72 hours at Camp David: Inside Biden’s lagging response to the fall of Afghanistan
She was the only member of Congress to vote against war in Afghanistan. Some called her a traitor.: Rep. Barbara Lee faced death threats, insults and hate mail after she voted against a broad authorization used to carry out the war in Afghanistan - "The reaction to her vote was furious, reflecting the strong emotions of the day. The Wall Street Journal called her a 'clueless liberal' and asked if she was anti-American. The Washington Times called her 'a long-practicing supporter of America’s enemies.' The phones in her office were turned off after they were flooded with calls, The Post wrote, and she received so many death threats that for a time she had a police detail protecting her.
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"Lee spent weeks explaining her vote in op-eds and interviews. She wasn’t a pacifist, she said, and she wasn’t against President George W. Bush responding to the terrorist attacks with military force. But she thought it was an abdication of Congress’s power to declare war, and she didn’t want to give a president a 'blank check' to start a war with no fixed goal or end date."
Angry Letters to the One Member of Congress Who Voted Against the War on Terror: Barbara Lee was the lone dissenter in the post-9/11 vote authorizing military force. Many called her a traitor. But her constituents shared her concerns—and history has vindicated them. - "'The middle part of the country—the great red zone that voted for Bush—is clearly ready for war,' Andrew Sullivan wrote that week in a Sunday newspaper column. 'The decadent left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead—and may well mount a fifth column.'" [ed. notes: what a piece of shit, from 2014]
