Bury Me Broken

Why I'm Not Dancing

Everything's going my way. The Bush administration is finally revealing its true self to America. Even Fox News has low Bush approval numbers. Libby has been indicted; Rove, like He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, is a weaker, shadow of his former self. Delay, Abramoff, Scanlon and Reed are being revealed. Frist is being investigated for his fake blind trust. War numbers, down. Social Security, wait til 08 says Sen. Grassley plus all of the other points in Novak: Bush is radioactive.

What's the problem?

The problem is that I read too much of the kool-aid swilling ilk and it sickens me, especially as it has been dispensed as refreshment, tarnishing this Veteran's Day.

The propagandists are hard at work spinning lies to disseminate Bush’s blasphemous exploitation of Veteran’s Day with his ‘war offensive.’ Sullying an occasion of remembrance and reflection, Bush followed by his propagating minions babble the latest catchphrase “revisionist history” while Republican after Republican strategizes and straddles the fence.

Instapundit:

The White House needs to go on the offensive here in a big way -- and Bush needs to be very plain that this is all about Democratic politicans pandering to the antiwar base, that it's deeply dishonest, and that it hurts our troops abroad.

I know it has been said a million times before but I am so tired of them playing the ‘troops card.’ Our troops have been hurt by being rushed to war, by having to fight the war with whatever they saw fit to equip them, by attempting to cut pay, by forced extension of their duty, by utilizing nonmilitary while instructing soldiers to make prisoners conducive to revealing info to save American lives at Abu Ghraib, no postwar strategy and not enough manpower.

He continues:

UPDATE: Reader Kathleen Boerger emails: "Could you do me a favor and define 'patriotism' please?"
I think it starts with not uttering falsehoods that damage the country in time of war, simply because your donor base wants to hear them.

Talk about beholding the speck in your brother’s eye and not seeing the beam in your own.

I think it starts with not uttering falsehoods that damage the country …

Stop. Let me finish that for you. “… by speciously taking us to war.”

Instapundit refers to himself previously saying journalists are focusing on Judy Miller:

Meanwhile, journalists, most of whom were reporting the same kind of WMD stories that Miller did (because that's what pretty much everyone thought -- including the antiwar folks who were arguing that an invasion was a bad idea because it would provoke Saddam into using his weapons of mass destruction), now want to focus on her so that people won't pay much attention to what they were reporting themselves.

That is revisionist history. That the “antiwar folks” is one homogeneous body chanting “don’t mess with Saddam or he’ll drop the bomb” as they waved mushroom cloud placards with flowers in their hair.

And the ultimate kool-aid induced stupor I’ve read thus far is his quoting of Bob Krumm:

So, Democrats, stop running against the war. You serve only to unite an otherwise disenchanted Republican base. If you take the war off the front page by winning it, Republicans will have to depend on their domestic record for victory. And, unfortunately, there's little there to rally the base.

As I said earlier in a comment:

Newsflash - if we could win the war, we would. Winning the war, in their minds, means that the violence in Iraq stops or slows down enough so that we can push the last of the instant democracy checklist items and bug out.

• If we could stop being maimed and killed by IEDs, we would.
  
• If we could stop innocent Iraqi men, women and children from being maimed and killed by IEDs, we would.
  
• If we could stop Iraqi police officers from being killed, we would.
  
• If we could train enough Iraqi police officers so that the number of ready Iraqi batallions would increase, instead of decrease, we would.
  
• If we could get the electricity running in Iraq, surely by now, we would have.
  
• If we could erase the images of Abu Ghraib from the minds and hearts of the Arab world as well as the rest of the globe, we would
  
• If we could rebuild Iraq's infrastructure, protect those rebuilding and utilize tax dollars effectively, we would.

posted by niteskolar @ 6:20 PM