Monday, May 17, 2004
Anti-warriors stand up
An innocent man, a prominent Havel-esque writer who fled Saddam Hussein's regime and dared to dream of bringing democracy to his homeland, was slaughtered today in Iraq.
A lemming hideously spurned his own and 6-9 other lives to achieve the objective of horribly trashing poor Izzadine Salim.
This in the grand game of ... (drum roll) ... impeding Iraq's democratic road.
The lemming was no doubt primed to explode himself. By:
- Promises from bearded fellows of lush and heavenly virgins (perhaps including Britney Spears) furiously reaching multiple orgasm over the thousand pieces of his body; or else by:
- Unmitigated hatred of the evil "brutal occupier" image of the United States; or else by:
- Copious amounts of amphetamines.
Or by various combinations of these and other inducements.
None of which require a tremendous level of worldliness or financial security on the part of the lemming.
Saddam would have approved. He paid (relatively) huge cash rewards to families of Jew-killing suicide bombers, proudly announcing this outstanding public spiritedness on pan-Arab television.
Meanwhile, sarin gas has been introduced into attacks on US troops. And that American man's head was cut off with a Crocodile Dundee-strength knife. While he was alive. By masked people yelling religious - religious! - incantations.
All of which seems much worse than the Abu-Ghraib-prisoner stuff, right?
Wrong, of course.
Beyond the initial reports, the emphasis amongst the usual culprits - as we all know - is on dismay at US failure, targeting Rumsfeld and Bush, boosting Kerry and smearing the US and its war effort.
The usual stuff.
Abu Ghraib remains the ongoing editorial and commentary focus of the self-styled anti-warriors who have finally stood up - lifting their arched bodies momentarily, from the ostrich position, to cheer Michael Moore.
Why else?
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