I sympathize with Bobert. Although it is not helpful now that we have been flung off the cliff, it is damn hard not to scream "I told you so". Things have played out pretty much exactly the way the pre-war anti-war protestors said they would. And for having said these things, we were ridiculed as unpatriotic to traitorous. Some bastards (Karl Rove, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter.......)continue this ridicule - very publicly. It is beyond me (us?) to understand how those who were dead wrong can continue to look down on those who were spot-on correct, and how those who were dead wrong can continue to have such apparent (though dwindling) popular support. Do you remember Bill O'Reilly proclaiming in the days before the invasion that "if we did not find the stockpiles of W's of MD in Iraq, he would apologize publically, and never again believe anything this administration said"? We seem to be a nation of Bill O'Reillys. Convenient memory loss is epidemic! Yeah, none of this helps us get out of the mess we're in, but I think we are allowed to be pissed off, because if our government had listened to us, we wouldn't be in this in the first place.

Imagine that your kid - despite your warnings - drinks and drives and wrecks the car. Being mad at the kid doesn't fix the car does it? So, you gonna not get mad?

Now, how DO we fix the car?