Kind of takes your breath away, doesn't it?

"In other words, that's not Zyklon B coming through the nozzle. You're only dreaming it up."

Thank you Irshad. Somebody needs to keep tilting at the Islamic reformation...

Pajama Time!

"What really sticks in the craw of conventional journalists is that although individual blogs have no warrant of accuracy, the blogosphere as a whole has a better error-correction machinery than the conventional media do..."

Fuse Syndicalism and Islam And You Get...

utopiaNihilism

Roundup

The MSMemoryHole update for today.

What Ansar al Islam?

And Wretchard weighs in...

And is Zarqawi really a Jordanian?

I bet you didn't go read John Howard yet did you?

I never watch the Apprentice unless forced to in a social setting. But the Donald has this just spot on.

Beldar's back again.

And Con-Law 101 for snarky, ad-hominem soaked libs is in session.

... well there was that little matter in East Timor...

Just what exactly did you expect when you hang around with brutal murderers, Andrea? (HT Drudge)

"We live in a sad time." Yep, that's right. The homosexuals actually vote in droves for these untethered slimebags. Stunning.

Another reprise for the latest MSMemoryHole -- I'm suspecting we'll be entertained by more of their puerile deceptions on this topic soon since they're not likely to dig up anything on Roberts...

Lee on the ACLU's Jesus problem. They're too dim, manipulative -- or both -- to admit it of course...

YOU. NEED. TO. READ. THIS.

(HT Glenn)

I don't link to the Guardian often -- but when I do you had better go read it... (HT Glenn)

"... Correct me if I am wrong, but I do not recall Jews lined up every morning on the borders of 1939 Germany, clamoring to get in for construction jobs and medical care.

All this nonsense usually comes, of course, from people who cherish their democratic right of vocal and public dissent, who like to live in a country where you can be openly gay or atheist or flaunt your belly-button ring. Try that anywhere in the Middle East except Israel; see how long you last.... "

Read the whole thing -- and watch for the next helping...

Wretchard Finds ...

... the real left criticizing the fake left. Hitch rocks of course:

Association with this statement and with many of its fellow-signatories involves two commitments. The first is the elementary duty of solidarity with true and authentic resistance movements within the Muslim world, such as the Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq and the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, who were fighting against Ba'athism and Talibanism (and the latent alliance between the two) long before any American or British government had woken up to the threat. It should go without saying that, though the suffering of their peoples was intense, neither Jalal Talabani nor Ahmed Shah Masoud ever considered letting off explosive devices at random in foreign capitals. I have my political and ideological differences with both groups, but these differences are between me and them, and are not mediated through acts of nihilistic murder.

My second commitment is equally elementary. The foreign policy of a democracy should be determined only at election times or by votes in Congress or Parliament. It is one hundred per cent unacceptable even to imply, let alone to assert, that a suicide-murderer or his apologists can by these means acquire the right to any say in how matters are decided.

Both of these observations, and indeed this very statement, would be redundant if it were not for the widespread cultural presence of a pseudo-Left, and an isolationist Right, both of whom have degenerated to the point where they regard jihadism as some form of "liberation theology". The old slogans are often the best, and "Death to Fascism" is life-affirming in these conditions.

But we find the Grand Mufti is in for a rough time as well from Marko Hoare:

I sign this statement as a supporter of the legitimate struggle for freedom and independence of the Palestinians, Chechens and other enslaved Muslim peoples caught between the Scylla of colonial oppression and the Charybdis of Islamofascism.

To every genuine national-liberation movement, sectarian hatred and pogroms of civilians are as alien as the foreign occupier. In German-occupied Yugoslavia during World War II, the anti-Nazi Partisans preached brotherhood and unity between Muslims, Christians and Jews; they were known to execute their own officers and soldiers if they so much as stole chickens from local peasants, let alone massacred civilians. Al-Qaeda?s Islamofascist network - targeting Jews, Kurds, Shiites, women, homosexuals, moderate Sunnis and ordinary civilians everywhere - represents, by contrast, the very antithesis of a genuine liberation movement.

