Darth,
Start by telling the truth when making public statements.
Take a few fact finding trips to the place....see first hand what is going on.
Read the full intelligence summaries personally....form your opinion from the "best" data possible. Some of the biggest mouths never even read the intel summaries....bad as they were.
Had they...and had been as keen a mind as they claim...they would not have been so quick to vote for the resolution that allowed the President to take the actions he did.
They should attack the policy and not the man...they certainly have not done that.
Quiet statesmanship behind closed doors....persuasion works too....not standing out in front of the cameras getting face time and making such arse hole statements they do.
Every action they take should be weighed against the possible harm it presents....then...after careful consideration of the harm...and considering lives and limbs are at risk....do and say sensible, rational, reasonable things that work to persuade opinon. It would help if they had a real alternative proposal.
One must remember the Cut and Run Brigade....to the man and woman...voted for the Resolution...everyone of them.
It seems a bit two faced now....to shove all of the blame onto the President alone. It is entertaining to listen to sound bites from the period prior to the war starting....and now....from the critics. They sure did not object then....but do so now. I am not comfortable with that myself. You kick off the game....you play till the whistle blows at the end.