Always give credit where it's due

The lefties over at We MoveTo Canada shared a column from the Lew Rockwell site written on 26 November 2004 called "What Became of Conservatives?"

I have to admit, being a young man, I had an inherent faith in George Bush when the Iraq war began, after all he is the President of the United States. Even when the WMD turned out to be anything but a "slam dunk", I still supported his effort in Iraq because it seemed likely that other countries in the area gave aid and sanctuary for Saddam's contraband.

Sadly, it now seems all to clear that the Bush ideologues like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Fred Barnes and the "neo-con" ilk have gotten it all wrong. Unwilling to blame Bush, or the strategy itself of "Middle East democratization" at the barrel of a gun, Bill Kristol even went so far as to hang Secretary Rumsfeld out to dry with an op-ed piece calling for his firing.

America's finest are paying with their lives, and all we are told is that "we will stay the course" while the neo-cons play a finger pointing game, alternating between such targets as Dan Rather, the Washington Post, and Michael Moore. In case those topics get old, tried and true Bush backers will trot out some stories about the ACLU, or simply point to the failures of past Presidents in an apparent attempt to minimize the extent of this President's failure.

Mr. President, everyone can see that the bridge is out ahead of us. There is no honor in riding the train over the cliff. Surely you must see what we all can see, how long do you expect us to pretend to deny what is becoming painfully obvious? Or worse yet, how long do you think we can pretend to support that which we know is not right?