Mark Steyn:Iraq vote leaves Dems looking like the losers

http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn18.html ^ | Mark Steyn

[mal]

Well, that old Iraqi quagmire just keeps getting worse and worse, if only for the Democratic Party. What was the straw they were clutching at back in January? Oh, yeah, sure, gazillions of Kurds and Shiites might have gone to the polls, but where were the Sunni? As some of us said at the time, the Sunni'll come out tomorrow. And so they did. On Thursday, they voted in record numbers, leaving Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats frantically scrambling for another disaffected Iraqi minority group they could use as proof that the whole crazy neocon war-for-oil scam was a bust.

Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any disaffected Iraqi minority groups left. Oh, wait, there's Ahmed at 37 Sword of the Infidel Slayer Gardens in Ramadi. Apparently, he's still rejecting the new constitution. Maybe, if we're lucky, he's got a brother who's mildly irked. Whoops, sorry, they just went off to vote, too

[kellynla]

BTTT

[Northern Yankee]

George Clooney, the matinee idol, made an interesting point the other day. He said that "liberal" had become a dirty word and he'd like to change that. Fair enough. So I hope he won't mind if I make a suggestion. The best way to reclaim "liberal" for the angels is to get on the right side of history -- the side the Iraqi people are on. The word "liberal" has no meaning if those who wear the label refuse to celebrate the birth of a new democracy after 40 years of tyranny. Yet, if you wandered the Internet on Thursday, you came across far too many "liberals" who watched the election, shrugged and went straight back to Valerie Plame, WMD, Bush lied.

Bingo!

Again Steyn puts the liberal garbage right back in their lap.

The democratic party continues to wallow its own excrement.

[Northern Yankee]

Ping!

Merry Christmas!

[UltraKonservativen]

MARK STEYN.....We are not worthy!!

[GregoryFul]

Learned a new word - very apt adjective for Dean and the Rat buffoons: footling. I like it, it even has a French tie-in, LOL.

[BobS]

The end-

"A party that winds up cheerleading for a deranged loser death cult is the very definition of pointless self-defeating sour oppositionism. So, as Zarqawi flails, Dean and Murtha and Kerry flail ever more pathetically, too. Just wait till the WMD turn up."

[alwaysconservative]

GREAT Steyn! (See tag for additional fawning.)

[thierrya]

Iraq vote leaves Dems looking like the losers

...and the islamists like the winners:

"U.S. foreign policy has helped directly in the rise of the Islamists," said Gamal Banna, a liberal Egyptian writer and brother of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Islamists Ride Wave of Freedom
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-islam18dec18,1,2549351,full.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true

[Klickitat]

bttt

[Pokey78]

Thanks!

Steyn ping!

[Right_in_Virginia]

We need peace to shut the dems up.

This was sarcasm, right?

[Right_in_Virginia]

Thanks for the ping!

[mylife]

Pingaroo

Heigh-ho. The Iraq election's over, the media did their best to ignore it, and, judging from the rippling torsos I saw every time I switched on the TV, the press seem to reckon that that gay cowboy movie was the big geopolitical event of the last week, if not of all time. Yes, yes, I know: They're not, technically, cowboys, they're gay shepherds, but even Hollywood isn't crazy enough to think it can sell gay shepherds to the world. And the point is, even if I was in the mood for a story about two rugged insecure men who find themselves strangely attracted to each other in a dark transgressive relationship that breaks all the rules, who needs Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger when you've got Howard Dean and Abu Musad al-Zarqawi? Yee-haw! And, if that sounds unfair, pick almost any recent statement by a big-time Dem cowboy and tell me how exactly it would differ from the pep talks Zarqawi gives his dwindling band of head-hackers -- Dean arguing that America can't win in Iraq, Barbara Boxer demanding the troops begin withdrawing on Dec. 15, John Kerry accusing American soldiers of terrorizing Iraqi women and children, Jack Murtha declaring that the U.S. Army is utterly broken. Pepper 'em with a handful of "Praise be to Allahs" and any one of those statements could have been uttered by Zarqawi.

[Dog Gone]

It's a shame when Steyn is needlessly excerpted. Nevertheless, everyone should click through to read the whole thing.

[mylife]

Zarqawi and Dean. What do the two have in common? They're both foreigners, neither of whom have the slightest interest in the Iraqi people.

And no, I'm not questioning their patriotism. Honestly, who can be bothered questioning anything so footling as Howard Dean's patriotism? If you're a Democratic patriot and you're outraged by my linking your party to the "insurgents," take it up with your leaders: They're the ones who've over-invested the party in American failure. And instead of being angry at me you should be ashamed of them. Your party is regarded as unserious on national security because it got it wrong last time round, when Kerry spent the last half of the Cold War siding with every loser on the planet -- opposing the liberation of Grenada, supporting the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. And at least that little Sandinista guy looked awful cute in his fatigues, like a novelty houseboy Teresa picked up on vacation.

Sing it Mark! Sing it! Bravo!

[mylife]

I love it

[mylife]

Dont miss this one

[Mercat]

My new tag line.

[HighWheeler]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey!

[HighWheeler]

Great tag line!!