If a butterfly flaps it's wings...

[JANdad]

The blame for the war in Iraq (imho) can not be laid at the feet of several senators...

This war has been a long time in the making. If there is anyone here on DU, that believes for one minute that without the IWR, BUSHCO would NOT have invaded Iraq...you are sorley mistaken.

If I were to look at my time here on this planet (37 years) I can point to a number of factors (most meorably) that began with the Reagan admin, that put into place a series of events that have brought us to this point we are at now...

In my opinion, the IWR is probably the least of all the evils that have taken place in the past 30 years as it pertains to ME policy. Truth be told, the IWR merely provided cover for BUSHCO, to say that he had bi-partisn support (see KKKarl's fingerprints)...

So with this being said (although I know that this is a futile request)...Can we move on already and fix this mess?

[TahitiNut]

1. Many of us were in the streets in September and October 2002, protesting against an Iraq invasion.

When the IWR passed, 90% of DU was appalled. It was and is the cover and concealment of a CRIMINAL ACT - a violation of our treaty obligations and international law.

Now, over four years later, those who choose to support candidates who were seduced by the political calculus of that day wish to pretend it was other than that: complicity in a war crime, based on political clay feet in succumbing to populist mob madness.

Rarely does the electorate have the 20/20 hindsight to see its own errors. If we, as a people, are to EVER benefit by learning from our collective mistakes, we MUST downgrade those politicians who showed no greater wisdom than the mob we formed! It is essential in a democratic nation that we do this lest we surrender to the greatest weakness of a democracy: mob rule.

MANY CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS OPPOSED THE IWR!! Kucinich was one. Does ANYONE doubt that the corporate powers that be have almost successfully separated the corporate wheat from the corporate chaff? I sure don't.

[azurnoir]

2. Back a little further

1973 to be exact, when Opec embargoed oil to the US and other countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis


Hasn't ever seemed a little weird that the US arms both the Arabs and Israelis, and then pretends to play peace maker between them? That is why, this war became an inevitability then and there, they probably would have continued in Gulf war 1 but the Soviets had to be completely out of the way first.