John's C-Span open thread - turn it on, now

I have to weigh in. And rather than steal Rob's post, I figured I'd start a second.

The Republicans are pathetic. They don't understand the concept of failure. They don't understand the concept of incompetence. They don't understand the concept of making a mistake and then correcting your mistake. They want to keep this war going, no matter how disastrous, no matter how many of our soldiers are killed. They think the only way to win this war is to keep fighting. But here's the rub. Sometimes you don't win. Sometimes the war was a bad idea. And continuing to fight a bad war, continuing to fight a war that's was such a bad idea, and run so incompetently, continuing to fight it after it's become clear we've lost - that's just stupid. And it's even more stupid to continue that war simply because you know you're so screwed that you're afraid to stop.

It's simply pathetic that the Republicans controlling the Congress and the Republicans controlling the White House think the war in Iraq is a great success. They think we're winning. They want to send your sons and daughters to die in Iraq - if you're 40 years old and younger, they want to send YOU to die in Iraq - because THEY THINK WE'RE WINNING.

These people have no idea what they're doing. They have no qualms that they are sending Americans to their deaths. All they care about is saving face and never admitting a mistake. So if you start a war based on a lie, and it ends up a disaster, you don't admit your mistake and correct it. No, you just keep the war going, on and on and on, no matter how much it empowers the enemy, and not matter how much it destroys your own country, and the lives of so many young American men and women.

The Republicans are pathetic.