If not because of outright Bush hatred, explain to me why liberals’ outrage over the murders of Americans in Iraq and mutilation of their corpses (with photos!) is muted, while their outrage over Iraqi “torture” photos is broadcast in newspapers, on TV and every conceivable corner of the globe? Has the world lost its collective mind? How did America become an international tyrant over prison photos?
I pray that Thomas Lifson’s prediction comes true. He writes in “Their own worst enemy”:
Fanatic opponents of George W. Bush and the war in Iraq are running headlong into a cul-de-sac. The prisoner abuse pictures at Abu Ghraib have given them a tool with which to attack, and they are intoxicated with the potential they sense. Gleeful that they at last have a hammer which feels heavy enough to shatter the bond between a wartime President and the people he leads, they are swinging away with abandon.
But they will soon be undone by their own passion. A vast gulf separates the sensibility of the Bush-haters from the mainstream — at least 60% of the American public. Most Americans understand that we are in a fight for our survival. They also know that perfection is not a reasonable standard to expect of our military. Even a cursory reading of the history of previous successful and popular wars shows that mistakes, fiascoes, and abuses happen. Even the “good war” against Hitler was marked by horrible foul-ups which cost thousands of needless deaths. And there are serious allegations that atrocities against prisoners of war were not unknown at the hands of the “greatest generation.”
Undone by their own passion. I am now convinced that the left is a godless cabal playing right into the Enemy’s hands. No longer do I surmise.
