Well let’s see. An evil dictator is captured in a hole after the US launched a unnecessary and offensive and perhaps illegal war. Cause for celebration? To the extent that Iraq is free of Saddam, yes. To the extent that Iraq is the exact same quagmire it always was (perhaps worse now), and the never ending “war on terrorism” will have to seek it’s next victim (read “enemy of Israel”), and to the extent warmongering blowhards like Daniel Pipes will continue pushing their doctrines of Arab hate, probably not.

Whether the poster is the columnist Paul Craig Roberts, or someone with the same name and the same anti-Israel and anti-American outlook, he has equally discredited himself.

I use the terms anti-Israel and anti-American advisedly. The poster is anti-Israel, because he thinks, against all the evidence, and in the classic manner of anti-Semites, that Israel is the source of all ills that afflict us. And he is anti-American, because when Americans speak the truth about and defend themselves from radical Islam that seeks America’s destruction, he whitewashes the Islamists, calls the Americans “haters” and “warmongers,” and indicts America as a outlaw state.

I have just learned of what appears to be the most comprehensive Internet reference on Mohammedanism showing what a vile and heinous scourge it truly is:

http://www.prophetofdoom.net/

The author was on Janet Parshall’s America today, His book is available as a free download, and his site contains a mountain of quotes from the Koran and other Mohammedan texts categorized by topic. I think this one is worth bookmarking.

“The depiction of the prophet by the most revered Muslim sources is horrendous. Nearly every page reveals behavior that is immoral, criminal, and violent. The five oldest and most trusted Islamic sources don’t portray Muhammad as a great and godly man. They reveal that he was a thief, liar, assassin, mass murderer, terrorist, warmonger, and an unrestrained sexual pervert engaged in pedophilia, incest, and rape. He authorized deception, assassinations, torture, slavery, and genocide. He was a pirate, not a prophet.”

Saddam had made common cause with militant Islam, adding Koranic language to the national flag, and going on a lavish mosque - building binge. He was apparently cooperating with, or even in some cases controlling, terror operations supported by Islamicists. Saddam’s capture is indeed a setback for them, but is by no means a final chapter in an ongoing war.

I’m not anti-israel. I just think they should fight thier own wars. I mean with all the US planes, tanks and small arms that the US taxpayers were kind enough to give israel you think they’d be able to do this. But I guess giving them free weapons isn’t enough. We actually have to FIGHT the wars for them.

The reason America has to defend itself against “radical Islam” is BECAUSE America unequivocally supports israel. Elsewise what objection does “radical Islam” have against the United States? I don’t think think this is rocket science. The poster is not “Paul Craig Roberts”.

I apologize for wondering if the poster was someone else, but the question was understandable, since the views of Paul Roberts bear an uncanny resemblance to those of Paul Craig Roberts. In any case, Mr. Roberts’s charge that the whole meaning of the Iraq war is that the U.S. is “fighting Israel’s wars for them” is no longer worthy of discussion. We’ve had entire threads at VFR debating and exposing this and similar ignorant crackpot theories, and if Mr. Roberts is interested he can look them up through our search engine.

I just will say this. The assertion that the U.S. “unequivocally” supports Israel—when in fact the U.S. has repeatedly put pressure on Israel to do things grossly contrary to its own security interests, from proceeding with the suicidal Oslo “peace process” to starting up the insane “road map” to the latest complaints about the security fence—is false on its face. Mr. Roberts can claim that he is not anti-Israel, but when a person persists in seeing Israel as the sole or primary cause of everything negative happening to us, particularly our conflict with the Moslem world, regardless of so much well-known evidence to the contrary, then one can be forgiven for doubting his claim of innocence.

Also, I note that Mr. Roberts uses “buzzkill” as his e-mail name. That is as good as announcing his bad intentions.