December 17, 2004
Best VDH of the Year
Right Wing News has the best VDH quotes of the year 2004 up. Great stuff.
At the risk of being ungrateful to John Hawkins for bringing it all together he appears to have missed one of my favorites.
Yet despite them all, and after this bloody month of November, here we are now on the eve of elections — the most unlikely of all events in the last half-century of civilization. Just think of it: In place of the past Hussein mass murdering and the present ogres of Fallujah, we are to witness an effort to jump-start democracy in the heart of the caliphate of old, right between the world's worst two governments in Syria and Iran, amid treacherous folk like the Saudis, Jordanians, and al Jazeera cheering the insurgents on. How did we come this far and get so close, when the unprincipled such as Jacques Chirac shunned the once-wounded democrat Allawi and sent his plane instead to fetch the murderer Arafat — a profiteer in the guise of a 'leader' who hand-in-glove with Saddam Hussein made France billions in Iraq and then lectured about morality to those who slammed the cash register drawer on his stealthy hands. How could we ever contemplate the chance of elections when the Saudis, the Syrians, and the Iranians sent millions of dollars and thousands of jihadists to stop it all — lest the virus of freedom spread?If there's a better summation of the events and hypocrisy of the past 3+ years in a single paragraph, I don't think I've seen it. Posted by SoccerDad at December 17, 2004 05:23 AM | TrackBack