Reply #2: Partisan bullshit [View All]

[IrateCitizen]

Read Secrets by Daniel Ellsberg if you want to know how much of a conscience all these "patriotic citizens" had. Then, explain to me how their "conscience" was exercised by continuing down a path that they knew was a dead-end from the get-go. Furthermore, explain to me how they exhibited their "patriotism" by weaving a tapestry of lies and deceit in order to justify our further involvement.

This war is already splitting a great number of Republicans from the party establishment. All of us on DU have spoken to Republicans that we know or encounter on the street who are not at all enthused at the current course of events.

This kind of black/white thinking, the childish and mistaken belief that our side is all good and their side is all bad, is part of what has made American politics the complete cesspool that it is today. Democrats engaging in it is no different than Republicans engaging in it.

Personally, I want no part of it.