What Sucks About Our Country Today

Is the same thing that sucked about our country when the whole Iraq thing started up five years ago. Petreaus makes his report to Congress. Any reasonable minded person who cares should be eager to hear it and listen to it and evaluate it. Instead, we have hecklers show up before the meeting and moveon.org running a controversial character assassination in the NYTimes before the report was issued. Why do I hate these organizations and groups? Look at the tactics - designed not to listen or to think. They're designed to silence, interrupt, and impede. They are the equivalent of the person who plugs his ears and sings "Lalalalalalala," so they can't hear the other person make a point.

We liberals and democrats let these people speak on our behalf because they aren't George Bush...because they call themselves liberal. These people are "liberal" because they like being in the "liberal" gang. Don't for a second think it comes from a reasoned understanding of what it means to be liberal American or because they stand for liberal values.

I admit that I may let my anger towards these groups get the better of me. Maybe it led me to not being skeptical enough about how the Bush Admin was handling Iraq, particularly in 2004/2005. But I always took it as a sign of fundamental weakness of the "liberal" position that they were unable to articulate why Iraq was/is a bad idea without tacitly accepting these people as part of the anti-war "team." A strong anti-war position would not need the support of these crazies would actually worry about their support as opposed to accepting it.