I'm going to go with "crickets" myself, Ed.
Either that, or outright baldfaced lying.
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The title is response to Ed Morrissey's response to this:
Iraqi lawmakers pass pro-Baath party law
BAGHDAD - Iraq's parliament adopted legislation Saturday on the reinstatement of former Baath party supporters to government jobs, a benchmark sought by the United States as a key step toward national reconciliation.
The voting was carried out by a show of hands on each of the law's 30 clauses. The bill, officially called the "Accountability and Justice" law, seeks to relax restrictions on the right of members of Saddam Hussein's now-dissolved Baath party to fill government posts. It is also designed to reinstate thousands of Baathists in government jobs from which they had been dismissed because of their ties to the party.
I have to say: you can knock the AP down, but by Jeebus it'll go down swinging. Characterizing a critical step in the de-Baathification process as being a "pro-Baath party law" is precisely the sort of stubborn rearguard action we've come to expect from the media; a pity that they can't use their powers for good, nu?
Read on.
Anyway, Ed wondered:
I wonder how the anti-war crowd will spin this. My guesses:
1. It's too late -- the sky is already falling!
2. Too many people have died to make freedom worth it.
3. (crickets chirping)Or is there spin I missed?
Mind you, there will be people going with 1). or 2)., but 3). is most likely in an election year. Establishment Democrats rather badly want this issue to go away - they picked the wrong side, after all - and while that's not enough to get 3). to happen for them, it's at least a start. Of course, this will be a blow for the antiwar movement, but again, this is an election year: they were going to be tossed to the side anyway, lest they remind the normal electorate that the Democratic Party has a past evocative of Rochester's*. So the betrayal's already pre-planned, as it were.
Needless to say, I'm happy to see this sign of political progress in Iraq, and I encourage the ongoing healing process going on there. The sooner things get better over there, the sooner our troops can go home. I also legitimately hope that, some day very soon, that more members of the Democratic Party will have the political and moral courage to echo my sentiments.
Note the use of the word "hope."
Moe Lane
*Look, if that characterization personally offends you, why not go with Rhys' take on the topic, instead of Bronte's?
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I'm going to go with "crickets" myself, Ed. 9 Comments (0 topical, 9 editorial, 0 hidden) Post a comment »
When Nelson Mandela decided to go with the Truth and Reconcilation Commission, instead of going for vengeance against everyone supportive or benefiting from the old government, did they call him pro-Apartheid?
The dhimmiecrat/MSM simply cannot accept that things might be getting better. This stance is why neither Obama or Hillary are likely to win this fall.
Don't confuse the MSM with the Democrats. The MSM is actually worse.
If/When a coalition victory is undeniable in Iraq, the Dems will be on-record as opposing every phases of the war and being wrong, while the AP will adopt a "we knew all along" tone and join in the chorus of laughter because, hey, they never actually took a *position*. After all, they're just unbiased reporters of the "truth", right?
Personally, I prefer people who take a public position and stand by it, to those who cloak a very yellow shade of journalism inside a neutral-sounding writing style.
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"You can't save the Earth unless you're willing to make other people sacrifice" - Scott Adams (speaking through Dogbert)
There is one other way the MSM/Dems may try to spin this, and that is as "proof" that the war failed in the first place. i.e. Why'd we bother going to war if the people we removed just end up back there to begin with? -- This is of course a ridiculous argument that would contradict their past assertions. However, the rabid anti-war left doesn't exactley have a great track record for logic.
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Kevin Drum:
Today saw the first concrete sign of political reconciliation in Iraq: the passage of a law that eases the anti-Baathist order put in place by Jerry Bremer at the beginning of the American occupation in 2003. In theory, the new law should allow thousands of Sunni ex-members of Saddam’s civil service to once again serve in government jobs.
[If djames isn't interested enough to give us the link, I'm not interested enough to correct his n00b behavior for him. Links, kids, links: and if you think that we're not going to bother with clicking through to read Kevin Drum and/or Juan Cole, consider that you may want to find more credible sources. Like, say, Bazooka Joe comics. - Moe Lane]
...even for other bloggers. That means:
1). Link;
2). Excerpt in a manner consistent with a fair-use policy;
and
3). Make it clear what's your thoughts, and what are the thoughts of the person that you're quoting.
Now, I know that you're a drive-by from Ed's site, but I want this to be clear when somebody asks why I replaced your copy-and-paste job with a terse comment on fair use. Do that again, and the next time it'll be your email address, so that interested readers may contact you directly for the link. Grok?
Moe
PS: Not In Your Name, djames.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
Apologies, Moe.
Here's the link from Kevin Drum's blog:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_01/012888.php
I hope you continue to watch the story continue in the "Western". In this way we can see if it really is, as media hails it, a new law for success in one of Bush's benchmarks.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
This group who constantly serves as a mouthpiece for one side of the debate in this country now wants to make that a global paradigm.
I'll go with crickets for $100, Monty
I will continue to take my information from people who actually know what's going on and realize that democratic debate needs two pieces to be complete.
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