If you want a good laugh, go read Mark Steyn’s account of how most of Iraq is just as peaceful and, yes, “jolly” as Surrey and Sussex in my country of birth. Man, Steyn can be funny. But he can be such a partisan hack as well:
Do you remember that moment of Fallujah-like depravity in Ulster a few years ago? Two soldiers were yanked from a cab in the wrong part of town and torn apart by a Republican mob. A terrible, shaming episode in the wretched annals of Northern Irish nationalists. But in the rest of the United Kingdom – in Bristol, in Coventry, Newcastle, Aberdeen – life went on, very pleasantly. That’s the way it is in Iraq. In two-thirds of the country, municipal government has been rebuilt, business is good, restaurants are open, life is as jolly as it has been in living memory.
So what if Iraqis are dealing with two 9/11s a month? Our Blessed Leader, who is responsible for the security of Iraqis, never makes mistakes, does he? And the last thing pro-war journalists should ever do is raise questions.
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