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The Fight over the Iraq vote and the strange hypocrisy of the American Right regarding Iraq [FR]
OpEdNews.com ^ | December 31, 2005 | Steven Leser

Posted on 01/01/2006 1:56:14 AM PST by Watery Tart

The Fight over the Iraq vote and the strange
hypocrisy of the American Right regarding Iraq

The Islamic Republic of Iraq?

Traverse any blog or website geared to Republicans and the Conservative Right here in the United States (such as Free Republic or http://www.freerepublic.com ), and a strange dichotomy becomes evident with regard to Iraq.

First, they talk about every practicing Muslim and everyone of Arab descent as if they were a member of Al Qaeda and an animal. A popular photo on Free Republic shows a Grim Reaper with a skull and proclaims "Islam - It's the Evil of our Time, let's NOT leave it for our children".


See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1487236/posts


and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548226/posts


and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548198/posts


and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548214/posts


and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1508903/posts


Invariably, any discussion of Islam on these websites involves description of Muhammad as a pervert and a pedophile. In almost the same sentence, these people have no problem saying that they support Bush going into Iraq to promote Democracy for the people there. Yes, such wonderful things they and their President want for Iraqis.


Then, in a later thread, which might describe insurgents blowing something up in Iraq, they again continue their diatribe that all Muslims and Arabs are animals and should be killed or 'nuked'.


Queer folk these conservatives. Oops, they are going to be upset I called them Queer given their ridiculous hatred of gays. Ah well, what can one do?


I get the feeling that most Republicans secretly feel this way about Muslims and Arabs. I know President Bush has publicly said that he is not warring against Islam or Arabs, but against Saddam Hussein and the Terrorists, but I have this feeling that he and Uncle Dick say things altogether different in private.


In any case, the Republican electorate is virulently anti-Islam and that is a shame. Most practitioners of Islam that I have had the pleasure to know are wonderful, law abiding and hard working people.


The Iraq war is continuing to evolve into another phase that was predicted by many; anarchy and civil war.


The Shiites, who vastly outnumber Iraq's other two ethnic groups, Sunnis and Kurds, are naturally going to win any fair democratic elections in the country. The Sunnis and Kurds are not going to like this for many reasons among them that both groups are generally less observant of Islamic laws and traditions than the Shiites and the Shiites seem to want to steer Iraq toward fundamentalist Islam.

George Bush may claim (now, since no WMD were found) that he went to war to bring Democracy to the people of Iraq, but the net effect of his actions will likely be a Muslim Theocracy. Women in particular are going to suffer when the country becomes "The Shiite Islamic Republic of Iraq". [Don't forget the Children! --WT]

Democratic elections aren't going to turn out to be a good thing here and the Sunnis and Kurds know it. That is why they are protesting these elections tooth and nail. All the protesting and new elections, if they are able to attain them, will not help Sunnis and Kurds overcome the massive Shiite majority in the country.


Where does this leave us? The Freepers (as they like to call themselves) over at Free Republic deserve credit for some of the wackiest and creepiest (nuke all the people in over several dozen countries? Hello? Any humans on that site?) hypocrisy in history.


And President Bush, who was re-elected by an army of evangelical Christians for being such a “good Christian man” is going to be most remembered for establishing a radical Islamic Republic in Iraq.All of which proves the old axiom, truth is stranger then fiction, particularly when dealing with Republicans.


Authors Bio: Steven Leser is a freelance journalist specializing in Politics, Science & Health, and Entertainment topics. He has held positions within the Democratic Party including District Chair and Public Relations Chair within county organizations. His coverage of the Ohio Presidential Recount in 2004 was distinguished by actual interviews with Carlo Loparo, spokesperson for the Ohio Secretary of State, along with Supervisors of Elections of several Ohio counties. Similar efforts on other topics to get first hand information from sources separate Mr. Leser from many of his contemporaries.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
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To: NavVet
This op-ed.com web site is nothing more than a collection of conspiracy theories, "rigged voting machines" and Republicans are Nazis crap. They are so far out on the lunatic fringe, one of their articles complain that NPR is too pro republican.

I would wager more people have read the nutjob's article after it was posted on FR than did before. You've probably trippled traffic to the lunatic website as well.

Kinda sounds like DimunitiveUnderparts, no?

(_*_)

61 posted on 01/01/2006 5:27:06 AM PST by Watery Tart (Forgive me, I have the world's slowest connection tonite.)
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To: Watery Tart

The diachotemy is the result of ignorance and intolerance.

In between the Arab bashing there are posts by several knowledgeable FReepers who have experience with real arab people and post favorable comments.

No amount of knowledge however can overcome the religous intolerance that is the hall mark of the very right.


62 posted on 01/01/2006 5:27:18 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. Slay Pinch)
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To: MEG33
Do you REALLY want my opinion of this writer?

Well, if you want to consider him a writer, we have to change the expectations....
;o)

And thanks for the pic of the grumpy cat, MEG. Sometimes my cat has that expression.

63 posted on 01/01/2006 5:32:48 AM PST by Watery Tart (Forgive me, I have the world's slowest connection tonite.)
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To: Cvengr
The article's author commits the same type of grouping together of people in naming, attributing the faults of a few to the entire group, and then hating his convoluted construct, that he attacks in his criticism. The only difference is that he attacks others for attacking Islam, while he applies the same method he hates against conservatives.

