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I don't understand you Democrats on this. Please, educate me. First you must admit that if Bush lied about Iraq, so did Kerry, Ted "hiccup" Kennedy, Clinton, Albright, and the rest of the Democrats. If they didn't, then neither did Bush, and we all just got the intelligence wrong. Not to mention the Russians, the British and the rest of the countries whose intelligence also failed them. Hence saying Bush lied, is nothing more than an attempt to smear for political gain.

Second, Democrats say we made such a horrible mistake and we are seen like idiots to the rest of the world. Yet, here are some facts. We now know that France and Germany were in bed with Iraq. The only two countries opposed to invasion. We also found that Kofi Annan's son and possibly Kofi was involved in the oil for food scandal. Libya gave up its WMDs. Egypt is having semi-free elections for the first time in recent times. Iraq and Afghanistan no longer have anti-American governments. Spain pulled out and continued to have terrorist attacks. France was opposed the war and are having terrorist attacks. Iraq is having free elections. Iraq now has a constitution. Iraqis are experiencing freedom for the first time in their lives. We haven't had an attack like 9-11 on our homeland since 9-11. We are fighting the war in the middle east where it belongs, not in the US. The Taliban is toast. Al Qaeda is weakening...

I could go on for days, but hopefully you get the picture. So for a so called "dumb" president, he sure is pretty lucky.

If Kerry was elected President, he would have pulled out. What would have been the outcome? My guess is most of the positives above would not have happened. And Sadam would have probably been freed with empty apologies.

I'm not saying the war has gone smoothly. I'm aware of our errors, but what war is perfect and without errors? What country is perfect?

Now imagine what as a nation we would have accomplished if the Democrats, weren't playing a political game with the security of the United States and the Middle East. Imagine if they would admit that they too were mislead by the worlds intelligence in believing that Sadam had WMDs. The only one at fault for this was Sadam who did not cooperate with UN investigators. Imagine if the Democrats instead of trying to derail the president for political gain in 2006 and 2008 would instead have the decency to admit our errors as a united nation and attempt to correct the wrongs the right way by not abandoning Iraq to Al Qaeda, and not adding fuel to their fire.

If Bush didn't have so much internal and external opposition and criticism this war would have been further along and would have caused less American and foreign lives.