Reminder
by ChrisDecember 19th, 2004 2:15 am
This is as good a time as any to remind those who are so kind as to take the time to read this site, that I don’t always agree with everything my guest posters might decide to write. A case in point would be David’s most recent post, which can be found directly beneath this one.
I was very much opposed to the war in Iraq from the beginning and was quite horrified to watch the slow motion train wreck that was its build up and authorization. The discussion, if that’s what it was, leading up to the Senate’s vote to authorize force in Iraq, was the most pathetic display of public discourse I can imagine. The failure of the Democratic leadership to even raise pertinent questions, let alone actually muster the courage to oppose an unjustified, ill-advise and poorly planned invasion fills me with the urge to defecate.
Their fear was that, with the pending mid-term congressional elections, they would be murdered at the polls. They cowered before the specter of an unforgiving public whose blood lust was stoked by fabrication, lies and paranoia. They rushed the vote to authorize, hoping the whole mess would go away and they could conduct their campaigns on more friendly terms. They lost anyway. They were cowards and they deserved to lose. The problem, of course, is that the victors in those elections were, and are, bloodthirsty thugs.
And my opposition to the war, since the beginning, is worth what? Nothing. What’s done is done. What’s done is a catastrophe. Nothing to celebrate here. There was never any chance of that.
Listen, depending on the day you can find me on either side of the argument that it’s justifiable to use military force to keep murderous despots from murdering. That, however, is not the argument that was presented. The argument presented had nothing, whatever, to do with that. Tens of thousands of civilians dead, whole cities in ruins, over ten thousand of our own military wounded and well over one thousand dead — for what?
I should add that I do agree with David on many of his points. Like David, I do not care for sanctions as they inevitably wound the innocent and further empower those they were intended to weaken. I’m also certain that our country’s military is overburdened and likely incapable of dealing with a real, as opposed to a concocted, crisis.
