Brewer debunks Pelosi smears: "If you are stopping someone else from their ability to exchange ideas...isn't that un-American?"

NewBee, I've seen too much of her act to think that she'll keep holding conservative feet to the fire; she has a record of occasionally sniping a conservative, then spending a couple weeks mollycoddling them. Give me Tamron Hall or David Shuster any day; they're much more consistent...

Darth Cheney told him what to do. You don't think he really made any big decisions, do you?

As for the civics lesson, you have a point... the Republican Rubber Stamp Congress sucked, too.

And, to be fair, there were a lot of cowardly Democrats in Congress who let the Troglodytes steamroll them.

You're forgetting who had the majority in both houses of congress when Bush decided we had no other option that to start a war.

So the answer to your question is that he wanted war. He convinced his party to allow him to wage it and then had the media act as a cheerleader for the war. He, his party and the media went to work by painting anyone who disagreed with his war as cowards and traitors.

Simplification is for simple minded people. Anyone who can spout the nonsense you just spouted has to be one.

fear mongering accomplished that feat the mushroom cloud thing condoleeza Rica was peddling. And the WMD threatining our troops driving on the desert towards Baghdad. Gen Colin Powell speaking made up stuff at the UN. It was not one single thing but a series of events, including having to make the difficult choice of do you support the president or not. The only fact in that whole episode is that 19 guys commandeered four airplanes and three of them crashed into buildings, and resulting investigation pointed to Afghanistan, borne out by the fact that Bin laden escaped the bombing at Tora Bora.
" It wasn't up to Bush " does not fly here. he is the leader, the chief executive of the land and the president, by constitutional law, is responsible for decisions involving foreign affairs. With the help of friends and persuation, I can make you believe things you would not normally entertain believing..

Yes, it was up to Congress to spend the money; however, for 6 of the 8 years that Bush was president, he had a rubber stamp Congress which gave him ANYTHING he wanted. He did not veto ONE bill until 2007 when the Democrats got their very, very slight majority in the Senate. The Republicans in Congress, who had allowed Mr. Bush to spend money like a drunken sailor, set a new record in the number of bills which were filibustered, or as they liked to say when they were doing it, "blocked." Apparently, filibusters are only filibusters when they are done by Democrats.

I found it rather ironic that, during the 2008 election, there was hand-wringing over having "one party government." That's essentially what we had for the entire 8 years of the Bush Administration. The difference? The Democratic Party doesn't walk in lock-step as is evidenced by the Blue Dogs holding up health care reform.