Reply #5: Here's my LTTE I've submitted regarding this very issue ...

[Lefty-Taylor]

in response to the ill-bred lout, right-wing nut columnist in The Oregonian who plays the liberals-want-Iraq-failure card:

Don't Insult War Opponents

No doubt I’m not the only Oregonian reader who noticed just who David Reinhard’s
sources were in his assertion that Iraq is not plunging into civil war ("Are we
losing an unwinnnable, unjustified war?" 3/19/06). Next time, he wants to
advance such an implausible argument he’d be better off to quote someone other
than his two ultra-right-wing sources – Ralph Peters on realclearpolitics.com
and Victor Davis Hanson with The Hoover Institution on National Review Online.
But then, more moderate voices with that view are nearly impossible to come by.

What’s more, these were the same sort of mouthpieces who helped propagate the
lies that led to this immoral – and yes, likely “unwinnable” – war. And of
course, it’s civil war. The two major factions fighting it and killing innocents
everyday have held centuries-long ethnic and religious differences. Many of us
who opposed the “shock-and-awe” bombings and bloodbath that followed expected
this would happen.

Finally, despite Mr. Reinhard’s supposition that war opponents relish Iraq-war
failures, most of wish for a successful peace. It’s an insult for him to suggest
otherwise.