" ... in the only place he could shine a beam."

DebkaFile on Zarqawi

Debka is typically questionable in its reliability. But there's something worth posting today:



Zarqawi is an incompetent or a clear butcher if Debka is right. If they're spinning fantasies as they often do, Z-man is just about 2 orders of magnitude worse of an "oppressor" of Muslims than the legions of moonbats around the world accuse the U.S. of being.

This guy is nuttier than a Cuckoo Clock. And people who would consider giving him even a nanometer are also. Nuff said.

Oops, Sorry!

"Zarqawi wants Muslims to believe that sending two "agents" into a ballroom obviously occupied by a wedding reception, positioning themselves to maximize the damage, and then exploding themselves to kill as many as possible amounts to some kind of unforeseen error. All he proves is that he isn't terribly bright or reliable when it comes to picking his targets. Nor would he care if the end result destabilized Jordan enough for King Abdullah to either flee or agree to ally with Zarqawi. Like most sociopathic monsters, he's only sorry to the degree that his crime backfired on him, and only apologizes to the extent that he's sorry that others cannot recognize his overall genius."

Somehow, I'm not recognizing the overall genius of our "Democrats against democracy" party either...

"No, really -- we didn't want the bomb. It came automatically whenever anyone purchased their first 1,000 centrifuges! Only an idiot would believe that the Khan network just blithely handed out that kind of information unsolicited, and only the Iranians would believe the West to be precisely that stupid. Meanwhile, the Iranians showed their embarrassment at having been caught by the IAEA in another lie by announcing their intent to continue processing uranium."

"What's his objection again?"

Read the SGT.

Did Bush Lie?

You can check it out yourself... (HT Michelle)

Page 134. Oh, and Clarke's opinions may be rather confusing to lefties about the Oklahoma City bombing. Well, if they actually had brains enough to actually read anything that is...

Silver Stars down the MSMemory Hole... Where else?

"Unless, by "competent" you mean "able to cow the Iraqi civilian population"."

"As I recall, Marshal Petain managed to prostrate himself right quickly before the Nazis despite his status as a WWI hero, too. Besides, where exactly will Murtha draw that line -- New York City? Logan Airport?"

"Have a nice day."

"I intend to cross the Rappahanock River with the Army of Potomac and engage the Army of Northern Virginia and keep them continuously engaged until they are destroyed or surrendered."

"It seems to me that the Left's position is inconsistent: if WP rounds are WMD, then Saddam clearly had massive WMD stockpiles, and the war was justified."

Freeh is on ABLE!

"The Able Danger intelligence, if confirmed, is undoubtedly the most relevant fact of the entire post-9/11 inquiry. Even the most junior investigator would immediately know that the name and photo ID of Atta in 2000 is precisely the kind of tactical intelligence the FBI has many times employed to prevent attacks and arrest terrorists. Yet the 9/11 Commission inexplicably concluded that it "was not historically significant." This astounding conclusion--in combination with the failure to investigate Able Danger and incorporate it into its findings--raises serious challenges to the commission's credibility and, if the facts prove out, might just render the commission historically insignificant itself." (HT Glenn)

"The President and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing their memory, or their backbone but we're not going to sit by and let them rewrite history."

Pallorous amnesiac talks about the final last chance ... until the next one ... and the next ... and yet another ...

Go To FrontPage Now!

Here's how. Here's why:

"FP: So do you think the WMD is the central issue regarding Iraq?

Tierney: No, and it never should have been an issue. The First Gulf War -- and I use this term as a convention, since this is actually all the same war -- was a prime example of managing war instead of waging it. Instead of telling Saddam to get out of Kuwait or we will push him out, we should have said to get out of Kuwait or we will remove him from power. As it was, we were projecting our respect for human life on Saddam, when actually, from his point of view, we were doing him a favor by killing mostly Shi’ite military members who were a threat to his regime. I realize that Saudi Arabia, our host, did not want a change in government in Iraq, and they had helped us bring down the Soviet Union with oil price manipulation, but we should have bent them to our will instead of vice versa. Saddam would not have risked losing power to keep Kuwait, and we could have avoided this whole ordeal.

We topped one mistake with another, expecting Saddam Hussein and the Baath Party, a criminal syndicate masquerading as a political party, to abide by any arms control agreement. Gun control and Arms control both arise from the “mankind is good” worldview. If you control the environment, i.e. get rid of the guns, then man’s natural goodness will rise to the surface. I hope it is evidence after more than a decade of Iraqi intransigence how foolish this position is. The sobering fact is that if a nation feels it is in their best interest to have certain weapons, they are going to have them. Chemical weapons were critical to warding off hoards of Iranian fighters, and the Iraqis knew they would always be in a position of weakness against Israel without nuclear weapons. The United States kept nuclear weapons to deter the Soviet Union, but we would deny the same logic for Iraq?

There is also the practicality of weapons inspections/weapons hunts. After seventeen resolutions pleading with the Iraqis to be nice, the light bulb still didn’t go off that the entire concept is fundamentally flawed. Would you like to live in a city where the police chief sent out resolutions to criminals to play nice, instead of taking them off the streets? "

(HT Power Line)

Scrappleface has pretty much all you need to know about the Plame fiasco. You'll never laugh harder!

The tri-partisan effort.

"Once again, it looks like the Republicans have hit the Democrats in the fist with their mouth."

Not to say that ignoring economics doesn't play a role. N'est pas?

"Paris burns anyway. As the French seem to learn every 70 years, appeasement does not work. It merely whets the appetite. And the angry alien young were already hungry."

Five questions.

Giving new meaning to predation...

On Setting Them Free

DETAILS, DETAILS DEPT: "There are important consequences of a prisoner of war designation that have nothing to do with the humane treatment that all detainees receive. For example, the Geneva Prisoner of War Convention provides legal immunity for precapture warlike acts. This means that there could be no future prosecution of terrorists who are deemed to be prisoners of war." OOPS.

So. We finally come to incontrovertible proof that liberals are actually not even in favor of prosecuting terrorists as criminals. They just want to set them free!

Of course, most of them haven't even read Geneva to know it. But you can guess what I think of the ones that actually have...

EURABIAN DEATH SPIRAL DEJA VU REDUX: "Actually, refer back to my college sophomores point. One’s not ready to be a parent until one is ready to stop being a child."

HE'S BAAACK: "Their current claim to have been fooled or deceived makes them out, on their own account, to be highly dumb and gullible. But as dumb and gullible as that?" This is one of Hitch's finest tinfoil hat vaporizations ever!

A winning strategy (for us that is).

"The French won't do anything and soon, we will be in the majority here."