Iraq - The Terrorists Can't Win

Newsweek reports on the good news from Iraq. Oh, don't worry they report on bad news as well.

July 4 issue - I don't see how Iraq's insurgency can win. It lacks the support of at least 80 percent of the country (Shiites and Kurds), and by all accounts lacks the support of the majority of the Sunni population as well. It has no positive agenda, no charismatic leader, virtually no territory of its own, and no great power suppliers. That's why parallels to Vietnam and Algeria don't make sense. But despite all these obstacles, the insurgents launched 700 attacks against U.S. forces last month, the highest number since the invasion.

That's quite a statement coming from a magazine that recently ran the bogus Koran desecration story and helped the terrorists cause in Iraq. And none of that stops the deranged left from trying to make Vietnam comparisons.

The US is constantly criticized for not having enough man power in Iraq but today on the radio I heard the cost to America will be over $1 Trillion dollars. Instead of criticizing the US, why aren't these critics harping at France, Germany, and Russia to help out? Or condemning Spain and the PI for pulling out? Why are there no attacks on Syria and Iran who are aiding these terrorists? The smug answer we are given is that "you broke it, you fix it". But just like the Vietnam comparison is bogus, so is this sneer, for it implies that Iraq was not broke in the first place, an absurd implication.

The positive picture is worth painting. Iraq has had successful elections, a new (and more legitimate) government, Sunnis included into the political process, and is working on a new constitution. The insurgents' attacks on ordinary Iraqis are having the predictable effect of making them lose popular support. When I was in Iraq recently, several Iraqis (all Sunnis) told me that they were losing respect for and patience with the insurgents. "These guys are thugs who are killing Iraqis, not resistance fighters battling the occupation," one of them said. And finally, Iraqi politicians have been more mature and steadfast than one could have ever hoped for—making compromises, arriving at consensus and moving forward under tremendous personal danger.

Since the terrorists have "no positive agenda, no charismatic leader, virtually no territory of its own, and no great power suppliers", and lacks the support of ordinary Iraqis, why does the world press support them and attack America so much?

Becuase this is not about defeating terrorism, this is about defeating America, even if it means letting terrorists win. Such is the inverted world the left and the media have created.
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Iraq - al Qaeda Ledership Being Decimated

Winds of Change has a round up of the pounding the al Qaeda ledership is taking.

Khalid Suleiman Darwish has been killed in Qaim. Darwish was Zarqawi's number two in command.

Darwish is the second prince to be removed from the battlefield in the past month, after the capture of Abu Talha. It's important to note that Talha was captured after a tip off from locals.

Abdullah al-Rashood, a very senior member of al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia was also killed in Qaim this past week.

Hilal Hussein al-Badrani, a Saudi who commands Ansar al-Sunnah, has been captured outside of Mosul by Iraqi security forces.

Let's not forget that Zarqawi has reportedly been wounded and hopefully we'll get him soon.

al-Badrandi's capture might explain why Ansar al-Sunnah wants talks with the US.

The Sunday Times said that the insurgents at the first meeting included the Ansar al-Sunna Army, which claimed responsibility for suicide bombings in Iraq and a Christmas attack that killed 22 people in the dining hall of a US base at Mosul.

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Britain - BBC Shills for America's Attackers

The BBC often openly attacks the US, see The Case Against the BBC, but sometimes they schill for others who openly attack America. Take this BBC article for example.

As you read try and keep in mind the backdrop for what was happening in America at the time. There had been a co-ordinated terrorist attack which had killed over 3000 innocent Americans on American soil, something that had never happened before. There were two attacks on the Twin Towers, one on the Pentagon and one whose target is thought to have been the White House. So, the terrorists were targeting the financial, military and political heart of America, right on American soil. Were there other targets?

Also bear in mind that we are talking about 70 men out of a population of 300 million and while we do not want to see one persons rights violated, given the circumstances of the times, this is truly a small number.

The BBC does not provide a direct link to the report, you'll see why in a moment, but they do provide a link to Human Rights Watch so you can read the report yourself, which you should. You can read their summary here.

HRW's report is full of wild allegations designed to stir up anti-American sentiment in the Muslim community and yet HRW provides no evidence, other than the suspects testimony, that anything illegal occurred.

Congress enacted the current material witness law in 1984 to enable the government, in narrow circumstances, to secure the testimony of witnesses who might otherwise flee to avoid testifying in a criminal proceeding. If a court agrees that an individual has information "material" to a criminal proceeding and will likely flee if subpoenaed, the witness can be locked up, but, in theory, only for as long as is necessary to have him testify or be deposed.

So, these men were held, legally, in case they would flee and a court agreed that they had material information.

The US indefinitely detained some 70 Muslim men after the 11 September attacks on baseless accusations of terrorist links, US rights bodies say.

Note the BBC repeat HRW's claim that the accusations were baseless. Buried in paragraph 17 of the summary we are told this:

Seven were charged with providing material support to terrorist organizations; as of May 2005, four had been convicted, and the other three were awaiting trial.

Obviously since they were convicted, the accusations were not baseless and 10% of these men were involved in terrorism in some way.

And I guess it depends on your definitionion of what "indefinitely" is, for HRW tells us that:

One-third of the seventy post-September 11 material witnesses we identified were incarcerated for at least two months. Some endured imprisonment for more than six months, and one witness spent more than a year in prison.

Not quite indefinte now is it? Besides, what does the law say?

The material witness law does not specify how long a witness may be incarcerated before being presented in a criminal proceeding or released.

So, once again we are told the government was acting legally.

Then we are told:

Another twenty witnesses were charged with non-terrorist-related crimes, such as bank or credit card fraud or making false statements to the FBI.

HRW convienently fails to tell us how many were convicted.

Then there is this:

Twenty-four were deported.

Are some of the twenty charged with non terrorists charges in this twenty four or is this on top of the twenty? Since these are two distinct statements, I'd say they are on top of the twenty. Otherwise, HRW would have said something like, "of the 24 deported, 20 had been charged with...."

Finally,

Two of the seventy were designated "enemy combatants"

HRW's report goes on to hyperventilate over the way the prisoners were arrested, questioned and detained. They were arrested at gunpoint and handcuffed, all standard procedure. They were asked tough questions and detained in tough conditions, all standard procedure. No one was tortured. And look at how many were deported, charged and convicted, four on terrorism charges and three awaiting trial.

The left are still living in a pre 9/11 world as HRW admits.

The Department of Justice has contended that grand jury rules require such secrecy. However, prior to September 11, the Justice Department did not make such a contention, detention hearings for federal material witnesses in grand jury proceedings were typically public.

That's because things changed on 9/11 and you better wake up to that fact, if you want to continue to live in Kansas Dorothy.

UPDATE

And as in the case of the bogus Koran story, this story is already being used to fan the flames of anti-Americanism in the Muslim world. See here and here.
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Britain - Protest at Zimbabwean Deportations

While Mugabe is busy torturing, killing and making homeless hundreds of thousands of his own people, the British government is seeking to deport failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers.

While the world is in an uproar, except the African Union, over Mugabe's purges, "Home Office ministers say there is no evidence that people being returned to Zimbabwe are being mistreated".

Why isn't Geldof organizing demonstrations outside Downing Street to try and stop the deportations and outside Zimbabwe's embassy to try and stop the genocide? Instead he's organizing protests to coincide with the G8 summit in an attempt to give more money to the likes of Mugabe. That may not be his intention but that's where the money will end up.

Better Geldof petition the G8 members to take action to stop Mugabe. But you and I know that will never happen and so many more will suffer and die.

