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Now it is no surprise that the Democrats Schumer and Dean – along with President Bush, Sen. McCain, and most Republicans – would side with Israel no matter what the cost to U.S. interests, lives, and society (witness events in Seattle). That is the venal and security-sapping given of contemporary American politics. No, the surprise is that any educated American could have anticipated any other judgment from Prime Minister Maliki. To the great dismay of our bipartisan, democracy-pushing political paragons, the democratically elected leader of Iraq merely stated the obvious: Iraqis regard Israel as an illegitimate, colonizing, land-and-water thieving state that routinely murders large numbers of Muslim men, women, and children. The hard but obvious reality is that Maliki was speaking for his constituents, and, to be honest, for most of the Muslim world.

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