It's that whole broad-stroke-reckless-generalization-lazy-categorizing they're so used to misusing. And let's not forget how they project THEIR party's traits on us.

64 posted on 01/01/2006 5:38:16 AM PST by Watery Tart (Forgive me, I have the world's slowest connection tonite.)
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To: Watery Tart

While there are some disappointing exaggerations on this site, it's even more astonishing that liberals can't see the pattern. Maybe if they take this little quiz...

1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by
a. Superman
b. Jay Lenno
c. Harry Potter
d. Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40

1. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by
a. Olga Corbett
b. Sitting Bull
c Arnold Schwarzenegger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

2. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

3. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

4. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

5. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

6.In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

7.In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

8. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

9.In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill' s women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

10. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the
passengers.Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

11.In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

12. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

Nope, .....I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? Just because the answer to each question is D.


65 posted on 01/01/2006 5:41:00 AM PST by libertylover (Bush spied. Terrorists died. Democrats cried.)
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan

Nor have I.


66 posted on 01/01/2006 5:46:44 AM PST by sport
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To: Watery Tart; Cvengr
I don't like "nuke mecca" posts. Period, full stop. Even there, I can't argue with the need for a big can of whoop-ass. The other criticisms in that sloppy piece are not so clean-cut. I don't agree with the black-and-white condemnation of Islam nor of homosexuality per se, but in both cases, there is room for criticism of actual behavior in the present day.
67 posted on 01/01/2006 5:46:54 AM PST by NutCrackerBoy
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To: Watery Tart
"I get the feeling that most Republicans secretly feel this way."

Really objective, isn't he. Most real authors base their screeds on facts, not feelings. Oops, he's a liberal, isn't he.

68 posted on 01/01/2006 5:52:09 AM PST by norwaypinesavage
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To: libertylover
Nope, .....I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? Just because the answer to each question is D.

IIRC, I seem to remember that the "Beltway Sniper" reporters (after they could no longer blame this crime on white, Christian "right-wing extremists," of course), had a rough time saying that the name "John Allen Muhammad" when it came up.

69 posted on 01/01/2006 5:56:37 AM PST by Watery Tart (Forgive me, I have the world's slowest connection tonite.)
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To: willstayfree
Now this jerk loses all credibility by resorting to name calling.

Which is why I peg his age at about fourteen. Next month.

71 posted on 01/01/2006 6:03:29 AM PST by Watery Tart (Babe Ruth is dead. Throw strikes.)
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To: All
I'll be GONE FOR A WHILE.

Keep posting!

72 posted on 01/01/2006 6:06:07 AM PST by Watery Tart (Babe Ruth is dead. Throw strikes.)
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To: kanawa

That's what all this uproar was about? Libs get their knickers twisted easily. Thanks for posting it.


73 posted on 01/01/2006 6:09:32 AM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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To: Watery Tart

This vermin slams FReepers for their views on Islam. In the same article he says that when the practitioners of Islam rule the country after Democratic elections, women and children will be oppressed. Sounds like he doesn't have much faith in Islam either.


74 posted on 01/01/2006 6:19:05 AM PST by oneofmany (ACLU,DEMS,MSM - Fifth Column)
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To: Watery Tart

Well, some Freepers do swing pretty wildly at whatever target presents itself, and some -- most -- don't. The Left has a problem handling diversity.


75 posted on 01/01/2006 6:27:18 AM PST by Grut
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To: Watery Tart

-Most practitioners of Islam that I have had the pleasure to know are wonderful, law abiding and hard working people.-

Try dating one of their daughters.


76 posted on 01/01/2006 6:59:32 AM PST by AmericanChef
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To: Watery Tart
Calm down people, this OpEdNews.com is a commie blog, oops 'progressive' blog, run by a moonbat named Rob Kall. PeeWee Herman's website probably gets more hits. And the article by this so-called 'freelance journalist' is just a posting by one of their raving moonbat members dressed up as 'journalism'.

Here's some excerpts of the 'hate mail' they get, pretty good stuff IMO:

The Daily Kos has more legitimacy than this waste of bandwidth.
77 posted on 01/01/2006 7:20:41 AM PST by Condor51 (Leftists are moral and intellectual parasites - Standing Wolf)
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To: Watery Tart

" ... they talk about every practicing Muslim and everyone of Arab descent as if they were a member of Al Qaeda and an animal."

There certainly are Freepers who talk that way, and it's shameful. Muslims and Arabs are people who need the truth and the blessings of freedom and democracy. Many Arabs and Muslims have shown great courage and nobility.


78 posted on 01/01/2006 7:25:19 AM PST by solzhenitsyn ("Live Not By Lies")
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To: Watery Tart
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So use JIHADD brand Semtex Explosive to show you really care!!!

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79 posted on 01/01/2006 7:49:43 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Watery Tart

Steven the Lesser is quite delusional there.
Best part is where he claims that everyone is advocating nuking all Muslims.
It seems that in his haste to get his story by trolling and leaving quickly, he forgot to note that everyone here has their own opinions and not everyone advocates nuking all Muslims.
Of course, such observations are beyond his skill and mental acuity it seems.

*chuckle*


80 posted on 01/01/2006 7:49:59 AM PST by Darksheare (Bezerky Jerky the funky Turkey jerky strips! Yum!)
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