Letters to the Editor
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Truly amazing
Glenn, great analysis as always, but it is amazing how these people truly have no shame. If I was wrong 1/100th as often as these people have been in my job I wouldn't be able to show my face at work as I would be too ashamed (besides being, most likely, rightfully fired). And if I am wrong in my analysis at my job, no one dies.
They can't even beat the success rate of a broken clock, which is at least right twice a day.
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If I had a nickel
for every time one of these pea-brained pundits has said "the next few/three/six months in Iraq will be crucial" I could probably build myself a country-sized embassy complex in Baghdad. If the US media were doing any kind of effective communication job, George W. Bush would be known around the world as "Bring 'em on Bush".
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Reynolds: "we're winning, we're winning, we're winning..."
Reynolds insists we're winning almost every day. This is from yesterday: " AL QAEDA'S QUAGMIRE IN IRAQ." http://instapundit.com/archives2/010344.php
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Churchillian?
If they want to be Churchillian, perhaps they should take a good look at Churchill's involvement in World War I. After planning the disaster at Gallipoli as Lord of the Admiralty, did Churchill spend the next several years pretending that it had not been a disaster or that it wasn't his fault? No, he resigned his position and enlisted to fight in the trenches in France.
I would gain a lot of respect for these phonies if they followed the example of this man whom they so clearly admire.
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Many Service People and Veterans Are Enabling Them
The saddest thing to me is how the Limbaughs and the Lowrys and the Reynolds and all their ilk are supported by many active-duty military troops and veterans.
Even many of those with combat experience - even combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan - praise the war-cheerleading by chickhawks whom real soldiers and veterans know to be cowardly frauds.
It used to make me angry, until I finally realized that it's a defense mechanism. With the majority of the American people now strongly against the Iraq disaster, and with more and more Iraq combat veterans coming forward with devastating critiques and demands for withdrawal, those who still want to believe in the war are forced to grab and hang on to whatever allies they can find.
How pathetic that the loudest voices in favor of extending the catastrophe in Iraq are service-avoiders who are secretly despised by the very troops they claim to support.
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Winning the war in Iraq?
Oh, but we are winning!!!
Imagine my surprise when I read an AP article yesterday that the Prime Minister of Britain is reducing their troops by 2008 because"his Iraq plan follows the success of the US troop increase this summer...".
I was appalled that the lies we Americans were told about the Iraq war recently are now being accepted as fact by the rest of the world.
I am old enough to have lived through the Nixon era and saw what this crook did to our country.
The blatant lies started with that administration. At that time we had a press willing to go the extra mile to find out the truth and was not afraid to print it, threats from the administration be damned.
However, there are many of those same men in that administration who learned that you can get away with anything because that administration was not held accountable for their actions.
We are now reaping the results of 30 years ago.
Why shouldn't they do, say anything they want? Who will hold them accountable? The Press? We have no press that is willing to tell us the truth, except for a few stalwarts that buck the system. Every day, lies are told and NO ONE questions it or stops it
The Republicans have built a fantasy about GW Bush since day one when the term Compassionate Conservative was manufactured, and a majority of people bought it.
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reverting to high school
Glenn, as has been said, great analysis, as always. But my first thought on seeing the photos of these two war cheerleaders was a very high school "Jeez, what a couple of pussies!". Very immature of me, I know. So?
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These Folks Don't Get It
and they never will. My father worked at the highest levels of the DoD. You know a P.HD in military history. Heck, taught at the Army War College. I could at times think I know what is going on, when he gut checks me pretty fast .... to highlight just cause I can read an article doesn't mean I have any clue.
And that is what we have. People who have not served, who don't really have a lot of knowledge, putting themseleves out as "experts." And the vast majority of our MSM seems to listen to these folks 24/7.
It is a sad state of affairs.
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Cowards start wars -- heroes find other ways
The people in this country who have demonstrated any guts over the last 7 years were those who knew enough not to fight these unnecessary, immoral wars. Lt. Ehren Watada comes to mind.
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The "yeah" is missing from the initial Ricks quote
Nice summary. Would that the WaPo and the TIme would run it on the op-ed page.
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Just another variant of the war monger
In England during World War I, as thousands were dying pointlessly in the trenches, pretty girls went around handing white feathers — a symbol of cowardice — to men who weren't in uniform. The one group currently being handed white feathers who may deserve them are the so-called "war wimps" or "chicken hawks" — prominent Americans helping to spread war fever today who avoided service during Vietnam.
—"No white feather, please," The New Republic, June 16, 1986
Well, there's no longer a need to dodge the draft, but rather to take the field trip to Iraq. And it's not so much spreading war fever as it is spreading "victory fever". Those who understand war know that it is difficult, if not impossible, to make such predictions.
"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."
-Sir Winston Churchill