So, if someone falls for a scam, you blame them as much as you blame the con-man who scammed them? I can see placing some blame on the victim of the scam, but to apportion equal blame is just plain dumb. And, if you want to apportion blame, let's face the fact that the American people bought into the same scam the Democrats did, and so the American people are just as much to blame as those who lied to get us into this war...at least by your standards.

So come out and say it. You blame all of America for this, right?

As to where to go from here, a change of leadership in both the Senate (which is really 50/50 if you consider Lieberman is a Bush collaborator) and White House. That is the ONLY way. Electing anti-war people like Al Franken to the Senate would help a lot. As for Presidency, we have three choices at this point: John "Eternal War" McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. Of the three Obama is taking the strongest stand against the war, McCain is all for war, and Hillary is in between. Those are our choices. America has to decide if it wants this stupidity to contine for 100 years or more, as McCain has announced, or if we can extract ourselves as quickly as operationally possible, which is the Richardson/Edwards and I think Obama stance.

If you REALLY want to get us out, you also need more anti-War Dems in Congress. If you want to put your money where your mouth is, support Diane Benson (AK-AL), Steve Harrison (NY-13), Darcy Burner (WA-8), Sam Bennett (PA-15), Larry Byrnes (FL-14), Donna Edwards (MD4), George Fearing (WA-4), Eric Massa (NY 29), Chellie Pingree (ME-1), Jared Polis (CO-2), and Tom Perriello (VA-5). THESE are the people who have taken a stand publicly against the war for some time (as in Diane Benson's case) or put forth a genuine plan for withdrawal in the others' cases. Repeating Nader/Paul platitudes is all well and good my friend, and you are right in that Dems got fooled into supporting this fiasco in the beginning, but we are talking solutions now, and the candidates I list above are genuine, grassroots, anti-war Democrats who WILL push to end the war...if we can get them elected. If you are so anti-war as you claim, let's see you put some effort into electing these candidates.