To me, the mean-spirited part comes in when Dems in "power" use these circumstances simply as rungs in the political ladder. We have no way of knowing what most of the Dems in the last election REALLY thought about Iraq, they were too busy saying what the pollsters told them to say.

Granted, there's no shortage of that on either side, but it really hits home when something they differed with so bitterly actually works out. It's hard for me to watch these Mugwumps all teary-eyed and happy about Democracy in Iraq when they fought like hell to prevent the attempt.

That's one thing I never understood about Kerry. How could people forget that he was willing to just leave Hussein in Kuwait? When your decision ignores the plight of millions, and is based just on political expediency, that to me is mean spirited.

Granted, you don't always have to agree with the means to agree with the ends, but still. I think a "no thanks to you" is well deserved when some of these Democratic notables are grandstanding about Democracy in Iraq.