The journeys of several others are documented by Melanie Phillips.

Excellent, thanks for the link! I particularly liked the conclusion -- especially this quote:

"Many Westerners didn’t say a word of support for the tortured and oppressed population of Iraq. We had useful idiots before, today we have useful infidels. They are quick to point out all the supposed evils of the West but when it comes to Islamists, the silence is deafening. They effortlessly consume freedom, yet refuse to even rhetorically support the providers and defenders of liberty: the Allied armed forces with major credit to the US troops."

I myself know far, far too many useful infidels.

And the loudspeaker spoke up and said...

"tortured and oppressed population", wait a sec, I thought we where looking for WMD! I'm still holding out hope for that one. Besides I also thought Saddam was out ally, even affter he gassed his own people.

So thousands of people, Iraq and Solder alike dead... And what have we gained...??? Wait a sec, did I see Osamma there? Where "Well I don't know where he is, you know I just don't spend that much time on him" - G.W. Bush

Bush your doing a heck of a job, proffiting off the dead in Iraq and of our own troops now cought up in a Civil War in Iraq.

And now he wants the "evil doers" to manage our ports, even when large ammouts of money to fund the 9/11 hyjackers passed though corrupt UAE banks.

And don't bother about him shiting on the constution, spying on our own people, what the hell don't we just love all this war!!!! 1984 was a typo he really meant 2006!

Talking about Muslims did you see this yet

Iran Threatens U.S. With 'Harm and Pain' Over Nuke Meeting

Excellent links, Joe. Thanks.

Is it just me, or does ConCrusher sound a lot like the people "Schrodinger" writes about in his stories?

Useful infidels, Joe, useful infidels...

-Boo

Also semiliterate, but maybe that's just typos because he/she is shaking with righteuos rage. [sic]

Incidentally, the first line of that post is a reference to Negativland, a musical/appropriationist group I know. The members of that group, over the years, mostly continues to not realize that they themselves (by the nature of their cult-hit notoriety) :

Strong form: ... have become the kind of thing / people they criticize.
Weak form: ...possess most of the same weak points / blind spots as the things they criticize.

Only one of the members seems to "get it".

It's not even ironic to point this out -- it's the typical nature of honest (-but-righteous) criticism. Righteousness is addictive, and there are plenty of addicts at both ends of the spectrum. Throw enough random stuff on a screen, and act as if you have a point beyond "X is awful! Just looook!"

Humans. I weep for the species.

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Look what is happening to these people in Iraq

Iraqi Police Find 87 Bodies in 24 Hours

Can you beleiev this

Moussaoui Evades Death, Receives Life in Prison

this is pretty unreal

Rove Blames Bush's Job Approval Ratings on War in Iraq

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WELL THIS IS PRETTY UNBELIEVABLE

Insurgents' Web Posting: Zarqawi's Death Was Stroke of Luck