[Behind Liberal Lines]

This sickening story ("tyranny is better than anarchy") that implies the Iraqi people were better off under Saddam's murderous rule, is only part of the barf-fest in today's Ithaca Journal.

The City of Evil's paper of record also has a front-page story on a dead soldier's parents complaining that their son "got killed for nothing":

"It was a senseless war. We shouldn't have been over there...They didn't find any weapons of mass destruction. We go places and stick our noses where they don't belong...I'm angry with the president. I think of him with his children safe here...We have children that go over there and lost their lives and have blood flow in the sands of Iraq..."

There's also an interview with a group of scruffy anti-Americans who threw blood in a recruiting station, who "hold fast to belief U.S. wrong to go to war" (that's news?).

The only "attempt" at balance is an article buried in the center of the paper about some residents who supported the war. However, even that article begins with someone who disagrees with the President on other issues:

Richard E. Jorgensen doesn't agree with President Bush on most domestic policy issues the country is wrestling with at the beginning of the 21st Century..."A Constitutional amendment for gay marriage?" Jorgensen quipped.

Basically, what we have here is an evil paper for an evil city.

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

City of Evil, media bias bump

[cyborg]

City of EEEEEEEEVIL BTTT

[HIDEK6]

"tyranny is better than anarchy"

Does anyone remember, "Better red than dead."?

[syriacus]

The City of Evil's paper of record also has a front-page story on a dead soldier's parents complaining that their son "got killed for nothing":

This only goes to prove Kerry and His Coalition of the Unwilling made a mistake by pressuring the US to withdraw from Vietnam.

By pressuring the US to abandon Southeast Asia, Kerry made the lives of the GIs who died in Vietnam meaningless.

Our GIs died to help the people of Southeast Asia be free and Kerry handed Southeast Asia to the communists.

[Eala]

A Google search on the phrase "tyranny is better than anarchy" is very interesting. But it's no wonder the Left quotes the phrase, since they would rather we all lived under their tyranny.

[Ken in Denver]

It was said by someone, I believe of Mussolinni, that "He made the trains run on time." Same mentality.

[EAGLE7]

I found a quote that pretty much sums up why the left embraces communism and tyrants. It's from 'The Prophet', by Kahlil Gibran. "And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?"

[mewzilla]

Is the IJ owned by Gannet, or does the paper just reprint Gannett's pap?

[NativeNewYorker]

Following the link, this piece looks like Gannett Wire copy, not a locally-generated opinion piece. It is certainly odious...and it is certainly "at home" in the IJ...but this same piece, unsigned no less, likely ran in most Gannett rags.

[Teacher317]

A year after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003, Iraqis have scarcely had a day free of bedlam.

25 years before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003, Iraqis have scarcely had a day free of torture, rape rooms, mass murder, political purges, suppression, and unjust imprisonments....

but that hardly matters. A Republican is in the White House, and we must smear him!