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April 14, 2004

Re-rant

I do Blogcritics once in a while. Today Eric wrote a thing, The Song, Not the Singer: Bush On the War.

Let's forget Bush for a moment. George W. Bush is a very odd vessel for what is the most important message of our time: that there are implacable forces in the world that hate us, our way of life, our vibrant culture, our personal freedom, and those forces will do all they can to kill us. This is a real war. There are various sources of this ideology, but they are quite willing to set aside their differences to act against us, "the enemy of my enemy" and all.

…and so forth. He quotes a bunch of the speech, then says

Set aside the source for a moment: every word of this is profoundly true, the importance is the song, not the singer. I honestly don't care all that much about the singer and have many differences with him in other areas. But somehow, someway, this particular man grasped on 9/11 that all of the incidents listed above ARE connected, cannot be addressed piecemeal, cannot be addressed in a defensive mode - as every Western leader and every American president, Republican and Democrat alike, had previously done - and that decisive, resolute, offensive action was the only possible way to win this war, a war we did not seek, and in fact assiduously sought to avoid prior to 9/11.
The question of the moment is, is Iraq a genuine part of this war? It sure as hell is now.

Seperating the message from the messenger. Why not? It worked for Louis Farrakhan...

Yo know Eric, I totally agree that we need to deal with terrorism effectively. and I agree with this precise phrasing:

is Iraq a genuine part of this war? It sure as hell is now.

Now the question, the one with bearing on the election, is why is it a part of the war on terror? Was it necessary that Iraq be part of the war on terror? And if not do you want to keep those who made it so in the driver's seat.

The reasons you give for staying the course have nothing to do with the reasons given for starting out on the course. We all know we're not leaving Iraq for quite a while, no matter who wins the election so we should just stop pussyfooting around with that. Just accept it and decide how to handle it. To me, the first step is to get someone in there running things whose judgement I trust. That's not Bush.

Posted by P6 at April 14, 2004 03:23 PM
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