THE SCOTSMAN: No morality in leaving Iraqis in the Republic of Fear (MUST, MUST READ!)

The Scotsman ^ | March 3, 2003 | The Scotsman

[MadIvan]

This article should be printed and distributed everywhere to deliver a crushing body blow to our pacifist enemies. This tyranny should not be allowed to live.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Timeout]

Thanks, Ivan, for posting that. It's heartening to know there are still a few rational Brits around....over there!

[Brad’s Gramma]

bttt

[Iowa Granny]

Deplorable Stuff, Ivan.

[MadIvan]

What utterly enrages me is that the Left refuses to do anything about it. This is utter barbarism and it needs to be quashed immediately. We should not even be dignifying Saddam's rule as much as we do...drag him out of his pristine palace and kill the blighter.

Regards, Ivan

[ffusco]

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[Political Junkie Too]

What utterly enrages me is that the Left refuses to do anything about it.

I think the Left is struggling to find a Moral Equivalent for this, since that is their usual wont.

This is making them melt down in the way of that classic Star Trek episode I, Mudd: "Norman, coordinate!"

-PJ

[BlessedBeGod]

Ivan, is The Scotsman considered liberal or conservative? I've always thought it was liberal; if so, even the more impressive that this was published by it.

[BlueAngel]

It won't be long now. Saddam will be worm food.

[John Valentine]

Read his words again - if you can bear to do so - and wonder why any person of goodwill, especially those of goodwill and sense on the Left with a long commitment against dictatorship and for human rights, would not grasp any possibility of overthrowing Saddam Hussein with both hands, rather than oppose it.

I know this was intended as a rhetorical question.

But the answer exists and it is straightforward. The Left (American, European, in fact worldwide) has been deftly conducting a multi year campaign of film, TV, books, newspaper spin and on and on to make suspicion of the United States the instant conditioned response to any action the United States takes. This may be mitigated if a Left-sponsored government is in place in the Unties States, hence the pass Clinton got on ALL his disasters.

The answer is that since the departure of Clinton the United States is back in its default position os the fearsome neo-facist hate-state conspiring to do unspeakable evil to all mankind.

Facts are irrelevant. Saddam is OK, because he is opposed to the Unted States. Saddam is now the holder in due course of the "Clinton Pass". That is all the Left need know.

The Left is the truly evil force in the world today and stands foresquare against justice, freedom, liberty, prosperity, fairness, and peace, the very things that their "Useful Idiots" think they are for.

[Centurion2000]

bump

[Just mythoughts]

Blow up his golden city of Babylon first. He worships that place.

[Dubya]

Must read bump.

[Fury]

Saddam uses torture to keep his hold on power? Big deal...

Just kidding of course. I will say READ POLLACK'S BOOK. It is chock full of information and plenty of references.

Of course, the office liberals, when told of the torture that is performed in Iraq said "prove it". These are the same folks that insisted that GW is manipulating the oil industry for his cronies, even though the office lib's doors are plastered with articles from BartCop, etc., on what an idiot Bush is. Somehow, they have the intellect to divine that Bush is an "idiot", but that Saddam does not torture the citizens of Iraq unless they see pictures, etc.

After the comments they made about how the US is directly responsible for more deaths of Iraq's citizens than Saddam, I wrote the office libs a nice, polite letter saying that we were not likely to agree on anything political and to not involve me in their political discussions. It's not worth the hassle to try and reason with someone who thinks that the US is responsible for more deaths in Iraq than Saddam.

[MadIvan]

The Scotsman is left wing! That's what makes their Iraq stance all the more extraordinary.

Regards, Ivan

[polemikos]

why any person of goodwill, especially those of goodwill and sense on the Left with a long commitment against dictatorship and for human rights, would not grasp any possibility of overthrowing Saddam Hussein with both hands, rather than oppose it.

I suppose the above quote came out of a sense of charity, but it is rife with error. The Left opposed "dictatorship"? Hardly. America during the cold war often made common cause with unsavory characters in order to fight a greater evil. The Left, relieved of any larger responsibility, "fought" dictatorship ONLY when it hurt America. Thus the Left supported the dictator Castro (a target of American policy) while exoriating Marcos of the Phillipines (a beneficiary of American largess). "Goowill" and "Sense" on the Left? Not that I've seen. Only bitter, unrelenting, and unthinking hatred for America.

[MadIvan]

The Scotsman is a left wing paper. Presumably they are going down the Christopher Hitchens route, I dare say, and just waking up to the scum that the Left represents.

Regards, Ivan

[MHGinTN]

As I was reading the list of 'what SoDamn Insane will do', I was re-hearing the words of Villepin this morning, talking to George Steponallofus, saying if we are to use the excuse of this dictators abuses to remove him from power, what of the other dictators?... There is no irrational rationalization that a liberal puke will not use to support his/her appeasement mentality!

[MadIvan]

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