Right Thinking From The Left Coast
"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Thus Spake Hitchens
by Lee

I just got in from work (another 14 hour day) and I started browsing through shows on my TiVo.  I started watching a Dennis Miller show from a few days ago because Christopher Hitchens was on it, and I wlays find him enjoyable and interesting.  During the interview he pointed to his lapel, and stated that this was the fglag of independent Kurdistan.  From here on I’ll paraphrase his remarks.

“Think back a couple of years ago to all the naysaying about bringing Jeffersonian democracy to Iraq.  Well, here in America we have Jeffersonian democracy, yet we’ve never elected a black or a Jew as president.  But in Iraq they have gone, in the space of two years, from a fascist dictatorship to holding fair, free elections.  And the man elected is a mamber of an oppressed minority.  That’s something that we’ve never done here in America, and we’ve been around for over 200 years.”

A damn fine point, if I do say so myself.  The naysayers and antiwar idiots simply refuse to recognize the significance of what is going on in Iraq right now.  It’s far from perfect and nowhere near over, but something big is happening.  And for all of those scumbags who signed the Not In Our Name petition, when Iraq turns into a success you can know that it was all done not in your name.

Posted by Lee on 04/13/05 at 01:24 AM in War on Terror/Axis of Evil  • (1) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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