America defeated in Iraqi war

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Iraq's information minister is not an isolated case of bizarre denial. Here's what the Iraqi ambassador to Egypt said:

"Iraq will not be defeated" in the war, Ambassador Mohsen Khalil told a news conference in Egypt. "Iraq has now already achieved victory -- apart from some technicalities."

Khalil said Israel forced America to attack Iraq because the Jewish state "regards Iraq as a major power in the Arab world."

Yes, just a few technicalities, such as Republican guards who find that whipping off their uniforms and diving into the river is a better fate than keeping their uniforms on and being flung into the river by artillery fire. Minor details, like leaders whose flesh and bones have been compressed into a fine paste by 8000 pounds of JDAM.

It goes back to the shame culture again. The Arabic world's culture reinforces a kind of denial that requires them to lie. Failure is impossible; success is predestined by Allah; if enough people believe it then it is true, and if people think it is false then it IS false.

The info minister is not engaging in propaganda. He's reflecting how they operate.

You can see this same thinking in operation in the American KKK, the British National Front, and other, similar organizations, because part of this style of thinking is finding reasons for your own failure that are outside your own circle. If we are poor, they think, it's because the immigrants stole all the jobs. We are superior, and if it looks like someone else is winning, it's because they are sneaky and play dirty.

Hear that very same voice in the ambassador: We are winning, obviously. But just in case we are not, it's because of the sneaky, dirty Jews.