The driver's most emphatic statement was: "All Iraqi people want this war." He seemed convinced that civilian casualties would be small; he had such enormous faith in the American war machine to follow through on its promises. Certainly more faith than any of us had. Perhaps the most crushing thing we learned was that most ordinary Iraqis thought Saddam Hussein had paid us to come to protest in Iraq. Although we explained that this was categorically not the case, I don't think he believed us. Later he asked me: "Really, how much did Saddam pay you to come?"
lol!
This is a great example of leftist 'bubble-bursting'. There have been many notable cases, such as the story of former Black Panther founder and 60's leftist radical Eldridge Cleaver.
While in prison for attempted murder, Cleaver immersed himself in the writings of various Marxist and revolutionary authors (Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Debs, Bakunin, et al.), black American writers (Richard Wright, James Baldwin, W. E. B. Du Bois), and counter-cultural writers (Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs), the usual heroes of your average leftist academic.
After being paroled from a stint in Folsom and San Quentin, Cleaver shot to the forefront of radical and revolutionary stardom, getting his start as a journalist for the Marxist rag 'Ramparts' in San Francisco. Cleaver helped found the Black Panthers, which used Cleaver's radical prison essays as the organization's founding philosophy.
In one essay, Cleaver described his rape of white women as "an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the white man's law ... defiling his women." Hey, leftists really know how to party. With ideological pals like Stalin, Mao, and Cleaver, who needs Hitlers?
To avoid prison after running afoul of the law again, this time a shoot-out with the Oakland police, Cleaver fled to the countries where his utopian ideologies were all the rage; Cuba, Algeria, France, Soviet Union, Vietnam, and North Korea, often with much fan-fare and warm reception for his vitriolic anti-US views (sound familiar?).
Discovering a side of communism and socialism Cleaver apparently never read about in romanticized leftist propaganda, the radical Cleaver began an even more radical transformation.
He promptly returned to the US in 1975, and reborn by his new-found understanding of leftist ideologies, Cleaver denounced the Panthers to support capitalism, saying "I found the systems of dictatorships and communism to be absolutely unacceptable.''
So utterly appauled by his taste of communism, Cleaver - get this - became a
REPUBLICAN and actually made an unsuccessful GOP bid to run for a Senate seat in California, telling interviewers during his congressional campaign, "I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die." lol!
David Horowitz is another example out of a number of former radical lefties who in one way or another were smacked in the face with the stupidity of their own beliefs.
