I will be the first one to agree that the President is not the most eloquent of speakers and has not done a good job backing his facts. Just read this article which lays out how Saddam sought Uranium from the country of Niger.
Uranium
From: Time
A moving photo essay about informing military families that loved ones have died.
TIME: Honor After the Fall Photo Essay
From: Yahoo
“Prosecutor Rob Spencer braced jurors for the painful testimony they were going to hear over the next few weeks. The voices of the victims of the attacks and their anguished families should be all jurors need to hear to conclude that Moussaoui should die for his crimes, Spencer said.
Spencer described one call from a woman on the 83rd floor of the second tower to fall. “The floor is completely engulfed,” she said. “We’re on the floor and we can’t breathe…. I don’t see any more air. … I’m going to die, aren’t I?” The tape apparently will be played later.
Prosecutors also will play the cockpit recordings from United Flight 93, which crashed into a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, after passengers fought back against the hijackers. The tape has never been heard publicly.
“You cannot understand the magnitude of that day unless you hear it from the victims themselves,” Spencer said. Moussaoui smiled several times when the prosecution mentioned his enthusiasm for the attacks.”
From:Best of the Web
“We have not found the formula as a country” to counter the message of the extremists in the Muslim world. “The strategy must do a great deal more to reduce the lure of the extremist ideology by standing with those moderate Muslims advocating peaceful change, freedom and tolerance.”
“The enemy we face may be the most brutal in our history. They currently lack only the means — not the desire — to kill, murder millions of innocent people with weapons vastly more powerful than boarding passes and box cutters.” -Â Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld
This from Capt. Dan Sukman via Foxnews.com:
“We dropped off the recruits at the academy early in the day, then waited until the testing was complete before heading back to base. Once again, like so many other days, we all had some downtime to kill. No matter what our jobs are, all soldiers think about and often discuss what we would be doing if we were not in Iraq — watching TV, drinking a beer, taking college classes, kissing our spouse, playing with our children, going to a ball game, arguing the merits of “Rocky IV” being a war movie.But days like that don’t belong to soldiers over here. Days of spending time with our wife or playing with our dog are owned by someone else. For 365 days, soldiers are working hard, for long hours. Today, soldiers of the 21st MP Company and the transportation company within our brigade worked almost 12 hours straight, before they even had lunch.
…A lot of time and effort went into the mission to take the Iraqi police recruits up for testing. Of the 75 that came up with us only 19 passed, but all the effort was worth it. There will be 19 more policemen on the streets of Iraq sometime soon.
You will never see these soldiers in a headline. The staffs coordinating testing, the mechanics working on trucks and soldiers driving 75 Iraqis to take a written exam will never be breaking news, but they are important in this war.”
It it is becoming clearer that the United States of America’s “friends” are not friends at all. As of right now I can only say with certainty that Great Britain is our ally. All others are to be determined.
Russian Spies
V for Vendetta, a film based on a 1980s graphic novel, was released to theaters late last week and with it (for me at least) came confusion and frustration. What could have been a great film about the tenacity of free will and the unwavering human desire for liberty was twisted and mangled into an anti-Bush, Mulslim-loving fright fest. Even the author of the graphic novel wanted nothing to do with the film.
“He told MTV, ‘[My comic] has been turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country… [The film] is a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neo-conservatives — which is not what “V for Vendetta” [the comic] was about.'” (from the townhall.com movie review)
Sounds like someone screwed up.
This from: Mike Adams
“Well, I guess it had to happen. Several weeks after writing my “Queer Muhammad†column, I finally got a call from a Muslim extremist – one who mostly shouted at me over the phone in broken English. I have decided to reprint our conversation in today’s column, hoping that it will shed some light on how to deal with the fundamentalist Muslim disdain for free speech, not to mention the fundamentalist Muslim disdain for satire.” (more)
It will be a miracle if this woman is not murdered by the Islamofascists.
Dr Wafa Sultan speaks out about Muslum injustice and hypocracy.
Watch this unbelievable interview which was broadcast on
Al Jazeera television on Feb. 21.
Its tough beliving in personal freedoom and living in Canada. Check this out.
“The film is based on an actual incident in northern Iraq on July 4, 2003: US soldiers arrested 11 Turkish officers and pulled bags over their heads before taking them away. The images were an insult to Turkish nationalists and anyone concerned with the country’s honor. Many Turks also suspected the US was taking revenge for the Turkish parliament’s refusal to allow the US to move troops through Turkey into Iraq during the 2003 Iraq war.
The main theme of the movie is revenge (and maybe even the reason for the movie itself). The film follows a Turkish intelligence agent as he seeks to avenge the officers and restore their honor. This wouldn’t be so bad if the film didn’t portray the opponents of Turks and Muslims so brutally — the bad guys in this black and white world are the Americans, the Kurds, the Christians and the Jews.”
By Brigitte Gabriel. Excerpted from Brigitte Gabriel’s speech delivered
at the Intelligence Summit in Washington DC Saturday February 18, 2006
We gather here today to share information and knowledge.
