Packing Heat

More evidence that America armed Saddam.

U.S. military commanders said Sunni insurgents in Iraq have obtained the SA-16 surface-to-air missile. The SA-16 is a modified version of the older SA-7 and represents a greater threat to U.S. and coalition aircraft.

U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of military operation, said a U.S. military raid netted a range of Soviet-origin anti-aircraft missiles. He said they included the SA-16 and SA-14 missiles.

“The operation resulted in the capture of one enemy personnel, and also confiscated were an SA-16 missile, an SA-14 missile, two 82-millimeter systems, 31 rocket-propelled-grenade rounds, and a large quantity of small arms and ammunition,” Kimmitt said.

How strange that American defense contractors would sell Saddam Hussein Russian SAMs.

The Opposition

Meet the minutemen.

A Pentagon intelligence report has concluded that many bombings against Americans and their allies in Iraq, and the more sophisticated of the guerrilla attacks in Falluja, are organized and often carried out by members of Saddam Hussein’s secret service, who planned for the insurgency even before the fall of Baghdad.

The report states that Iraqi officers of the “Special Operations and Antiterrorism Branch,” known within Mr. Hussein’s government as M-14, are responsible for planning roadway improvised explosive devices and some of the larger car bombs that have killed Iraqis, Americans and other foreigners. The attacks have sown chaos and fear across Iraq.

In addition, suicide bombers have worn explosives-laden vests made before the war under the direction of of M-14 officers, according to the report, prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency. The report also cites evidence that one such suicide attack last April, which killed three Americans, was carried out by a pregnant woman who was an M-14 colonel.  ...

Officials who have read the study said it concludes that in Falluja, which is currently encircled by the Marines, an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 hard-core insurgents, including members of the Iraqi Special Republican Guard who melted away under the American-led offensive, are receiving tactical guidance and inspiration from these former intelligence operatives. “We know the M-14 is operating in Falluja and Ramadi,” said one senior administration official, speaking about another rebellious Sunni Muslim city nearby.

The report does not imply that every guerrilla taking up arms against the Americans is under the command of the M-14, nor that every Iraqi who dances atop a charred Humvee is inspired by a former Iraqi intelligence agent. But the assessment helps explain how only a few thousand insurgents, with professional leadership from small numbers of Mr. Hussein’s intelligence services and seasoned military officer corps, could prove to be such a challenge to the American occupation. “They carefully laid plans to occupy the occupiers,” said one United States government official who has read the report. “They were prepared to try and hijack the country. The goal was to complicate the stabilization mission, and democratization.”

Far from being freedom fighters, patriots, and minutemen, the Marines are battling a guerilla resistance organized by Saddam’s fascist thugs whose objective is to kill Americans and keep the people of Iraq under the bootheel of oppression.  No wonder Michael Moore admires them so.

Update: Interesting, isn’t it, how the lefties who have been going crazy in the comments to this post talking about how the Iraqi insurgents are simply patriots defending their homeland have been conspicuously silent commenting on this story?  I know they’re coming to the site, because they’re still posing comments elsewhere.

A simple question that WILL stay on topic

How much do you think of Fahrenheit 911 will focus on the UN’s Food For Oil scandal and corruption?

What the Troops Think

When Fahrenheit 911 comes out, and Mikey tries to make it appear that the troops are demoralized and sickened by being in Iraq, be sure and remember the truth.

Subject: FW: OIF Survey report

31 March 2004

To: General John P. Abizaid, Central Command

From: Charles Moskos

Subject: Follow-Up Report on Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)

This is a follow-up to the preliminary report on OIF dated 14 Dec 2003. Attached the tables of the OIF survey we conducted in December when in theater. The responses of our soldiers are much more positive than those usually reported in the media. Some highlights are given below.

1. The morale of the soldiers was higher than anticipated. In fact, junior enlisted and NCOs report almost identical morale as their WWII counterparts (table #17)! Not the officers though.

