Posted on 08/04/2006 10:25:31 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
Whispers? I've never heard the Administration say that the two groups were ever linked, so why would they have to whisper any sort of denial.
Evidence of just such a link has been found, however, in the millions of documents captured at the beginning of the war in 2003. Perhaps Fr. Greeley is simply ingnoring that; I'd call that willful ignorance.
This guy has what I call the Jimmuh ibn Qarter Syndrome. This malady manifests itself in a number of ways: (1) self-righteousness, (2) identification with America-hater thugs and dictators, (3) failure to note vast moral distinctions between democracies and despotisms, (4) belief the sufferer walks on water, (5) irrational belief that thugs can be trusted implicitly in negotiation, (6) belief that peace, rather than liberty, is the highest virtue, (7) irrational belief that that one ought to negotiate with enemies on the basis of weakness, rather than strength, (8) abject failure to recognize that truly evil individuals actually exist in the world.
The left is going to try and dehumanize conservatives as they have done with 'fetuses'
I'm so sure Greeley would have had no problem with American soldiers killing hundreds of Iraqi looters in those days.
/sarcasm
Yet those who still defend the war with clichés and phony arguments despite all the published evidence to the contrary are whistling in the dark as they pass the graveyard.
Bin Laden:
My what a good little Dhimmi. When we conquer Chicago in the Jihad be sure to let this one live Al Wackjob.
I, for one, support the demonization and dehumanizing of our enemies.
Dehumanizing others IS a virtue if you're at war with 'em: Huns, Nips, Krauts, Wops, Gooks, etc., were all enemies at some point.
If you DON'T demonize and dehumanize 'em you get bleeding hearts weeping over every civilian casualty inflicted (and the treasonous media encouraging them...). You're unable to prosecute the war because you might hurt a civilian and offend a whiny constituent. Never mind that those same civilians (or their parents) are the ones who fund and equip the enemy troops or send their children to blow themselves and others up.
Not for nothing did Homer sing of "Strong Hate, Savior of Nations..."
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