thinkprogress.org — MSNBC?s David Shuster confronted Ajami about this comparison today on Hardball. ?Mr. Ajami, do you really believe Mr. Libby is like the 3,600 soldiers killed in Iraq?? he asked. ?I don?t need to be lectured on the soldiers killed in Iraq,? Ajami said.
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shadarJul 7, 2007
Shuster is just a good journalist. He was hitting dems hard too recently over things they have done wrong as well.
whiterussianJul 7, 2007
While I don't like Ajami or agree with him in the slightest, I think Shuster came off like any other pundit. What was the point of this? Ajami's right when he keeps saying he doesn't need a lecture. He wrote an article with a lousy metaphor, was anyone really offended by this? I just think there are more important things going on than an offensive newspaper article.
kosmoxJul 7, 2007
Post something useful on digg, just once. Please.
fat_piggyJul 7, 2007
Can they compress that video anymore ?
hawkeye17Jul 7, 2007
But, but..it was a metaphor!!!! Tell that to the families of our fallen soldiers Fouad. Yes, you do need to be lectured by rational people like Shuster(who should replace Matthews or get his own show). These neo-cons are just pathetic.
nonzionistJul 8, 2007
Very lame. It looks like you are even dumber than I thought. I'm sorry I bothered with you.Killing people does NOT make them free! Truth makes us free. Get back to me when you start to love freedom more than you love killing..<a class="user" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-615675,00.html">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-615675,00.html</a>+(Bin Laden's laughter echoes across the WestSimon Jenkins / March 19, 2003....Nothing can be giving bin Laden greater pleasure than the spectacle of the West going to war to topple his hated foe, the "atheist Satan", Saddam Hussein. Even in his wildest dreams, he cannot have imagined what has now come to pass, Saddam about to go and Islam radicalised against the West.....)+
nonzionistJul 8, 2007
Sane people? You mean people like:* Dick "Nuke Em" Cheney? * Douglas "Clean Break" Feith? * Richard "Dark Prince" Perle?* Kenneth "Cakewalk" Adelman?* Norman "World War IV" Podhoretz?* John "Bomb, bomb, bomb" McCain?* Pat "Apocalypse Now" Robertson? * George "Stay the Course" Bush?<a class="user" href="http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1210-07.htm">http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1210-07.htm</a>+(The American Talibanby Richard RapaportTWO DAYS after the September 11 cataclysm, the Rev. Jerry Falwell laid down his own prophetic interpretation of the attacks, revealing more than he might have liked about his low view of the state of American life.Appearing on Pat Robertson's "700 Club" television show, Falwell blamed the excesses of American liberalism as exemplified by the ACLU, NOW, and pro- choice, feminist and gay groups in general, for the growing distance between God and America. Falwell argued that humanists working to "secularize America" had provoked a disenchanted deity into retracting some sort of heavenly anti- terrorist shield, thus enabling "the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserved."During the broadcast, host Robertson, a 1992 and 1996 Republican presidential candidate, nervously concurred with Falwell's analysis. But recognizing a brewing public relations debacle that could eclipse Falwell's 1999 jeremiad against PBS's innocuous Teletubbies, Robertson and Falwell quickly began issuing clarifications and apologies for bad timing -- if not necessarily for the underlying belief.....)+<a class="user" href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/18/1032054864975.html">http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/18/1032054864975.html</a>+(The world must stop this madmanBy Maureen Dowd / September 19 2002No, not Saddam. That other gun-toting, tough-talking cowboy in the Oval Office.....)+<a class="user" href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/madness.html">http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/madness.html</a>+(The Madness of President Georgeby Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.....)+ <a class="user" href="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11204">http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11204</a> -- Tom Lantos Democrats seek World War IV<a class="user" href="http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Neoconservative_hopes_prays_Bush_will_bomb_0530.html">http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Neoconservative_hopes_prays_Bush_will_bomb_0530.html</a> -- Podhoretz "hoping and praying" for more war<a class="user" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070610/ap_on_go_co/us_iran">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070610/ap_on_go_co/us_iran</a> -- Sen. Lieberman calls for the U.S. to attack IranIf these are the "sane" people, then I'd rather be mad. At least I am NOT threatening to blow up the world and wipe out the human race!