A hilarious response to wussy American appeaseniks

First, some background: Kaia Svien of Minneapolis has organized a project she calls the FOR Iraq Photo Project. This project's goal is to send to Saddam Iraq thousands of photos of American citizens (or groups of citizens) holding up hand-made signs with messages apologizing for the war that ousted the modern equivalent of Hitler and brought freedom and liberty to the country's citizens. The pithy messages include:

• "Our hearts are filled with grief and shame."
  
• "Iraq is your country!"
  
• "We are ashamed of the actions of our government."
  
• "We apologize for the killing and torture of Iraqis."
  
• "We apologize deeply for U.S. government atrocities."
  
• "Please forgive U.S. transgressions."
  
• "Our tears flow for the Iraqi people."
  
• "We have felt immense pain in our hearts over all this horrible insanity."
  
• "We are sad about this war. We hope your houses stop getting wrecked."
  
• "...we pray for an end to the suffering of the Iraqi people."
  
• "With deep shame, we apologize for the injuries, torture, and deaths of Iraqi prisoners."
  
• "We apologize for the United States' behavior in Iraq. We are outraged and ashamed of our current government."

And on and on and on. *urp* Um, excuse me one moment.

*vomitting sounds*

Sorry. Natural reaction to that stuff.

So my first reaction to these photos was to ask,

"Where were these people when Saddam and his government were killing, injuring, torturing, wrecking houses, and committing other atrocities and transgressions against the suffering Iraqi people with their horrible insanity? Where were they when Saddam was filling mass graves with the bodies of children who were clutching toys at the moments of their deaths? Where were they when the Iraqi people starved to death while Saddam lived as a king in his many palaces? Where were they when Saddam and his sons amused themselves by slowing lowering people feet-first into industrial shredders? Where? WHERE? WHERE?!?!?!?!?!"

Oh, we're SO, SO SORRY for removing a brutal, murderous, defiant dictator from power in your country! We're SO, SO SORRY that you are regaining control of your own country! We're SO, SO SORRY for bringing freedom and liberty to your country! Here, let's withdraw our forces, release Saddam, restore him to power and return all those things that you lost!

Idiots.

But I digress...

Artist and blogger Sean Glesson fired up his image editting program and has put together a hilarious response to all of this, which he has entitled "Apologizing to Saddam is groovy." Check it out and enjoy a few good belly laughs. Also, blogger Tim Blair has a page entitled THE TERRIFYING FACE OF FORGIVENESS with hilarious comments about some of the photos. If Gleeson's page doesn't have you rolling on the floor, Blair's page will. Well done, gentlemen!