Is the ACA roll-out as bad as the Iraq war?

I’m not exactly tickled pink by how the Affordable Care Act website rolled out, and I’m not thrilled that the president is spending so much time on the defensive for what was clearly a botched procurement process. But I’m irritated as hell by the Republican response, which is echoed loyally by the so-called liberal media — especially since Democrats cooperated to help fix things when the Medicare Part D debut was similarly afflicted.

Here’s the headline from this weekend’s USA Today that inspired this post: “Health law shakes presidency.” It had me remembering how the last presidency wasn’t similarly shaken by the war that was launched for no legitimate reason. You know — the one to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist and to punish Saddam Hussein for having had nothing to do with 9/11 . . . the one that was going to pay for itself and be over in a few days.

I’m damn sure not going to forget that Bush’s war cost thousands of young Americans their lives and who knows how many Iraqis. I’m not going to forget the trillion or so dollars it cost us, and the recession it steered us to. I’m not even going to forget the failure to heed intelligence that might have allowed 9/11 to happen. I’m simply not going to stop believing that Bush and Cheney and several members of their administration are guilty of some serious crimes.