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Hey there, hi there, ho there. Kid Nasty here! I had this idea: Since some bloggers and columnists inspire me to better arguments on the Politics forums, why shouldn't I share some choice excerpts with my Right-Wing crew?

First up, Orson Scott Card, current reigning king of Sci-Fi

The truly baffling thing is that everyone is speaking about the invasion of Iraq as a mistake that needs to be blamed on someone.

The truth is that it was an astonishingly quick and relatively bloodless military campaign -- partly because so few of the Iraqi soldiers and leaders made any attempt to defend the regime of Saddam Hussein.

And the occupation -- of a country with a Sunni minority that fears democracy because it will put the Shi'ites of the south into ascendancy -- has actually gone surprisingly well, despite the mistakes we made early on.

While guerrilla and terrorist activities have taken a toll of our soldiers and of Iraqi civilians, they have never received any widespread public support. Most Iraqi citizens either tolerated or supported the American occupation as a necessary stage before returning to self-government.

And when people make much of the fact that more of our soldiers have been killed during the occupation than during the campaign, that is only because the campaign caused such an astonishingly low number of casualties among American troops.

If the initial invasion of Iraq had cost us the expected level of casualties, then the occupation would not have cost us more American lives.

It is only because of the propaganda that we have been pounded with during the occupation that the American people are actually coming to believe that it was somehow a mistake to invade Iraq.

Let's see: We ran the cleanest military campaign in history, with the fewest civilian casualties relative to the size of the armies involved. We toppled a dictator who was killing thousands of his own people a year and terrorizing the rest. We removed the possibility of Saddam giving gas, bio-weapons, or nukes to terrorist who might then use them against us -- or our friends, allies, or France.

And President Bush's administration handled it so deftly that the surrounding nations remained relatively quiescent, instead of joining in Osama's anti-American jihad.

So there were mistakes -- by intelligence services and occupation planners before the war, and by administrators and the military during the occupation.

Please show me one campaign in history that had no mistakes. Usually the mistakes cost many thousands of lives, if not outright defeat.

The astonishing thing about the Iraqi campaign is that it is perhaps the closest thing to a flawless war that we have ever conducted -- and I include the troubled occupation of Iraq in that characterization.

Even our mistakes and moral lapses have been trumpeted by us with mea culpas that no other conqueror in history has ever bothered with.

I'm fed up with the attempt to blame somebody for a military campaign that by any rational historical measure was an utter triumph.

Democrats in California are teaching all of America just how humorless they are.

Supporters of President Bush are supposed to grin and bear it when Michael Moore and Al Franken and other Hollywood "humorists" savagely slander him. But when Governor Schwarzenneger quotes an old Saturday Night Live sketch, calling obstructionists in the state legislature "girly-men," it doesn't occur to Democrats to merely shake their heads and say, "Oh, that silly Austrian."

No, they're full of outrage, demanding apologies.

And why should Schwarzenneger apologize?

Oh, because his remark was "homophobic."

That tells you exactly what the word "homophobic" means: nothing at all. It's simply an ugly word hurled at anybody who opposes the extremist social agenda in America.

Notice that nobody ever called the "Hans and Franz" Saturday Night Live sketch homophobic. Apparently it only becomes homophobic when a Republican quotes it. Even if the Republican is the person who was the original target mocked by the sketch.

Even if he's the most socially "liberal" Republican holding a governor's chair in America today.

Speaking of apologies, I expect that any minute now we'll hear a chorus of apologies from the Left for their having constantly called President Bush a liar because in his 2003 State of the Union address he said that Hussein was trying to buy uranium in Africa.

Turns out that it's the guy who called Bush a liar who was the liar. Oh, wait, excuse me, he was a "misspeaker," not a liar, because only supporters of the war are liars; opponents who get the facts wrong merely made innocent mistakes.

The fact remains: Bush's intelligence sources were right. Hussein tried to buy uranium from Niger. Just like he said.

I'm holding my breath waiting for those apologies.

Holding. Holding.

The Left doesn't actually care about truth. I mean, look at how they keep pounding on the 2000 election as having been "stolen." The only people trying to overturn the outcome were the Democrats. They didn't care about an honest vote in Florida. They only cared about picking up a few extra votes in heavily Democratic districts.

Don't forget that the same Democrats tried to get the courts to erase the votes of Florida's overseas servicemen on technicalities -- while claiming they wanted "every vote to count."

And these people call Bush a liar?

Yet even now, Kerry is making a big deal about sending out teams of lawyers to watch over the 2004 election, preparing to file court actions to demand recounts wherever they can find some "irregularity."

Translated into English, that means "wherever the vote is close enough and the state courts are sympathetic enough that election results can be thrown out or added to until the correct outcome is achieved."

And I'll be adding more stuff whenever I find it. Feel free to post your own Inspiring Right-Wing Blogger Quotes. I think it would be good for everybody.

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Don't believe anything you read on this web page, or, for that matter, anything you hear on The Neal Boortz Show, unless it is consistent with what you already know to be true, or unless you have taken the time to research the matter to prove its accuracy to your satisfaction. This is known as "doing your homework."

I personally like this blog, but my personal favorite at the moment is Orson Scott Card's weekly column at http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/.