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Where are your "Minutemen" now, Mr. Moore?

Iraqi troops cast their votes in the referendum
on the new constitution
in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, Saturday.
(AP/Mohammed Uraibi)

I wake up today to hear news of the Iraqi election. I started watching it last night before I went to bed, I decided it was going to go pretty well so I went to bed. I was still interested in what the coverage would be on the following day so I turned on the ‘TeeVee’, and what did I get instead of that story? Next to zip on the Iraqi vote, but “Fascists in Ohio rioting” and a “racist religious leader leading a protest in Washington DC”. The news, if there is such a thing is only where things are going bad, not where things are going well, so the news is no longer in Iraq. Ignorance on the part of the press is sometimes a complement. That’s a breakthrough I think.

Wait just a minute!; Iraqis who have been under siege for years by fascists and Islamic racists, still manage to vote in large numbers in public places and manage to accomplish the cornerstone of Democracy with virtually no violence – Not News.

But here in the United States we have Nazis in the streets of Ohio and an Islamic racist leading protests in the nations capital – News.

I’m almost embarrassed to say it, but the fact that it’s raining in the north-east is, yes that’s right – News.

You understand that many Islamic countries can rarely expect to complete a religious holiday season without an outbreak of large scale public violence, yet Iraq and Afghanistan have just managed to show the world that they can handle western style democracy, with respect, with dignity and with honor and on a repeated basis. Iraqis didn’t just vote this weekend, Iraqis have stood in the front lines of the war on terror as targets to killers and they have answered them by saying;
“we believe in freedom”
“we believe in the rule of law”
“we are citizens of the nation not subjects of the Caliphate”

They didn’t sit at home and say “things were better under the Baath party, oh Saddam why did you have to go, oh when will Osama save us from these evil western temptresses"?

They voted. Women, religious minorities, ethnic minorities, political minorities, even Communists for Gods sake voted!; they all voted. Side by side, and with one goal in mind, they voted to speak their minds without fear in an equal way. They didn’t just cast a ballot for a constitution, the voted for the future. You understand just how racist and bigoted it was for the leftists to say that it could never happen, don’t you?

But the bigger question is, if the Islamic fascists can’t win in Iraq, and they can’t win in Afghanistan, just exactly where can they win? If Islamic fascism cant survive in the 'wild west' of failed nation states, then where can it survive and under what conditions? The second question is if middle-eastern tyrannies don’t receive support from western countries, how long can they stand against their own populace? How long would Iran stand if Europe and Russia said “ Sorry, your time is up, we can’t do business with you if you are going to be a base for Terrorism”. The third question should be, how long can Europe stand and survive if it continues to support Terrorism? Russia, who this week survived another outright war in within its own borders, continues to support Iran, while knowing full well that the Chechens have the support the Iranian government. Revenue into state coffers is a good thing,, but the war in Chechnya and the support of terrorist state are at direct odds with each other.

Germany, despite long odds against it happening, has a new centrist government and the Anti-American bigot who one ran the country during the last few years is out of a job. His party clings to power by its fingernails, despite turning in the worst economy since the Reich was destroyed. The EU Constitution is at a standstill and the franco-german axis is no longer the force that is rotating Europe. Poland, The UK and Ireland are providing market based economic growth that goes beyond their borders, while those countries where more central control of the marketplace is still being used are failing to support even their people. How many times do you have to fail before you start to say “hey maybe we’ve got it all wrong here”? The left cant run a government, cant run an economy that provides for peoples basic needs, it cannot even run a city the size of New Orleans, it can't even run a philosophy that grows and improves the lot of people who follow it. Gee guys, it might be time to go back and make a new set of ideas to believe in.

I did see this headline, which made me laugh and think for a second:

Thousands Attend ‘Millions More Movement’

Hmmm. Not “Millions Attend Millions” but “Thousands Attend Millions”. I guess next year we can look forward to “Hundreds attend Millions More March” and the year after, “Crowds gather to attend Millions More march”, and the year after “Individuals offer quiet reflection for Millions More March”.

