Reply #9: Why start now? Have the drugs worn off? [View All]

[despairing optimist]

He had a golden opportunity to do something meaningful two summers ago and resign in protest over the coming invasion of Iraq. He would now be regarded by the Repub mainstream as a true leader, a hero, and a savior from the disaster that will ensue for them if not this year then soon afterward. Instead he chose to keep on carrying the neocons' water jugs and playing the game he's played at least since Vietnam days. Is it to protect his son's career and future? It can't be to vindicate his name for posterity. Nor can it be for about 98 percent of the rest of us here and now.

When we needed a leader, we got a follower. When we needed a secretary of state, we got a warmaker. When we needed integrity and decency, we got, among too many others in high office, Colin Powell.