The Humanitarian Case For War In Iraq (Jeff Jacoby On A Rare Liberal Defense Of The Iraq War Alert)

Townhall.com ^ | 03/23/06 | Jeff Jacoby

[goldstategop]

Is there a liberal case FOR the Iraq War? Jeff Jacoby in this column presents one. We liberated an entire people from the boot heel of a totalitarian dictatorship. The war may have been imperfectly conducted and its goals remain far from being realized. But the ideal that inspired it is one worth upholding and which makes the sacrifices of our fighting men and women over there worth it.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Gordongekko909]

She was skeptical of claims of brutality under Saddam's regime? Aren't these the same people that accepted Tawana Brawley's story without question?

[goldstategop]

No Pamela Bone is that rare pro-war liberal. A minority to be sure but they had moral decency and courage to support freedom. The rest of the Left has sided and still sides with tyrants and dictators depriving their people of freedom.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[decal]

"Is there a liberal case FOR the Iraq War?"

Sure - if they had one percent of the common sense given a sponge, they would have supported (and would still BE supporting) the WOT in general and the Iraq liberation in particular.

Supporting evil in the guise of political opposition is not only morally wrong, it's not even good politics, as the Progs will find to their cost in November.

[goldstategop]

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[Gordongekko909]

And she understands media bias, too.

[goldstategop]

They're opposed to the War because Bush started it. These people cannot see good in anything our President does. And so for them hate must be greater than love.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Gordongekko909]

Hate is all the moonbats know. If Atlas shrugged really hard and all the conservatives disappeared, they would just start tearing into each other.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

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[decal]

"And so for them hate must be greater than love."

Why does that remind me of Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) in "The Night of the Hunter"?

"Ah, little lad, you're staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand? The story of good and evil? H-A-T-E! It was with this left hand that old brother Cain struck the blow that laid his brother low. L-O-V-E! You see these fingers, dear hearts? These fingers has veins that run straight to the soul of man. The right hand, friends, the hand of love. Now watch, and I'll show you the story of life. Those fingers, dear hearts, is always a-warring and a-tugging, one agin t'other. Now watch 'em! Old brother left hand, left hand he's a fighting, and it looks like love's a goner. But wait a minute! Hot dog, love's a winning! Yessirree! It's love that's won, and old left hand hate is down for the count!"

[Old Sarge]

Kennedy replied vehemently that he took a back seat to no one

THAT LINE is worth reading this!

[Old Sarge]

The first journalist to die while covering the war, Kelly was the editor of The Atlantic and a columnist for The Washington Post.

I thought that Danny Pearl was the first journalist to die in the war? Was I mistaken?

Oh, I'm just an ignorant soldier - OIF IS NOT PART OF THE WAR ON TERROR!

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[Names Ash Housewares]

Sounds like an old school liberal type thinking that actually values human rights over political ambitions. Todays liberals are all hypocritical moonbats.

[Brit_Guy]

"Sounds like an old school liberal type thinking that actually values human rights over political ambitions."

I reckon if you look at our Blair, fundamentally - whatever his pronouncements on WMD, WOT or whatever - they were convenient secondary devices to (just!) take the country through with this - I honestly beleive his core driver (being a liberal rather than a strategist!) is the human rights vision. His wars in Serbia, Siera Leonne, Afghanistan, and Iraq all have that common thread. Regardless of all other angles if we reduce it to the question: In the 'Broad Sweep of History' is the world a better place without: The Taliban, Slobodan Milosovic, The West Side Boys Militia, and Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime? you'd have to be of suspect charactor to say anything other than yes. I think he'd take us into Mozambique if their were any other political angle or wider international support to galvonise the mission. He's a man chasing a legacy, and to be fair if we can finish the job in Iraq, it will be a pretty good one.

[Pontiac]

Bump for later

[manwiththehands]

This isn't news or a new take on the war in Iraq. We've known about this for years. However, I would like to hear President Bush defend this war for these reasons more often.

[dancusa]

The only other voice from the left that echo's this is Christopher Hitchens.

[Wristpin]

Good analysis here:

http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.23916/pub_detail.asp

[metesky]

The fools that defend the jihadis have already chosen the boot on the face, forever.

[wolfcreek]

they would just start tearing into each other.

I would pay to see that!