Inhuff and Inpuff and Inhofe Blows the House Down

So what's wrong with this picture? On the same day that the Marines are forced to call up 2,500 of the Individual Ready Reserves because nobody in their right mind wants to go to Iraq, Sen. James "Global warming is a hoax" Inhofe unveils this incredible statement:

“What’s happened [in Iraq] is nothing short of a miracle.”

Inhofe is maybe America's worst senator. He said September 11th was God’s way of punishing America for not defending Israel. He said he was more "outraged by the outrage" over Abu Ghraib than over the torture itself. And now this comical assertion.

This type of thinking is not limited to a crackpot senator, but the President himself, who can't seem to understand why the Iraqis haven't gone out to their stores and bought those flowers and candy and sweets to throw at our Army's collective feet:

President Bush made clear in a private meeting this week that he was concerned about the lack of progress in Iraq and frustrated that the new Iraqi government — and the Iraqi people — had not shown greater public support for the American mission, participants in the meeting said Tuesday. [...]

More generally, the participants said, the president expressed frustration that Iraqis had not come to appreciate the sacrifices the United States had made in Iraq, and was puzzled as to how a recent anti-American rally in support of Hezbollah in Baghdad could draw such a large crowd. “I do think he was frustrated about why 10,000 Shiites would go into the streets and demonstrate against the United States,” said another person who attended.

If he can't figure that one out himself I'm not going to help him. But the bottom line is that democracy at the barrel of a gun has a tendency to breed resentment on those with the gun barrel in their faces. And as far as Shiites demonstrating in support of Shiites, well, blood is thicker than... blood draining out of their countrymen.

These statements show a tragic ignorance with the difficult issues in the Middle East, and how little attention was paid to them before dropping bombs.