Five hundred million is not going to buy Syria. It should be going to our schools.

Yeah, well, Americans at large never bought the wingnuts' crusade to impeach Clinton for getting a blowjob, either, and look what that got us.

if you bought the bald-face lies in 2003, you were/are a stupid fuck. they were preposterous and obvious, and told with obvious half-hearted conviction with transparent motives. the rest of the planet reacted with mouths agape. "that's the best you can come up with?"

and i'm including my mom, my dad, all you "shut up hippies, we'll protect america" rah-rahs, and dan savage.

@3: Agreed. Going to Iraq as a response to 9/11 was the most obvious and lazy sleight-of-hand in history, and even then, I couldn't understand why so many otherwise reasonable people were lining up behind it.