[pittsburgh gop guy]

Good to see this guy wised up a little.

"Perhaps if people like me hadn't been in the streets, Bush Senior would have had the support to destroy Saddam's regime. Lots of Iraqis would still be alive and the world would be talking about something else."

Gee - we could apply the same reasoning and blame the deaths of 3 million in Southeast Asia on the hippie anti-war protestors of the 60's and 70's. I think I will!

[nutmeg]

bump to read later

[Hugin]

The idea that the struggle ought to accomplish something is not the point. The causes are place names, and allies come and go: Iraq, Chiapas, Palestine. The baleful power of America remains the eternal issue.

Or as I've said, the concern of the left for the poor downtrodden people of the world exists in direct proportion to their utility in attacking the USA. When do you ever hear the left expressing concern for the poor people of Vietnam, El Salvador, Nicaragua or Zimbabwe over whose welfare they used to obsess so?

[xm177e2]

can't wholeheartedly cheer for a war against Iraq, right now. Few people can.

The thing is, once you come to support a war, you really can't support it in a half-assed manner. Waging a war requires a lot of commitment from the country; we can't just sort of go in halfway, then back off and decide to finish the job 12 years later (well, we can, but it's a STUPID option).

[nopardons]

I DID back then and still do. :-)

[TenaciousZ]

Excellent article; thanks for the post. I hereby confess that as a college student, I too protested the first Gulf War in 1991. It's been a long road, but I've changed my leftist ways. The truth always prevails.

[TomB]

This interview(2.4 MB, mp3) was posted earlier. It is a clip of an Iraqi refugee calling into a talk show that had your typical "no blood for oil" platitude spouting idiot.

The Iraqi literally wipes the floor with her. I actually found myself whispering under my breath "shut up and move on, little girl, for God's sake you look like a raving lunatic".

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

The idea that anyone's career suffers by being seen as unpatriotic is absurd. Anti-war credentials are fine entrees to the cultural and university community in Pittsburgh.

BTTT

[cynicom]

Will he sympathize with the American troops that will bleed, suffer and die?????