As for the blame for this war, I agree completely that it lies in both Republican and Democratic hands, although the neocons who have hijacked the Republican party and mainstream conservatism since 9/11 are primarily at fault. What the Democrats did was go along with the lies from the beginning (even though they were perfectly obvious to anyone not blinded by post-9/11 jingoism) and show a complete lack of guts even after the American public finally woke up and elected the Democrats to bring US troops home.
A gullible public that
still hasn't learned to distrust its caviar-eating, champagne-sipping leadership -- even after the Gulf of Tonkin, Operation Northwoods, and all sorts of other official lies, deceptions, propaganda, and psychological operations -- is also to blame for the invasion. I have nothing but contempt for all the bubbas and patriotards who let Fox News and talk radio do all their thinking for them and never actually investigate any issues themselves.
For anyone who still doesn't know what the neocon agenda is:
Intrepid commentators like Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute would have America proceed incrementally, beginning with the elimination of Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein. Baghdad would be first, followed by Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. From the demise of these and perhaps one or two other Islamic tyrannies (Libya and the Sudan), a chain reaction will supposedly follow and transform Islamdom.
http://www.acpr.org.il/ENGLISH-NATIV/06-issue/eidelberg-6.htm
Neoconservatism is a radical Zionist political movement intended to transform mainstream conservatism such that it constantly pushes for wars against Israel's Arab neighbors -- the goal being to exploit US military power, at US expense in blood and money, for Israel's gain. It has already succeeded brilliantly in pulling the wool over the eyes of putative American conservatives. The leaders of the neoconservative movement are
exclusively Jews and "Christian Zionists" who have a
deep devotion to Israel. By no means are all Jews neocons (most vote Democrat); heck, I'm ethnically half-Jewish myself. But make no mistake: the "War on Terror" was conceived by people who would be perfectly happy if the US were destroyed as long as Israel benefitted enough from it.
The neocon leadership, including such commentators as Norman Podhoretz and Charles Krauthammer, is still not giving up its stumping for war with Iran. They know the American public is extremely gullible, so they figure: why not try for round two?