Judge their judgment before Iraq war started (Ellen Goodman)

[struggle4progress]

... Gary Hart once said, “In a way, John is refighting the Vietnam War.” For a long time, the former prisoner of war has thought that it should have, could have had a different ending. Americans lost the war because they lost their will. He’s thought more about the sorry last chapter of that war than its foolish beginning ...

The current president has never admitted that we invaded Iraq on false premises or phony pre-emptives or fictitious weapons of mass destruction. President Bush will breeze home to Texas without a modicum of guilt. Do we want another president like that? ...

Americans are in a $10 billion-a-month war with more than 4,000 dead and 30,000 wounded. We’ve watched the current president deny and deny that he was wrong in invading Iraq.

If there’s a bottom-line, rock-solid qualification for being the next president, it’s a candidate who acknowledges just how badly we were misled. So far, Obama’s The (Only) One.

http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/722052.html

[kevinmc]

1. Needs to be said over and over .... K&R