no amount of rationalization is going to make the facts of the matter change or go away.
bush sold the american people a war on false information, false pretenses.
it would be nice to see supporters of this administration demonstrate a modicum of intellectual courage, abandon excuses and just face this reality...maybe issue a mea culpa...maybe admit that they were chumped and that they have to rethink their positions...maybe even rethink their support for george w. bush....even once would be refreshing.
i do not know anyone else who would continue to support a president who lied to the country about war.
but i do not see it coming.
i take this--and the supporters of the administration on this thread as only an example---as a nice lesson in exactly what the right means by taking personal responsibility--it means holding others to account while refusing to acknowledge anything, even the most outrageous acts, if they are carried out by republicans or by interests friendly to the republicans.
so it appears that personal responsibility for the right only applies to other people.
for them, for their party, for the interests that party represents, anything goes.
that is quite a particular kind of "moral" leadership.
quite a high ground to defend.
you should be proud.
in case you forgot about the opening post, here is a different account:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story...307529,00.html