What a relief to know that I have a lot of company in my mistakes. Maybe there is some truth to them..

I do not think the present tragedy of the Iraq war and occupation is the result of Bipartisan policy. I challenge you to point where this is "clearly shown". I believe that the military-industrial, neoconservative wing of the GOP has pushed through its war agenda, over the objections of most everyone else. There is a difference between devising and implementing policy and being too weak and politically intimidated to stop it.

When do you think the factions of the left devoured each other? I can think back to the Spanish Civil War, when the Communist wing of the Popular Front turned on their allies the Syndicalists and the Socialists, costing them all the war. I do not see any factional tensions of this type today, maybe because we are not in power yet, and as the saying goes "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

I know that the term "the left" is vague. I am using it to refer to the same groups you are when you use the word in your article. I agree with your last point completely, which is why I do not understand your continuing denunciation of these groups.