It's a romantic notion, but flower power has never equaled real power.
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Israel - Media Fabrication for Palestinians

The Jerulasem Post catches the Globe and Mail fabricating a story schilling for the Palestinians.

According to Globe and Mail reporter Carolyn Wheeler, the meeting took place in "Mr. Sharon's flag-draped residence in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City," on "disputed home turf." [...]

Wheeler then waxed for two paragraphs about the alleged site of the meeting: "Mr. Sharon's purchase of the stately Old City stone home in 1987, and the subsequent removal of its Arab tenants, created great controversy at the time. The building is now rarely used, but it is still under heavy guard and remains a stinging symbol for Palestinians struggling to hold onto Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem."

There's just one problem.

In fact, the meeting was held at the prime minister's residence in the Rehavia neighborhood of the capital, where there is no dispute over sovereignty.

Now how do you suppose she could make such a mistake?

After outraged readers pointed out the error, the Globe and Mail issued a correction.

"Obviously, it's a very embarrassing error," said Guy Nicholson, the newspaper's interim foreign editor. "We asked her for some background about where the story location was. Unfortunately, she was not actually at the scene of it. She wrote it off of television and wires."

Just the other day I posted this piece about a French journalist reporting from Iraq.

French journalist Anne-Sophie Le Mauff is not impressed by orders that she leave Iraq and return to Paris: “I don’t understand this decision. I do my job, I’m careful, I don’t leave my hotel.”

See here for a long list of media fakes.

Hat tip to Max
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America - Why the World Needs Her

In the immediate aftermath of the tsunami disaster, America led the initial relief efforts.

The U.S. relief funds do not count the assistance provided by the U.S. military, which has 24 Navy ships, one Coast Guard vessel and about 15,000 servicemen and women involved in the relief effort. The Pentagon has estimated that it is spending about $6 million a day in those operations.

Contrast that with this:

It was Tony Blair, coming onto the scene, who then spoke to Bush and told him that that co-ordination should go through the UN and the G8. But, as the US and other core-group members had already found, the UN had no capacity to do anything or to make any difference in the short term.

It was not until 31 December that the UN had got itself sufficiently together for there to be a video-conference, involving Powell and the UN's Kofi Annan and various senior UN officials. After that, core group meetings routinely included UN representatives.

Today, Mark Steyn reports what happens when the calls for America to hand over the relief efforts to the usual suspects.

The tsunami may have been unprecedented, but what followed was business as usual, the sloth and corruption of government, the feebleness of the brand-name NGOs, the compassion-exhibitionism of the transnational jet set. If we lived in a world where "it's what you do that defines you", we'd be heaping praise on the US and Australian militaries who in the immediate hours after the tsunami struck dispatched their forces to save lives, distribute food, restore water and power and communications.

And if you really want to help, Steyn has a suggestion for you.

Whether or not it has "moral" authority, the UN certainly can't do the job. It becomes clearer every week that Western telly viewers threw far more money at tsunami relief than was required and that much of it has been siphoned off by wily customs inspectors and their ilk. If you really wanted to make an effective donation to a humanitarian organisation, you'd send your cheque to the Pentagon or the Royal Australian Navy.

Is there any thing the UN can do? It wasn't the UN that stopped Molosavich's genocide, liberated Afghanistan, liberated Iraq or emboldened the Lebanese to kick out the Syrians.

Steyn continues.

The passionate hostility of Miss Short and co to action, to getting things done, is remarkable, but understandable. Getting things done requires ships and transport planes and the like, and most Western countries lack the will to maintain armed forces capable of long-range projection. So, when disaster strikes, they can mail a cheque and hold a press conference and form a post-modern "Task Force" which doesn't have any forces and doesn't perform any tasks. In extreme circumstances, they can stage an all-star pop concert. And, because this is all most of the Western world is now capable of, "taking action" means little more than taking the approved forms of inaction.

So, instead of organizing protests outside the embassies of countries like Mugabe's, who is at this moment systematically killing his own people, Bob the Builder wants to hold yet another concert and give more money to these murdering thugs.

Where did all the money go last time? It was stolen.

The scale of the task facing Tony Blair in his drive to help Africa was laid bare yesterday when it emerged that Nigeria's past rulers stole or misused £220 billion.

That is as much as all the western aid given to Africa in almost four decades. The looting of Africa's most populous country amounted to a sum equivalent to 300 years of British aid for the continent.

The problem for the left now, is their fig leaf checkbook isn't covering very much up anymore. They may go to bed feeling all pious and righteous having given money away in an attempt to ease their concience, but the genocide will still be there in the morning.

Money is not the answer, action is. But that would mean calling on America and the left would rather eat their young than do that.
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Britain - Religious Hate Law Absurd

The Rottweiler Puppy points out why this proposed new law is absurd.

This is, of course, to miss the blindingly obvious fact that it's not always easy to separate the two ('people' and 'faith') from one another. Beliefs, as we're sure Charles Clarke well knows, have a tendency to get lodged inside people's skulls, and when this happens, it's nigh on impossible to draw a neat distinction between attacking the religion and attacking the people who lay claim to it.

Read the whole thing, but here is the conclusion.

Whether or not the new law is used to silence comedians, academics and angsty playwrights is neither here nor there. The point is that it will almost certainly be used to attack those of us who are openly critical of the way Muslims behave.

The real question has never been whether or not anti-Islamic comments hurt Muslim feelings, but whether Muslim feelings deserve to be hurt.

Australia has already enacted such laws and the first ones convicted were Christians.
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Islam - Peace and Tolerance?

As you read this, remember, there is no such thing as "honor killings". They are murder, there is nothing honorable about them and to use the phrase implies the murderer is really the victim.

Second Islamic murder in a week.

Her brother turned himself in to the police on Thursday "claiming that he killed his sister because she was involved in immoral relationships," one official told the newspaper.

It was the second such killing in a week.

At least 19 women lost their lives in "honour killings" in the conservative Muslim kingdom last year, according to the Jordan Times.

Notice how it's always women?

Muslim boy murders his mother.

She certainly wasn't expecting the 14-year-old to pull out a gun as she moved to embrace him."You've disgraced the family," he said, and shot her five times in the head and chest.

Some people claim that Islam does not condone such murders. Mind telling me where these people get the idea from then? How else can a 14 year old get indoctrinated to such a degree as to kill his own mother? Or a brother his sister?

Buddhist couple beheaded.

Man beheaded in teashop.

It was the fifth beheading in just over two weeks, and is thought to be the first carried out so publicly.

Girls school set on fire.

There has been a spate of attacks on girls' schools across Afghanistan since U.S.-led forces ousted the Taliban in 2001. The former regime prohibited girls from attending school as part of its widely criticized drive to establish what it considered a "pure" Islamic state.

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Britain - Racist Galloway Targets Jews

The former MP for Baghdad central, now MP for Palestinians, George Galloway is stirring up racial hatred and attacking another Jewish MP.

George Galloway has announced that his Respect party intends to target the Liverpool Riverside parliamentary constituency that is currently held by Louise Ellman, who he says is “Israel’s MP on Merseyside”.

This is the second seat that he has targeted where the sitting MP is Jewish and that has a significant Muslim population.

Be sure and read the comments as there are some links to videos of Galloway.
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Britain - More Muslim Appeasement

Yesterday I posted about Rangers Football Club's decision to produce strips without the Carling Beer logo for Muslim fans.

The move comes after complaints from Muslims whose religion prohibits anything that promotes drinking.

In that post I asked this question: Are they going to want seperate stands for boys and girls next?

