Who said it?

[owlmoose]

"Iraq should be a lesson learned. We cannot ever again put American boots on the ground in a hostile Arab country. Iraq was an optional war. There will always be or there were other ways, I should say, of removing Saddam."

Go on, guess. Don't look behind the cut until you have.


Bill O'Reilly.

Now there is a sentiment I never expected to see.

The New Republic blog where I got this little tidbit goes on to compare this to Walter Cronkite declaring Vietnam a stalemate. Who knew that anyone would ever be comparing O'Reilly to Cronkite? Besides to say something like, "Boy, that Bill O'Reilly is sure no Walter Cronkite."

Comments

[auronlu.livejournal.com]

*sighs* It was an optional war TWICE. And yes, that is an ironic quote -- I was thinking McCain, maybe. No such luck.

*lights a candle for Lillian Shimer, BMC '90, outstanding ROTC Navy officer on the USS San Diego, who died of a mysterious and sudden ailment a few years after returning home from the first Persian Gulf war -- survived by a daughter who will never know her wonderful, wonderful mom -- one precious soul among many no longer with us*

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

It was an optional war TWICE

No argument with that. Protesting the first Gulf War was one of my first independent political acts.

I didn't know Lillian, but I remember hearing about her untimely death, and the reason for it. So tragic. And frustrating, that there are still no answers there.

Late, I know.

[(Anonymous)]

It's memorial day, 2007, almost a year after the original post. But I only found it today after googling "Lillian Shimer"

As her widowed husband, it's nice to know that other people still think of her. But I did want to clear up one detail: she had a son, not a daughter. He'll be 11 next month, and we're both the poorer for not having his mother around.