Wrapping themselves with the Israeli flag

nytimes.com

Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi should be ashamed of themselves. While Lebanon burns and fellow shiites call for a ceasefire, Dean and Pelosi make statements condemning the Iraqi premier Nouri al-Maliki for statements he had made against Israel.

The supposedly leftist Dean had this to say:

The Iraqi prime minister is an anti-Semite,' the Democratic leader told a gathering of business leaders in Florida. 'We don't need to spend 200 and 300 and $500 billion bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe that Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself and who refuse to condemn Hizbullah.

Meanwhile, consider what the Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora had to say while pleading for a cease-fire:

Are we children of a lesser God? Is an Israeli teardrop worth more than a drop of Lebanese blood?