Birdblog on Western Self-Jihad

By Aussiegirl

Sorry for the absence -- Blogger has been down for most of the last two days, now I'm hopelessly behind. On to the news.

Tim Birdnow says it for all of us -- I couldn't do any better myself. It's almost hilarious to sit back and watch the spinning of the media in reaction to the news of the elimination of Zarqawi. The tone of voice in almost all news reports was positively mournful - funereal. You'd think their best friend had just died. One idiot reporter talking with Imus on his morning show was asked what the reaction was to the news on the ground. This idiot, his voice quivering with fear and trembling, said something like -- "Not at all good, I-man -- already the reprisals are beginning as we just got word of a car bomb that went off and killed a dozen people." Whereupon Imus asked him how he knew it was a reprisal, suggesting that bombs go off every day, and that the bomb had likely been there for days. The reporter immediately had to back off and say -- "Of course, you're right, we have no way of knowing -- that's true."

This is what passes for journalism in our modern age. They are nothing more than blatant propagandists for the George Soros, Moveon.org, Hillary Clinton, Reid, Pelosi left wing of our society, and what they are really upset about is this news cut into their carefully planned strategy of blowing up Haditha into a war-ending My Lai massacre and sailing into the sunset having successfully undermined another U.S. war effort. This is a party and a left-wing that lives exclusively in the past on its own past "glories" and distorted memory of halcion days of pot-smoking, demonstrating and delusions of grandeur. When the likes of Pinchy Sulzberger gives a speech in which he claims that his generation had just "ended an unpopular war and brought down a corrupt president" -- like yeah -- sure Pinchy -- those unwashed masses really ran the country back then.

Just wait for a day or two and we will be hearing accusations that the Z-man wasn't given enough medical attention soon enough, or that it is suspicious that he seemed so intact given the size of the bomb. There is never any end to conspiracy theories for the feeble minded among us.

Of course, Zarqawi's death is not going to be the end of violence in Iraq. The terrorism goes beyond Al Qaeda and involves the Fedayeen and Saddam's old intelligence and security forces who don't like the power that the Shias now carry in the government. But there is no question that finally getting Zarqawi is a big political and strategic plus, and a big boost for public morale and no doubt, troop morale too.

And let's have no more of President Bush using the tired phrase -- "He was brought to justice." -- This isn't a criminal case -- this is war. He was terminated with prejudice if you want to use a euphemism, or he was eliminated -- he was plan and simple -- killed -- and he needed killing.

Birdblog

The Liberal/Democratic response to the death of Abu Al-Zarqawi has been little short of amazing; they have either tossed it off as irrelevent, or have tried to spin it into a dark conspiracy by the Bush Administration to raise his poll numbers. Some of the comments by mainstream Democrats have been jaw-dropping; Richard Clark, that darling of the media, shrugged it off on Good Morning America as just one of tens of thousands of enemies; no big deal!