ON THE MENSA BEAT WITH SHARON STONE—BATTLES AND LOSSES IN IRAQ!
It took Bullwinkle five minutes to admit he didn’t have a Ph d from Harvard; it took Jethro six months to realize there was a significant difference between Oxford Middle School, Oxford Mississippi, and the University of Oxford, but once he was convinced there was he darn well wanted everybody to know he graduated 6th grade from Oxford Middle School and not that other place.
It took Sharon Stone years to admit she wasn’t a member of MENSA and didn’t have an IQ of 148. Ms Stone attended Edinboro University in Pennsylvania. It has a student population of 6,443. It has a great MENSA outreach program—or is that Harvard? One of them has. Edinboro may not be Ivy League but there are those who love it dearly.
Ms Stone is currently in Egypt commiserating with America’s enemies. She’s been in the Middle East since December on what she says is a fact-finding mission. She also found time to attend the fourth Dubai International Film Festival in the United Arab Emirates. Ah, the Emirates! What a great place to visit! There are more oil millionaires per square inch in Dubai than there are crawdads in the creek behind the old Clampett cabin! And all that sand!
Ms Stone was available for interviews. She talked to Al Hayat. She was in the Middle East seeking answers, she said. It was her basic instinct. The US media had failed to provide her with the truth. “I feel sad,” she said, “when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.”
Well, she has that right, but the New York Times and MSNBC
are not the only culprits, there’s Rosie O’Donnell…Brian DePalma…Sean
Penn…Mark Cuban…Woody Harrelson…Danny Glover…Martin Sheen…Edward Asner…the
Fidel Castro Mutual Admiration Society…the Daniel Ortega Glee Club…the Sons and
Daughters of Che Guevara… The Sons and
Daughters of Che Guevara? Sure,
Roy Rogers had the Sons of the Pioneers; John Wayne had the Sons of Katie Elder and Hollywood has the Sons of the Soviet
Pioneers—Marx, Lenin, Bukharin, Lionel Stander, Mary of Peter-Paul-and-Mary…the
Trotsky Pickaxe Club…
Oh, yeah, Hollywood
has done its share of obscuring and much of it has gone into Ms Stone’s head.
It wasn’t long into
the interview before MENSA kicked in. It’s next to impossible to keep an IQ of
148 on a leash. “When we choose war,” she said, “we should understand that we
choose murder, bloodletting and torture.”
Say! Didn’t Cump Sherman say that 150 years ago?
Yes, he did! He said, “War is Hell!” And before him it was Herodotus and
Aristotle. They said the same thing. Wow! Is Ms Stone going to take credit for
what all those important people have said? Well, yes, that’s what actors
do…they don’t leave attributions or footnotes. They speak their lines, bank
their dough and it’s off to Dubai. It’s a basic instinct.
But Ms Stone wasn’t
finished. “I felt great pain,” she said, “when the spotlight is on the deaths
of 4,000 American soldiers, while 600,000 Iraqi deaths are ignored.”
They haven’t been
ignored, Ms Stone—maybe Bill Clinton hasn’t been to Baghdad to feel their pain
but they haven’t been ignored. And pulling American soldiers, sailors, Marines
and airmen out of Iraq won’t stop the killing. The dying didn’t start when the
Texas Gunslinger ordered troops into Iraq. Saddam Hussein had been killing his
own people for 23 years. Twenty-three years—that’s a lot of days! Some very
smart people have estimated that Saddam killed somewhere between 70 to 125
Iraqis every day he was in charge. A MENSA could do the Math in her head if she
wanted to. The death count runs into the millions.
And there was
Saddam’s the war with Iran. He was going to teach the Ayatolla Khomeini a
lesson. How many Iraqis died? No one will ever know for sure. Some experts say
500,000. Ms Stone must have been too young to remember that one.
.
Saddam killed
Kurds—he killed them by the tens of thousands. He used mustard gas and nerve
agents—WMDs. The media said he didn’t have any. He also killed Shias and
starved their children. He pocketed the Money For Food. He murdered his
son-in-laws. He threw his enemies from tall buildings to hear them squish; he
ran opponents of his regime through tree shredders.
How many Iraqis did
George W. Bush kill? Was it 600,000? That is the figure used by the radical
left. Is it true? Hardly. Things are not what they seem. They never are. The
media has other concerns. But the beat goes on. The terrorists have not stopped
waging war on the civilian population and the Americans have not stopped waging
war on the terrorists. And the media has not stopped waging war on George W.
Bush. No wonder Ms Stone is confused.
The number of civilians—non-combatants—killed
in the fighting between the Americans and the terrorists in 2006 was four times
lower than the number of Americans killed in the war. Four times lower!
Didn’t Ms Stone say
4,000 American soldiers were dead? Yes, she did. And the other total was what?
600,000? Pay attention now, Sharon. Few
of the civilian casualties are the result of the activities of American
soldiers. The majority of civilian deaths in Iraq are the result of the actions
of the terrorists. American soldiers kill terrorists; terrorists kill
civilians. It is not too difficult to understand if one
concentrates. During 2006, al-Qaeda and the various Islamic militias
deliberately murdered 16,791 Iraqi civilians; American soldiers
killed 225, most the result of friendly fire—caught in cross fires, etc. Ms.
Stone and her cohorts, of course, have included a large number of terrorists in
the 600,000 dead. Is it any wonder they are confused? At least they could get a
scorecard! They can’t seem to tell one Iraqi from another!
“War is not a
movie,” insisted Ms Stone, “it is an tragedy of dead bodies, victims, the
disabled, orphans, widows and the displaced.”
According to Mark Humphrys, if
the Yankee Imperialist invasion had not taken place and Saddam had remained in
power—given his normal attrition rate; 70 to 125 Iraqis per day—244,081 more
Iraqis would be dead than are today. Surely, a MENSA brain can figure this one
out—it’s a net gain of a quarter of a million lives. In addition, there would
be 879,081 more refugees.
Ms Stone said the
Middle East is addicted to the status quo. That is not true—they are addicted
to the Qur’an. She says they fear change. Whenever someone comes along with a
workable solution to their problems—killing Jews and driving Christians out of
the Middle East—they panic and become hysterical. Certainly, there is more than
enough of that
Does Ms Stone
have a good grasp of what’s going on in the Middle East? No, but she
understands the root causes—Yankee Imperialism and George W. Bush’s basic instincts. Ms Stone doesn’t add up to148 IQ points. Maybe she could borrow a few points
from Cindy Sheehan, do an imitation of Condi Rice and put it on YouTube.