Republicans Are Still Disillusioned About the Iraq War as Ever

I realize there is no chance Rick Perry is going to be the GOP nominee.  He's a miserable person and a pitiful excuse for modern elected officials.  But that doesn't keep him from repeating the same sorry lies his party routinely spouts about the war in Iraq.

Maybe it’s because this war isn’t popular with the Democrats, I don’t know... But Mr. President, our soldiers come first. It comes before party politics. We need to welcome our soldiers home. Give them that parade. Give them that pat on the back.

A person would have to be living on a completely different planet to not realize Bush's war in Iraq wasn't just unpopular "with the Democrats."  No war has ever been as unpopular as Bush's blunder that gave us almost 9 years of death and destruction in Iraq.  Every poll in the world clearly shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans hate the war and do not support it.  A staggering 3/4 of Americans support President Obama's decision to end the war and bring our troops home by the end of the year.  He has kept that promise.

The best thing a person could do who claims to support the troops would be to get them out of a war we never should have been in in the first place.  Throwing a parade is childish.  Rick Perry and his Republicans still can't stomach the fact their legacy is the failure of Iraq and trillion dollars deficits.  It's taken a Democratic president to get our troops out of Iraq, bring the budget deficit back under $1 trillion and kill the person responsible for 9/11.