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While Bush is making progress and may go down in history as the person who initiated the actions that end middle eastern conflicts and the war on terror, Democrats will still be looking for a "plan"
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geez--someone who goes where not even wolfowitz would.
what is really curious about the above is that it recapitulates what the same kind of extreme rightwingers used to complain about with reference to stalin--that human suffering can be trivialized in any political actions becausethe ends justify the means. 30,000 iraqis, 2200 americans dead, the credibility of teh united states shredded internationally, of the white house domestically on and on and on--but in extremerightwingland, the end is all that matters.
all the more if that end is wholly a matter of fantasy at this point.
of course, just as the "argument" in the above is not falsifiable--because it relies upon a wholly lunatic understanding of the war in iraq, its motives, its progress, its potential outcomes--so it is that the right recapitulates a stalinist logic only when it is defending one of its own.
it follows then that what justifies the iraq war for ace is the fact that george w bush launched it.
nothing else matters.
for myself, i think bush should be impeached for leading the country into war under false pretenses. there should be consequences for this magnitude of fuck up.
i would also argue the same thing had a democrat been mad enough to launch such a war.