AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

08/22/05

Both the neocon Right and the 'centrist' (i.e., left-neocon) Democratic Leadership Council denounce the antiwar movement -- and any timetable for withdrawal -- as 'anti-American,' but how 'pro-American' is the regime we've installed in Iraq by force of arms? When you look at what we've actually done in Iraq -- the emerging Islamist-Kurdish tyranny we've empowered -- it turns out that the U.S. government is the biggest exponent -- and exporter -- of true anti-Americanism. The irony and tragedy of this seems lost on those for whom 'anti-American' is the main epithet in their rhetorical arsenal. ... As Shi'ite party militias roam the ruins of Iraq's cities killing and beating political dissidents, and whipping women who fail to wear the requisite head-to-toe chador, our 'democracy'-crazed neocons cite the country as a 'model' -- and look forward to the 'liberation' of the rest of the Middle East along similar lines...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7034


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp