Pearls of Wisdom?

This may be today's Idiotarian mantra:

WASHINGTON — U.S. President George Bush did not name Japan in his Pearl Harbor remembrance day statement Saturday, likely in consideration of Japan's help in U.S.-led efforts to rebuild Iraq.

In the statement released on the eve of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, Bush said, "America was attacked without warning and without provocation" on the morning of Dec 7, 1941, but he did not say who the attackers were.

Expect jokes about not knowing who the attackers were. On second thought, expect some to convince themselves to believe he doesn't know. They want to believe that.

Full text of the statement here.

I note that Idiotarians, had they been around for Roosevelt's speech, would have been apoplectic at his mention of God. But I'd also be inclined to believe the president would have risen from his wheelchair and caned a few of them. (I want to believe that.)

This sort of approach to news is also likely:

Berner says he pays close attention to reports from Iraq and when he hears news of yet another American soldier being killed in action, he can't help but reflect on his own past, and his attitude as a veteran that "war really doesn't change and it doesn't solve anything either.

"I knew people who died. Friends of mine. And you have to think: There but for the grace of God go I. I wound up having a family and grandchildren. But the guy who was in my unit that got his face blown off, he never had that chance. I hope they all get out of (Iraq) soon and in good shape."

Mintz was in the Air Corps at Pearl Harbor. He was later transferred to fight in the European Theatre during WWII and would eventually stay in the military long enough to fly in Vietnam.

"It's the same from one war to another," he said. "You've got young men doing the same job over and over. I feel bad for the guys over (in Iraq) now. My feeling is that we shouldn't be over there. But I'm 81 and I've seen the price we pay."

I don't know what question he was responding to, (reporters prefer to leave you with the idea that their subject was just saying what was on their mind) but "My feeling is that we shouldn't be over there" is a long way from being rabidly anti-war, which is, I'm afraid, the type of quote the reporter was angling for. And what a lot of folks will choose to hear.