Every time someone posts that, I'm gonna post the snopes link.
Those Democrats may have believed Saddam had WMD (they were presumably exposed to the same crappy intelligence), but when the quotes are in context it is clear they were not in favour of a unilateral war. They're not
that stupid.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp
Note, for instance, while Kerry said the bit about
:
"Second, without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime."
he also says later:
"In U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441, the United Nations has now affirmed that Saddam Hussein must disarm or face the most serious consequences. Let me make it clear that the burden is resoundingly on Saddam Hussein to live up to the ceasefire agreement he signed and make clear to the world how he disposed of weapons he previously admitted to possessing. But the burden is also clearly on the Bush Administration to do the hard work of building a broad coalition at the U.N. and the necessary work of educating America about the rationale for war. As I have said frequently and repeat here today, the United States should never go to war because it wants to, the United States should go to war because we have to. And we don't have to until we have exhausted the remedies available, built legitimacy and earned the consent of the American people, absent, of course, an imminent threat requiring urgent action."
But the Conservative wrecking machine left that (rather important) bit out...