Yes, how evil that “liberal” media is. It fired anti-war commentators (Phil Donahue), and hired pro-war commentators (Michael Savage), suggested to us all that supporting the war was the “patriotic” thing to do, and offered non-stop propaganda in favor of the war back in 2002-2003.

The left doesn’t hate America or the troops. They may hate George Bush and Dick Cheney- and may even think Petraeus has been brought into the fold just to keep the war going. But that’s a different story.

I still think Marlowe may be a closet dittohead.

We are having repeated discussions about excessive partisnahip, but the arguments are made by employing excessive partisanship
That just raises the anger up another notch.

That’s like pouring salt on a wound.
Not helpful.

All that would come as a surprise to the many conservatives who now (better late that never?)
concede that ‘mistakes’ were made.
And btw, calling these disasterous decisions and inexcusable lapses of judgment ‘mistakes’ is like calling Katrina an irritating draft.

Maybe the liberal press created the whole war out of illusions, and it never actually happened?
I sure would be glad to wake up from this nightmare, in that case,

Marlowe- come clean- are you a closet talk radio junkie???? Deep down don’t you get it that this is what the right wants you to believe?

Democrats and the liberal media have attacked Bush and the United States.

Notice the part I highlighted. How many really attacked the United States? Bush, yes. Policies of his administration, yes. But the numbers who were really attacking the United States are minuscule. We all need to remember to watch the size of the brush we use.

For example, you may notice that no airliner ads ever talk about their safety records, or criticize other airlines. If they were to do so, it would undermine the faith of everyone in flying.

During the Clinton era the GOP hit him with everything in the book. Yes, he was slick Willy for sure, and yes, he is a faithless character…but they damaged the presidency in their desire to damage him. In the Bush era, a time of war, the Democrats did the same.

One can still see the Michael Moore lie from Fahrenheit 911 about Bush letting bin Laden’s family leave because of the Bush family’s conspiracy with bin Laden…even after Bush critic Richard Clarke declared he had done so.

Democrats and the liberal media have attacked Bush and the United States. The NYT revealed secrets of the government’s monitoring of AQ financial transactions that even the Times has conceded were fully legal…I doubt they would have done so were a Democrat in the White House.

Poisoning the well of public trust in institutions…by both Democrats and Republicans.

Al queda must have enjoyed watching us turn on each other and probably loved watching politicians so easily manipulate the populace by using fear.

Why should anyone in the U.S. feel comfortable with the polticial situation when the elected leaders just refuse to deal with immigration, crime, education, traffic, or even the lack of accountability of civil servants.

It isn’t 9/11 that changed as, Think of how WWII, with its horrendous loses, rationing, etc etc..served to lift national confidence. The attack at Pearl Harbor didn”t destory our spirit. Even though there were some controversial measures taken as a result (the internment of Japanese-Americans). the country didn’t lose its basic sense of who we are, what we stand for or our national unity.

We lost our confidence because of how 9/11 was handled, not just in Iraq, but at home. The country was deliberately split between the godd guys and the bad guys along party lines, and that split has by now become an abyss. A house divided devotes its time to infighting, always a morale destoying enterprise.

The icing on the cake is that this cataclysm comes at a time of economic turmoit.

It’ll be miracle if we ever recover.