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Many of us here, on DU and elsewhere in Progressive America, knew this was a loser from the start. We read more than just the standard newspapers and magazines. We sought out other views (lots of 'em from the UK Guardian and elsewhere around the planet). We didn't confine our TV viewing only to the Pox Noise Channel. We didn't put our brains on numb and listen to limbaugh and other bush-bots on the radio. We sought out other and more detailed information on the net. We didn't accept the handouts, or drink the Kool-aid. We tried to seek out the truth. We found it. We knew enough, and never had the privilege of those much-vaunted Presidential Daily Briefs. We had what we could search out via the seats of our pants. And we found enough. PLENTY enough - to make informed decisions about this war during the run-up. Many of us knew enough to go out and hoist protest signs and join marches and sign petitions. And call our reps and beg and plead and email and fax and nag. Only difference is, NOW, people are starting to listen to us without scoffing or calling us names (at least the ones whose souls CAN be saved).
And I'm with Robert Redford. I agree with him that we are ALL owed a HUGE apology. We were called every name and adjective in the book. The only thing we weren't called, and which was the only correct label possible, was "correct." We were right all along. We've been proven correct, by the passage of time and the expanding collections of facts.
We saw what it all was. We saw what and who bush was. We weren't fooled. And we weren't taken in, for one minute, by his crawfishin' and good ol' boy schtick and oily, scheming "charm offensive." And I think we deserve a great deal of credit for that.
In fact, when I saw him accepting "victory" in the 2000 election, after the Supremes had stabbed America in the heart, and he made this big deal about being introduced by the Democratic head of the Texas legislature to show how broadminded and inclusive and bipartisan he was, I got this cold chill. I remember thinking "uh-oh... here's trouble." Didn't know why I was feeling that way, and certainly couldn't have imagined what hell-on-earth he would bring upon us. All I remember is that I DID feel that way. Huge sense of foreboding. I'll never forget that.
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