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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen. Harry Reid Tweets: "The only thing I want to hear from Iraq war architects is..."
"an apology."
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@SenatorReid
The only thing I want to hear from Iraq war architects is an apology. pic.twitter.com/vPeGmOyP2W
12:26pm - 18 Jun 14
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)4486 dead American soldiers want an apology from him.
I think Reid is hoping partisanship trumps principle, for Democratic voters.
Maybe he reads DU.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)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)I (we) want an apology too.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)I want to hear them being sworn to tell the truth in official investigation hearings and then war crime trials.
MurrayDelph
(5,304 posts)from within their cells in the Hague.
AFTER the conviction.
and a few years have passed.
Timez Squarez
(262 posts)Old West style, string 'em up!
Start with Cheney, then disembowel him so his organs are useless.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)lastlib
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Autumn
(45,120 posts)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)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.