2. The survey data reinforce the interview data given in the preliminary report. Namely, reserve components had markedly lower morale than the active duty, BUT, the survey data show that RC lower morale is mainly due to the perception they are treated as second-class members of the Army (tables #3, #7, #8, #9), NOT with the mission itself (tables #1 and #2). This, in a sense, is good news because the problem is fixable. A listing of RC perceptions were covered in the preliminary report.

3. Compared to surveys conducted in earlier deployments in Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo, the OIF soldiers are more optimistic about what their mission will accomplish (table #15).

4. A significant percentage report that OIF had made them more religious and regularly attended religious services. The role of the chaplaincy is central to troop morale and one that ought be supported further (table #12).

5. An open-ended question asked for the most difficult thing of the mission (table #20). Leading complaints were separation from family and climate; no big surprises there.

Click the link to read all the specific data regarding troop morale.  Michael Moore is about to lie to you yet again.

The Profiteer

In his most recent message, Michael “Iraqi Minutemen” Moore spake thusly:

Halliburton is not a “company” doing business in Iraq. It is a WAR PROFITEER, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested—or worse.

In response to this idiocy I pointed out how Halliburton is not making very much profit at all from their Iraq work, and quoted a former Clinton official who said, “Many people are also under the impression that contractors take the government to the cleaners. In fact, government keeps a watchful eye on contractor profits—and government work has low profit margins compared with the commercial work the same companies perform.” Well, gentle reader, once again I am proven right and Michael Moore is shown to be the lying propagandist we all know him to be.

British left-wing paper The Guardian has published a list of “Ten companies with U.S. contracts or subcontracts in Iraq [who] have paid more than $300 million in penalties during the past four years.” They include:

• Northrop Grumman Corp., whose Vinnell Corp. subsidiary was awarded a $48 million contract to train the new Iraqi Army last year. Northrop Grumman has been penalized $191.7 million in the past four years.
• Lockheed Martin Corp., awarded a subcontract by Bechtel Corp. to provide airport telecommunications in Iraq. Lockheed Martin has been fined $85.5 million in the past four years.
• Halliburton Co., which received $3.6 billion under contracts to provide meals, laundry, housing and other services to troops in Iraq and to rebuild Iraq’s oil industry. It also was awarded a $1.2 billion contract in January to rebuild the oil industry in southern Iraq.  Halliburton paid $2 million in 2002 to settle charges it inflated charges on a maintenance contract at now-closed Fort Ord, Calif.

Note the time frame on these penalties.  All of them occurred during the last four years.  Now, who was president in that time period?  Oh, yeah, that would be George W. Bush.  (Read the article for specific breakdowns of exactly what the penalties were for.)

That’s right, folks.  The Bush administration is so interested in permitting its fat cat corporate overlords to rape working-class America that it decided to fine them hundreds of millions of dollars when they were found acting improperly.

Wow, Mikey, that’s some profiteering you’ve uncovered there.

Don’t Leave Home Without It

It’s another socialized medicine success!

A 21-year-old man died of appendicitis after he was refused treatment at an emergency clinic because he didn’t have his provincial health card with him.

Gerald Augustin complained of stomach pains on Thursday but the receptionist at the St-Andre medical centre told him he had to return home to get his health card. He didn’t make it back to the clinic in Montreal’s east end.

About four hours later, a friend alerted police and called an ambulance for the man, who had a fatal attack of appendicitis in his apartment. He was pronounced dead in hospital.

Rouslene Augustin, administrator at the St-Andre clinic, said the man didn’t appear to have any urgent symptoms when he came to the clinic.

“If this guy was an emergency case, we would accept him if he had his card or not,” she said.

“I don’t see what we did wrong. I’m not defending the clinic, we just followed the rules.”

If you like the service you get at the DMV or Post Office, you’re going to love government run health care.

Excellent article

This is why Michael Moore fears sites like Bowling For Truth, Hardylaw and MOOREWATCH.  It’s the world’s largest fact-checking group.  I never would have noticed this, since I don’t really notice cutaways...I always assume fanciful editing, etc, so it went right under my radar.

Visit the site, look at the screen grabs.  It’s obvious now that someone has pointed it out.  Just another brick in the wall of Moore’s lies and manipulation.

