I notice a disturbing, though hardly unexpected, trait among rightie lurkers like anonymous. Too smart to be entertained for long with those of their ilk, they pop into sites like this, nitpick peripheral parts of people's thoughts, and delusionally declare victory. Of course, armed only with parroted nonsense rolling off the Fascist Wurlitzer, the poor things fool only themselves, but they obviously enjoy it. Good for them.

The scary thing is the now-universal authoritarian thinking they have all embraced. They hate freedom of speech, yet revel in their own. They accuse everyone else of the worst motives and hipocrisy, yet cannot see this in themselves.

Imagine anonymous, say, at a party acting this way face to face, taking potshots at everyone in the room.

I must assume he/she lacks friends.

Interestingly, fawning over poseurs like Bush, Cheney, et al and believing in fairy tales about "Islamofascists" is seen as manly, while those with the courage to speak out against them are sissies. As usual, these quivering, fearful patsies see themselves as taking a wide stance against the bad guy du jour, all the while peering longingly into Bush's stall. Although there probably are homophobes who are secure in their masculinity, I've never heard of any. This one is clearly no exception.

I had a feeling about K.G. from his talk of wearing the uniform; that he meant it in the Jeff Gannon, "hot military stud" sense rather than in the sense us "sissies" might have thought. I bet there's a picture up somewhere of him playing dress-up.

It's all yours... but don't leave out the part about peering into Bush's stall.

Merely reading Mr. Foxman's letter reveals to the most casual observer that he is a mouthpiece of the right first, Zionist second, and American last.

The rhetorical style is the giveaway. Throw the biggest club you have, (in this case survivor cred.) declare the very mention of the topic Despicable, dismiss your accuser's motives as "political," and you've won, without addressing, much less denying the lie/crime/dirty trick at which you've just been caught red-handed.

What's most amazing is that they've cultivated a base so rock stupid that this works, again and again. And the Village marvels.

Let's all hope Mr. Foxman's Typearrhea doesn't subside too soon. Like Bush, his honesty is unintentional, yet fun for all of us.

What's most infuriating about these chickenhawks is that, thanks to wingnut welfare and newspapers striving to "balance" their editorial pages, their bloodthirsty nonsense is given so much exposure. There are simply not enough of them, nor Americans with whom they agree, for their ideas to compete in the "marketplace" of ideas. But thanks to generous support from war profiteers and relentless hounding from dittoheads, there is a ready and increasing supply of their manufactured opinions and a continuing demand from Newspapers and TV bookers to fill the "chickehawk corner" of their op-ed pages and shows. Never mind that they all say the exact same things, ad nauseum, with cherry-picked and invented "facts" ripped straight the Rebuplican memo-of-the-day. Never mind that everything they've said previously proved false. They fact is that the media fears the wrath of the 30% more than the 70%, and simply cannot find informed, experienced, and worthwhile opinion from the right. There is none.

This keeps the public confused, the trolls mollified, and most of all, keeps Rich Lowry out of the Wal-Mart smock he would be wearing if the "market" had anything to do with it.

There is really only one question for you. Would your fever dreams of cataclysm have ever been such a threat had we done the smart thing, and stayed OUT of Iraq? Perhaps rather than make a disastrous show of our weakness to exactly those we seek to dominate, basically because guys like you and Lowry like to cheer wars, not fight them, and certainly not pay for them?

You people dreamed up an idiotic war, and then lost it. Decisively. Permenently.

You've already lost the war, why do you feel you can win the argument?

All the consequences we now face are thanks to people like you.

Legitimate anger at unconscionably inhumanity and bloodlust is not a temper tantrum.

It is what any normal people in this situation feel.

Of course you can. Smoetimes I'm too busy to do it myself.

OK.

Back to politics. But we wouldn't be liberals if we didn't go on a bit about gender/sex issues. Only conservatives keep this stuff in the closet, uh, stall.

It isn't pleasant to be a "hindsight hero," but it's astonishingly easy. Once you realize that everything Bush and the fear-mongering Right say is pretty much the opposite of the truth, it's like you've got a crystal ball. I never believed that Saddam had anything more than he needed to tenuously hold power, based on the facts, but when y'all started saying, verbatim, the same crap that Bush did, I knew we were being propandagized. Crudely.

And believing and repeating everything they say must be as embarrassing as it is frustrating, when it doesn't pan out, again and again.

Fearing "pain" as you do, and even more fervently, wishing it on others, is no way to live, and is montrously self-destructive. I choose not to.

You're simply not in a position to force your disordered beliefs on the rest of us, so you fantasize about a government, or a "terrist," that would do it for you. That's your privilege.

But it's just a tad authoritarian, don't you think?

What kind of country would you really like to live in?

What if YOU begged to differ with its policies?

I'm not much with a scalpel, but I can cut drywall pretty accurately, so I'd be willing to give it a shot. As for the great Digby, I am to her what Dan Quayle is to John Kennedy, but thanks. I do seem to have a talent for tripping shooter's trigger, though. Let's brace for his next, uh, shot.