Unlike many other liberal bloggers, I'm more upset by the first part of Mitt Romney's farewell sentence than the last part: "And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be part of aiding a surrender to terror." I mean yeah, it's horrendous that this doofus doesn't realize we surrendered to terror the minute Bush did pretty much everything bin Laden wanted him to do, from curtailing Americans' freedom to withdrawing from Saudi Arabia, and the biggest "terror" being concocted now (and really for the past 6 or so years) is internal to our own country, coming pretty much from the radical reactionaires in power -- which means a Democratic presidential win would actually mean and end to the surrender, or a victory over terror.
No, what I really resent is this "time of war" crap. The Democrats do it too. Saying we must or must not do this or that because we're in a "time of war" is like the old joke about the guy who murdered his parents then threw himself on the mercy of the court on the basis that he was an orphan. This war wasn't thrust upon us. We invaded another country, one that had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks of September 11. If we're at war, it's a war of our own making. And some of us were warning from the very beginning that the people in power would be using the "we're at war" excuse to take away more and more of our rights and freedoms. I just wish the Democrats weren't buying into this, particularly since at least one of them seems very keen on ending this horrid "time of war" that we started.
No, what I really resent is this "time of war" crap. The Democrats do it too. Saying we must or must not do this or that because we're in a "time of war" is like the old joke about the guy who murdered his parents then threw himself on the mercy of the court on the basis that he was an orphan. This war wasn't thrust upon us. We invaded another country, one that had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks of September 11. If we're at war, it's a war of our own making. And some of us were warning from the very beginning that the people in power would be using the "we're at war" excuse to take away more and more of our rights and freedoms. I just wish the Democrats weren't buying into this, particularly since at least one of them seems very keen on ending this horrid "time of war" that we started.
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