A vote to remember...
Today's vote was an important one. 13 months removed from 9/11 and with a mid-term election right around the corner, the administration couldn't have picked a better time to push for a war resolution against Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
Since a large majority of the Congress has voted for war, I hope they read the reports and feel comfortable in their decisions. What I worry about is them voting for a resolution as important as this one wearing their political hats... instead of their unbiased and objective hats.
See, I've had an insider's view and was pitched this war back in 1998 by Neocons hoping to take advantage of a weakened President Clinton (Oh Monica) wanting to change the subject. They got the foreign policy shift they wanted but didn't have their "Pearl Harbor" moment (as described to me in '98) with which to coalesce the country around and march to war... 9/11/01 gave them that. So if I'm being overly suspicious and Saddam really does pose the threat Bush and company say he does, then they're right, we should take him out and I can stop blogging... but if they're still holding on to old ideological beliefs when the play book should be re-written given the new, un-detected threat of Al-Queda and we get bogged down in a country and culture we know little about, lord help us.
Since a large majority of the Congress has voted for war, I hope they read the reports and feel comfortable in their decisions. What I worry about is them voting for a resolution as important as this one wearing their political hats... instead of their unbiased and objective hats.
See, I've had an insider's view and was pitched this war back in 1998 by Neocons hoping to take advantage of a weakened President Clinton (Oh Monica) wanting to change the subject. They got the foreign policy shift they wanted but didn't have their "Pearl Harbor" moment (as described to me in '98) with which to coalesce the country around and march to war... 9/11/01 gave them that. So if I'm being overly suspicious and Saddam really does pose the threat Bush and company say he does, then they're right, we should take him out and I can stop blogging... but if they're still holding on to old ideological beliefs when the play book should be re-written given the new, un-detected threat of Al-Queda and we get bogged down in a country and culture we know little about, lord help us.
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