There has been a lot of talk in the media about the negative symbolism from an Iraqi journalist throwing his shoes at President Bush. They haven’t said much about the positive symbolism from several other Iraqi journalists jumping up and taking the shoe thrower down to the floor and restraining him.

Power Line has posted the sixteen slides used by officers in Iraq to brief the press on the evidence that Iran is supporting the insurgents and terrorists in Iraq.  Click on each thumbnail to view the slides.

The liberal media are expressing doubt that the evidence is authentic.  They apparently believe that the Bush Administration is trying to build a case for attacking Iran.  Why is it so hard to believe that Iran is meddling in Iraq?  They have made it quite clear that they want to destroy us.  And why wouldn’t they want to help their fellow Shiites?

Anyhow, we don’t have to attack Iran if they are in Iraq.  We can attack them there wherever we find them.  And when they cross the border is the best place to find them.

Kofi Annan, the corrupt head of the ineffectual United Nations has shared his thoughts on Iraq with the BBC. CBSNews.com reports on that interview:

The current situation in Iraq is “much worse” than civil war, the outgoing United Nations secretary-general said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. broadcast Monday.

Now how did you determine that Kofi? Do you have a ‘war badness meter’? Anyhow, if you think things are so bad in Iraq why don’t you do something about it? Could it be that you know you can’t? That you know your organization is as useless as teats on a boar ‘coon? You can spend billions of dollars each year but all you can do is make dopey statements to anyone that will give you a venue.

During the interview with the BBC world service, Annan agreed when it was suggested that some Iraqis believe life is worse now than it was under Saddam Hussein’s regime.

“I think they are right in the sense of the average Iraqi’s life,” Annan said. “If I were an average Iraqi obviously I would make the same comparison, that they had a dictator who was brutal but they had their streets, they could go out, their kids could go to school and come back home without a mother or father worrying, ‘Am I going to see my child again?’

Kofi, how can a dictator be brutal without hurting someone? Even you should be able to figure out that most Iraqis did not feel safe under Saddam. Perhaps most of the Sunnis did. But they represent a minority of Iraqis, and even young Sunni women had to be careful not to attract the attention of Saddam’s sons. Ask the Shiites and Kurds how safe they felt under Saddam. They might tell you about the hundreds of thousands of their friends and relatives that he killed. The only way to feel safe under a brutal dictatorship is to be very careful not to offend the dictator or his minions.

On your way out Kofi, don’t let the door knob hit you where the good lord split you.