Columnist Charley Reese is mad as hell over Iraq war.

[DinahMoeHum]

Link:
http://antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=1717

(snip)
Now we have nearly 500 dead Americans who died to protect the United States from weapons that don't exist. And more will die, and for what reason? So Halliburton and other big corporations can make a lot of money? So Israel can feel safer? So we can have permanent military bases in Iraq? So the president can strut about and call himself the Conqueror of Iraq? One thing you can be sure of: They won't die defending the United States, because Iraq is not now and never was a threat to the United States.

It's no wonder Bush avoids military funerals and has barred the press from the airport where our dead come home. It's no wonder he has clamped a lid of secrecy on the search for weapons of mass destruction. What he ought to do is write a letter of apology to the families of every dead and wounded soldier. That'll be the day.

I don't know about you, but I'm damned angry that the president took this country to war on false pretenses. He has now dreamed up all these other reasons for going to war, but he sold this war to Congress and to the American people on the basis that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
(snip)

much more...

Couldn't say things better myself.
What a f**king mess.

:nuke:

[Dudley_DUright]

1. and Charley wrote a column the other day

that damn near endorsed Howard Dean. I nearly fell out of my chair when I read it. I use to read Charley back when he was a paleoconservative columnist for the Orlando Sentinel. If Bush has pissed off Charley this badly, I think there is hope for 2004.

Read the column at:

http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20040114/index.php

[Martin Eden]

2. Jefferson Davis?

I like Resse's columns, including the column you provided the link to. However, I'm somewhat puzzled by one statement in that column:

<snip>
It's easy to be cynical about politics, but, folks, if you give up on politics, you are giving up on democracy. There are basically only two choices for choosing leaders — bullets or ballots. I much prefer ballots. There is not a candidate in the race who takes all the positions I would like to see a candidate take, but we have to live in the real world. I prefer the world of Jefferson Davis, but come November, neither he nor anyone remotely like him is going to be on the ballot.

So get involved and vote for the man you think is best. You young people ought to realize that my generation has pretty well screwed things up for you. It's time for youth to step up to the plate and take a swing. You certainly can't do worse than we have.
<end of column>

Does Reese long for the world of the ante bellun South, and/or the cause of the Confederacy?

[Alpharetta]

3. Reese makes lots of good points but....

I wouldn't want him setting my policy.

So take him for what he is: an agrarian-style angry conservative.