Much of the left, in both Europe and the United States, is so convinced that the Iraq invasion was no more than an American grab for oil and military bases, it seems to have forgotten the myriad crimes of Saddam Hussein.
Yeah, well, nice try, Roger, but "it seems" just won't cut it here. Let's have one - just one, I'm asking for here - name and citation from a leftie who's "forgotten the myriad crimes of Saddam Hussein. Hyperventilating or no. Just breathing is fine with me.
As Jane Hamsher points out in her discussion of Roger's rant, here at Firedoglake, Cohen's claim picks up a popular Bushco-minion theme, "we were right to be wrong."
And more, it picks up on a rhetorical device much favored in wingnut circles - floating over-inflated, gas-filled bogeymen and hysterically shooting them down. "Liberals hate Christmas." "Liberals love illegals." "Liberals want to kill all the babies." "Liberals want to ruin your marriage." And the most bloated of all, "Liberals hate America."
Now don't get all excited here, Bunky. Don't hyperventilate. You're right if you say some of the moonbats do too. But try reading a few issues of William Kristol's Weekly Standard some day - just about every article leads off with that device. Try listening to Malkin or Coulter, O'Reilly or Limbaugh. (And no, no links. Go find them for yourself.) Oh yeah, it's a wingnut thing, alright. Wingnuts are assholes.
(See what I mean?)
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