Tree-Huggin’ Roundup
The anti-war crowd is pulling out all the stops. The rhetoric, the ill-conceived examples, and all that other hippy, tree-huggin’, peace, love, dope stuff that really pisses me off to no end. Again, no amount of free love and pot smoking will solve the world’s problems!
LeanLeft points to this self-righteous vomit from some one’s mind. The Agonist does think we should invade Iraq but takes issue with persons advocating the war strongly.
What I do want to say is that all of you warbloggers out there are fucking pathetic. Young American men and women are going to die very soon.
Really? War results in death? I didn’t know that. I thought we just engaged in one big flag football tournament to determine the outcome. I thought those cruise missiles and scuds were provided by Nerf™.
Your asses will never be in the firing line. You’ll never have bullets whizzing around your head. You’ll never see bloated, distended and putrefying flesh. You will never smell death on the battle field. So how fucking dare you sorry ass chicken hawks root for war.
No one is rooting there, Sparky. I think the warbloggers are in a similar position as you. It’s necessary and it sucks. Which is the consensus I get reading warblogger sites. Anyone who sits around saying War is cool is a moron and is definitely not representative of people who think an invasion is necessary. Also, calling people who see the invasion as necessary chickens is asinine and grasping for straws while attempting to cling to your own self-righteousness.
Jane from the Daily Rant attempts the old switcheroo. Forget Iraq, look at what Saudi Arabia is doing. Yup, Saudi Arabia is an evil place. I think we should invade it too. But we can’t do it all at once. Apparently, her issue is just the priority.
Oliver Willis tries to use the old But if that is true, then this must be as well tripe. He suggests using the current method of thinking that we should also invade Canada. Oliver, dude, you’re better than that. You should realize the assumptions of the argument are fallacious. And read The Art of War, if you attack when your enemy is at your door, you already lost.
The entire peacenik stance is based on one mantra: Under no circumstance can George W. Bush (or his administration) be right about anything ever.
Of course, there are some warbloggers and right wingers who think that Dubya is infallible. And they’re equally misguided.
We should invade Iraq because:
* Hussein is a tyrant who brutalizes his own people.
* He has not complied with UN resolutions that he agreed to comply with.
* He is a threat to the security of the region.
And we warmongers are fully aware that American lives will be lost, there will be collateral damage, and the whole scene will not be pretty. We also realize it sucks. It is also a necessary evil. We do not revel in the deaths of people and to insinuate so is absolutely insulting, as well as self-righteously flaccid.
War, huh, good God ya’ll, what is it good for:
* Stopping the systematic genocide of entire races.
* Freeing oppressed people.
* Eliminating taxation without representation.
* Bringing totalitarian and corrupt regimes to justice.
* To thwart the spread of communism and imperialism.
* To ensure the safety and security of innocent people.
* Ad infinitum.
