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Remember those "I hope the war is a disaster, it will help the Democrats" comments from the likes of Democrat stalwarts like Ellen Ratner and salon's Gary Kamiya?

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30414 you may have to use google cache

Mr. Farah refers to Fox News Channel's "Your World" Dec. 28, 2002

"Ratner, it should be noted, recently stated on Fox News Channel's "Your World" that she hopes President Bush messes up the war so he won't be re-elected in 2004." [end excerpt]

I don't know if there is a way to "mess up a war" without American men and women being killed.

Or how about Gary Kamiya of salon.com, April 11, 2003

"I have a confession: I have at times, as the war has unfolded, secretly wished for things to go wrong. Wished for the Iraqis to be more nationalistic, to resist longer. Wished for the Arab world to rise up in rage. Wished for all the things we feared would happen. I'm not alone: A number of serious, intelligent, morally sensitive people who oppose the war have told me they have had identical feelings." [end excerpt]

To be fair at least he is honest. It's his friends, the "serious, intelligent, morally sensitive people" that require attention. They probably got off on Fallujah.

In a letter to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, a Bay area Rat says that some things are worth the lives of other people's sons and daughters:

"The constant loss of U.S. soldiers in Iraq--after the war is 'won'--is a tragedy. However, if this is what it takes to retire the Bush administration at the next election, the sacrifice is justified." [end excerpt]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/07/11/ED272984.DTL

The letter was referenced by JAMES TARANTO Friday, July 11, 2003

I don't have the brightest pixels here but I suspect what we got here is more than just disagreement over the "issue" of national defense. We got us a very, very serious situation.

23 posted on 04/02/2004 4:47:48 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (Benedict Arnold was a hero for both sides in the same war, too!)
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