Liberals do not really oppose the Iraq War
I had fun on Blog Talk Radio this morning on the First Edition of A Newt One's Blogging in Hi Def Live, see direct audio link below. One of the topics we covered is what liberals think about the Iraq War. I said on the program that liberals are not opposed to War in Iraq, per se, but simply because that war does not advance their agenda. That if Bush had said we are going to attack Iraq and we would sell the oil to fund Universal Health Care that no liberal would then be opposed to the war.
I would like to expand more on that thought here.
I believe liberals and leftists do not oppose war because they fear the loss of our soldiers' lives or hate violence or worry about innocent civilians being killed or because war is stupid. Let's think about this.
Leftists, liberals, defeatists, appeasers, whatever we call them, pretend to care about the loss of American lives in Iraq. But if they care so much about our soldiers and have so much compassion for them why does Code Pink picket VA hospitals with signs that mock their sacrifice with messages such as "why isn't war a war crime?" Is that showing compassion for the troops, telling men who have lost arms and legs that they have participated in a war crime? What kind of animals are these people?
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