Posted on 05/13/2014 1:59:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The return of Benghazi is the latest evidence that the GOP is putting its unhinged obsessions before the good of the country.
Back in March 2013, I wrote a column titled, "Why I am no longer a Republican." A more accurate (though admittedly more ponderous) title would have been, "One important reason among many that I am no longer a Republican."
That important reason was the Iraq War, which I never supported and which the Bush administration and its legion of defenders in Washington and around the country justified in terms that struck me at the time as highly ideological, fundamentally anti-empirical, and more than a little paranoid. Let's just say that nothing that happened after the initial invasion persuaded me that my original instincts were wrong.
If the Iraq War debacle had been an isolated incident one that Republicans forthrightly acknowledged as a mistake and showed signs of learning from it's possible that I wouldn't have bolted the party.
But it wasn't an isolated incident. It was the start of a whole new era for the GOP an era in which the stridently ideological, anti-empirical, and paranoid tendencies that gained the upper hand in the run-up to the Iraq War (and which had always been present in certain factions of the conservative movement) infected the party from top to bottom, corrupting its thinking on foreign and domestic policy and inspiring its lockstep opposition to the Obama administration's governing agenda from day one.
Today, my voting record says I'm a Democrat. I voted for Kerry in 2004 and Obama in 2008 and 2012. I nearly always support Democrats in House, Senate, and gubernatorial elections. But I don't identify closely with or feel deep loyalty to the Democratic Party, its agenda, or its electoral coalition....
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If you can tell me why anyone would offer themselves to the Diplomatic Corps or even the Military after Benghazi?
The ‘you are expendable’ message sent to people ‘managing’ our foreign policy and military recruits is unmissable.
This Damon individual can scribble screeds all day and it won't change the fact that he's a leftist POS.
If Linker isn’t lying, then we can go back to the ‘90s and the Clinton admin passing the Saddam Hussein removal act “by any means necessary” and find out what Linker thought about that. What do you bet Linker didn’t say anything at the time?
It’s a simple admission that he won’t take a stand on anything he’s for but he certainly knows how to hate whoever he’s been told to. He’s also being paid for the word, and “I” is easy to type.
Let's put the Iraq War in context. We were in a state of war with Iraq, under a cease fire.
I left out the 500,000+ people Saddam had killed because, after all, Damon wouldn't care about those filthy little brown people. Right? /s
Damon, you are not anti-republican. You are an azzhole.
but he voted for Kerry and Obama, and he is against the Benghazi hearings... in the words sung by Olivia Newton-John, "please mister, please..."
Any “life-long Republican” who votes for the Communist-Democrats now is either lying, stupid or insane.
Maybe he’ll try to sell us this bridge in Brooklyn next......I hear it’s a stellar investment.
The desperation of liberals is being realized. They see it all slipping away in the next 2 years...returning them to the hell of minority party with a conservative in the White House.
Expect these types of letters to be written nationwide, to your local paper, by libs who hope to depress our turnout.
The writer of this screed is obviously a DIMwit DIM. His scrawlings aren’t worth a second of anyone’s time. What a DIM wit nitwit.
Seminar journalist.
She’s a moron!!
Opposed the war in Iraq but support Obama’s good wars including the one in Libya. What a moronic barking moonbat.
Probably voted for McCain in the 2000 primary, thus calling himself a “Republican” then voted for Gore in the general election...
Kerry was for going to war against Iraq dating back to 1998. He even said that international support/United Nations approval was not necessary to protect American interests.
It was at that moment that the "truce" of the first Gulf War had been broken and it was Saddam who took his nation to war. He was even offered the opportunity to step down which he refused.
It wasn't some "random covert attack" that was launched upon Iraq.
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