Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[StephanieVanbryce]

.War Is a Conservative Entitlement Program..


...."..Some months ago, I heard someone seated at the lunch counter at a local diner argue that Saddam Hussein "had been thumbing his nose at the United Nations for 12 years." Wow! That’s a serious offense. Or is it? It sounds to me like Saddam may have been auditioning for a prime time speech at the last Republican National Convention. But think about this: Here was, to all appearances at least, an average Joe American, most likely not a member of the Council of Foreign Relations or the faculty at Harvard. Yet he was more willing to commit American armed forces to enforce United Nations resolutions than the United Nations was. Is that the Bush legacy?

Here’s another thing about arguing with the supporters of the Iraq War, which, by the way, is not good for your blood pressure. If you ask them straight out, they will admit that Iraq was not behind the 9/11 attacks. But it’s not long before they start arguing as though just the opposite were true: "They took out two of our buildings!" Yeah, but you just admitted Iraq didn’t do that.

"I don’t care! We had 9-11!"

Okay, let’s see now. The folks who attacked us on 9-11 were Arabs from the Middle East. Iraq is in the Middle East and it’s populated primarily by Arabs. Close enough for government work.

"I don’t care! We had 9-11!"

That means I guess that we are entitled to attack and invade and occupy wherever we want, because, aw, hell, it’s Bush’s planet, anyway. (The Bush theme song: "It’s my planet and I’ll bomb where I want to…"). Bush’s warmongering is not without its compassionate side, so in addition to more troops for Iraq, the Great Decider has decided we need to spend $1 billion on a jobs program for Iraq. And the liberals thought Bush wanted to destroy liberalism. Hell, he just wants to export and "outsource" it.

Indeed, the whole Bush war-making operation is an expression of a couple of features of liberalism that conservatives have been scoffing at for decades. One is the entitlement mentality. Let’s face it folks, war has become the conservatives’ favorite entitlement program. We are entitled to a war of our own choosing. Why? Because we were attacked on 9-11. (Besides, isn’t good for the old economy?)



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