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Entry: Fool Me Twice Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/fool_me_twice#6183 Post contents: There's another reason Hillary is unafraid to vote for war with Iran - the fact that it will be a consequence-free vote. If and when the war/bombing campaign happens and the inevitable disastrous backlash occurs, people will simply rail against Bush, calling it "Bush's War". Of course, there is great truth in this - I'm not trying to shield Bush/Cheney from responsibility here. But the danger in calling Iran - or Iraq and Afghanistan - "Bush's wars" is that it misses the point that these are the ESTABLISHMENT'S wars. Hillary and the Democrats could have stopped Iraq before it happened. They didn't. Hillary and the Democrats could end Iraq now. They aren't. Hillary and the Democrats could stop the war on Iran before it happens. They won't. Hillary and the Democrats could end the war in Iraq after she takes office in 2009. They won't do that either. The Democrats are in a prime position - one of being able to lambast Bush for the war while still not actualy promisig to end it. Any of the ambiguous, couched anti-war rhetoric coming out of any Democrat other than maybe Richardson or Gravel is, as Pat Moynihan once put it, "Boob bait for bubbas". No one in the mainstream of the Establishment is serious about ending the empire or even curtailing its wars. Don't be a bubba. Sent at: 2008 10 15