282 RA...Don't forget your scenario could just as easily be applied to the UK electorate.

We voted Blair and his chums back into power, although most of us knew we had been manipulated,lied to and made complicit in the deaths of hundreds of thousands (my figures, because my guess is a likely to be true as Teribus's).

The UK electorate are in fact more culpable than the Americans, as we have a better news service, more discussion in the media and in general , more brains.

The shocking fact is that most people preferred to vote for blood spattered criminals, knowing they were criminals, than for other parties who may have made life slightly more difficult domestically.
We should be thoroughly ashamed of ourselves....we the great cynics are in fact the great self serving cowards.

Although I dislike American foreign policy and indeed the American culture/way of life, I believe the American people, because of their naivety can be the saviours of humanity.
They, unlike us can still see the inherant good in our species....Ake