[fporretto]

Those who defend Iraq's "sovereignty" are much less concerned with the quality of its "sovereign" than they are with obstructing the United States. There's hardly a one of them who's been willing to confront the objective evidence of Saddam Hussein's atrocities. They're united in denying that his regime has any connection to Islamic terrorism, despite his unabashed announcement that he would pay blood money to the families of Palestinian "martyrs."

These people have two desires: to see the United States thwarted, and to see Israel, the only democratic state in the Middle East, fall to its Islamic enemies. They will defend any force that appears capable of helping with those aims.

Why? Pure hatred?

I've racked my brain searching for an alternative explanation. Claims that the United States is to blame for Saddam's behavior are too obviously the reflexive emissions of people who would blame us for the monsoons in India, if they could. Claims that Israel "discriminates" against the Palestinians are absurd, especially in comparison to the carnival of death the Palestinians have inflicted both on the Israelis and their own, pitifully few dissidents.

When the "reasons" advanced are of this quality, you're not dealing with reason at all. What remains to be discovered is how they came by their antipathy to the only state in history formed as a refuge for a horribly tortured people, and to the only power in the history of the world that lifts up a fallen enemy and leaves him stronger than before.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[Wonder Warthog]

"Claims that the United States is to blame for Saddam's behavior are too obviously the reflexive emissions of people who would blame us for the monsoons in India..."

Heh--if the US is to blame for Saddam, then WHY are the antis complaining if it decides to FIX that mistake??