"George Z. Bush" wrote in message ...
BUFDRVR wrote:
I would have loved to hear your comments during Okinawa, or Gettysburg.
Some things are worth figthing and dying for, Peace in the Mid-East
(by way of Democracy) surely is worth it, isn't it?

Only if your political party is the one making the policy. This goes for
Republicans (guilty of such actions in '99) as well as Democrats. We've come
to a point in this nation when political parties take presedence over the
nation as a whole. There are Democrats that celebrate every time a US solider
is killed in Iraq.

Care to provide a name to go with your accusation? I don't know of any, and I'm
a Democrat. How come you know who they are and I don't?

I'm sure that there are as many Republicans who celebrate our casualties as
there are Democrats who do the same.

George Z.

Wesley Clark? The guy who screwed up and told Albright that it would
take only a "few days" of bombing to make Milosevic cave in, then
prognosticated that the assault on Baghdad was in dire straits because
it lacked sufficient combat power (only to see Baghdad fall within the
next two weeks), and is now running for President as a Democrat? Or
for that matter, you can flip on your TV news and watch any number of
current Democratic legislators (and a host of other presidential
pretenders) bemoan the situation in Iraq on a daily basis, trying to
turn it to their political benefit. You are a WWII vet--can you recall
many Republicans in that era railing against the war effort at every
turn while FDR was in the White House?

BUFFDRVR has made a valid point, and yes, he acknowledged that it cuts
both ways (he has therefore demonstrated a heck of a lot more lack of
bias in this regard than you have)--Republicans were only too glad to
point out the problems with the Kosovo operation as it unfolded,
though not to my recollection as pointedly or vociferously as we have
seen recently from the other side of the isle. Domestic political
objectives do seem to have eclipsed the older ideals of unity and
support for the troops (and if I hear one more Democratic senator
spend five minutes slamming the current situation in Iraq and our
alleged inadequacies, with his by-rote appended, "But of course I
support the *troops*!", I am going to retch).

Brooks