Clay Evans compares Bush to Hitler (although he claims that he doesn't) and says we shouldn't support our troops. He suggests that the U.S. today is like Germany just prior to its invasion of Poland. This is a new low in anti-war distortion. The basis of this kind of idiocy is 1. that Bush wasn't elected and is, in effect, a dictator; 2. that the U.S. is bent of creating an overseas empire; and 3. that all we want is Iraq's oil. All three are too stupid to dignify with an answer. They are the equivalent to covering one's ears and yelling while throwing a tantrum. Nobody's going to reason with me.

A lot of these people used to say that Bill Clinton was our president and we owed respect to his office. Where'd that go? I've always thought that the anti-war position didn't add up, because it suggests that the way to avoid war is by becoming sheep and appeasers. But the vehemence and hatred in the arguments being made today go beyond anything I can remember since the 1960s. I don't think this is finding any resonance with modern young people, and that presages the decline of the left for at least another generation. If conservatives said anything like this about Tom Daschle or any other liberal, the left would go nuts accusing McCarthyism and censorship.