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Even now the drumbeat for war in Iraq is renewed, with the Syrian civil war thrown in for good measure, right now on the ostensibly liberal network, MSNBC. No doubt similar armchair experts are chiming in all over the country on every air and radio wave right now. My advice is not to fall for it dems. Don’t get sucked into this drama. Because what we have here is a legitimate case of media bias. Against you. You cannot win this, you are being set up to fail.

You were right about Iraq in the first place. Even for those of you who got brow beaten or wussed into going along with it did it against your better judgement. You were all right about Iraq. And here we are in 2015 and guess what? The same wingnuts being trotted out like show horses to call you cowards and criticize your words are the same bozos who got it dead wrong then and are dead wrong now. These are the same clowns who let bin Laden slip through their fingers because of an obsession with weapons and connections in Iraq that turned out not to exist. You are the guys and gals who tracked him down in his bedroom and put a bullet between his eyes.

“What is your strategy to combat this existential menace Mr President?”

“Our first job is to avoid the tragic mistakes of our predecessors who left a giant mess for America to clean up, which happens to include the group called ISIL or Daesh that shot up France last week. Beyond that, I won’t be sharing classified information on live TV today.”

If someone puts a mic in your face and tells you Senator so-and-so said words to the effect that you are worthless and weak, you simply remind them that Sen so-and-so was dead wrong about Iraq and ended up getting a whole bunch of great Americans needlessly killed and maimed. Don’t get cute, don’t get complicated, just turn it right around on the reporter every single time you are asked.

“If my administration listened to Congressman so-and-so and his good friend Vice President Dick Cheney, we’d still be in Iraq searching for non existent weapons of mass destruction to the tune of a quarter billion dollars a day and who knows how many thousands of dead service men and women ... Mr Reporter, it’s not my goal to embarrass anyone in the media, but if you’ll take some good natured presidential advice, I think it’s a good idea to check track records before asking questions like that.”

Remember: you were right, the GOP was wrong, horribly, tragically wrong, and that’s really all you need to say, that’s a big part of why you won the elections you won. And unless you want to ad lib with a compelling need to share confidential intel with the entire planet for some odd reason, I’d just stop with that kind of answer right there.

Never forget, the media is indeed biased, against you! You had the gall to be right, and most of them got played like a fiddle in the run up to the last hastily initiated clusterfuck of a war. Don’t be surprised if they are hostile about that.

There’s another good set of reasons to keep it simple and accurate: there are some folks on the other side who won’t be able to keep their mouths shut. They won’t be able to resist taking shots at you and the media and everyone else. And when given enough air time they have an almost perfect history of saying something so incredibly stupid or offensive that even the conservative media has to stop the Obama-Clinton bashing and do a double jaw-dropping take-down. So let them.