What's the difference between Bob Graham and the Clintons on the Iraq fiasco? Honest truth.

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25. Good point here, Thinkingabout.

Why do we stop short of george w. bush? I see this huge wave of effort that seems to attempt to leave him out of all the dirty work. Leaving him with relatively clean hands.

FUCK THAT. He was right in the middle of it. Even ceding operational control to cheney because he was too lazy and probably didn't want to bother his "beautiful mind" about it. Thinking deeply wasn't his thing. He didn't even want to bother having to read any position paper that was longer than two pages. That's all the attention-span he had. TWO PAGES. He's the one who didn't "do nuance." Well, sometimes nuance is IT. Nuance sometimes is EVERYTHING. It's KEY.

Not that I want to give Hillary a pass. I am a fully-acknowledged admirer of her brains, her intellect, her superior intelligence. Brains are tremendously attractive to me. In men, they're downright sexy to me. Given that, I'm still annoyed that somebody with her brainpower could allow herself to be lulled by the constant drumbeat for invading Iraq. Somebody that smart should have known better, and should have seen through all that utter bullshit. Somebody that smart should have been smart enough not to be naive about the motivations of the people pushing that invasion so damn hard. Somebody that smart should have seen through it - AND them. I mean - WE did. WE saw through it. We took the time to read this stuff, to scratch the surface, to research the damn thing. That's why when I had a chance to vote for her in the California primary, I went with Barack Obama. I hope to GOD she's learned from this colossal mistake. I think, if it hadn't been for her vote for the Iraq War, SHE would be president now, in the last half of HER second term. And I still think she has the best and most realistic chance to keep the White House in Democratic hands in 2016. Especially if Elizabeth Warren, whom I LOVE, still says she's not running - and actually has said she'd support Hillary Clinton.

We have to be brutally objective about this. Because it's not just the White House at stake. It's the Supreme Court - which we've already seen is CRITICAL to social change and improvement, or the utter obstruction thereof.