Well, they haven't gone that far - yet. But in Bristol they have seperate swimming times for Muslim women. This is on top of the Asian only sessions.

They already had women only sessions but it seems Somali Muslim women wanted their own sessions.

But for some Muslim communities, such as Somalis, it is an issue - not necessarily because of purely religious reasons but because they are a new community and need to build up their confidence to integrate fully in our society."

I don't see how seperating them is going to help them integrate.

Now, these two incidents of Muslim appeasement, may seem small and trivial. But let's add in some other details.

Muslims are setting up their own schools in Britain. Yes, Catholics have done that for years. I'm against both. I think religion should only be taught in school in order to educate kids about the different religions and their history - not sermonized.

A Muslim girl recently won her court case which allowed her to wear the hijab and not the school uniform. Her lawyer? PM Tony Blair's wife.

In Birmingham, there is a group calling themselves Muslims Against Advertising (MAAD). MAAD gives advice on how to vandalize billboards they deem offensive.

The Advertising Standards Authority said that increasing numbers of posters were being torn down or painted over in predominantly Islamic areas, The Times newspaper reported.

The government wants to enact laws that will prohibit criticizing Islam. Similar laws that have already been enacted in Australia have seen Christians convicted of criticizing Islam.

Britain has already adopted Islamic law and is planning on adopting more.

Gordon Brown, the chancellor, has already made one significant concession to adapt to the dictates of sharia. In the 2003 Finance Act he spared Muslims from paying stamp duty twice on their properties when they took out “Islamic mortgages” that complied with the sharia ban on paying interest.

Polygamy is illegal in Britain, but that's not stopping the government from adopting more Islamic law.

THE Inland Revenue is considering recognising polygamy for some religious groups for tax purposes. Officials have agreed to examine “family friendly” representations from Muslims who take up to four wives under sharia, the laws derived from the Koran.

Existing rules allow only one wife for inheritance tax purposes. The Revenue has been asked to relax this so that a husband’s estate can be divided tax-free between several wives.

The move is bound to create controversy if it leads to a change in the rules. It is seen as a breakthrough by Muslim leaders who have been campaigning to incorporate sharia into British domestic law.

So, what is going on here?

In working-class neighborhoods across Europe, first-generation immigrants and alienated Muslim youths are refusing to assimilate, even as they increasingly demand that the majority culture tolerates their beliefs--or else.

Where is all this leading us?

Channel 4 recently aired a program called Sharia TV. The show consisted of a panel of learned Muslims being asked questions by young UK Muslims. Here are some of the questions and answers.

Is western democracy incompatible with Sharia law? Yes.

Should sharia law be introduced in the UK? Yes.

Do we want the restoration of the Caliphate? Yes.

Some Muslims have openly declared war on Britain.

Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammed, leader of the now officially disbanded Islamic militant group Al Muhajiroun told United Press International Saturday that as the covenant of security under which Muslims previously lived in Britain has been broken, Muslims must now consider themselves at war.

"And I declare we should ourselves join the global Islamic camp against the global crusade camp," he said.

A great leap from football strips to war isn't it? But who is appeasing whom here?
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Britain - Muslim Appeasement Growing

There are signs that Muslim appeasement is growing in Britian as Rangers drop Carling beer for their Muslim fans. They want to wear the clubs strip but one without the beer ads.

The religious aspect of some football clubs seems to have escaped their attention.

The move comes after complaints from Muslims whose religion prohibits anything that promotes drinking.

Ok, now let's think about this for a moment. I'm a neo-Nazi football thug, at a Rangers game and I'm on the look out for some Muslims to bash. How can I be sure my victim really is a Muslim and doesn't just look the part? Ah ha! He'll be the one in a Rangers strip without the Carling ad! Hey, you, come here, you little.....

Right, now about those shirts with the gambling logos? That's a big no no.

And will companies that sell pork be allowed to advertise?

Are they going to want seperate stands for boys and girls next?
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Britain - BBC: World Terrorism Myth

Sometimes when I write about world terrorism, I'll poke fun at the BBC over their fantasy show "The Power of Nightmares" and their claim that world terror networks are an "illusion" and "myth".

For some strange reason, lefty trolls who visit my site, don't believe thier beloved BBC would say such an insane thing. They must feel, as I do, that such and assertion is ridiculus, why else would they attack me for saying it? Kind of bizarre that they would agree with me on anything but there you have it.

So, without further ado, here for their viewing pleasure, link included, is exactly what the BBC said.

In a new series, the Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion.

It is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media.

Now, the BBC are well known for stealth editing, so for your further viewing pleasure here is a screen shot of the BBC webpage. Just in case it goes missing or is altered.


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Guantanamo - Koran and Beheadings

The media have a feeding frenzy over bogus allegations of Koran desecration by our troops at Guantanamo, ignoring the fact that it was us infidels that gave them their jihadist manual in the first place.

Speaking of manuals, did you know that our troops have a whole manual dedicated to the proper method of handling the Koran?

Recently our troops found manuals of another kind in Iraq, manuals on how to properly behead someone.

All of this prompted OpiniPundit to remark:

We have manuals on how to properly handle the Koran and humanely treat prisoners, paying respect to their cultural sensitivities, they have manuals on how to properly torture and decapitate hostages.

Somehow the irony escapes the media.
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America - Foleygate Update

Instapundit thinks Foley has backed down.

I dont' see how you can say that when her article is titiled: "Confronting right-wing hysteria". That sound like backing down to you? In the second paragraph she tells us she isn't even talking to us and that we don't matter.

That said, let me address the rest of this column to the people who really matter: the members of The Newspaper Guild.

How is that backing down? And I certainly don't think anybody would call this an apology.

If I made a mistake, it was in trying to cover the issues surrounding safety for journalists in Iraq in an off-the-cuff way. I regret that my in-artful phraseology, and the storm it incited on the right, may detract from a critically important issue for journalists, especially those who cover war.

In case you are unaware of Foley's unsubstantiated slanderous claims that our troops target journalists, Trey Jackson has a transcript and video of her remarks.

Journalists, by the way, are not just being targeted, ah, verbally or, ah, or, ah, politically. They're also being targeted for real. Um…in places like Iraq. Ahn and, ah, what outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there's not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq. I think it's just a scandal.

And it's not just US journalists, either, by the way. They target and kill, ah, journalists from other countries, particularly Arab countries like Al -, like Arab news services like Al-Jazeera, for example. They actually target them and blow up their studios, ah, with impunity … and, ah, this is all part of a culture that it's okay to blame the individual journalists and it just takes the heat off these media, ah, conglomerates who are actually at the heart of the problem.

That sound like a mistake to you?

UPDATE

Media Slander is all over Foley and the Guild's case. Just start at the top and scroll down.
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Zimbabwe - Rights Groups Want Action

That's the ticket! The Guardian reports that human rights groups, like Amnesty International are calling for action to be taken against Mugabe's genocide.

And about time too! All right what's it going to be? America, NATO a world coalition, as in Iraq? What are we talking here? Fighters, bombers, tanks, armies and how many?

The rights groups urged the African Union, which is meeting in Libya next month, and the United Nations to act against Zimbabwe - but did not specify how.

Well, you can tell them in the media how pissed off the UN is. Then you can send them a letter telling them that you are now officially pissed off. Then pass a resolution telling them that you are now really, seriously pissed off. If that doesn't work, you can send a delegation and tell them in person, that you are now really, really pissed off. Of course by then millions will have died but hey, it's better than having America come to the rescue - again!

UPDATE

Instapundit has links to some good round ups of information on what's happening in Zimbabwe including video.