Photo Phollies

You know how the fascist George W. Bush is terrified of showing the flag-draped coffine coming back from Iraq, yet the left-wing independednt media insist on publishing them?  Well, perhaps they could get it right if they plan on doing so in the future.

Many news organizations across the country are mistakenly identifying the flag-draped caskets of the Space Shuttle Columbia’s crew as those of war casualties from Iraq.

Editors are being asked to confirm that the images used in news reports are in fact those of American casualties and not those of the NASA astronauts who were killed Feb.1, 2003, in the Columbia tragedy.

An initial review of the images featured on the Internet site www.thememoryhole.org shows that more than 18 rows of images from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware are actually photographs of honors rendered to Columbia’s seven astronauts.

News organizations across the world have been publishing and distributing images featured on the web site.

Hmmm, I think I see how this works.  (Not safe for work.)

Hate Mail

In response to this morning’s post A Letter from the Front, leftie whiner Tamara Hinson had this to say.

errr sorry...what government is in operation in Iraq???? The Americans who just gunned down loads of civillians with gunships in fallujah? Helped by the soldiers that are regularly bollocked for putting their flag up when the whole point is they’re not meant to be an invading army? The one run by Bush who is making it illegal to show pictures of war dead because “it might hurt the families” when 90% of the families have said they want their dead sons to be recognised and have their coffins shown in the newscasts? Oh, but your little quote came from a soldier out there, so it must be right. You don’t get the impression he could just be some 19 year old racist who has clearly formed a general opinion that all Iraquis are bigots?

“Now, the other side of this- Nearly every Iraqi has been positively affected by the overthrow of Sadaam and the installation of a provisional government.”

okaaayy..so most Iraqis are ignorant biggots? You don’t think that’s generalising just a little bit???

I think you need to get a minimum of one brain cell before you start talking about stuff you clearly don’t understand!!

She forgot to add “Uhhhh.... Uhhhh.... Bush=Hitler!”

A Letter from the Front

I can’t tell you where I got this, but it’s from a soldier in Iraq who has some words for the world media.

As for the media problem, there seems to be a world media problem, not just an american media problem.  This is what I can gather by watching the pentagon briefings on tv, talking to the Iraqis around here, and watching the american news channels.  The majority of the Iraqi people are ignorant, and heavily opinioned bigots.  Alot like rednecks.  So they all run around living in the past (1500 years past even) thinking that the Jews are satan spawns.  This is further bolstered by the fact that Al Jazeera and Al Arabia are their only news outlets.  Al Jazeera and Al Arabia are the Ku Klux Klan news channels of the muslim world.  Every story they run will say that Jews and Jew allies (coalition forces) are killing and raping every innocent child and woman that they can find.  So naturally, this upsets the rednecks and they want to kill us.  Now, the other side of this- Nearly every Iraqi has been positively affected by the overthrow of Sadaam and the installation of a provisional government.  So almost everyone loves us for that.  Educated Iraqis who were initially ecstatic about the overthrow, are beginning to have fears about the growing lawlessness and inability to successfully manage all of the ignorant grand dragons that show up with their armies of mindless hate-bots.  They are still happy to have us, and think that we will be able to help usher lasting change in their beautiful, but war-devastated country.  Overall this leads to a majority (60-70%) of Iraqis that are still pro-us with about 20% more sitting the fence still.  That leaves a healthy 10% of the population from which any fork-tongued power-hungry mullah can conscript a new army of aspiring martyrs for his new found friend and master satan.  In a country of 25 million, that is a scary number.

Now for the american media.  They all have their b-team correspondants out here that are trying to write the next pullitzer winning story, so they can make varsity before they graduate.  However, they are too scared to take their suburban outside the green zone to gather some real intelligence about the situation.  So instead of going to Fallujah or An Najaf to see the coalition forces re-take the towns from Satans vessels, they would rather sit in the green zone and get fat on the KBR crab-legs, and just pepper the pentagon briefer with questions that they formed from watching none other than Al Jazeera.  Gen. Kimmet has had to tell them on numerous occasions to get off their fat-asses and drive out to Fallujah for an eye-witness story on the “collateral damage” that we have been inflicting with reckless abandon.  So anyway, the combination of this lazy journalism and the out right lies that get broadcasted over the airwaves that allah created, makes for a very murky picture of the truth.