Everywhere, Islamic extremists have aided and abetted the oppressors of Muslims. In World War II, the Islamofascist Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini helped incite an anti-British revolt in Iraq; he subsequently visited Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia to mobilise Bosnian Muslims to fight in the SS. Islamist terrorism in Daghestan in1999 provided Russia with the pretext for its genocidal reconquest of Chechnya. Elements in the Turkish and Israeli security services encouraged Islamic extremism as a means of dividing and weakening secular Kurdish and Palestinian nationalism respectively, helping to create a Frankenstein's monster that is claiming the lives of Turks and Kurds, Jews and Arabs alike.

There can be no freedom for Muslim peoples without the defeat of the Islamofascists and everything they stand for; and there can be no defeat of the Islamofascists without liberty for all Muslim peoples.

WOW. RTWT.

Michael notices the MSMemoryHoling of the Osaddamorama.

The smell of fear.

The Knee Bone's Connected To...

"Britania aduw kafir, walakin nahnu naeeshu fiha."

... and Brother Michael's thigh bone.

Everything you know about slavery is wrong. (HT Roger) And did I mention yet that you really, really need to get one of these?

The Corn pone outing. (HT Powerline)

And Chris Reminds Me...

That you need to read this. Badly.

Did I forget to mention that brief? Just checking...

Apocalypse oozing.

"... what we take for granted was in fact rooted out."

"But biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons may not be unreachable for terrorists much longer."

Gerecht Again

"In Europe as elsewhere, Westernization is the key to the growth and virulence of hard-core Islamic radicalism. The most frightening, certainly the most effective, adherents of bin Ladenism are those who are culturally and intellectually most like us. The process of Westernization liberates a Muslim from the customary sanctions and loyalties that normally corralled the dark side of the human soul. Respect for one's father, an appreciation for the human need to have fun, a toleration of eccentricity and naughty personal behavior, the love of art and folk music--all are characteristics of traditional mainstream Muslim society wiped away by the arrival of modernity and the simultaneous spread of sterile, esthetically empty, angry, Saudi-financed Wahhabi thought. In this sense, bin Ladenism is the Muslim equivalent of Western totalitarianism. This cleaning of the slate, this break with the past, is probably more profound in the Muslim enclaves in Europe--what Gilles Kepel called les banlieues de l'Islam--than it is in the urban sprawl of Cairo, where traditional mores, though under siege and badly battered by modernity, nevertheless retain considerable force. Cairo gave us Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's great intellectual; it's not unreasonable to fear that London or Paris or Berlin will give us his successor."

Welcome To (The Upcoming Apocalypse On) Planet Zongo

Glenn points out this excerpt from Steyn's latest mini-opus:

But in the real world there's only one scandal in this whole wretched business -- that the CIA, as part of its institutional obstruction of the administration, set up a pathetic 'fact-finding mission' that would be considered a joke by any serious intelligence agency and compounded it by sending, at the behest of his wife, a shrill politically motivated poseur who, for the sake of 15 minutes' celebrity on the cable gabfest circuit, misled the nation about what he found. . . . What we have here is, in effect, the old standby plot of lame Hollywood conspiracy thrillers: rogue elements within the CIA attempting to destabilize the elected government.

But wait! He's only just warming up!

Mull on this next:

Kamel Bourgass and Magdy el-Nashar are real people, not phantoms conjured by those lyin' sonsofbitches Bush and Cheney. And to those who say, "but that's why Iraq is a distraction from the war on terror," sorry, it doesn't work like that. It's not either/or; it's a string of connections: unlimited Saudi money, Westernized Islamist fanatics, supportive terrorist states, proliferating nuclear technology. One day it all comes together and there goes the neighborhood. Here's another story you may have missed this week:

''Iran will resume uranium enrichment if the European Union does not recognize its right to do so, two Iranian nuclear negotiators said in an interview published Tuesday.''

Got that? If you don't let us go nuclear, we'll go nuclear. Negotiate that, John Kerry. As with Bourgass and el-Nashar, Hossein Moussavian and Cyrus Nasseri are real Iranian negotiators, not merely the deranged war fantasies of Bush and Cheney.

The British suicide bombers and the Iranian nuke demands are genuine crises. The Valerie Plame game is a pseudo-crisis. If you want to talk about Niger or CIA reform, fine. But if you seriously think the only important aspect of a politically motivated narcissist kook's drive-thru intelligence mission to a critical part of the world is the precise sequence of events by which some White House guy came to mention the kook's wife to some reporter, then you've departed the real world and you're frolicking on the wilder shores of Planet Zongo.

