I just went through this thread and stopped dead.

Yada, Yada Yada…you are truly the enemy within

Congratulations Pat - you are now officially a Pod Person.

If you refute that the White House has cynically and consistently used 9/11 for it's own political ends, that statement puts the lie to it.   You and Dale are both willing participants in Bush’s war on Americans.   If you truly believe that Liberals and Democrats want to see our boys come home in body bags, I hope you enlist – I’ll await your zippered corpses with a smile on my face.

I am so pissed off  at the whole divide and conquer strategy I can’t form the words to fully vent or express my rage.    The truth is that this administration has fucked up royally – Iraq is going to shit because these men have lied and botched up at every turn and we are all paying the price.  No shiny object that Karl Rove throws across our collective field of vision will change that fact, not now, not ever.    

The most eloquent piece I’ve read concerning Rove’s shiny object is below – It comes from Jesus’ General – a satire site.  The author stepped out from behind his Nom de Web to address Rove’s comments from his own perspective.  The links are his

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I'm seething with anger over Rove's assertion that people like you and I want our soldiers to come home in bodybags. Such a statement is unforgivable. It would not matter if it was a mistake, an unfortunate phrase spoken in anger. It would still be despicable.

It appears, however, that it was something more than loose words uttered at a weak moment: it's part of a calculated strategy to turn those of us who opposed the war into scapegoats for its failure. It's reminiscent of the scapegoating of Jews by German nationalists after WWW I. This new Bush strategy transcends being merely despicable; it is evil.

When you're the father of two beautiful daughters, your house becomes a gathering place for young men. That was certainly the case when my daughters were in high school. We were lucky, most of them were good kids. I spent quite a bit of time with them and got to know them very well.

Now they're coming home from war. The all American boy with a heart of gold talks of his hate for "hajis" and wishes we could nuke the place. The class clown sits in his room all day staring at the Cartoon Channel while self medicating with pot and booze. The nice liberal Jewish boy who melted my wife's yenta heart tells us in a dispassionate, far-away monotone that "killing those animals was like stepping on ants." Our "son" screams at night.

My heart breaks for these boys we adopted in their teenage years. They've lost their souls. And for what?

War does this to people. That's why it should never be entered into unless there is no other alternative. That wasn't the case for this war. As far as I can tell, we invaded Iraq because Bush and the necons wanted to be remembered as great men like Roosevelt or Lincoln, or perhaps more accurately, Augustus. It's there in the subtext of PNAC papers for all to see. The oil is just gravy. That's evil.