Dean's World

Once again, inspired by Bush Derangement syndrome, the media did a stupid thing. They didn't properly check their sources because they wanted to publish an article that made Bush look bad.

Newsweek is incompetent. This is news?

In contrast, take a look at the Muslims who were spontaneously overwhelmed with rightous indignation in response to Newsweek's story. Look at these mass-produced signs.

For a bunch of righteously indignant zealots, they've got a cutting-edge graphic-arts team. Is that a custom font?

These righteously indignant zealots have Photoshop and Kinkos and they know how to use them. A lot of cash, planning and organization went into this fiery media-savvy display. It's almost like they were waiting for some kind of opportunity to bring back the good old days of the "Arab street".

Oh, for the good old days, when Islamists could slaughter American soldiers and innocent civilians and still claim to be the victims. Unfortunately, the good old days are still alive and well at Newsweek, and in our government.

Like Newsweek, our government is using this incident to demonstrate our gullibility and stupidity. Our response to Islamist violence? We're worried about our image abroad.

The Ayatollah Khomeini called American efforts to win hearts and minds in the Muslim world the headless chicken strategy. Pathetic efforts to make Islamists "like" us have been winning contempt and disdain since 1979.

According to the AP, the 22-nation Arab League issued a statement saying if the allegations panned out, Washington should apologize to Muslims. Is this the same Arab League that backed the Sudanese genocide? They're troglodytes, they'll always be troglodytes, and apologizing to these creeps will win us more contempt and disdain.

The only people who deserve an apology and compensation are the victims of Islamist violence. Not the perpetrators.

However, the Arab League does deserve something. We should publicly congratulate the spectacular amount of planning, organization and artwork that went into this spontaneous display of fiery righteous indignation. Maybe our publicity team can talk to their team. Let's do lunch.