If this subject was already diaryed, I'm sorry, but did anybody else see Chuck Schumer's idiotic answer to Russerts question when asked if he regretted voting in favor of giving Bush a blank check to wage a illegal war in Iraq? Not only did he not admit the mistake, he used Bush talking points to defend his absurd argument.
Well, no, Tim, because my vote was seen and I still see it as a need to say we must fight a strong and active war on terror
WTF?? Chuck, Do you think the Iraq War has anything to do with the war on Terror?????
How long are the Pro-war Democrats going to stubburnly insist that they didn't make a mistake by skirting their constiutional responsibility and letting the President
wage war at will.
Here's the full exchange between Russert and Schumer:
MR. RUSSERT: Senator Schumer, there's been a widespread discussion that this is bigger than just Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame and White House aides; that it really goes to the core of the Iraq War, what cases were made to the American people about weapons of mass destruction and other systems and other analyses and other intelligence data. Based on what you now know today, do you regret having voted for the war?
SEN. SCHUMER: Well, no, Tim, because my vote was seen and I still see it as a need to say we must fight a strong and active war on terror. But I would say this, Tim, and I would take your point in a slightly different direction. I think what we've seen in the last several months is a White House in some real degree of disarray: the war in Iraq where nobody knows what the game plan is; the budget, which is just out of control and nobody seems to have a handle on it and could wreck our economy; the prescription drug bill, the major accomplishment and everyone's confused about how it's going to be administered. The Web sites don't even work. And, of course, Katrina.
In case the democratic leadership hasn't looked at the polls lately, Bush and his war are not too popular anymore.
Why is it that these Democrats will not admit a mistake.
They seem almost as pig-headed as Bush himself.
American Soldiers and Iraqi citizens are dieing everyday because both Republicans and Democrats can't be man (and woman) enough to live up to their mistake.
