-By Warner Todd Huston
The Associated Press today posted a story that is so utterly pointless for its very existence that it boggles the mind. Apparently, some loser Iraqi that used to be a somebody under Saddam Hussein’s viciously murderous government has issued a “tape” whereupon he says that Israel would never have been so bold to have hit Gaza they way it has if Saddam were still in power.
Of course, the very first question that comes to mind is… WHO CARES what some has been cutthroat has to say about Saddam “just hangin’ around” Hussein? The man is dead, D-E-D dead!
I mean, why the heck is this news? It would be like publishing a story in this week’s New York Times about some guy that is saying that all this Obama stuff wouldn’t be happening if Jefferson Davis was still in power. Yes, it would be just as newsworthy as that!
Here is the full (or should I say fool) AP report:
Ex-aide: Hussein would not have allowed Gaza raid (scroll down)
DUBAI – A former aide to Saddam Hussein said in an audio tape aired yesterday that Israel would not have dared to launch its current attack on Gaza if the Iraqi leader was still in power. But Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the most senior member of the past regime still at large, said on the recording broadcast by Al Jazeera television that Iraqi insurgents would negotiate with Washington if the administration of President-elect Barack Obama withdrew from Iraq. “The barbaric . . . attack on our [Arab] people in Gaza is the natural result of the absence of Iraq, its national leadership and its leader . . . the martyr Saddam Hussein,” said Ibrahim, a leader of Iraqi insurgents. The authenticity of the recording could not be verified.
Ah, but this supposed “news” does serve one more Old Media purpose, doesn’t it? It gives just one more Jew hater an opportunity to blame Israel for all ills.
Of course it is all based on more gutless and illogical Arab delusion. Even were Saddam “necktie party” Hussein still around and in power in Iraq, Israel would have paid no never mind to what he and the Iraqis would have to say about hitting Gaza. Israel was never in the past known to cower in the presence of Saddam “rubber neck” Hussein. It is beyond logic or sense to imagine that they would this time were Hussein still alive.
The anti-Semitism of the media is beyond belief.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, Human Events Magazine, townhall.com, New Media Journal, Men’s News Daily and the New Media Alliance among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
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