"Perhaps the anti-war left in the West could take a break from the hysterics of protesting a minor war in Iraq..."

A minor war that has cost thousands of dead and wounded American troops, who knows how many Iraqi lives, and hundreds of billions of U.S. tax dollars (to be paid by our childen and their children and...)

It takes an hysterical mind divorced from all reality to see that as "minor."

Lee, hard though it is to see at this point when it's so close, history may well class it as a fairly minor war, at least based on the level of casualties.

Hell, the Russo-Japanese war is considered a minor war and it had a single battle with half a million casualties.

As for why the left is so wrought up over the war, that's simple - they see it as an opportunity to gain poltiical advantage. The death of innocents and promoting further chaos in the middle east means nothing to them if they can weaken the US and advance their interests.

dave

Ironically, it's the usurpers masquerading as 'conservatives' who have undermined the US most by halving the value of the dollar, leaving our successors with a trillion dollar debt, and carelessly discarded the US leadership position around the world with a bootless display of bragadoccio in a lost vanity war that has invited podunk countries with infantile satraps to openly defy us.

Ptooey!

All the socialists in the world couldn't have done more damage to the USA than these jokers that have been assiduously defended by their lackeys in the press on TV and on the internet, like several bozos we can all name on BC.

Aside from that, the Chinese will fail to control the internet, because the underlying design was to set users free, which is the exact opposite of monoliths like IBM, political parties, the US government and chinese bureaucrats. They seek to control people, but the internet will not allow any enduring control.

Right now technicians are planning and implementing the next step (not the stupid "web 2.0" which is nothing more than a commercial plan to introduce control points into a free system) which will involve Mesh Networking and Disseminated Data and many other interesting technologies, born out of the Free Software movement and dominated by people committed to making people free instead of prisoners of a monopoly.

"All the socialists in the world couldn't have done more damage to the USA than these jokers that have been assiduously defended by their lackeys in the press on TV and on the internet, like several bozos we can all name on BC."

When your argument is devoid of fact and reason, the best strategy is to resort to name-calling and ad hominem attacks.


One bozo.

Ironically, it's the usurpers masquerading as 'conservatives' who have undermined the US most by halving the value of the dollar,

To be fair they've only reduced it by about 30%.

leaving our successors with a trillion dollar debt,

Actually, the debt passed a trillion dollars in 1992.

and carelessly discarded the US leadership position around the world

I don't think the real leadership position is that hard to get rid of. It's based on something more substantial than the irritation of a bunch of self-appointed socialist opinion makers.

with a bootless display of bragadoccio in a lost vanity war that has invited podunk countries with infantile satraps to openly defy us.

Who's defying us right now, again? What are we trying to dictate to anyone that would prompt them to defiance?

Dave

Put your children in Iraq and then decide if it's a minor war. Some people find it easy to expend casualties when they are not really people.

It would be interesting to compare this calculated bit of political mooning by Bush with the other one currently in the news: the Congressional vote on the Armenian genocide.