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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Why can't Rush Limbaugh and Hanson and Diane and Slave and you just admit that Dingell didn't say what you all are attacking him for? Why do you need to keep attacking him? In the middle of a war, with Islamo-fascist terrorists trying to kill us, why do you all spend so much time villifying honorable Americans for no good reason? Why do you care more about trashing political enemies than about fighting the war on terror?
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Against my better judgment, sanity, and the interests of my billable hours, I went and read the link.
Ty -- while I may agree with you about the Repub penchant for attacking and blaming and finger-pointing -- essentially, fighting their political opponents rather than fighting the country's military opponents -- I cannot agree with you on Dingell. His statement was anemic, to say the least. I confess to having skimmed over the loooooong part, but if there is something in there that identifies Hezbollah as the terrorist, the aggressor, the bastards who use Lebanese as human shields, you haven't identified it. The rest of his statement did cast Israel and Hezbollah as equally at fault, and equally bad actors.
One reason I've been so acid-filled in these Israel discussions is my concern that my brethren on the left do just this. Let us never forget who the terrorists here are.
And, let us never forget that our country suffers when people refuse to criticize members of their own party. See, e.g., Iraq.
