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November 28, 2005
The Bare Bones Of The Argument
Every time I hear a spittle-flecked rant about "Bushhitler and his illegal, immoral war" I ask myself, "Does this person really think that Iraq was better off under Saddam?" Of course the question is rhetorical, even if unspoken--hating Bush is an end in itself.
Patrick Hynes at Right Wing News thinks that this mental excercise ought to be a centerpiece of the Bush administration's counterattack against the anti-demoncratic Democrats:
And the president and his surrogates need to call his critics out on the carpet: They cannot retroactively oppose the Iraq War and agree with the prosecution of Saddam Hussein at the same time. I have made this argued over at Ankle Biting Pundits and will continue to do so until the GOP and the White House take up the charge of challenging anti-war liberals with implicit defense of Saddam Hussein.
Simply put, if George W. Bush lied us into war then the prosecution of Saddam Hussein is a sham; Saddam is the innocent victim of George W. Bush’s zealous war hawkery. This is true if Bush’s critics are of the moderate “one more resolution” variety, the moonbat “no war for oil” variety, or even the present day revisionists who supported the war once and told the same “lies” that Bush has told.
The emphasis is mine. The White House needs to bring a sledgehammer down on the Left's little shell game, the flim-flam troika of bankrupt ideas:
If you challenge my anti-war rhetoric, you're challenging my patriotism. What they'd really like you to believe is that it's somehow patriotic to secretly wish for the triumph of the insurgents over US and Iraqi forces. I guess it depends on how you define "patriotic".
Yes Saddam was an evil dictator, but we didn't need to use force--we should have continued to work through the U.N. Bogus. See the decade long refusal of the U.N. to enforce it's own resolutions demanding adherance to the truce that ended the previous war that Iraq started. And then look up "Oil For Food" scandal.
Bush lied... So very tiresome. See the Congressional Record.
The Democrats need to be forced to explain why they would prefer Saddam to be back in power.
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