--- Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The expanses are quite broad on both sides of the > fence.
They really don't seem to have been. The outcome of the war was astonishingly one-sided, wasn't it? It fit almost exactly into what a bunch of people (myself least among them) who thought overthrowing Hussein was a good idea were saying. In all seriousness, Rob, we have a problem here. A significant fraction of the leadership of the greatest and oldest political party in the world seems to have decided that attacking the enemies of the United States is less important than attacking the President of the United States. There is plenty of dishonesty on both sides of the aisle. But on this singular issue of paramount importance - more important, in my mind, than every other issue put together, there has not been. Even more strikingly, the dishonesty on one side has been so overwhelming and obvious that it calls into question not just the integrity, but the intentions, of the people making the claims. The fabled Afghan winter is 22 months overdue. Those brutal Iraqi sandstorms didn't stop the 3rd Infantry. The desert heat is conspicuously failing to make American farmboys drop. And the Arab street remains stunningly quiescent. Yet the same people are now telling us that President _Bush_ was lying when he might (or might not) have made a mistake about Iraqi WMD searches in Africa? Come on. I have plenty of problems with George Bush. But if it came down to his political benefit or the safety of the United Staes, I know which one he would pick. I have plenty of problems with Terry McAuliffe, too. But I fear that if it came down to his political benefit or the safety of the United States - well, that we're _watching_ which one he would pick, and it's not the one I would hope for. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
