So, if you watch the news, you know that there are some really great hypocrisies happening in the world of politics, in the realm of our esteemed U.S. Attorney General, John Ashcroft, and our beloved Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.

NPR correspondent Connie Rice put together her Top 10 Taboo things said about Baghdad. I will list one here, just to give you a feel.

This time: Top 10 things said about Baghdad that you’ll never hear said about Watts or other U.S. ghettoes…

(10.) “Isn’t it great that Iraqis are now free to flood their streets with tens of thousands of protesters in open demonstrations?”

You especially won’t hear this one said about Manhattan. John Ashcroft of the U.S. Department of Justice is right now hunting down and interrogating Americans planning to protest the Republican convention in New York City — so I guess the tens of thousands of Republican Convention protesters can march freely in Baghdad, but not Central Park.

If you’d like to read more of these truisms (heh…had to use an -ism), go here.