Don't lecture me. I was probably more informed about the lies that got us into the war than you were at the time. Remember Colin Powell's supposedly key testimony before the UN? I was watching that and shaking my head, but many believed Powell when they wouldn't have believed Bush.

Democrats did not make a case based on lies and false intelligence to justify the invasion. Republicans did that. Democrats were presented with "evidence" (later shown to not only be false, but KNOWN to be false) that Hussein had a weapons program and may have links to al-Qaeda. Speaking for myself I knew at the time Bush was lying, but Congress by and large went along with it. But in no way did they initiate this war. It was a Republican engineered war. Democrats were caught up in the foolishness at first. But now most Democrats are against it and we need even more such Dems, which is what this diary is all about.

You can repeat Nader talking points, if you like, but I won't let you outright lie. Not one Democrat, except for then Dem Lieberman (and we later rejected him first chance we could), was in on the initial pack of lies that got us into this mess. They BELIEVED the lies and probably should have known better. But to blame them for those Republican engineered lies is misleading in the extreme. And extremely inappropriate in a diary focused on people who are OPPOSED to the war and who suffered more than most Americans from it.