We all make mistakes.... [View All]

[bling bling]

I've heard that response from not one, not two, but THREE "undecided" voters in the last week who I've been working on to vote for Kerry. The conversation goes something like this:

Me: Bush told us we had to rush to war because there were WMD's in Iraq and it was an immediate threat. He manipulated intelligence and lied to the American people and to the world.

Supposedly Undecided Voter: Well, we all make mistakes. The world can't expect the U.S. to never make a mistake. We can't wait for the "mushroom cloud" to hit us before we respond to threats.

Me: (Sound of jaw dropping to ground).

I can't decide what frustrates me more, that people could so casually dismiss a "mistake" of that proportion by the President of the United States, or that they STILL think that pre-emptively going to war with Iraq had anything to do with protecting ourselves from terrorists.

GGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.