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August 30, 2005

Every Enemy of the U.S. Government is EVIL

Writes WarNutDaily columnist Dennis Prager:

All those who support the American war in Iraq should make a deal with anyone opposed to the war. Offer to answer any 20 questions the opponents wish to ask if they will answer just one:

Do you believe we are fighting evil people in Iraq? That is how supporters of the war regard the Baathists and the Islamic suicide terrorists, the people we are fighting in Iraq.

According to Prager, any response other than an unequivocal "yes" means that the person isn't even worth engaging in further conversation. He even claims that the perfectly reasonable response "Some of those we are fighting may be evil, but not all; some are simply fighting against foreign occupation of their country" is insufficient, a non-answer. One simply must agree that every single person who fights against our righteous, God-ordained government (when Republicans are in charge of it) is not just wrong but out-and-out evil.

As Prager puts it, "Anyone who remains unable to morally judge people who slit the throats of innocent people, who place bombs in the middle of markets, and who murder anyone attempting to help women achieve basic human rights is a moral imbecile." (Funny, but I thought the war was about eliminating the threat of Saddam Hussein's WMD and assistance to al-Qaeda . . . but that is so 2003.)

Well, Mr. Prager, I find anyone who remains unable to morally judge people who drop two-ton bombs on cities full of innocent people, kill tens of thousands of civilians, transport suspects to foreign countries to be tortured, humiliate and abuse prisoners of war, and hold other suspects incommunicado without recourse to attorneys or courts to be a moral imbecile--and you have just earned the number-one spot on that list.

Posted by Mike Tennant at August 30, 2005 01:45 PM

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