Bernie Sanders Voting Record Antithetical To His Purported Anti-War Stance

I get it. Troops need ammunition and supplies to fight wars. I remember When Bush and Cheney lied about MWD’s to convince everyone that Saddam was getting ready to blow us to kingdom come with nuclear war heads in order to get the votes he needed and the American people to support the Iraq War. Mission accomplished. I ALSO remember all the soldiers being blown up because they RODE in vehicles ill equipped for war and Republicans/Defense Dept. unwilling to spend or allocate the money to upgrade them. I also remember Halliburton (Cheney’s former company) making untold millions if not billions on the Iraq War. I remember all the fraud and waste of millions and millions of dollars during the Bush years that make a lot of the neo-con’s friends extraordinarily rich. These same people are now beating the war drums again against Iran, Syria and more military involvement around the war and against ISIS. If Bernie really believed in his principals, he would have voted no to the funding. His vote would not have changed the outcome of the outcome, but he would have shown that he stood by his principals against support for the Iraq War. For your information, I was 100% too. But I was also against the Afghanistan War. It was a small group of people who took down the twin towers, led by Osama bin Laden. Why did we have to send ground troops into Afghanistan and start a War that is ongoing and to which there is no end in sight. Why couldn’t we have just have used our intelligence to find the people involved and take them out? It was because emotions were high and Americans were itching for revenge and blood and Bush saw this as a political gain. Republicans always see War as a political win. I was angry and saddened to see so Hillary vote for the Iraq War, but so did many others. She was not alone. All but one Republican, however, voted for it. Most of them, including the Republicans, now see it for the catastrophic mistake it was, although most Repubs still refuse to publicly admit it. At least Hillary had the courage to admit it was a mistake. I have not heard anybody else say the same. It takes a person of courage and big character to admit her mistakes, especially someone who is under the microscope daily as she is. I agree that Hillary probably is tougher on foreign affairs than Bernie, however, I believe her when she says that starting another War by putting ground troops in the Middle-East will not happen. The people have to fight for their countries themselves with our support, but that we will no longer do it for them. Of course, As President, you can never say never because life is unpredictable. However, I trust her enough to do right by us and for the country who is weary of War and of shedding American blood on foreign soil. As a parent of a young man, I pray that he never has to go to another unnecessary War like you. Despite my feelings against the Wars, I heartily thank you and your family for your sacrifices, courage and service and to those who lost loved ones. My biggest wish is that all this discord and divisiveness disappears and that we start seeing each others as simply Americans again. It will have to start with the party leaders and my hope that starts with Republicans, the most divisive party in history, finally come to senses after this election.

Something about ignorance, it appears to be enabling.

And the military industrial complex trucks along with our tax dollars
which are illegally forced on us by the Internationally run Fed., while
troops in the information age have the tools necessary to know what evil
machine they are getting involved with when they sign on that dotted
line. I am no hypocrite here… I have a brother who served 20 plus
years and retired a top rated master sgt. in the Air Force along with
his son now in the Army. I think Dwight D. Eisenhower ( a man who
practically led the war effort in WW2) knew what he was talking about
when warning us about this dangerous entity. The act of fueling it leads
to million of lives lost and turns our economy and moral compass upside
down, while propping up dictators in foreign nations.