On the November 28 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert said: “The truth is that hardly anyone who was -- the Democrats in Congress, you didn't have a lot of opposition to that [Iraq] war resolution.” In fact, a majority of congressional Democrats voted against the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq in October 2002. Of the 258 Democrats in Congress at the time, 147 voted against the resolution, while 110 voted for it. One Democrat did not vote.

From the 5 p.m. ET hour of the November 28 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews:

HERBERT: The truth is that hardly anyone who was -- the Democrats in Congress, you didn't have a lot of opposition to that war resolution. The Democrats were paranoid that this would be a cakewalk. They looked back to the first Gulf War, and a lot of Democrats felt that they were on the wrong side by opposing that war. They thought this was going to be easy, and so they didn't want to be on the wrong side in this war. And they did the same thing that Democrats do so often. They didn't, in many cases, vote their conscience.