Reply #35: That makes starting a war sound like a parlour game

[Jacobin]

Call me naive all you want to.

Those who voted against the war have nothing to try to hide or spin.

Those who voted for it (and yes, it WAS a vote to go to war) are spending their lives trying to spin it. They don't know whether to spit, throw up or drop dead, and are doing all three at the same time trying to back away from this clusterfuck.

Statesmanship has a place and it can be rewarded.

Over 60% of the public now seesm IraqNam for what it is. Republicans are trying to distance themselves from it and if the opposition party had acted like an opposition party, we wouldn't be in the position of trying to 'out-hawk' the hawks to try to perpetuate the new Viet Nam to give cover to the idiots who voted for it.