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The wingnuts have found another way to channel Ronald Reagan. Repeat and repeat
a phrase he uttered against the Soviet Union. The desperation drips from their
latest campaign. The only problem is that Reagan never launched preemptive war
or even fired a missile at his arch nemesis back then. Bush couldn't even wait
until the inspectors were through to get the first bomb in the air and troops
on the ground. In fact, Bush couldn't wait to put Osama behind him since he
couldn't catch him and get on to the next war. Not exactly Reaganesque by anyone's
standards.

Glenn
Greenwald has a very good point. What's the difference between the current
crop of escalation war chickenhawks and a bunch of high school cheerleaders?
Answer: not much, especially when you're got a bunch of wingnut bloggers involved.

The site is ham-handedly named “We
Win, They Lose.” Here's what's on the front page.

To: Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House Harry Reid, U.S. Senate Democrat Leader Congress has passed and President Bush has vetoed H.R. 1591, the Iraq Surrender Act of 2007. This legislation, which you worked to pass, sets a timetable for surrender. It pulls the rug out from under our troops. That is shameful and wrong. Your actions have already emboldened the enemy. Violent jihadists now know that the elected leadership of Congress would undermine the troops by holding their funding hostage to demands for surrender. This Congress would bring us back to the dark days of the 1970s, when the world doubted our staying power. Except only much worse. Withdraw in April 2008, and on May 1, Iraq becomes an unchecked den of terrorism at the heart of the Middle East — a new base for the same people that struck our homeland on September 11th. I stand with our troops. I stand for victory. I support the President's veto and will urge my representatives to vote to sustain it. There can be one and only one outcome in Iraq: We win, they lose.

But to put this all in perspective you have to consider who's leading the cheer.
None other than the Howdy Doody of failed senators, Bill Frist. Now you get it?

Here's the full signature
list of bloggers and others supporting the cheerleader approach to the Iraq
war. This would be hilarious if it weren't so stupid. More rhetoric like this
will only get more people killed. Who cares, right? Because Republicans are
fighting for their political lives.