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Hatred of Bush Exposes Westport, Conn. Lefistsâ Contradicitons

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When I was in Leftport in March, the party theme was that Mr. Bush had ruined the economy. They wouldnât hear of the fact that the economy went into a recession during the late Clinton months, or that the attack on America threw us off course, or that the tax cuts had spurred the economy into the best leap in 20 years. Unemployment, they yelled, was horrible. But employment figures jumped in March, so in April the tune changed back to the war. "We had no evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Bush did this for the oil, or because Saddam was his fatherâs nemesis. This is pay-back." My wife looks at me, knowing some salvos are forthcoming. Iâve held my tongue long enough, and suffered through lousy hors dâoeuvres and cheap white wine till Iâm beyond myself. I ask:
Alan knows it really wasnât the booze that sucked, it was the company...
"Didnât Saddam use weapons of mass destruction against the Kurds in northern Iraq, against the âmarsh peopleâ in southern Iraq, against the Iranians? Didnât he send poison-tipped missiles into Israel? Didnât Israel destroy his nuclear facilities in the 1980s? Didnât he kill, over 35 years, 1.5 million people or so, or more than 3,000 per month, every month? As offspring of the Holocaust, did you prefer we wait until he has more capabilities for killing? Is it your hope, like our dead brethren in Germany, that if we try to acquiesce, we will be overlooked? Have you learned nothing?" And, I continued, "If we wanted the oil, why didnât we take over the oil fields, either during Bush I, or Bush II? And by the way, is there anyone here who has a vision of ending terrorism, or bringing a more egalitarian way of life to the Middle East." Yells of "Nazi" and "right winger" hit my ears. Not one substantive reply, only personal attacks on my character or intelligence.
I kinda synpathize. I try to show the nexus between defeatist comments and possible effects on troops oin the field, and how they can affect real people back home, I get called mentally ill.
Sorry...
Just comparing scars I guess. ;o)

And he didn't even mention who had sold Saddam all his arms. Might have led to some wine-tossing.

Scratch a liberal, I say, and you often end up with a McCarthyite, bent on trying to destroy the character of every conservative, or even a mere questioner. So in self-preservation, Iâve torn up my directions to "Leftport," taken the Saw Mill Parkway off my map, and am going to confine myself to the best that Manhattan offers, the good food and hedonism of the Meatpacking district, where I can eat and drink the night away with my wife and be with people of all stripes--and with no more than a hip-thrust or wink on the dance floor I can commune with everyone.
Amen to that, baby! Another glass of wine, sâil plait, another nightly toast to our military, and the knowledge I have a lot of beers to buy when we win this war.
Posted by: badanov 2004-05-03

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