So this guy Murtha from PA, and ex-Marine Congressperson, has a meeting with some non-brass personnel from Iraq, get's all fired up, says "Hey! We're part of the problem over there! It's time we bugged out!" and suddenly we've got the beginnings of a real debate over this war. It's about three years late, but hey, it's something.
Let's take a look at the meme du jour from the hawkish Right, courtesy the ever-reliable NY Post:
No matter how great your team, you can't win the game if you walk off the field at half-time. That's precisely what the Democratic Party wants America to do in Iraq. Forget the fact that we've made remarkable progress under daunting conditions: The Dems are looking to throw the game just to embarrass the Bush administration.
....
What do the Democrats fear? An American success in Iraq. They need us to fail, and they're going to make us fail, no matter the cost.
Frankly, that's insane.
I was going to post something substantive about how this reflects the difficulty the war-freaks are having adjusting to the notion the differing opinions may exist and in fact be of some value, but why bother?
History isn't going to be kind to these people. They're going to end up isolated, embittered, like the hard-right post-fascists in France who tried to kill De Gaul because he pulled out of Algeria. Someone will write an insider's history and the pathetically human details will certainly be wreched indeed. One can only hope that when this is all over they'll be publicly whipped as a lesson to the children and allowed to retire in shame and obscurity in South America, rather than lobotomized and left as wards of the state as some will surely demand.
Get a grip, motherfuckers. The occupation is not producing results: stability, security, and improved quality of life. That's for the Iraqis and the US as well. We're driving terrorist training and recruitment, grinding away at our defensive capabilities, running up debt, and innocent people (theirs and ours) are killed every day. Saying it's time for this to end is not political opportunism or "fear of success." It's common sense.
It's really enough to make your head spin. Demonizing folks as unpatriotic for "politicizing the war" is a means of politicizing the war, you twits.
