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It is sadly expected to see the Democrats playing politics over Iraq. They say "We were fooled (gee, we weren't smart enough to use our own resources and gather our own facts) and we were wrong to vote for it (but we voted for it, and we didn't invoke the War Powers Act for six years even though we are the ones who wrote it and passed it thirty years ago for exactly this reason) but those other guys were wronger to do it and we're going to stop it. We have no idea how to stop it or what the alternatives might be, we have no plans and we're ignoring the mess we'll leave behind if we do anything differently, but those other guys are bad so you shouldn't vote for them you should vote for us."
I don't know, but to me that sounds like EXACTLY THE SAME WHINING AND LACK OF A PLATFORM that lost them Congress (after a 40-year run of Democratic majority) and lost them the White House.
I do know that a lot of people voted for Bush not just once, but twice, simply because the Democrats did nothing but whine and say "We have platform byu the other guys are bad" and in fact, that is literally what one of the Democratic candidates said during their 9-way presidential nomination debate, "It doesn't matter which one of us you vote for as long as you vote against the other side". (Quoting from memory but that's damned close to literal.)
There's only so many fools you can con into a voting booth when you're honest enough to say "We have no platform, we have no ideas, we have no solutions." Compared to that--almost anything sounds better.
Sure looks like the Democrats are going to make the Republicans win AGAIN. I like to say Bush won, and won again, because he was the best candidate the DEMOCRATS had to offer.
A sad comment on politics in America.
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