During a visit Tuesday to The Lima News, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan was asked, in hindsight, knowing what we know now, would he support a U.S. attack on Iraq. Poor Jim. Reality just seems to confuse him to no end.

Of course he would still support an invasion of Iraq. After all, we had just been attacked and we thought, maybe, just maybe, Iraq was involved. Wasn’t al-Qaida in Iraq, hence the name of the terror group the U.S. is currently fighting? If you need those questions answered, let’s not bother. You’re unapologetically Republican, and no amount of reason, evidence or any other element that thinking people use is going to sway you. (Save it. I’m not Democratic. I’m independent with a strong belief in limited government.)

The question about Iraq came after the conservative congressman praised presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain, with whom conservatives haven’t exactly been exactly in love. He grows on you, the party chairman must have told Jordan to say. So, with McCain only a couple weeks ago having said during a Lima visit that, yes, knowing what we know now, he’d still support an Iraqi invasion (Saddam was bad and the U.S. is the world’s policeman for those regions we decide to pay attention to), where does Jordan stand? We weren’t sure about WMDs, Jordan said. (He also said we need to pay better attention to intelligence on Russia and Georgia, but the irony of that statement was lost on him.) We didn’t know if Iraq was involved in 9/11, Jordan said. Incredible that 4,200 dead Americans later, Jordan is still promoting that line of crap reasoning for the Iraq invasion. More unbelievable was that asked about things in retrospect — knowing what we know now, thus accepting that the lies we were fed were honest mistakes — Jordan couldn’t answer. He hung onto the Republican talking points.

Meanwhile, in a completely unrelated bit of news, Jordan was getting ready to take his oldest son to college. Must be nice. Only 4,200 dead Americans later, Jordan and McCain still are trying to feed the ignorant masses the same BS about Iraq and 9/11.

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