[exDemMom]

Saddam is simply the latest focus for the west's racist abuse of Arabs

I wonder if this ditz has ever noticed that Arabs happen to be Caucasians, like the majority of Europeans and Americans? How, then, can she claim that taking action against a brutal Arab dictator is racist?

Of course, for hate-filled leftists, anyone who doesn't share their specific hatreds is a racist, making the term as they use it almost meaningless.

[driftless]

You are right to wonder about Arabs. Technically they are considered caucasian by the race conscious. As are Turks, Iranis and Afghanis. But since they appear swarthier and a little darker on average than Europeans, they are considered "brown" by the leftist racialists who like to twist race into every problem. Now the Israelis being Jews and semetic should be classified as "brown" people too, but we can't have that. In the warped world of the racialists since the Israelis are allies of the U.S., they can't be "brown" people. Don't ask me how liberals and radicals manage to navigate their way through the world or why their heads don't explode from all the gobbledygook they dream up. It can't be explained rationally.