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Open Letter to Time Magazine

In your recent Commentary: Nostra Culpa by Michael Kinsley, he dumps the blame for the Iraq war firmly on the American People. Tells us to stfu and get over it.

I'm sorry, I cannot let that pass. The reason that the polls were 70% at the start of the war was because the President and the VP and the Secretary of Defense and the National Security Advisor were all systematically lying to the American People in order to get us to approve of the war they already wanted in January of 2000. This is the Bush/Cheney/Powell/Rummy/Condi/Abu Gonzales Iraq war, and they cannot pass the buck to us. Secrecy is a double edged sword. If they want to slink around in the shadows, lying and prevaricating, and making things up out of whole cloth, then they cannot turn around and say "Hey - you wanted it too". They cannot constantly speak of mushroom clouds, and then say "But, You thought there were WMDs also".

There were plenty of people who knew what a mess this war was going to be, knew how much it would cost us in blood and lives and money and stature - where are their voices now? Why are these Bush apologists still giving us their worthless opinions? I want to hear from some of those people now.

Perhaps, unlike the president and his lap dog generals (he's fired any generals who disagreed with his fancifull ideas about Iraq). Perhaps the ones who were right in the first place would have some idea of how to go forward. I don't see any ideas on the republican side of the aisle.

Thank you
SB Gypsy