GATEWAY PUNDIT has more on genocide in Zimbabwe, with video.

A ZIMBABWE ROUNDUP at Norm Geras' place.

UPDATE

One of the groups called on to take action, the African Union, has already rejected that idea.

And at the risk of saying I told you so,

The United Nations is due to send a special envoy to Zimbabwe to investigate the demolitions.

Be sure and tell Mugabe how pissed off you are.
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Iraq - America is Winning

How do I know this? If there is one thing you can be sure of about the lying liberal media, despite their attempts to defeat democracy and America, they still want to be on the winning side. That's why you see liberal newspapers like the New York Times reporting on terrorists fighting each other. And the America hating BBC reporting on the American hating Arab press turning on the terrorists in Iraq.

And now from the other side of the planet, indeed some would say on another planet, comes another mouth piece for the left, The LA Times, with an article proclaiming the terrorists will lose in Iraq. Well, it is a bit much for them to proclaim that America will win. But still, when all is said and done, the lying liberal media still want to be on the winning side.

No wonder public support for the war is plummeting and finger-to-the-wind politicians are heading for the exits: All the headlines out of Iraq recently have been about the rebels' reign of terror. But, lest we build up the enemy into 10-foot-tall supermen, it's important to realize how weak they actually are. Most of the conditions that existed in previous wars won by guerrillas, from Algeria in the 1950s to Afghanistan in the 1980s, aren't present in Iraq.

The rebels lack a unifying organization, ideology and leader. There is no Iraqi Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro or Mao Tse-tung. The top militant is Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian who has alienated most of the Iraqi population, even many Sunnis, with his indiscriminate attacks on civilians.

And at the risk of repeating myself:

Even the Sunni's are now joining the new government. There goes the left's hope for a civil war.

The local population have seen the tide turn are now turning in the terrorists. There goes the left's hope for a grass roots uprising.

In another devastating blow to the left's campaign to stop democracy in Iraq, their hero, Koffi Annan, now admits that progress is being made in Iraq.

All of which explains why the Americans are being so welcomed by the Iraqis.

O dear, the left are going to be devastated; their on the wrong side of history - again!

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Iraq - Terrorist Lose Arab Support

It is truly a sheer joy to wake up these days. Everyday it seems there is more and more bad news for the left and good news for the right. Yesterday I posted a recap of the last 8 months of bad news for the left and today comes more bad news for the left. And the bad news for the left comes from of all places, The BBC.

The BBC reports that the Arab media is becoming increasingly more hostile towards the terrorists in Iraq, even going so far as to call them terrorists. Imagine that.

The militants are no longer referred to as the "resistance" but as gunmen or suicide bombers.

Eyewitnesses are shown denouncing them as "terrorists" - condemnations that are echoed by a parade of Iraqi officials and religious authorities.

One recent attack drew this comment from the al-Jazeera reporter: "Most of the time it's civilians who pay the price for the violence that has cost thousands of their lives".

Oh, don't worry about it. The BBC are quick to point out that it is still the Americans fault - twice.

"...although the blame for the upsurge in violence is still mainly being placed on the Americans."

By whom? The BBC does not tell us.
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America - World Prefers China Over Us

That's according to a recent poll.

I don't blame them. Who would like a country that is run by Hitler and the Nazis? A country that runs a Gulag and is worse than Poll Pot. The Democrats and main stream media have done a good job of turning the world against us.

Funny thing though, the people being liberated weren't polled. Now why do you suppose that is?
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Jordan - Chemical Attack Trial Underway

The trial of 13 terrorists who planned a chemial attack on Jordan is underway.

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Islamic militants planned to detonate an explosion that would have sent a cloud of toxic chemicals across Jordan, causing death, blindness and sickness, a chemical expert testified in a military court Wednesday.

Col. Najeh al-Azam was giving evidence in the trial of 13 men who are alleged to have planned what would have been the world's first chemical attack by the al-Qaida terror group. The accused include al-Qaida's leader in Iraq, Abu-Musab Al-Zarqawi, and three other fugitives who are being tried in absentia.

Jordanian security services foiled the plot in April last year. Jordanian officials say that had it been carried out, thousands of people would have died.

Oh, fiddle di sticks! Ya'll go on back to bed now, ya hear? There ain't no such thing as international terrorism. The BBC proved that to us in "Power of Nightmares". They said it was all just a myth and ya'll know you can trust the BBC.

Get on now, I'm busy. I gots to try on this here new tin foil hat that BBC fellar sent me. It's a brewing up a good storm with lighting and that BBC's John Simpson says it's the best time to try it on. Say's he does it all the time and that's where all his good stories come from.
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America - Vote Fraud in Ohio - By Democrats!

No wonder the left is crying like babies, sucking their thumbs and mumbling Hitler with every other breath.

Just look at the last 8 months.

Bush was re-elected, Republicans gained in both houses of Congress and Governorships. That alone drove them into frothing at the mouths like mad dogs and looking to bite anyone.

Then their bogus Koran desecration story fell apart on them.

Next their number two Senator did a number two on himself after comparing our troops to Nazis.

Then their hopes for either a civil war or grass roots uprising in Iraq failed as the Sunnis joined the security services and political process. If that wasn't enought bad news for their terrorists friends in Iraq, the local Iraqis started fighting the terrorists themselves. Faced with all the mounting evidence that Iraq is on the right path and that we are winning, the lefts godfather, Koffi Annan, was forced to admit progress was being made in Iraq.

Too bad more and more of Annan's officials are resigning over their role in the UN's oil for food scandal. Too bad for Annan and the left's beloved corrupt UN.

All of which led Americans to respond to a recent poll saying they felt that Bush was doing a good job on the war on terror and protecting America.

Whew! No wonder the left are seeing Hitler under their beds.

Fortunately, today comes more bad news for the Democrats. Their long awaited investigation into voter fraud found no evidence of voter fraud by the GOP and their deranged poster boy, Dean was forced into a humilating admission.

A five-month study for the Democratic National Committee found that more than one in four Ohio voters experienced problems at the polls last fall, , but the study did not find evidence of widespread election fraud that might have contributed to President Bush's narrow victory there.

But just as Durbin's non-apology for calling our troops Nazis was filled with "ifs", Dean's admission was a non-admission.

But Dr. Dean said the volume of problems reported by blacks and young people suggested that Republicans had tried to suppress the vote in heavily Democratic districts.(NYT)

Which led the author of the report to issue a stern statement denying Dean's claims.

"Where the partisan bias came from, where it went, we really have no basis for making any assertion about that and I don't believe the report makes any statements about that," said Cornell University professor of government Walter Mebane Jr.

Then Dean was forced to backtrack - again. He's walking backwards more than he is going forward. No wonder the big Democratic donors left the party.

You think that's bad? You haven't see nothing yet. The Democrats own study found it was the Democrats who were guilty of trying to disenfranchise voters.

In a stinging reply to the report, Mr. Mehlman agreed that there were numerous election abuses that took place in Ohio last year, but said they were perpetrated by Democrats or their political allies. In one instance, he said, "Democrat allies attempted to disenfranchise Ohio voters by submitting registration cards for Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Michael Jordan."

In March, a group of Ohio election law attorneys conducted a review of the state's election for the House Committee on Administration. It found, among other things, that "thousands of false and fraudulent voter-registration cards had been discovered and became the subject of numerous investigations by boards of elections, actions by local law enforcement and many media reports."

"Overwhelmingly," this report said, "these problems were reportedly traced primarily" to four Democratic political allies who supported Mr. Kerry: ACORN, America Coming Together, the AFL-CIO and the NAACP National Voter Fund.

