If You Really Loved Me You'd Let Me Eat Your Brain

DNC Chair Howard Dean says America can't win the war in Iraq.  Too many parallels to Vietnam, he says.

I don't remember the Vietnamese pulling off two rounds of nationwide democratic elections, establishing a constitution, and gearing up for a third election.

I don't see any important nations supporting the terrorists in Iraq, at least none that we can't bomb the hell out of without starting a nuclear war.  I'm sure China and Russia would complain if Israel or the US destroyed a few Iranian nuclear weapons sites or set the Syrian border with Iraq on fire, but it isn't as though either are giving support to our enemies in Iraq.

I don't remember the Vietnamese capturing or killing the brutal thugs that ran their nation into the ground and putting the survivors on trial for their use of chemical weapons and mass killings of innocents.

And finally, I don't remember tens of thousands of Vietnamese gladly lining up for police or military service while almost daily terrorists were setting off bombs in their midst.  Over 100,000 Iraqi soldiers have been trained and roughly 25% of their fighting units are competent enough that they can operate on their own.

The only thing that can stop Iraqis from reclaiming control of their country is a handful of radicals bent on undermining the will of the American public, wearing us down with constant attacks, releasing outright lies in the media, and using the horrors of war for political gain.  I'm talking about American politicians, mostly liberals and Democrats, not terrorists.  (Notable exception:  Sen. Lieberman.)

...the next time you hear a liberal, anti-war, or doe-eyed flower child complain that the US tortures people and things were better under Saddam...ask them how many meat grinders the US has deployed.

The Hakmiya intelligence headquarters in Baghdad sounds like a real shop of horrors.  One of hundreds if not thousands of torture and murder factories operated during Saddam's benevolent reign.

A level-headed assessment of the rapidity of the response to Katrina, with a few swipes at know-nothing morally outraged journalists, can be found here.

LA Governor Blanco: Bush not to blame.  This should end the debate in the media, eh?  I mean, Blanco was a hero to the left in the crisis.  I think not, but if anyone is an authority on being slow to respond it'd be her.  I'll accept her expert opinion on Bush's reaction time.

Headline: Blanco Says Death Toll Acceptable

Well, that's what I'd write if I were a liberal journalist or broadcaster, based on this statement:

We did a massive evacuation, and if we hadn't we would have had thousands of deaths.  Right now, the numbers are minimal when you consider the amount of damage.

 

Of course Gov. Blanco, not Pres. Bush, said the above words.  So I guess she's being responsible and compassionate.  If it were Bush, or any white man, it'd be a wink and a nudge about how "they was all just a bunch of two-dollar Martians (that's my code word for THE N WORD) anyhow."

Kamp Krawford just got stupider.  Al Sharpton, America's stupidest black leader, is on his way to join Cindy "Groundhog Day" Sheehan in her protest against the very badness and meanness of war.

Check out this story on who is footing the bills for Camp My Son Died For Nothing.  A PR company with ties to liberal non-profits is running the show, and the richest 1% are footing the bills: Billionaires and millionaires like George Soros and Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen.  A grassroots groundswell of anti-war sentiment, indeed.

Goodness, will it ever end?  Ms. Sheehan is back.

Here is a comment I offered to the blog entry referenced above.  I wonder if 1) It'll be accepted, and 2) Anyone will oblige me my request.

 

Of course I don’t know Cindy personally but my instincts tell me she’d probably be better off working through her grief privately.  I don't see what good can come out of this situation for her.  I’ve lost loved ones and the last thing I’d want is to keep the psychic wounds open for partisans of every stripe to pick at.  How can this sideshow, the bastard child of a reality TV-obsessed nation and its 24-hour news networks, always racing to be the first to tell us the obvious, bear any fruit?

In my opinion Cindy is being used by forces larger than herself to further their own agendas, and I don’t limit my criticism to any particular section of the political spectrum.

Some of the previous comments make reference to Bush having lied to get the US into the war in Iraq.  Would someone do me the favor of discussing this with me?  In all seriousness I’d like to have a lively debate on the topic of Bush’s honesty.

 

Can anyone tell me exactly what he lied about, and, having done so, give me a dictionary definition of a lie?  I’m not splitting hairs – I truly believe that Bush didn’t lie, though I do agree that the intelligence upon which he based some of his reasons for going to war in Iraq were unsound.  The bad intelligence was the result of decades of intelligence failures, most notably the failure to take Osama bin Laden seriously after the first World Trade Center attack, though there were also significant structural defects in the way the US prevented its intelligence agencies from sharing information.

 

It looks like someone is bucking for the title of Lord Dipshit Environcommie Wacknut of the Universe.  Ted Turner, liberal headcase and frontal-lobe-challenged contributor of $1,000,000,000 to the UN, is working on making a nature reserve out of...get this...the Korean DMZ.  Read the story here.

