Here’s an excellent weblog I hadn’t seen before, Across the Bay, with a post about sleazy accusations made by idiotarian professor Juan Cole against the Iraqi brothers who run Iraq the Model: Kommissar Cole.

Last night I had the great pleasure of meeting Omar and Mohammed Fadhil, two of the three brothers (the third is Ali), at a party hosted by Roger L. Simon (who has a good post about the event).

Omar and Mohammed took questions from an assortment of bloggers and just plain folks last night, and acquitted themselves with intelligence and candor. I was impressed; if they are representative of the majority of Iraqis, there really is hope for a democratic society in Iraq.

Juan Cole, on the other hand, is a sad example of the sheer mean-spiritedness that drives so many on the far left, who so badly want America to fail that they will smear honest Iraqis who are working to better their nation.