Lets examine this denial of blame and then shifting it to the administration a little more closely (she basically is saying: yes I was wrong, but I have an excuse, I was misled).
The plain fact is that many people saw through the sell-job the administration was engaged in right from the beginning. I wrote this on my blog in the Fall of 2002:
"To know the error of the Bush Administration, all we have to do is listen to the Drums of War - all the efforts made to create the belief in the need for war. No one in the right ever needs to beat the Drums of War - if there is a true need that will be obvious. Yet, we forget that the Johnson Administration faked the necessity for the invasion of Vietnam, and standing on the sand of that vain lie, we fell to our destruction. There will be no Victory, in such a repeat of this situation, only the Bagpipes of Sorrow as the dead are buried, the maimed ignored and hidden, and the spiritual heart of the Republic shattered into ruins."
A half-awake adolescent could smell the lies being told by the administration. What is worse, is that it was Hillary Clinton's job, as a U.S. Senator for the opposition party, to dis-believe the administration. The Democrats blew it, and while we may never really know exactly why* someone who wants us to believe they are somehow blameless for not doing their job, does not deserve to be in government anymore at all. In the end though, it will be us who bear the ultimate responsibility, if we keep electing to office such professional liars and snake oil salesmen as Hillary Clinton.
*exactly why is a deeper problem, which I wrote about in: Uncommon Sense*: the Degeneration, and the Redemption, of Political Life in America.
