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The Mouth That Roared
January 8, 2007
Can you believe it? This early in the new year and I already
have my first nomination for the 2007 Moron of the Year
award.
The non-esteemed recipient of this recognition is none other
than Nouri Kamel al-Maliki, the temporary State Prime
Minister of Iraq. I say “temporary,” because of his
expressed desire to resign from the appointed prime minister
position prior to the end of his term in 2009.
Al-Maliki survived the pre-qualifying round in the Moron
competition when on August 24, 2006, he banned television
channels from broadcasting images of daily bloodshed in
Iraq, and warned of legal action against those violating the
order. Slick, sick move Nouri. You are willing to prosecute
news media for broadcasting the truth but you are either
unwilling or unable (probably both) to take legal action
against anyone who actually causes bloodshed in the first
place. This is like a farmer who kills all of his chickens
to keep other farmers from finding out a fox is visiting his
hen-house.
On January 6, 2007, al-Maliki achieved full nomination
status for the year’s Top Moron award when he urged all
insurgents and other sectarian combatants in Baghdad to take
a vacation away from Baghdad for most of January and
probably February. Al-Maliki gets extra moron points for (at
that same time) telling the world his fairy tale about Iraqi
forces being set for an assault in Baghdad to take out
militias and rogue security forces.
Al-Maliki must be smoking one of those legendary
water-pipes. I can understand his frustration with the
militias (even though the best of them belong to his good
friend Muqtada al-Sadr), but I can not fathom his intention
to take out rogue security forces. Those are the Iraqi
government’s own troops. What are they going to do; take
themselves out? Or does al-Maliki have dreams of his corrupt
and practically nonexistent police forces taking out his own
Army. Al-Makili’s intent has even me confused... but amused.
The tragic offshoot to al-Maliki’s testosterone driven
threat is the very real probability that it won’t be Iraqi
forces at all, but American soldiers freshly deployed to
Iraq who will execute the tried-before-and-failed tactic of
door-to-door searches for insurgents who have already moved
away for two months because al-Maliki told them in advance
we were coming. More Americans will die for nothing, this
time as a direct result of al-Maliki’s big mouth.
On another note Nouri; you stated in a recent interview that
Hussein’s execution was Iraq’s business, thus inferring it
was nobody else’s business. Bad move Nouri. Hussein’s
execution is definitely our business because Americans who
had no interest in your country whatsoever died to dethrone
and capture him. History will inevitably conclude the Iraqi
people of all sectarian persuasions were insufficiently
brave to rid their own country of this madman themselves. It
should be an eternal badge of shame to the Iraqi people that
they could not manage their own revolution; relying instead
on someone else to do it for them.
Congratulations Nouri Kamel al-Maliki, you are Doctor Leon’s
first nomination in 2007 for “Moron of the Year.”
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