Post-Gazette Editorial (Katrina/Iraq)

Check this out.

In this editorial, The Post-Gazette says a few things that are sure to piss off any member of the true-American, god-fearing, flag-waving, "Dubya is the Bestest Pwesident ever!" crowd. It starts with this simple statement:

The stark needs at home revealed by the Katrina flooding disaster can and should serve as a determining reason for winding up the Iraq war now.

That about sums it up. Everything else are just the details. Oh but what details! For instance, there's this:

The 138,000 National Guard and other U.S. troops that are in Iraq, trying to assure security in Fallujah or even along the road from Baghdad to the airport, should have been in New Orleans, Mississippi and Alabama instead, providing relief, assuring the safety of rescue workers and deterring looters.

And this:

President Bush has already obtained $10.5 billion from the Congress for disaster relief and reconstruction and is requesting another $51.8 billion. The estimates for the total needed may rise to $150 billion. All of that is deficit spending, on top of the currently estimated $330 billion budget deficit.

But here's the knockout punch (a sort of rhetorical one-two):

Observers say that the reason that President Bush will not take that logical decision and bring the Iraq war to an end on the basis of the country's pressing domestic tragedy is because, to do so, he would have to admit tacitly that he made a mistake in the first place in attacking Iraq in 2003.

The Bush administration does not admit mistakes, even those such as making Michael Brown, who previously worked for the International Arabian Horse Association, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In the case of Iraq, every reason Mr. Bush has put forward for having attacked it -- weapons of mass destruction, an Iraq-al Qaida link, more oil for the United States, fighting the war on terrorism, bringing democracy to the Middle East -- has so far proved false.

See what I mean? The great defenders of Murika should have a field day on this one. How dare the P-G question the veracity of our glorious leader? How dare it question the noble cause?

Why does the P-G hate Murika?

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