September 08, 2004
I'm shaking in my boots...
....over the fact that the
UN is angry with us.
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Sweet Mary Joseph and Child! Can't they make up their minds?
Posted by: Brian B at September 08, 2004 12:43 PM (OnnW3)
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I like the idea of bulldozing them into the river. (Wizbang) that's about how worthless they are and have been - and Kerry would have waiting for the UN? hmm genocide in Darfur and UN is not doing anything about that...so how long would Kerry have waited? Till we all were dead and every country in the middle east and asia shooting nuclear bombs at one another?
~C
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Russia's New Foreign Policy: Preemptive Attacks
The Bush-Rumsfield Neocon cabal has obviously infiltrated Russia to the highest levels. Like I've been saying since 9/11, this is a civilizational war. The events in Beslan have clarified things for the Russians. 9/11 was not a declaration of war, it simply woke us up from our slumbering false insecurity. War had been declared on us years before.
Yahoo News:
Russia is prepared to make pre-emptive strikes on "terrorist bases" anywhere in the world, the Interfax news agency cited the country's chief of staff as saying.
"With regard to preventive strikes on terrorist bases, we will take any action to eliminate terrorist bases in any region of the world. But this does not mean we will carry out nuclear strikes," General Yuri Baluyevsky said Wednesday.
Baluyevsky added that Russia's choice of action "will be determined by the concrete situation where ever it may be in the world.
"Military action is the last resort in the fight agaisnt terrorism."
Hat tip:
Prof. Chaos who e-mailed me about this.
For an abbreviated history of recent events in Chechnya, see McQ's A short primer on Chechnya
UPDATE: Chechens respond (via Jeff Quinton):
A London-based Chechen rebel representative said Wednesday that Russia's threats to attack terrorists around the world amount to a warning to European countries that Russian forces could carry out assassinations on their soil.
Akhmed Zakayev, an envoy for rebel leader and former Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov, said such a strike by Russian forces would create a dangerous precedent.
"It is a warning to other European countries that Russia may come and carry out an assassination on your soil at any moment," he said....
[...]"It is a very disturbing signal they are sending for all civilized countries," Zakayev said. He added that it's especially worrying for Chechens who speak freely about their dissatisfaction with Russian President Vladimir Putin's policies.
"To Putin, that makes them international terrorists," he said.
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"Military action is the last resort in the fight agaisnt terrorism."
They still don't get it.
Posted by: Dylan at September 08, 2004 02:28 PM (MspMJ)
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But I would agree with that, military action is always the last resort. The question is not whether or not it is a last resort, but if further talking diplomacy is fruitful. If not, then military action is justified because no further options exist.
Posted by: RS at September 08, 2004 02:39 PM (JQjhA)
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With these people, there are no such things as options, nor is there any such thing as diplomacy. When they do something, they do it to kill and to kill as many as possible. They would have killed every person in Beslan if it hadn't been for their own mistakes.
~C
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at September 10, 2004 01:18 PM (D39Vm)
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And, it's a GLOBAL war....these so-called checken rebels, separatists, whatever they have been called, are radical islamists in bed with Osama Bin Laden and thus, no different from him ie terrorists. Terrorism is a global, international, problem that needs to be addressed by every person, every nation, to end it.
~C
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at September 15, 2004 04:26 PM (D39Vm)
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I hope Russia show all of us how is done.
In the past, terrorist congregated in the holy places to regroup. Great targets.
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Three Muslim 'Informants' Beheaded by the Religion of Irony
What was that line again about Islam and peace and only a few and all that stuff? The borders of Islam are indeed bloody. Russia and India are our new natural allies in this war.
Hindustan Times:
Three Muslims were dragged out of their homes and beheaded amid rising civilian deaths in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Wednesday.
Police suspect that the three were killed because they were informants of Indian security forces. There was no way to independently verify the police claim.
Terrorists stormed into the village of Mara Doria in the Rajouri region, 180 kilometres northwest of Jammu, according to the duty officer at the Rajouri police station.
Kalu Din, 25, and Mishri Gujjar, 35, were taken from their homes to a nearby forest and beheaded, he said.
In the adjoining Fabri Dhok village, the attackers took Ghulam Shah, 50, and also decapitated him, the officer said on customary condition of anonymity.
