....and Tinkerbell Dies......

Once again, Bill Maher manages to channel Bill Hicks and come up with a screed that pretty much perfectly sums up the The Right's lack of brains and The Left's corresponding lack of balls. His recent piece in Salon.com contains this choice paragraph:

"...As usual, we've been sucked into a phony controversy about who said what and how it hurt George W. Bush's feelings. Because when you hurt George W. Bush you hurt America's feelings, and when you hurt America's feelings, you hurt the troops. And when that happens, Tinkerbell's light goes out and she dies..."

Last week's congressional democratic capitulation to George Bush was essentially foreordained the moment Democratic Leadership sipped the "Support The Troops" kool-aid. Much like the 9/11 Kool-aid, this beverage is a powerful psycho-active toxic that leaves one bereft of will power and inclined to believe just about anything.

It is time to get past the notion that "the troops" are some sort of sacred victim and that the scoundrels of this administration have continued Carte Blanche to hide behind their sacrifice. The only meaningful way to "support the troops" is to bring them home.

Depending on how you look at it, the war in Iraq is either an obscene and meaningless war of choice, a naked resource grab by a brutal and materialistic empire, or a crusade to save western civilization. Those who believe the latter should spend this Memorial Day contemplating the wonders of The Creationist Museum. It is far past time they were permitted to continue shaping public policy.