Until recently, I thought the single most embarrassingly stupid event of the last decade's national security debates -- the kind that will make historians look back with slack-jawed amazement -- was the joint dissemination in the run-up to the war by the Bush administration and the American media of playing cards that featured all of the "Most Wanted" Iraqi Villains and their cartoon villain nicknames.
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If you weren't on board with all of that -- if you weren't hiding under your bed shaking when these cartoons were shown on the TV -- that meant that you were neither Tough nor Serious. Just as is true now, the Tough and Serious people were the ones who became frightened by the comic book villians.
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Now, of course, world class serious person Sen. Harry Reid, along with a few other dispsticks among the Democratic Senators, have joined in this golden shower.
Go, read. I'm tired of writing about this stuff. It's hard to summon up the outrage against these people. It's not like they're adults or anything.
But it must get awfully slick and pungent on the floor of the Senate on days like this.
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