Justice Deficit

It is beginning to dawn on a few members of Congress, three years too late, that they, too, were deceived into endorsing the Iraqi crusade, although the deception was self-inflicted. It was no mystery even in 2003 that the Bush administration was a kitchen-cabinet full of half-baked chefs glazing facts, cooking books, icing doubters and boiling dissenters alive. Yet Congress chose to swallow the administration's words like some factoid from Mount Sinai: Thou Shalt Not Question.[...] The most revolting aspect of Friday evening's display in Congress was both parties' wrangle over saving face or piling on the white-man's-burden chauvinism. [Read the complete Tuesday column in today's Daytona Beach news-Journal...]