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Originally posted by Spanky
Again the liberals were against it because they are against all wars.
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Let's
turn the Wayback Machine to September 15, 2001:
- WASHINGTON - Voting overwhelmingly, Congress gave President Bush sweeping powers yesterday to use military force to avenge Tuesday's terrorist attacks. But it stopped short of granting the president open-ended authority to prevent future attacks.
The House completed action on the measure late last night, voting 420-1 to back the president's use of force. Congress' authorization - which many legal analysts say is not required by law - is intended to demonstrate congressional support for what the administration has called a global war against terrorism. Rep. Barbara Lee, a California Democrat, cast the dissenting vote.
Now, there are two possibilities here. One is that you use the term "liberal" in a way unlike the rest of the population, and that by it you mean someone as far left as Barbara Lee, but not someone who shares the views of -- say -- Dennis Kucinich and the rest of the Democratic representatives in Congress. (This possibility presents the further questions of whether you know that you are using the word in a different sense than everyone else, and why you bother to talk about the fringe of the political spectrum to Dennis Kucinich's left. But we leave those for another post.)
The other possibility is that you have repeated the GOP happy talk for so long that you are no longer capable of distinguishing between it and reality.
