Taranto: What anti-war movement?

We're All Neocons Now

Blogger Frank LoPinto calls our attention to a news item from Friday that got lost amid the Miers mania. From the Associated Press:

The Senate voted Friday to give President Bush $50 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. military efforts against terrorism, money that would push total spending for the operations beyond $350 billion.

In a 97-0 vote, the GOP-controlled Senate signed off on the money as part of a $445 billion military spending bill for the budget year that began Oct. 1.

Two years ago the Senate voted 87-12 in favor of an $87 billion supplemental appropriation for security and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of the 12 senators who voted "no" then, nine are still in the Senate, and eight of them voted "yes" on Friday. (Vermont's Pat Leahy was AWOL.) Argues LoPinto:

[This] tells us that members of the Senate have done the political calculus and have determined that the majority of their constituencies support finishing the job in Iraq even if some portion of them did not support the invasion. . . .

A consensus has been reached by the people of America, the Congress, the President and even al Qaeda that the War in Iraq is key. And only victory matters.

Fascist fishwife Cindy Sheehan fast approaching Minute 17 and sounding loonier by the day: "George and friends have come up with a new enemy whose atrocities also can't be contained to borders and that doesn't wear a national uniform: The Bird Flu." (If she had any wit, she'd call him a chicken hawk.) Thus it seems clear that there is no "antiwar" movement in America, except in the imaginations of activists and journalists who are fixated on the Vietnam* era.

* Where by the way John Kerry** served.
** Whose wife*** now calls herself "Teresa Heinz."
*** The outspoken ketchup heiress and philanthropist.