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2008-06-02 Iraq

Confronting the horrors of Iraqs graves - Should be required reading for Anti-war types

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-06-02 15:34|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 You cannot shame them - they have no morals.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-02 16:11|| 2008-06-02 16:11|| Front Page Top

#2 The "anti-war types" don't care about the graves. They don't care about the war and they don't care about the troops. They only care about bashing Bush, getting back the White House and political power in this country no matter what it takes. Obama said it himself: he wants the money spent on Iraq for health care for the "poor" who presumably will vote for him.

Posted by Grusoling Panda8701 2008-06-02 16:21|| 2008-06-02 16:21|| Front Page Top

#3 The anti-war types are evil, just as the terrorists are evil. They could care less about the loss of life to innocent people. They only care about the murderers that decent people are going after. They are the enablers of evil. Deep down they know it and deep down they are proud of it.

Posted by www 2008-06-02 16:26|| 2008-06-02 16:26|| Front Page Top

#4 The "anti-war" types want to be the ones pulling the trigger. It is all about power and they being the ones wielding it.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-06-02 17:09|| 2008-06-02 17:09|| Front Page Top

#5 I resemble that remark.

Posted by Barak Obama 2008-06-02 17:19|| 2008-06-02 17:19|| Front Page Top

#6 GB, this is the same caste that changes the subject when their 'accessory to the fact' on the Cambodian Holocaust is raised. Why should they be concerned out several hundred thousand Iraqis, when they had no time for a million and a half Cambodians, let alone a few hundred thousand Vietnamese. As others have already posted, their 'morality' is nothing but show, theater for POWER.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-02 17:39|| 2008-06-02 17:39|| Front Page Top

#7 can we please stop generalizing about liberals, esp on stuff like this.

Liberal hawks like Paul Berman and radicals lkke Christopher Hitchens were talking about the horrors of the Iraqi regime when the Bush admin was focusing on WMDs and 9/11 links in the apparent belief that they couldnt make intervention for human rights work. and judging from what folks here say about humanitarian interventions ELSEWHERE, Im not sure Bush was wrong - its REAL hard to get support for humanitarian interventions,even, perhaps especially, from conservatives.

Now, yeah, there are plenty of lefties who are deadset against humanitarian intervention, who thinks its all imperialist, yadda yadda. But I daresay they are NOT among the people who are most focused on the Nazi genocide and the West moral obligations.

Im also not sure where in "Schindlers List" Spielberg said anything in particular about the West. That movie was mainly based on a book anyway.

Ive been supportive of the Iraq war, heavily (though not only) on humanitarian grounds for a long time. Even when ive taken flak from the left. And from the right, whether for believing arabs capable of democracy, or for thinking that our force presence wasnt large enough given all that was at stake.

Talk about the horror of the graves yes. But let it speak for itself, dont demean those deaths by using it for partisan advantage, a partisan advantage that in this case is not warranted.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-06-02 17:54|| 2008-06-02 17:54|| Front Page Top

#8 LH is correct: I have no qualms with liberals. I share a few liberal tendencies.

I think the people we're talking about are best characterized as 'progressives', though I think 'Marxists' or 'left-socialists' or 'Hard-left' or 'moonbats' are just as good.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-06-02 18:06|| 2008-06-02 18:06|| Front Page Top

#9 The Curse of Liberalism

Posted by www 2008-06-02 18:49|| 2008-06-02 18:49|| Front Page Top

#10 The Movie Spielberg Didn't Make

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-06-02 19:23|| 2008-06-02 19:23|| Front Page Top

#11 can we please stop generalizing about liberals

It would be a lot easier if the 'real' liberals would stand up and point out the Socialist who've used them and their name as cover for the last four decades.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-02 23:01|| 2008-06-02 23:01|| Front Page Top

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