I, too, wasted ten minutes of my day to email Pohoretz. Dear Mr. Podhoretz, to wit:

I read your article in the Post and was frankly astonished, but not in the way you were.  The fact that support for the was in Iraq stands at ONLY 60% of those fighting it is not encouraging.  It means that fully 4 out of 10 soldiers do not support the war they are fighting.  Do you think that 40% of soldiers in WW II didn't support it?  I doubt that.  So would my father-in-law, who flew B-17's out of England over Germany in 1943, and hates this war too.

The war is a mess, to think otherwise is to deny reality.  The planning for the aftermath was a joke and the result a shambles.   The whole enterprise was based, if not on lies, than on shaky assertions that have been conclusively proven to be untrue.  I  happen to one of  those  "odd and unpleasant people" who reads and sometimes even comments on Web sites like dailykos.com.  I, and the others of my ilk, have never spewed our "bile at our soldiers, sailors and Marines."   My bile is reserved for a dishonest administration, a cowed congress and press, and fools like you.

To me, and many others, when thinking about odd and unpleasant people your name comes to mind.

I think he needs a lot of emails from us "bottom feeders."