So, now that we know the "no blood for oil" crowd was dead wrong (see previous post), there will be a price to pay in terms of accountability, right?
Wrong.
That's one of the great frustrations in American public life--no one is held accountable for being wrong.
Take Joe Biden and Barack Obama, for example. Both opposed the troop surge in Iraq. Both said it wouldn't turn the tide of the war. Both said, in fact, that it might make matters worse, by further inflaming anti-U.S. sentiment.
Both were wrong.
This was no small thing to be wrong about. If they had had their way, not only would there have been no troop surge, we would have begun an immediate troop drawdown. The Iraq war would have been lost. Apart from a huge propaganda victory for al Qaeda, we might be looking at another radical Islamist state.
Boy, it's a good thing that two guys who were so wrong about something so important aren't in a position to do any REAL damage, right?
Oh yeah...
Just so you don't think I'm being purely partisan, back in 1993, GOP members of the House and Senate unanimously opposed the first Clinton budget, saying that the tax increases would send the economy into a recession. Well, not only did we not enter recession, we enjoyed the most robust period of economic growth in American history.
I'll tell you, it's just a good thing that guys like Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich never got near the levers of power after that. I mean, if you could be so wrong about something so important, you're obviously in the wrong line of work...
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