"steve horan" <stevehoran2001@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:6b178197.0402122257.1ed9724c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I saw Dennis Miller's show tonight and, while
> interviewing Scott Ritter, he had a meltdown
> and started yelling at him.
That's quite an exaggeration, unless they showed a different version on
the
repeat, because I didn't see any meltdown.
> Ritter referred
> to the war in Iraq as "illegitimate" and Miller
> got on his high horse and had a cow - to mix my
> barnyard metaphors. He got very self-righteous
He was no more self-righteous than Ritter was, arguably less. Ritter
seems
to take any disagreement with himself very personally.
> about the 530 "boys and girls in uniform" who
> paid the ultimate price and seemed, IIRC, to be
> trying to get Ritter to retract that one word:
> "illegitimate". Ritter, to his credit, remained
> calm and said that he was honoring the troops
> by wanting to bring them home from an unjustified
> war. His argument was calm and cogent and all
> Miller could resort to was histrionics.
Right, except you've got it backwards. Ritter doesn't seem to have a clue
that using the same inflammatory rhetoric as people like Michael Moore and
Al Sharpton doesn't help his argument at all. No matter what your opinion
is on whether the war was justified in the first place, even Howard Dean
understands that pulling the troops out at this point would be a
catastrophic mistake that would make things even worse.
> This guy used to be a comedian and now he's
> hell bent on becoming another Bill O'Reilly.
> So sad.
Just because he doesn't agree with you?
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