Effin Salam

Thank you, James Lileks. This is exactly right.

Hey, Salam? F*** you. I know you’re the famous giggly blogger who gave us all a riveting view of the inner circle before the war, and thus know more about the situation than I do. Granted. But there’s a picture on the front page of my local paper today: third Minnesotan killed in Iraq. He died doing what you never had the stones to do: pick up a rifle and face the Ba’athists. You owe him.

I have asked it before and I ask it again: who had internet access in fascist Iraq? What connections would he need to risk saying the things he said every day? And why is nobody asking these questions?