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Why the hell can't they get a clue, and just behead that guy on the Dytex commercials? Or Greg Cenimone[sp?]? (He's the guy threatening to turn your fat into concrete, so your pants will fit.) They'd have most infidels cheering Allah as a liberator.
Posted by: Demosophist at September 08, 2004 10:54 AM (turqZ)
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Sorry, I think that's DiTech rather than Dytex, but who the hell knows for sure. It's not as though I've ever lifted my head to look at the TV while the commercial was playing. I have a theory that Alzheimer's is a diseased caused by watching too many TV commercials, or reading too much SPAM.
And that suggests another politically savvy move to give Allah a helping hand. They could start tracking down and kidnapping spammers, which would have the added benefit that they'd probably end up heheading themselves... which would be the holiest irony that ever tickeled Allah's funny bone, I bet.
Well, it's funnier than making war on children and humanitarian aid workers because those are the only people you can beat, anyway.
Posted by: Demosophist at September 08, 2004 11:15 AM (turqZ)
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Like I said before - 98% of the terrorists are muslims but not all muslims are terrorists. These people were obviously innocent and what happened to them was not right but I can understand it. The problem is, go after the ones who ARE doing it and kill them.
~C
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at September 10, 2004 01:20 PM (D39Vm)
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these terrorists guys suck i swear i mean everyones "P Oed" over these stupid guys slotering our poor souls
Posted by: tyler becker at January 31, 2005 10:35 PM (nU8ce)
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Hello..

Praise be to Allah....
I know it was meant well by all comments, but I want to point out something... Not 98% of Muslims are terrorists... Muslims are misunderstood and mistreated in many different parts of this world... Islam is a religion of peace, justice, merci and equality... The word "ISLAM" it's self is taking from: selm and salam (which means: peace in Arabic_)...
“We are ordered to keep away from violence and arbitrary acts" People who don't ... are being disobedient to God... and are guilty of violating the laws of God.. As a Muslim.. I don't consider them any of us...
It hurts to see the destruction of buildings and properties, bombing of many innocent people... Those are all forbidden according to Islam.. Where prophet Mohammed (PBUH) has said: (Whoever has killed a person shall not smell the fragrance of Paradise, though its fragrance is found for a span of forty years).
Prophet Mohammed also listed murder as the second of major sins. He (PBUH) has said: (The first cases to be adjudicated between people on the Day of Judgment will be those of bloodshed.)
In the holy Quran.. Allah has said: (God does not forgive you for showing kindness and dealing justly with those who have not fought you about religion and have not driven you out of your homes. God loves just dealers.)
Soldiers themselves were also forbidden from killing children and women and elderly people during warsÂ…
Muslims are also commanded to be kind to the e-mails.. And are forbidden to hurt them..
I thank you for your time..
alsalam alaykum.. o rahmat allah.. o barakatuh... (Peace be upon you all, and God's merci.. and forgiveness...)
Posted by: zoya at March 02, 2005 02:34 PM (Vbon4)
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Muslims are also commanded to be kind to the ANIMALS.. And are forbidden to hurt them..***
ANIMALS not E-MAILS!!

Guess i got carried away a little.. huh??

i opologize for this UNPROMPTED mistake..
Posted by: zoya at March 02, 2005 02:44 PM (Vbon4)
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those sick basterds!!!!!!!!they are Fuckin basterds what if it was there family what if it was my friend Joel Reinteria,i would catch them and then give 'em a slow painful death
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Beheading Video for Sale In Baghdad
This is just sick. Absolutely sick. I
post pics of these things to wake readers up from the sleep America drifted into after 9/11. But these people? They make Ogrish look like a saint. Swiss Info:
The hottest selling item at Baghdad's video CD market is not a movie or a music video.
It's an ordinary Egyptian whose beheading was filmed by his Muslim militant captors and distributed as a gruesome message to
anyone who cooperates with U.S. troops in Iraq.
"The CD is in big demand. We sell about 300 to 400 clips a week," said Abu Muhammad, a shop owner who said he didn't have
the stomach to watch the decapitation by knife.
"We have all kinds of customers, both old and young."
The video shows a terrified Mohammed Abdel Aal kneeling in front of masked militants with AK-47 assault rifles as he confesses to planting electronic devices in houses that guided bombs dropped from U.S. warplanes.
