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The Worst Is Yet to Come
Those "moral values" Republicans – you know, the ones who supposedly tipped the election in favor of the War Party – really are a hoot. Forget the Iraq war – killing tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians for no clear reason isn't a moral question as far as these folks are concerned. What they're really up in arms about is gay marriage and Hollywood's moral depravity (or do I repeat myself?).But what about this kind of depravity?:

"The Iraq war, [Norman Podhoretz] declares, has gone 'triumphantly.' The crowd applauds vigorously at this.

"Later in the day – perhaps for those wondering if the Iraqis themselves agree with Podhoretz's assessment – the conference organizers screen a trailer for Voices in Iraq, a forthcoming feature-length documentary for which two movie producers had handed out digital video cameras to ordinary Iraqis and asked them to film their daily lives. Evidently, the Iraqis in question see things the way CPD does. Men on the streets of Baghdad discuss how nice it is to have Saddam gone and to be better paid now. One child asks his mother what she thinks of democracy. 'Hassan,' she replies to her son, 'democracy means having individual freedom.' A torture victim of Saddam says he wouldn't mind being tortured at Abu Ghraib. 'You have a nice American woman undress you and play with your penis,' he smirks. The audience laughs."