Another Good "I Told You So!"
I found this "I told you so" from the Rude Pundit particularly good.
I thought I'd share it here. My take on this is below the Rudeness.
So let's just say it up front here: over here in Liberalburg, we weren't happy when Ronald Reagan was cozying up to Saddam Hussein back in the 1980s. We weren't happy that the United States was backing a brutal, murderous, raping thug, giving him weapons and such. We weren't happy with the first Persian Gulf War. We weren't happy with sanctions that decimated the poorest people in Iraq. We weren't happy that the President wouldn't allow weapons inspectors to finish their work.
We weren't happy with this war to start with, saying, for instance, that a civil war was the inevitable outcome. We're not happy to be proven right. We're not happy, simply, when people are dying for no good cause, with no good outcome on the horizon, and no good way out. Frankly, oh, dear, sweet right wing, on the whole, we'd've rather been wrong and had tens of thousands of people not killed, tens of thousands of America soldiers not wounded. We'd've eaten the crow and, trust us, wonderful, fair right wing, you'd've shoved our faces in the plate of that black bird.
But since we were right, maybe, just maybe, someone oughta pay a political price for being so goddamned wrong. Instead, though, the right's gonna try to turn it around and blame the left and those who "didn't support the war" for its failure. Which would, for all intents and purposes, finally seal the deal on Vietnam redux.
But what we're all waiting on is for one real Mea Culpa from the right wingers. Sure, moderates like myself, we came to the conclusion rather quickly that we were played like chumps by the President and his merry band of dipshits. No, I'm talking about the boys on Fox "News", the Rush Limpdicks, the O'Liar Factor idiots. I'm waiting for those Administration lackeys to admit their failure and apologize to the nation for being complicit in destroying the fabric of what America stands for; to finally come out and shout "the Emperor has no cloths!" Then, they still won't be my favorite source for news but they may at least regain some credibility. And, if they're truly repentant, their souls may be spared infinite torture in the afterlife.
I thought I'd share it here. My take on this is below the Rudeness.
So let's just say it up front here: over here in Liberalburg, we weren't happy when Ronald Reagan was cozying up to Saddam Hussein back in the 1980s. We weren't happy that the United States was backing a brutal, murderous, raping thug, giving him weapons and such. We weren't happy with the first Persian Gulf War. We weren't happy with sanctions that decimated the poorest people in Iraq. We weren't happy that the President wouldn't allow weapons inspectors to finish their work.
We weren't happy with this war to start with, saying, for instance, that a civil war was the inevitable outcome. We're not happy to be proven right. We're not happy, simply, when people are dying for no good cause, with no good outcome on the horizon, and no good way out. Frankly, oh, dear, sweet right wing, on the whole, we'd've rather been wrong and had tens of thousands of people not killed, tens of thousands of America soldiers not wounded. We'd've eaten the crow and, trust us, wonderful, fair right wing, you'd've shoved our faces in the plate of that black bird.
But since we were right, maybe, just maybe, someone oughta pay a political price for being so goddamned wrong. Instead, though, the right's gonna try to turn it around and blame the left and those who "didn't support the war" for its failure. Which would, for all intents and purposes, finally seal the deal on Vietnam redux.
But what we're all waiting on is for one real Mea Culpa from the right wingers. Sure, moderates like myself, we came to the conclusion rather quickly that we were played like chumps by the President and his merry band of dipshits. No, I'm talking about the boys on Fox "News", the Rush Limpdicks, the O'Liar Factor idiots. I'm waiting for those Administration lackeys to admit their failure and apologize to the nation for being complicit in destroying the fabric of what America stands for; to finally come out and shout "the Emperor has no cloths!" Then, they still won't be my favorite source for news but they may at least regain some credibility. And, if they're truly repentant, their souls may be spared infinite torture in the afterlife.
posted by crackerdog at 9:47 AM
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