Brad R. said,

February 4, 2007 at 6:23

No, Kevin is a shit-smearing chimp. He knows this isn’t really true. He knows that Iraq is a disaster, and that the dead are on his hands as well as those the foul war-architects of the administration.

He trying to relieve some of his own guilt by calling you ‘evil.’ Heaven only knows what Kevin thinks your ‘punishment’ should be.

In fact, he’s so right that I won’t believe a single news report that comes out of Iraq until Kevin himself goes there and starts bringing me the news. Because Kevin is obviously the only guy I can trust on the matter.

Go, Kevin, go! Bring me that sweet, sweet, unbiased news reporting I crave so much. We’ll even take up a collection to pay for your airfare if you need it.

Yeah, you really fucking do. Tens of thousands – maybe over a hundred thousand – of Iraqis have died because of Bush’s stupid, ill-considered, lying, poorly executed war.

Start explaining why it’s different.

“We at the Associated Press did in fact trust a single source that we won’t identify who said horrible things about the Iraqi Security Forces. We believed him because we so hate Bush that it simply MUST be true. We want him to fail, and this single ‘anonymous’ source MUST be telling the truth that the ISF did nothing to save the innocents, because America trained them, and Americans trained the ISF. We now know he lied to us, but that is of little consquence. It’s our point of view that is important. We report these unsubstantiated claims because we want everyone to know that Bush is evil and America cannot even HOPE to free oppressed people. In other words, it’s because we care.”

Basically, you’re a conspiracy theorist who thinks every bad report out of Iraq is an Effort to Get Bush written by mustache-twirling librul reporters who hate this country and who want to see Sharia law implemented everywhere. That’s completely crazy.

I will not.

“So, dude, do you still think reducing the death toll in Iraq by 6 makes a difference?”

In many ways I do. Do I need to ‘splain why, or do you know my previous posts on this evil site?

Any chance of that honest statement appearing at the AP? Hateful bastages.

i’ve heard a lot of people saying this sort of stuff lately, what the fuck is going on? have we redefined the meaning of civil war recently? who in the name of greek buggery got to decide “civil war” was only applicable to a bipolar situation? nothing i’ve ever read about civil wars states there can only be two sides. who comes up with this shit?

How much more seething hatred will we have to create before, nukes or no nukes, israel is overrun? What’s going to become of secular Turkey, let alone radical pakistan and wahab saudi? They are gambling the mortgage here, folks, and they’ve got shit for cards…

Mikey, the guys who brought us this war don’t give a damn about long term consequences. Fuck, Bush is on record saying he’s gonna hand the Iraq mess off to the next President. Their only concern is making sure that the blame for the mess gets landed on anybody but them. And yes, you are absolutely right. In the long term, US and Israeli interests are screwed if the warmongers have their way. The most idiotic thing they do is take the knowledge that the United States is the most powerful country on the planet, and assume that such power is infinite in strength and cannot be thwarted.

I figure if the US elects McCain-Lieberman in aught eight, within two years the Chinese will be calling in your debts and you’ll be wishing for the good ‘ole days when “moderates” like Al Sadr or Sheikh Nasrallah dominated Middle East politics.

With all due respect, the Triangle isn’t a war-zone.

Here’s the deal: when Malkin tees off on people like Lara Logan, who don’t have the benefit of La Traitement Superbe for short visits to Baghdad, she creates a misleading impression about the process of reporting from Iraq. That process, in itself, is further complicated by its reliance upon people who deserve credit for going where western reporters cannot, but also have a limited perspective and work at a tremendous risk to themselves.

I wish that Malkin had shown the guts to spend a week at the AP bureau, or the NYT bureau, or the WaPo bureau, under the same conditions as those who work there. But she is not a reporter; she has never been a reporter; and she was playing at being a reporter on her trip to Baghdad. She is an editorialist.

Hey, I tried to introduce mastication waaay upthread, but only tigrismus took me up on it.

Y’know, it’s not too early to start looking at long-term consequences. How much more seething hatred will we have to create before, nukes or no nukes, israel is overrun? What’s going to become of secular Turkey, let alone radical pakistan and wahab saudi? They are gambling the mortgage here, folks, and they’ve got shit for cards…

mikey

It’s an ugly side of me that I don’t want the world to see. Tomorrow, I’ll be back to making fun of Blogs for Bush.

Hindrocket.

It will be interesting to see what emerges from this maneuvering. The most likely outcome, I think, is that the Senate’s lack of consensus over the best path forward in Iraq will be plainly revealed, and the net effect of all this resolution-writing will be close to zero. That’s the best we can hope for, I think.

Assrocket sounds objectively pro-defeatist to me. Perhaps he has been reading too much AP’Qaida propaganda.