Column: "Does the Left hate Bush more than it hates murder?"

[tni]

Anybody see this? Incredible.

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Does the Left hate George Bush more than it hates murder?

Sunday, August 3, 2003

By Michael J. Bowers
Star columnist

The campaign by the angry Left in America and Europe to discredit our victory in Iraq has crossed a line. It's not legitimate criticism anymore; it's toxic waste.

<> These people hate President Bush more than they hate Qusai, the Saddam son who liked to watch political prisoners get fed alive into a wood chipper.

<> They hate Bush more than they hate Odai, the Saddam son who punished a woman who had spurned him by covering her with honey and feeding her to two starving Doberman pinschers.

<> And they hate Bush more than they hate Saddam himself, a man who not so long ago machine-gunned thousands of people at a trench in a town called Hilla in exactly the same way that the Nazis once machine-gunned thousands of people at a ravine in Ukraine called Babi Yar.

Am I overstating the case? Listen to what one of their number recently wrote at Democratic Underground, a popular Web site on the Left:

"Doesn't a part of you wish that Queasy and Duh-day were alive? I'll admit they're scum and rightfully so, but anything that lands as even more humiliation on W's grotesque shriveled face is that much the better.

"It's sad, really, that as despicable as they are, Saddam's family seems to be the lesser of two evils when you compare them to the wretched little (expletive) occupying the White House and destroying America in the process."

I know, this guy's an isolated nut, right? His view doesn't represent that of those who sincerely love their country but also sincerely believe that the war was wrong. Right?

Maybe. But sometimes it's hard for me to tell the difference.

For instance, consider what the Reuters news service recently did to a story turned in by a free-lancer in West Virginia named Deanna Wren. This was her lead:

"ELIZABETH — In this small county seat with just 995 residents, the girl everyone calls Jessi is a true heroine — even if reports vary about Pfc. Jessica Lynch and her ordeal in Iraq."

But apparently an impartial and unbiased editor at Reuters decided the story needed to make a stronger statement. And so this was the result:

"Jessica Lynch, the wounded Army private whose ordeal in Iraq was hyped into a media fiction of U.S. heroism, was set for an emotional homecoming on Tuesday. … Media critics say the TV cameras will not show the return of an injured soldier so much as a reality-TV drama co-produced by U.S. government propaganda and credulous reporters."

And now, following the phony scandal about the "looted museum" and the phony scandal about the "missing WMDs," we have the phony scandal about the "16 words."

For more:

www.starnewspapers.com/star/spedit/col/03-co11.htm

[JohnKleeb]

1. Doesnt Bush kinda equal murder

Its a pity really that they quote one of us, also they should go on FR and see the nasty shit they say.

[otohara]

2. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=4460&mesg_id=4460