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This sort of article really bothers me.
Most of the media, the punditry (who are mostly right-wingers anyway), and apparently a large percentage of the US population went insane as a result of the events of 9/11, and somehow that makes us ALL responsible for what the Bush administration has done?
No. Don't blame ME for their insanity. I didn't vote for Bush. I wrote to my congressmen and urged them to vote against the war authorization. I told everyone I could exactly what I thought would happen as a result of this insanity - and exactly what use Bush would make of the war.
Hell, I even wrote a "Letter to My Future Self" on October 19, 2001 which was published on several progressive websites. It's sadly accurate.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/01/10/19_letter.html
So please don't imply that I bear any responsibility whatsoever for this disaster. I realize that this assignation of blame is on a high level, a sort of failure of national character, but I don't accept any part in that character - and neither should anyone else who exercised basic common sense and saw how all this was inevitably going to end up. Which leaves out Senator Clinton, incidentally.
She bears some responsibility for this war, and of the ruination of this country at the hands of the Bush cabal. So do the people who voted for Bush and the Republicans. Bush himself, and his backers, bear the greatest responsibility of all.
But I don't.
