Vince Carroll of the Rocky Mountain News gets it exactly right.
Carroll begins:
Republican Bob Schaffer has spent the week suggesting that his opponent in the U.S. Senate race, Democrat Mark Udall, is a hypocrite because he sponsored a resolution in 2002 denouncing Saddam Hussein in the strongest terms, stipulating that he possessed a variety of terrible weapons and describing Iraq as a state sponsor of terrorism.
The resolution was even billed as a "preliminary authorization for the use of force against Iraq."
If you fail to look closely, you could easily conclude that the supposedly anti-war Udall was actually on the same page as the congressional majority that ultimately did authorize war - and that Udall's vote against their resolution amounted to splitting hairs.
That's rubbish. Schaffer should cut it out.
Here's where Mark Udall stood on the war in 2002 and where he stands on it today:
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