LET'S NOT FORGET THE IRAQ WAR

(h/t Atrios)

and the party primarily responsible for that fiasco - the GOP. If we don't make this part of the accepted American narrative about the Iraq War, the GOP will be given implicit permission to do the same thing in the future.

At least a couple of conservative House members have come clean. From Matt Corley at Think Progress:

Yesterday, the libertarian Cato Institute hosted a panel discussion on conservatism and the war in Afghanistan with Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN). When the conversation shifted to the war in Iraq, Rohrabacher said that “once President Bush decided to go into Iraq, I thought it was a mistake because we hadn’t finished the job in Afghanistan,” but that once Bush “decided to go in,” he “felt compelled” to “back him up.” He then added that “the decision to go in, in retrospect, almost all of us think that was a horrible mistake.”

ROHRABACHER: I, I can’t. All I can say is the people, everybody I know thinks it was a mistake to go in now.


MCCLINTOCK: I think everyone would agree Iraq was a mistake.

MCCLINTOCK: And, you know, again, I think virtually everyone would agree going into Afghanistan the way we did was a mistake. How many share my, my cynicism over this idea of a resolution of force, which I can’t find anywhere in the Constitution. And how many believe that in those rare cases where we go in, we put all of our resources behind our soldiers, I would say certainly more than half of the Republican caucus probably believe that.