Damn. Busted.

As usual, Debra Saunders has us liberals pegged! In today's column, she talks about the Iraqi elections on Sunday. Not content with saying, "Well, that went very well. Let's see what happens next!" she has to do a bit of gloating. She also interviews an Iraqi American who conveniently repeats the conservative's latest trope: that liberals are racists.

I ask Al-Bander what he thinks of those who pronounced Iraqis as incapable of ruling themselves. "I think it is racism," he answers. "What amazes me, it is coming from liberals."

That's what Bush-hating has come to in America 2005...

Oh! We're so busted! Does anyone remember when Michael Moore said, "We shouldn't invade war because those little brown people couldn't possibly have invented big bad weapons of mass destruction?"

How about when Howard Dean said, "We're not going to risk our soldiers' lives for a bunch of sand n****s?"

Or when Moveon.org sent out an email saying "Arabs can't handle democracy! It's been genetically proven!"

Oh, I am one ashamed liberal...

Seriously, I suspect Saunders and other conservatives repeat this "Liberals are RACISTS!" line, not because they expect anybody to believe it, but because it gets our goat. It makes us hopping mad. How childish...

But it's even worse than childish. Because with that excuse, Saunders and others no longer have to deal with the inconvenient facts. Facts like the way the U.S. failed to intervene on behalf of the Kurds in 1988. The lack of evidence for WMDs. The piss-poor planning. The money J. Paul Bremer lost track of ($8 billion, reportedly). The torture. The torture. The torture.

But the torture itself isn't racist in her world, nor is the mumbing about "Western accounting practices." Oh no.

GRRRRR.