I continue to be utterly mystified.

[HassleCat]

258. A calculated decision

I would have said "calculated risk," but it wasn't seen as a risk at the time. Democrats figured they could look tough and patriotic by voting for revenge against the Mooze-Lims. If things went bad later on, they could blame Bush for mishandling the war. The "oopsie" part came in when people asked, "Who let him get away with it in the first place?" Then came all the stuff about bad intelligence, being duped by the administration, yadda, yadda, yadda. But too many people were paying attention when Colin Powell came on TV and showed us shots of fuzzy blobs in the desert, and too many people wrote their reps in congress and said, "We don't go to war over fuzzy blobs in the desert." Sure 70 percent of the bloodthirsty American public were all hot for it, but enough citizens were on the ball that we knew the score, and we knew Democratic votes for the Bush Blank Check were cynical calculations, and we have not forgotten as the years have passed, and the dead bodies piled up, and our treasury emptied.

So, what should we get from Democrats now? I don't want to hear any more of this "We were duped" crap. We all know that's a lie. I want to hear, "I voted for war because I was scared of looking weak." "I voted for war to secure the pro-Israel vote," would be true in some cases. So would, "I voted for war because I have big defense contractors giving me money." Even if they just shrug and say, "I voted for war because thought I could get away with it," that would piss me off, but at least it would be honest.