George McGovern, Still Amazingly Wrong After All These Years

Some of you might remember George McGovern. He was the politician whose ideas for America were so wildly out of sync with the voters that Richard Nixon beat him in the second-worst drubbing ever in the history of the country. Well, he’s decided to pop up his head and proclaim, with great solemnity, that only now will his conscience allow him to call for the impeachment of George Bush.

To say that his op-ed is laughable would be an understatement. It’s embarrassing that someone of his experience and apparent intelligence would put him name to something so shoddy.

It didn’t take long for a couple very smart writers to demolish it entirely.

Jonathan Adler points out a few places where McGovern embellished history just a little bit. There goes his credibility.

Don Surber picks up the big hammer and completely pulverizes McGovern’s nonsense. Here’s just a sample, though you must read the whole thing.

1. “The dominant commitment of the administration has been a murderous, illegal, nonsensical war against Iraq.”

Wrong: Killing enemy combatants is not murder.
Wrong: The war was authorized by a Democratic Senate, a Republican House and the United Nations.
Wrong: The liberation of 24 million people is not nonsensical.

I’ll also point out that, since Saddam Hussein was in violation of the cease-fire agreement that paused the Gulf War, we could have resumed hostilities at any time. Legally.

Here’s some more Surber-y goodness.

3. “Another shocking perversion has been the shipping of prisoners scooped off the streets of Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other countries without benefit of our time-tested laws of habeas corpus.”

Wrong: Battlefields are not “streets.” Never before in the history of America have enemy combatants been given habeas corpus. In the Civil War, Lincoln suspended habeas corpus.

The reason that enemy combatants have not been given habeus corpus rights is because they are not American citizens. The rights we enjoy do not, as a matter of law and common-sense, belong to anyone save American citizens and those we specifically allow to enjoy them. That is why there are court cases now to extend those rights to Islamists. I say we put the matter to a vote. Let us decide if we want to extend the rights hundreds of thousands of Americans have died to preserve should be given to the people who wish us dead or living under Sharia law that would give us only the rights of the conquered slave.

I wonder on which side of that vote George McGovern would stand.

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