This story is offered by the press as evidence of a growing movement against the evil Bush, even though the title of the piece shows the idiocy of that idea.

My point is this. If you felt that the ‘War in Iraq’ was a bad thing, does the fact that the Iraqis are no longer chattel to a dictator but citizens of a democracy; does that change your perspective at all? Or despite all the evidence that the people who were formally ruled by the dictators you still support, really didn’t like it that much no matter what you may have thought, will your support of dictatorships over democracies years from now still be as strong as it is today? If so, WHY?

You see, people often protest the ‘War in Iraq’ protest with the idea that “leaving” would make things better and that Democracy cannot be imposed. They still argue that isolationism on the part of the United States makes for a better world, even though the evidence of the last 60 years has shown just the opposite to be true. If we had remained isolationist in the 1940s, had Hitler not declared war United States, had Japan chosen Russia as an enemy rather than us, does anyone imagine that the fate of the Europeans and Asians would be better today than it actually is with our “intervention”?

The leftist argument for pacifist isolationism does nothing to free anyone or even pretend to make life for other people better. In fact in case after case we see that pacifist isolationism on the part of free nations gives tyrannies all they need to exist and to subjugate human populations into horrible conditions. In fact most leftists even believe it’s foolish to talk of “freedom” at all. Life, they argue was truly better under Saddam, and its truly worse under Bush. Life was better under Stalin than Gorbachev , Life was better under Honnecker than Merkel, and so on. To leftists, the chaos that can come from democracy is far worse than the certainty imposed in a dictatorship. Leftists often find themselves at odd with the populace, and often find themselves saying that “people in this country are just too stupid and incapable of ruling themselves, let us the "enlightened ones" do it for them...”

But hasn’t what has just occurred in Iraq show what a fraud the ideology of the left really is? Or will the left now simply ignore the freedom of Iraq and Afghanistan and argue that the violence in Ohio shows that:

1) Bush is not doing enough to aid the inner cities.
2) Bush sent Ohio National Guard troops to Iraq, and were not available to 'stop the violence'.
3) It’s all Bush’s fault that the long standing racism of the inner cities exists.

The story this morning has quickly turned from “ Arabs don’t want democracy” to “Democracy has failed to improve the lives of African Americans here in the United States”.

I’m not surprised that the story has changed, but I am surprised at the speed that good news is quickly converted into bad news.

It seems to me that “the left “ needs fear, doubt and tyranny to survive the way a buzzard needs carrion. The “buzzard left” has now found that the middle east is no longer providing the carrion it needs to feed on, so they have returned to the “shame of Americas inner cities” for more fear on which to feed.

It also occurs to me that Arabs in Iraq and Afghanistan now live with more freedom and rights than the people who have been condemned to live in Socialist Cuba, Zimbabwe and North Korea. Shall we all take bets on which counties shall be in better shape in 10 years time? Cuba or Iraq? Who will be providing a better life for their people? The citizens of Afghanistan, or the tyranny of North Korea?

The day will come when the walls around North Korea will fall, and when it becomes know to the world what has occurred there with the complicity of the worlds socialists and leftists, who in the press will hold them accountable for their complicity in the crime? When Fidel dies and the Cuban horror becomes known, who will hold the left in Hollywood complicit in the crime? Will Oliver Stone hang his head in shame? Or will he continue to “Blame Bush” for all of Fidel’s crimes?

Will the “buzzard left” ever circle over Pyongyang? Or will they simply cry again at the loss of another socialist paradise in which they can experiment on humanity with the cruelty that Dr. Mengele experimented on twins in Auschwitz?

I’ll take the uncertainty of democracy over the certainty of tyranny anyday, and today I think that 10 million people in Iraq agree with me and not with Michael Moore.

Where are your "Minutemen" now, Mr. Moore? How sad you must be to have lost again in the battlefield of ideas...

Posted @ October 15, 2005 01:06 PM | Current Affairs

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