It occurs to me that the lefty Dems are against the suppression of Goddamn Insane for one reason and one reason only: If Bush successfully suppresses the Butcher, the Dems lose the House, the Senate, and the White House for at least the next decade.
I can’t imagine any other reason for the panic on the left at this point. They’ll try to stop Bush any way they can because they know his success is their loss. Even if their success means Saddam gets the Bomb. Nothing counts anymore for the left but their own personal victory. The rest of the country can go hang for all they care; if Bush provided video proof that Saddam was buggering little boys, they’d likely excuse it on the grounds of lifestyle enablement or some other lefty-mouth idiocy.
The left is losing, if in fact it hasn’t already lost. It no longer has any moral authority.
A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)