Karl Rove loses it

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Some people (Dick Durbin *cough*cough*) mainly seem to oppose wars when the opposing party is in power. Odd how that works.

What about Senate Republicans during Kosovo? They weren't too supportive.

A very different situation.  How would our national security be negatively affected had we not gone into Kosovo?

Actually, given that some of the separatist groups in Kosovo had links to al Qaeda, we may have been better off by not going into Kosovo.

But our troops were in danger then, as Republicans like to point out these days to Democrats criticizing the war now.

You have a point, but the two wars are still clearly very different.  In Kosovo, we were fighting a real military force, not insurgents or terrorists.  The insurgents and terrorists in Iraq very obviously benefit from criticism of the war.  It's not clear that the Serbian military benefited at all from criticism here at home.  Also, note that Republicans had enough courage and honesty to oppose intervention in Kosovo before the fact, while many Democrats voted to support the invasion of Iraq and then decided to flip-flop afterwards.

Once again, we should draw a distinction between the liberals that Rove criticized and the Democrats in Congress.  Many liberals are true pacifists who oppose most all use of military force.  That is a legitimate philosophy, but that doesn't mean they can't be criticized.  I have a lot more respect for a pacifist than I do for many of the Democrats, who blindly followed Clinton on his military adventures but only supported Bush when war was popular and they were up for reelection.

Nah, its not like the facts about Iraq & the "threat" the posessed changed or anything.....

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You have a point, but the two wars are still clearly very different. In Kosovo, we were fighting a real military force, not insurgents or terrorists. The insurgents and terrorists in Iraq very obviously benefit from criticism of the war.

Yes, pointing out how Bush screwed up gives them more weapons and explosives. Quite strange how those words can translate into materials

The terrorist don't have a shortage of weapons and explosives.  The limiting quantity is willing "martyrs".  To see the effect of criticism of the war, you need look no further than the recruitment materials used to produce new martyrs.  How many suicide bombers made their decision based on distorted reports about Abu Ghraib or Korans being flushed at Gitmo?