Moral equivalency and the GOP

Every once in a while, I see Bush’s execrable poll numbers, and I think, “Maybe Americans are finally seeing the light. Maybe they’re getting tired of the bloodshed. Maybe they’re realising that the Iraq War was just a scam, devised by people who never served in the military. Maybe they’re getting smarter.”

Then I get an email like this from my sister.

Cindy Sheehan asked President Bush,
“Why did my son have to die in Iraq?”

Another mother asked President Kennedy,
“Why did my son have to die in VietNam?”

Another mother asked President Truman,
“Why did my son have to die in Korea?

Another mother asked President F.D. Roosevelt,
“Why did my son have to die at Iwo Jima?”

Another mother asked President W. Wilson,
“Why did my son have to die on the battlefield of France?”

Yet another mother asked President Lincoln,
“Why did my son have to die at Gettysburg?”

And yet another mother asked President G. Washington,
“Why did my son have to die near Valley Forge?”

Then long, long ago, a mother asked,
“Heavenly Father, why did my Son have to die on a cross outside of Jerusalem?”

The answers to all these are similar–
that others may have life and dwell in peace, happiness and freedom.

No I didn’t write this one…it was e-mailed to me with no author;
and I thought the magnitude and the simplicity were awesome…

And I realise, no, they’re not sick of it yet. It must go on a bit longer. The carnage must continue until the pile of bodies becomes impossible to ignore. When the economy grinds to a halt, when the military can no longer support the insane demends of the president, when the USA can no longer push itself upon the world because it has gone it alone one too many times, only then will the 37% wake up.

No author? I wouldn’t put my name on that either. Bush isn’t Washington, and he certainly isn’t God. He isn’t even Truman, though he would give Nixon a run for his money.

American soldiers are dying in Iraq because Bush hopelessly bungled the war effort.

And now for the morning report on how peeance and freeance are doing in Iraq:

Up to six car bombs have ripped through a Shi’ite area in east Baghdad, killing 46 people and wounding more than 200.

The apparently coordinated attacks on markets in Sadr City have raised fears sectarian reprisals could again plunge Iraq into civil war.

They happened while political leaders met to discuss forming a national unity government that might avert a bloodbath.

Oh, come on, people, turn those frowns upside down.

Meanwhile in Washington, President Bush expressed hope about the future of Iraq, saying he is optimistic that Iraqis will overcome the challenges they face.

Just believe harder, and it’ll work. Faith can do miracles. Keep the emails going. That is all.