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Talent must have missed the memo on how to answer the question "knowing what we know now, would you have voted the same way you did?" The answer to that is "If we new then what we know now, there wouldn't have been a vote to begin with."

Or a second debate/vote, demanded by the Democrats, right before the 2002 midterm elections, so they could go on record as being strong on defense...and then, when it didn't give them the House (and lost them the Senate), they became the rabid anti-war dogs they always were (except for Lieberman, who is left on just about everything else).

The truth is, to add if I may to your excellent post. that post 9/11, based on everything that the Democrats had on record in the past 3 years about Sadaam and WMD (suspicious as the timing was, right around Lewinsky), President Bush had little to no choice about going into Iraq.

I guaran--bleeping--tee you, had GWB not gone into Iraq, and Hussein had ended up using the WMD that the Dims said he had (quite before any Republican said it), then you would have heard Dim after Dim say how irresponsible and criminally negligent President Bush was, to have had all this information from the former president, vice president, National Security Adviser, Secretary of State, Minority House Leader, even Ted Kennedy...and W did nothing...had he not been impeached, he certainly would not have been reelected.

Of course, if he goes into Iraq, which he did, and no WMDs were found (not out of the realm of possibility, since there was so much time before we went in, and Jay Leakyfeller did tip our hand about our intentions to go to war with them), then the same Dims (and Dims in Pubs' clothing) who swore up and down that Saddam had WMD would do...exactly what they have done...second guess for political purposes, and trust that the Drive-By Media would bury their past statements.

President Bush has repeatedly answered this question thusly: "Do I take the word of a madman, or do I protect th American people? Given that choice, I will protect the American people every time." I think he knew he would take a hit on Iraq. No Republican president who commits troops to war should expect otherwise. But this man doesn't seem to care about polls. He said as much in his 2000 RNC acceptance speech: "I don't need to take your pulse in order to know my mind."

He has my unwavering support.