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Mind-boggling. In what alternate universe can the theory that Congress was duped into authorizing the President of the United States to go to war be feasible? What could have made powerful, intelligent, connected Democratic leaders like Harry Reid and John F. Kerry side with hawkish Republicans like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld? Can one honestly believe that these people, these Democratic leaders, don't make decisions of life and death, war and peace without reading between the lines? Could it be that certain Democrats, such as those who voted in favor of war, sold their souls in hopes of becoming President by siding with the Republicans to appear "unified" in the eyes of the American People, post 9/11?
And now that Bush won the election, and things are difficult in Iraq, and the body count is rising, and the economy is suspect and gas prices are high and people are getting restless and demonstrating in front of Bush's ranch, could it be that these same war-mongering Democrats are living to regret their outpouring of "opportunistic goodwill", and are playing the role of the Scorned to the hilt? An indictment here! An indictment there! We have nothing to show for siding with the Republicans pre-election!! Lash out, strike down, revenge!!!
I say BULLSHIT the Congress didn't know what the score was in Iraq when they authorized Bush to go to war. I could list scores of quotes from Democrats - PRIOR to the 04 election! - saying how Hussein was a threat to National Security, a threat to the entire region, a (past/present/future) safe haven for muslim radicals, a terrorist black market, that he needed to be stopped before doing something drastic, blah blah blah. Now after losing the election, its all sour grapes and politicizing the Politicization of the war. If one thinks its entirely the Republicans' fault for the hardships of the country these days - without any Democratic complicity, duplicity and bald-faced pandering - they are misjudging the situation imho.
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