The Anti-War Left Wants America to Lose

During the Vietnam War, the left used the My Lai incident to turn the tide of public opinion. The mistakes of a few became a burden on the entire military. As a result, the returning soldiers were literally and figuratively spit on as were the memories of those who died.

They tried this again during the Abu Ghraib scandal and continue to use that incident as a club against the military.

Now they have a new "scandal", the supposed use of chemical weapons against the enemy. Keep in mind, the chemical weapon they are using--as described in this previous post--is not banned by any treaty.

Here is a righteous resident at the HuffPo waxing indignant:

Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Barry Venable has confirmed to the BBC that white phosphorus was used as a weapon against the Iraqi residents of Fallujah last year. This is a direct reversal of the State Department's claim that it was used only for illumination.

Of course, Col. Venable claims that it was used as a weapon only against "enemy combatants" and not civilians.

So what. Whatever the intention, civilians and insurgents alike were very clearly burned alive by this nasty chemical weapon. And yes -- it is a chemical weapon when used offensively against people.

Rather than being a shining example -- the gold standard of honor and liberty in the world, we've rapidly become global demons armed with Texas six-shooters spewing flesh burning chemicals onto the people we're claiming to "liberate." But because our leaders wear snappy clothing and are impeccably groomed, we don't look like evil-doers and terrorists.

Ah, but the insinuation is that we are terrorists. Have the guts to complete that sentence Bobby boy.

Now we are "global demons armed with Texas six-shooters spewing flesh burning chemicals onto the people we're claiming to "liberate." A nice turn of phrase, that. He included Texas, because that signifies all that is bad in America, y'all got it?

In 1988, Saddam claimed the chemical attack on the Kurds in Halabja was intended for enemy combatants: Iraqi Kurds allied with Iran. And he did it using American chemical weapons which were deployed from American helicopters. State Department memos at the time urged U.S. officials to place the blame partly on the Iranians for the attack. It's all so eerily familiar.

Got that, they used "American chemical weapons" and dispersed the chemical weapons from "American helicopters". Maybe I'm mistaken because this hack just doesn't quite articulate his true feelings. I'll take a shot at what he really meant, he means to say that the Americans were at fault for Saddam gassing the Kurds in Halabja. Not only that, but that the evil Bush (41) administration tried to cover it up by blaming it on the Iranians.

Saddam's gassing of Halabja was one of the chief talking points from the White House in the lead-up to the current Iraq War. As were condemnations of Saddam's torture chambers at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. So now that we're both torturing Iraqis and using white phosphorus as a deadly chemical weapon against civilian populations, remind me again how our leaders are more righteous than our enemies?

As did Clinton, Albright and Cohen and the previous Bush administration. But you cannot compare white phosphorous to the agents that Saddam used and be intellectually honest. Again, notice how the actions of a few soldiers are an indictment of the whole military. He threw torture out as if it was a proven fact that we use torture as policy.

This is the state of the angry, looney left. They are in the position to piss on our military while simultaneously saying "we support the troops, but..."

I'm done with the niceties, this idiot's post is unpatriotic and even more so, un-American. As a former serviceman, I should be surprised that this moron had the gall to write this drivel. Sadly, I'm not surprised even a little.