"DOJ kill list memo forces many Dems out of the closet as overtly unprincipled hacks"

[Luminous Animal]

44. Polls in the weeks leading up to the war showed that 50% of Democrats supported the war.

Granted, Republican support was greater at about 82% but yet fully half of our fellow party members supported Bush's invasion of Iraq... many that I knew personally and even in uber liberal San Francisco. There were other people, like Greenwald at the time - mostly apolitical and/or apathetic who just didn't give it much thought. Though some of these people voted for Gore, they just brushed off yet another invasion of yet another country as business as usual and that our government wouldn't commit to war unless it had to. None of these people wanted to listen (in person or via email) ANY of the arguments that I made against the invasion though some subsequently expressed regrets for not caring at the time.

There ex-republicans who post on this board, when they reveal themselves, we celebrate their conversion. There are people on this board who fought against same-sex marriage and yet have come around and we applaud that (we also applaud.

If you visit Greenwald's old blog, Unclaimed Territory, you will see months and years of criticism of the Bush Admin and the right wing. Some people are born political, some come to it slowly, others never end up caring at all.

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com.br/