Ignorant to the fact that Arab’s are also Semitic, Howard Dean called Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki an “anti-Semite” for failing to denounce Hezbollah. Dean went further by saying, “We don’t need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe that Israel doesn’t have a right to defend itself and who refuse to condemn Hezbollah.” However, Dean was not the only Democrat ignorant to the situation in Lebanon. On Tuesday, leading Senate Democrats said in a letter that the Iraqi Prime Minister’s “failure to condemn Hezbollah’s aggression and recognize Israel’s right to defend itself raises serious questions about whether Iraq under (al-Maliki’s) leadership can play a constructive role in resolving the current crisis and bringing stability to the Middle East.” Well in my humble opinion, the Democrats’ failure to condemn Israel’s disproportionate aggression also raises serious questions. Blindly supporting Israel’s genocide against neighboring Muslims is hardly the way to bring stability to the Middle East.

Furthering his goal to collect brownie points with voters, Dean used the opportunity to criticize Bush. “He’s always talking about those people. It’s always somebody else’s fault. It’s the gays’ fault. It’s the immigrants’ fault. It’s the liberals’ fault. It’s the Democrats’ fault. It’s Hollywood people,” Dean said. “Americans are sick of that. Even if you win elections doing that, you drag down our country.” Sadly, if Dean hadn’t already used the opportunity to blame somebody else, namely Hezbollah and the PM of Iraq, for Middle East instability, his remarks might’ve been insightful rather than hypocritical.

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