From Wolcott

From

James Wolcott's Blog

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This needs to be repeated as often as possible and everywhere possible.


.."The warbloggers profess to be outraged, sickened, and appalled by
Mideast violence yet increasingly are giving vent to their own violent
fantasies directed at domestic foes, whom they consider traitors,
appeasers, etc. They fantasize about their least favorite bloggers being
beheaded, or hanging liberal traitors from lamp posts should there be
another terrorist attack. Sites like Little Green Footballs, Atlas Shrugs,
and their ilk have a lynch-mob mentality that has gotten uglier as the
situation in Iraq has worsened. They blame Cindy Sheehan (recently voted
"Idiotarian of the Year" at LGF), Michael Moore, and liberal Democrats
for how badly the war has gone because they don't have the courage and
honesty to blame the real architects of failure: Rumsfeld, who went to
war with too few troops to carry out an occupation; Wolfowitz and the
rest of the neocon brain trust, who assured Americans that the invasion
would be greeted with flowers and candy, and the war would pay for itself
through oil revenues; the U.S. military, which didn't anticipate a strong
insurgency and arrogantly ran roughshod over the Iraqi people early in the occupation, enflaming the insurgency even more; and Bush oment of almost
sociopathic hubris, taunted the insurgency with the three words that should
be chiseled in disgrace on the wall of his future presidential library:
"Bring 'em on." According to a recent poll, 55% of Americans no longer
believe the war with Iraq was worth fighting. Are the majority of Americans "defeatniks"? If so, I must be more
influential than I thought."
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