Which is why groups like Spirit of America are so essential.  If you haven’t kicked a few bucks their way you should definitely think about it.

Know Thy Enemy

Here’s some more information about Michael Moore’s glorious Iraq revolutionaries. whom he described thus:

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not “insurgents” or “terrorists” or “The Enemy.” They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow—and they will win.

Well, it seems that a lot of his Iraqi minutemen aren’t actually from Iraq.

Syria is “facilitating” the movement of foreign fighters into Iraq and helping supply them with arms, according to U.S. military officials with access to intelligence reports.

The sources said the reporting has not been clear on whether hard-line Syrian President Bashar Assad is involved directly in ordering the aid. But they say he has much to lose if Iraq becomes a pro-U.S. democratic country.

Foreign fighters from Syria have become a major stumbling block to stabilizing Iraq and turning over sovereignty by June 30.

The bloody fighting in Fallujah, for example, is inspired, in part, by well-armed foreign jihadists who crossed the Syrian border and have committed some of the most gruesome attacks against Americans and their allies.

Officials said Syrian help includes facilitating their border crossing, arming them and allowing them to return for fresh supplies.

What?  You mean the socialist Islamists next door are doing all they can to make sure the US loses?  I’m shocked, I say… shocked!

So much for the brave Iraqi minutemen, rising up in patriotic revolution against their fascist Amerikkkan overlords.  But don’t worry, Mikey.  With Syria, Iran, and all the other Islamofascist Sharia dictatorships you admire so much supplying these fighters, many more American soldiers will undoubtedly die in combat.  Because an American victory would be too much to bear, wouldn’t it?

The Ultimate Sacrifice

There’s been a tragedy in Afghanistan.

Former NFL star Pat Tillman, who left professional football to join the Army after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, has reportedly been killed in combat.

Tillman, who played four seasons with the Arizona Cardinals, was killed while on active duty in Afghanistan, according to CNN.

No details regarding Tillman’s death were immediately available.

Tillman walked away from a $3.6 million contract with the Cardinals in the spring of 2002 to join his brother as an Army Ranger. He made the move quietly, staging no press conference, granting no interviews and issuing no public remarks about his decision. The move was a personal one for Tillman, who, according to those around him, was deeply moved by the attacks of 9-11. He wanted to “pay something back,” Cardinals defensive coordinator Larry Marmie told reporters at the time.

Just think how thrilled Michael Moore must be for this to happen on his 50th birthday.  Not only did an American die at the hands of a terrorist, but the American was rich!  Two birds with one stone.  It’s time to break out the champagne.

Update: A reader sends in a couple of pictures of Pat Tillman.

That, my left-wing friends, is a true American hero.

Happy 50th Birthday, Mikey

I’m so happy for you that you made it to 50, Mr. Moore.  Maybe, if you’re really good, you’ll get the deaths of all those Americans you were hoping for and then you can be right, and exploit them to make more money, just like you did in Littleton. 

Try not to choke to death on your cake.  Dead soldiers and contractors don’t matter...losing *you* to cake-choking would be a real tragedy.

Love,

JimK

Patriots and Dissent

How can you hate George W. Bush and still not be a dick like Michael Moore?  One left-wing blogger has the answer.

Excellent post here on right-thinking.com as to why Michael Moore is worse than useless for the left, and in facts hurts his cause by being such a flat-out jerk. I really do not like Michael Moore. Again, like President Bush, I believe that he is trying to do good things. But he just does not seem to have any ability to dialogue without sounding like a shrill, anti-American asshole. I hate the fact that I am using the term anti-American, it is so unbelievably wrong the way that anyone who wanted to have a real discussion about the war buildup for Iraq last year was labelled as anti-American. But seriously, I believe that Michael Moore is rooting for failure in Iraq to prove a point. To prove that he knew better than George Bush and the Republicans. Hell, I am 100% positive that I knew that the war was a bad idea, but my self-esteem is strong enough that I am not hoping that we lose, to teach America a lesson, and so that I can gloat. I want to win this thing, because I realize how important it is that we don’t fuck up Iraq.

