Bear Baiting

A comment to my post George W. Bush Proudly Presents: "Endless Terror War" from one of our winger friends, BearFacts:

"Tell us again how you wish that Saddam would be back in power. Tell us that the US should retreat back home and fight terrorism in our own backyard. Tell us how we need to be sensitive to their position and how we must try and understand them. Tell us how we can contain, appease, concede and negotiate with them."

Okay.

• I wish that Saddam would be back in power--actually I wish George H. Bush were back in power, you know, the sane one--but at least when Saddam was in power he was contained and Al Quaida was not using his country as a theme park for blowing up American troops. Yes, Saddam killed his own, but so do all the dictators America has done business with (when it suited us) under the table. Remember Reagan? Reagan loved Saddam. Ah, Republicans, such fairweather friends...

• The US should retreat back home and fight terrorism in our own backyard Afghanistan, with coalition forces that want to support us, whose citizenry won't resent us (and we won't set up reasons for them to harbor terrorists).

• We need to be sensitive to their position and how we must try and understand them, especially understanding how in the thousands of years of nomadic Arab tradition NOT ONE occupying force has been successful in holding their land for any reason. I guess the Israeli/Palestinian conflict hasn't been enough of a lesson? But hell, what good is history anyway when we all know it's revised by the losers...remember when we tried this in VietNam and it was soooo succesful?

• We can contain, appease, concede and negotiate with them, on some issues (like getting our troops the hell off of their lands everywhere). I mean, when have we ever just done what they asked--leave--to see if hey--that will help? Remember life when Arabs hadn't made us targets? Before we decided we HAD to support the Israeli occupation? Remember when we kept our dicks in our pants? No Arab terrorist bombed our country BECAUSE WE HADN'T PISSED ARABS OFF! Remember America selling arms to Osama to fight Russians? He loved us then. Ah terrorists, such fairweather friends...
  

Sure, my responses are sarcastic and simplistic, but so were his comments. I guess as long as Rethugs are going to be accusatory assholes I'll have to meet their attacks with like ammunition (but these stones and sticks are so weak).