Useful Idiot Watch It is with a nod to the vacationing Andrew Sullivan that I point out a group of Usefully Idiotic Americans who are now visiting Baghdad: "Activists take faith in peace to Iraq; Some vow to stay even if war comes"
Elizabeth Boardman is bundled up in a chill desert wind, standing outside the Al-Taji power-generating plant 15 miles from downtown BaghdadGo figure.
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Kathy Kelly, co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, acknowledges that her organization's credibility was tarred last September when it staged a demonstration outside U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. Critics point out that demonstrations except those staged by the government are usually banned.It was "a disaster," she said. "We're here to protest the fact that U.N. sanctions and U.S. bombs have killed hundreds of thousands of children in the past decade, but we get saddled somehow with being dupes."
The only question is: Do we bomb the North Korean nuclear plant now, or do we send Jimmy Carter over there on a peace mission and bomb it while he's there?
Death or Glory? The Clash's Joe Strummer, dead of a heart attack at age 50.
OK, I'm for bombing it while he's there. I don't think that it would be that big of a loss.
Posted by: jeffy on December 23, 2002 10:55 PMWe should send Reagan instead, some gibbering and rambling has beautiful diplomatic effects, hasn't it?
Remember:
An old gentleman's crotchets and quibblings
Were a terrible trial to his siblings,
But he was not removed
Till one day it was proved
That the bell-ropes were damp with his dribblings.