George Clooney's Darfur Dilemmas

"Hypocritical? Inexcusably hypocritical, but all too typical of the Hollywood left and their elite media pals. The parallels between Sudan and Iraq are striking and informative. Substitute Sudan's Darfurian tribes for Iraqi Shias and Kurds. The international forces in Darfur are hapless African Union peacekeepers, who spend their time trying to avoid ambushes. In Iraq, the United States and Great Britain tried to protect the Kurd north and Shia south with air patrols -- it didn't work. Saddam's terror contacts among secular and sectarian terrorists were numerous. Sudan harbored Osama bin Laden. As for the WMD, recall the Clinton administration's strike on the Khartoum pharmaceuticals plant suspected of producing nerve gas. Former Clinton SecDef Bill Cohen still defends the attack. He didn't want to run the risk that terrorists would acquire WMD from a rogue tyranny. The Bush administration didn't want to run that risk with Iraq."

Austin Bay via RealClearPolitics

Common sense and consistency mean nothing to left. It's all about how they feel today and whether their side gets credit. It has nothing to do with working together or cooperation - especially with the evil Bush.