I’m sick of pundits flippantly accusing their opponents of wanting some potential bad outcome that could result from a policy position, as Matthew Yglesias does in this post (and yes, I recognize that it’s supposed to be funny or ironic):

George Bush Wants Kids to Get Sick and Die

Just kidding. He’d like kids to stay healthy. It’s just that if they get sick, he wants them to die. Thus, his plan to veto a bill expanding S-CHIP, a program to give health insurance to kids.

So I assume Yglesias would have no objection to Bush saying that supporters of withdrawal from Iraq want tens of thousands of people to die in the resulting chaos?