Peace Takes A Bullet (Leftwing San Francisco whining alert)

SF Gate ^ | March 5, 2003 | Mark Morford

[mountaineer]

These are the final days of peace in America. Please remember to turn off the lights and lock up when you leave.

These are the last days of relative calm before we start bombing and massacring hundreds of thousands of people and in so doing enter into what many believe will a very long, drawn-out, insanely expensive, volatile, destabilizing, completely unwinnable war against a cheap thug of an opponent who has negligible military might and zero capacity to actually harm the U.S. in any substantive way. U-S-A! U-S-A!

This will not be Desert Storm. This will not be quick and painless. This will be 3,000 guided missiles launched on the first day of the war, 10 times that of Desert Storm, turning Iraq into an instant wasteland. This is already a minimum of $200 billion, with an additional $50 billion to try and bribe Turkey alone, just to begin with. This is total unabashed war gluttony.

Some estimates put the total cost of this war, when all is said and done which it never will be, at $1 trillion. Enjoy that recession, kids -- it's gonna be here a while.

[mountaineer]

"We" will massacre hundreds of thousands of people? My prediction: fewer than 1,000 civilians will be killed directly or indirectly by U.S. action (although Saddam may kill a few hundred thousand just for fun).

[goldstategop]

Fun! I don't recall Moford being THAT exercised over President Clinton's bombing of Baghdad. He's just anti-Bush plain and simple. Gotta learn to love a Bay Taliban's final whine... :)

[Deanies_Papa]

You could be right, but it won't be long until we know. Of course, he'll never admit that he's wrong even if there are NO civilian casualties. One can only plan for the worst, and hope for the best.

[goose1]

We will kill less than that as the HUMAN SHIELDS came back home,maybe the celebs will take their place hopefully.

[agincourt1415]

Yawn, another we're gona Blow up the World, Shrill Peacenik. Someone that never watches History Channel.

Clueless lost souls that are floating in a sea of liberal thought.

[Puppage]

This, from the same people who said a million people would be killed in Afghanistan. Funny, but I never heard of that many dying over there.

[agincourt1415]

mmorford@sfgate.com

Mark Morford, is the writer.

[dighton]

"I am an utter moron. I am a total imbecile. I am the enemy."

[mountaineer]

It cannot be understated: Shrub's war marks a momentous shift in our society, a huge political and philosophical sea change, as we move from a unified coherent defensive posture to an aggressive, roguish, preemptive-strike attitude, kill first and ask questions never. It is called the Bush Doctrine, a.k.a. Shut the Hell Up You Durn Foreigners and Eat Our Might, and it is in flagrant defiance of not just the U.N. charter and international law but also every moral and philosophical tenet America itself was founded on.

This fellow knows nothing of history, let alone the moral and philosophical tenets on which this nation was founded, and I wonder what any of these anti-war types would have had us do after 12/7/41. If ever Santayana's words were apt, it is now.

[IGOTMINE]

The picture in #8 tells it all...this guy is a flaming leftist pudge facker. ("Not that there's anything wrong with that..."

[Conspiracy Guy]

I am so afraid now that I have read such a compelling argument by such a brilliant looking man. POOOOOOT

[j_k_l]

Gay White Male Seeks Same To:
- Write Left-Wing Hateful Hit Pieces
- Sip Spritzers and Visualize World Peace.

[mountaineer]

Visualize whirled

[finnman69]

ROFL.

[richardtavor]

Watched the History Channel last night. The program was the life story of the Bombmaker of Baghdad. He barely escaped in the early nineties. You should watch it--it scared the hell out of me. Apparently, Husseins first murder was when he was 11 years old--he murdered his teacher. His Dad told him he shouldn't do that anymore.

[richardtavor]

"Perhaps we do not understand how much it thoroughly and completely annihilates any remaining shred of international compassion or support we garnered as a result of 9/11. There is none. Two weeks ago, over 11 million people in more than 600 cities staged what is now considered the biggest anti-war protest in world history, all against Shrub's war. No matter."

Is it my imagination, or do the Liberal's estimate of the protest grow by about a million each week.

[Puppage]

No doubt. Anything to garner headlines, truth be damned.

[libertylover]

Look at the contradictions this clown makes within a few sentences of one another:

...[we're going to wage] war against a cheap thug of an opponent who has negligible military might...

Right below this he then says:

This will not be Desert Storm. This will not be quick and painless. This will be 3,000 guided missiles launched on the first day of the war, 10 times that of Desert Storm, turning Iraq into an instant wasteland.

Now why is this war so "unwinnable" if Iraq is going to be turned into a wasteland instantly? And I'm sure this guy has lots of military experience. Yeah, right.

[20yearvet]

"it is in flagrant defiance of not just the U.N. charter and international law"
It seems to me that Irac has allready been in defiance of the U.N. and international law, now we are saying enugh is enugh.

[mountaineer]

For 12 years Iraq has refused to comply with U.N. resolutions. That's twelve years of U.N. resolutions, and not just U.S. requests. That's what we're dealing with here, not a new war, but Iraq's failure to comply with the terms of the end of the 1991 war. Yet the Dems and other nitwits say we should give diplomacy a chance. How many chances go on indefintely?