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Friday, 25 July 2003
Hysteria
Mood:  on fire
The anti-war and anti-Bush Left have become hysterical sacks of shit and I want to be clear about that. Their congenital condition, which waxes and wanes with irregular, lunatic commotion, has now blasted its way to the fore of their thought, and they have become bloody-minded accusers and stone-throwers. These shrieking, unthinking partisans have become infected by their own biology and are now too sick to be reasoned with.

What has happened? They are so angry at the President for his boldness and moral clarity that they have become enemies of this nation's cause. But, why should that trigger such outrage? Because they, as Leftists, know that they have no such champion on "their" side. "Their" side has sickened itself on hatred for the President and have alienated themselves from the support of this war. This war is this nation's cause right now, but they have no resort except to the extremes of partisanship.

For two weeks or more, the Left have harped on and beat on this so-called lie the President told in his State of the Union address about Saddam seeking out uranium from Africa. What the President did was throw everything (including the kitchen sink) into his list of crimes and weapons that Saddam was engaged with. He sold his case and he oversold it. He didn't have the firmest or most specific knowledge of Saddam buying uranium from Nigerians, but does anyone doubt that Saddam has pursued a nuclear capability in the past? Is there any anti-war Leftist piece of shit who doubts that that is something Saddam would try to achieve? We know that Saddam was working on the nuke in the early 80s when the Israelis came and bombed his sites flat. We know he was trying for them again in the early 90s when we stopped him in the aftermath of the Gulf War. We know that he developed and possessed huge stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons as late as 1998. And, as the President alluded to, the British STILL believe that Saddam was in the market for uranium as recently as the months before we invaded. Now, what kind of hysterical fucking idiot is going to take the President or his Admininstration to task for believing and acting upon the reasonable intelligence assessment that Saddam was a seeker and user of weapons of mass destruction? The Left should be ashamed of themselves for their loud-mouthed and ignorant bullshit. Listen to these idiotic Democratic nominees for President, casting about for some reason to blame the President. They call him a liar and a manipulator when many of them, on their own, supported action against Saddam. And they want to keel-haul Bush for intelligence failures? HEY, GODDAMMIT! Tenet and Freeh were CLINTON'S men! The emasculations of the intelligence community came long before Bush showed up. Get your shit straight and quit blaming our President for EVERYTHING! We are in the middle of a war against terrorism and the worst kind of ideological insanity in ages. You effete sacks of hysterical shit want to see real barbarism? Then let these Mohammedan psychopaths and Islamofascists have their way. Excoriate our Commander-in-Chief for the benefit of the assholes at the BBC and in Chiraq's France and Schroeder's Post-Naziland. They love it. Keep scattering the seeds of doubt and division and keep the Ba'athist dead-enders alive in their resistance. So long as you Leftist assholes keep it up, then YOU'RE the reason why our boys are getting hit with RPGs. Let that be on YOUR heads.


Posted by Toby Petzold at 5:38 PM CDT | Post Comment | View Comments (6) | Permalink

Friday, 25 July 2003 - 6:11 PM CDT

Name: Helios Creed

Your schoolboy politics crack me up, mate. Are you done baiting people yet?

Monday, 28 July 2003 - 3:41 PM CDT

Name: Chris
Home Page: http://n/a

Yeah, for you hawks it must feel really desperate these days. Doesn't it feel pathetic to be so driven by fear that you blindly supported a war a good half of the nation (and a good half of the world) could see was unnecessary?

Monday, 28 July 2003 - 8:15 PM CDT

Name: Chris

Yeah, hawks like Toby must feel really pathetic now that their lie has been exposed.

Monday, 28 July 2003 - 10:17 PM CDT

Name: Toby Petzold

Pathetic? Desperate? No, I feel appropriately sober ---and committed to my position. I have strongly advocated this war against Islamic terrorism and Arab fascism, and I know there is no reason to regret it. History will judge this President as a courageous peacemaker ---and wadspitters like you as shrill and reasonless partisans.

Tuesday, 29 July 2003 - 7:55 AM CDT

Name: Chris

I guess when you say "there is no reason to regret it" it depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

Tuesday, 29 July 2003 - 8:12 AM CDT

Name: Chris

If, as former White House counsel John Dean explained a few weeks ago in an interview, there is ?no chance? the Republican house would impeach Bush for lying to the American people, the nation has transcended mere blind partisan politics and entered a time of living fiction. This is the same Republican Party whose members badgered and hounded President Clinton until he was caught in a lie. His prosecutors, the legions of right-wing radio listeners, organizations dedicated to unearthing damaging material on Clinton?s past, showed a disgust for immorality in the White House. But when Clinton?s impeachment came, the vast majority of Americans refused to march on Washington demanding his removal from office. In fact a few went so far to march in his support. Americans, both for and against President Clinton, knew in their hearts, if not minds, that the question he was asked should have never been asked because it involved his personal life; not his public life.
Now, the situation has reversed. We have an unelected president who lies to the American people and the world, sacrifices innocent American and Iraqi lives to create a distraction from his disastrous ineptitude at home. This president can?t poke his head out in public without an angry crowd forming.
Still, the Republicans are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. The Republicans I know, the little rank and file footsoldiers who spent the late 1990s jeering at President Clinton, can?t defend Bush themselves. Something about American commonsense knows a high crime from a misdemeanor. No group, except possibly for American soldiers and Iraqi civilians, can feel as betrayed as Bush?s reluctant pre-war WMD believers. They shouted that anyone who stood against the war was a yellow, cowardly Quisling. They said any argument against the war represented pin-headed, politically-correct handwringing.
Now, of course, even if WMD were found it would be hard to prove they were of an imminent threat to US troops. So we continue to ask where are the WMDs? Where is justification for this elective war?
Yet, there is still no call for his impeachment.
If nothing else, we need no more proof that the witchhunt to bring down President Clinton had nothing to with moral outrage and everything to do with undermining the legitimacy of an elected president. Rightwing radicals who feel so sure about themselves they can seek to bring down an elected US president are an unsettling group. They feel like ?the consent of the governed? means an expensive PR effort and spin job to deflect criticism. They have a religious conviction in their own arrogance and supremacy. They have no ideal other than the consolidation of power.
But what of their political strategy that depends so heavily on lies? What personal friend of yours would forgive such constant lies? What business partner? Most Americans parents don?t tolerate lies from their children. Why makes excuses for it from a Bush?
The lies, if tolerated by the American people, or the Republicans in Congress say a lot about our country today. For the people, you could say we live in a fact-free culture of images, of sensation. (Think of the images of Bush?s aircraft landing versus the realities it masked). One where lies, assertions, spin and advertising language go unchallenged. For the Republicans in Congress, it says party loyalty means more than truth, more than justice, more than integrity. In fact, integrity for them is measured by uncritical loyalty. In this way they are more akin to a street gang or crime family than a political party. Of course, in a healthy society both street gangs and crime families are considered a public problem to be rehabilitated or prosecuted.

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