Sen. Biden says like edwards, He made a mistake voting.....

to go to war! Thats two senators with the balls to say it,Its a start.

said that. He must be feeling the pressure if he wants to run in 08.

though I'm shocked that Biden admitted it--as I recall he was very strongly for the resolution.

aside he had with Colin Powell about the intelligence supporting the war. If someone I trusted said what Powell said to him, I would have had severe misgivings about casting that vote.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1912898

He can run in 2008 but I am not supporting him. I think he goes whichever way the wind is blowing... and the wind is definitely not with * admin right now.

Sorry Joe, No cigar!:thumbsdown:

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The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administration's duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not. The truth is, if the Bush Administration had come to the United States Senate and acknowledged there was no "slam dunk case" that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, acknowledged that Iraq was not connected to 9/11, there never would have even been a vote to authorize the use of force -- just as there's no vote today to invade North Korea, Iran, Cuba, or a host of regimes we rightfully despise.

I understand that as much as we might wish it, we can't rewind the tape of history. There is, as Robert Kennedy once said, 'enough blame to go around,' and I accept my share of the responsibility. But the mistakes of the past, no matter who made them, are no justification for marching ahead into a future of miscalculations and misjudgments and the loss of American lives with no end in sight. We each have a responsibility, to our country and our conscience, to be honest about where we should go from here. It is time for those of us who believe in a better course to say so plainly and unequivocally.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5177000&mesg_id=5177000

And I thought they had all been claiming they didn't vote to go to war but just to give Bush* authority if need be. :crazy: I wish they would say what they mean and mean what they say but they are politicians and I guess we just can't expect the truth from any of them...

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Harkin was the first, almost two years ago.

It's happening. Support for the Iraq war in Congress is crumbling.

campaigning,they should have had the balls to start investigating when Richard Clark went public..

The Democratic Party should shed these folks, in my opinion.

and none of the repbs will. It's like everything else.

saying this now because the president and Republican party's poll numbers are low. I would have more respect for him had he spoken out earlier.

Senators , who waited for the Big Ball Senator's ,that voted NO

before the boys did. So, who's got the balls?

anyway, so it's academic, but good for unity's sake.

I can't keep up. These people are blowing with the wind. Still, I'm glad they're repenting their votes.

Please, let's put the Righteousness Olympics off for a bit.

Ordered by relative level of national importance (roughly)-

IWR "yes" votes publicly repudiated (7):

Kerry
Edwards (ret.)
Daschle (ret.)
Feinstein
Biden
Rockefeller
Harkin

IWR "yes" votes not yet publicly repudiated afaik (Blue State) (7):

Lieberman - important
H. Clinton - important
Schumer
Cantwell
Kohl
Dodd
Carper

IWR "yes" votes not yet publicly repudiated afaik (Red State) (9):

Reid - important
R. Nelson (FL)
Bayh
Landrieu
Lincoln
B. Nelson (NE)
T. Johnson
Dorgan
Baucus

IWR "yes" votes by Democrats now irrelevant (6):

Torricelli (ret.)
Cleland (ret.)
Z. Miller (ret.)
J. Carnahan (ret.)
Breaux (ret.)
Hollings (ret.)

Total: 29 "yes" votes by Democrats on October 10, 2002

TELL THat to the 2070+ American dead and the 10,0000+ wounded, not to mention the Iraqi casualties. F.U Biden and Co.!!!!!!

we might be getting somewhere.

Could the war and this bozo of a CiC be any further down in the polls?

I'm glad he did it, but I'm against lionizing the guy more than he deserves.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand & Wife Found Alive!!!

I do wonder honestly, if admitting that some of our leaders made a mistake, i.e. they were deceived by dimson, isn't going to hurt them with the people. If our leadership says a dumbass tricked them, doesn't that make their judgement circumspect? If we're lucky the American people will say "we were duped too, so we understand".

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

at a Democratic rally on Sunday. They were awesome, but it was Biden who suprised me the most. He was on fire! Not as cute as Barak Obama, though.

Jay Rockefeller said he made a mistake in July 2004! Why is Biden only now saying anything? Another DLC "let polls determine my position" politician.

While I'm THRILLED they're finally saying this, Hagel and Biden BOTH are running for President in '08. They BOTH have a motive and their timing is distasteful.

I'll always remember how he handled the Bork hearings. It's saddened me to see him go so far afield. I'd love to have him back.

but because the american people have woke the fuck up, Katrina did it. Too many people perished because they were the wrong color and poor, I don't like that and most people don't either. This bunch of crooks are on the way out and it won't be too soon. Just don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out either because we're on your heals and we are gaining fast and madder than hell.

by gawd:
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politicians should take this stance for the good of this country. It's all about whether someone starts from a real or false premise.

that Gonzalez was working to allow torture, and yet he voted to confirm anyway.

Biden will always go which way the wind is blowing, and right now, in his desire to run from President, he is riding the "I made a mistake" wave.

Silly me!

plan. How could you have missed it?