Let me make one more thing clear. The War Against Iraq is a complicated matter. Any of us would be fools to say otherwise. And so the question of whether we should support troops over there or pull them out shouldn't be the only question we fixate on. Yes, that is important and, hey, they are there. It's a fact. America needs to support its troops. But that doesn't mean as Americans, we shouldn't ask why they are there.

Some people want to pretend that because we're there already, it doesn't matter why we went there in the first place. They just want us to deal with it. That doesn't make sense. Let me offer an analogy that will highlight what they are asking you. Imagine your girlfriend, wife, sister, or mother was raped. Now imagine the authorities just said to you not to worry about who did it or why it happened, but that the rape just happened, so you only need to figure out how to deal with your girlfriend, wife, sister, or mother as a victim. Would that satisfy you? Or would you be angry? Wouldn't you want to know who did it and see them punished? Of course you would. That's common sense. They committed a crime, and so they should be punished. It's a standard we hold to rapists, drug dealers, murderers, etc. So why are politicians exempt from this? Is that common sense?

Now, we don't know if there was a crime committed under the laws of the United States. But shouldn't we be concerned about whether there was some sort of misfeasance? This country was ready to impeach Bill Clinton for lying about where his penis had been. Yet no one was hurt in that affair. Even the most wronged person in that affair, his wife, forgave him and is still married to him. But over 2500 Americans are now dead in Iraq, and dare we even ask how many Iraqis have died since March? So why are we fighting so hard not to know why we went there? Are maybe we all afraid that we will be collectively ashamed of the answer?