The vicious attack of Jill Carroll by right wing bloggers has gained national attention and now international attention:

Miss Carroll has been under sustained assault from some on the pro-war Right. Bloggers and hosts on the country’s influential talk radio stations have attacked her for stating that she had not been threatened during her confinement.

Others attacked her for wearing Muslim dress and the news channel CNN carried an interview suggesting that she was suffering from “Stockholm Syndrome”, in which victims begin to sympathise with their captors. One blogger called for Miss Carroll to be arrested for treason.

The terrorists holding her brought members of the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni group, to see her. The Sunnis persuaded her to give a taped interview, which Miss Carroll said she was afraid to refuse.

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Miss Carroll’s first videotape appeared to contradict that widely-held view and provoked much of the criticism. The attacks were also stoked by a widespread suspicion among supporters of the war, from the White House downwards, that reporters from “the liberal media” are effectively allying itself with the insurgents.

So what kind of message does this send to Iraq? Are these right wing bloggers now telling the insurgents that they support their previous stance of lopping off heads? It certainly sounds like that.

Here is a note to those on the right disappointed with a free and living Jill Carroll – you are hurting your fight. I am a lefty, that’s no secret, but if I supported this war and fought to get more support for it on a daily basis then I would take good news like Jill’s release and exploit the hell out of it. “See there are good things going on in Iraq, even the insurgents are coming around”. Instead they have turned it into a vile slander fest and it is doing nothing but making them look more like the war mongers they are.