"Harkin: Iraq war ousted 'paper tiger'"

Des Moines Register ^ | 11/04/03 | Jane Norman

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

"A quick fall of Saddam's regime shows he was never a serous threat, the Iowa senator says."

[h-roark]

Tell that to the families of those that died.

How truly outrageous and unfeeling.

[Desecrated]

And so it begins...how predictable.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The Left's new line: "It was easy, so that proves military force was unnecessary."

[whadizit]

LOL!! It is laughable how the Demos. are grabbing at straws to attempt justification for their erroneous positions!

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[Mr. Bird]

Someone needs to ask Harkin to name someone who said the Iraqi army was a threat to the U.S. That was NOT why we invaded.

[dirtboy]

This is a glorious day. All across the land, Democrats just can't take it any more, and the normal political instinct to know when to shut up is being discarded in a vain effort to spin this outcome. These comments are gonna haunt the Dems big-time next year.

[Steve_Seattle]

Spin . . . spin . . . spin. I wonder if anyone can dig up any earlier quotes of Harkin predicting a quagmire, thousands of casualties, etc. But, in the final analysis, Harkin should ask the people of Irag if Saddam was a harmless little gnat.

[rhombus]

And so it begins...how predictable.

Yup, it is very predictable. Denegrate military success because it goes against their "war never solves anything" core belief. Cognitive dissonance. Sip the punch, repeat after me..."ignorance is bliss"

[exnavy]

It's easy to sit in an airconditioned Washington office and call this effort easy. Typical lib.

[dfwgator]

Tom, your hero Bill Clinton bombed Serbia for 78 days, killing countless number of civilians with very few US casualties, and Milosevic wasn't any threat to the US, yet you cheered that war on. Your opinion means NOTHING!

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

Individual Democrats continue to secure their personal leftist bases at the price of rendering the Democratic party unelectable on a national level.

This makes me happy.

[dighton]

Harkin voted for a congressional resolution authorizing use of force before last year's election, but earlier this year became increasingly critical of the move toward war, saying President Bush was not consulting enough with Congress or extending diplomatic efforts.

Another jerk having it both ways.

[PISANO]

What an a..hole!! Those words are sure to COMFORT our POWS and the families of our fallen heros. Iowa should be ashamed they elected that p...k!

[Tom Pain]

So, that means that those who PROTESTED against the Iraq war were WAY WRONG!!

They were the ones that thought that a war w/Iraq would be a many years long Vietnam-like quaqmire!

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Yea, but recently he claimed Bush hustled him and deceived him but he (Harkin) had seen the light.

[x1stcav]

This smarmy snideness of the demonrats is going to kill them. People don't like others who rain of the parade. Right now this country is aglow over what has been accomplished in Iraq. The 'rats are simply out of step with the march of history.

[Adrastus]

Ah, yes. Dungheap Harkin. He and Bagdad Bob are cut out of the same cloth. How predictable and how tedious it is to listen to such drivel.

[MEG33]

He is without honor.God Bless our troops