Bwhahahahahahahahahahahah!!! The Democrats paid to get told they were guilty! Bwahahahahahahah!!

How can anybody take the Democrats seriously anymore? What a bunch of losers.

Via Captain's Quarters.

Afghganistan - Taleban commanders surrounded

The BBC reports that 138 terrorists have been killed this week alone and that two senior Taleban commanders are now surrounded.

Excellent! The flypaper strategy of attracking all the jihadists to places like Afghanistan and Iraq and killing them there is working.

But as usual, The BBC like to sprinkle doubt in their articles.

On Tuesday, the pilot of a US spy plane was killed when his aircraft crashed while returning to its base in the United Arab Emirates from Afghanistan.

It is not clear whether the plane had been involved in the offensive.

Then why is it in this article?

The BBC's Andrew North in Kabul says doubt has been cast on some of the US military's previous claims about insurgent casualty numbers.

Doubt cast by whom? North's waiter back in Kabul where he sits by the pool? This is the usual ploy of the BBC, toss out some unsubstantiated remark to try and cast doubt on America.
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America - Treason and Nazis

Victor Hanson writes the left's insane use of Hitler and Nazis to attack America and our troops may have dire consequences.

There is also an asymmetry in these slurs. Few mention that there really are monsters and mass killers living among us — the North Koreans who have starved 1 million of their own, Saddam's reign of terror that may have killed as many, and, of course, the Islamicist murderers who behead, blow up and torture. "Mein Kampf" still is selling well in some Arab capitals, not in Washington or New York.

So cowards such as officials of the Red Cross and Amnesty International, and, yes, American politicians, prefer to showboat the purported misdemeanors of those who are civilized and will listen to them, rather than to condemn the horrendous felonies of those who are barbaric and will not pay them heed.

As a result, the bar is lowering. In today's climate, Alfred Knopf has already published a novel about killing the president. Charlie Brooker writing in the Guardian in London prayed for another Lee Harvey Oswald to take out George W. Bush. Comedians, New York plays and art exhibits also bandy about assassination.

Each time a public official evokes Hitler to demonize the president, the American effort in Iraq or its conservative supporters, cheap rhetorical fantasy becomes only that much closer to a nightmarish reality where the unstable, here and abroad, act on the belief that America really is Hitler's Germany.

We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.

Hal Lindsey goes further and calls them traitors. A label I agree with.

The dictionary defines "sedition" as "speech or action promoting discontent or rebellion against a government." Title 18 of the U.S. Code Chapter 115 is titled, "Treason, Sedition and Subversive Activities." Title 18 defines "treason" as follows:

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death.

Isn't this exactly what Sen. Dick Durbin did? And he did it in time of war.

To recruit a new jihadist, al-Qaida need only convince him that America is an evil nation deserving of destruction. Today, an Islamic recruiter doesn't need to make stuff up about how evil America is, he just needs the transcript of a U.S. senator comparing his enemy to the most evil dictatorships in history to do it for him.

The left, anti-war types and Democrats are so deranged at their continuing downward spiral at the ballot box, that they would rather see America destroyed rather than have more Republicans democratically elected. Thankfully the Internet and blogs have exposed these monkeys and their organ grinder, the lying liberal media.
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Guantanamo - Enigma Documents an Nazis

Some seem to think the Gitmo documents obtained by the ACLU are the Enigma machine and our troops are Nazis. Speaking of the task of reviewing the 4000 pages of documents, Daniel Terdiman of Wired had this to say.

Of course, this isn't the first time volunteer labor has been used to solve a big problem. During World War II, it took a large number of volunteer analysts to break Germany’s super-secret Enigma cipher machines.

Notice how Terdiman has already made up his mind that there is "a big problem" at Gitmo? And, Kos's Kids are the patriots breaking the secrect code of the Nazis at Gitmo.

Despite no evidence of wrongdoing at Gitmo and a recent poll showing that 70% of Americans feel that the prisoners are being treated "better than they deserve" (36%) or "about right" (34%), that's not good enough for the left, who claim they support our troops.

Here's how the kool aid kids at Kos support our troops, they organize a witch hunt against our troops.

So far, at least 80 people have signed up, each taking responsibility for a specific set of documents and for publicly posting the results of their review. Together, volunteers hope they can make it through the more than 4,000 pages received by the ACLU and root out even the smallest signs of government misconduct which, without this project, they feel might otherwise go undiscovered.

These anti-American leftoids are doing this for us because, wait for it, we're too stupid to do it. That's right, the left with their superior brains, Durbin is the most recent example of their intellect, are going to find "the smallest signs of government misconduct".

While reviewing 4,000 pages might not sound like the kind of undertaking that requires dozens of volunteers, organizers say the documents frequently contain the kind of minutiae that require advanced degrees to understand and which take a great deal of time to peruse.

We are engaged in a world war on terror while these terrorists sympathizers undermine our troops and provide ammunition to the enemy. Folks, it doesn't get any plainer than this.
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America - What You Get From Islam

I've heard it said that Islam is the fastest growing religion in America. Americans might want to think about that because this is what you get from Islam.

MADISON HEIGHTS -- The Oakland County Prosecutor's Office on Thursday will attempt to permanently end the parental rights of a Madison Heights couple who police say neglected to seek medical help for their daughter after her older brother allegedly beat her over her relationship with a non-Muslim boy.

The 15-year-old girl, who is a Madison Heights Lamphere High junior, suffered a broken back in the beating, according to court documents. The trial to determine whether parental custody rights should be terminated is set for Thursday before Oakland Circuit Judge Joan Young.

The girl's brother, Ahmad Abdelmomen, 21, is charged with aggravated assault in the April 29 incident at their home in Madison Heights. Abdelmomen is free on bond pending a July 13 preliminary hearing before Madison Heights 43rd District Judge Robert J. Turner.

"She complained of the injury to her parents, but they didn't take her to a doctor because they condoned the punishment her brother gave her," said Robert Zivian, an assistant Oakland County prosecuting attorney assigned to the neglect case.

Did you note her "crime"? She dated a non-Muslim. Now why do you suppose that was such a "crime" that it warranted a beating so bad that it broke her back?

Any of you thinking of joining this religion might want to read the two books on the left sidebar, "Leaving Islam" and "Why I am not a Muslim".
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Iraq - the Flypaper Strategy

It's been said many times that the war in Iraq makes Europe and America safer. The flypaper strategy is proof of that.

More proof
here.
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Iraq - UN Official Resigns Amid Scandal

Yesterday I posted about another UN official implicated in the widening UN oil for food scandal.

He resigned yesterday.

Alexander Yakovlev, a Russian who was a longtime U.N. employee, submitted his resignation Tuesday and U.N. officials accepted it Wednesday. The resignation was immediate.

But Yakovlev's decision to leave on his own terms will not stop the U.N. investigation into his activities, according to a statement from a spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

As I said yesterday:

Despite the UN's stonewalling, Vocker's cover up and the democrats attempts to enable the continuing UN corruption by blocking Bolton's nomination, Claudia Rosett, continues to expose the corruption at the UN.

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America - Burning the Flag

You know the left are always claiming that they support our troops and America. Yet when Newsweek published bogus allegations about our troops mis-handling the Koran, a story they were forced to retract, the left were all up in arms criticizing our troops.

So, why is the left so silent when Muslims burn our flag?



Just asking.
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Britain - Religious Hate Law Closer

Britain's religious hate law took a step closer today.

Here is what the government says the law will do.

But Home Secretary Charles Clarke says the bill protects "people not faiths".