What's this really about? It's not difficult. A big chunk of the American elites have decided there is no war; it's all a racket got up by Bush and Cheney. And, even if there is a war somewhere or other, wherever it is, it's not where Bush says it is. Iraq is a ''distraction'' from Afghanistan -- and, if there were no Iraq, Afghanistan would be a distraction from Niger, and Niger's a distraction from Valerie Plame's next photo shoot for Vanity Fair.

The police have found the suicide bomber's head in the rubble of the London bus, and Iran is enriching uranium. The only distraction here is the pitiful parochialism of our political culture. [Emph mine]

Steyn has a way of arranging the apocalypse into context? N'est pas?

‘Oh, he assumed you would be just another dumb westerner’.

Who won the election? (HT Glenn)

The Latest 100%...

I'm a bit distracted lately so it took me a ridiculously long time to connect this:



to the old Jew.

Eerie isn't it?

Next time, call the police! LOL

After all, didn't we oppress the KKK?

And didn't they have that hood thing going on too?

(Yes, that would be guilty. I need to atone in the Jarvis-linking department...) (HT Glenn)

UPDATED ALREADY: More. Earlier. Or later. Argghh. Just read it.

Who's your Daddy?

Today's Plame Game Humor Post

Help me out here!

And did I mention Muir is on the case?

B careful...

Whose Garden of Evil?

The British Garden of Evil in Leeds and Basra. Without al-Jadida.

They looked the other way for al Husseini also.

We were righter than we knew about that tea party incident...

Torture Time Warp Redux

Came across this work of art letter to Glenn and realized it's just too good not to savor:

Leave it to a bunch of lawyers to get all tangled up in the Theory of Torture without addressing the facts on the ground. The ONLY previously proscribed interrogation techniques that have been sanctioned at the highest levels of our government post 911 are coercive in nature and specifically not intended to do bodily or psychological harm. Sleep deprivation, loud music, kneeling, withholding blankets. THIS is torture? Nowhere in any of your recent posts or links on the issue do you even qualify the many allegations of torture as being simply about these techniques of creating discomfort. Nor do you nor any of the linked legalists cite any case of actual physical torture. Abu Ghraib was an aberration. If anything, the internal memos produced during the Abu Ghraib “exposes” and erroneously cited as existence of a “smoking gun” showed that Rumsfeld et al were intent on keeping the threshold at the discomfort level. And about that Abu Ghraib “torture”, I can only hope that my Jihadi captors subject me to live sex shows while cloaking my head in a woman’s panties. Then if they would only put in solitary for a few minutes I could work out my frustrations about their horribly coercive techniques in private. If you know what I mean. And I think you do. Margaret Hassan was shot in the head, de-limbed, beheaded and disemboweled (not necessarily in that order). I think our non-Geneva captives can sustain a little Barry Manilow. [Emph mine]

On net, Glenn gets a well deserved "I told you so".

I remain totally amazed at the complete lack of historical understanding that has become de rigeur in the world today. It's even gotten to the point where someone you'd think would have a clue on this topic like John McCain spouts off nonsense about how we should be nice nice to the beheaders so they'll treat special forces or civilian CIA in hostile territory nicely when they capture them.

Well, for the 15 seconds before the nihilists dig out their eyeballs with spoons. LOL

More on this later...

The new Muslim Jews...

I just bought my son a toy F-14 (actually his second) and F-22. Next he'll want one of these.

Comment of the Day

You don’t understand, we need terrible public schools so that we’ll have low-income workers to vote Democratic.

It’s the circle of life…

Comment by TallDave ? July 13, 2005 @ 9:35 am

POST HERE. (HT Glenn)

The stem cell's connected to the...

The forever feud -- or until us frogs notice the nuclear bubbles...

Orange Clown Stuff

Ummm, not looking very orange folks. Though there's lots of intrigue about Orange Judy...

UPDATE: More here and here.

UPDATED AGAIN: Yeouch!

AND AGAIN: It's just amazing that the Pressocrats get away with foisting this kind of garbage as something anyone would take seriously for more than 2 minutes. But what's really interesting is how utterly incompetent they are for not using it during the campaign. Intellectual midgetry par excellence... (HT Drudge)

CLOWN UPDATE: ""Take Your Daughters to Work Day" gone bad". Hoo haw!

Release Ganji!

Karl the ignoramus.

An exercise the reader can work on also...

