Thursday, March 23, 2006

Remembering the Republicans' happy days of warmongering over Iraq

SusanG at Daily Kos is not feeling especially charitable to the conservative Iraq hawks.  Given the level of fanaticism that's become standard operating procedure in the Republican Party today, the party that Kevin Phillips says that Bush has made into "the first American religious party", I'd have to say it's not a bad thing for Bush true believers to hear stuff like this.

Not that it will change the minds of more than 1 in 1000.  But, hey, 0.001% is better than nothing, right?

From Getting It Straight with the Wrong-Headed Right 03/23/06

I also find it disingenuous that the right claims sole ownership of the "Saddam is a bad, bad man" banner. Please. Compared to the liberal left, they are decades late to that particular party. Progressives were screaming into the void about Hussein's human rights violations, his gassing of the Kurds, his terrorizing of political opponents long, long, long before it conveniently bubbled up into the consciousness of the neocon right. While Donald Rumsfeld was famously shaking hands with and arming Hussein, we were saying: Bad idea. Bad man. This is gonna come back and bite us in the ass.

For this, we were labeled too "sensitive," not reality-based enough to operate in the real world, where sometimes you have to arm a strongman to keep a worse scenario at bay.

Well, shove it. We were right. You were wrong. Period.

And you were wrong because - it pains me to say this - you lost your minds in the aftermath of 9/11.

No need to be "pained" to say it, SusanG.  That's what happened.

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