According to the latest numbers from Iraq Body Count, a website that “maintains and updates the world’s only independent and comprehensive public database of media-reported civilian deaths in Iraq that have resulted from the 2003 military intervention by the USA and its allies,” between 56,640 and 62,363 Iraqi civilians have died since the American invasion. And these figures do not include the 3140 Americans who have, according to antiwar.com, died in the conflict. Call us sniveling, lily-livered, bleeding heart liberals, but we think every single senator who voted in 2002 to authorize military action in Iraq should be booted forever from public life, including that phony Beltway prima donna Hillary Clinton who, in cahoots with many others, including Senator John Kerry, helped send thousands to their graves. Clinton and Kerry especially should be tied to a post in the village square, stripped and lashed till blood forms in glistening pools at their pedicured toes. They knew the vote was wrong, knew they’d be ruining forever thousands of lives, knew Iraq had no September 11th connection, but voted yes anyway. They did it because they wanted to be president and because they could.
Now Clinton has devised an elaborate campaign strategy to avoid apologizing for her vote to kill Iraqi and American children. In Dover, N.H., she told and audience:
If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or has said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from.
Like nearly everything else she’s said since getting elected to the Senate, the words are cruel because (a) they callously disregard the consequences of her vote and (b) they assume, perhaps rightly, that American voters, Republicans and Democrats, are so brain-dead, so incapable of empathy, so brainwashed by American Idol, NPR, evangelical fervor, anti-sad drugs, and non-stop lattes and sex, that style — the pretense of caring and intelligence — is a billion times more meaningful than the notion that all life is sacred.