The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(01-21-2020, 01:35 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-20-2020, 11:23 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I don't know what you mean by liberals blaming our troops for what Al Qaeda and Iranian militias were doing.

The so called liberals (blue hippie age boomers/silents) resorted/ regressed to their evil ways of old by demonizing our troops during the Iraq War like they did during the Vietnam War.

What do you mean? Left or Right, Boomers hated Saddam Hussein, a murderous tyrant in the "Nazi-fascist" style. If we were divided about the War in Vietnam, we were not so divided about Saddam Hussein, a serial mass murderer and military adventurer of the worst kind. In the First Gulf War, about the only liberals opposed to the war were strict pacifists. Aside perhaps for them, we practically all saw our returning soldiers as heroes.

In the second, even if we thought Dubya [note well -- Dubya is a Boomer] had lied or bungled his way into the war, few liberals shed any tears about Saddam Hussein being hanged for crimes against humanity. Even if we disliked the war we saw our returning troops more as heroes than as "baby-killers" [unfortunate appelation for Vietnam-war vets who did as they were told to do in a severly-bungled war].

If we liberals demonized anyone, then it was Saddam Hussein -- or as I often called him Satan Hussein -- so that we could avoid confusing him with the far more benign King Hussein of Jordan. On the Left? Most Americans on the Left agreed in 1990 with Mikhail Gorbachev that it was completely acceptable to drive him out of Kuwait... and of course demand that missiles capable of reaching the Soviet Union be destroyed. Surely you forgot that part of the story. Missiles in Iraq were capable of reaching Volgograd as well as Tel Aviv. Shared interests create some strange partnerships in history.