Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Oh, Nostalga
I was reading my usual cannon of weblogs today when I came upon this delicious little post off Glen Reynolds's Instapundit
If you want to see a nice collection of pre-war predictions from the anti-war scene, read through the whole article. Some of these people actually thought that anywhere between 40,000-100,000 people would die. Many thought that nuclear bombs would be dropped, and mass chaos would spread. Well, now that the war has gone MUCH better than that, they would rather make a even less convincing case about how the war is going terribly wrong. In Vietnam, the number of soldiers who died on one bloody day would significanly outpace the number of American casualties that this war has dealt out in the last 3 years. The number of Iraqi civilian deaths is dwarfed compared to the number that Sadam would kill in one of his fits of Genocide (i believe one of them went up to around 30,000 people). Most that have died in this war are not civilians, but terrorists and Baathist soldiers. The enemy.
In a related story, my campus is now deluged with sidewalk grafiti including slogans like "Pax","Peace Now","Stop the War!","No More Killing!","Bush Lies!", etc. This in addition to the campus being littered with plastic green soldiers with cute little anti-war facts glued to the bottom of them (Pollution? Littering?). If i were so motivated i would love to start a coaliton of people to go out and correct their scrawlings to reflect some more accurate data.
But i'm lazy, and i go to college. And these people just don't deserve my time.
Update: I forgot to link to this article off Soxblog earlier. If you want another slap in the face of these antiwar communists we are dealing with, then take a gander at this. ¶ 7:20 PM
If you want to see a nice collection of pre-war predictions from the anti-war scene, read through the whole article. Some of these people actually thought that anywhere between 40,000-100,000 people would die. Many thought that nuclear bombs would be dropped, and mass chaos would spread. Well, now that the war has gone MUCH better than that, they would rather make a even less convincing case about how the war is going terribly wrong. In Vietnam, the number of soldiers who died on one bloody day would significanly outpace the number of American casualties that this war has dealt out in the last 3 years. The number of Iraqi civilian deaths is dwarfed compared to the number that Sadam would kill in one of his fits of Genocide (i believe one of them went up to around 30,000 people). Most that have died in this war are not civilians, but terrorists and Baathist soldiers. The enemy.
In a related story, my campus is now deluged with sidewalk grafiti including slogans like "Pax","Peace Now","Stop the War!","No More Killing!","Bush Lies!", etc. This in addition to the campus being littered with plastic green soldiers with cute little anti-war facts glued to the bottom of them (Pollution? Littering?). If i were so motivated i would love to start a coaliton of people to go out and correct their scrawlings to reflect some more accurate data.
But i'm lazy, and i go to college. And these people just don't deserve my time.
Update: I forgot to link to this article off Soxblog earlier. If you want another slap in the face of these antiwar communists we are dealing with, then take a gander at this. ¶ 7:20 PM
