This Week’s WTF?!

ABQjournal Opinion: Letters to the Editor
Liberals Playing Politics With American Soldiers

LIBERAL DEMOCRATS and their liberal main stream media outlets— NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN and MSNBC— love the Iraq body count of our good, brave and courageous men and women in uniform, who have freed 50 million people from the clutches of evil.
They pretend to be aghast at the death and dying of our soldiers, over 3,600 since the beginning of hostilities. The soldiers are personalized, individualized and minutely scrutinized and then splashed across the printed and electronic media as political points to gain votes by the insensitive liberals.
This is a macabre endeavor. Let’s put this into perspective. If the liberal Democrats and liberal main stream media are really concerned about death and dying of Americans, why don’t they give the same treatment to drunken-driving deaths (over 17,000 per year), murder victims (over 18,000 per year) or abortion of embryonic children (over 260,000 per year by Planned Parenthood alone)?
Why, because it does not fit their gruesome agenda. Wake up America. Don’t let the psycho-constipated ideas of the liberal Democrats and the liberal media suck you in. Think!
In the words of Edmund Burke, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Our good soldiers are maintaining our freedom and securing Iraq’s freedom.
The liberal Democrats and liberal media want to stand by and do nothing!
JOHN MOSMAN
Albuquerque
http://www.abqjournal.com/opinion/letters/584248opinion08-07-07.htm

Sarcasm doesn’t carry well in print. (It is also wise to remember sarcasm is always lost on some people, and it angers others, of course.) I’m hoping John Mosman is being sarcastic in his statements that “liberal Democrats” and our minions in the press (what we call “the corporate media” and hardly view as friends) are somehow happy over the worst foreign policy debacle of the last 50 years. This is the most nauseating of the conservative bile: “liberals” (sneer it) want failure and suffering in Iraq because — somehow — we see it benefiting our cause. This LIE must be countered every time it is uttered. Nothing in and about Iraq is benefiting anyone but arms dealers and undertakers.

As for the strawman of all those other “worse” causes of death: many people are as torn up about those as Iraq. However, none of those deaths can be laid at the feet of one man. None of those deaths can be blamed on the actions of a handful of horribly-misguided neoconmen. That’s what earns extraordinary outrage: We NEVER should have entered Iraq in the first place and every single death has been unnecessary. mjh

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One thought on “This Week’s WTF?!”

  1. “Amen, Brother!” — or, in deference to

    you, mjh, self-proclaimed atheist hippie that you are, “Right On!”

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