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In your Oval Office speech on Sunday, you specifically addressed those of us who “did not support my decision to send troops to Iraq.” You went on to request that we “not give in to despair” and “not give up on this fight for freedom.”
We want to clarify your misrepresentation of our position: We are not in “despair” (except at the thought of three more years of your administration), nor do we want to “give up on this fight for freedom.” On the contrary: we believe that now that we are in Iraq, we can’t leave until we clean up the mess you’ve made. We have to “win” this war, if for no other reason than we owe it to the poor, battered Iraqi people, who never attacked us and never threatened us, and are now as much the victims of your unresolved father issues and crass exploitation of 9/11 as they were of Saddam Hussein.
The beef we have with you, Mr. President, is that we don’t think you’re the man to do it. Since the inception of this misbegotten fiasco, you’ve proven yourself to be a colossally incompetent commander-in-chief, who didn’t miss an opportunity to bungle this war at every stage, and whose egregiously poor planning and mishandling of the war may have permanently scuttled any chance of victory we ever had. Considering your astonishing record of blunders, gaffs, mistakes, errors, botches, and failures, we have absolutely no faith in your ability to lead this effort to anything resembling “mission accomplished.” That’s why we voted for a horse-faced, “flip-flopping” gasbag in the last election. We wouldn’t trust you to handle a paper route, let alone a war.
Are we clear now?
Sincerely,
Those of Us Who May or May Not Have Supported Sending Troops To Iraq, But Definitely Didn’t Support You Sending Them
We want to clarify your misrepresentation of our position: We are not in “despair” (except at the thought of three more years of your administration), nor do we want to “give up on this fight for freedom.” On the contrary: we believe that now that we are in Iraq, we can’t leave until we clean up the mess you’ve made. We have to “win” this war, if for no other reason than we owe it to the poor, battered Iraqi people, who never attacked us and never threatened us, and are now as much the victims of your unresolved father issues and crass exploitation of 9/11 as they were of Saddam Hussein.
The beef we have with you, Mr. President, is that we don’t think you’re the man to do it. Since the inception of this misbegotten fiasco, you’ve proven yourself to be a colossally incompetent commander-in-chief, who didn’t miss an opportunity to bungle this war at every stage, and whose egregiously poor planning and mishandling of the war may have permanently scuttled any chance of victory we ever had. Considering your astonishing record of blunders, gaffs, mistakes, errors, botches, and failures, we have absolutely no faith in your ability to lead this effort to anything resembling “mission accomplished.” That’s why we voted for a horse-faced, “flip-flopping” gasbag in the last election. We wouldn’t trust you to handle a paper route, let alone a war.
Are we clear now?
Sincerely,
Those of Us Who May or May Not Have Supported Sending Troops To Iraq, But Definitely Didn’t Support You Sending Them
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