Sanders surrogate (and shadow Jane Sanders employee) is still bashing Biden on Twitter:

[BidenBacker]

43. Dumb response

but not unexpected. Since you refuse to do your homework I guess others will have to do it for you. Fortunately I spent many hours if not days researching this back in the mid-2000s when I was posting on WaPo, so I'll try to give it to you in a nutshell.

Biden & Lugar tried to reel in Dubya by introducing an intermediate resolution between doing nothing (which was not a realsitic option) and a full-blown carte blanche AUMF. It would have required that Dubya & Gang do everything possible before attacking/invading Iraq...stuff like economic sanctions and diplomacy to allow our inspectors back in so they could check things out. Also would have required UN support to get an international coalition on board.

If Dubya & Big Dick & Rummy had exhausted all possibilities it woulda then required that they come back to Congress and prove to them that they had indeed done all they could and that there were no other options besides the last resort of using military force before getting a final approval to go whack 'em. Lugar & Chuck Hagel could only get so many Republicans on board so they went to Joe and said "you need to get X amount of your Democrats to vote for it" and we think we can get it through. Joe got all the Dems together and got some to commit to signing up but not enough. Boxer & Wyden left the meeting arm-in-arm laughing so I blame them too. Another rigid ideologue who refused to compromise one iota was your good ol' beloved Bernie Sanders.

As a result of this and also Rep Gephardt who had presidential ambitions at the time making a backroom deal with Bush and backstabbing the Dems before Biden could get more Dems on board it all fell apart and we ended up with the now infamous AUMF that Bush & Cheney & Rumsfeld then put into action before the ink was even dry. In all likelihood it woulda passed even if Biden and Clinton had not voted for it...I believe the Senate was around 50-50 at that time so it was unrealistic to expect no Dems wouldn't vote for it in the aftermath of 9/11, after all...what with all the drumbeating for war and pressure the right was putting on Democrats.

We had a chance to put a leash on Dubya and take a common sense approach but Bernie and others refused to take even a single step to meet guys like Biden, Durbin, Hagel, Lugar and others halfway and we all know what happened after that. Stick that in your Bernie pipe and smoke it.

Tired of this Sanders revisionist history bullshit.