Reply #26: And I also ask YOU what I've asked elsewhere: how many lives is your wait and see faith worth?

[Exiled in America]

I want an answer to this question.

For all of you who have done nothing but apologize for democrats in congress at every turn - who defended their failure to stick to their guns on troop withdraw, who refuse to put impeachment on the table - how many soliders lives is it worth?

Is your son or daughter serving in combat duty in Iraq?

Are you?

I want you to stand before the mothers of dead or mutilated sons and daughters who have died since this congress refused to defund this war and demand that troops come home and explain to them how "its all strategy" and how the democratic congress is doing such a good job.

I want you to tell those mothers that their dead son was "just the cost of doing business." I want you to tell those mothers that their dead daughter was "necessary to keep our power dry for when it quote, 'really matters.'

Then -

I want you to get on a plane, and I want you to fly to Iraq. And I want you to visit the families of some of the tens of thousands of Iraqi dead and explain to them why "these things take time." I want you to sit their at the graves of the slaughtered and rattle off a list of all the amazing things this democratic congress has accomplished.

....and if you aren't willing to do those things, then I really don't feel that your opinion has any legitimacy. And I think you ought to have to answer the question, how many lives is a "conservative" (meaning play it safe, take things slow, wait and see, try not to rock the boat too much) approach to the war and national public policy worth?

To me, this is the equation missing in the discussion. We know that Republicans and this administration and displayed blatant disregard for the cost in human lives of their policies. But I what about the blatant disregard for the cost in human lives coming from Democrats unwilling to take a stronger stand? What about the blatant disregard of those who defend them?

I think these questions deserve and answer.