Plamegate and Iraqgate get the shaft: normenclature of scandals

[Urbane Guerrilla]

"...the suppression of why we went into Iraq"?

Sigh. The Left will never confess that it's always right, and a good and joyful thing, to take down tyrants, dictators, the undemocratic and antirepublican. Removing the totalitarian regime from any abilty to continue its oppressions of a people quite heartily sick of them will be the greatest, most marvelous thing we do in Iraq.

The Left's fondness for totalitarianism of any stripe has long been noted by the Center and the Right, who regard the Left as utterly stupid and perniciously crazed for that reason. Either is a reason to reject leftism utterly.

That the tyrants resist this with all the vigor at their command is simply to be expected; people will fight like mad dogs for power, especially if they see it slipping their grasp. We must take comfort in the understanding that a democracy is better than a dictatorship. Heck, raw red war is better than oppression under tyranny. It may sometimes be less comfortable to be sure, but in raw red war there lies the hope that something better than the tyranny it is being fought against will emerge. History does show this as a good possiblity.