Really?

Doesn't seem to be working out that way in Australia.

A Christian pastor found guilty of vilifying muslims says he is prepared to go to jail in protest over Victoria's racial tolerance laws.

Two pastors involved with the Catch the Fire Ministries were last year found to have vilified Muslims at a Christian conference, and on a website, by suggesting the Koran promotes violence and terrorism.

The tribunal says an apology is appropriate.

So, these guys may go to jail for telling the truth. The Christians in Australia should take every Mosque to court for inciting racial hatred and use the Koran as evidence.
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America - Polls Support Bush

The left are all a twitter over the latest Gallup polls. They claim it vindacates the left. But does it?

74% of people have some worry about being a victim of terrorism.

Very Worried 8
Somewhat Worried 30
Not too Worried 36

Most posts from the left that I've seen leave off the not too worried group. Not too worried means they are worried but not just "somewhat worried". In other words, it's in the back of their minds and not out of their thoughts.

How are Americans satisfied over the war on terror? 52% are satisfied.

How much confidence do Americans have in Bush to protect us? 61%

Does America think we should close Gitmo? 58% No

These are pretty strong figures. When you read these first, they put the first question into perspective.

Do you approve of the way George Bush is handling his job as President? 51% Disapprove.

Since 52% are satisfied with the war on terror, 61% are confident that Bush will protect us and 58% don't want to close Gitmo, the 51% job disapproval rating indicates that the American public think Bush is not going far enough and fast enough.
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America - Foleygate Update

Linda Foley has gone to ground hoping her unsubstantiated and slanderous charge that our troops target jounalists, will go away.

Think again Ms. Foley.

But her supporters are covering for her.

Remember Foleygate? Boston journalist Hiawatha Bray, who launched a write-in campaign to unseat Newspaper Guild president Linda Foley over her reckless smears against the U.S. military, sends along this propaganda piece from the Guild attacking Foley's critics.

It's titled "Right-wing attack-dogs savage TNG president for comments on Iraq deaths" and sneers at Fox News, Sinclair Broadcasting, and "[r]ight-wing bloggers with quaint populist names (“Ankle Biting Pundits,” “Tennessee Rant,” “My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy”).

Foley's defenders liken her to the beleaguered Ward Churchill. Yes, just another martyr for the America-bashing cause.

There's more, lots more.
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Iraq - Reporting in a bubble

You can't make this stuff up.

French journalist Anne-Sophie Le Mauff is not impressed by orders that she leave Iraq and return to Paris: “I don’t understand this decision. I do my job, I’m careful, I don’t leave my hotel.”

Neither does the BBC.

Thanks to my regular commenter, Rob Read.
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America - Moore's Law Holding or Advancing?

Moore's law may indeed be speeding up, at least in regards to super computers.

A partially built supercomputer has kept its spot at the top of the list of most powerful machines on the planet.

The BlueGene/L machine currently under construction at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US was crowned top number-cruncher.

Its current processing peak of 136.8 teraflops will be doubled by time construction work is completed.

As a result, the organisation drawing up the list expect it to dominate the rankings for some time to come.

The Top 500 list is drawn up every six months and is a snapshot of the most powerful machines on Earth.

The speed at which computing power is growing coupled with advances in nanotechnology are proving exciting new avenues of discovery for scientists.
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America - Fighting Our Enemies Abroad

Guess who said this and why.

"I call on those who question the motives of the president and his national security advisors to join with the rest of America in presenting a united front to our enemies abroad."

Go check it out.
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Iraq - UN Scandal Widens - Again!

Despite the UN's stonewalling, Vocker's cover up and the democrats attempts to enable the continuing UN corruption by blocking Bolton's nomination, Claudia Rosett, continues to expose the corruption at the UN.

This time she investigates charges of nepotism against one of Volcker's key witnesses.

The UN assures us that they are looking into the charges "as a matter of urgency."

Now where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah, that was back when those two Cotecna emails showed up proving Koffi Annan lied about having direct contacts with the company. Emails that detail a meeting he had with the company and which he says he has no recollection of. Just like he had no recollection of meeting with them twice before, until the evidence proved otherwise.

Isn't the information age great? Despite Annan's right hand man destroying 3 years worth of UN oil for food documents, the day Volcker's investigation was announced, investigators can still find tons of evidence against Annan and the UN.

The UN may not be investigating "as a matter of urgency", but thankfully, people like Rosett sure as hell are.
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Iraq - Terrorists Fighting Each Other

Uh 0, looks like the left are losing another war.

On Sunday I posted about terrorist factions fighting one another. Now from, can you believe it, the lefts standard bearer, The New York Times, comes more reports of terrorists fighting one another.

Marines patrolling this desert region near the Syrian border have for months been seeing a strange new trend in the already complex Iraqi insurgency. Insurgents, they say, have been fighting each other in towns along the Euphrates from Husayba, on the border, to Qaim, farther west. The observations offer a new clue in the hidden world of the insurgency and suggest that there may have been, as American commanders suggest, a split between Islamic militants and local rebels.

A United Nations official who served in Iraq last year and who consulted widely with militant groups said in a telephone interview that there has been a split for some time.

And there are signs some of the terrorists want to lay down their arms.

The nationalist insurgent groups, "are giving a lot of signals implying that there should be a settlement with the Americans," while the Jihadists have a purely ideological agenda, he added.

Even the Sunni's are now joining the new government. There goes the left's hope for a civil war.

The local population have seen the tide turn are now turning in the terrorists. There goes the left's hope for a grass roots uprising.

In another devastating blow to the left's campaign to stop democracy in Iraq, their hero, Koffi Annan, now admits that progress is being made in Iraq.

All of which explains why the Americans are being so welcomed by the Iraqis.

O dear, the left are going to be devastated; their on the wrong side of history - again!

UPDATE

Winds of Change has lots more with links.

With the terrorists now fighting each other, the Sunnis joining the government, local Iraqis turning in the terrorists, Iraqi security forces growing in numbers and if Syria really is cracking down on the border, we may be seeing the beginning of the end for the terrorists.
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America - Deranged Left Supports Durbin

More from the "we support the troops" crowd.

In a way it's good these idiots put this stuff out. That way America can see just how deranged the left really is.

Instead, the senator should have hit back hard, just as the Amnesty International did when its comparison of Guantanamo to the Soviet gulag was attacked. By caving in, Durbin did just what the orchestrated right-wing smear effort required to succeed: It made him the story rather than focusing further attention on the outrageous violations of international law and human rights being perpetrated in Guantanamo and elsewhere in the name of the American people.

Because he is the story. Not one person has died at Gitmo but millions died in the Gulags and at the hands of the Nazis and Pol Pot. There is absolutely no comparison, except in the demented minds of the left.

Our enemies are using this garbage to attack us. I think our troops can do without this kind of "support".

UPDATE

Seems some of the troops don't appreciate the left's support either.

I was so upset when I read the Star Tribune's Editorial today that I sent off this letter below to the editor from my duty desk in Baghdad, Iraq. The voices of millions killed by Hitler, Stalin & Pol Pot are rising from their mass graves and demanding an apology. Durbin is wrong and the Star Tribune is wrong even more. Clearly they are not on our side! Soldiers over here keep asking me why America has forgotten 9-11. I keep telling them that the liberal media won't let the American people see the images of the murdered and tortured Iraqis we find every day over here. Please keep up the fight back home and I promise the American military will win the war over here!

