I'm Still Waiting For That Damn Apology" - cross-posted from DailyKos

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/12/8/91928/6098

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They called us traitors and deluded and unhinged. But it looks like we were all right about Iraq, and "they" were all wrong. Not only about Iraq, but about us. We aren't traitors. Or stupid. Or crazy.

So, to Bush and his enablers and supporters, I ask: where's our damn apology?
And I'm being serious. This isn't some sort of snarky diary -- I want a damn apology. Not just for me, but for everyone who saw this coming in 2003. And for everyone who had the gall to criticize the spiraling disaster that was obviously unfolding along the way. For years you've been violating us with hate speech - it's time for you to take some of that "responsibility" for your own actions that you right-wingers are always bragging about.

So, to all those sanctimonious pundits and politicians again, from the powerful halls of George Bush's White House to the sad little computer in Michelle Malkin's apartment: Don't just pretend the last several years of your vitriol and insults didn't happen. Don't put on your punditocracy blinders and "bipartisan" act and pretend you were part of this struggle to save the country from Bush's blunder all along. The price of admission now begins with an apology. Tell us you were wrong, that you are sorry, that we weren't traitors and monsters and evil. Wounds don't heal unattended.

I don't care if you leak some secret memo saying that things look grim, or if you pound the President on your radio show, or even if you admit you were wrong about the war itself the whole time. I want my damn apology. You don't smear millions of true American patriots who care about their country with words like "traitor" - Americans who then turned out to be right all along - and then pretend that your hate speech was just words that need not be revisted.

You're not getting off that easy.

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:freak: :freak: :freak:

unfortunately, those repugs have no sense of fairness, decency or conscience. They will just go on being bullshit people the rest of their lives.

after another. I don't remember the order, but certain people who tracked certain things were immediately on the job:

. We had a reminder of the letter from PNAC to CLinton in 1998 asking Clinton to invade Iraq.
. The PNAC 'mission statement' was released on the internet.
. We had the Pearl Harbro reference included in one of their releases.
. We gained knowledge about something not reported on corporate right wing news - Saddam was threatening to switch to the Euro.
. We found out that we planned to move bases out of Saudi Arabia and move them to Iraq.
. And we started understanding the defending Israeli rationale behind our invasion.
. We had stories from families of soldiers going to Iraq.
. Paul O'Neill and Richard Clarke wrote their books rather quickly - offering back up about the drive into Iraq.
. I remember reading some statement from Rumsfeld saying (essentially) that he didn't want to fight a war in Afghanistan, he wanted to fight in Iraq - because our equipment wasn't made to go over mountains (my interpretation).
. We always know that our Generals always want two things - to test new toys and war theories and to show our soldiers some action - especially the Air Force.

MOSTLY WE HAD ALL THE OUTRAGEIOUS LIES THAT WERE IMMEDIATELY SUSPECT AND PROVED AS LIES.

What I never saw until laters and would not have predicted was was the far extent of involvement and partnership of the UK and U.S. I would have never dreamed that Spain, Ireland, and many other countries would lend so much support even after they knew that we were barely going to Afghanistan, but that there men and help was headed to Iraq.

We knew that the demeanor of the war was a disgrace by two major occurrences - the joke environment of the 52 card deck of enemies and the way the right wing corporate court jesters laughed and laughed at Rummies' jokes and didn't even take the smile off their faces to report deaths and avoided all investigations of horrible occurrences.

We knew that right wing corporate tv and the WH were one when nearly absolutely zero coverage of deaths or coffins or grieving familes was provided us.

We had the www.costofwar.com to prove the folly.
We had blogger Iraqi citizens helping us understand some angles.

There was a timetable of discovery - learning how we invaded and how they got away with it for five years with mainstream America.

I will never, EVER understand how they could have done that - not now, NOT EVER

friends and family (except a precious few).

Now, most are tiptoeing around me, with a little obsequiousness thrown in for good measure. No mention of the dear and wonderful Boosh anymore, as if none of our heated discussions, complete with utter discounting of my point of view, ever happened.

The one thing they're counting on is my propensity for civil discourse rather than raging debate. However, they have seen my fury at the horrific price we are all paying for the cabal's greed, so they know it's there.

Now, that we've got a foot in the door, is the time. Remind and ask, politely first and then adamantly, for that damn apology!

Fired up, looking for my Congressional reps phone numbers, now! MKJ





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and if they had any shred of integrity or decency they never would have supported that lying, disgusting, incompetent piece of SHIT

I'd hate to see an entire battalion of the conscientious die over an apology.