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| Dominoes of Liberty (Andrew Bolt Bitch-Slaps the Left) |
| 2005-03-09 |
| Hat tip: Tim Blair. EFL. Much more at the link - read it all. The defeatist Left said Iraq would become an endless bloodbath. Instead, it is creating a ripple of freedom throughout the Middle East. PHILLIP Adams, lion of the Left, writes in The Australian: "There has to be a day of reckoning on this wretched war." Well, if he really insists. In fact, let's start that reckoning right now. With me. And then with Adams. *snip* But as I said even before the invasion — weapons and oil, while important, weren't the main prizes. The spreading of freedom to a region of autocrats would justify this war. More facts, wonderful facts: Freedom does at last seem to be coming to the Middle East, and faster than even I dared to hope. *snip* Eight years ago, the main architects of Iraq's liberation demanded the US "challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values". "We need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom aboard", if necessary "with a policy of military strength", they said in an open letter signed by current US Vice-President Dick Cheney, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy Paul Wolfowitz and President George W. Bush's brother Jeb. They wanted what we now see, freedom growing in the Middle East. These men and their media backers can, so far, face their reckoning with pride. But can Phillip Adams AO, flippant ABC host, Australian columnist and former chairman of the Australian Film Commission? How would he and his fellow Leftists face their own reckoning over Iraq? *snip* But still worse than this savagery is that many in the Left mocked the very idea of Arabs having freedom. Is the Left truly so racist? Well, yeah. Haven't you been paying attention for the last 50 years? Take Rory Steele, a former ambassador to Iraq and one of 43 "eminent Australians" who signed a petition just before our last election damning the Howard Government and the war in Iraq. No, you take him. I don't have enough disinfectant to protect myself. Declared Steele: "The invaders did this in the name of democracy, a concept unaccepted to date in the Arab world and one that is totally unrealistic for Iraq." FINALLY, someone is publicly calling the leftists to account for their vicious bigotry. About damn time. Unrealistic? Not to Iraqis who risked death to vote, yet Adams was just as jeering of our hopes of bringing freedom to Arabs. Can't have that, can we, Phillip, them being brown and all. Asshole. Loser. BIGOT. A year ago this New Barbarian gloated over what he thought was the death of this dream: "There was also the lunatic proposition that, by imposing democracy by force, the US, UK (and us) would inspire the region to transform itself. What a load of ideological claptrap." And there were his other wild claims — that the war would "create another Vietnam", "could cost Bush (and Blair) office", would end with "a Stalingrad-style battle in the city" and more. Last year he even crowed: "The promised outbreak of peace between Israel and the Palestinians has failed to materialise." Day of reckoning, Phillip. There is a long way to go with many setbacks to come. Iran is still a grave threat. But democracy is dawning in the Middle East, transforming even Palestine. These are miracles that, had it been left to Adams and his kind, we'd have never seen. Without the war they opposed, Saddam would still be in power, and freedom in its grave. Day of reckoning. Let these enemies of freedom be judged, and as harshly as they would have judged us. Hot double damn! It's past time the Lefties got the righteous bitch-slap they so richly deserve. Hang 'em high, Andrew! :-D |
| Posted by:Barbara Skolaut |
| #2 Yeah, but it's still a helluva bitch-slap. Kudos to Bolt. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2005-03-09 5:26:03 PM |
| #1 Unfortunately Bolt writes for a newspaper 99% of whose readers couldn't give a stuff about geopolitics. The Australian media is infested with Leftists, far worse than the USA. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-03-09 3:20:22 PM |