The Left Makes A Lot Of Mistakes! We Fuck Up Big Time!

[DistressedAmerican]

Oh yes ladies and gents,

The left makes mistakes. Tons of them in fact. This news will not come as a shock to most of you . We make predictions that do not come true. We believe news that sounds good to us. We are gullible as hell at times.

However, unlike the right wing, we do not make policy on these predictions and rosy scenarios. We do not send young men and women to kill and die over our prognostications. No false report about the administration from any media outlet has resulted in bombing the shit out of any foreign country (although a few false reports FOR the administration sure helped).

When we blow it, we are usually motivated by compassion (the real kind not the Dubya version) and good will toward others. When the right blows it, they are usually motivated by greed and self interest.

That is what separates our mistakes from theirs, motive and practical results.

Their mistakes, bad intelligence, etc. kill tens of thousands. Ours just mess with our credibility. As they have none left themselves, the right should not take too much solace in that.

Come November the voters will remember whose mistakes, willingness to believe the most optimistic predictions and all around gullibility have cost this country roughly 2,500 American service people's lives, the intact bodies of tens of thousands more, 320 billion dollars and our country's standing in the world.

Nothing in Truth Out or anywhere else in the past five years begins to compare with administration statements like this:

18 Sep 2002
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tells the House Armed Services Commitee: " has amassed large clandestine stocks of biological weapons... including anthrax and botulism toxin and possibly smallpox. His regime has amassed large clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons, including VX and sarin and mustard gas... has at this moment stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons."

So laugh all you want right wingers. I'll put our list of mistakes up against yours any day of the freaking week.

[EFerrari]

1. We only mess with our credibility because we have some

to mess with in the first place.

I don't see Bill Clinton, or any Democrat for that matter, so hated at home AND abroad that they have to travel with freaking mercs to make sure they don't get hurt.

There's nothing that brings outrage to the surface like constant LYING. And Junior is now a prisoner of his lies, just as all his cronies are -- in or out of office.

'Way to go, Thugs!

[DistressedAmerican]

5. It is a joke.

Hell, they couldn't even tall Maliki that he was coming. I guess we do not trust the new government in Iraq to keep the shrub safe and secure. Apparetnly we don't trust them with secrets either.

[Swamp Rat]

2. So far, my mistakes have only harmed me.

I won't go jumping off cliffs on Sugarloaf at Alta anymore! :D

BANZAI!!!!!

[BlooInBloo]

3. We need better than "we're better than republicans", imo....

... opinions on that will vary, naturally...

[DistressedAmerican]

8. I'm With You.

Some substance from our side would go a very long way!

You just have to look back to the "Anybody But Bush" days. Not quite enough.

[OneBlueSky]

4. good point . . . and well said . . . n/t

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[aikoaiko]

6. Well, there was Rwanda where we let people slice and dice

while we pursued diplomacy.

Mistakes of ommission can really suck just as bad as acts of commission.

At least we apologized for that one.

[DistressedAmerican]

7. You Are Right There.

It was our Sudan. Repugnant that it was ever allowed to happen. The apology has always rung awfully hollow to me on that one. I'm sure the victims were not too impressed with it.

It was actually a total failure of the kind of compassion and concern for your fellow man that usually motivates the left.

[DistressedAmerican]

9. Kicker