call me skeptical, biased, paranoid, whatever, but the senate democrats' decision to finally do ANYTHING about this outrageously renegade administration and their illegal war is just their attempt to somehow reserve a space in the american public's short term memory banks for the 2006 elections. it's fascinating how they call their closed door session a "protest."

you mean, they waited until the year 2005, after 2000 US soldiers and 100K+ Iraqis have died to have anything to protest about? you mean it wasn't until now that they figured it was bogus "evidence" used by the bush administration to piece together a sorry-ass reason to go to war two years ago? the dems smelled the bullshit two years ago. they've known it all along, but they had to wait until they had polls showing how a majority of the american population doesn't support the war. they had to wait until the 2004 elections blew over, where they could just battle the republicans over "cultural war" issues that were safe for election year politics. they had to wait for the waves of discontent with the administration brought on by the katrina tragedy. they had to wait until they were ready to play with the archaic notion of "leadership." wait... wait... wait... for the safest wave to finally let it rip.

it baffles me. so, this is what it means to "lead" a country. this country was in dire need of sane and humane leadership since 9/11. the democrats just laid over like roadkill while republican cars repeatedly flattened them to the pavement after the 2000 elections. what sorry squirrels. sorry, squirrels (for the demeaning comparison).

... and i used to be a democrat when i was younger.

it will be interesting to see how the "drama" will unfold with the non-partisan committee (wow. how thrilling!) investigating the "intelligence" findings (we'll be looking hard for a suitable IQ, here) used by the war-hungry bushites. I'm sure the democratic senators are going to have a brief day in the sun in their off-broadway performance of, "we have balls! the musical." though i'm a sucker for musical theatre--as are all REAL men and women, biological and self-identified (right, "r2"?)--i doubt i'll be indulging in any sing-alongs with these musical thespians.

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