Posted on 03/22/2005 11:05:52 AM PST by quidnunc
I spent last week in Europe watching acrobats perform. There were no high-wires or circus tents — just left-wing intellectuals contorting themselves into bizarre shapes as they "explained" the changing Middle East.
A few Euro-papers raised the possibility that Bush might have been right about some things — only to knock down that notion with excuses so convoluted even the writers and editors couldn't begin to believe them. They were trying, desperately, to save face.
The commonly agreed alibi runs that the Middle East was changing on its own, that Anglo-American actions had little or no effect, that the outbreak of democracy has been on the way for years, that the Arabs did it themselves.
Oh, really? Guess our troops overlooked the warehouses full of multi-party ballots when they took Baghdad.
The Independent, a Brit rag that's been hilariously wrong about Iraq, talks around the icky little details — such as that minor impediment to democracy, Saddam Hussein. The Iraqis were headed for free elections on their own. No reason at all to praise Bush.
Dead Kurds? Not our kind.
Saddam's slaughter of the Shi'as? Can't quite remember, old man.
Torture chambers? My dear fellow, you must mean Abu Ghraib.
Saddam's wars of aggression, the employment of poison gas and the network of mass graves? Talking about that sort of thing simply isn't done. Anyway, the true aggressors are George Bush and his henchman Tony Blair.
One starts to suspect a movement to nominate Saddam for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Good story, thanks. I always look forward to your threads. I may not post on them all, but I read them.
Ping
A movement no doubt underway in some smoke filled back room through an alcoholic haze in Norway or Sweden or Finland as we post.. SAADAM what a guy.. opressed, misunderstood, and misunderestimated too.. that Only the Norskys can devine and appreciate.... They liked Jimmah Cartier too..
Wickedly amusing.
Re-writing history is always been a favorite thing for libs to do. It didn't take long. Pretty soon, it will be the EU that created democracy in the ME.
That Britainistan "pun" gets lamer every time I see it. And it was pretty bloody lame to start with.
Just for the record:
Muslim population of UK = 2.7%
Christian population of UK = 71%
Forgot my source.
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/notes/snSG-02184.pdf
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