Conscience of a Conservative
A quick, back-of-the-envelope calculation on my part, based on the current rate of fatalities, finds that at least 1500 more US soldiers will die in Iraq over the next two years. Remember, that is basically the Bush plan (stay in Iraq until there's a new president) and the ISG plan (stay in Iraq, but redeploy half of the soldiers by 2008). Those 1500 men and women will die so the serious people in Washington DC can feel good about themselves and their bipartisan unity. That seems reasonable to me. Let another 1500 Americans die in Iraq to ignore the fact that Bush chose to initiate a civil war.
We need to end our involvement there now. Today. Yesterday. But the serious people see the Evacuation of Saigon. They see cut and run. They see America bullied by third world insurgents. In other words, their feelings are hurt by this. Their worldview is predicated on American greatness, and their service to America. That is essentially what neoconservatism has become. It also happens to be insane. I don't care about their feelings. I care about the people who are dying in Iraq for no reason. I don't care about Bush being the worst president in the history of the United States. And while I pray that lessons will be learned from the worst foreign policy mistake since Vietnam, I'm not holding my breath.
I don't think 4500 Americans perishing in Iraq for no reason is sufficient compensation for George Bush to feel like a man. I think it is sick, criminal, negligant, psychotic, immoral, degenerate, sociopathic, intellectually backrupt, corrupt, craven, twisted, petty, and heinous. And to those who like this war just the way it is and enablded it, I hope you feel manly and envigorated by the blood of those 4500 dead Americans.
Not forgetting, of course, the thousands of Iraqis who have died to fulfill these fantasies.
Disgusting.