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It's simple why so many Dems now claim to have been "duped": it's politically beneficial. The war and police action are largely unpopular now (due largely to the efforts of liberals, and the horrendous mishandling of the police action portion), so political capital is to be gained by being against it. Now, saying "In retrospect, it was a bad idea" might work when dealing with logical people, but that's not the case here. You have to make it look like it wasn't your fault that you supported an unpopular military action. And the best way of doing that is to claim you were misled. And bonus points are to be had by making the opposition look bad by being the ones who were misleading the poor, naive democratic senators.
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