Here is Col. Repya's letter to the editor of the Star Tribune:

Your editorial "Durbin's Message/US Must End Prisoner Abuse" proves beyond any doubt that the Star Tribune Editorial Staff has no idea of who we are fighting and why! As a soldier in Iraq, I was highly insulted by the comments of Senator Durbin and his pathetic excuse of being "misunderstood." So I offer a suggestion. Let's divide up these victims of "the hellhole America's military has created" at Guantanamo and allow them to spend a weekend at the homes of the Star Tribune Editorial Staff and Senator Durbin. America's military will anxiously await the report on the impression they will make on you and your families.

Joseph Repya
LTC, Aviation
MNC-I LNO
101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
Camp Victory South
Baghdad, Iraq

Via Powerline.
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Iraq - Koffi Annan: Progress in Iraq

The deranged left are not going to like this. Their savior, Koffi Annan says there is progress being made in Iraq. That would be despite the efforts of the anti-war movement to stop such progress.

A year ago, in Resolution 1546, the U.N. Security Council set out the timetable that Iraq, with the assistance of the United Nations and the international community, was expected to fulfill. The Brussels conference is a chance to reassure the Iraqi people that the international community stands with them in their brave efforts to rebuild their country, and that we recognize how much progress has been made in the face of daunting challenges.

Elections were held in January, on schedule. Three months later the Transitional National Assembly endorsed the transitional government. The dominant parties have begun inclusive negotiations, in which outreach to Sunni Arabs is a major theme. A large number of Sunni groups and parties are now working to make sure that their voices are fully heard in the process of drafting a new constitution, and that they participate fully in the referendum to approve it and the elections slated for December.

Indeed, just last week an agreement was achieved to expand the committee drafting the constitution to ensure full participation by the Sunni Arab community. This agreement, which the United Nations helped to facilitate, should encourage all Iraqis to press ahead with the drafting of the constitution by the Aug. 15 deadline.

No, the left will not be pleased at all!
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Britain - Artists against religious hatred bill

I hope they can get a lot more support than this.

A coalition of some of Britain's most prominent actors, artists and writers will today make a last-minute attempt to persuade the government to amend its plans for a new law banning "incitement to religious hatred".

MPs are due to debate the bill tomorrow, but campaigners fear the legislation will gag free speech while failing to help community relations, or even hindering them.

Currently Jews and Sikhs are protected by existing legislation making incitement to racial hatred a crime, but the law does not cover other, non-racial, faith groups, such as Muslims.

If this bill passes, one could be prosecuted for calling bin Laden a terrorist. This is nothing more than Muslim appeasement.

Even civil liberties groups don't want the bill.

Shami Chakrabati, the director of civil liberties group Liberty, said: "There may be good intentions behind this bill but the road to censorship is paved that way.

Today's delegation includes Ms Chakrabati, Mr Harris, the Guardian journalist Polly Toynbee, the Tory shadow attorney general, Dominic Grieve, and the Labour backbencher Bob Marshall-Andrews.

It's going to take more than this bunch I'm afraid.
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Egypt - Rice Serves Notice to Egypt/Syria/Iran

Tiger Hawk notes Condi Rice's speech in Egypt today.

Her words are an unmistakable warning to the remaining dictators in the region; change or be changed.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a forceful case for democracy in the Muslim world Monday, telling Egypt's conservative government leaders "the fear of free choices can no longer justify the denial of liberty."

Rice's remarks were to some 700 invited government officials, academics and other guests at the American University in Cairo. The setting is notable, both because Egypt plans multiparty elections in the fall and because the Bush administration has made no secret of its dissatisfaction with political progress and the treatment of opposition figures by the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

"For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither," Rice said. "Now, we are taking a different course. We are supporting the democratic aspirations of all people."

In other words, we no longer support you!

We can start by reducing the $2 billion in aid we give Egypt every year.

Be sure to read Hawk's comments which are spot on.
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America - Deranged Protest at Military Funeral

UPDATE

I'm putting this update at the top of this post because this post seems to still generate some humor among the left when they stumble uppon it. They missed my later post about Phelps.

In that post you will find some nice family photos of Phleps, his wife, Al Gore and his wife hugging each other. Yes that Al Gore, failed DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate.

You will also see where Phelps was invited to DEMOCRATIC Vice President Al Gore's inaugration.

And you will discover that Phelps once ran for Govenor of Kansas - as a DEMOCRAT.

And from Wikipedia we learn more of Phlep's association with the Democratic Party.

Who's laughing now?
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The left, anti-war types and Democrats, sorry I'm repeating myself, are always telling us how much they support our troops. Eason Jordan's and Linda Foley's unsubstantiated and slanderours claims that our troops target journalists coupled with Durbin's insane rant comparing our troops to Nazis, shows the opposite to be true.

Now from, Bubbleheads, comes this report with photos of the anti-war crowd protesting at a military funeral! This is how far deranged the asshat anti-war movement has become. Check out this photograph of this asshat with a sign that says "Thank God for IED's" and "Thank God for 9/11".



They don't seem to have much tolerance for gays either. This sign says something about "Fags Doom".



What a sick bunch of asshats.

UPDATE

My, my, my, this post sure brought out a moonbat swam, didn't it? I thought I'd give them a little time to vent their spleens.

And what are they all upset about? Are they upset about a deranged protest at a military funeral? Do they denounce this lunatic? Nope. They're simply upset at being lumped in with a crazy preacher. They want to maintain that they do indeed support our troops but not the war. Let's look at that shall we?

What does the anti war movement do when a disabled veteran of the Iraq war participates in a 4th of July parade? They boo, curse, call him a murder and baby killer. Yeah, you people really support our troops.

What happens when a town tries to pay tribute to an American soldier who died on the field of battle, by naming a bridge after him? The moonbats protest.

When our soldiers from Florida, who are in harms way, exercise their right to vote in a state that has no income tax, what does our "we support the troops" asshats say about it? They are called a "bunch of tax dodgers".

Everyday, military members who support our troops that are in harms way, or who are involved in the war on terror and suppoting America, go to work at the Pentagon. And everyday they are met with protesters who try and undermine their morale. Some support of the troops.

What does the left say when some ex-service members, return to Iraq as contractors supporing the liberation and are tortured and murdered by terrorists? "Screw them".

What is the reaction from the Democratic leadership, when the number two Democrat in the Senate accuses our troops of being Nazis? Ted Kennedy - "Not quite sure..." Joe Lieberman - "No comment" John Kerry - "...doesn't have a position..."

And let's not forget Dan Rathers forged documents on President Bush's National Guard service. Or, Newsweeks bogus Koran story.

None of this is very surprising since we know the anti-war movement is led by communists. See here and here. Here is one of the moonbats posters from a recent anti-war march calling for you to fight for communism.



Here's a poster showing the moonbats support for communists and jihadists.



And these moonbats don't want democracy either.



The moonbat brigade that "supports our troops" is sad Saddam is gone as well.



The moonbats are upset that I lumped Phelps in with them and not at what Phelps is doing because they support what he is doing. That much is obvious.

But despite all the moonbats efforts to defeat democracy, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon are now free.

One of the greatest joys of my life has been to live to see the utter, utter, defeat and crushing of the left. All around the world the left are being defeated and rejected. PM Howard, PM Blair and President Bush all re-elected. In America, Republicans gained in both houses and in Governorships and with Dean and Durbin shooting off their mouths, Republicans will gain more in the next round.

So, keep protesting moonbats! Let the world see you for what you are, communist, dictator loving, democracy hating, America bashing - asshats.

UPDATE

The left is scrambling to disassociate themselves from Phleps's insane protest at military funerals and still maintain that they support our troops. Really? Then what are we to make of their calls for the deaths of our soldiers as in this photo?



