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THE LIFE OF REILLY, CLEVER FOX EXHIBIT A: INSANE, CLOSET MUSSOLINI FAN, OR JUST "FAIR AND BALANCED" ? (June 19, 2006) As the 9/11 Commission and Senate Intelligence Committee reports both concluded, Iraq was not connected to the attacks of September 11. Prior to our military effort there, it was also largely unconnected to radical Islamic extremism, the wellspring of the anti-Western international terrorism movement. We went in, officially and ostensibly, because we thought that Iraq had WMD (although by the spring of 2003 when we went, that was being called into question by the inspectors over there). We went in to create a democracy, which is both admirable, and interesting, given that we are starting to undermine some of the principles of Democracy here at home. And we went in because Hussein was a "brutal, ruthless dictator who threatened world peace." If this doesn't bring it all into focus, nothing can: Right wing extremist Bill O'Reilly, whose poses as a journalist, and whose cable show reaches far times the number of the far more moderate Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's Countdown airing in the same time slot, allegedly had this to say about Iraq on his radio show today:
Now to me,
they’re not fighting it hard enough. See, if I’m president, I got probably
another 50-60 thousand with orders to shoot on sight anybody violating curfews.
Shoot them on sight. That’s me… President O’Reilly… Curfew in Ramadi, seven
o’clock at night. You’re on the street? You’re dead. I shoot you right between
the eyes. Ok? That’s how I 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. And what was the difference between the argument for "a couple months" and the countless years that Hussein used such arguments to keep the very same stability that existed prior to this action?
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