Idiots All

This article from World Net Daily sent a number of people (including my favorite wingnut) into spasms of glee the other day. Following through on their commitment to depict opponents of the Republican Party as winning the endorsement of terrorists, the Army of Davids Morons took to the streets, triumphantly proclaiming the righteousness of their mission. Here’s what America’s Most Trusted Source for News had to say about the views of terrorists on this coming week’s elections:

Muhammad Saadi, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, said the Democrats’ talk of withdrawal from Iraq makes him feel “proud.”

“As Arabs and Muslims we feel proud of this talk,” he told WND. “Very proud from the great successes of the Iraqi resistance. This success that brought the big superpower of the world to discuss a possible withdrawal.”

Abu Abdullah, a leader of Hamas’ military wing in the Gaza Strip, said the policy of withdrawal “proves the strategy of the resistance is the right strategy against the occupation.”

“We warned the Americans that this will be their end in Iraq,” said Abu Abdullah, considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas’ Izzedine al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades, Hamas’ declared “resistance” department. “They did not succeed in stealing Iraq’s oil, at least not at a level that covers their huge expenses. They did not bring stability. Their agents in the [Iraqi] regime seem to have no chance to survive if the Americans withdraw.”

Abu Ayman, an Islamic Jihad leader in Jenin, said he is “emboldened” by those in America who compare the war in Iraq to Vietnam.

It all sounds pretty frightening, except for the fact that at least two of the quoted sources appear to have left very light footprints on the world — so light, in fact, that one wonders if they exist anywhere except at the Democratic-terrorist tea parties WND writer Aaron Klein hosts inside his skull. “Abu Ayman” and “Muhammad Saadi” have evidently waited a long time to issue these statements; more to the point, these quotations appear to be the only public statements they’ve ever made. (Lest we place too much trust in the Google empire, I also did a ProQuest newspaper search through my university library and discovered exactly zero articles that contained the name “Muhammad Saadi” and only one with the name “Abu Ayman” — the latter a 52-year old resident of Beit Hanoun who was briefly quoted in the LA Times in July. We’re too cheap, evidently, to pay for a subscription to Lexis/Nexis — and I’m too lazy to look up my brother’s access code — but I’m reasonably confident that I’d find more of the same there.)

It’s been a bad couple of days for the wingnuttosphere. First they demonstrate their inability to comprehend simple paragraphs written in their native tongue; and now they remind us of their willingness to believe damn near anything, so long as it doesn’t appear in The Lancet or the New York Times.