re: #112 Conservative Moonbat

Since you obviously didn’t read the linked article, here’s a short excerpt:

These people are very few in number, and should not be conflated with the “antiwar” movement as a whole. But observing “peace” rallies where Bush is decried far, far more passionately than Saddam — where, in fact, Saddam is barely mentioned at all — suggests that something not altogether different lurks beneath the surface among many others. Nick Kristof this week bemoaned the fact that “in some e-mail from fellow doves I detect hints of satisfaction that the U.S. is running into trouble in Iraq — as if hawks should be taught a lesson about the real world with the blood of young Americans.” (When you read Eric Alterman’s blog, and see him almost high-five every allied setback, you can see what Kristof is worrying about.)

Then last week, someone actually came out and said it. Columbia University professor Nicholas De Genova hoped at an “antiwar teach-in,” hosted by left-wing writer and historian Eric Foner, that there would be “a million Mogadishus” in this war. To translate: This guy wants to see a million young American troops subjected to war crimes, shot and mutilated, and paraded through the streets. No one in the crowd objected. “The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military,” he elaborated. And to loud cheers from an Ivy League college audience, he thundered, “If we really [believe] that this war is criminal … then we have to believe in the victory of the Iraqi people and the defeat of the U.S. war machine.”