Sadly, No!

Once more unto the breach.  Sorry.

This is really the best you have to defend your idiotic war, your stupid surge, and the idea that you may still somehow transform the middle east into some sort of utopia:  that something at TNR (who supported the war from the beginning) might actually be false?

Really? *bangs head on desk*  REALLY?

How sad the right wing has become.

By Andre the Defiant

Andre the Defiant Former College Republican, but now a proud member of the reality-based community. If you believe it, he opposes it. Once said Bush was better than Reagan... and he was wrong on SO many levels. Likes to have a wee nip of the drink, but as drunk as he may be, can still explain Einstein's theory of General Relativity with a surprising lucidity.

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  2. It would be ‘funny’ if it weren’t so sad. Wars have setbacks, things go wrong, are inevitably managed very poorly and often the enemy is vicious, cruel, and kills lots of innocents. Once again I’d suggest Andre read up a bit on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812,the Mexican American War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam… etc. You get the drift. Frankly it’s a miracle we won any of them if one measured by the yardstick of efficiency, smoothness and lack of mistakes and serious bungling. We are probably now at the turning poing/half way point in Iraq. It sucks, the administration and prosecution of the war has been terrible, but to merely bang one’s head on a desk does nothing and merely saying we should just ‘go home’ and everything will be fine,in apparent childlike innocence, is easy to say but my ten year old is smarter and more logical than that. Reality dictates otherwise.

    We now have new leadership at the Pentagon and in the field, and new doctrines on the battlefield, and we are beginning to see results.

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  3. I was going to outline a response to Andre, but I realized it would be redundant as Dave said it all.

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  4. Wars have setbacks, things go wrong, are inevitably managed very poorly and often the enemy is vicious, cruel, and kills lots of innocents.

    I could be wrong, but logically, that would seem to dictate that either you feel that at no point during the history of American conflict were we on the side of wrong (in the Civil War, that would be characterizing American soldiers in the Confederacy, too), or that you agreed with me when I talked about how war was necessarily dirty and led to inhumane acts. Or that you want to revise that statement.

    We are probably now at the turning point/half way point in Iraq.

    Unless… we aren’t.

    We now have new leadership at the Pentagon and in the field, and new doctrines on the battlefield, and we are beginning to see results.

    Well, we’ll always see results. The question is whether those results are leading to a victory or just part of the same cycle we’ve been caught in. And considering we are at war with Terror rather than Iraq, whether we can stay there comfortably without any emergencies that might cause us to need to move swiftly elsewhere.

    -Pentagon admits 190,000 weapons missing in Iraq
    -Iraq leadership in disarray as ministers quit Cabinet
    -Iraq power system ‘near collapse’

    Just selectively listing the items that AREN’T disturbingly everyday news, this seems like victory is not yet nigh.

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  5. The Beauchamp/NR story: “Fake but True” once again.

    The Fall Of Dan

    Of all the sins of man decried
    By Gods whom our trespasses weigh
    They hate the most our foolish pride
    And dreaful price for that assay.

    Olympos mount the Godhead soared
    And distant stars with glee caress
    But still not high enough to ward
    The hot air blasts from CBS.

    Far down below a nasty brew:
    Rumbling storm clouds clot and gather.
    Until the center’s forced apart to
    Admit the Ego of Dan Rather.

    Decades of strife and conflict fueled
    And sycophantic lies inflated
    “The Dan” a vast empire ruled
    Of Vanity that he created.

    Overblown, his ego soars
    Past shattered slopes where Titans fought.
    And soon it knocks at heaven’s doors
    Ascending heights where it should not.

    The Gods cannot abide this fool
    On all his crimes they do home in
    And burst his bubble with a tool
    A font known as “Times New Roman”

    Like Icarus Dan flew too high.
    To stony earth he needs must fall.
    And lay amid the broken scry
    To nurse himself on bitter gall.

    And when his days run out at last
    And all his life the Gods review
    They may forgive his proud bombast
    The words were false; the story’s true!

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  6. This is really the best you have to defend your idiotic war, your stupid surge, and the idea that you may still somehow transform the middle east into some sort of utopia: that something at TNR (who supported the war from the beginning) might actually be false?

    Well, yeah, if the TNR got a detail wrong, it proves that everything in Iraq is just fine.

    We now have new leadership at the Pentagon and in the field, and new doctrines on the battlefield, and we are beginning to see results.

    Dave is, of course, dead right – just another six months will see things completely turn around. I wonder why no-one has ever made this observation ever before.

    And if we lose – which of course we won’t, because the TNR got a detail wrong – then it will all be the fault of the LIEbrals, the America-haters, and those that were against the invasion. It will have nothing to do with the legitimacy of the occupation, our conduct of it, our actions in fighting it, or the people actually fighting against us.

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  11. Actually my hat is off to THB. Nice poem, doesn’t make the war any more tolerable, though.

    The war in Iraq-
    Even better than we thought.
    Beauchamp’s a traitor

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