I used to read Michael Moore’s books, and absolutely loved Roger and Me. I was a really big fan, up until a few years ago. Bowling for Columbine has some very good points, but the way that he pulled that shit with Charlton Heston at the end of the movie, snidely making fun of some old guy with Parkinson’s who was obviously senile and in poor health just disgusted me. I don’t like the NRA, and Heston has been another crotchety jerk while president, but come on. He is a sad old man, who actually had the balls to let Michael Moore come to his house to talk to him. Couldn’t Moore have proved his point about the NRA by talking to a functional member in a leadership role? Anyway, I am not looking forward to Farenheit 9/11. I do not care how closely the Bush and Saud families are. To insinuate that George W. Bush was somehow complicit in 9/11 is absolutely disgusting. He better have some serious proof. I will happily apologize if he manages to make his case without resorting to lies and innuendo, and hope that George W. Bush is convicted of genocide, and has to spend the rest of his life in prison in den Haag, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

Again, as I’ve said before, I dislike George W. Bush. I think that he will be remembered as our worst president ever. I think that what he is doing to the country and the world will have unintended consequences for the rest of our lives. I think that he is surrounded by some of the worst political hacks and scoundrels ever assembled. However, as Tony Soprano once said, he is “The motherfucking, fucking boss.” He is our president, the leader of our nation. I didn’t vote for him, and don’t like him. But for the good of the country, and for the future of humanity, I hope, and wish, and pray that he succeeds in Iraq. I’d rather see George W. Bush reelected with a free and stable Iraq, and with diminished chances for international terrorism than to see him defeated in November with us pulling out of Iraq, the country turned into a terrorist breeding ground in the midst of civil war, and al Qaeda running rampant.

See, you can completely disagree with me, Bush, the GOP, or any individual policy and still be patriotic.  Moore is nothing but a disgusting, vile, America-hating dickhead.

Fun at SCOTUS

Here’s another example of that conservative media at work.

Three’s A Charm

MIKE MOORE AIMS FOR A THREEPEAT

November 3, 2002:

Well, folks, Tuesday is the day! The day that George W. gets taught a long overdue lesson ... I think we can give Bush the Mother of all Shellackings on Tuesday ... We will deny Bush control of the Congress next week.

January 14, 2004:

I believe that Wesley Clark will end this war. He will make the rich pay their fair share of taxes. He will stand up for the rights of women, African Americans, and the working people of this country. And he will cream George W. Bush.

April 14, 2004:

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not “insurgents” or “terrorists” or “The Enemy.” They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow—and they will win.

Bowling for Cookies

Here’s another potentially deadly school tragedy for Michael Moore to exploit.

A sixth-grader was suspended after school officials accused him of threatening to expose a highly allergic teacher to peanut butter cookies, the boy’s father said Thursday.

Loubert Gabriel said his son, 12-year-old Jules, had been kept out of class since April 2, after a girl in his social studies class at South Orange Middle School told the teacher that Jules had made the threat.

The father said Jules was carrying a snack packet of Nutter Butter cookies and did make a comment about having ‘’something dangerous’’ but never said he had a weapon. ‘’They mishandled this,’’ Gabriel said.

Gabriel said the boy has not been allowed to return to classes pending a May 13 hearing by the district. The family had believed the suspension would be for 10 days, he said.

Unlike guns, peanut butter cookies are undoubtedly a subject that Mikey knows quite a bit about.

Outsourcing Mikey

About a billion people have sent me a link to this story.

Advocate Michael Moore may have released a book titled DUDE, WHERE’S MY COUNTRY?, and may have vaulted to stardom documenting worker’s rights and corporate malfeasance in Flint, Michigan, but that has not stopped Moore from outsourcing his website design and servers—to companies based in Canada!

Cannes-bound Moore, the great protector of the U.S. working class, has outsourced the design of his Web site to a foreign company in Canada, records show.

PLANK—based in Montréal, Québec—is the development and design company behind MichaelMoore.com.

