Lefty reporter wheels out the Liberal dead to defend Saddam

Gerard Jackson
Melbourne: Australia
BrookesNews.Com
Thursday 6 Feb. 2003

The Sydney Morning Herald's seasoned pathological America-hater Alan Ramsey wheeled out the aging John Valder, Sydney businessman and the Liberals former federal president in the mid-'80s, to slag America and John Howard (Old Liberal hearts in dismay at lackey John, 5 Feb. 2003)

"Bush, certainly the most belligerent US president in my now long memory" is just one of the leftwing smears that Valder parroted. Apparently thinking he was making a witty and brilliant observation Valder said, "It makes one wonder if Washington needs a regime change as much as Baghdad ..." According to Valder, therefore, and the likes of Ramsey, the Bush administration is no different from Saddam's sadistic regime.

Moral equivalence is obviously not the sole property of the left, not while we have brain dead Liberals. In a further effort to bolster his attempt to keep Saddam in power Ramsey quotes from Bob Solomon, a former Liberal MP for the federal Hobart seat of Denison.

Donning his anti-American hat Solomon accused the US of "acting the part of playground bully…hell-bent to clobber Iraq." These profound observations are followed by an anti-Israeli rant that asserts that the Jewish victims of Arab terrorism had it coming to them for "provocatively building still more settlements." Solomon then accuses the US of hypocrisy and cynicism for, in his view, ignoring Israeli lawlessness in order "to keep the Jewish vote." A case of blame the Jews, I guess.

Continuing in a vein that only a pathological lefty could consider informed and intelligent, Solomon called Bush a "cowboy", how original, and sneered that no one "has even attempted to produce evidence of Saddam's plans to attack anyone."

To begin with, the character of Saddam's regime clearly suggest that the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction are designated for mass use and not for Sunday school discussions. This is a regime that attacked Iran, invaded Kuwait, has virtually exterminated the Marsh Arabs and waged a genocidal war against the Kurds, until stopped by American and British warplanes, not, and I stress, by lefty journalists.

Solomon also needs reminding that Saddam has defied 17 UN resolutions and that resolution 678 authorises the use of military. It is also clear that Saddam is in material breach of resolution 1441. In other words, he has refused to disarm. It follows, at least to those with a modicum of intelligence, that either the UN, meaning America and Britain, use force to enforces the organisation's resolutions or Saddam is allowed to continue with his weapons program. This is the stark choice that we face and the one that the likes of Solomon, Valder and Ramsey refuse to acknowledge.

Mindlessly parroting Helen Thomas's cretinous comments Solomon describes Bush as "the worst leader of a major democracy I have observed in more than 50 years." Clinton, of course, is one of the best. Just to make sure we know where he stands he approvingly quotes the pathetic Ken Wriedt, a former minister in the Whitlam government, the worst government in Australian history. So much for Solomon's political judgement.

Solomon indignantly objects to "being treated like an idiot". The answer to this is not to behave like an idiot. Or perhaps his stupidity is a sign of encroaching dementia. If so, this might explain his failure to express any sympathy for the victims of Saddam's terrorist regime.

Noticeably absent from Ramsey's hate piece was any mention of Saddam's sadism: squeezing out the eyes of children, for example, and torturing toddlers with lighted cigarettes. Perhaps Ramsey and his circle of progressive friends find this subject a tad insensitive. After all, saving Saddam is more important than saving Iraqi children. Isn't that right, Al?

That Ramsey has to exhume justly forgotten Liberal relics to support his vicious anti-Howard prejudices only exposes the depth his desperation. The real question is why this wretched excuse for a columnist is so determined to resist Saddam's destruction. Could it be that any humanity he once possessed has been overwhelmed by his anti-Americanism?

In his usual barroom style Ramsey accused the Prime Minister of "suck-holing" The only backside that is being sucked is Saddam's and Ramsey is the one doing the sucking.

I must sadly conclude that there is scum and then there is Ramsey.