[weegee]

Iraq had socialism. Saddam was a fan of Uncle Joe Stalin.

The useful idiots don't fall far from the tree.

[LowCountryJoe]

Most of the time I'm an optimist and this was an article that should have picked me up, unfortunately, when a former Secretary of State endorses communism, no matter where the communism is, I quite literally feel a wrenching of my gut. This is one of those times when I can't help but think that it is too late for us. And though the Socialist Democratic party voters may be outnumbered by the voters of the Republican party [then again it maybe not!], the Democrats have certainly got all the tools - the schools, the courts, and the media - to ensure that large segments stay "ripe" for their cradle to grave dependence and indoctrination.

This morning I'm feeling as though the battle of the ideologies is over and I'm on the losing side. Somebody please pick me up and tell me everything is going to be Albright. I be in the fetal position, in the corner, with my thumb in my mouth.

[nutmeg]

Albright is pressing to win ever-more United States aid and financial assistance for the Communist Party of Iraq. The daughter of a diplomat from then-Communist Czechoslovakia, Albright argues that the Communists are the best organized and most secular (i.e., atheist) political party in democratizing Iraq and could anchor an anti-theocratic bloc of other parties in the new Iraqi legislature.

The Communists, Albright believes, might be the key to stability in a democratic Iraq after Americans start pulling out this summer. A bevy of mid-level Clinton leftovers in the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) in Iraq are cooperating with Albright and giving whatever aid, U.S. taxpayer dollars and comfort they can to Iraq’s Communist Party.

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