The other day I echoed a suggestion by Dave Lindorff that Democrats quit the party until the cowardly leadership gets serious about impeaching Bush and Cheney for their multiple crimes against the country, most particularly lying us into war.
I got a response from my suggestion from a fellow who calls himself 'warmonger,' who said: "That would be cool if all the Democrats quit and moved to France."
The name itself tells you most of what you'd want to know about the man --- or woman, I don't want to be sexist. Someone who loves war has a profound moral sickness. Even if the name is meant in jest, it is a sick joke.
Warmonger, in war, people die. That can sound so nice and simple, almost benign. We all die eventually. But in war, people --- men, women, children, babies --- are torn apart by bullets, blown apart by bombs, burned alive by napalm and white phosphorus, tortured, beheaded ... make your own list. The wounded lose eyes, arms, legs, hands and feet and will spend the rest of their lives, often brutally short, dealing with the consequences.
And most of the victims are innocent. In modern war, the warrior is at less risk than the civilians, who are killed at ratios of 10 to 100 times that of the soldiers.
And in the case of Iraq, what they are dying for is to enrich the Halliburtons, and oil to drive our SUVs.
If all us antiwar folks, Democrats and Republicans alike, were to leave for France, you would have a very interesting country, warmonger. I doubt even that you would want to live in it.
Posted by Deck at April 4, 2007 09:57 PM