This is when I try and take the risk of incurring the wrath of the very people who lurk at Yggy’s:

What is up with commenters who slam a blogger when he writes something that doesn’t seem to fit in to their expectations of what he is “supposed” to say?

Kevin Drum gets it a lot, Tbogg did it to Totten, and now that Yggy slammed Rall, there seems to be a mini-revolution in the comments to that post.

I won’t throw any situational examples out here… no need to expound on something almost self-evident.

(For the record I think that Ted Rall is not taking a stab at satire with Why We Fight. Besides, Michele has a better bitchslapping of Ted Rall:

Look at that paragraph I quoted. Does Rall really believe this? Does he honestly think that most Iraqis would rather live under Saddam than make progress towards demoracy with help from the U.S.? He is taking the issues of a small percentage of Iraqis – those corrupt individuals who flourished under Saddam’s totalitarian regime – and projecting their ideals onto the rest of the Iraqi citizens.

Just a small paragraph, to convince you to go there.)