Posted on 03/26/2008 5:51:49 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty
(March 25, 2008) -- Given the current tragedy in Iraq--hell, given the past five years--you would think the many pundits who agitated for an attack on that country, largely on false pretenses, would have take the opportunity of the arrival of the fifth anniversary of the war (or the 4000 dead milestone) to drop to their knees, at least in print, and beg the American public for forgiveness.
With more than 60 percent of their fellow Americans now calling the war a "mistake" and agitating for troop withdrawals--and the president's approval rating still heading south, thanks to their war--it would seem to be the right thing to do. We won't even mention the maiming of more than 20,000 young Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis.
You can probably name your favorite candidate. Let's take David Brooks of The New York Times, for example, and what he wrote exactly five years ago. He hasn't bothered to revisit his errors in judgement lately. At least Richard Cohen, another favorite whipping boy of antiwar critics, has accepted responsibility for some of his lapses.
(Excerpt) Read more at editorandpublisher.com ...
Great find on the eighteen percent.
awesome letter
LOL, I clicked on the thread and saw the name “Greg Mitchell”.
See ya on another thread!
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003781127
They published the above letter.
PING -
What about the blowhard defeatists who were wrong?
- They claimed we were setting up torture chambers (wrong sen kennedy)
- They claimed the elections would fail (wrong sen kerry)
- They claimed iraq couldnt become Democratic (wrong)
- They claimed that Iraq was unwinnable (wrong)
- They claimed the surge was failing (wrong again)
Most seriously, they claimed the war in Iraq was separate from the war on terror but in fact it has been the same war for the whole time, as bin laden and ‘Al Qaeda in Iraq’ surely think of it - another theatre of operations between them and us. And We have Won it.
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