Iraqi liberation tastes like crow to antiwar crowd

[Cocoa]

I hope it's ok to do this. This is from 3 months ago, it's the conservative Kathleen Parker's last column about Iraq, and she's gloating about it.

Since this column, nothing about Iraq except for one WMD column. Nothing about the disaster that Iraq has become. Her most recent one was about patriotism, but nothing about Iraq or the troops.

Here's the older, gloating one:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/kathleen/parker041403.asp

Iraqi liberation tastes like crow to antiwar crowd

What was that whimpering sound? Oh that. It's just the "Yes, but" crowd formerly known as the "antiwar pundits." Ignore them.

Saddam's statue had barely hit the ground in central Baghdad before America's armchair doomsayers began harrumphing a new caveat in which to couch this unseemly turn of events. One might almost think they didn't want Saddam to fall.

You couldn't help noticing the careful balance the antis tried to strike between reluctant admission and preachy admonition. The formula goes something like this: "Yes, we defeated Iraq, BUT . . . let's not get too carried away, it ain't over yet."

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[wtmusic]

1. No wonder she hasn't written anything in three months

she's too busy eating crow.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. To Ms. Parker and Mr. Hitchens:

"There's just no way that allowing the Frat Boy to continue butchering innocents and potentially threatening the rest of the world can be viewed as a morally superior position."

[Aristus]

3. Me pushing the plate of crow over to her:

"Here, I didn't order this. You want it? How about some A-1 to go with it? Some Tabasco? Sumthin' to kill the taste?"

[shirlden]

4. I sent this e-mail

Dear Ms. Parker,
I was just re- reading your op piece from the 4/14/03 JWR.

You said: " Still, the Bush-bashers have plenty of reason to wish for something less spectacular than a free and happy Iraq festooned with flowers and sloppy with kisses for trench-scented soldiers. It's hard to admit you were flat wrong."

I'm a certified Bush-basher and would happily accept your admission that you were flat wrong.

Sincerly
Shirl

[Cocoa]

5. ha ha ha!

Please share any response with us.

And don't take it personal if she doesn't respond. She's never responded to me. Then again, I'm not as polite as you are. :-)