February 5, 2005

  • R.U. Ready 2 Rock?

    Because NO ONE in the press ever talks about it.

    One of Iraq’s leading democracy and human rights advocates is Safia Taleb al-Suhail. She says of her country, “We were occupied for 35 years by Saddam Hussein. That was the real occupation. Thank you to the American people who paid the cost, but most of all, to the soldiers.” Eleven years ago, Safia’s father was assassinated by Saddam’s intelligence service. Three days ago in Baghdad, Safia was finally able to vote for the leaders of her country — and we are honored that she is with us tonight.” Taleb al-Suhail was obviously moved by the standing ovation from both sides of the aisle.

    from http://www.everythingiknowiswrong.com/2005/02/state_of_the_un.html

    Thank you to Sean for this lovely picture.

    And this just had me howling. . . .

    Doubt Creeps In

    John Stewart asked an incredulous question to Fareed Zakaria, editor for Newsweek International, on today’s Daily Show which exactly echos Mark Brown’s question In the Chicago Sun-Times:

    What if Bush has been right about Iraq all along?
    Maybe you’re like me and have opposed the Iraq war since before the shooting started — not to the point of joining any peace protests, but at least letting people know where you stood.

    [...]

    But after watching Sunday’s election in Iraq and seeing the first clear sign that freedom really may mean something to the Iraqi people, you have to be asking yourself: What if it turns out Bush was right, and we were wrong?

    It’s hard to swallow, isn’t it?

    Personally, I’m not having that big a problem with it. My question at this point in time goes more like this: how can it possibly have taken them this long to see something so obvious? Stewart, on the other hand, insists that his entire world view would have to change and that, though he’s not sure it’s physically possible, he might have to implode. His vaunted intelligence is not serving him very well.

    from http://www.everythingiknowiswrong.com/2005/02/doubt_creeps_in.html

    Yeah, well, a lot of people didn’t think it was worth it to fight the Germans to save Jews either.

    You don’t hear much from those people anymore.

    And it always strikes me as hypocritical that people who opposed the war in Iraq, never make a peep about the war in Bosnia.