Are not all decent human beings anti war?
I just had to share this short-but-sweet post with you by Amitai Etzioni, over at TPM Cafe:
I got a letter from The Heritage Foundation. It asked me if am "fed up" with the anti war left, anti war media, ...and the other anti war people, groups and institutions? If yes, I can send them a check. I wonder. Are not all decent human beings anti war? You can believe that there were WMD in Iraq, that when we had no choice to prevent an attack we had to invade Iraq or some other such poppycock--but still fed up with war. I bet that the person who wrote this send-me-your-bucks letter was never in combat. I was for 2 and half years. Those who fight hate war more than any one else. To love our troops is to be fed up with war.
A read of the
Heritage Foundation website is revealing. On their front page, they're brewing up wingnut talking points on a range of "issues": how the media is overblowing oil price figures because really they're not all that high in real dollar terms, attempted increases in "entitlement" spending in Congress, "sensible proposals" for immigration... immigration is up there a lot. Immigration and Iran. What is China doing about Iran? How can we get the UN to get off their butts about Iran?
Not once on the crowded homepage does the Heritage Foundation talk about Iraq. The word Iraq is found nowhere.