George Bush = New Saddam
Some wag at MacLeans maggie in Canada thought it would be funny to dress Bush up like Saddam. Presumeably will sell well in America-bashing, Bush-hating Canada.Â
It’s the cover art on an astonishingly clueless effort to disparage the surge by a guy who apparently spent most of his time in Iraq with Saddam’s guys or with Sunni insurgents who were killing Americans … and seems to be disgusted that his insurgent pals are now with the Americans.Â
Patrick Graham’s article doesn’t appear to actually say Bush is the new Saddam … maybe I missed it, this thing rattles on at great length … though he suggests Bush is responsible for the ethnic violence and is playing one group off against the other. A somewhat cynical and myopic take, when you consider the role played by Saddam, al-Qaeda, people like al-Sadr and Iran in inflaming ethnic violence, in the latter cases with the specific goal of undermining the Americans.
Within all the “Iraq is all effed up” he seems agrees with Bush that Iran is a real problem. He also appears to acknowledge that post-Saddam, massive ethnic violence in Iraq was inevitable.  But the turning of tribes against al-Qaeda is all some kind of American propaganda, because al-Qaeda never really existed. Graham is at a bit of a loss, because his old pals aren’t with him anymore, he can’t really go with al-Qaeda … they’d cut his head off, if they didn’t get killed by the Americans before they had a chance to do that … and he doesn’t seem to have much time for Shiites. Rattles on at some length about the Balkans, and suggests turning different ethnic groups against their extremist elements, to the side of law and order, is a bad Balkan idea. Something he noticeably fails to do, which is pretty pathetic for someone who’s spent a great deal of time in Iraq, has friends there, and presents himself as an expert, is appear to give much of a damn about the Iraqis and their fate … except as an opportunity to bash the Americans … or whether they are worth trying to save,  and whether that might in fact be happening.
One of the terrifying aspects of the war is the monumental failure of analysis and action on the part of America’s political, military, journalistic and even business elites.
Hey, don’t leave out the monumental failure of analysis and action by Canada’s political, military, journalistic elites! It’s not like sitting on the sidelines sniping has done anyone any favors.Â
Topics: Canada
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:15 am Comments (11) on Friday, September 21, 2007
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September 21st, 2007 at 11:03 am
[...] read this post by Jules Crittenden. I’m with Jules when he writes that “Patrick Graham’s article [...]
September 21st, 2007 at 11:23 am
Web Reconnaissance for 09/21/2007
A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:52 am
Where is corndog when we need him?
September 21st, 2007 at 11:54 am
Bush the
Wow, this is really creative. I guess they’re getting their inspiration from kook lefty bloggers.
On the upside, they didn’t dress him up as Hitler, though I’m sure the editorial board labored over that decision.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:59 am
“Hey, don’t leave out the monumental failure of analysis and action by Canada’s political, military, journalistic elites!”
Um it’s not like Canada invaded Iraq so why would they?
“Rattles on at some length about the Balkans, and suggests turning different ethnic groups against their extremist elements, to the side of law and order, is a bad Balkan idea.”
Well no, what he says is arming the Sunnis like we did the Croats in 1994 as a counterforce to the Iranian allied Shia is risky business and may not turn out as well as it did in Bosnia.
I’d go a step further and say arming and paying Sunni insurgents $10 a day to hunt AQI is a recipe for an even bigger civil war once AQI is exterminated and we get out. When we leave so do those paychecks and any way for these heavily armed militiamen to make a living.
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September 21st, 2007 at 12:02 pm
This is hilarious. When it was Bush = Hitler, they were comparing Bush to someone they purported not to like (yeah I know, even though he was a socialist like them, stay with me).
Now with the Bush = Saddam campaign, they are at least comparing Bush to someone they like.
When we see the first Bush = Castro comparison, then we’ll know the Left finally has a man crush we can all get around.
September 21st, 2007 at 1:55 pm
1.) Canadian leftys hate America and George Bush
2.) They lack the balls to do anything about it other than whine.
So, who cares? Let ‘em whine.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Your and your reader’s outrage with Canadian commie cowardice and self aggrandizing equivilancy is absolutely justified. Just remember, there is a small fraction of us that do support President Bush, can think clearly and pray nightly for the passing of our metro-faggo-franco elites.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:52 pm
If Bush was Saddam he would have made sure this idiot never got out of Iraq. But since he is happily yammering away it does not seem he is too afraid.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Silly man. And with no excuse.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:39 pm
The Canadians are an inconsequential people doomed since losing their balls at some point after WWII to remain on the sidelines, carping.