We did not choose wisely

[Demo_Chris]

111. Of course, and it's the same way with parties and positions, but Obama is speaking to...

The WORLD. And they get it. Really, they do. Perhaps somewhat because they don't live here, but perhaps also because the so often experience the horrifying alternative to this dream. It's a matter of perspective and scale. Like, for example, going to the emergency room with insurance you were only able to purchase thanks to the Obamacare bill you opposed. The hypocrite in that example would be me, in case you were wondering.

Bigger example. Here on DU we rage about Iraq and Bush's illegal war and all that. You practically cannot mention Iraq without also mentioning the hundreds of thousand of civilians maimed and killed, and the total devastation we left behind. It was a complete horror show and all right thinking people know it.

All right thinking people HERE. But the people who aught to be the angriest, the Iraqi people who suffered the most, are not by and large sharpening their knives and masturbating over the thought of dead Americans. It's not that they are a thousand times more compassionate than we are, but that they have a different perspective. Hussein was truly EVIL. That's the part the party loyalists don't get. Bush might be a smirking piece of shit (and I truly think he was) but he can smirk all the way to his grave knowing he at least managed to kill that twisted motherfucker Hussein. The chemo might have been horrid, but the cancer is dead and the Iraqi people can hope for a better tomorrow. That's the dream we forget here.

Anyway, got to go. Have a good one.