the argument the Democrats made, some of them before the war, was that invading Iraq would be a distraction from the real war against al Qaeda. There's increasing evidence that we were right.
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Begala emphasizes the Democratic argument against the Iraq invasion and suggests it has been validated by subsequent events.
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I think it's a very -- I think, it's a smart thing. I wouldn't do it every day. I think he's been remarkably good.
What if they just sat there and let the Republicans steamroll through a law that discriminates against black and brown Texans, and didn't do every single thing they could do to try to stop that?
Nope. Nope. Sorry. It's the most impregnable readout. If they can say bouillabaisse, I can say impregnable readout. It is a brick outhouse. They're never going to penetrate it.
The moral thing to do is to clean up your Party, and to purge the lunatics, as the Democrats did with the Klan.