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"A Muslim could not do something so barbaric. This was the work of Israeli intelligence trying to give Muslims a bad image in the
world," said video shop owner Abu Safwat.
This alone proves it's a good reason the CD is for sale in Baghdad. Iraqis need to realize that everything bad is not the fault of the Jews.
Posted by: Chad at September 08, 2004 10:54 AM (HwKuA)
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It's sickening either way...Iraqi's are muslims, they don't need more info on this or learn how to do this. It's absolutely disgusting and the Baghdad dealer should be put out of business; in a way, he's helping Al Jazeera. They should try to remember that this could happen to them by 'THEM' at any time, why watch the horror of Muslims beheading other muslims. Sorry I do not find this so called "religion" a peaceful one. The Kuran does not say it's peaceful although they are trying to make it more conservative by leaving out the warrior section which is what 'they' are using as a reason for this barbarism.
~C
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at September 10, 2004 01:26 PM (D39Vm)
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WHERE CAN I BUY THE BEHEADING CD ?
Posted by: JON at November 17, 2004 09:11 PM (CjbXy)
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I can't believe it, my co-worker just bought a car for $78458. Isn't that crazy!
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Wictory Wednesday, Witch (except Rick James)
Today is Wictory Wednesday, witch.
John Hawkins' interview with John O'Neil pretty much sums up this weeks argument for why you should vote Bush. Now let's win this thing and go home.
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That Oneil is so unflappable. I think because he is so
certain of his position and has developed enourmous patience through the years of waiting.
Posted by: Jane at September 08, 2004 08:36 AM (b/7hi)
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WWWWWWRONG! :-) "W" is the new word these days.
~C
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at September 10, 2004 01:27 PM (D39Vm)
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Russia Offers $10 Million for Chechen Rebels
Now you're talking baby. Carrot and stick, carrot and stick. Anyone know what they mean by
neutralization?
Channel News AsiaRussia put a 10-million-dollar price tag on the heads of two Chechen rebel leaders accused of masterminding the hostage-taking which ended in a bloodbath at a Beslan school.
The FSB security service, in a statement quoted by Interfax news agency, said Wednesday that it would pay 300 million rubles "for reliable information on their whereabouts leading to the neutralization" of former Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov and of warlord Shamil Basayev.
It said the two were responsible for "inhuman" acts of terrorism carried out in Russia.
Jeff Quinton also on the case, of course.
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I'd give anything for Russia to "neutralize them" and we know what that means!
~C
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September 07, 2004
Arab World Reacts to Beslan Massacre
MEMRI has the full report on the Arab reaction, some of full condemnation and some of it a kind of half-hearted argument that this is bad because it hurts Islam. But here are the hightlights along with my thoughts:
is a group of criminal murderers, and everyone responsible for this crime must be hunted down and brought to trial in an international court. The time has come for everyone to accept as a first principle the sanctity of life and [the obligation] to avoid harming civiliansÂ…"
An international court? Am I being paranoid or is this a swipe at the US? If it is not, then the premise is still wrong. This is war, not some global court of law where we send out the Army to serve subpoenas.
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Well even if they did use an International Court, it wouldn't stop it. Look at Milosevic and how long he's put off his own case in International Court. That's why Saddam is being tried in Iraq. I hope they flag him before killing him and not let it stretch out. Since he does gardening, take away his fertilizer so he can't drink it and make himself sick or kill himself. After all, he still thinks he's President of Iraq and the law is HIS law - Saddam's law. As long as he is alive, no Iraqi can get any peace - but they can't get peace as long as these terrorists keep coming into their country stopping whatever diplomacy they could finally get if left alone.
~C
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Russian School Hostage Video
For latest news, information, images, and links to other hostage videos please go to
MAIN PAGE HERE.
UPDATE: 9/13 Video here. (in German)
Chad over at In the Bullpen alerted me to the fact that the Chechen terrorists made a video tape of themselves while they were busy massacring children. The Chechen terrorists in Beslan, North Ossetia seem to be following the lead of the Chechens who held a Moscow theater hostage last year--they also shot a video. Chad noticed Yahoo News was running some vidcaps from the terrorist's video. I did some checking around and found these posted at NTV.RU. None are too graphic. NTV is the station that has a copy of the tape, but they have not posted the video and I presume the whole thing is much too graphic to air on Russian television (which is saying a lot). The pics are in the extended entry below. The NTV video can be viewed here, it's not very graphic and it's narrated in Russian.
