George Soros, anti-American Bush hater, has a lot invested in the failure of Iraq and the entire democratic movement in the ME. There are many allied deeply with him in the RAT party.............and they are the ones who controlled this deal collapse.
But perhaps the deal breaker goes even deeper.........to the terrorists organizations themselves, who certainly don't want normalized relations between the U.S. and the moderate Arab states. Someone working in conjunction with leftists in this country?
(Is this tinfoil stuff? Out in left field?)
Regardless of who it was, there was some force behind this irrational congressional behavior other than the supposed will of the people.....
I think given that a lot of the democrats openly supported Marxism in the past, it is not unlikely that they would openly support terrorists today.
There is something that the Democrats don't want to come out and they are driving the agenda hard with provably untrue and ridiculous accusations. I don't know what that something is but even if I'm that it's the Saddam tapes, the ultimate effort if we can get back to activism will be increased support for our troops and Republicans and the WOT.
Do you remember that Freepers were given a party by House Impeachment managers (it was shown on C-Span) for our activism? I'd like to see freepers get back to trying to drive the agenda instead of reacting to it.
I tend to believe that it was a combination of the Dem spin/attack machine (already geared-up for the midterm election), the anti-Bush MSM (already geared-up for the midterm election), spineless Republicans afraid of the above (already geared-up for the midterm election), and (even including) a good number of folks, radio talk show hosts and FReepers who were either unwilling to allow themselves to be perceived as weak on national security, or opposed it for selfish reasons, or were merely duped. Don't discount the last category.