Doom And Gloom

The leading communist at the the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation, Cynthia Tucker, wrote in her column in Sunday's paper about how bad the situation is in Iraq.

Never underestimate the power of myth. It can solder broken resolve, fuel astounding acts of courage and overwhelm evidence and reason.

Or used by liberals it can weaken resolve and turn public opinion against the war on terror just like it did during the Viet Nam War. She continues:

It has also served to keep rank-and-file soldiers and their families back home squarely behind the president. Few soldiers or their families have publicly expressed doubts about the Iraqi mission, despite clear evidence of a con job --- from pre-war assurances they would be greeted as liberators to a post-invasion backdoor draft that will keep many overseas past their tours.

Dontcha just love these armchair general liberals? How many things do go right in war? Remember, these are the same people who said that Afghanistan would be a quagmire and there would be thousands upon thousands of refugees, not to mention all the body bags that would be needed for the thousands of American casualties. They've been remarkably quiet about the first elections ever held in Afghanistan.

They said the same thing about Iraq. There would be so many refugees from the war that any relief efforts by humanitarian organizations would be overwhelmed. Part of the reasons the families and the soldiers are behind the president is that they are hearing a different story than what Old Media is telling.

The latest bad news is the lack of armor for Humvees that was brought up by the soldier, who was coached by a news reporter (go figger).

War is unpredictable, but the idiots on the left think that the generals should have been prescient enough to predict the insurgency. This, of course, is the fault of Bush and Rumsfeld they say. Can you imagine if these dickheads had been around on December 16, 1944? This was the Germans' Ardennes Offensive, better known as the Battle of the Bulge. There were 81,000 American casualties, including 23,554 captured and 19,000 killed. I can just hear our current crop of leftists: I thought we were winning. The generals should have known about this. Fire Ike! Bring the troops home!

We've lost 1200 men and the chattering magpies on the left are trying to compare Iraq to Viet Nam. Cynthia continues.

Painful reality hits hard, too, when families see horribly maimed young men and women who will never recover anything resembling a normal life. While the numbers of war dead have been faithfully reported --- even as the Bush administration has deflected attention from them --- the number of casualties, closing in on 10,000, has gone little noticed.

Goes little noticed? Everytime I read an AP story about Iraq, it always has the number of men killed. Yes, I hate to see anyone killed but this war, by any standards, other than those used by liberals, has been an unqualified success. And I have heard from soldiers in Iraq, like my nephew, who have said what we have done to improve conditions in Iraq. The press does not want to talk about that. All they want to talk about is the insurgency going on in the Sunni Triangle.

And then she goes on about one of the wounded men.

The New England Journal of Medicine reports on one airman who survived even though he lost both legs, his right hand and part of his face. "How he and others like him will be able to live and function remains an open question," the article noted.

Howza 'bout Max Stumpy Cleland? He lost both of his legs and an arm. In his career he was head of the Veterans Administration, Georgia Secretary of State, and a United States Senator. And just recently he was John Fonda Kerry's mascot on the campaign trail. He also had a short stint as a postman trying to deliver a letter to the president.

And it wouldn't be a Cynthia Tucker column without the requisite class warfare.

These burdens are borne by a relatively small sliver of the American population --- the working class. Enlisted men and women tend to come from households earning between $32,000 and $33,500, according to a 1999 Defense Department study. (The median American income is $43,300.) The poorest of the poor don't go; neither do the affluent.

Maybe if the poorest of the poor did go, they would learn a trade. I learned electronics in the Navy. I also went to college on the GI Bill. My nephew, by the way, comes from a very affluent household. His parents, in retirement, earn more than the median American income. Pat Tillman was not a pauper. Anyway, what does it matter what class they come from. It is a volunteer military. The only thing missing from this column is the race card. I'm surprised she didn't say sumpin' about that.

It is downright weird that so many of them have been taken in by his story of a just war when their sons and daughters, husbands and wives --- not the scions of the wealthy --- are the ones paying the ultimate price for it.

This contradiction simply cannot hold much longer, and perhaps it won't have to. Bush may be planning to use the cover of January elections in Iraq to declare victory and leave --- whether the country is stable or not.

And that's what Cynthia, and Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand and the rest of the people on the left want us to do. Pack up and come home. After all, what we should have been doing from the start is asking "why do they hate us?" To them we need to determine the root cause of terrorism and address that. Then we can sit down with Osama bin Laden, Kim Yuk Foo from Korea, and the mad mullahs from Iran and sing Kumbaya.

All Cynthia is saying is, "Give peace a chance".

It worked for Viet Nam didn't it?

Posted by denny at December 12, 2004 08:35 PM