Here’s a revealing, if short, snippet of how the Daily Kos crowd thinks the war should be handled:
What Congress can do, should the Democrats recover it in November, is (1) withhold funding for the war and other destructive projects; (2)hold hearings on various interesting subjects; (3)prepare the agenda for 2008. (4) prepare the candidate for 2008.
Wow. Don’t fund the war. Simple. Brilliant. Oh, and murderous, too. Make no mistake: witholding funding for Iraq means cutting off everything that the people over there need to fight the war: ammo, spare parts, food, water… It all costs money. So, no more allowance, little GI.
By the way, if you wonder how someone could worship such an ethereal concept of peace so as to want the death of GIs for some sickening idea of moral expediency, let’s not forget that this nugget of what passes for a political platform on the Left was posted on Daily Kos. Yup, the same blog whose founder has this to say about the murder of 4 security contractors in Fallujah:
Let the people see what war is like. This isn’t an Xbox game. There are real repercussions to Bush’s folly.That said, I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren’t in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.
They are from the same party that produced John Kerry, the famous great white hope who uttered the unforgettable “I actually voted for the 87 billion before I voted against it”, along with the insufferable John Murtha and his frothing at the mouth about the Haditha case. I won’t even mention the steaming bowl of bovine feces that is the whole “we support the troops, bring them home” crowd.
When your idea of how to put an end to a war means starving the troops fighting that war of everything they need to survive in combat, when you formulate an idea that puts your vision of the world before the right of a Soldier or a Marine to come home and hug his family after one year (or often more) of pure hell, you have forfeited the right to be debated, to be taken seriously, even to be made fun of.
You have, however, won the right to be told, in the shameful words of one of your own: ” Screw you”.
