Boortz this morning [1] tells a tale which should shake the left to it’s shoes. It won’t, but it should.
“Do you remember that Mosque in Najaf where Moqtada al-Sadr was holed up for weeks? Al-Sadr’s goons were firing mortars at American troops from inside that Mosque .. but American troops showed restraint and never stormed the place. Finally Shiite cleric Ali al-Sistani, the most powerful Muslim cleric in Iraq, told al Sadr to clear out.
Now we have learned while al-Sadr was hiding in his Mosque his Islamic goons were quite busy. Their assignment was to kidnap dozens of women and children and bring them into the Mosque. There they would be murdered. I think it’s possibly safe to say that many of the women were possibly raped before, maybe after, they were murdered. When al-Sistani ordered them out, Al Sadr and his gang of murderers left the bodies of the women and children inside the Mosque.
So … what was the purpose? The Islamic killers fully expected American troops to storm the Mosque to get to them. When that happened, and after the smoke cleared, the innocent and peace-loving followers of Al Sadr would be able to show the bodies of innocent women and children who were killed in the brutal U.S. assault on this place of holy worship. Clever plan … didn’t work.”
Do you begin to understand the level of cold-heartedness he’s describing here? Do you begin to understand what the west is up against with these thugs?
And do you begin to understand what that says about the press in this country? Al-Sadr’s thugs understand that the press will happily mouth the anti-western view that the US was totally responsible for the lives of all those women and kids being lost. And it would have been all over the press this morning. And you can bet that John Kerry would have been using this as a campaign wedge.
As it is, because it doesn’t make the US, and particularly, President Bush, look bad, I’m willing to bet this is the first you’ve heard of ANY of this.
And that raises the question; which is colder; Al-Sadr’s thugs, or the leftists?
I’d say it’s close on a tie.