Remember when Howard Dean made his statement on a radio station about how we are losing the war in Iraq? The right was up in arms calling him a traitor. Pundits came out from everywhere on the right to try and discredit him.

Well here is something new for them to get up in arms over:

“I can tell you the main reason behind all our woes — it is America.” The New York Times reporter is quoting the complaint of a clothing merchant in a Sunni stronghold in Iraq. “Everything that is going on between Sunni and Shiites, the troublemaker in the middle is America.”

One can’t doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed. The same edition of the paper quotes a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Reuel Marc Gerecht backed the American intervention. He now speaks of the bombing of the especially sacred Shiite mosque in Samara and what that has precipitated in the way of revenge. He concludes that “The bombing has completely demolished” what was being attempted — to bring Sunnis into the defense and interior ministries.

Our mission has failed because Iraqi animosities have proved uncontainable by an invading army of 130,000 Americans. The great human reserves that call for civil life haven’t proved strong enough. No doubt they are latently there, but they have not been able to contend against the ice men who move about in the shadows with bombs and grenades and pistols.

The Iraqis we hear about are first indignant, and then infuriated, that Americans aren’t on the scene to protect them and to punish the aggressors. And so they join the clothing merchant who says that everything is the fault of the Americans.

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If you read that you would think it came from someone like Howard Dean or anyone on the left. Well if you do guess that then you are wrong. That article appears in the latest National Review and was authored by William Buckley Jr. himself.

Now that we have an ultra-conservative like Buckley saying Iraq is a failure are the Coulter’s and O’Reilly’s going to get up in arms and go after him? Most likely not. They will say his opinion is wrong but that is the great thing about America, we can air our opinions. It is these types of double standards that the right leads by which is an insult to not only our country but democracy as a whole.

Just look at last week when O’Reilly said  said we have to hand everything over now and get out of Iraq. He made the same comment that he has attacked guests on his show for making since this war started.

I am going to wait for the right to go after Buckley on this. I want to see the name calling start. They need to call him a “traitor” and “unpatriotic”, the same things they called Dean. Of course I won’t be holding my breath waiting on them to do it. They are nothing but two-faced loud mouths who redefine double standards and hypocrisy.