I haven't posted anything in a while, so I thought I'd serve up a nice plate of fifth columnist. Enjoy
The lives of our troops are being sacrificed every day by cynical conservatives like James Taranto, who don't mind seeing them maimed and killed indefinitely if it helps their partisan political interests. And as for the rest of us -- we're all Sistah Souljah now.
And here I thought this was a war on terror. How'd Taranto manage to get the world's best military to kill troops for partisan political interests? And as usual, he misses the point. Troops are being killed by an armed and hostile enemy which must be destroyed
They're selling out our national security for an electoral strategy - and they call themselves "Americans."
They've been insulting our patriotism for years, just because we tell the truth they'd rather hide. Suppressing free speech through slander and intimidation is as un-American as it gets.
You have to have partiotism before it can be slandered.
So why are liberals or Democrats so polite to them?
Wow. Polite? I'd hate to see them being nasty if this is polite.
Let's face facts: Taranto and his ilk would, in fact, rather see more young soldiers wounded and killed than see the Republican Party lose at the polls. And those innocent Iraqis who are also losing their lives aren't even on their radar - despite the fact that each such death helps breed more anti-American terror.
Liberals love dead Americans... Especially if they are killed by an armed and hostile enemy of the United States.
They have no clearly-articulated purpose for being there, no plan, no goals, no timetable - and where they should be providing a strategic vision, we get only partisanship and name-calling.
We have a goal: military victory.
The best way to protect the Republican Party's faltering electoral chances is to obscure the fact that the GOP has plunged us into a catastrophe. They don''t want to withdraw because they would "lose face," and therefore lose votes. But once the election's over? They'll "cut and run" without a second thought.
We ain't withdrawing because we ain't won yet, but we are winning.
Meanwhile, if they can hide the truth and accuse their opponents of treason at the same time, so much the better. The best defense is a good offense - at least in the voting booth. Too bad about your kids, Mr. & Mrs. America -- but the Right wants to win at any price, particularly if you pay it.
Let's face it: in another time, many on today's mainstream left could be charged with treason
You have to hate a country, on some deep level, to be so cynical about the suffering of its people. And how must they feel toward the soldiers they treat so callously?
Leftist projection here...
Think about that as you watch those flag-draped coffins they tried to hide, the maimed young Americans with ruined lives, and those young Iraqi children killed by stray bombs. They're all "collateral damage" - in the right-wing war to preserve their political power.
The coffin are not being shown because the left has been abjectly irresponsible concerning military deaths, preferring to use photos to dishonor the sacrifice many have made and are making now
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Take Taranto. Here's a gem from his June 14 OpinionJournal.com post on Hillary Clinton:
"Kerry, like Mrs. Clinton, is believed to be planning a presidential run in 2008. Right now he is merely pandering to his party's pro-surrender base. But in order for him to win, it will be necessary to break the nation's will. That is, most voters will have to be convinced of the position he has now taken: that it's better to lose in Iraq than to continue fighting."
Deception and calumny: How do I count the ways?
"Pro-surrender": Kerry's position, and that of many (if not most) Americans, is that the fighting should be turned over to the Iraqis on a clear timetable. You don't signal your intentions to an armed hostile enemy. Taranto and his bosses say that Iraq has a sovereign government. How is it "surrender" to let them defend their own country? (Unless, of course, you don't really believe it is their country.)
Nice try, but the Iraqis are defending thier own country
"Break the nation's will": The polls are clear: Americans want this war brought to an end. Why is Taranto determined to break our will?
I want this war brought ot an end in the only acceptable way: victory
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He's referring to the cynical ploy Republicans used to respond to Murtha's war plan.
Cynical because it mirrored Murtha's own cynicism
Murtha never demanded "immediate withdrawal" - and both the Republican leadership and James Taranto know it. He advocated a scheduled withdrawal and re-deployment. The Republican House leadership, in their never-ended willingness to abuse power for selfish ends, then put up a phony resolution for "immediate withdrawal" in an attempt to embarrass him.
It didn't work.It didn't? Were I to call for immediate withdrawl and then called on it I would be embarassed. What's more, it was another base and unpatriotic Republican act.
They hijacked the US Congress and interrupted its work to score a phony propaganda point. Using our governmental institutions for partisan gain is yet another case of un-American Republicanism. Unpatriotic souls like Taranto are only too eager to provide them with cover.
Dja get that, folks? Voting to end the war, just as Murtha demanded "hijacked the US Congress"
This whole piece is an attempt to help the Republicans peddle their Death-For-Votes, Love-the-GOP But Hate-Our-Troops strategy. They shouldn't be allowed to get away with it. For too long, they've slandered those who disagree with them. Rank-and-file Republicans and conservatives who love their country really do think that Democrats are traitors - even if they're people of good will - because Taranto and his kind spout their deceptions without being challenged.
This isn't challenging them?
And please don't tell me Democrats and liberals are no different. They don't attack people personally. They honor every human being's sacrifice, every human being's loss, and every human being's point of view.
Even an armed and hostile enemy. They honor terrorists' sacrifices...
What they shouldn't honor is character assassination, or the use of our fighiting ( sic ) men and women as political footballs. That's not the way we're supposed to do things in this country.
The left should get some character so the right can assasinate it...
Conservatives and Republicans: They've got no plan for success in Iraq. It's called victoryThey can't even define it.Victory Still, they'd rather stay there indefinitely than hurt their own political chances, even as more Americans die and our national security is weakened.
Leftists can't even tell the truth within the body of their own polemics. Before this fella said the right "don't mind seeing them maimed and killed indefinitely if it helps their partisan political interests."
This is a perfect example of leftist/liberal logic. It cannot be understood unless it is posed as a direct contradiction often within the same thought. This is the very thing Taranto often points out in his column...
Maybe Taranto and his cynical friends can answer this question: Is "treason" too strong a word for that kind of behavior? Democrats and liberals shouldn't be afraid to ask.
But don't get mad if we ridicule the notion...
I believe that have reached a turning point strategically in Iraq and the left senses it. They must repudiate any military victory in Iraq because their pro-surrender base demands it, but I believe the left senses a terrible event is about to take place: victory. 
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