Sunday, May 15, 2005

What's an Apology Worth?

When I was in the Navy we used an expression for making a bad mistake. The expression was (and for the faint hearted, please excuse me) "I stepped on my d*ck."

Well, Newsweek stepped on their's with logger's boots. The result of their screw up was riots in Afghanistan and the deaths of fifteen Afghanis: Newsweek says Koran desecration report is wrong - Yahoo! News And the mainstream media says that bloggers are irresponsible.

And while we're in the Middle East. Consider the idea that many, if not most, of the insurgent fighters in Iraq are not even Iraqis:Saudi ‘martyrs’ fuel Iraq’s insurgency - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC Our "eternal friend," to use President Bush's words, seems to supply a good number of pinheads shooting and bombing our troops and Iraqis. Meanwhile President Bush is photographed holding hands (and even if it was with Tony Blair it would be weird) with the Saudi Prince Abdul Abdullah Emir, or whatever his name is. Christians are persecuted in Saudi Arabia. Women are stoned for adultry in Saudi Arabia.The Saudis preach the Wahabi Muslim doctrine. Saudis are shooting at our men and women and blowing up hard scrabble Iraqis trying to make it from day to day. And our leader holds the hand of a two faced rat.

Don't get me wrong. John Kerry would have been a catamite for the Saudis in particular and the Middle East in general. But George W. Bush, sometimes called the leader of the western world, is despairing. Mr. Bush seems to be unable to see the big picture. The current war is not is not a war against Baathists. It is a war for western civilization.

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