FPM is loaded with great content today, so I'm linking multiple items from David's place.
First, Steven Plaut is suggesting a "Land For Peace Plan, Paris Style", which doesn't exactly spare French sensibilities in this their hour of trouble, but instead brings the chickens home to roost.
Then, the complete Joe Wilson story from discoverthenetworks.org. Yes, we're all in a hurry for his 15 minutes to be over, but it's important to challenge the media's crafted image of him.
And then David Horowitz and Ben Johnson collaborate on "The Wrong Argument, at the Wrong Place, at the Wrong Time" The authors have a persuasive, well-linked response to the disingenuous rhetoric being used by Sen. Reid and other elements of his party and the Bush-hating left. It's an excellent compliment to my attempt on a similar topic. Excerpts from Horowitz and Johnson: (ellipses mine)
...why is the nation focusing now on a bogus argument about the rationale for the war in Iraq? There is not a shred of evidence Bush in any way manipulated or falsified intelligence, yet leftists demand investigations in order to breathe new life into conspiracy theories whose only effect can be to encourage our enemies and sap our nation's will to fight....Posted by dan at November 7, 2005 7:53 PM...The Democrats know nothing will be found. In fact, previous studies – including Phase One of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Silberman-Robb report – have cleared the president of pressuring agents to produce intelligence bolstering the case for war. Four solid reports have absolved Tony Blair of manipulating UK intelligence ex post facto, the same charge the Democrats now want to hang on President Bush. The leftists’ thirst for inquests and tribunals is a last ditch desperation effort to validate their fevered fantasies while besmirching in a partisan manner the integrity of the president of the United States through the Big Lie technique: keep repeating the allegation, and eventually, it will stick...
...The human rights conditions in Iraq are one way to measure the Iraq War. The brutal repression of the Iraqi people has come to an end. Torture squads have been disbanded, and rape rooms have been shuttered. Ethnic exploitation has been curtailed, as Iraq’s diverse ethnicities agreed to forge a common identity under a common government – led by a Kurd.
The orgy of freedom the world witnessed last January is another. Elated Muslims danced with glee through the streets of a nation that has seldom experienced genuine elections from its roots in ancient Babylon. Although Zarqawi declared war on the election and democracy as such, although he warned that every Muslim who voted was by that act an "infidel" and would be hunted down and killed, 58 percent of all Iraqis risked their lives to vote.They voted for democracy and against terror. They voted for the war policy of George Bush.
The recent vote for an Iraqi constitution -- the most democratic in the history of the Islamic world, included nearly 70% of the population. It embraced Sunnis as well as Shi'ites and Kurds. A new nation is being forged out of the ruins of the Saddam oppression. A war is being fought between terrorist Islam and an America-supported anti-terrorist Islam. And the Bush opposition in this country is either AWOL on this contest or supporting the other side.