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MR. LUGAR, AYE -- MR. WARNER, AYE -- MR. DOMENICI, AYE

July 16, 2007 8:36 AM

It was OCTOBER 11, 2002 and the UNITED STATES SENATE was voting on "A JOINT RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES AGAINST IRAQ." 

LUGAR, WARNER and DOMENICI all VOTED AYE when the clerk called the roll.  Now two of them, LUGAR and WARNER want to change that resolution and DOMENICI along with a growing number of fellow REPUBLICANS just want to find a way out of the current mess in Iraq. 

Since that Senate vote on October 11, 2002,  3,611 U.S. MILITARY have been KILLED,  26,695 have been WOUNDED, and well over $400 BILLION has been spent on the war.  WAY OUT FRONT of the politicians back here in Washington, the American Public has soured on the war and President Bush's ratings along with those of congress are about as low as they can get.  It's not hard to question the war these days.

But on OCTOBER 11, 2002 it was a quite a different story.  A vote against that resolution back then amid questions of patriotism and loyalty took a little bit of courage.  Below are the names of the 23 SENATORS who VOTED AGAINST THE WAR RESOLUTION FROM THE START:

Akaka, Bingaman, Boxer, Byrd, Chafee, Conrad, Corzine, Dayton, Durbin, Feingold, Graham of Florida, Inouye, Jeffords, Kennedy, Leahy, Levin, Mikulksi, Murray, Reed, Sarbanes, Stabenow, Wellstone and Wyden.

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