The Grudge

"I would hope the right would at least be concerned over the damage being done to the American military by this war. Morale, my ass. Excuse me, but our government doesn't even seem to be able to pay these people on time. Not to mention stretching them past the breaking point in Iraq, leaving them without adequate mental care when they come home, endlessly extending their tours, bribing them to re-up, and so forth and so on. Then, of course, something like Haditha happens, and they all get a black eye out of it.

I think it's time the antiwar side in this country started using a few threats of its own -- specifically, about who's going to take the blame for this when it's over. Forget the liberal tradition of forgiveness. I say, hold this grudge."

- Molly Ivins

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Here's a naughty joke:

Q: What is Irish Alzheimer's?
A: Where you forget everything but the grudge.

Liberals, progressives and moderates (yes, and even those True Conservatives who have not sold their souls to the Bombs-n-Jesus extremist douchebags) all need to remember this war. Never forget it. Nurse that grudge and start yelling at all the right wingers who have led us into it, who excoriate anyone who disagrees with them as traitors.

Nuremberg-style war crimes trials might be a good idea for some of the principals in this sorry, tawdry rape of our morality, our military, our economy and our civil liberties.

Never forget!

Never again!