Michael Moore said that, “The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not ‘insurgents’ or ‘terrorists’ or ‘The Enemy.’ They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow — and they will win.”
Well, via The Washington Times , Army Col. H.R. McMaster offers some details about Michael Moore’s Minutemen:
But it was his description of how the enemy occupied their safe haven that got the most attention. Col. McMaster told of beheadings, gunshot killings, a booby-trapped dead child and kidnappings. “This is the worst of the worst in terms of people in the world,” he said. “To protect themselves here, what the enemy did is they waged the most brutal and murderous campaign against the people of Tal Afar. … The enemy here did just the most horrible things you can imagine, in one case murdering a child, placing a booby trap within the child’s body and waiting for the parent to come recover the body of their child and exploding it to kill the parents.” . . .
Col. McMaster said soldiers captured some associates of lead terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi. “They are some of the worst human beings on the face of the Earth,” he said. “There is no really greater pleasure for us than to kill or capture these particular individuals.”
While U.S. soldiers are eager to kill such barbarians, Michael Moore is rooting for them to win.
Hat tip: National Review Online’s The Corner.
While U.S. soldiers are eager to kill such barbarians, Michael Moore is rooting for them to win.
And Cindy Sheehan calls them “freedom fighters.”
Unfortunately, lefties will scoff because this information came from NRO and the Washington Times, instead of a reliable, trustworthy news organization like the New York Times (home of Jayson Blair) or CBS News (purveyors of phony Texas ANG Memos) or NBC News (Hey, let’s blow up a pick-up truck and tell everybody the gas tank is defective) or CNN (home of tailwind)…
But don’t forget: This is a struggle of good and evil. And we’re the good.
With apologies to Michael Savage, Michael Moore is indeed “the enemy within.”
If it were 60 years earlier, he’d be arrested and tried for sedition. (It wouldn’t be treason – read Article III, Section of the Constitution.)
With guys like Moore, who needs Chirac?
Regards,
Peter Hughes
Peter-
He’s definitely seditious… but I’m a big fan of not having anti-sedition laws on the books. It just makes them keep quiet about it. Imagine how dangerous the Kossacks and DU and MoveOn’s more strident elements would be if they were gathering in secret and being arrested for speaking out.
We have a marketplace of ideas. Let Cindy Sheehan speak out — and she discredits herself. (see Sheehan on New Orleans…) Throw her in jail for speaking out — and she’s an instant super-martyr.
Re: Michael Moore, though… someone’s got to be keeping footage of his more outrageous performances (screaming about a “fictitious president; fictitious war” at the Oscars… his comments on Katrina…) It would be easy in a few years to juxtapose footage of his comments (e.g. “minute men”) with videos of children being blown up in Iraq, and the prosperous free state Iraq will be well on its way to becoming by then. He’s become enough of a public figure for his own propaganda techniques to be quite effective against him.
And that perhaps is the point, Clint….the best way to handle an idiot is to give them a microphone.
Well put, Clint and ND30. I learn so much from this blog!
Regards,
Peter Hughes
Sorry guys –as a fellow-Flintoid with Michael Moore (a claim I shudder at uttering), you guys are making a big mistake in letting him have the mic, the camera, or the soapbox without strenuous, consistent objections. Not that this site doesn’t do a great job of calling the buffoon silly. But when he was a local phenom, the great power structure of GM-Buick-Corp America let him engage in his specious distortions and they paid a huge price –now he’s entrenched in the MSM and part of the far LibLeft’s churning machine.
Let ‘em have the mic and his ideas will self-destruct because he’ll be revealed as an idiot? Arrgh.
The problem with that approach is that in the end, you have to trust the American people, elite, and opinion makers to comprehend the lie and demonstrate against it in a constructive, lasting fashion. It just doesn’t happen anymore with fast news cycles, blogs, and lies parading until they are perceived as truth. Like the hanging chads, the gun lobby being responsible for Columbine and America’s ills, or WMD: Bush lied, troops died. The new PR adage should be “Spin works, Lies have lasting impressions.” How many 50 yr olds think JFK was killed by a single assassin? How many 40 yr olds think SlickWilly was impeached for partisan gain? How many 20 yr olds think GWB stole the election?
Spin works. Lies have lasting impression on the media elite, the opinion makers, on the American people and most of all on historians. Charges of seditious behavior fail to underscore the true threat he represents.
Never let MM’s voice have the benefit of unfiltered silence –the use of Minute Man is a slander on the patriot men of Concord and Lexington.