Hitch Again

We know very well what the "grievances" of the jihadists are.

The grievance of seeing unveiled women. The grievance of the existence, not of the State of Israel, but of the Jewish people. The grievance of the heresy of democracy, which impedes the imposition of sharia law. The grievance of a work of fiction written by an Indian living in London. The grievance of the existence of black African Muslim farmers, who won't abandon lands in Darfur. The grievance of the existence of homosexuals. The grievance of music, and of most representational art. The grievance of the existence of Hinduism. The grievance of East Timor's liberation from Indonesian rule. All of these have been proclaimed as a licence to kill infidels or apostates, or anyone who just gets in the way.

FOR a few moments yesterday, Londoners received a taste of what life is like for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, whose Muslim faith does not protect them from slaughter at the hands of those who think they are not Muslim enough, or are the wrong Muslim.

It is a big mistake to believe this is an assault on "our" values or "our" way of life. It is, rather, an assault on all civilisation.

(HT Glenn)

"Just because we are planning to kill you last doesn't make you our buddy."

Read Wretchard, of course.

Surely ...

Surely you can guess this one:

If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

OK then. A huge hint: Who on earth do you think that Wretchard would quote at a time when the Brits need a stiff upper lip?

"" Jay Rosen, if you're listening, if you changed the acronym DCCC to NRCC, and "Forest City" to "Halliburton," if Tom Delay had compared Kelo to 'the word of God,' if the family running Halliburton was also involved in legal defense for terrorists, and if the decision had also been heartily endorsed by Fox News, d'ya think I might have read about that in the Washington Post by now? ""

That pesky Hitch again on unintended intended consequences.

"... when the court becomes a political plaything, there is less reason for any of us to respect it." (HT Glenn)

Poetic justice.

I Can't Remember The Last Time

... I quoted Drudge. But this pants down on the hateful Schumer covers a lot of ground:

Schumer was overheard on a long cellphone conversation with an unknown political ally, and the DRUDGE REPORT was there!

Schumer, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, proudly declared, “We are contemplating how we are going to go to war over this.”

Schumer went on to say how hard it was to predict how a Supreme Court justice would turn out: “Even William Rehnquist is more moderate than they expected. The only ones that resulted how they predicted were [Antonin] Scalia and [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg. So most of the time they've gotten their picks wrong, and that's what we want to do to them again.”

Schumer later went on to mock the “Gang of 14” judicial filibuster deal and said it wasn’t relevant in the Supreme Court debate.

“A Priscilla Owen or Janice Rogers Brown style appointment may not have been extraordinary to the appellate court but may be extraordinary to the Supreme Court.”

By the time the train hit New Jersey, Schumer shifted gears and called his friend and “Gang of 14” member, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. The two talked in a very friendly manner about doing an event sometime this week together.

Developing…

Happy INDEPENDENCE Day!

And Armed Liberal has an antidote to puerile Marxism Syndicalism.

Guilty-crats.

Hugh has the highlights of W's long-overdue speech. The Osama quote is really all you need to know...

The rare earth of China.

Hitch on sons... daughters... and something else that went down the MSMemory hole: Beslan.

Shredding fascifism.

Today's Quote

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. --Attributed to Mark Twain

"At least we got rid of Barbara Olson." Yes -- you go apologize Karl. NOT.

UPDATED already.

If It's Not Projection ...

It's displacement:

Oh my - well here I'll go again and say that it's pretty obvious that Americans are the new Jews. This has been obvious for quite some time now. The fundamental irrationality of anti-Americanism is a dead giveaway that a basic psychodynamic impulse is operative, in this case "displacement", which Wikipedia defines as "an unconscious defence mechanism, whereby the mind redirects emotion from a 'dangerous' object to a 'safe' object."

It's fairly obvious that America is the "safe object". One guess as to who or what the "dangerous object" is.

Pay no attention to the beheader with WMD behind the Iraqi curtain...

Me B POed 2

Title: Language & Abuse: A Poem Author: Guest Author

Abuse
by "PO'ed Poet"

in the newspaper: 'nazi', 'gulag'
in the kitchen: 'nuke'
in our minds, the words
overused
broken loose from horror
despair, anguish
gas chambers and crematoria
work details in the snow
shadows on blasted brick
molten light; blindness, burning
starvation
suffering amid ashes

when have you been hungry
seen your body emptied of flesh,
risen in rags to labor shoeless
enslaved, in snow,
found yourself burned blinded sick
calling for your children
when?
when?

and, if you have not lived
with horror sharing your bed
death for your bunk mate
risking murder to pray
how dare you use those words
turn them cheap and trivial
wear down the bone of their meaning
to disparage what is merely bad
how dare you bring us closer to forgetting
what evil is
closer to repeating the past

Send it to your lib friends...

