Responsibility and Congress are like oil and vinegar. I noted that in the entire lineup of Dem candidates in the first debate, the only one who had to vote on the Iraq war and did actually exercise that vote against the start of this war was Dennis Kucinich. Obama wasn't in Congress, neither were Richardson or Gravel.
Just like the Gulf of Tonkin the last time we went through this kind of abuse of Presidential power. As for refugees, they've always been toxic. Even in the face of the Holocaust, Jews were being turned away from entering the US.
Victims smell bad. What more do you need to know?

What more do you need to know?

Personally, I have this (perhaps pointsless but nonetheless burning) need to know when the U.S. will start to learn from its past mistakes.

We owe the people who stepped forward to help us. We should not leave these Iraqis in the same manner we abandoned the Hmong and Montagnards.

With the sea - no, make that an Ocean - of illegal immigration we tacitly permit from Mexico annually, we can accomodate every translator who wants shelter.

Eva Luna, the quote from George Orwell, from 'In front of your nose,' may be instructive:

http://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/nose/english/e_nose
There is no use in multiplying examples. The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.