I don't usually pick on letters to the editor because it's kind of shooting low-hanging fruit in a barrel, which a) isn't very sporting, and b) you can't even eat the fruit because it's all full of buckshot.
But this one is such a perfect distillation of how the 27 percenters think that I couldn't resist:
Once again, the Pelosi/Reid Democratic Party has demonstrated that when times get tough, they run and hide behind the skirts of a pullout date. [Note the standard association of the Democratic Party with femininity (Pelosi, skirts) and cowardice (run and hide)--these being, in their minds, the opposite of some notion of 'manliness' that is associated with the manly manly Republican Party and its super-manly President, who is totally not gay. Or a girl. These people have what are politely referred to as 'issues'.]
The reason for this war in Iraq is obviously to tame a barbaric and nondemocratic Middle East, or some country such as Iran is going to drop a nuclear device. [How many different kinds of magical thinking does this sentence contain? From a fictitious 'reason' for the war to the notion (unbound by the constraints of physical possibility) that we can 'tame' the Middle East to the bizarre leap of logic in which failure at this imaginary and impossible project causes Iran to drop a Big One it doesn't yet have, every single element in this sentence is a defiant repudiation of reality as we know it. With, of course, a little racism thrown in.]
Some sort of democracy in Iraq will tame those urges, but these people cannot do it alone. [What urges? Why, those barbaric and nondemocratic urges that come naturally to those Middle Eastern types.] I refuse to be a part of a nation's policy that will lead to the slaughter of thousands more Iraqis. [No wingnut rant about Iraq is complete without an attempt to seize the appearance of the moral high ground with a pretense of humanitarian concern for people one has elsewhere labeled 'barbaric'. Which, I guess, would in a perverse way make concern for their welfare that much more laudable (hey, it's easy to have humanitarian concern for people who aren't barbaric), if the concern were anything more than a pro forma nod to the rapidly vanishing constraints of polite discourse.]
Although a large group of our citizens oppose this war, this is one case in which the populous [And yes, there it is: the laughable typo you find in every wingnut rant. I'm just a little disappointed this guy didn't slam the Democrats for their 'hypocracy'.] is just plain wrong because it is listening to the defeatist preachings of left America. [Ah, there it is: Defeatist! I was beginning to wonder when he would throw that one in.]
If the world is ruled by Pax Americana, believe me, it will be a better place. [Sure...once we're done taming the barbaric urges of the Middle East, and we go on to tame the urges of Africa and Latin America and Asia and, hell, Europe too, the world will be totally better! Also, the world will be better if everyone has a pony. That would be so great.] Am I mad? You bet I am. ['Mad' is one way to put it.] A pox on all the liberals of this country. [For my less knowledgeable readers, that's a more educated-sounding way of saying 'Liberals Suck!']
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