The Next Step for the GOP

[a completely inoffensive name]

But that also isn't true. Large numbers of the Democrats voted for the wars as well. And don't say the CIA with the WMD thing. Try to remember post 911 patriotism; everybody was running around screaming hooah like they were in black hawk down. The Wars were a group effort and the democrats have had time to get out if they wanted. Plenty of the republicans would probably kick and scream if we withdrew but others would probably just be glad to get out of there.

I think your assessment is correct for the Afghanistan war, but I believe the post 9/11 patriotism had subsided by 2003 when the Bush Administration pushed false info to get enough support to invade.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

I think your assessment is correct for the Afghanistan war, but I believe the post 9/11 patriotism had subsided by 2003 when the Bush Administration pushed false info to get enough support to invade.

There is a difference between knowingly peddling false information so as to deceive and succumbing yourself to bad information through poor analysis. The former cannot be proven, though the latter demonstrably has been.

I wish it had been articulated from day one what the goals were/are in the WoT. It is pretty clear but has never been acknowledged. Should have been stated as part of a proposed DofW and then either done to the hilt or not.