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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Tuesday, July 16, 2002
Momma's Boy Jonah Goldberg sniffs at trifles like evidentiary debate and human decency over at Town Hall, saying we should intensify our war on Iraq. After allowing that Baghdad, which wasn't all that mighty when we first sacked it and is even less so after a decade of starvation and bombing, doesn't stand in the way of our greatness, Goldberg says - doing irremediable violence to an otherwise fine verb - he "thinks" we "should go to war with Iraq even if that risks innocent Iraqi - and American - lives."
For the moment, he doesn't share his reason for casually offering others up for possible slaughter, saying the WSJ and others have done so "eloquently." Should his obscene exhortations see official acceptance, will he maintain his reticence before the families of the war dead?