Wanker of the Day: Jules Crittenden

The Boston Herald's Jules Crittenden offers Canadians an apology after stopping to recall that we actually have soldiers dying in Afghanistan and then decides to insult us again:

Here's his 'dream' for Iraq:

But I would still like to know where the Canadians, the French and the Germans in particular were when we needed them in Iraq ... if only to get out of the way. In fact, we could use a lot more troops in Iraq right now. More to the point, the Iraqis could use a lot more troops. They could also use the knowledge that the world actually gives a damn and is willing to stand with them, rather than always against us.
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Tens of thousands of troops flooding in, under NATO leadership, to engage aggressively as we've seen them do in Afghanistan. Do these nations care about Iraq? They claim to. Do they care about freedom and stability in the Middle East? They pretend to. So let's end the hypocrisy. We all know what is needed in Iraq. It isn't a pullout.

And since his comments are moderated, I am reprinting my response there in case it doesn't make it through the censors on his blog:

You don't win allies by deliberately smacking them in the face and then saying your hand slipped.

You started out with an apology to my country, Canada, and then you insulted us again. As a sovereign country, we choose which wars we'll support and the fact that your war in Iraq has failed can't be fixed by us. We're already taking care of your mess in Afghanistan while the US is pulling troops and funding.

Just where, exactly, do you imagine these 'tens of thousands' of NATO troops would come from? No country in NATO besides yours has those numbers and you certainly shouldn't complain about other countries when the US doesn't have any more soldiers to spare on the battlefield either.

You need to put the responsibility for the failures of your military misadventures right where they belong - in DC in the offices of Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney. This isn't about France or Canada. It's about your failed leadership and lack of proper planning.

I am sick and tired of this blame game and whining from people like Crittenden who think we're stashing 'tens of thousands' of troops somewhere that we won't send to do the bidding of the Bush administration because we supposedly don't care about what happens in other countries. If Bush hadn't started the illegal war in Iraq in the first place, which he did by lying to the world, the US wouldn't be in such a quagmire - again. And let me restate this one more time: other NATO countries are not your cleanup crew, Mr Crittenden. If your forces couldn't handle the job, they shouldn't have been committed in the first place. So, if you want to complain, send a letter to your president and leave Canada out of this. We refuse to be your whipping boy.