The Democrats in Washington who now complain they were fooled had better access to intelligence than did Scott Ritter and the UN Weapons Inspectors. They had better access than the writers for the Nation Magazine and the authors on Kos and than Atrios and the hundreds of thousands who marched against the war. So their late protestations don’t do much for me. But the people who voted for Bush – AGAIN – who donated to his campaign, who shouted down the dissenters and who wanted their tax deductions, who thought “anti-abortion” was only meant to interfere with the right of poor people, who thought Bush was a nice guy you could have a beer with, who wanted to believe that a New England prep-school drunk aristrocrat screw up was a strong and capable Cowboy, who felt tough when children were turned into hamburger by sturm und drang, who sneered at the bleeding-hearts, who sacrificed basic morality for wacky ideas about embryos – all those peope can shove it too.
All right. I feel better now. Welcome to reality fellow citizens.
Dear Citizen K:
So, are you going to form the party that gets us back on track, or forgive the Dems, or vote Green, or lead the revolution, or….??
I’m going to soberly and quietly follow the Democrats and even moderate republicans who stop drinking cool-aid. But I’m pissed off.
Me Too!
I know what you mean. Last night I watched Murtha as his voice choked over his memories of visiting wounded soldiers. I felt for him, because it must be agony to know you have a big part of the responsibility for sending those men and women to war where they got maimed. But I also thought about how awful it is that he’s only seeing things clearly now, when it’s way too late to save the very troops he sincerely cares about. Where was that sincere caring when the rest of us knew we were being lied into war.
Better late than never, yes, but next time? Please, Rep. Murtha, better EARLY than ever.
Ex-marine friends of mine (voted repub) are only now, like Murtha, coming to the same conclusions he did. It has taken the combined effort of literally millions of people to (I think) force the media to focus on the “path to war”, and finally hold their ground.