Meanwhile, the real modern-day Pol Pots get passes from the MSM. Zimbabwe? What Zimbabwe? (HT Glenn)

Un.

F'ing.



Believable.

Florida. That was it. Florida.

Did I Forget To Mention That ...

EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT FASCISM IS WRONG. (Added to the Classics links now of course!)

And then there's the small matter of Orwell's view of the fascifists.

The Great Surprise -- Not

D'UOH: "Just look at how the decision broke down: Justices Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer--the Court's liberals--voted to uphold the taking, while O'Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas dissented. I don't see how the ideological lineup could be clearer; if you care about property rights, vote for conservatives."

Glenn has his analysis here and has a quick link survey indicating that the leftist minions like those at Kos -- not Kos himself of course -- will line up with most conservatives (repeat after me: O'Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas dissented).

I think they're cynically anti-BusHitler enough that they'll change their tune as soon as they come down off their drugs enough to understand who they're really standing next to...

And Take Another!

YEEOUCH!:

As a recent veteran of Guantanamo Bay, I've been troubled by the willingness of some (namely this editorial page) to make uninformed inflammatory statements about the detention operations at GTMO. I believe that if any one of them had the opportunity to visit GTMO and witness the operation first hand, they would change their tone, if not their minds altogether.

Not only are the detainees treated humanely (top-notch medical care, hearty meals, recreational facilities, full access to religious observance, etc..) but I personally witnessed instances when detainees did not want to leave. It was not uncommon for my platoon to guard an airfield for hours in preparation for sending a detainee home, only to turn around and bring him back to the detention facility – because he refused to leave! These detainees are not stupid—they know that real torture and inhumane treatment await them at home. And while I know they’re not happy to be in GTMO, they rest assured that they will be treated well because Americans play by the rules.

I feel sheepish even having to defend this issue. While our servicemen (and innocent Iraqi citizens) are being blown-up and tortured overseas, the media obsesses over a handful of “mishandled” Korans and excessive air conditioning. (It’s also worth noting that these so-called instances of “abuse” at GTMO were all uncovered by internal Army investigations! It’s not as if the Army is torturing people and covering it up. On the contrary, the minute the Army gets wind of minor misconduct it swiftly removes and prosecutes those involved. This is an institution upholding the highest moral traditions of our country.) Would the terrorists do the same? No, I think they’d just wink at us…and then cut our heads off.

LT Peter Hegseth
Forest Lake, MN
U.S. Army National Guard, Infantry

Go Peter!

Bush doctrine light.

Is Britain snapping out of the "Jack Straw coma" on Iran?

VERY INTERESTING: "Since the media tilt heavily left, people on the right wanted alternative media. Since Republicans are better at grassroots organization, people on the left wanted grassroots organization. People on the left now have more political communities, while people on the right now have more freestanding pundits and alt-news sources."

Hugh Has The Guest To Follow-Up The Letter Of The Day

Check this out:

Pete: I tell you one thing, Hugh. I had a soldier in my platoon who spoke fluent Arabic, and so I'd go up in a tower and he'd interpret for me, and I am telling you, these guys are talking about, you know, how much they hate America and how much they would love to kill somebody if they could get their hands on them. These are not friendly guys, and given the opportunity, as I think someone put it, to spend the night at it with a few members of the editorial pages of the Star Tribune, I think that maybe they would take their statements back.

RTWT.

The left would disband our penitentiary system system too if they could...

Letter Of The Day

Check this out:

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

What? No takers???

Why I Call Them Dhimmi-crats

UPDATE: Did I forget to mention that these are the same people who sneer out the other side of their mouth that "everything is relative"?

... she was sitting at home watching the tube, and saw herself voting.

We're building a military and police organization bigger than the entire British army.

It was a bit more... (Did I forget to mention this *sshat STILL has a habit of using the n-word? But it's all OK since he's the dhimmi-crats elder stateman.)

al-inois trifecta eviscerated again. (HT Glenn)

Religion of Koran desecration, religion of peace (and torture). [Just in case you missed it.]

