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June 9, 2006
More On The Twisted Reaction To Zarqawi's Death From The Left
Topics: DhimmitudeAmerica's Left never fails to "carpe diem", for yet another diatribe of insanity, always placing their political agenda well in front of America, and never missing an opportunity to turn what's good for freedom and democracy into another round of political attacks on the administration and the War on Terror - better phrased as the War on Islamic extremism and Islamofascism. And the idea that this is prevalent throughout the Left, and a rather large percentage of members of the Democratic party, is shared by many, other than myself.
Melanie Morgan, writing at WorldNetDaily, blasts the American political left for being so committed to seeing President Bush brought down and the war on terrorism brought to an end that they instinctively side with America's enemies.
One would expect that most sane, rational people, upon hearing the news of Zarqawi's death, would be happy or relieved, just as the world rejoiced at the death of Adolf Hitler. But then again, we've long since moved beyond "The Greatest Generation" and instead now walk through the generation of Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan and anti-war activists protesting at the funerals of military personnel.Read more here ...Across the websites and message boards of liberal America yesterday were cries of protest from many about the news that Zarqawi's reign of terror, murder and violence had come to an end.
At the Democratic Underground website, users attempted to manipulate MSNBC's online poll to suggest that the mission to kill Zarqawi would be meaningless in the war in Iraq. Whether or not the death of Zarqawi will have a major impact on the war effort is beside the point. The efforts by liberals to manipulate a poll so as to beat down the morale of the American people and make them believe we can't win is revolting. There is a sickness that has infected the anti-war movement.
Other liberals at Democratic Underground were foaming at the mouth with indignation about the mission to kill Zarqawi: "He's a fictitious character," said the poster "ShortnFiery." Another poster named "wizdum" agreed: "� I never believed in this pat story of al-Qaida in Iraq. It set off my ******** meter right from the get go."
Those who want to see the United States and Coalition forces lose the war on terrorism have somehow found a way to make themselves positively numb to the record of carnage that Zarqawi and al-Qaida have left behind in Iraq.
At Redstate, there's a similar read on the Left's insanity, from Cephan, in "AL Zarqawi Is Dead But The Liberals Are Crying For Him And Telling Republicans "How Dare You Celebrate His Death! Shut Up! Talk About Haditha!"" Cephan shows a few of the HUNDREDS of comments from the liberals in this country about the "beautiful killing of Al-Zarqawi," and suggests that as you read them, notice how it was a Bush plot, that it was designed to distract from Haditha, the SUPPOSED killing of Iraqi citizens by THREE U.S. Soldiers, and that the real criminal is the entire Bush Administration:
The loons pride themselves on bad spelling and grammar so these are not edited.
_______________Be sure to read all the rest of the comments.
next up -- terror alert
i've been waiting for one for some time now since Bush's numbers have been in the dumps. As for the Z guy, I'm not thoroughly convinced of the story. It hard to believe anything this administration has to say anymore. But, I must admit this is one mighty fine rabbit to pull out of their ass to try and save their hides come November.
by blue drop on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 09:53:23 AM PDT
______________Psy Ops
Zarqawi was quite probably a psy ops job in the first place, so what does that make his "death"?
Keep your eyes on the prize:
Gay marriage?
Haditha.
Flag burning?
Haditha!
Brangelina?
HADITHA!
Zarqawi?
HADITHA!!!
by Christopher Day on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 06:08:00 AM PDT
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He is dead now, so we will never know
For Bush, on whose watch literally hundreds of inmates were executed when he was governor of Texas, seems to equate justice and death. Forget arresting people, just kill them.
Zarqawi was a bad guy and I am glad he is gone, but it really disturbs me that we have become merchants of death in the name of "justice". IMO justice means what happens inside a court room. Call me old-fashioned...
by flo58 on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 07:39:46 AM PDT
_________________Deserved
While I may agree with you that "This is the one monster who deserved to die." This method violates everything my America stands for. It violates the rule of law and invokes the rule of force in what should be a criminal, not a military, matter. To give Al-Queda status by declaring that this is a war, rather than arrest and prosecution for crimes committed, the Bush Administration has given Al-Qaeda much more status than they deserve.
by Johann on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 05:01:12 AM PDT
_________________I suppose Osama will be caught in October
...just in time for the November elections.
by Really Liberal Democrat on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 04:53:03 AM PDT
_________________Why I can't get excited about this
We have been lied to so many times by this illegitimate administration that the news of Al Zaqarwi's death as a faint whiff to it. It is like the boy who cried wolf once too often. Of course, the Repugs will orgasm over this and dear old George will go into deep ecstasy. Now we are rid of one murderous tyrant-how about the removal of another one-believed hiding in a safe-house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
The revolution starts now--in your own back yard, in your own home town
by brit librarian on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 05:02:39 AM PDT
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And US war criminals should be tried
...starting with those responsible for Haditha. No question. The difference is that Zarqawi's whole campaign involved targeting civilians, places of worship, and specific ethnic communities - and that he openly called for genocide. He's a war criminal, and a campaign to kill or capture him is justified. General Miller who oversaw Abu Ghraib is a war criminal. A campaign to indict him and try him, and sentence him to jail, is justified.
by ivorybill on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 08:47:43 AM PDT
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Of course, there is no proof anywhere that this guy actually exists.
Who knows, I mean all we've really seen is some pictures and video of him in the media, which could easily been anyone from anywhere.
And it's not just me, many people have said he is a myth...
And to believe that he was any sort of a factor in Iraq is just bunk, he would have been a nat on a flys ass in terms of how important he is to the violence and anarchy in Iraq, hell he was probably in hiding from the militias anyway...
That is of course, if he even existed at all...
by laughingriver on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 05:38:13 AM PDT___________________
it's Sorry bullshit. It's meaningless.
