Mistakes?

"Mistakes were made."  Mistakes were made?  You bet mistakes were made.

George W. Bush was "elected" president.

Lies were told.

The full story of 9/11 went unexamined.

Lies were told.

Congress approved an invasion without cause.

Lies were told.

Civil liberties were curtailed.

Lies were told.

People were illegally seized, imprisoned, tortured, and deprived of their civil rights.

Lies were told.

Voters lost their right to vote.

Lies were told.

George W. Bush was "re-elected."

Lies were told.

The White House betrayed a key intelligence agent.

Lies were told.

Huge sums of money were siphoned away for illicit purposes.

Lies were told.

People were abandoned in a ruined and dying city.

Lies were told.

The wrong people were hired; the wrong people fired.

Lies were told.

Mistakes were made.

Comments

[Craig Agger]

If you want to clasify the election of George Bush to the office of President of the United States (twice) as mistakes that's OK. But the clear implication is that you don't believe in democracy. In other words, you appear to believe that the business about voting expressing the will of "we the people" is a mistake. If that's the case, and you feel you (or some group of like-minded people) should have veto power over the results of legal elections, then you are arguing for the biggest denial of civil rights of all.

[PW]

I believe in democracy. When it's democracy. Bush wasn't elected the first time (Supreme Court intervention, big embarrassment) and the second time there is some evidence that he lost Ohio big time but not all the votes were counted. And we're not even talking about the absence of voting machines in Democratic precincts in that (then very Republican) state. Look at how quickly Ohio elected Dems in '06, though!