Intelligence is not merely cold hard data about numerical strength or
armament or disposition of military forces. The most important element
of intelligence has to be understanding the mindset and intention of
the enemy. The west has been wallowing in a state of ignorance and
denial for thirty years as Muslim extremist perpetrated evil against
innocent victims in the name of Allah.
I was ten years old when my home exploded around me burying me
under the rebel drinking my blood to survive as the perpetrators
shouted Allah Akbar. My only crime was that I was a Christian living in
a Christian town. I learned at 10 years old the meaning of the word
“infidel.” I had a crash course in survival not in girl scouts, but in
a bomb shelter where I lived for seven years in pitch darkness,
freezing cold, drinking stale water and eating grass to live. At
the age of thirteen I dressed in my burial clothes going to bed at
night waiting to be slaughtered and by the age of 20 I had buried most
of my friends who were killed by Muslims.
We were not Americans living in New York, or Britons in London,
we were Arab Christians living in Lebanon. As a victim of Islamic
terror, I was amazed when I saw Americans waking up on September 12th
2001 asking themselves “Why do they hate us?” The psychoanalyst experts
were coming up with all sort of excuses as to what did we do to offend
the Muslim World? If America and the west were paying attention to the
Middle East they would not have had to even ask the question. Simply
put, they hate me and you because we are defined in their eyes by one
simple word, “infidels.”
Writers speak out against Islamo-facscists.
“We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.”
via BBC News
This from Peggy Noonan.
Please read the whole article. Its getting scary out there.
“Ahead of me, throwing bags in bins, is a young mother with a two or three year old girl. The mother is tense, flustered. Bags, bottles, a stroller to break down and get on the conveyer belt. A security agent yelling: “Keep your boarding pass in your hand at all times.” The little girl is looking up, anxious. All these yelling adults, and things being thrown. “My doll!” she says as her mother puts it quickly in a gray bin. “We’ll get it on the other side!” says the mother. She grabs her daughter’s hand roughly.
“Take off your sneakers!” a clerk yells.
The mother stops, hops, quickly removes her sneakers. Her daughter has already walked through the magnetometer and is wandering on the other side. She looks around: Where’s mommy?
Mommy gets her sneakers in a bin, on the belt, gets through the magnetometer.
I’m relieved. Her daughter holds her mother’s leg. They begin to walk on.
A TSA clerk shouts to another, “You didn’t check the sneakers. You have to put the sneakers through.”
The second clerk yells–“Your daughter has to go through again!”
The little girl is scared–What did I do wrong? I’m sorry, mommy.
The mother is tense, gets a look.
I lift my chin at the TSA agent, smile, and say softly, “Miss, that poor girl with the child, she is having a tough time. The little girl is scared and–”
“We are following procedures!” said the TSA agent. Her mouth was twisted in anger.
I nodded and said softly, “I know, I’m just saying–a little gentle in your tone.”
She looked at my ticket and smiled.
“You have been chosen by the computer for extra attention.”
“What?”
“You have been chosen by the computer for extra attention.”
Because of the current insanity raining down upon us (the civilized world) as the result a few political cartoons, I am done with Islam and all attempts to convince me that it is anything but an arcane dogma followed by murders and lunatics.
Where are the Islamic voices of reason? Murdered or in prison that’s where. Someone, anyone please tell me how they are any different than the Nazis in the 30s.
Delusions of moral superiority – Check
World domination – Check
Extermination of the Jews – Check
Moderates remain silent or are murdered or imprisoned – Check
Europe tries to compromise and appease – Check
Fanatical Fascist beliefs – Check
What more do you need to know?
“Like the Nazis in the 1930s and the Soviet communists in the Cold War, the Islamofascists are emboldened by appeasement and submissiveness. Give the rampagers and book-burners a veto over artistic and editorial decisions, and you end up not with heightened sensitivity and cultural respect, but with more rampages and more books burned. You betray ideals that generations of Americans have died to defend.” —Jeff Jacoby
The French government has agreed that Iran poses a major threat to the world and now stands on the side of the United States and Great Britain.
From Freedom for Egyptians:
No Danish Treatment for an Egyptian Newspaper
I promised you in my previous post to bring you the images of the Egyptian newspaper, Al Fager (as pronounced in Egyptian Arabic) that published the Danish Cartoons five month ago on Oct 17, 2005. Here is below the front page where the Prophet Muhammed(PBUH) cartoon from Jyllands-Posten was published.
This stuff is making me crazy!
Malaysia bans possession of Prophet cartoons
10 Feb 2006 01:55:05 GMT
Source: Reuters
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Malaysia has slapped a blanket ban on circulating or even possessing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad after it closed a local newspaper for printing the same caricatures that have enraged the Islamic world.
In a short statement confirming its order to shut down the Sarawak Tribune, the government of the mainly-Muslim nation said it had issued the ban to ensure racial harmony.