Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…

Bamboozled

On this, the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war (aka “The Great 1,827 Day And Counting War”), I cede this space to my friends from the Republican party, who are much smarter than any of us pansyass lefties. They must be taken seriously, for they are the fierce and mighty warrior class:

“Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof—the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.”
—George W. Bush, 10/7/02
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“We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.”
—Dick Cheney, 3/16/03
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“There’s a certain amount of pop psychology in America that the Shia can’t get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There’s almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq’s always been very secular.”
—Bill Kristol, 4/1/03
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It’s amazing that more than two weeks into the liberation of Iraq—as residents in Basra are cheering British forces and Americans occupy Baghdad’s airport and Saddam Hussein’s main presidential palace—the antiwar crowd is still spinning a doomsday scenario. But it’s getting harder and harder to take seriously the claim that freeing Iraq will make it harder to win the war on terrorism. Indeed, there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary. [...] Who said war never solved anything?
—Brendan Miniter, The Wall Street Journal, 4/8/03
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“The only people who think this wasn’t a victory are Upper Westside liberals.”
—Charles Krauthammer, 4/19/03
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Ted Koppel: [Y]ou’re not suggesting that the rebuilding of Iraq is going to be done for $1.7 billion?
Andrew Natsios [Agency for International Development]: Well, in terms of the American taxpayer’s contribution, I do. This is it for the U.S.
—4/23/03
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[Liberals] can’t deny that President Bush has won his two wars, and won them resoundingly.
—Paul Mirengoff, Powerline, 4/26/03
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“The three-week swing through Iraq has utterly shattered skeptics’ complaints.”
—Tony Snow, Fox News, 4/27/03

And from the man who claims his judgment qualifies him to be Commander-in-Chief:

“I believe that the success will be fairly easy.” (9/24/02)
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“We’re not going to have a bloodletting of trading American bodies for Iraqi bodies.” (9/29/02)
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“We will win this conflict. We will win it easily.” (1/22/03)
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“[T]here’s no doubt in my mind, once these people are gone, that we will be welcomed as liberators.” (3/24/03)
—Senator John McCain

Meanwhile, liberals are shrill. And Cheers and Jeers starts in There’s Moreville… [Swoosh!!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!!]

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