Egads, this article annoys me...

[Montauk6]

Dems should admit they, too, were wrong on Iraq

James Klurfeld

April 21, 2006

Please spare me any more mush from the wimps.

I'm talking about Democrats who once supported the war in Iraq but now say they were terribly misled by the Bush administration. It's enough to turn you into a Republican!

The latest Democrat to turn my stomach on this issue is Rep. Steve Israel of Huntington. He's been a very good lawmaker in his five years in the House: savvy, hardworking and not always predictable, trying to carve out a position as a moderate to conservative suburban Democrat. As a member of the Armed Services Committee, he has tried to develop a reputation as a champion of military reform. He was a vocal proponent of the war to remove Saddam Hussein, a position I, too, favored.

But this week Israel said: "I never would have voted the way I did had I known what I know now. ... Either he was misinformed or he misled. I'm not satisfied with either opinion." Israel says that Bush personally assured him that weapons of mass destruction would be found and that the fighting would be quick and relatively inexpensive.

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-opklu214710212apr21,0,5102854,print.column?coll=ny-rightrail-columnist

No, not because there were, indeed, some Dem lawmakers who shoulda known better... well, you read the article and get back to me, huh?

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1. sadly, con artists often come of looking better than their marks....

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. Klurfeld says he supported the war too

Part of a journalist's "job is to be a check on the White House", not just parrot the Administration's agenda. So why the hell wasn't he on top of that? Maybe because it was post 9-11 and the President's approval rating was high?

If more journos had been doing their damn JOBS instead of obediently beating the drums of their corporate masters, there would have been little to no public support for the invasion and the Rep he excoriates would not have felt the intense political pressure to vote for it. Not that I'm excusing it but Klurfeld should shut his big, fat, hypocritical trap.

[Montauk6]

3. Also, this cop out excuse about supporting the war because Saddam

was a tyrant. Ummmm... sorry, but that's STILL no justification for sending Americans to die!

Now, if the US had a zero-tolerance policy on nations ruled by despots, then there may be some rationale, but we all know damn well that's far from the case!