How come WE knew?

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Democrats who supported king george's empirical rights in the IWR claim they were misled, or what's worse that they were right to authorize the illegal invasion of Iraq, but that king george and his gang have bungled the job.

How come these Congressional insiders didn't know what we here at DU knew in 2002-2003--that the war was based on lies, that king george is a criminal, that Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11, that there were no WMDs, that the bush cabal wanted war in Iraq in order to enrich themselves and their friends, that the bushgang were bound to fail miserably, that Iraq would become a distraction from the rest of the "war" on "terror," that war in Iraq would be catastrophically destabilizing both inside Iraq and in the Middle East . . . ?

How come we all knew that back in 2002, but the "leaders" of the Democratic Party either didn't or find it politically expedient to pretend that they did not? How many of them were willing then--and now--to place their own political careers above the lives of hundreds of thousands of victims of this egregious crime?