With the handwriting on the wall in Iraq, and thousands of jubilant Iraqis celebrating their freedom, the reaction from the doomsaying left has been everything from paranoid to entertaining. While sites like Democrat Underground are filled with conspiracy theorists, others like Snowflake are managed by people that just refuse to see the facts. From her assertion that Iraq will just fuck up a good thing, so we shouldn't have bothered in the first place, to her gushing approval of America hater Robert Fisk, Stacy's site is just disturbing*.

Even more disturbing to me are sites like Iraq Body Count that keeps a running total on the supposed number of civilians killed. Interestingly enough, they rely on such sources as Al-Jazeera for totals, and are reporting incidents as far back as January. Liberals don't seem to care, however, they just take the numbers as gospel. Too bad they aren't counting the number of Iraqis Saddam and his Ba'ath party minions have killed since the war began. It'd be interesting to know how many people were butchered for collaborating, conscripted into military service, or literally used as a human shield to protect the elite cowardly republican guard.

Even the English language Arab News says in an editorial, "Saddam was a dictator and accordingly was hated by most of his people. That they are rid of him is a good thing, and to argue otherwise would be not only foolish, but cruel."** So why then can't some Americans see the light that ruthless dictators are bad, and liberation is good?

*Don't bother commenting there if you disagree with her views. Dissent is not tolerated in snowflake-land, and you will be banned post haste.
**The Arab News hasn't exactly turned over a new leaf. They go on to conclude that the war was still all about oil, and that Bush hatched the invasion of Iraq prior to September 11th.

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