A plague on both their houses

[bemildred]

By Patrick Buchanan

Pat seems to have become a moonbat. He gets a lot right here.

11/23/05 -- -- Gen. William Odom has called the Iraq War the greatest strategic blunder in the history of the United States. Final returns are not yet in, but he may not be far off.

n invading Iraq, we attacked and occupied a country of 25 million that had not attacked us, did not threaten us, did not want war with us – to strip it of weapons we now know it did not have.

Even if, as most believed, Saddam had chemical or biological weapons, there was no evidence he intended the suicidal use of such weapons on U.S. troops in Kuwait, or to hand them over to al-Qaida to use on America, risking massive retaliation. Saddam was never a suicide bomber. He was always a survivor.

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As for the ugliness and acrimony of Washington, it reflects the rage, resentment and shame of men who know they made a horrible mistake, thousands have suffered and died for it, and worse may be yet to come. The truth is both parties failed America. What the Greatest Generation won, the baby boomers are frittering away.

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[indepat]

1. Was this not horrible mistake but merely execution of a plan (PNAC),

a plan long in the making? Aren't the multi-nationals going to rake in hundreds of billions of dollars and the Halliburton-types doing right well in the process as DC's stock options zoom skyward? Was this not a perfect plan although implementation was horriby flawed?

[Martin Eden]

2. The horrible mistake was by the Democrats

and all the others in government who were not part of the neocon cabal but nevertheless enabled them.

Buchanan has been an especially harsh critic of the neocons and this war, but he's still a Republican partisan. I'm waiting for him to be just as harsh in condemning how Congress and the American people were intentionally misled about the intelligence on WMD and ties to al Qaeda. I'm not holding my breath.

[indepat]

3. Couldn't agree more: those Dems who enabled, concomitant with the MSM

who not only enabled, but shilled and failed to uphold their sacred duty to keep the public informed in some semblance of the Pulitzer Credo, will forever live in shame, disgrace, and yes, infamy IMHO.