So a bad man is dead. Big deal. To the extent that this allows some really bad people in our country to gain a propaganda victory, this is not a good thing. The US military has killed more innocent people in Iraq than this guy could have dreamed of killing, and very bad people in our country will use this event as a reason to allow that killing to continue. Forget al-Qaeda, which probably doesn't even exist as a functioning organization. Remember Haditha.
by chimpwatch on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 06:07:07 AM PDT
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Texas Death Machine
This is what we can expect from Bush Inc. and the Texas Death Machine: unilateral death with no possibility of appeal.
Al-Zarqawi should have been placed under arrest and tried in a court of law, preferably the The International Court of Justice at the Hague. He should have been turned over to the U.N. as soon as possible as opposed to what usually happens in these cases: being secreted away to some Rumsfeldian torture chamber where Cheney's fiends can unleash a bloodfeast.
by CheChe on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 06:04:41 AM PDT
___________________There are HUNDREDS of rants like these on ALL the liberal blogs today. ... You need to know that this is the NORM on the Democrat blog sites.
Also, from the same Redstate source- just further down in the post ... "it's not just the liberal bloggers who are insane now. This is the Democrat party this morning from The Washington Times, "Democrats call Zarqawi killing a stunt," by Amy Fagan:
Some Democrats, breaking ranks from their leadership, today said the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi in Iraq was a stunt to divert attention from an unpopular and hopeless war.Powerline wades in on the same WT article, saying that:"This is just to cover Bush's [rear] so he doesn't have to answer" for Iraqi civilians being killed by the U.S. military and his own sagging poll numbers, said Rep. Pete Stark, California Democrat. "Iraq is still a mess -- get out."
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio Democrat, said Zarqawi was a small part of "a growing anti-American insurgency" and that it's time to get out."We're there for all the wrong reasons," Mr. Kucinich said.
Officially, Democratic leaders reacted positively to the news and praised the troops that successfully targeted al Qaeda's leader in Iraq with 500-pound bombs at his safe house 30 miles from Baghdad.
"This is a good day for the Iraqi people, the U.S. military and our intelligence community," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
President Bush said that yesterday's killing of the 39-year-old Jordanian-born terrorist offers an opportunity to "turn the tide" in the war and that Tuesday he will discuss with Iraqi leaders "how to best deploy America's resources in Iraq."
A senior White House official cautioned that Mr. Bush was not hinting at possible early reductions in U.S. troops there, according to Reuters news agency.
Meanwhile, Democrats sprinkled caveats throughout their praise.
"That is good news; he was a dreadful, vicious person," said Sen. Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat. Mr. Conrad added that he hopes the military can get Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri, another top al Qaeda leader.
"They're even more important," he said.
Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Michigan Democrat, said it was good news but added, "I think we have a long way to go."
Earlier today, we noted the bizarre reactions of most of the Democrats who post at Democratic Underground to the news of Zarqawi's death. It would be easy to dismiss those comments as the ravings of a few fringe lunatics, except that there are so many of them. Actually, though, the DU posters aren't too far out of sync with some of their party's elected leaders, as the Washington Times notes in "Democrats call Zarqawi killing a stunt".All this points to a Left and a Democratic party out of touch with America, with the War on Terror, and the danger to our freedoms from the Islamists, like Zarqawi.
As to whether or not the Lefts comments are used by our enemies against us, look only to what's at IslamOnLine.Net ...
And let's not forget the going on at the Daily Kos (little Green Footballs) - "Progressives" Definitely Not Supporting the Troops:
Daily Kos: Half Of You Will Hate Me For This.Readers will find more on the Left's insanity at The American Thinker, in "Spinning Their Way to Defeat." TAT addresses a broad spectrum of the Left's reaction to Zarqawi, including the reaction from Nick Berg's father that we addressed earlier, and the Atlantic Monthly piece offering a sympathetic view of Zarqawi.All this carefully calculated discussion of Zarqawi's death is revealing just what a dialectical stranglehold the Right has over us right now. It's great that a scumbag like that is dead, lord knows he deserves to rot in hell, but do we have to pour it on extra thick just to satisfy the Right's bloodlust? Just to prove that We Support the Troops too? I'm sick of hedging every argument through their prism that being liberal means being anti-American. It's a semantic albatross. The only way to get it from around our necks is to rip the sucker off, not to keep petting it and hope that it will fly away and leave us one day.
As far as wishing the soldiers a safe return, who the hell doesn't want that? But when it comes to the day-to-day operations of occupation I can't condone what's going on over there and I won't pretend I do.
If you have the stomach for it dip down below for more.
"Zarqawi felt my son's breath on his hand as held the knife against his throat. Zarqawi had to look in his eyes when he did it. George Bush sits there glassy-eyed in his office with pieces of paper and condemns people to death. That to me is a real terrorist."
--Michael BergThose who oppose the war in Iraq but who nonetheless feel compelled to express "support" for "our troops" might reflect that, without those troops, there would be no war.
Simply put, if today's troops would behave only as George II did during his own military service--that is, go AWOL--there would be no one available to prosecute the war.
Press-ganged troops, like any prisoners, deserve support. But none of these troops have been press-ganged. This is not Vietnam. There is no draft. Anyone now in the American armed forces is there because s/he volunteered.
Related: In The Bullpen - "Trolling through some of the stories on Zarqawi early this morning and late last night gives the impression that Zarqawi was just misunderstood. A columnist with the Australian Broadcast Network still questions if Zarqawi is indeed dead. I suppose it doesn't really matter if Zarqawi is dead or not. After all, he was just created by the Bush Administration to advance their war mongering ways and he was simply defending his homeland . . . of Iraq?"
Posted by Richard at June 9, 2006 2:37 PM
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