I came across a new website today, The Truth Laid Bear, with a helpful auto-counter to keep people apprised of the TRUE effect of the war in Iraq:

Iraqis Tortured to Death Today By Saddam Hussein: 0

I scrolled down the archive page featuring this counter, and looked into the comments section. “Brendan” flatulated that the USA shouldn’t have gone into Iraq because it is morally inconsistent: Western help, according to him, assists other “monster” nations in their “careers of rape and torture,” and therefore (one supposes) we ought not stop Saddam’s sons from raping and torturing Iraqi children. Thankfully, a “Shannon Love” responded to this non-sequitur with the following:

Brendan: I think you’re right. The U.S. does support brutal regimes around the world. This all started in WWII when we gave material and moral support to the megacide [sic] Joseph Stalin in support of his war [against] Hitler even though at time he had already murder[ed] more of his own people than Hitler ever would.

We should have refused to sully ourselves. It is far more important to strike an uplifting moral poise [sic] than it is to try to salvage the most good from horrific situations and incur all the moral stain inherent in such real world actions.

We should have virtuously refused to provide any support to the Soviet Union until they converted themselves into a [...] perfect liberal-democracy. If that lead to a Nazi victory in Eurasia, well that was a consequence that the people of those lands would just have to deal with. Our moral purity was and is, far more important.

Pro-war, right-wing nut-jobs forget that perfection is in fact very easy to obtain. Moral compromises are never necessary. Honest people never make mistakes and for every apparently complex and potentially tragic foreign policy problem there is always a simple, easily implemented solution immediately obvious to those of refined intellect and morals.

When, oh when will the world learn?

Well said, ma’am!