Reply #14: No. Doing the right thing is not a partisan issue. [View All]

And of course, I don't blame the Dems who opposed the IWR--and I note that only Dems and maybe Ron Paul opposed it. But the Dems who went along are as guilty as the Republicans of shirking their democratic duty--perhaps even more guilty because they, at least, had a partisan "excuse" for voting against it and offering the resistance necessary to stop or at least slow down the war.

Bush is only too happy to give lip service to deliberation, as he did in a foolish interview with British journalists the other day--happy because it doesn't cost him anything. ("War must be a last resort," the jerk intones.) He gets to sound "wise" (so he "thinks") and he also gets to be the asshole he is by nature.

But Democrats who voted for IWR, along with their Republican brothers and sisters, essentially said, "It's not our problem. They say they have the evidence. Godspeed." There's no way to spin out of it.