by Teh Puppet Mistress | I've been steadfastly ignoring this latest wingnut meme all week, but The Toot sees off the most recent attempt of wingnuts who miss blowing hard on the big bullshit horn about their superior superiority and want to feel right-eous and holler and bloviate about something. They need their fix of self-congratulatory self-righteousness.
So, things being what they are, they had to make something up.
From curv3ball, "And All I Got Was this Certificate of Participation...."
The headline that launched a thousand premature ejaculations of triumphalism:
“THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON”...
The follow up is at least somewhat more caveated:
Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good…There’s a little bit of violence here and there, but nothing that’s a threat to the general situation.
Those insolent pockets of violence still have the nettlesome habit of raining 300-400 Iraqi corpses, and 10-30 flag draped coffins, per month, on the eternally recurring victory parades marching through wingnuttia. Nevertheless, we are assured now of a victory that already resides in the past - as in, has been achieved.
curv3ball, being a Democrat, has some reservations.
Well, I’d feel more inclined (were it not for the aforementioned dampener of Iraqi and US corpses continuing to turn up all dead-like) to utter the word “win” if someone would define what exactly winning entails, as opposed to, say, losing.
What did we win? What were the goals achieved? Ridding Saddam of the WMD he didn’t have? Kicking al-Qaeda out of a country where they weren’t in until after we invaded? Weakening Iran? Inducing a chain reaction of democratic dominos that would spread throughout the region smothering terrorism under the weight of each block’s collapse? Facilitating the peace process? Lowering oil prices?...
Regardless, the cheerleaders clutching to threadbare and bloodspattered pom poms, scream into their megaphones ”Bush won”!
Perhaps.... On the other side of the ledger, the Iraqis and American citizens mostly lost.
So it depends on how you define “we” and “won.” But other than that, yeah.
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