Yeah, and at least half of them voted for the bastard in 04. I'll say it again, it is the American people who are at fault here.

They voted for Bush KNOWING he lied to get us into Iraq, KNOWING he had no plan to get us out, KNOWING he had never made a single promise to pull troops out...and now they're mad because he won't pull troops out and it looks like he lied to get us into this mess.

And they're even breathing down the democrats' necks: "Fix this or else!" Now I don't like defending politicians but it is unfair to place the blame for this state of affairs on them when we voted them into office. And it is unfair to expect a group who was virtually excluded from all the decisions that got us into this mess to now just fix it--especially since they were excluded because the American people WANTED them to be excluded. But if they don't fix it, it will be their fault.

But, we say, YOU CAN'T DISS OUR BRAVE BOYS AND GIRLS FIGHTING FOR OUR FREEDOMS BY CUTTING OFF FUNDING! THAT'S UNAMERICAN!! DON'T EVEN THINK IT IF YOU WANT TO BE REELECTED!!!! Then we get mad because all they're doing is passing some weak-assed non-binding resolution. Folks, Bush and Cheney know FULL WELL that the ONLY way they can be stopped is by cutting funding and Congress has been largely forbidden by the people from doing that because we have this unbelievable guilt that we are doing nothing to help in this war while only a tiny class of Americans are being forced to sacrifice for it. So we foolishly place these people on the level of inviolable saints who must be praised from teh ground up and never ever shown anything that might even resemble disrespect. Bush and Cheney know this and are milking for all it's worth. It's ridiculous. We elect a new Congress to fix the mess and promptly tie their hands and then get mad because they aren't cleaning up this mess.

Hey, folks, the mess might be easier to clean up if you'd quit making it so goddamned huge before you decide it needs to be cleaned up. And it might help if you give the cleaners you hired the power to do what they have to to clean up that mess instead of telling them, "We want this cleaned up but you can't use buckets, mops, brooms, dustpans, cleaners or trahsbins." God we're so damned stupid!!

And the last people I am interested in hearing from is someone who wants to scold me with: "It's not my fault, I didn't vote for him." Doesn't matter. We're all Americans, we all share the blame. We let this happen. Maybe there wasn't much we could do to stop it but if we don't then who will? France? Iran? Russia? Who? It goes on us all. And maybe if we could quit pointing fingers and blaming everyone else but ourselves and start blaming ourselves for the part we have played in this (and we all have), maybe we can find a way out. And more importantly put legislation in place that will never allow anything like this to happen again.

But I doubt it.