Wait, what?

[hinoki]

Am I the only one curious as to why the 'Retardican' bashers have suddenly gone silent when the 'Idioticrat' president of ours kicked off a new war when we've already got a handful?

It's our missiles flying, our C&C structures in place... all dressed up neatly under a veneer of a UN mandate.

Yeaahhh. Pot, meet kettle.

Comments

[ssurgul]

Well, given that this is based on a UN Security Council resolution to enforce a No-Fly zone, and that the President said we are NOT the frontrunners; we're primarily providing missile support only.

There's a gulf of a difference between the lies and games that were spun up and made 'truth' by replaying them on Faux News for days, weeks, months on end than for the Big K to declare publicly that he had no problem slaughtering his own people. This is trying to compare, to my mind, a grape and a grapefruit.

Now, that being said, I think this is utterly stupid to be entering into this situation at all. Granted, the Retardicans have done a terrific job of making it abundantly clear what they 'really' wanted, which was for Obama to have acted sooner (without the much-vaunted "dithering") and with massive increases in force. THAT would have sparked massive outrage from me, and I'm sure many others. But as long as we're just deploying missiles, which we have in abundance anyway, and not doing much else, then I will limit my criticism. This is not a 'war' save for the fact of civilians/rebels being killed by the higher ups simply because these people want actual democracy in their country -- a chance to govern themselves rather than being governed.

And make no mistake either. I never would have argued that Hussein should have been left alive. I felt he was evil from the get-go. He was put there by us, he should have been removed by us many years ago. However, going in there under the guise of 9/11, under the pretexts of keeping America 'safe', which was demonstrably untrue, and all the rest of BushCo Propaganda, THAT was unacceptable. If we had just stood up, said 'UN, we're incredibly sorry we ever put him in power. He's lost his grip on things, and we're ready to remove him and help the Iraqi people actually build sustainable government' we likely would have gotten a LOT more support for the whole endeavor. But even then, that wasn't one of the key goals of being in Iraq, and none of the UN bought off on it then or now.