== Oh Right, We're Still At War = By Mark Morford

[madokie]

How horrifying is it when Bush's unwinnable disaster becomes so dreary and forgettable?

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/05/16/notes051607.DTL&nl=fix

I think it was Keith Olbermann who said it first, who said yes wow that Virginia Tech shooting rampage was horrible and shocking and brutal and oh my God we lost a lot of really good, honest American kids and Something Should Be Done.

And maybe let's start with the wide-eyed gun-rights maniacs and the conservative pseudo-cowboys and those twitchy Second Amendment paranoids who somehow still think that we all must cling to our nasty little Glocks 'cuz gosh, what might happen if our own government turns on us and nobody has their little handgun to protect their kids from the tanks and the missiles and the heat-ray guns? Right.

But hey wait (Olbermann went on to say), then again, in the 10 days prior to that horrific shooting, didn't we also lose nearly exactly that same number of young people over in Iraq (well over 30) to even more brutal idiocy and insanity, to cluster bombs and insurgent shootings and gruesome death and a hugely inept, warmongering American president who is so violently unable to see just what kind of bland, lackluster evil he has wrought upon the planet that he is now on the verge of entering the record books as the Worst President in History?

And maybe, just maybe, given how we are still losing double-digit numbers of good, honest American bodies every week in Iraq, just as we have for the past four solid years, perhaps we should be equally -- if not perhaps quite a bit more -- appalled and disgusted and shocked that this "war" is still raging, nonstop, to the tune of 3,400 dead Americans and tens of thousands wounded and counting fast? ...

[cooolandrew]

1. To be fair the only issue they have left is hating liberals. I think sometimes...

... yep, the left is angry justifiably so but directing it and potential new voters is self defeating. Agree to disagree and the natural course of events should bring them over. Although Olberman is spot on to criticise the administration and long may he do so, whoever holds power.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Mark is right-on as usual. It is a bleeding, ugly monkey on our backs.