Why I no longer back Bush's war (Toronto Sun)

[trof]

By John Derringer - cnews/Toronto Sun

I was wrong. It's that simple.
When the Bush administration announced its plan to invade Iraq early last year, I supported them. I thought, like so many millions of others did, that the American forces would be in and out of there before you could say Grenada.

I truly believed that Saddam would be toppled and a new government set up within a year, with minimal American casualties.

I also thought that in such a quick conflict, Bush could finish the job that his old man couldn't, and that it would send a message about American resolve that needed to be sent. The backing of countries like France, Russia and China means nothing to me in any conflict, and the fact that they, and the United Nations, were not involved was a non-factor.

The arrogance that seeps from the Bush White House is mind-numbing, and although most American polls show running Bush neck and neck with Democratic challenger John Kerry for this November's presidential election, I think that has a lot more to do with the anemic state of Kerry's campaign than it does with support for the incumbent. One of the many areas in which Bush has really lost my respect is with this ludicrous notion that if you're not behind the War in Iraq, you're soft on terrorism. The Deliverance extras living in Tennessee trailer parks may go for that one, but few others will.

http://canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/John_Derringer/2004//05/11/pf-454385.html

[trumad]

1. Obviously this Canadian doesn't know the power of Moron America

Kerry's not running an anemic campaign, he's running against an incumbant war time pres... Oh and BTW: JK's leading in almost every poll and he's starting to pull away.

[Octafish]

2. What trumad said. BTW did you see the comparison?

http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=7073&fcategory_desc=The%20Bush%20Crime%20Family

Show this to your Independent and Republican Friends.

They'll be glad you did.

[Ilsa]

5. Thank you, that is an excellent link! n/t

[rooboy]

3. Derringer can have a blindfold...

but otherwise he can get screwed as far as I'm concerned. That this was an ill-conceived adventure from the start was obvious to ANYONE who cared to look.

[Kinkistyle]

4. He regrets it because he thought it would be a cakewalk.

He feels bad for the soldiers at Abu Ghraib (not the poor prisoners) who were under so much pressure and stress that I guess they had to "resort" to torture and rape.

[SidDithers]

6. Derringer is the morning man on our Classic Rock station....

and would probably have a conservative talk radio show if he didn't like playing music. As it is, I can't listen to him because of all the snide comments and "right-wing" rants that get added to a decent musical line-up. The fact that his screed was published in the Sun (which is our equivalent to the NYPost, imo) shows from where he's coming.

He's in the minority of how Canadians feel about the war in Iraq (supporting it in the first place). However, the fact that he has turned against it is a good indication of how other mouth-breathers (on your side of the bordrer too) might start thinking.

Sid

[gula]

7. What a schmuck

"These soldiers are seeing their friends and fellow servicemen killed or maimed in the most cowardly ways imaginable" I guess he considers dropping cluster bombs heroic?

"How on earth can American soldiers continue to battle with an enemy who doesn't play by any rules at all?" It takes one to know one.

His whole drivel can be summed up as follows: Americans good, Arabs bad. What insight.