A Different Kind of Iraq

Unlike Charles Johnson, who often finds it necessary to delve into left-wing blog comments in search of nutty rhetoric, we at LGF Watch have tended to stay out of the fetid swamp that is the LGF comments section. Because, as Charles so carefully points out, "comments do not necessarily reflect the views of Little Green Footballs."

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=16879_The_Next_Real_Battle&only

Fair enough. Nonetheless, we've found some stuff worth sharing in the above thread on the possible inclusion of shari'a law in the draft Iraqi constitution.

Charles -- like us -- is deeply apprehensive about the prospect of Iraq becoming a Shari'a state. And so are many of his readers. Some, though, remain optimistic despite everything. One uncharacteristic burst of sanity comes from 'really grumpy big dog johnson', who writes at #14:

The days of extreme Islam are very numbered. None of those folks want to believe it, but it is the extremism of their positions that dooms their dogma to
failure.

All across the ME, people are starting to understand the connection.

It may take longer in our own country, but the revelation will be real, and will be soon enough. We may see a lot of people killed in the meantime, but no dogma of horror and death has ever perservered across the sands of time.

Radical Islam is on a countdown clock, and there isn't a lot of time left before it's all over.

You can't just tell a world that holds 95% of the power on this planet that your religion will conquer, enslave or kill those who have made society what it is. If you do, it's like standing in front of the Greyhound bus on the interstate and calling the bus an infidel.

We couldn't have said it any better ourselves. But unfortunately, our appreciation of RGBDJ as one of the few sane posters on LGF was short-lived -- here he is at #45:

I've been feeling pretty ill lately, and I think the lies of the left have had major much to do with that. I'd sue, but I'm not stupid enough not to know that the majority of lawyers are in alignment with the social sciences that feed them
their clients, and who are in lockstep with the illusions of the collectivist
left.

Wow... that's nuttier than a really nutty thing covered with nuts.

Getting back to the topic at hand, a poster using the nickname 'cair' observes at #38:

Iraq is now run by extremist shia muslims. What did you all expect? Allawi was our guy. He was voted out in our so-called free elections and we allowed an islamic fundamentalist regime to take root. I have it on good authority that
these people hate America and Americans and are just bidding their time.

And here's 'transferthem' at #51, suggesting that Arab Muslims are congenitally unable to govern themselves democratically -- an opinion that is more usually attributed to the rabid anti-war left:

If iraq actually CHOOSES the death cult in preference to democracy, at least the west will know that arabs and muslims just aren't suited to living as civilised people. This is the big chance for iraq - freedom or barbarism. It's a clear choice which we in the west should observe rather than overtly influence.

This was followed immediately by 'Mich.manatee,' who writes:

LGF has become a shadow of its former self. The same boring old broken record is playing over and over and over lately. No new thoughts, no solutions, no
imagination, very little humor anymore, just a tired chant of "Kill 'em all."

I used to really look forward to reading the comments on this site. Oh well. All good things must come to an end, I guess.

That might be a bit premature, but if the general tenor of the remarks in response to that last post (e.g. our friend RGBDJ at #67 referring to 'Mich.manatee' as a "chickenshit bastard") is any indication, LGF will continue to lose the interest of people like Peter Verkooijen -- repeatedly misidentified by RGBDJ as a 'Scandi' -- who writes at #99:

I was a regular reader of LGF since at least 2002. I stood up for my beliefs by moving from the Netherlands to America and becoming active in Protest Warrior among other things.

I stopped reading LGF after Rathergate when more and more loudmouth morons like you came on the site. The whole thing became increasingly pointless - and I now find out after half an hour and two post that the situation is even worse than six months ago.

And so it goes. As desperately as some blogs claw and grasp for readers and commenters -- not to mention income -- LGF proves that it's possible for a site to be too popular.

PS Charles, don't worry. Pablo/Powderfinger/LGFWW has assured us that there will be no Sharia state. Even going as far as offering a wager. If you're worried ask him about Iraq, we're sure he'll be able to calm your nerves.