The Unceasing Stoopid

Back in October, Gun Counter Gomer (”GCG”) aka “Confederate Yankee” took on the Evil Main Stream Media for supposedly sensationalizing false reports that Shiite Militias were taking over much of the city of Basra in the wake of the Brit’s Sir-Robin to a remote base at the airport, 13 miles from city centre. A little taste of his snit-fit:

Basra is not in chaos. In fact, crime and violence are way down and there has not been a British combat death in over a month.

Today, however, GCG has a new complaint — that the Evil Main Stream Media is portraying the Iraqi central government’s attack on Shiite Militias which took over much of the city of Basra in the wake of the British retreat redeployment in a negative light:

Because of the success of the surge and the increasing competence of Iraqi security forces, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki decided that it was time to lead an offensive in Basra, a city long controlled by competing Shia militias that are often little more than criminal gangs. Maliki has given the militias 72 hours to lay down their arms or face “the most severe penalties.”

This, according to GCG, is a “moment[] of growth for Iraq’s fledgling democracy worth celebrating” even if the clueless wonder was in denial about the prevalent influence of Shia militias in the first place.

Now for GCG’s current delusion: “The Prime Minister of Iraq is all but publicly daring Muqtada al-Sadr and his Iranian allies to engage Iraqi government forces to determine the future of Iraq.”

Because, like GCG, we all know that the Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al Maliki is a inalterably opposed to Iranian influence in Iraq: