<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">From Glenn Greenwald:<div><br></div><div> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/07-10">http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/07-10</a><div><br></div><div><i>…Barbara Lee's lone vote against the 2001 AUMF - three days after the
9/11 attack - was an act of incredible and rare courage that is worth
commemorating in its own right. But it was also prescient and wise,
using America's past bad acts to warn of the dangers likely to be
unleashed by enacting it. If Dick Durbin wants to acknowledge his gross
error in voting in favor of such a blank check for presidential
war-making - one that led to 12 years of war in numerous nations with no
end in sight - he should do so honestly. Instead of pretending that
nobody could possibly have known this would happen as a deceitful means
of excusing his bad acts, he should instead acknowledge that there were
people who did know and tried to warn the nation about it, but those
weren't the types of voices to which he paid any attention because they
weren't emanating from the Pentagon, the Brookings Institution and the
columns of Tom Friedman. That is the mistake he should acknowledge and learn to rectify.</i></div></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Of course, this was a not untypical Durbin response.</div><div><br></div><div>--mkb</div><div><br></div></body></html>