Iraq War

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by Danzig188

do you feel at this point that posts like these, threads like these, are redundant?
we can't change why we're there at this point. we can't change what has happened. but i think most everyone agrees that we need to finish the job as well as we can. certainly constant rehashing about the evil bush and his evil henchmen won't change a thing!
as for faulty intelligence, i think that's crap. dems voted as they did. had the war gone swimmingly, we wouldn't be writing any of this right now. because it's not easy, it was wrong? a mistake? i wish i could retroactively make all my life-altering decisions! doesn't work that way tho, does it? dems, congress, the u.n., the executive, are ALL responsible for this mess. one no more than any other. no third of the federal govt has more power than the others.

I agree with a lot of what you have said here. You are right- we cant undo the damage that has been done by one of the worst administrations in the history of this great country.

But...I do have issue with the last sentence of your post. Do you really believe this to be true in regards to the last 6 years? Remember, after 9-11, the country rallied around Bush. Any dissension from congress was labeled as "unpatriotic" and close to being treasonous. the power that was granted to this administration has not been seen since WW2. Sorry, Danzig, but the blame rests almost entirely on the Bush administration in this case.