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« Who is Jeri Thompson? | Main | A Nashvillian in Iraq » September 10, 2007DailyKos Equates Osama bin Laden with Ronald ReaganI kid you not. DailyKos.com, the Left's most popular website and a key source of fund-raising for Democrats from coast to coast, says Osama bin Laden and Ronald Reagan have a lot in common So is Osama bin Laden truly "evil?" Most people who lost family members at the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001 would probably consider him to be evil. Was President Ronald Reagan evil? Most residents of Beirut who lost family members when the USS New Jersey rained 2,700 pound Mark 7 shells on residential neighborhoods in 1983 during the Lebanese Civil War probably considered Reagan to have been evil. Bottom line? Bin Laden is no more evil than other revolutionary leaders in other times or even than ordinary national leaders who propel their countries to war for "national honor," or to acquire the resources of others, or even to "do good."To translate Kos-speak: Osama bin Laden isn't a terrorist, he's a freedom fighter. And Reagan wasn't a freedom fighter - he was a terrorist. DailyKos' attempt to assert moral equivalence between a terrorist leader who masterminded the slaughter of thousands of innocents while aiding a regime that slaughtered women for showing an angle or wearing lipstick and a former American president whose tireless efforts lead to the freedom of millions from Soviet oppression is disgusting. The writer of the Kos article then asserts that bin Laden's agenda is "congruent with the neoconservative agenda and the corporatist agenda" of the United States, based on something the writer thinks Osama said in his recent video message. But of course the writer's interpretation of the translation from Arabic could be off. But even it if isn't, to believe bin Laden's agenda really is "congruent with the neoconservative agenda and the corporatist agenda," one must believe that bin Laden is telling the truth in his video message. That's the problem with the entire DailyKos analysis of bin Laden's message: It accepts that the words coming out of bin Laden's mouth are truthful words rather than propaganda meant to mislead and misdirect. DailyKos, it seems, wants to believe that bin Laden is a truthful freedom fighter battling terroristic America. In fact, the piece shows they've fallen for Osama's world view hook, line and sinker. Sadly, yes, they are. Posted in War on Terror
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"...says Osama bin Laden and Ronald Reagan have a lot in common" You can joking about, but, actually sadly: true! and also sadly: the notice of truth between american and european is very different - caused in your sunglasses.?? take it off and see the real world.!! Posted by: Derde van Grijb at September 10, 2007 9:45 AMMoral relativity just reached a new low... We should all contact our Democratic elected officials, especially those who attended or spoke at YearlyKos, to see if they agree with this statement. Posted by: Allen Fuller at September 10, 2007 10:06 AMkos = kooks on steroids Posted by: Steve at September 10, 2007 10:59 AMIt would be easy to dismiss these moonbats as nothing more than a cuckoo fringe leftard group of meds-taking loons...if only they didn't have such a stranglehold on the Democrat Party. Posted by: Crush Liberalism at September 10, 2007 11:22 AMDemocrats and America have mutually distinct and independent goals. So it's proper to question their patriotism. You know much of what the Kos Kids come up with is merely amusing in its lunacy. I grew up in the Soviet Union and I know first hand the great things that Ronald Reagan (for full disclosure he is my political hero) did. To equate the son of the town drunk, who grew up to be an actor head of SAG, Governor of California, and finally one of our greatest Presidents, and truly the epitome of the American dream, is frankly when I, myself, take their hate personally. It is not enough that they attack living political opponents, but for them to try and rewrite history, which no doubt will be quite kind to Reagan, in a slanderous and wicked attempt to create moral relativism, is when they have gone from amusing to unacceptable. This diary will be made known and Kos will be exposed for everyone to see. Psst: WHO exactly posted the comment in question? Seeing as there are thousands of people that post on the site, it may help for you to actually identify the individual since there is no monolithic heirarchical "Master Kos" who controls the content. Posted by: Morris Berg at September 10, 2007 12:42 PMMatthew 5:10 I'm not saying Kos diarists and Satan are on the same side. I'm just saying that they appear to be on the same side. Posted by: dustydog at September 10, 2007 1:32 PMIt was written by Kos blogger "FMArouet" and promoted to the front page of DailyKos.com by one of the Kos moderators, "Meteor Blades." It wasn't some off-the-wall comment deep in the comments of some blog post, Berg, it was a main article, promoted by DailyKos.com. Posted by: Bill Hobbs at September 10, 2007 1:46 PMI think the kos idiots are reeling from the fact that the world noticed that their rhetoric is identical to Bin Laden's. Now they're just lashing out. I would expect the same thing from any 15 year old. Posted by: Gordon at September 10, 2007 2:04 PMIt appears that the same day this DailyKos post went up, MoveOn.org put an ad in the New York Times attacking General David Petraeus. If you go to their homepage now, they are even promoting it. It would seem pretty obvious that this is a coordinated strategy and an effort to make bin Laden look like a good guy while undermining U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq. Posted by: Allen Fuller at September 10, 2007 2:14 PMThe irrationality of these Kos people never ceases to amaze. Have they never noticed that the policies they whole-heartedly support are things that Osama and his ilk view as capital offenses? Not merely disagree with the policy but outright seek the death of those who practice them. So yeah, Osama Bin Laden is by my measure genuinely evil and has nothing in common with Ronald Reagan. The Lebanon bombing was in the midst of a shooting war with one side actively using the residential district as a place to hide troops and munitions where more honorable would not. The WTC on 9/11, by comparison, was purely an attack on civilians with mass slaughter as the goal. There was no military goal, just a bid for attention by a delusional would-be ruler of a Muslim world. Posted by: epobirs at September 10, 2007 9:04 PMDerde van Grijb - wow. That was cool. Completely incoherent with the exception of a meager Matrix reference. You should probably stay away from English for a while. That, or maybe you should enter the Miss Teen USA contest. Such as, for our future. Moron. Posted by: deadrody at September 11, 2007 6:06 AMPost a comment
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