Hannity claims White House refuses "to support Iranian democracy" because "we don't want to make Adolf Jr. mad"
June 16, 2009 12:44 pm ET
From the June 15 edition of ABC Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show:
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That must be confusing to somebody who's basically rewarded for having Right Wing Tourette's Syndrome.
Like you said Col, god forbid that they get their facts in a row, and see what's going on before making a statement.
The main thing Bush proved is that we have neither the money nor the resources to spread Democracy by force. Conquering and OCCUPYING Iraq stretched us to the limit, and there is no way we could have embarked on a second such effort, let alone a third.
Spreading Democracy over there, if it can be done, will depend on a combination of Military, Diplomatic and Economic efforts. The Troglodyte Bully-Boy tactics that Sean apparently favors simply will not work.
I don't know what else they're talking about because Lebannon has had open and free elections for many years on end. And they have certain percentages that must be adhered to (a certain percentage of christians are elected, a certain percentage of muslims are elected, and so on). Iran has had elections for years as well, free and open? I don't really know about that.
Our biggest and best ally in the region, Saudi Arabia, is one of the only countries that doesn't have elections, and have a pretty strict set of rules governing how their people live, and yet, we seem to not have too many issues with that.
We cannot spread democracy by force, it's hard to do, as we saw in Iraq, and in Afghanistan. We shouldn't be in the business of nation building.
However, we've moved from near the tiger's jaws to riding it's back, or hanging on to its tail. We're paying the Sunni "Sons of Iraq", whom we used to call "Anti-Iraqi Forces," not to attack us, or the Shiites. We acquiesced to ethnic cleansing in Baghdad, which quieted down when it became a target-poor environment, and Moqtada al Sadre declared his cease-fire. But our Sunni "allies" fully mean to take on the Shiite government when we leave, and they would be killing our troops if we weren't paying them. As I've seen quoted in a number of places, including Thomas Ricks' Gamble (which I highly recommend, when an American officer asked his Sunni "partner", "Do you still want to kill me?" The answer was, "Yes, but not today."
The Sunnis still believe they have the right to rule Iraq, and are, if Ricks is right, totally opposed to democracy. "Democracy in Iraq? Never!!" He quotes one of them as saying.
None of this, even the "success of the surge," means that the attack on Iraq wasn't a war crime and the most disastrous foreign policy move in the history of this country, one whose damage will be felt here for a century, if not more. As for Iraq, the mind boggles.
The Iraqi troops are doing better, but are still not quite where they need to be. The government is functioning, but for how long after we leave, I don't know.
As far as stifling violence, we have been good at that. No doubt. And part of it, or a large part of it, as you said, is that we paid off the guys who were shooting at us before, and Sadr called off his militia from shooting at our guys, and planting bombs.
If Drugbaugh could mate with himself, Hannity would be the offspring.
(Although... does calling Ahmadeenajad, "Adolf Jr." at least acknowledge that he's a right-winger? Prob not. These same idiots think HITLER was a lefty.)
Comparing Amadeenajad to Hitler, is like comparing Saddam Hussein to Stalin or Kim-Jong Il to Mao Tsedong. All madmen are NOT created equal. And G.W.Bush's imagined cartoon villains are absolute minor-leaguers comapred to the likes of what Roosevelt and Truman faced down. Not even close. Like company softballers as compared to the 1927 Yankees.
And so Obama will do what he always does. Remain cool, and follow the path of wisdom. Undoubtedly, Hannity and co. will foam at the mouth because they can't see the utter folly of neocon "wisdom." But there's no one I'd rather have at the helm right now, with all that's going on, than MY president, Barack Hussein Obama.