Hunter over at Kos sums up my feelings on the Republican party’s war on the 60 percent of Americans opposed to the Iraq war perfectly:
No, after a blocking of every avenue of debate, after questioning the patriotism of every critic, this is now the Republican War, through and through. If you’re a Republican, you like this war just fine, and you don’t care how long it takes, how many American troops get killed, or how incompetently the war is run. If you’re a Republican, you think of the war as a vehicle of nationalist virtue, not to be questioned by the likes of fellow Americans who demand answers better than “everything is fine”. If you are a Republican, you meet the calls for an exit strategy with cries of cowardice. You meet calls for investigation into prewar failures with the brazen and shallow admonishment that anyone requiring accountability for failure does not adequately “support the troops”. It is raw nationalism, and raw partisanship, of the ugliest and most cowardly fashion.
