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July 17, 2006

Confused Americans for Truth - An Amazing Photograph in the New York Times

by Ferdinand T Cat

Catch the action here before the New York Times comes to its senses and deletes the web page. Photographer Joao Silva took a picture of an Al-Mahdi sniper shooting at American soldiers.

Before you get too angry, it's important to realize that Silva is not a United States citizen. He's South African, and therefore a neutral party in the Iraq conflict. He is not an employee of the New York Times. He's an independent contractor, like Peter Parker, who sells pictures of Spider-Man to the Daily Bugle even though the Bugle believes the wall-crawler is a menace to society.

That said, the Al-Mahdi Army is a serious business. They are not terrorists or even insurgents: they are a fully-armed militia which believes that the Shi'ite Messiah is due any day and the Americans invaded so they could kill him. The Clinton Administration had very strict views about armed groups with messianic impulses, and the Times is a big fan of the Clintons, so you'd think they would know better.

So, not treason, by any means, just a wildly amoral case of opportunism, and the only thing that's really newsworthy here is that I-- a superior life form-- was genuinely surprised. Go figure.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

Hat Tip: Right Wing Nuthouse. See also Michelle Malkin and Little Green Footballs.

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Comments

Your support for the soldiers is fake, Bruce.

I have a son in the infantry in Iraq. This picure is not endangering him.

Those giving Bush encouragement to continue this war ARE the ones endangering him. (That's YOU I'm talking about, Bruce.)


Posted by: Rich at July 17, 2006 4:06 PM

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