UPDATE: after reading in the Washington Monthly, here, and poll data here, I think the WMD issue was not much in question in late 2002 before the Senate vote. The terrorism link argument however was even questioned by Powell, according to TPM. But what was Scott Ritter saying?
Notwithstanding Harry Reid's recent quizotic heroism, I can't really stomach his line to the press about "separation of powers." He voted in 2002 to give the Executive branch the power to make war, contrary to the Constitutional reservation of that power to Congress.
The ever-bumbly DiFi also said recently that knowing then what she knows now, she would never "in a thousand years" have voted to invade.
What do they know now that they didn't know then? That Al-Qaeda were not in Iraq? That the nuclear threat was bogus? That they would still lose a lot of seats in a month's time despite being waffly appeasers of W's lies?
Thanks to the wonder of archived blogs one can easily look back (like at TPM) and see that there was never a smoking gun, never any real evidence of WMDs, never a UN Security Council resolution (3 for, 12 against) for invasion. These same Senators delegated their most important responsibility based on vapor.
I know it's whistling in the wind, but could they please say something like "we f***ed up, and won't ever do that again."