Who Can Really Say?

Procrastinations

I've been characteristically procrastinating mulling over how and what to post more broadly about the issues separating the candidates in this election, but Jonah Goldberg just made half the job that much easier.

I'm not saying there are no good arguments against the war. I am saying that many of you don't care about the war. If Bill Clinton or Al Gore had conducted this war, you would be weeping joyously about Iraqi children going to school and women registering to vote. If this war had been successful rather than hard, John Kerry would be boasting today about how he supported it — much as he did every time it looked like the polls were moving in that direction. You may have forgotten Kerry's anti-Dean gloating when Saddam was captured, but many of us haven't. He would be saying the lack of WMDs are irrelevant and that Bush's lies were mistakes. And that's the point. I don't care if you hate George W. Bush; it's not like I love the guy. And I don't care if you opposed the war from day one. What disgusts me are those people who say toppling Saddam and fighting the terror war on their turf rather than ours is a mistake, not because these are bad ideas, but merely because your vanity cannot tolerate the notion that George W. Bush is right or that George W. Bush's rightness might cost John Kerry the election. [Emphasis added.]

Seriously, (especially you Graxnable), read it all.

And I can only add, given Goldberg's dissection of the debate on the War, why should John Kerry be trusted with a) completing the work to be done in Iraq and b) figuring out what to do next?

Free bottle of Grey Goose to Vodkapundit.

Posted by Peter at October 12, 2004 07:15 PM