THE REAL THING, IRAQ EDITION.

MSMemory Hole Update

When was the last time you read anything from the MSM resembling this?:

June 19, 2005: In western Iraq, for the third time in the last six weeks, a battalion of U.S. Marines swept the area to find terrorists and their weapons. The marines have found over fifty weapons cashes so far this month, and killed or captured several hundred terrorists, both foreign and Iraqi. Two American battalions are currently sweeping the area between Baghdad and the Syrian border. Hundreds of foreign terrorists cross the border each month, and provide an increasing proportion of the manpower attacking government and coalition troops.

The terrorists have resorted to brutal treatment of local Iraqis (largely Sunni Arabs, many of them pro-Saddam or pro-al Qaeda) in order to maintain some control along the border. Local tribal and religious leaders have asked the government to clear out the terrorists, but recruiting local police has been difficult. Without enough local police to keep the terrorists out, when American troops leave, the terrorists just come back.

Bringing in outside police units has been slowed because there are not enough reliable (trained and well led) police to go around. But this time around, emphasis is placed on trapping the terrorists, not just running them out of villages, towns or remote rural compounds. The degree to which these terrorists are hard core can be seen by the fact that few of them have been captured. They don’t surrender, and fight to the death. In one battle yesterday, at Karabilah, an isolated village near the Syrian border, about a hundred terrorists fought to the death when surrounded by marines and Iraqi troops. Four local Iraqis, held captive and tortured, were found and rescued by the marines. Photos and vids of other Iraqis, being tortured and murdered, were also found, along with car bombs and roadside bombs. A car bomb workshop was found as well.

At least half of the terrorists encountered in western Iraq are foreigners. The Iraqi terrorists have been on the run as areas they set up housekeeping in are detected and raided. While the terrorists can scare Iraqis into not resisting with weapons, they cannot prevent them from tipping off police about where the bomb factories and weapons caches are. The terrorists torture and murder locals suspected of being informants, or who are kin to informants. The current American operations are meant to crush the terrorist groups that are too large for the locals to handle. Smaller groups of terrorists would be outnumbered by police, or groups of armed locals.

In Mosul, American troops captured Muhammad Khalaf Shakar, an al Qaeda leader and close associate of Abu Musab al Zarqawi. Shakar was betrayed by an informer, and increasingly common problem terrorists are facing. The informants, and few captured terrorists, indicate that most of the car bombs and roadside bombs are coming out these western Iraqi locations.

Operation Lightning, which began on May 22nd, continues in and around Baghdad. The 40,000 Iraqi police and troops have rounded up over a thousand terrorists suspects, and brought peace to many neighborhoods. It only takes a dozen or so armed men to terrorize a neighborhood, and make it hospitable for anti-government forces. When the local bad guys are rounded up, or chased into the western desert, the police can patrol the neighborhood, and establish relationships with the locals. This makes it more difficult for the terrorists to come back, as the police will immediately find out, and go after the terrorists before they can establish any control.

The government is broadcasting the pictures and videos captured from the terrorists, showing how Iraqis are tortured or killed (often by beheading) for resisting. The fact that many of the terrorists are foreigners, especially Saudis, makes many Iraqis angry. These self-righteous foreigners preach how they are in Iraq to “liberate” Iraq from foreigners. Yet the terrorists are never seen doing any good works, like the Americans, only killing and torturing Iraqis. This is turning Iraq into the most anti-al Qaeda country in the Middle East. That, in turn, is resonating in other Moslem countries, where Islamic terrorism is becoming less popular, as more of it is directed against Iraqis.

I thought not.

Where was Dick Durbin when we needed him?

On The Excreble A.I.

CASE CLOSED. I'm no longer interested in hearing anything these venal people have to say. PERIOD.

The rest of the story...

'Kos the the fascifists have no brains.

But the true measure of the horror did not dawn on me until me and my fellow passengers were left taxiing on the O'Hare tarmack for over twenty minutes in the Auschwitzian Airbus A320 cattlecar, in temperatures approaching 85 degrees, not knowing our fates or whether we would make it to our fundraising dinners.

Much too stupid to be a United States Senator.

We have faces splodey-dopes before -- and of a much higher relative mettle.

Stop It And Wake The Hell Up!

