Reply #111: the blind democrats

[welshTerrier2]

i wrote this in another thread but thought it fit perfectly here as well ...

bush's misguided policy has created a dangerous power vacuum in Iraq ... i believe the expression is "better the devil you know" ... and there is no soil more fertile for terrorism than a country with an anti-american population and a destabilized government ...

sadly, we continue to hear from certain democrats that the war was justified ... some make the argument, which has some merit but misses the greater point, that Saddam was evil and we and the Iraqi people are better off without him. it still mystifies me that any democrat could have "gone along" with bush ... implicit in the "authorization" they provided to him, be it legal or symbolic, was that they trusted bush to "do the right thing" ... this should never have happened ...

there is no question about the tragic failure of bush's Iraq strategy ... it was the wrong policy from day one ... it failed to respect the U.N.'s role in international diplomacy and failed to respect the sovereignty of Iraq ... the entire case against Saddam was an ends looking for a means to justify it ... the PNAC'ers pushed this agenda with Clinton ... they achieved it with bush ...

where the real questions remain is why some democrats sunk so low that they believed supporting bush was necessary ... or why they felt that the threat from Saddam was so great as to justify the invasion of a sovereign nation against the wishes of the U.N. ... or what they envisioned would be the future of post-war Iraq ... we're Democrats ... we are not weak on defense ... we don't shy away from protecting our country ... but did the pro-war democrats really believe this invasion would make us safer? did they believe that war was the way to "free" the Iraqi people and provide them with better lives ...

i hate to have fragmentation within the party ... but i will never vote for any of these poor souls who failed such an easy test ... the wrongness of this war and the inevitability of its aftermath were clear from day one ... and some, even some on our own team, were just too blind to see.