for the actions of this administration, been spinning every event possible to justify Bush's actions-and then have to face the stark reality that you have been lied to.

And if you don't realize that, then the only other alternative is that the administration you believed in acted on bad intelligence. They were duped, and so duped you and the rest of the American people.

In other words, as a Republican you have to admit you have either been lied to or have been the victims of false intelligence. ie the victims of an incompetent administration unwilling to look at things as they are and try to force things as they wish they might be.

So, is the Bush administration a group of liars, or incompetents?

You say Kerry voted in favor of the war? Yeah, he believed the president was telling him the truth. He couldn't believe the administration was flat lying or that grossly incompetent.

It will take a lot of re-building to make the Republican party whole again.

Publius