re: #41 Killgore Trout

I don’t recall but that’s possible. My opposition to the Iraq war was pretty different than most liberals. Things like the Downing Street Memo and conspiracy theories about wars for Israel or simplistic and childish theories about getting revenge for his daddy had nothing to do with my opposition to the war.

That is a pretty inaccurate generalization. I think that the memo was reflective of a real problem - but the war for Israel or revenge for daddy had nothing to do with my opposition either.

My opposition was based, basically, on an irresponsible discounting of risk that was based on a very poor analytical process - in fact an analytical process that deliberately and systematically undermined any conflicting data because it ran in contrast to a preconceived ideological and political agenda (as reflected in PNAC documents).

It is precisely your conflation of different opposition, and the lumping of it all into the “moonbat” category that I’m pointing to here. I saw that all over the rightwing in the lead up to the invasion, and it was ubiquitous at this very site.

Parroting righting memes is not the same thing as holding the left wing accountable.