The Loony Right

Now we're all familiar with that favourite phrase of the Right 'the loony Left', but what else could we call this other than evidence of the existence of a loonier Right.

Norman Podhoretz proclaims that the Iraq war has been: 'an amazing success' and.. 'There were WMD (weapons of mass destruction), and they were shipped to Syria ... This picture of a country in total chaos with no security is false. It has been a triumph. It couldn't have gone better.'

Amazing stuff. Unfortunately the claim that Saddam shipped his WMD to Syria is a popular one and well proliferated on aggressively patriotic U.S blogs, but come on......I mean really?

Let's say you're Saddam Hussein and you've just pissed off the most powerful country in the world, do you quickly send away your best defences, or do you use them? It's a no brainer.

The loon goes on:

'For somebody who declares democracy to be his goal, he is remarkably blase that 80 per cent of Iraqis want US troops to leave their country, according to the latest polls. "I don't much care," he says, batting away the question. He goes on to insist that "nobody was tortured in Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo" and that Bush is "a hero". He is, like most people on this cruise, certain the administration will attack Iran. "I keep telling people we are in world war four," Podhoretz declares.'

Now don't try and tell me that the Left have a monopoly on the title 'loony'.