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Originally Posted by Highwayman  The problem I have with this so called “illegitimate war” is that the Democrats voted to give Bush the authority to wage it. 76% of the population supported it in the beginning. |
You are correct with this assertion Mr Highway. But the Dems, the population, the UN, hell the whole world, were told a huge pack of lies leading up to the war. There are plenty of ex-administration officials, State Dept. officials, CIA officers, etc. who are now telling the story about events leading up to the war and it doesn't paint a real nice picture of Cheney and his cohorts. Now I fully expect you to blame it on bad intelligence, liberal media, politics, etc., but it is becoming apparent that some people in the administration were hell-bent on this war for whatever reason (I have my suspicions) and were going to use whatever means to accomplish their ends. As with any history, it takes time for the whole story to flesh itself out and when this one does, it won't be a rosy picture.
Now I don't know the answer to the predicament we're in, nor do I profess to, but I do know it is a real f**king mess. I also know it's gonna take leadership like we haven't seen in a while to clean it up. I'll use a baseball axiom to explain what I think are the possibilities of this kind of leadership appearing any time soon; I don't think we've got any home run hitters on our roster this season.