E. J. Dionne Jr. thinks it was “shameful” to force congressional Democrats to vote on Iraq before the 2002 elections. The poor things were “intimidated” into voting for the war. So: Democrats spent the summer of 2002 demanding a vote. Once their wish was granted, they were forced to vote for a war they thought was against the national interest. Forced, that is, to sacrifice those interests and the lives of American service members in order to win re-election. But it’s Bush’s conduct that was “shameful.”