Raping Iraq
I can't even comment on this. So I'll just reprint it. It's from James Taranto's Best of the Web:
Saddam's 'Sex Therapist'
Back in April, the Boston Globe reports, a "sex therapist" called Susan Block, wrote a lurid pro-Saddam essay in which she likened the liberation of Iraq to rape:
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The supreme victory for the rapist is proof that his victim "enjoyed" it. Though he may force his way into her property, demolish her home, murder her loved ones, pillage her belongings, though he may terrify and humiliate her, beat and batter her, break her bones and tear her flesh, spill her blood, wound her organs and lay waste to her very soul, if, in the midst of the rape, between tears and shrieks of agony, if his victim should, for a moment, for some reason, any reason, if she should smile, or, better yet, orgasm [sic], the rapist is redeemed; he is even (in his mind) heroic.
This is why, when the Anglo-American rape of Iraq began, we so desperately searched the Iraqi faces on our televisions for a smile.
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Block's imagery is particularly twisted given that Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime actually used rape as a tool of political control. But whatever, she's just another harmless left-wing nut case, right?
Unfortunately, wrong. The Globe reports that Yeni Safak, an Islamist newspaper in Turkey, cited Block's essay in a "report" that claimed American soldiers had raped more than 4,000 Iraqi women. The rumor seems to have incited at least one terrorist attack in Istanbul:
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Nurullah Kuncak says his father, Ilyas Kuncak, was boiling about the rumored rapes just before he killed himself delivering the huge car bomb that devasted [sic] the Turkish headquarters of HSBC bank last month, killing a dozen people and wounding scores more.
''Didn't you see, the American soldiers raped Iraqi women,'' Nurullah said in a recent interview. ''My father talked to me about it. . . . Thousands of rapes are in the records. Can you imagine how many are still secret?''
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Since Sept. 11, "Why do they hate us?" has been a stock question of the anti-American left. One reason they hate us is because of the diligent efforts of homegrown haters like Susan Block.
Yep.
Tacitus ran into some uppity people when he covered this story. You should've gone to that thread and offered some pie, Dean-o.
World Net Daily did an article about this article here: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36464
I was completely speechless. The ignorance and arrogance of some Americans...
I'm not a big World Net Daily fan, but...
I know you're not but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
I think Susan Block perfectly encapsulates the moral bankruptcy of the anti-war/anti-American Left, and why so many of us old lefties have left the fold. What they traditionally stand for, and what they now embrace, are total contradictions.
I'm embarrassed to share a first name and last initial with this idiot woman.
I sentence her to 1,000 apologies to the real rape victims around this country.
Of course I have no real authority but may Kismit deal with her in its own way.
I wonder if anyone has told this guy that his father died for a lie?
Let's review...Dr. Block used some pretty strong imagery that compared the metaphorical corporate rape of Iraq to actual rape.
Then SOMEONE ELSE, in an Islamic paper in Turkey, mentions her in a story that also mentions possible war atrocities.
How exactly does that make Dr. Block "pro-Saddam"?
Go back and click the link marked "lurid, pro-Saddam essay" and find me the pro-Saddam passages. I can wait all day.
Seriously: try to find a single sentence of Dr. Blocks essay that says something good about Saddam.
Turns out THERE ISN'T ONE!!!!
This is just another example of the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the pro-war/pro-corporate right. Dr. Block writes about sex and isn't totally onboard with the oil industry/White House gang. Therefore she's a pro-Saddam, anti-American harlot.
Trust me...if y'all spent less time reading that tissue of lies WorldNetDaily and spent more time at Dr. Blocks website, y'all would be a lot happier (and so would your partners, I'd wager).
I agree that Ms. Block's comments are inappropriate, but what about Yeni Safak's role?
"The Globe reports that Yeni Safak, an Islamist newspaper in Turkey, cited Block's essay in a "report" that claimed American soldiers had raped more than 4,000 Iraqi women. "
He (or she?) is the real problem in this saga. While Block's comments may have been totally off base, they were completely twisted, misquoated, and otherwise not understood by Safak.
How can you lay the blame on her so thick and not say anything about Safak? I hope it is not that you hold these people to different standards.