[TheRealThing]

In the lead up to war, it became McNamara's "fog of war." Nobody would argue that Sadaam Hussein was a good dude...he was a despot. But, any war drawing upon national passion right after 9/11 that plied those emotions and sentiments to go after Sadaam? It became a hodge-podge of flawed intelligence, stir- the-pot rhetoric, and rush to battle, where any politician who shouted "hold the phone" got to wear the wussy dove hat. In my view, the invasion of Iraq will be viewed historically as a horribly flawed decision, made on dubious grounds, which resulted in chaos writ large. Celebrated cases make for bad law, and 9/11 led this nation into many shock and fear induced errors of policy and judgment, errors not confined to red or blue suits. However, those days were difficult ones, and historians have the luxury of hindsight.

Granted. But the ax I had to grind about the whole deal at the time had to do with the political hay that the Dems made of the Iraq Resolution. They supported it pure and simple and her majesty Hillary herself supported it and made impassioned speeches on the floor of the Senate to that end. Then when the validity of the intel began to unravel, she and the rest of the Dems claimed they'd been lied to in order to gain political cover and to slam Republicans as a whole.

They have no shame as was demonstrated yet again today when Rep Trey Gowdy revealed his report on the Benghazi investigation. I've said this before, if the standard for pinning blame on the person deserving of it, servants of the people one and all, mirrors that of the courtroom they'll be able to get by with anything. You'll notice if you read above that Lois Lerner got by with her shenanigans too in another case of missing emails and destroyed hard drives. George W did however, turn over all documents asked for by Congress. And was called a liar by the very people who vetted the intel right along with him, and is still being called a liar to this day. But speaking of today, we saw that despite the affidavit stating all emails had been turned over, signed by HRC no less, that yet another 160 emails have surfaced.