it figures that the woman cited througout the article was also a speaker at the rnc.
an interview with al-suwaij:
http://www.redstate.org/story/2004/9/2/16227/78386
a link to the "classically liberal" american islamic congress:
http://www.aicongress.org/
read some of her writings (linked via the who are we?) and you'll get a good sense of where she stands politically.
she is really not representative of much of anything.
but i can see why republicans would like her.
i have no idea who she is talking to in iraq--but i am sure that there are people who feel as she does--just as there are lots who feel otherwise. what i really do not understand is what gives her the ability to puport to speak for the iraqi people.
she seems to be making the rounds in republican circles to participate in a kind of travelling pep rally aimed at propping up spirits flagging after too much reality about the justifications for war have set in.
she works out nicely to prop up the "it doesnt matter if the war was legal or not, we were still justified" line, which i suppose is all the right has left in the wake of this debacle.
seems about par for the course....