Meanwhile, Moore’s site is hosted by a foreign owned company, Webcore Labs, of Calgary, Alberta Canada. [Webcore does maintain an office in Beverly Hills, CA.]

Moore did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

I’ve known about this for years.  It’s not exactly like Mikey makes a secret of it, the website and hosting companies are clearly listed and linked on his front page.  In fact, I could have sworn that I wrote a post about this when I first started blogging but I can’t find it now. 

At any rate, in the pantheon of Michael Moore scandals, this one is minor league.  I’m guessing Drudge was on Moore’s site last night and just happened to notice it.

Yes, He Hates America

As you all know, over the past couple of years I have written many, many posts critical of Michael Moore, especially his patriotism.  During the same time period we’ve seen the rise of the “Dissent is Patriotic” movement on the left, as if the act of simple dissention itself was inherently patriotic.  I was doing some thinking on this subject today, and I think I came up with a good illustration of this phenomenon using Michael Moore as an example.

Moore is promoted constantly by his supporters as a “true American” and a “real patriot” for “causing people to think” about certain issues.  His detractors, of which I am one, point out that the manner in which he positions his dissent is what makes him un-American, not the act of dissent itself.  A reader of this blog once explained this phenomenon in brilliant simplicity.

[I]t’s not that dissent is unpatriotic, it is the method and rhetoric chosen by the dissenter that can be unpatriotic. Whether you believe this war is just or not, you must accept the fact that we are at war. This said, the act of dissenting in wartime is a patriotic duty if one disagrees with policy, however choosing to do so in a manner that demoralizes troops and demonizes the country they are fighting for is simply....by definition...unpatriotic.

Most of the discussion about patriotism and anti-Americanism has focused around support for the Iraq war and/or the war on terror.  The hawks say that if you’re against the war you’re against America, and the doves say the opposite.  So let’s remove the war from the equation for the time being.  Take a look at this fawning biography of Moore.

Michael Moore can certainly be obnoxious. We might not put up with his behavior from someone who didn’t have such brilliant comic timing or who wasn’t so clearly an American son. But “Bowling for Columbine,” more so than any of his other works, makes it clear that Moore loves America and ordinary Americans, so it’s easier to take it when he outs some of the darker sides of our character. He may not have all the answers. But he’s the only one challenging so many of us to take a long hard look in the mirror. [Emphasis added]

So Moore is a patriot who loves America and Americans.  But what has he actually said about America?  He doesn’t like the American ethic of self-reliance and rugged individualism, as expressed in this sycophantic interview with Katie Couric.

Katie Couric: So why do you think Canada has such a better track record on gun control than the United States?

Michael Moore: Maybe we should aspire to be more Canadian-like.

KC: So, so why do you think Canada has such a better track record than the United States? You partially blame the media and you praise enlightened politicians in Canada.

MM: Yeah. Yeah, basically, I think that’s it. I think there’s a Canadian ethic that says, I mean, the way they live in their society, they believe that they’re all Canadians and they’re all in the same boat. If one of them gets sick, they should get a doctor. We should pay for that. If one of us loses our job, if we’re Canadians, you know, we should help them out. Our ethic in America is, ‘Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Every man for himself. Me, me, me, me, me.’ And, and it’s, it’s just, I think it helps to, you know, create this, this climate where people then become violent toward each other.

The “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality has been the hallmark of American life since this country’s inception.  It’s a distinctly American ethic, standing in stark contrast to the European and Canadian soft socialist ideal of the nanny state taking care of citizens cradle-to-grave.  America was founded on a principle of limited government and individual responsibility, not an all-encompassing government meddling in the private issues of private citizens. 

And what does Moore think about Americans?  We only have to look at what he says about Americans when there are none of them around, like in Germany.

Should such an ignorant people [Americans] lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don’t even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English (and we don’t even speak that very well.) ...

We approach life relatively openly and generously and without complication. When you ask us for help we come to help you. And when you tell us that donkeys can fly we believe it (when you say it on television.). ...

