Do they think we’ve forgot?

Republicans of late have been breaking their necks to let everyone know what a terrible thing it is to spend the people’s money. They pretend to be worried about our standing in the world and our vulnerability to terror attacks. They are slowly remembering words like standards, patriotism, and values. If we lived in the forest for the last decade, one might be easily led to think that these have always been the good guys. We were there, and we remember.

We remember the Democrats being pressured into voting for the war. They believed the intelligence that the President allowed to be published. It painted an evil picture, and some Democrats were duped.

We remember the seemingly endless search for WMDs that never materialized. Cutaway views of portable chemical manufacturing trucks. Then the sorry explanation that while the entire country was locked down that Saddam somehow managed to sneak them out.

We remember saying no to bills that the President and his in control henchman pushed through anyway.

We remember begging and not understanding what the difficulty was to outfit a Humvee with armor, only to find out later that the Humvee should not have been sent in the first place.

We remember the promise of a quick war that would instantly break the resolve of the enemy, that the people would greet us as liberators.

We remember reflections on internment camps (GITMO), young inexperienced soldiers left unsupervised to torture and humiliate prisoners. (Abu Ghrabe)

We remember a lackadaisical attitude as thousands languished and died in New Orleans.

We remember how Oil contracts in Iraq were resolved before the effects of Katrina are fixed.

We remember how the opportunities to regulate the banking industry came and went.

We remember how you misled the country, how you let Bin Laden go, how you wasted this country’s resources.

We remember how you shredded the constitution, habeas corpus, and invaded the privacy of American citizens.

We remember, but here is what we will do about it; we forgive you, now lets work together. Work together because what is at stake today is so much more important than what has happened in the past.