SCREAM at the top of their lungs “racism”, “Bush”, “Republicans”, “Patriot Act” blah blah blah.

Hell, even if the guy were white and a complete loon who was looking for some people to mow over with his car and they happened to be Arabs or black they still would’ve screamed racism and threw in Bush and Republican culpability for good measure.

Remember the black guy in Texas who was murdered (dragged behind a truck) by the two white guys and the way the media played that up? Justifiably so, btw.

Remember the gay guy who was murdered and the media played it up when they thought it was a “hate crime”. But when it turned out the guy, who murdered him, was his gay lover and he was murdered for threatening to expose their relationship the media lost all interest in it.

And remember when a couple of black guys did likewise and dragged a white guy to death in Texas for retribution and the media didn’t report a thing about it.

Look at how Colmes tries to spin the lack of media interest and remember how they covered the murder of the black guy in Texas.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-3_8_06_TB.html

March 8, 2006
Media Won’t Report Radical Islamic Events
By Tony Blankley

Denial is an often useful innate human trait. Few of us would be able to function in the present if we did not put out of mind many unpleasant realities — such as our inevitable death. The Woody Allen character in the movie “Annie Hall” stated the comic extreme version of not using the denial mechanism when, as a child he refused to do his homework because in 5 billion years the sun would explode, “so, what’s the use?”

The Iraqis are aware of the US Left and think they’re a bunch of idiots.

For example, one Iraqi named Betty Dawisha, who voted in the last election, was quoted as saying, “whoever doesn’t appreciate what George Bush has done, can go to hell.” You can google this & find it readily enough.

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According to your view of human nature, Iraqis must resent the US far more than they hated Saddam Hussein. This makes absolutely no sense. Saddam Hussein killed their families, deliberately, to get them to obey him. In contrast, our troops are trying very hard to target only terrorists–and in doing so are risking their lives. One of these things is not like the other.

I simply do not understand the Left’s view of human nature. I conclude (as I have before) that people like you regard the Iraqis as somehow other-than-human.

Bostonian, this makes NO SENSE!!! Most Iraqis DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH and DO NOT HAVE CONTACT WITH “THE US LEFT”! They read and watch the Iraqi media, and talk to other Iraqis. And judging by what many of the people they have elected say about us, as well as moderates like Sistani say, we are viewed suspiciously, or worse.

Feel free to believe that the guy who writes Iraq the Model represents your average Iraqi citizen, but the evidence doesn’t back it up.

Yes, yes, and yes.

I am sure some percentage of the country wants us out instantly. I am also sure (from what I have read) that the average Iraqi is in greater danger from and is far angrier at the Al-Qaeda terrorists and Ba’athists than at us. Polls have consistently shown that the Iraqis want us to stay until they have a stable country. And they’re overwhelmingly happy to be rid of Saddam Hussein (can you imagine that?!).

If any Iraqis believe that we are in their country to steal from them or push them around, that is because the US Left has said so repeatedly for the last several years.

The US Left has reduced the entire affair to “occupation bad, soldiers bad, war bad.” If you’d bother to read Iraqi blogs, you’d see that the Iraqis are smart enough to have a more nuanced view than that.

One would expect your type of obscene put down on yahoo chat rooms but not here.

We’d have the will, if it weren’t for the double-speak and faux reasonableness from the left. The refusal to call terrorist acts “terrorism” is part and parcel of that larger problem. I know exactly what an escalated, full-blown war of civilizations will look like. That’s why I’d rather not have one. You don’t get to not have it by pretending that it isn’t already nascent.

I agree with Bruce. Let the Islamic Facists worry about inflaming the “American street”. When we get to the point were we are willing to handle the long-term occupation–or do enough damage in the fight not to need to occupy–then things will get better. That can happen before the full war or after. But things will not get substantially better until someone shoulders that load. (Also, the less wishy washy we are, the more likely that true allies will emerge and stand behind us.)

You ask if Bostonian engages in PR for a living and one can’t help but wonder if you engage in masturbation for a living.

We were told by our Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party betters (and their European brethren) that what we were contemplating in Iraq was absolutely, positively impossible.

One thing is certain by now: it damn sure ain’t absolutely, positively impossible.

Hang in there, though. If you keep visiting the four sisters on Thumb Street long enough maybe you’ll make a baby one of these days.