It's going to be extremely stupid and dishonest, potentially very upsetting to thinking people, but I'm not going to let it get to me.
This old column from Kathleen Parker will help me endure this. She wrote it after statue day, but she got everything wrong, especially the antiwar people. Then she didn't write anything about Iraq for many months.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/kathleen/parker1.asp
What was that whimpering sound? Oh that. It's just the "Yes, but" crowd formerly known as the "antiwar pundits." Ignore them.
Saddam's statue had barely hit the ground in central Baghdad before America's armchair doomsayers began harrumphing a new caveat in which to couch this unseemly turn of events. One might almost think they didn't want Saddam to fall.
You couldn't help noticing the careful balance the antis tried to strike between reluctant admission and preachy admonition. The formula goes something like this: "Yes, we defeated Iraq, BUT . . . let's not get too carried away, it ain't over yet."
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Still, the Bush-bashers have plenty of reason to wish for something less spectacular than a free and happy Iraq festooned with flowers and sloppy with kisses for trench-scented soldiers. It's hard to admit you were flat wrong.
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No doubt the antis and naysayers, who seem to favor any old status quo to the frightening prospect of upheaval, will lurch again from whimpering near-death to unleash new protestations. Little matter. They have proven themselves irrelevant to today's reality, which includes a freed Iraqi people for whom the operative conjunctive phrase isn't "Yes, but" but "Yes, and . . ."
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