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George Soros did not draw a moral equivalence between al Qaeda's attack on WTC and the torture at Abu Ghraib. He noted that the U.S. had the sympathy of the world after it was victimized on 9/11, and that now the U.S. had the enmity of the world after the discovery that it had victimized Iraqi prisoners. He pinned the blame for this reversal of fortune where it rightly belongs -- on GW Bush. A simple point that doesn't in any way resemble the slur from the NRO that you link to.

Regardless of the prisoner scandal, Soros's point is correct. We lost the respect and support of the world community as soon as we stopped fighting the Islamic fundamentalists who attacked us and began the process of making war on a country that was well contained -- as evidenced by its immediate neighbors' declining to join the coalition.

p>This is why GW Bush has about as much chance of being re-elected POTUS as Saddam Hussein has of returning to power in Iraq -- as documented by the Wall Street Journal . br> -- Kyron Huigens br> New York, New York /p>

Enemy Central replies:: Kyron Huigens doesn't spin too smoothly: All the NRO story did was report first on what Soros said that morning. It did so by quoting Soros's actual words, which is more than Huigens can bring himself to do. So now quoting someone accurately is the equivalent of a slur? For the record, Soros said that Americans because of Abu Ghraib had moved from being "victims" to "perpetrators" -- the latter being the term once reserved for the attackers of 9/11. In case the moral equivalence was missed, Soros added that "there is, I'm afraid, a direct connection between those two events..."

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