To all my friends on the right who are upset at my post or disagree with me, answer me this:

Which is worse, calling for the deaths of our troops or protesting at a military funeral? Doesn't one enable the other?

Is it that the results of the military funeral protests are so immediate, visible and tangible, while the results of a call for the deaths of our troops is remote and less visible, that seems to seperate the two in some minds? One is an action while the other is a call to action. What happens when that call is answered?

What does the left have to say to the families of Capt. Phillip T. Esposito, 30, of Suffern, N.Y., and 1st Lt. Louis E. Allen, 34, of Milford, Pa., who were murdered by Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez last week in Iraq? The left issued the call for soldiers to kill their officers. Did Martinez answer that call?

It's quite clear that Phelps is deranged. Is it not equally clear that the left are just as deranged for calling for the deaths of our troops?

The left are whooping it up that I made a mistake in lumping Phelps in with them because Phelps is a right wing, Christian fundementalist and not left wing. The left wing that calls for the deaths of our troops, supports terrorists and calls for the overthrow of the government, are just as deranged as Phelps is. There is no difference.
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Lebanon - Bush's Policies Vindicated

Once again Bush's policy of spreading democracy around the world is vindicated. What's even more astonising is that the New York Times notices. Speaking of the anti-Syrian party that won, The Times says:

It was a startling change in the way politics have usually been carried out here - along strict clan and religious lines and long under the control of Syria - and perhaps an example of a greater yearning for democracy in the Arab world.

And who do the Lebanese give credit to?

Walid Jumblatt, the Druze leader long a critic of the United States. Jumblatt's words are striking: "It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it."

Afghanistan, Iraq and now Lebanon are free thanks to the vision of George Bush. There remains a lot of work to do but there is no putting this genie back in the bottle. And as each country is liberated in turn, the left, anti-war types and the Democrats become more and more isolated, their opposition to democracy crushed.

Who's next? Syria, Egypt or Iran? The pressure is building.
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Medicine - Stem Cell Breakthrough

It always bugs me when I see the word "breakthrough" in a medical headline. Once you start reading it invariably says something like, "the procedure will be ready in 5 to 10 years". But this looks promising and it gets around the use of aborted foetuses. It is also being put to some use now.

Professor Josef Käs and Dr Jochen Guck from the University of Leipzig have developed a procedure that can extract and isolate embryo-quality stem cells from adult blood for the first time. This new technique could unlock the stem cell revolution and stimulate a boom in medical research using stem cells.

Stem cells are cells which have not yet differentiated into specialised tissues such as skin, brain or muscle. They promise a new class of regenerative medicine, which could repair apparently permanent damage such as heart disease or Parkinson’s. The cells are currently taken from aborted human foetuses, an issue which has led to controversy and opposition in many parts of the world. Any alternative source, such as voluntary adult donations, could spark a boom in new cures.

Here is the "but" part.

The optical stretcher can already test 3,600 cells per minute. This is not yet fast enough for industrial separation of millions of high grade stem cells, but it promises a realistic alternative to embryo use if it can be scaled up. Meanwhile, it is already being used to isolate low-grade stem cells which can develop into skin. In collaboration with medical professionals in Leipzig, elderly patients are being treated for persistent non-healing wounds. Low-grade stem cells isolated from the patient’s own blood are applied to the wound to kick-start the healing process.

Let's hope they can scale it up.
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America - Lodi: Terrorists Mysteries

Daniel Pipes has lots of questions.

For instance:

On April 19, 2003, on the way to Pakistan, the same day Hamid and Umer Hayat were stopped at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C. Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman Christiana Halsey revealed that they were found with $28,093 in cash. What is an ice-cream vendor doing with such an amount of money and why is he breaking U.S. customs regulations by taking out so much cash without declaring it?

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Iran - Still Stoning Women

The Religion of Peace at work again.

Two Iranian women are facing imminent execution for adultery.

One is sentenced to flogging and then hanging while the other will be buried up to her waist and then stoned to death.

And they don't just hurl huge boulders at them and kill them outright. Oh, no, that's too easy.

"You bury the person up to their waist and then you throw small stones at them until they die. The stones should not be very big so that the person suffers before dying.

I've actually seen a poster that gives the sizes to be used.

We're constantly being told by so called moderate Muslims that such acts are committed by militant Muslims. I guess that makes the Iranian regime militant then.
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Palestinian Child Abuse

Palestinian Child Abuse continues.

A 15-year-old Palestinian boy was arrested at the Hawara checkpoint near Nablus Sunday.

Soldiers suspected the boy, who was carrying a large box. The checkpoint was closed, Palestinian civilians were distanced and Border Police sappers were called in. A search of the box revealed five pipe bombs hidden in tubes of silicone alongside nails and bolts.

This was the twenty-first incident in the past three months and the thirtieth this year in which youths have been stopped at IDF checkpoints while attempting to smuggle ammunition and weapons to be used for terrorist attacks on civilians.

Once again this proves the Palestinians don't want peace, they just want to kill Israelis.

UPDATE

Oh, they use women as well.

The IDF thwarted a suicide bomb attack Monday morning when soldiers caught a young woman, Wafa Samir Ibrahim Bas, 20, wearing explosives strapped into her underwear at the Erez crossing in the northern Gaza Strip, it was released for publication.

Apparently the young woman took advantage of the fact that she had been issued a permit by Israel allowing her entry into Israeli territory for humanitarian assistance, IDF officials said.

In fact, the Palestinian's have a long history of using the cover of humanitarian aid to launch attacks on Israel.

In this photograph, Palestinians were caught using a UN ambulance to launch attacks on Israel.


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Lebanon - anti-Syrian Group Wins

If officially confirmed, these election results will further increase pressure on other regimes in the region.

The people of Lebanon have voted for change, says the leader of the main opposition anti-Syrian alliance that appears to have won the elections.

The bloc led by Saad Hariri has won a majority in parliament, according to unofficial results from Sunday's polls.

A pro-Syrian leader of the group that challenged Mr Hariri in the final round of voting in northern Lebanon said: "We bow to the will of the people".

True to from the BBC try and downplay the new freedom Lebanon enjoys; just as they did in the Iraqi elections.

It was Lebanon's first election since the Syrian troop withdrawal this year.

True, but isn't it more important to point out that these are the first free and fair elections since Syria invaded Lebanon - over 30 years agao!

The BBC did the same thing with the Iraqi elections, saying they were the first elections since the US invaded Iraq. They couldn't bring themselves to say liberated Iraq. Again, while their statement was true, it is more important to point out that it was Iraq's first free and fair elections in over 50 years.
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Afghanistan - "Fighting Raged"

According to this AP report, fighting is raging in southern Afghanistan.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Fighting raged across southern Afghanistan on Sunday as the U.S. military pounded suspected Taliban positions with airstrikes that killed as many as 20 militants along a narrow mountain footpath. [...]

U.S. aircraft opened fire on a group of suspected Taliban along a narrow footpath in the high mountains northwest of Gereshk, in southern Helmand province, after rebels had pinned down a coalition ground patrol with rocket and small-arms fire.

"Initial battle-damage assessments indicate 15 to 20 enemies died and an enemy vehicle was destroyed," the army said in a statement. No Americans were injured.

Not quite raging now is it?
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Britain - Geldof: Bush Has Done The Most

Time's interview with Geldof yields this little nugget.

GELDOF America doesn't have a lack of empathy; they just don't know the issues as well. Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.

Say that during the Live 8 concert and you'll be booed off the stage Bob.
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