Comments on: “Thats how you teach our enemies not to mess!”

By: Ara Rubyan

Ara Rubyan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:26:39 +0000

Don’t know no Tigerhawk. All I know is what we got and what we gave up to get it — and it wasn’t worth it.

And that doesn’t even address what this administration might define as “victory.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:25:55 +0000

Don’t know no Tigerhawk. All I know is what we got and what we gave up to get it — and it wasn’t worth it.

And that doesn’t even address what this administration might define as “victory.”

By: Ron Coleman

Ron Coleman — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:52:34 +0000

Gosh, actually, I'm kind of confused now, because Glenn just linked to TigerHawk saying yeah, we did win, and you can tell because casualties are down!

By: Ara Rubyan

Ara Rubyan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:44:05 +0000

OK, first things first: I’m the anonymous commenter. I screwed up and posted my comment without filling in the name block. I’m using a laptop without the requisite cookie on it. Sorry!

Those of you who read this blog (or mine) know me and should know by now that I have no particular desire to remain anonymous whenever I say what I have to say.

Now that we have that out of the way:

It was Lincoln, a real war president, who said this in the aftermath of a great battle in American history:

we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Until you can say that Iraq has experienced “a new birth of freedom” and not a government of the mullahs, by the mullahs and for the mullahs, then you’ll have to confront the horrible realization that this war has been a blunder and a waste from Day One.

By: Assistant Village Idiot's Intern

Assistant Village Idiot's Intern — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:06:59 +0000

Boss: Well put. Concordently, the 6000 16-19 yr olds that we “lose” every year to traffic accidents argue for Reid/Pelosi et al to craft legislation that requires all american high schools to be raised and rebuilt in Iraq and Afghanistan – since our adult volunteers are to the left “our children that we sacrifice in an illegal war”. Think of it, ‘anon’, a seven-fold decrease in teenage homicide.

By: Assistant Village Idiot's Intern

Assistant Village Idiot's Intern — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:06:59 +0000

By: apb

apb — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:10:26 +0000

We’ve certainly lost the wars in our cities at home – 70,000+ murders over the same time period as the war. Anonymous – the families you’re talking about understand their loved one’s sacrifices completely – it’s the doofus ‘progressive’ mentality that doesn’t have a clue.

That’s the same doofus ‘progressive’ mentality that generates the public policies that are the root cause of those 70,000+ murders.

By: Assistant Village Idiot

Assistant Village Idiot — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:26:39 +0000

Casualties are the cost of a war, not the measure of its success or failure. By anon’s reasoning, we have lost the war on backyard swimming pools.

By: Ron Coleman

Ron Coleman — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:48:07 +0000

Michael, I don’t recall seeing any “reasoning” in Anonymous’s post. It’s not even based on an empirically accurate statement, because there is no evidence for his assertion that even the 35,000 family members he refers to are as stupid as he is. Quite to the contrary.

By: Ron Coleman

Ron Coleman — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:46:41 +0000

Michael, I don’t recall seeing any “reasoning” in Anonymous’s post.