The Democrats took back the House and the Senate. Thank goodness that they did. The specifics of party and party ideologies don't really matter. The party in power, over the course of the Bush presidency, has done so much to merit scorn that maintenance of the status quo would've marked a terrible lack in the American people's capacity to hold their government to any standards. There's a great comfort that we can take whenever power changes hands in Washington: the democracy is still working.
It's painful to relive all the great failures that have led us to the point where we are now: the Schiavo affair, Bush's stem cell funding ban, the New Orleans catastrophe, and of course what has proven to be the overwhelming issue of this election and of the past several years: Iraq.
The War in Iraq was defined by men sitting in their offices on Capitol Hill and telling themselves exactly what they wanted to hear. More and more evidence about the planning and run-up to the war is becoming available, and it seems increasingly that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld invented WMDs because they wanted to find them. Other eyes would have, and in fact did, find that out of the 978 sites that the Bush Administration and CIA identified as possible WMD stockpiles or facilities, not even a single one could be described as definitely having WMDs. Not one of those 978 cases had much more than a dozen pages of intelligence associated with it, much of that intelligence being composed of satellite photos and interviews with well-paid turncoats. Hardly a slam dunk.
And yet we had Dick Cheney explaining that, "There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." Who were we to disbelieve him? We, the public, did not have access to the secret intelligence that Cheney and the President had access to.
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1 - pleasexcusetheinterruption
If you want comments Sam, don't say right up front your a HS senior, you tell that after you make them look like fools - and write something controversial.