Who spoke out against the Iraq invasion...prior?

Which Dems in Congress spoke out before the invasion?

I know Dennis Kucinich did.
Who else?

I don't know the dates but Kennedy did as well. I know there were Congressmen, but don't remember who.

(I started to list Wes Clark, Al Gore, and Howard Dean did - then say the word CONGRESS.

Al Gore
Former U.S. Vice President



Thank you very much. I certainly appreciate the warmth of your welcome and I want to thank Gloria Duffy for that generous - and I hasten to add, over-generous - introduction. Tipper and I both enjoyed listening to that. To George Dobbins, the program director, and Connie Shapiro, our moderator. Also, I want to thank Mayor Willie Brown for his help in helping to establish this on relatively short notice. I appreciate his friendship.

Thanks for your kind words on my service as vice president. I felt it was a tremendous honor. I enjoyed the job. I have to tell you that I did some research about the vice presidency and found that quite a number of my predecessors did not really fully appreciate the job. Some of them resigned. Just to give one example before I get into my speech here. John C. Calhoun actually resigned the vice presidency in 1825 to become a senator from South Carolina. And as many of you know, he subsequently lost that seat to Strom Thurmond, who's still there.

I want to talk about the relationship between America's war against terrorism and America's proposed war against Iraq. Like most Americans I've been wrestling with the question of what our country needs to do to defend itself from the kind of focused, intense and evil attack that we suffered a year ago, September 11. We ought to assume that the forces responsible for that attack are even now attempting to plan another attack against us.

I'm speaking today in an effort to recommend a specific course of action for our country, which I sincerely believe would be better for our country than the policy that is now being pursued by President Bush. Specifically, I am deeply concerned that the course of action that we are presently embarking upon with respect to Iraq has the potential to seriously damage our ability to win the war against terrorism and to weaken our ability to lead the world in this new century.

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http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/02/02-09gore-speech.html

She was literally attacked in the Capitol Building for her vote against giving * the blank check to go to war against terrorism.

And Russ Feingold.

Also - EVERYONE here at DU.

:eyes:

the man is so smart and so knowledgeable.

And he gave me hope in 2002 because of it.

Can't forget them! :patriot:

And my former Marine son in law thought I was an idiot although he wouldn't tell me that to my face.

Now he hates Bushie too, in fact he went on an unsolicited rant the other day about it.

But he still won't tell me what he thought of me back then :)

He called it all.

See here from 2002:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1007-03.htm

He said that Bush would mislead Americans in order to build support for a war.
That's exactly what happened.

He said, "This president is trying to bring to himself all the power to become an emperor — to create Empire America."
Again, that's exactly what happened with all the Unitary executive bs. See http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20060109_bergen.html for a good article about this.

He spoke about the manipulation of the color coded alerts: "One of the dilemmas we've had since 9/11 is that this country has been continuously terrorized by the government," McDermott said. "Every week they announce a new threat. 'Today is a code orange.' 'Today is a code red.'
Jim was one of the earliest to speak out about this being used as propaganda.


And McDermott pointed out the lying involved in the process: "Bush is trying to "submarine" efforts to restart weapons inspections in Iraq to give him a pretext for starting a war — a war McDermott said is being planned in part to bolster U.S. oil interests."

He called it all early on and I respect him greatly for it.