Clinton, Edwards Voted Yes in Senate to Praise Bush on Iraq

Politicians have a way of making us forget history. Edwards did not only support the war, like Hillary, but he wrote an Op-Ed piece at the time (the same time Obama was speaking out against the war) arguing for the need to attack. The Bush administration posted the article on it's website they liked it so much. Moreover, he voted in favor of a bill written up by Republicans praising Bush for the way he dealt with Iraq. When TWO YEARS later Tim Russert asked him if would've supported the war knowing that Saddam didn't have WMD's, Edwards answered YES! Click expand to read the article. It's from back in 2004...

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Click for Full Article: In September 2002, in the face of growing public skepticism of the Bush administration's calls for an invasion of Iraq, Edwards rushed to their defense in an op-ed article published in the Washington Post. In his commentary, Edwards claimed that Iraq, which had been successfully disarmed several years earlier, was actually "a grave and growing threat," and Congress should therefore "endorse the use of all necessary means to eliminate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction." Claiming that U.S. national security "requires" that Congress grant President Bush unprecedented war powers, he further insisted, "We must not tie our own hands by requiring Security Council action ..."

The Bush administration was so impressed with Edwards' arguments that they posted the article on the State Department website.

Two weeks later, Edwards joined Kerry in authorizing Bush to attack Iraq whenever and under whatever circumstances he chose. When the invasion went forward – despite Iraq's belated cooperation with United Nations inspectors and the absence of any signs of recent weapons of mass destruction (WMD) activity – Edwards joined Kerry in supporting a Republican-sponsored resolution that "commends and supports the efforts and leadership of the president ... in the conflict against Iraq." In the same resolution – despite the consensus of the international legal community that such an offensive war is illegal – Edwards joined Kerry in insisting that the war was "lawful." Subsequently, despite growing public disenchantment with the Bush administration's Iraq policy, Edwards has also joined Kerry in supporting the ongoing U.S. occupation.

No WMD, No Problem:

In an interview on Meet the Press this past November, interviewer Tim Russert asked the North Carolina senator whether he regretted giving Bush "in effect a blank check for the war in Iraq." Edwards replied by saying, "I still believe it was right."

When Russert noted the absence of any Iraqi weapons of mass destruction or any ongoing WMD programs, Edwards insisted that Iraq still posed a threat regardless of whether Saddam Hussein actually "had them at the time the war began or not" because "he had been trying to acquire that capability" previously and therefore posed "an obvious and serious threat to the stability of that region of the world."