THEY JUST HATE BUSH/BLAIR MORE THAN AL QAEDA:

The strange case of the silent lefties (Nick Cohen, June 11, 2006, The Observer)

Outside the international jihadi movement, 'there will be few people shedding any tears for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,' said the Guardian. Strictly speaking, this is true. Most of the world's liberal-Left aren't like George Galloway. They haven't 'saluted' fascistic tyrants or gushingly described the 'insurgents' from the Baath party and al-Qaeda as 'ragged people, with their sandals, with their Kalashnikovs'. Rather, they have pretended that the struggle for democracy in Iraq has nothing to do with them. They have concentrated all their energy on hating Bush and turned their backs on Iraq's liberals and democrats. They don't support fascism, but they don't oppose it, either. Frankly, I prefer Galloway; at least he makes a commitment.

The real question is not why so few people cried on the news of Zarqawi's death, but why so few cheered. The answer will take the liberal-left a long time to live down.