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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 101565" data-attributes="member: 1940"><p>This should make the left feel a little better about themselves, they have company.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/cool.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" data-shortname=":cool:" /></p><p></p><p>from The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page</p><p></p><p>BY JAMES TARANTO</p><p>Friday, July 21, 2006 2:08 p.m. EDT</p><p>The Angry Left's Newest Recruit</p><p>"It appears that Saddam Hussein may be inching toward the Democratic Presidential primary in 2008," writes a blogger called "The Influence Peddler." We're pretty sure TIP has his tongue planted in his cheek--Saddam strikes us as more of a third-party type of guy--but the erstwhile dictator is sounding an awful lot like a left-wing Democrat, as the New York Times reports: </p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Saddam Hussein's defense lawyers on Thursday released a letter Mr. Hussein recently wrote in prison that tries to convince the American people that the United States should leave Iraq because President Bush misled them into a deadly quagmire.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The 5,000-word letter is a rambling treatise outlining what Mr. Hussein asserts are the false reasons the Bush administration used to justify the war in Iraq, from illicit weapons to links with Al Qaeda. Mr. Hussein said he had written it at the behest of Ramsey Clark, the former United States attorney general who serves on his defense team.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Mr. Hussein blames Iran and pro-Israel interests for helping lead the Americans into war. He invokes the specter of the Vietnam War . . .</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Ramsey Clark, the man with the behest, actually is a Democrat, or was: He served as Lyndon Johnson's attorney general (1967-69) and was the 1974 Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Chuck Schumer</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Advocates of U.S. withdrawal, meanwhile, can find some cheer in this report from London's Daily Telegraph:</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The people of Iceland are about to join one of the world's smallest clubs--those nations without armed forces on their territory to defend their borders.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The United States, which had assured Iceland's defence for decades, stunned the country in March when it announced that it would be closing its bases on the island, withdrawing its friend-15 fighters and thousands of servicemen in the space of just six months. . . .</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The United States is still legally pledged to defend Iceland from attack, but it now insists that it can do this from a distance. </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">This is the John Murtha strategy for Iraq. And the moment Iraq is as stable and peaceful as Iceland is today, we'll gladly join the call.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">A dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 101565, member: 1940"] This should make the left feel a little better about themselves, they have company.:cool: from The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page BY JAMES TARANTO Friday, July 21, 2006 2:08 p.m. EDT The Angry Left's Newest Recruit "It appears that Saddam Hussein may be inching toward the Democratic Presidential primary in 2008," writes a blogger called "The Influence Peddler." We're pretty sure TIP has his tongue planted in his cheek--Saddam strikes us as more of a third-party type of guy--but the erstwhile dictator is sounding an awful lot like a left-wing Democrat, as the New York Times reports: [INDENT]Saddam Hussein's defense lawyers on Thursday released a letter Mr. Hussein recently wrote in prison that tries to convince the American people that the United States should leave Iraq because President Bush misled them into a deadly quagmire. The 5,000-word letter is a rambling treatise outlining what Mr. Hussein asserts are the false reasons the Bush administration used to justify the war in Iraq, from illicit weapons to links with Al Qaeda. Mr. Hussein said he had written it at the behest of Ramsey Clark, the former United States attorney general who serves on his defense team. Mr. Hussein blames Iran and pro-Israel interests for helping lead the Americans into war. He invokes the specter of the Vietnam War . . . Ramsey Clark, the man with the behest, actually is a Democrat, or was: He served as Lyndon Johnson's attorney general (1967-69) and was the 1974 Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Chuck Schumer Advocates of U.S. withdrawal, meanwhile, can find some cheer in this report from London's Daily Telegraph: The people of Iceland are about to join one of the world's smallest clubs--those nations without armed forces on their territory to defend their borders. The United States, which had assured Iceland's defence for decades, stunned the country in March when it announced that it would be closing its bases on the island, withdrawing its friend-15 fighters and thousands of servicemen in the space of just six months. . . . The United States is still legally pledged to defend Iceland from attack, but it now insists that it can do this from a distance. This is the John Murtha strategy for Iraq. And the moment Iraq is as stable and peaceful as Iceland is today, we'll gladly join the call. A dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain.[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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