WichitaBoy:

I’d be more inclined to agree with you, but for the re-election of Cynthia McKinney (who said Bush knew about 9-11 and did nothing), the null reaction to Barbara Lee (who voted against going to war in Afghanistan), the NGOs/UN-lovers who accused the US of preparing to put millions of Afghan lives at risk in the face of the “brutal Afghan winter” ™, and the various Lefties who said, in a preview of Iraq “No Afghans were hijackers on 9-11,” “We hadn’t given the Taliban time to arrest ObL,” “We should rely on law enforcement and sanctions to get the Afghans to give up ObL.” That doesn’t even touch the “Afghanistan is the graveyard of armies, this will be a quagmire” crowd.

It’s very convenient to think that Iraq was different from Afghanistan, and for some, perhaps many in the anti-(Iraq) war crowd, that might even be true.

But there were plenty of Democrats (to their credit, I don’t think Kerry or Edwards falls into this group) who were pretty sure that going to war in Afghanistan was the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.