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Living Heroes
We owe the liberty and freedom we take for granted to the enlisted men and women in the armed forces. They sacrifice family, ease, and even life laboring in service to all of us. The least we can do for them is honor their devotion with dignified pay scales, decent education for themselves and their children, and reasonable compensation for service away from their families and death on the battlefield. Flag waving politicians who praise the troops on one hand and cut their pay and benefits with the other should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

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No Turning Back Now (washingtonpost.com) Krauthammer shows again why he is a giant, pompous boil on an elephant's ass. The situation in Iraq, he declares, requires imminent war. Forget gathering allies, evidence, UN support, or any effort at forcing Saddam into exile. Krauthammer has morphed into a Dr. Strangelove character who chess-like plots to spend the lives of our children serving overseas, all in the name of maintaining the fiction that Bush is a competent leader.

So what if Bush has frittered away international good will by bombastic pronouncements. So what if Bush has destroyed our relationship with South Korea in his need to balance the axis of evil with a non-Muslim state. Krauthammer forgives all, froths at all, and leeps unseeing into a full battle frenzy. It's quite a performance for a man sitting on the sidelines. He counsels recklessness and haste and cobbles together cotton candy dreams of the aftermath. He calls out as witness to an American malaise, caused, he says, "by phony-war suspension as we await the inevitable conflict." I don't know about you, but I'll agree that there's a phony war. I don't buy into the inevitability bit, however, and neither should you. We're ready to attack and the writing is on the wall for Saddam. In the best of all possible worlds he'll flee into exile. I'm willing to wait to see if we can create that outcome before I rub my hands in glee and send our kids off to die.

I didn't think even Krauthammer was as demented as this. His past diagnosis of Gore's mental state pales in comparison with the self-exposure he provides for us in his work today. He needs treatment.
posted by Dave on 12:44 AM | 0 comments link

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