"Iraq the Model" Cited by Bush, Trashed by Kos Kids

Wouldn't you know. President Bush made a nice, passing mention of a longtime favorite blog of ours, "Iraq the Model," and the loony left commentators had usual foul-mouthed conniption fits, loaded with conspiracy theories. Omar, at ITM, makes passing mention of the brouhaha and issues a challenge to the wingnuts:

I have noticed that our traffic nearly tripled today and that most of the extra traffic is coming from pages talking about the recent speech by President Bush in which he mentioned a quote from our March 5 article on the WSJ…New visitors, welcome to ITM!

First of all we're proud of it. It's the ultimate ambition for a political blogger to have his or her words heard and better reach the desks of decision-makers.

Second I would like to make clear one point to bloggers like dailykos and some MSM supported blogs who seem so upset for some reason that the voice of some Iraqis is being heard.

I've seen some of them publish stories full of lies and accusations they can't support and I think it's pathetic to throw the "you're a sold-out propaganda" accusation at people just because they don't share the same point of view…This only reflects their lack of knowledge and the bankruptcy of ideas they suffer.

We speak the language of facts, supported by images and statistics and more important, we live here while they don't. We write about the good days as well as the bad days in Iraq's journey to a better future.

You don't even have to search in this blog's archives, just scroll down this page and you'll see both good and bad news—we witness an explosion and we write about it and we see progress and we write about it.

If they can't see that it's their problem, not ours.

Omar's got it exactly right. But there is no room in the hearts of the nutroots for President Bush or the millions of Iraqis who, in spite of all, are thrilled to be rid of Saddam and eager for the chance to be free. (Omar is a Sunni, BTW.) With Stalinists, as with the Seinfeld crew, the motto is, "No hugging. No learning."