Blaming the victims.(Up Front)(Iraq)(Brief article)

The January 2005 Iraqi elections offered conservatives their last real occasion for maximal gloating and denunciations of war opponents' indifference to Iraqi freedom. Bill O'Reilly noted in the run-up to the elections that "you would think everyone in the world who values freedom would be rooting for the Iraqis to have them, but they are not," and followed up after the vote by remarking that "President Bush looks like a sage" while his critics look churlish.

In a higher-brow iteration, columnist Charles ...

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