Press needs to nail candidates down on Freeper "nuke 'em" strategy.

[hansolsen]

In talking to Bush supporters around town I get the impression they are just as disgusted as I am about the mess in Iraq, but they have two camps on what to do about it. I am pleasantly surprised to learn that many local Shrub supporters are now openly saying, "end it, bring the boys home, fuck Iraq". But then there is the other camp:

A good many war supporters have a plan B for what to do next in Iraq -- "nuke em". Or as one told me, "turn the sand to glass". I shudder when I hear that kind of talk, and flash back to the Vietnam era, because the same line of reasoning kept the war going for years.

War supporters who know the war isn't going well put great stock in escalating the violence to such high levels the enemy will simply be destroyed, vaporized, made to disappear. They hold on to that image and continue to believe the war can be won by increased firepower.

Here is what you and I know, that they do not know, or will not admit to themselves: We aren't going to "nuke em". We are not going to escalate the violence to the point of killing every would be terrorist. That is not possible, not practical, and, of course, not ethical. It is immoral.

I raise all this in the hopes some enterprising journalist will ask both Bush and Kerry what there plan B is for further escalating the use of full American firepower in Iraq. It would be helpful to get both men on the record that "nuking our way out of Iraq, is not a viable exit strategy".

Just a thought.

[Catfight]

1. Bush was quoted ad saying, "Fuck 'em, fuck Saddam." That

apparently is the mantra of the Republicans, if they can't 'think' they just start swearing. My eyes open every day to their ignorance and how Americans can look beyond this system being turned into a mad mans quest for power. History DOES repeat itself.

[Gyre]

2. How about an honest response like

"You're a disgusting piece of human filth and you shouldn't have the right to occupy the space you do, let alone vote." ?

I've gotten that at work, and that's been my response.

Gyre

[hansolsen]

3. Oh, face to face, I can deal with that kind of voter. I'm taling about a

for the campaign to undercut a whole class of Bush supporters who hold this view. It would be good for Fox news to have to shsow Bush answering a question along the lines -- "will you ever escalate the violence in Iraq to include using nuclear weapons?"

Bush would be forced to say no, thus undercutting one of the pet arguments of his most avid supporters.

[Kingshakabobo]

4. Isn't it nice to hear that "nuke em" response

from some nit wit who, ten minutes ago, was repeating the mantra (regarding Saddam): he gassed the Kurds, he killed thousands of civilians, he used weapons of mass destruction.