Guest:

from Dec 19 col. in Washington Post

"Can it be that trying to see the other guy's side simply takes too much of our time and energy? Sometimes I suspect that the desire to savage rather than convince an opponent stems from the nagging suspicion that just maybe we are on the wrong side of the logic. I mean, if you are convinced that your position is the correct one, why wouldn't you want to examine it and explain it in a way that might win a convert or two?"

Ummm, we did that. Teribus ignored what we said, and continues the same ol' song and dance about how a reluctant Dubya had to be dragged into a war with Iraq because the public was all clamouring for it and the Democrats were howling for Saddam's head on a pike (really! Teribus is really trying to sell us these horsepotatoes...).   So now it's time to savage Teribus thoroughly, and call him all sorts of mean names. But, dear Guest, don't worry about widdle Teribus's feelings ... he doesn't listen to us, and even if he did, he lives in a parallel universe where the PNAC is the Peaceful Nuns Advancing Christianity, where Dubya is some wise but thoughtfully reflective reluctant to use big bombs in a campaign benightedly called "Tranquility and Inspiration", where 2150 dead U.S. soldiers and a heckuvalot more dead Iraqis -- as well as the assorted Bulgarians, Poles, Brits, and so on -- is a good thing, and where black is white and down is up ... so that we're actually singing the highest praises for Teribus here in a Dubyaish kind of way....

Hope you understand.

Cheers,