Ok, come on, you Germans, you really know better! You are well-read. Your media also reports on things south of the Alps. You travel. You value education. And in the past year you took over the moral leadership in the question of war or peace. I urgently ask of you that you show the same moral ability to judge when it comes to maintaining the German social net for those weakest in your country. Don’t go the American way when it comes to economics, jobs and services for the poor and immigrants. It is the wrong way.”

Or in England.

During a recent whistle-stop promo tour of England, Michael Moore was asked by a sympathetic Daily Mirror columnist to meditate on that favorite subject of anti-Americans the world over, America’s supposed “intelligence problem”—not, of course, the CIA, NSA kind of intelligence. To the apparent delight of his interlocutor, Moore answered with Il Duce-like subtlety, claiming that “they are possibly the dumbest people on the planet” (note the careful pronoun selection), citing a recent National Geographic world geography survey as irrefutable evidence of our “ignorance” and “embarrassing stupidity.”

So we are a stupid, ignorant, paranoid people according to Moore.  This explains our “culture of fear” which is embodied in our relish at bombing other countries and our fascination with violence here at home.  There are countless other examples of Moore’s negative opinions of America, I could quote them all day.  But honestly, are these the opinions of someone who truly loves his country?  It is my position that they are not.

Let me put it in simple terms.  Say there is a woman you are in love with.  She has red hair, green eyes, likes hip hop, drives a convertible, drinks iced tea, and owns a cat.  After a long relationship this woman ends it with you.  Lonely, you go out and meet a new woman and begin a relationship with her.  She has blonde hair, blue eyes, like country music, drives a pickup, drinks coffee, and owns a parakeet.  You begin to make suggestions to her, that she should dye her hair red, get contact lenses to color her eyes green, maybe pick up a rap CD or two.  One day she comes home from work and she finds in the living room a cat that you just brought home from the pound and the keys to a brand new convertible.  Would you say that you actually love this second woman?  Or are you trying to change and distort her into the image of the first woman, whom you truly love? 

This is what Michael Moore is trying to do with America.  He’s trying to change America into a neo-socialist European-style society.  Moore doesn’t like the free enterprise system, capitalism, property rights, individual responsibility, or the concept of limited government.  All of these are the bedrock upon which American society was built.  Moore likes the nanny state, soft socialism, powerful government, and subservience to a greater good.  These are the qualities upon which most of post-WWII Europe was built.

So, can it truly be said that Moore is an American patriot if his goal is to turn America into Europe?  And if you accept the premise, as I do, that a nation is largely the sum of its people, how can someome who thinks Americans are the most ignorant people on Earth be considered a patriot in any sense of the word?  To use the girlfriend analogy again, if you profess love for a woman, would it be reasonable of you to go behind her back and cal her the “most ignorant bitch in the world” to other women?

Face it, folks.  Michael Moore Hates America. (Just ask Mike Wilson.) So, for all you lefties with your grand visions of America’s future, if your visions seek to distort America away from it’s American identity and into some kind of mamby-pamby version of France, exactly how are you being patriotic?

The American Public

In 2003 nobody in America supported the war with Iraq.

There is virtually NO ONE in America (talk radio nutters and Fox News aside) who is gung-ho to go to war. Trust me on this one. Walk out of the White House and on to any street in America and try to find five people who are PASSIONATE about wanting to kill Iraqis. YOU WON’T FIND THEM! Why? ‘Cause NO Iraqis have ever come here and killed any of us! No Iraqi has even threatened to do that. You see, this is how we average Americans think: If a certain so-and-so is not perceived as a threat to our lives, then, believe it or not, we don’t want to kill him! Funny how that works!
-- Michael Moore, March 17, 2003

In 2004, everyone in America supported the war with Iraq.

There is a lot of talk amongst Bush’s opponents that we should turn this war over to the United Nations. Why should the other countries of this world, countries who tried to talk us out of this folly, now have to clean up our mess? I oppose the U.N. or anyone else risking the lives of their citizens to extract us from our debacle. I’m sorry, but the majority of Americans supported this war once it began and, sadly, that majority must now sacrifice their children until enough blood has been let that maybe—just maybe—God and the Iraqi people will forgive us in the end.
-- Michael Moore, April 14, 2004

What a difference a year makes.