Posted on 12/11/2005 2:51:21 PM PST by neverdem
Right on. If the US can survive the outrage of its own home-grown terrorism in the form of the MSM, Democrat party, Marxist intellectuals and other members of the antimoral left, Iraq can survive similar idiocy.
I've seen a copy of this editorial, and Pres. Bush read excerpts from it at the 2004 Republican convention. It really exists, though I can't find a link to the text right now.
While you weren't addressing your question to me, I got intrigued enough to find the answers. The article is here.
As you'd expect, there are various interpretations of what it says. For some background on the controversy when Pres. Bush quoted from this article, click here and here. (Use caution -- that last link takes you to a Mo Do column.)
Check out who writes for Benador Associates. As I wrote earlier, I think the Times may have given the dispiriting title to the article. My take on the article is that it's a plea to amend the Iraqi Constitution. http://www.benadorassociates.com/members.php
Well, you're right that there's a ton of good people on their list. I don't know all of them, but most of those I know are either conservatives (like Herb London) or at least honest liberals (A. M. Rosenthal).
Maybe I was put in a bad mood by the opening of this piece. But the problem is, many newspaper readers tend to go mainly by the headline and the opening paragraphs. So, if he put that in to placate the Times's editors and slip something through, I'm not sure how well it will work.
Be prepared to see these statements miraculously appear as DNC talking points!
Thanks for the links, but I was hoping for something documenting a post 1945 occupation and active, hostile, armed Nazi resistance to the American occupation, and a NY Times' masthead editorial telling Truman to bug out because of the Nazi or nationalist resistance.
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