I Can't Forgive Them

[cali]

As we move into the 6th year of our National Nightmare of life in the bush era, and the 4th year of a disgraceful war, I can't forgive those Congressional Democrats who voted for the Iraqi War Resolution. It doesn't mean I won't vote for them or praise them when they do something right, but I won't forgive those who stooped to conquer. They stooped for different reasons Some for political expediency, others out of fear. It doesn't really matter.

Here's what I can't forgive: If I knew it was trumped up, they knew or should have known. I knew every time I heard bush propound on the apocalyptic Iraqi WMD scenario that he was plunging us into a needless and terrible war. I knew because, though there should have been more of them, there were plenty of news stories refuting the lies spilling out of the administration. I knew when I saw the embarrassing presentation Colin Powell laid out to the world at the UN: I knew the odds of there being drones ready to fly from Iraq to the US to spray us with poison were about as grave a threat as Saddam programming Grizzly bears to eat us all up. I knew there weren't mobile vans criss crossing Iraq and busily cooking up anthrax. I knew there were no mushroom clouds in the offing except for the ones bush had control of. I knew it was ridiculous because I'm an adult and I can tell the difference between reality and a fairy tale.

I hold them responsible, and I find it reprehensible that they equivocate instead of apologize. When asked if their vote was wrong, they mutter about bad intelligence or the duplicity of bushco.
Not good enough. Not nearly good enough. Those who voted for the obscene resolution that has led to the wanton spilling of blood and the hemorrhaging of treasure should atone. There are no excuses. The passage of time doesn't lessen the gravity of what they did. It increases it.

I hold them responsible.

I don't forgive them.