Category: World

If you were against the US invasion of Iraq, this is what you were “objectively pro”:

Some of Saddam’s victims escaped to tell their tales on the day his statue was torn down in Baghdad. The USAID report contains three survivor accounts from mass executions outside Mahawil in the south of Iraq. The survivors all describe being taken into custody without a reason being given. They describe seeing women and children also in custody, all of them haphazardly blindfolded.

Once they were herded into holding areas they could see a pile of tires set on fire and were ordered to run past these. Some of the women, children and elderly men were tripped or fell near the fire and were unceremoniously beaten to death with pipes or thrown into the blazing tires to burn alive. All of the survivors who escaped their would-be executioners had been shot and partially buried, crawling away to their homes under cover of dark and living thereafter in hiding.

Hat tip: Power Line.

Two million people marched today in Spain to protest terrorism.

Some people get it.

Went to see David Mamet’s Spartan this evening, hoping for the usual twisty turny goodness. Instead it was a vile political tract. Why is it that Bush turns Liberals into such raving looney nutbars?

Wag the Dog turned out to be prescient. But Clinton only bombed Iraq to distract from his extra-curricular activities. What sin does Mamet imagine Bush is hiding to prompt the invasion of not one, but two countries? I guess we’ll find out when Jenna Bush turns up sold into white slavery just before the election.

Feh.

Stephen Green:

Isn’t it time we made that American sentiment ‘Live free or die’ into a goddamn ultimatum?

and more:

Remember that al Qaeda audiotape delivered to CNN, saying “No Jews in Saudi Arabia, or we start blowing up your ships”? Remember when Osama made that chilling video, saying he’d truck bomb American embassies if we didn’t pull out of the Middle East? Remember 9/11/2001, when Arab hijackers took over four American airliners, and threatened to ram them into office towers if we didn’t institute sharia here in America?

Of course you don’t. Those things never happened. Our attackers are not, by our lights, rational. They don’t kill to get what they want. They don’t kill to further their agenda. They kill for the sake of killing. They turn themselves into bombs to win Allah’s approval. They murder because they are holy and we are infidels and that’s just the way things gotta be.