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Thursday, June 22, 2006
 

Winning Hearts and Minds

Thank God for Bill O'Reilly. Another tough American patriot spreading grand old American values around the globe:
See, if I'm president, I've got probably another 50-60,000 [soldiers] with orders to shoot on sight anybody violating curfews [in Iraq]. Shoot 'em on sight. That's me. President O'Reilly, curfew in Ramadi, 7 o'clock at night. You're on the street, you're dead. I shoot you right between the eyes. OK?

That's how I'd run that country -- just like Saddam ran it. Saddam didn't have explosions. He didn't have bombers, did he? Because if you got out of line, you're dead.
The idea seems to be that we need to put a brutal headlock on Iraq, for maybe a few months, "so the Iraqi government can get organized." And any weak-kneed liberal who quails at the idea of resorting to Saddamist tactics can take a hike, even if we were all yelling about Saddam as "Hitler lite" three years ago. So what if we gotta kill people! We're still better than those A-rabs, no matter what we do! And we gotta show um who's boss.

Of course, O'Reilly is not just nuts. He's unaccountable. He'll never have to back up a word he says. "That's me. President O'Reilly." Can you say "just another exercise in sissified self-promotion by a posturing member of the media elite"? O'Reilly himself, in his earlier posture, wrote, "Evil has a way of killing people; that's a fact. And the only way that evil will be stopped is for just and courageous people to confront it."

Thanks to Kuchen.

posted by Michael Scott Moore | 2:28 PM
Comments:
In the same way that Snow White's witch was forced into red-hot iron shoes and made to dance until she was dead, O'Reilly and Coulter should be made to fornicate with each other until they expire.

Preferably somewhere out of sight.
 
Penalty box for you, Brian -- you mentioned the "C" word on Radio Free Mike. Das ist verboten.

But I like the iron shoes image.
 
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