South Korean officials said Turner was visiting the Stalinist state to discuss a project to turn the De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas into a nature reserve

 

I don't think I need to comment on this complete idiocy of this plan any further.

Finally!

Way to go, Pres.  A brash, no-nonsense guy who inspires his people to work hard?  Goodness no, he'll never do!

I hope Bolton goes into Kofi's locker and breaks his glasses on his first day at U.N. High.

From an AP report on recent Iraqi operations:

On Saturday, troops searching the town found four Iraqi hostages beaten, handcuffed and chained to a wall in a torture center, the military said. Some of the men were believed to be Iraqi border guards who had been held for three weeks.

Troops searching the bunker found nooses, electrical wire and a bathtub filled with water for electric shocks and mock drownings.

In the basement, troops found automatic rifles, ammunition, terrorist training manuals and DVDs showing insurgents beheading captives, Pool said.

And where is Amnesty International's condemnation of this alleged torture? Will they be calling for a special investigation, an open and fair trial for the alleged torturers in, say, Sweden? NGOs like Amnesty International and the ICRC huff and puff about imaginary U.S. torture while the real crimes against humanity are occurring elsewhere.

Multimillionaire tree hugger Ralph Nader was in Washington, DC last week raising funds to retire the debt from his 2004 presidential campaign. He complained about being left off the ballots in some Southern states, saying "I felt like a nigger." This was reported by Evan Gahr on his chimpstein.com Web site then picked up by the New York Daily News.

Nader gets no sympathy from me. I doubt that he's ever been in the minority of anything (rich white heterosexual Jewish non-disabled male college graduate (Princeton and Harvard Law)) and wouldn't know discrimination from a toffee apple. Comparing ballot access politics with the rape, murder, and owning of human beings just because their skin was dark? Does not compute. Taking away a person's name, ancestry, and age (by denying them the knowledge of when they were born and who their parents were) and treating them like livestock isn't even in the same universe as maneuvering within a legal system to prevent someone from being on a ballot.

At times like this, and especially with anything involving the concept of race, I like to ask myself, "What would Al Sharpton do?" Not much it seems. From the New York Daily News article:

"If Ed Koch had said what Ralph Nader said, we'd be marching," Sharpton noted. "This [scolding] doesn't rise to the level of a march. It rises to the level of a wrist slap."

Does Sharpton realize what he's saying? That there is a double standard at work? I'm baffled by the quote above because I can't tell what Sharpton was trying to get across. I think he may just be the stupidest person to ever have been a thought-leader at the national level for an major ethnic group in America. Jesse Jackson was a crook and shakedown artist, but at least he was smart.

Let me back up a bit for the bigger picture and my main point. Faithful readers know that Manual Override would never blog something if it wasn't true, or could have been true if the facts were totally different. We have high blogolistic standards here and it pains us to rely on a gossip rag like the Daily News for our sources. Why the Daily News and not the New York Times? Simply put, liberal media outlets aren't interested in stories about their own kind using bad words. They save up their outrage for the day a conservative says "nigger" or, in the case of Trent Lott, just mentions the South. Ralph Nader gets a pass. Former KKK Kleagle and current Senator Robert "white niggers" Byrd gets a pass.

I did a lot of searching to find out if any other MSM outlets reported Nader's comments but found none. Lots of blogs, but no MSM outlets. That's pretty sad.

Did anyone catch the Janice Rogers Brown hearings today? The Democratic Senators piled on, as can be expected, comparing her to a right-wing radio host because she’s a strict constructionist. Gasp! She's an activist judge alright, just not the kind that the left likes.

A funny thing happened when Sen. Schumer (D-NY) put in his two cents. He said Brown's judicial activism shows that she wants to be a "dictator" or "grand exalted ruler." Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) criticized Schumer for using terminology associated with the KKK.

Session was incorrect though. The KKK never had an office with the title Grand Exalted Ruler. That'd be the Brotherhood Protectorate of Elks. Still, it was a faux pas for Schumer to use this kind of terminology when talking about a black woman who was born into poverty and a segregated world, the daughter of a sharecropper no less. Sessions could have saved himself the trouble had he consulted with former Klansman Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) who was presumably at the hearing.

My point is that the left has created a problem for itself by embracing identity politics and encouraging the rending of our societal quilt into tiny patches as millions of hands each pull in their own direction. More minority groups means more opportunities to offend. Any complaint of offense is self-validating - res ipsa loquitur, I think the Romans would have said. There is no hierarchy of offense because all minority group causes are morally equivalent. To assign a value to the aims and values of the offended is in itself offensive, like assigning a value to a human life.

Everybody complains, nobody wins. Be careful what you wish for, Democrats!

Check out the Wikipedia entry on the KKK for the interesting story of its Democratic roots.