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purepaloma
09-13-2007, 06:41 PM
Who were the originals ?

I sense many to start joining shortly.

JosephTheLibertarian
09-13-2007, 06:43 PM
I voted against it in a fantasy congress game, does that count? :p

cjhowe
09-13-2007, 07:04 PM
All Republican Senators voted Yay on the joint resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237

[Five]Six Republican representatives voted Nay (Names not in italics)
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll455.xml
John Duncan (TN) (skipped in original post)
John Hostettler (IN) (Re-elected in '04 and '06)
Amo Houghton (NY) (Did not seek reelection in '04, succeeded by Republican)
Jim Leach (IA) (Re-elected in '04 and '06)
Connie Morella (MD) (Defeated in '04 in general election)
Ron Paul (TX) (Re-elected in '04 and '06)

Sanders (Ind-VT) (elected to Senator in '06)

lbrtylvr
09-13-2007, 07:30 PM
All Republican Senators voted Yay on the joint resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237

Five Republican representatives voted Nay (Names not in italics)
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll455.xml
John Hostettler (IN) (Re-elected in '04 and '06)
Amo Houghton (NY) (Did not seek reelection in '04, succeeded by Republican)
Jim Leach (IA) (Re-elected in '04 and '06)
Connie Morella (MD) (Defeated in '04 in general election)
Ron Paul (TX) (Re-elected in '04 and '06)

Sanders (Ind-VT) (elected to Senator in '06)

Leach got beat in '08 due in part to his championing of the Internet Gambling Ban.

Shellshock1918
09-13-2007, 07:34 PM
Walter Jones of NC voted for it, but has since been highly critical of it and thinks it was a mistake to begin with.

LibertyEagle
09-13-2007, 07:57 PM
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/10/11/194543.shtml

cjhowe
09-14-2007, 11:15 AM
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/10/11/194543.shtml

Let it not be said that no one dissented. Unfortunately history will look upon those six as great visionaries when their voices should have been heralded as common sense.

american.swan
09-14-2007, 09:46 PM
All Republican Senators voted Yay on the joint resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237

[Five]Six Republican representatives voted Nay (Names not in italics)
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll455.xml
John Duncan (TN) (skipped in original post)
John Hostettler (IN) (Re-elected in '04 and '06)
Amo Houghton (NY) (Did not seek reelection in '04, succeeded by Republican)
Jim Leach (IA) (Re-elected in '04 and '06)
Connie Morella (MD) (Defeated in '04 in general election)
Ron Paul (TX) (Re-elected in '04 and '06)

Sanders (Ind-VT) (elected to Senator in '06)

Would be sensible to include with this list this information? The Iraqi Liberation Act was the beginning of this war in my mind.
http://ronpaulforums.com/showpost.php?p=189333&postcount=1