Jay Stephenson says there is no evidence of civil war in Iraq.
Yet: “Almost 1100 people were killed in Baghdad alone last month… Shi’ites say thousands of their community have had to flee their homes to escape threats by Sunni extremists.”
The only way — the only way — that Jay and others like him can make the claim that there is no civil war in Iraq is by ignoring the evidence, and ignoring it continuously and completely. They must practice ignorance that is absolutely impervious to reality, lest their fantasy world be invaded by uncomfortable, inconvenient facts.
It never ceases to amaze me that practitioners of this invincible ignorance always expect others to take their arguments seriously.
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May 11, 2006 at 9:11 am
Beaming Visionary
Come on. Everyone knows that when Saddam was ousted and then captured, the Sunnis took it in stride and made no effort to quell uprisings by Shiites. And the Shiites, when faced with those exquisitely rare Sunnis who have in fact behaved violently in recent years, have perpetrated no abhorrent acts of their own. If you believe otherwise, it’s time you tuned out the liberal MSM and started listening to the cold facts served up by the hard-hitting scions at FOX News and such.
May 12, 2006 at 3:13 am
kender
May 12, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Capt. Rational
Never underestimate the power of a good pair of blinders. Mission accomplished, remember?
May 13, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Beaming Visionary
kender and his fellow champsions of irrelevant, issue-dodging one-liners have placed the rhetorical bar so low that it’s almost difficult for a hurried observer to see just how dishonest and misinformed the stop the ACLU “essayists” are. Trying to engage them in meaningful dialogue or get them to respond to direct challenges to their bumblefuck opinions only elicits infantile ad hom outbursts, with or without clumsy and frantic back-pedaling. In essence, replies like “I need a dollar” are no different than a four-year-old child’s repetitive response of “I know you are, but what am I?”