Oh, for the unititiated, Dennis the Menace is Democrat Dennis Kucinich, a lifelong extreme leftist who "serves" (I use the word loosely) in the U.S. House of Representatives, presumably on behalf of his largely Cuyahoga County, Ohio constituents in the 10th Congressional District. (Which, sadly, encompasses part of Wonker's old childhood stomping grounds.)
Dennis, of course, is running for president AGAIN, no doubt hoping to have himself remembered as the Democrat Party's Harold Stassen, the perennial GOP presidential candidate who would never go away. His mantra: "Strength through peace." "Peace" in this case, is the usual far-left code-word for "capitulation."
Kucinich first won fame years ago by nearly running Cleveland into the ground when he served as mayor. He systematically pissed off businesses, banks, utilities, you name it, whilst posing as a sort of Robin Hood to the Masses, standing up against the Military-Industrial Complex. His grandstanding ultimately got him booted right out of office. But the constituents in his 'hood have been re-electing him to Congress ever since where he does what he does best: grandstand and bloviate.
His latest gambol is in the Middle East, where the aspiring U.S. president has toadied up to Bashar Assad, Syria's chinless President and best friend of Iran and Hezbollah. Let's fisk this AP report on the visit. The AP appropriates Kucinich as a useful idiot through whom they can articulate their own anti-American, anti-Bush propaganda.
US Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich, on a Mideast visit that included a stop in Syria, said the country lambasted by the Bush administration deserves credit for taking in more than a million Iraqi refugees.
Kucinich, a strong anti-war opponent who trails far in the US presidential polls, also said he won't visit Iraq on his trip to the region because he considers the US military deployment there illegal.
The opening graf is the first of two references sucking up to Assad for doing the "humanitarian" thing and taking in all those Iraqi refugees who had to flee their own country because of "Bush's War." Two things wrong with this deceitful observation. First of all, the initial batch of "refugees" were the Saddamists, Baathists, and outright thugs who'd been running Iraq before the U.S. invaded. They, and their ill-gotten wealth, fled post-haste to Syria where they were welcomed by the only remaining Baathist regime on the planet. These poor, hapless refugees have been providing funds, men, and support and have been helping murder American soldiers and honest Iraqis ever since, in a bid to get their power and influence back.
The remaining "refugees" are indeed real ones. They've been driven out of their homes not by the United States, but by the goons employed by the first "refugees."
Syria, in other words, is ground zero for a manufactured "refugee crisis" that they have supported and encouraged from day one. Either Dennis and the AP don't get this, or they don't want to acknowledge it. Likely, the latter.
Second graf: Dennis "considers" U.S. actions illegal. Note the verbal arabesques of the left. Whether this is an indirect quote from Kucinich or an interpolation by the AP, the word "considers" is cleverly deployed here. U.S. actions are, in fact, quite legal. But by employing "considers," either Kucinich or the reporter make it tough to refute them in terms of law. A flat, declarative statement would have exposed either to legal refutation. But "considers" provides a dodge in case someone catches them in the legal and logical crosshairs. BTW, the verb form "feel" accomplishes much the same thing.
"I feel the United States is engaging in an illegal occupation ... I don't want to bless that occupation with my presence," he said in an interview in Lebanon, after visiting Syria. "I will not do it."Kucinich, who accused the Bush administration of policies that have destabilized the Mideast, met with Syrian President Bashar Assad during his visit to Damascus. He said Assad was receptive to his ideas of "strength through peace."
Oops, there's that word, "feel." See our comments above. Also note that the lofty, Zeus-like Dennis doesn't "want to bless that occupation" with his "presence." We are not amused. There is not even a theoretical limitation on this pint-sized turncoat's outsized ego, is there. In point of fact, he has no actual authority to "bless" anything.
Note, too, how it's Bush's policies "that have destabilized the Mideast." Who's this doofus kidding? It's the Taliban and Al Qaeda that got the whole destabilization game going here, and it's Iran and Syria who, by funding and arming to the teeth their Hezbollah and Hamas proxies who are destabilizing the Mideast. Kucinich's Marxist roots are showing here. By means of rhetoric, every rotten thing being done by Iran and its Syrian stooges to slaughter innocents in the Middle East is Bush's fault. THEY are doing it. THEY are funding it. But it's Bush's fault.
"What most people are not aware of is that Syria has taken in more than 1.5 million Iraqi refugees," Kucinich said. "The Syrian government has actually shown a lot of compassion in keeping its doors open, and being a host for so many refugees."Most people? Or "everybody except really smart people like me," Dennis? See our comment on "refugees" above. Syria is showing no "compassion" here at all. It's they and their Baathist and Iranian pals who continue to stir the refugee pot.
It's a fact that Syrian officials' palms are getting well and truly greased by the Iranian radicals and Iraqi Baathists who are using Syria as a base to cause mayhem throughout the Middle East. When someone like Kucinich makes a breathtakingly stupid assertion like this, ignoring the real reason behind the "refugee crisis," you are never really sure whether it's due to his unbending Marxist ideology or whether Dennis is just plain ignorant. An excellent case can be made for either outcome.
Kucinich said he would ask UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to follow up on the "dire conditions" in southern Lebanon, especially Israeli cluster bombs leftover [sic] from the war that have killed more than 30 and injured at least 200 since the fighting's end.
Well, Dennis, actually, the dire condition in Southern Lebanon is the massive stocking of lethal weaponry that's been funded through Iran and enabled by Syria. It's going to lead to another, bigger war in that vicinity and probably pretty soon. Could very well be that a few Israeli cluster bombs are laying around. But as far as death is concerned, how many Lebanese and Israeli citizens were killed in the last conflict, which was started by Hezbollah, supplied by Syria, and funded by Iran? You know, the freedom fighters who casually lobbed unguided missiles by the hundreds onto Israeli popuation centers. Oh, right, that doesn't count.
"There has to be a commitment to cleaning up these cluster bombs," Kucinich said.
That's how the article concludes, with a typical, high-sounding bureaucratic statement signifying nothing, but making the speaker feel and indeed seem morally superior. "There has to be a commitment" conveniently relieves Dennis from the necessity to do anything himself. But it sounds really good.
Which is the whole point of Kucinich's grandstanding. He plays to his hard-left audience by scoring all the propaganda points he can. He ingratiates himself with our enemies, who, of course, are therefore his friends. And, in the end, gives aid and comfort to a network of implacable American enemies, thereby helping infuse them with the courage and conviction to continue their systematic slaughter of Americans, Israelis, and anyone else who disagrees with them. All the while, he hides behind rhetorical devices that cast him centerstage as a savior who is to be admired. He is, fortunately, a marginal figure on the national scene. But he is nonteheless capable of great damage to our foreign policy, as this scurrilous and essentially approving AP article unwittingly proves.
After all these years, he's still Dennis the Menace, isn't he?
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