Being Republican means never having to say you are sorry.
Strange attitude for a party that daily claims to bathe in the blood of the lamb. Strange but true.
The Republicans got it wrong about Iraq's WMD's. This we now know. Actually we knew it then.
Iraqi WMD's? There were none. None, even while Neocon after Neocon in the Bush administration assured us with absolute certainty that WMD's there were. Remember what Rummy and his "pal" Powell said? 'We have pictures.' 'We've got an evidentiary trail.' The case for WMD's, as the cooked intelligence proves, is a "slam dunk."
Not.
So now that the truth's been out for a year, are there any signs of an "oops" or "sorry" uttered by those who brought us two years of unjustified and illegal war, and (dare I say it) the current Iraqi QUAGMIRE?
Again, not.
The list of people due to utter a mea culpa is long. But the silence from this list is deafening. Condi Rice, Donald Rummsfeld, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, and finally our beloved President George W. Bush... None have uttered the slightest syllable of contrition.
They won't. No doubt this is on advice of their lawyers. In a better world, the kind they'll play hell to prevent, anything they say can and will be used against them in a world court of law.
They won't. Unlike Sen. Durbin, They know that honesty is not the best policy, at least in politics. The weakest link in any defense of this war is a candid word of truth. Any Republican who is unaware of this great truth, please call Karl Rove for help "getting back on message."
For a party of white fundamentalist Christians (and the occasional neo-con Jew) Republicans seem strangely averse to confession. Too bad. If only more Republicans were Catholics. Then they could retire to the dark booth and screen to bare their souls to a priest. To confess and, more importantly, receive guidance. Mr. President, are you listening?
"Fergive me father, fer I have sinned. I lied, an I led the nation into an unnecessary and evil war which has caused the world to hate America. What should I do?"
"Beg God's pardon, my son. Say three Hail Mary's, and then get us the hell out of Iraq."
