RANDOM MUSINGS ...a vote for Bush is a vote against yourself...

The Daily Howler is developing important notes of warning to the Democratic party in their series "How To Lose An Election." Today's post was quite good...

Alterman and others pointed out what seems to be a devastating critique of the Bush administration's dishonest rush to war...here's a link to Alterman's summary...I couldn't get the site that has the whole article to come up earlier today...but wait--lo, it hath now come forth...

I was reading in Arianna Huffington's new book "Fanatics And Fools" about a Rumsfeld response to question about why the Iraq war was necessary and his response was something along the lines of "because 3,000 people died." It struck me that maybe that's why the "insurgents" in Iraq are continuing to fight, because by all accounts, so far at least three times as many Iraqis have been killed.

Savage Weiner

And Michael Savage was bloviating on Monday about how Americans shouldn't be upset because not quite 1,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq. He pointed out that the Russians lost 400,000 men trying to take Berlin after bombing raids had already reduced the city to rubble. He went on to say that we should be instilling "murder" in our fighting men.

I don't see how such cretinous statements don't make his listeners sick to their stomachs. I'm all for his right to say such things, but I can't believe he still has an audience after constantly spewing such poison. I call his remarks poison because first of all, they are devoid of any sympathy for the families of the soldiers. Second of all, his argument is just outrageous--he's implying that we shouldn't try to stop the fighting because not enough people have yet been killed for it to be truly horrible.

But I guess he fails to understand the lesson of Berlin and Verdun and on and on. And that lesson is that the killing shouldn't even begin, much less be allowed to go on until almost a half million (or more) people have to die.

He and his ilk are the true anti-Americans, because they want more of us to die...