Useful Idiots

Vladimir Lenin used that term to describe people in other countries who acted against their own countries' interests in an effort to help the Soviet Union, or to bolster the Communist parties in their own countries.

Well, the United States has a new and improved generation of Useful Idiots. One such individual is Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who supposedly is running for the Presidency on the Democratic side (though his policies sound an awful lot like Congressman Ron Paul's, don't you think?).

Mr. Kucinich's latest "words of wisdom" came out in an interview where he sang the praises of the chinless wonder, a/k/a Syrian President Basher Assad, and called for Syrian and Iranian troops to enter Iraq as peacekeeping forces (after the U.S. pulled out immediately and paid war reparations, of course): http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1550.htm, before he lapses into the "Bush lied, people died" canard. His policy--if you can even dignify it with that term--is wrong on so many levels that it barely merits a response. We can start off by saying that turning over the world's second largest oil reserves to two terrorist regimes is probably not a great idea. We can follow that up with the fact that there is pretty conclusive proof that Iranians are in Iraq, killing Americans.

This man is considered to be a serious politician, at least by some. Does he not realize just what kind of propaganda victory he is handing to the enemies of this country. Is the American Left so blinded by its hatred of President Bush in particular (and again, I will remind you that he isn't my favourite person in the world right now, either) and by Republicans in general that they will say and do anything to make this country look bad? What is wrong with these people?