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Like the old Politiburo-driven popular front of “violence inherent in the system!” polemic, the Republican punditry today are quickly dispatched to call the Obama victory a historic “Bush-Obama” drama.

Who are these guys kidding? The Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld adventure was a journey to the end of the night and an American disgrace that will never be forgotten. Our best warriors and men of honor of both parties like Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), former NATO chief Wesley Clark and Colin Powell’s chief Col. Lawrence Wilkerson brought the strongest dissent. It was a hoax from the beginning, said Wilkerson. The invasion of Iraq was “the wrong war,” said Clark. This war will instead be remembered as beginning to go forth with some credibility when George W. Bush’s secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, was thrown out of office and Robert Gates was brought forth to try and retrieve any remaining shreds of American character.

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