Posted on 10/19/2004 8:32:02 AM PDT by quidnunc
Apologize for fighting an unwinable war. Apologize for failing to win that unwinable war before the All-Star break. Apologize for fighting the insurgents too aggressively, and apologize for showing them too much mercy. Apologize for forcing democracy and freedom upon the mere 85% of Iraqis who desire them. Apologize for ignoring the thoughtful and nuanced objections of some civilian-bombing terrorists in the Sunni Triangle. Apologize for not sending enough troops and apologize for taking too many troops away from their homes and families. Apologize for…oh, apologize for something. It really doesn't matter what. Just admit that you were wrong about something important. It's ever so much easier to defeat your arguments when you concede them to us first.
Apologize, George W. Bush, because there's something delicious about watching righteous men eat their words. You won't be so quick to dismiss nuances and overtones and penumbras when you have a shame-faced apology sticking in your craw. And when we've neutralized your moralizing tone, it will be vastly easier to neutralize the popular, we're-the-good-guys morality that you propound. Oh, we could take the high road, of course, and praise an apology as a dignified gesture that will help to heal the bitter divisions in our society. But we won't. Your apology will be reduced to a lurid sound-bite on some vicious DNC advertisement that mocks your confident faith and uncompromising principles. And let's not even think about how America's enemies will use your apology to undermine your credibility. Get used to the smell of your apology, George W. Bush. It will be rubbed your nose until the day you die.
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yawn.........yawn
Barf Alert??
read it. it is sarcastic, and shows why Bush should not apologize.
He's on our side...using hyperbole to make his point.
This is tongue-in-cheek.
Apologize, George W. Bush, although demands for apologies amount to nothing more than a petulant demand for respect -- a respect that, in this case, we have not earned. For all of our whining and nitpicking and breast-beating, we have no better idea of how to resolve the Iraqi situation. John Kerry has no better idea. The French and Germans have no better idea. We dislike your style and we question your motives but -- despite all your shortcomings -- we can do no better. We accuse you of arrogance because you will not listen to us, but we have nothing to say. We accuse you of failing to obtain legitimacy for the war from other countries, but they have none to give. We accuse you of many things, because your vision for Iraq is indirectly a terrible accusation against our own fecklessness and folly.
Apologize, George W. Bush, even though the mistakes are ours.
Do you suppose just maybe it might just conceivably be a good idea to actually read the article before commenting on it?
Why a barf alert! This is basically telling the MSM and the Dems to 'stuff it' with the apology stuff.
clever
You should read it all. It's a sarcastic article on the left that keeps demanding apologies.
Your post yesterday prepared me to process this today. Enjoy.
This is an hilarious piece! Well done!!!
You bet it's good! The last line is a clincher:
"Apologize, George W. Bush, even though the mistakes are ours."
Good post, q. Well done article. I wonder how many readers won't get it...
Yep. It's good. Thanks for the ping!
Read the whole article. It's great! It really sticks it GWB's critics! Of course most of them won't get it.
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