Hugh Hewitt

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[Brian H]

Actually, here from BlackFive.

[Jason]

Your son is an infantry officer, shipping out soon for Iraq. How do you feel about that?

FORMER BUSH "CHICKEN HAWK", ELIOT COHEN:
Pride, of course -- great pride. And fear. And an occasional burning in the gut, a flare of anger at empty pieties and lame excuses, at flip answers and a lack of urgency, at a failure to hold those at the top to the standards of accountability that the military system rightly imposes on subalterns.

It is a flicker of rage that two years into an insurgency, we still expose our troops in Humvees to the blasts of roadside bombs -- knowing that even the armored version of that humble successor to the Jeep is simply not designed for warfare along guerrilla-infested highways, while, at the same time, knowing that plenty of countries manufacture armored cars that are. It is disbelief at a manpower system that, following its prewar routines, ships soldiers off to war for a year or 15 months, giving them two weeks of leave at the end, when our British comrades, more experienced in these matters and wiser in pacing themselves, ship troops out for half that time, and give them an extra month on top of their regular leave after an operational deployment.

It is the sick feeling that churned inside me at least 18 months ago, when a glib and upbeat Pentagon bureaucrat assured me that the opposition in Iraq consisted of "5,000 bitter-enders and criminals," even after we had killed at least that many. It flames up when hearing about the veteran who in theory has a year between Iraq rotations, but in fact, because he transferred between units after returning from one tour, will go back to Iraq half a year later, and who, because of "stop-loss orders" involuntarily extending active duty tours, will find himself in combat nine months after his enlistment runs out. And all this because after 9/11, when so many Americans asked for nothing but an opportunity to serve, we did not expand our Army and Marine Corps when we could, even though we knew we would need more troops.

A variety of emotions wash over me as I reflect on our Iraq war: Disbelief at the length of time it took to call an insurgency by its name. Alarm at our continuing failure to promote at wartime speed the colonels and generals who have a talent for fighting it, while also failing to sweep aside those who do not. Incredulity at seeing decorations pinned on the chests and promotions on the shoulders of senior leaders -- both civilians and military -- who had the helm when things went badly wrong. Disdain for the general who thinks Job One is simply whacking the bad guys and who, ever conscious of public relations, cannot admit that American soldiers have tortured prisoners or, in panic, killed innocent civilians. Contempt for the ghoulish glee of some who think they were right in opposing the war, and for the blithe disregard of the bungles by some who think they were right in favoring it. A desire -- barely controlled -- to slap the highly educated fool who, having no soldier friends or family, once explained to me that mistakes happen in all wars, and that the casualties are not really all that high and that I really shouldn't get exercised about them.

There is a lot of talk these days about shaky public support for the war. That is not really the issue. Nor should cheerleading, as opposed to truth-telling, be our leaders' chief concern. If we fail in Iraq -- and I don't think we will -- it won't be because the American people lack heart, but because leaders and institutions have failed. Rather than fretting about support at home, let them show themselves dedicated to waging and winning a strange kind of war and describing it as it is, candidly and in detail. Then the American people will give them all the support they need. The scholar in me is not surprised when our leaders blunder, although the pundit in me is dismayed when they do. What the father in me expects from our leaders is, simply, the truth -- an end to happy talk and denials of error, and a seriousness equal to that of the men and women our country sends into the fight.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/08/AR2005070802303_2.html

http://www.geocities.com/tom_slouck/iraq/cohen_chickowitz.html

[Jason]

Here's a great conservative who really stands behind the notions of liberation, humanity and human rights:

http://www.nicedoggie.net/)

"SHUT THE FUCK UP, then, when we start carpet bombing at the NW tip of Africa and stop at the India-Pakistan border. (With, of course, the noted exception of a certain little country starting with "I" and ending with "L".)

Remember, "THERE ARE NO CIVILIANS" in this war."

What Would Jesus Do? He'd carpet bomb from Africa to Pakistan? Sounds more like Hitler to me, and you can read about 'evil liberals' want to detroy freedom on on this website, it's really great. Hooray for carpet bombing, let's kill civilians, what a great political argument. Sometimes I wonder why liberals are the demonized faction.

[captainkona]

Oh, just another Conservanoid Republican, Chickenhawk, scumbag blog.

Nothing to see here folks. Don't waste your time.
People are dying in AL, MS, and LA...Donate at the Red Cross!

Maybe Condi Rice will buy shoes for flood victims while she's shopping...
http://www.gawker.com/news/condoleezza-rice/index.php#breaking-condi-rice-spends-salary-on-shoes-123467

Perhaps the punks who run this faggot blog will have a moment of silence for the victims...Like CASTRO did...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1087684

Kinda sad, Repigs get outclassed by a Commie. What's this country come to?

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