Doesn't it suck to be so right for so long?

[NRaleighLiberal]

Many - probably most - of us could have written quite a bit of the script we've seen playing out over the last 7 years. We wouldn't have had all of the details - such as 911 and Iraq - but we knew that a lifetime failure that was placed in the big job by a stacked, partisan supreme court would spell nothing but trouble. Then came 911 - many, if not most, of us could see the deer in the head lights reaction, the false posturing - we cringed at the "bring it on" talk. Afghanistan sounded like a reasonable next chapter - but, true to form, the lifetime failure didn't close the deal. Then - Iraq? We heard the lies, we saw the building disaster. We knew what would transpire, we knew that the inspectors did their jobs, that Ritter was right - so we could fill in more of the script. We weren't surprised when the flight jacket was donned and the banner unfurled - What Mission - What was Accomplished? It started really sucking, because casualties were mounting as a result of the big lie. Then we had the Katrina - and the cake, and the guitar - the flyover, the heckofajob. More script fell into place, the lifetime failure continued to fail. The script continues - Gonzo, Cheney, lies, lies, lies. And, still, more die for the lie. We could have written this script. We have imagination - we see through lies, we care about our country, about people. The media - pretty much wrong at all turns.

And, still, people die. We shake our heads. We do what we can - we get no help. Yes, it really sucks to be so right for so long.

[aquart]

1. Yes.

It was so obvious. That's what I don't understand. When the Supreme Court committed treason enabling the bloodless coup of 2000, I said, "Americans are going to die because of this decision." I was told I was being melodramatic. But it was so obvious...

[Uben]

2. Consider the alternative

I don't mind it!

[pocoloco]

3. The plans were never hidden!

If Iraq hadn't stalled out we'd be finishing up with Iran about now
and preparing for Syria!

[TheBaldyMan]

4. well that's the price you pay,

it may suck but it doesn't suck as bad as the alternative.

There was a pacifist, Beverly Nichols, in Britain in the 1930s who was opposed to rearmament who wrote a letter to a RW national newspaper and said this:

Daily Telegraph, July 25th, 1933
(snip)...Major Yeats Brown hits the nail on the head when he writes that 'the whole pacifist case rests on a denial of nationality' - it does.
We pacifists must be honest enough to admit it. We have to lower the flags that we love, to deny movements that are glamourous and profitable, to wear on our sleeves the badge "Traitor to His Country". It isn't pleasant.It isn't easy. But we must do it. Somebody must do else all should end

Although Beverly Nichols was talking about pacifism in the 30s the analogy is felt even more keenly these days. The difference in 2007 is there's a growing number of people showing up with those armbands. You should welcome the newly awakened with charity and just be glad that the snowball has gained in size. If anything it highlights how disconnected from ordinary decent people the criminals in the Whitehouse have always been.

You were never fooled but consider this, the converts are more pissed at the administration than you are. They are the people who were betrayed by a group of con-men who claimed to share their values, only to find out that the administration stands for the exact opposite of everything they hold dear.