[lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat
- From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:19:14 -0000
So Sigmund, why do we all like Saddam so much?
Simon
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From: Lawrence Helm
To: Lit-Ideas
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 4:19 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat
I see that Ursula wants to send me a bunch of donuts, but I’ve already traded
my nickels in for several boxes of donuts; so I’m rolling in doughnuts. Well,
no, no one is going to come right out and say “Saddam is a ‘good guy,’ or ‘I
love the way Saddam held his AK47,’ or ‘didn’t that mustache of his send goose
bumps up and down your neck?’ Nothing like that. They can’t come out and
speak their mind, but then no one really does. As Greg Laurie says on House
everyone lies. But he is a clever doctor and ferrets out the truth, and no one
is going to pull the wool (obtained from Joerg’s little lamb or not) down over
the eyes of Sigmund Helmenfreud!
Notice last night when the alleged (by me) Saddam supporters were throwing
fulminated brands at me one after the other and I remarked “where is Andreas,
and where is Irene”? You remember my saying that, don’t you? I was worried
about them. Of course, psychologist that I am I couldn’t help speculating
about why they are so often gone at the same time, and why they use the same
expressions, and why they look as though they dressed in the same closet, but .
. . that is for another discussion. And then when Andreas appeared, what did
he say? Do you think unless he says, “how dare you say bad things about my
beloved Saddam that he is not fond of him?”
Notice what Andreas does say. He makes a casual reference to one of my
anti-Saddam comments and immediately launches into an attack against Bush. He
forgets that I now think Bush a Leftist; which he himself guessed, but what is
he going to say? He can’t come right out and defend Saddam so his tit for tat
has to be in a different form, the form of “Oh yeah? Well look at the dumb
thing that Bush did.”
Put it another way: you are in the school yard saying bad things about Saddam
Hussein and every time you do someone throws a rock at you. No one says, “I
love Saddam,” but all those rocks speak a love of which they dare not speak, to
use a colorful psychological phrase.
Lawrence
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