Samuelson gets the unfolding Eurabian disaster. (HT Glenn)

Just what WILL it take to nab teflon Kofi anyway???

Rummy Shamelessly Stolen

from Radio Blogger (mp3):

Don Rumsfeld explaining the progress in Iraq.

In just over four minutes, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spontaneously orated a column which puts the American media to shame. If you ever wanted to know how Iraq is doing, in proper perspective, read and listen to this from earlier this morning:

On the political portion of it, that's obviously not the business of this department, but I can comment on it. The general feeling is as follows: That the election was held January 30th. It took a number of weeks to put a government together. Not a number of years, but a group of people, with no experience in democracy at all, took a number of weeks...a few months, to put together a government. A lot of tugging and hauling, a lot of negotiating about what it would mean in the assembly, a lot of negotiating about what it might mean with respect to the constitution drafting, a lot of negotiating about what it might mean as to who's in what ministry, and for what reasons, and the presidential council, I believe they call it. And they came to a conclusion. When the conclusion was made and announced, one could look at worst case and say it wouldn't be unreasonable to say the Shi'ia would say, okay, Sunnis, you didn't play in the election. You gave it to us for twenty-thirty years, and we didn't like it, and now it's our turn, and we're going to give it to you. Quite the contrary. The Shi'ia, at the top leadership down, have been saying, look. We want to have one country. Let's reach out to the Sunnis. Let's include them. Let's find a way, even though they made a mistake and didn't participate in the election. Let's see that they're involved in this. Let's get them involved in the drafting of the constitution. It's exactly the right instinct. The Sunnis, instead of saying, okay, we didn't get in the election. Maybe it was a mistake, maybe it wasn't. But now, we're not well represented, and we're not going to play, and go separately, and try to break the country into three pieces. The Sunnis didn't do that. I mean, everyone you talk to said we made a mistake. The Sunnis made a mistake. They should have gotten involved in the election. They didn't get involved in the election. They now know they should have gotten involved in the election, and thank the good Lord the Shi'ia are reaching out to them, and the Kurds are reaching out to them, and trying to include them. Now, what does it mean next? Well, they're going to have a lot of to'ing and fro'ing on the constitution. Fortunately, they made a lot of those decisions in the transitional administrative law, the so-called TAL. And it's there as a guidepost. It's not a mandate. It's not a speed limit or direction, but it is generally agreed to. And so it'll serve, I would think, as at least a touchstone for the very complicated task of trying to find a piece of paper that people, who have had historic hostilities to each other, that have been held together, not through love or respect, but through vicious dictatorship repressing them. That's how they've held together as a country. And now they're going to look for a piece of paper that will do that for them instead. Instead of a vicious dictatorship. Instead of repression. Instead of a police state. Instead of mass graves, filled with people...bodies, tens of thousands of bodies. There's going to be a piece of paper that those people are going to have to put their faith in. That is an enormous thing. And they're going to be debating that, and tugging on it, and to'ing and fro'ing, and they're going to, in my view, come up with one...just a minute...just a minute...And then they're going to take that to the Iraqi people and have them vote on it. And another 26 million people will have a chance, or population, or whoever's eligible to vote, men and women alike. Some large number is going to have a chance to go vote on that. And then, it'll be there, and then they'll vote on whatever that constitution says, for a president, or a prime minister, whatever, representatives, they'll have a chance to vote on that in December. This is amazing. This is historic. This is a gigantic step forward. This ought not to be dismissed or trivialized. This is a big deal. Will it happen? I think it'll happen. Can I guarantee anything in life? No. I can't. No one can. It's their country.

Amen.

Eurabian stupidity in a hypocritically deranged nutshell...

The Eurabian Thought Police

Are beautifully vivisected by Wretchard:

Perhaps the real reason ideological propositions are set up as "obvious" and "irreversible" facts is that they are actually so intellectually fragile they must be exempted from questioning. That's why the very act of discussing these unsupported articles of faith is declared a form of "intolerance" or "hate speech" so as to make the whole ideological edifice self-supporting. But as the recent rejections of the European Charter in France and the Netherlands proved, bankrupt ideas however armored with Newspeak are bankrupt all the same with one additional property. Newspeak coated projects are prone to a suddenly catastrophic -- and to the press -- and inexplicable collapse.

A work of art...

Introduction To A Singular Apocalypse

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker." --Einstein