Moonglow
Diamond Member
I didn't support the Iraq invasion.
the point is the leaders of your party did. Some long before Bush ever got there. And they were cheering all along until the body bags started coming back.
Hey, I'm not a doctrinaire conservative. I think Bush did a lot of things wrong. He didn't listen to his generals on troop numbers, he left commanders who weren't getting results in command, etc. Disbanding the Iraqi Army was a huge mistake.
But I get tired of the notion that democrats had no culpability. There were none of these guys who were willing to say, "I think this is so wrong that I am going to throw away my political career to oppose it when it's popular." Never happened. And the only Democrat who was held to any account for his support was Joe Liebermann, because he kept on supporting it. (And even then, he ran as an independent and kept on serving.)
I think a lot of these guys figured that it would be over in a year and they could go back to bashing Bush on other things, just like they did with his Dad in the first Gulf War.
I am a green party member.