reply to Scuba (Reply #4)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 10:15 PM

Jun 2014

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GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!!

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GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!!

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GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!!

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GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!!

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GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!!

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GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!! GUILTY!!

Autumn

(44,972 posts)

7. I remember your vote Harry. I sat and watched with tears in my eyes

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 08:50 PM

Jun 2014

as you and others in my party voted to give those architects what they wanted. I knew they were lying Harry. How about you?

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)

8. Well, that's very nice of him to say and all, but since he voted FOR it, he's not exactly

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 08:54 PM

Jun 2014

in a strong position to criticize.

He may not have been one of the architects, but he made a down payment on office space in the building they designed.

JEFF9K

(1,935 posts)

10. Harry nailed it!

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 09:10 PM

Jun 2014

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

11. We used to complain about him but I really love this Harry Reid.

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 09:17 PM

Jun 2014

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