UPDATE: On closer inspection the last few seconds of the video are disturbing. Vidcap #3 below is taken from a shot where you hear a voice in the background. The voice is talking to someone on a cell-phone. He is not speaking Russian. He is either speaking Turkic or Arabic, but he distinctly can be heard speaking the Arabic phrase "Allahu-Akhbar". The next scene is disturbing if brief. The camera looks down at blood on the ground and pans past what look to be the legs and arms of dead children. You cannot see their full bodies, just a brief glimpse as the camera pans past to focus on the blood. Horrible.
Update II: Allah also has some of the same images as does Charles Johnson, and of course Chad Evans where I first got tipped of this. Petrified Truth also has some links to NTV. Jay Tea at Wizbang ponders the question: what next? Captain Ed on the horror's that the media don't want you to see.
Update III: More pics found. Also below.
Update IV: Via Dale Franks and Chad Evans this news:
While despairing soldiers and rescue workers moved among the growing pile of body bags, it was revealed that an 18-month-old baby had been repeatedly stabbed by a black-clad terrorist who had run out of ammunition.
Other survivors told how screaming teenage girls were dragged into rooms adjoining the gymnasium where they were being held and raped by their Chechen captors who chillingly made a video film of their appalling exploits
UPDATE V: More pics below.
UPDATE VI: Via Michael J. Totten at Suicide Girls this Telegraph piece:
An extremist Islamic cleric based in Britain said yesterday that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by terrorists with a just cause.
Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, said that holding women and children hostage would be a reasonable course of action for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule....
"The Mujahideen [Chechen rebels] would not have wanted to kill those people, because it is strictly forbidden as a Muslim to deliberately kill women and children. It is the fault of the Russians," he said.
UPDATE VII: Click here for the BBC version of the video. Very close to original.
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I cannot get the video to work, however I do not doubt that you heard Allah Ahkbar in the last three seconds Rusty. In fact, I would assume this was the case. Not only are the Chechen terrorists of course Muslim, but their Middle Eastern (read Al Qaida most likely) counterparts are of course Muslim.
Posted by: Chad Evans at September 07, 2004 03:55 PM (MT9+l)
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you need to install an active x control on IE to get it to work.
I watched it and have a few comments:
1) it doesn't look anything close to 1000 people in that gym;
2) why are they still wearing masks? It was clearly a suicide mission and their identity would eventually be known thru body parts;
3) I really couldn't make out allah ahkbar, and that last piece of audio seemed a different quality.
4) While its certainly possible and even likely that arab islamists were involved, its also in the Russian governments interests to have them involved. Take any audio on the tape with a grain of salt.
Posted by: mike at September 07, 2004 05:06 PM (nX0KO)
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Rusty,
Something tells me I'm going to be dragging this poem out for many years to come:
Are there no words for this, no words to frame
This horror? What words would give clarity?
What words could possibly work to bring shame
To those whose language defines charity
As bullets in the backs of young children;
As knives through the necks of unbelievers;
As human bombs blown to bloody ribbon
(Crimson ticker tape for gibbering reavers)?
There are no words to speak this in fullness.
Logic fights with mercy, mercy cowers
From anger, and anger tethers darkness,
While all my language the darkness devours.
O God, I have no words, my mouth is shut,
And butchers bleed my tongue with each new cut.
Cameron Wood
Posted by: ccwbass at September 07, 2004 05:20 PM (qg4dU)
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Mike,
I agree. It doesn't look like 1,000 people in the gym, however according to reports they had hostages scattered throughout the building. I also tried the Active X thing to no avail, however I found a Real Player link that I forwarded to Rusty.
Posted by: Chad Evans at September 07, 2004 07:33 PM (Fi3E1)
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Link is up, thanks Chad. Let's check back in a few days as sometimes the BBC takes down their videos after awhile. This might be good for the archive.
Posted by: RS at September 07, 2004 08:25 PM (JQjhA)
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".. When a group of Muslims from nearby villages offered themselves as hostages in exchange for the students, officials discouraged them from coming to Beslan for fear of stirring violence. ."
Posted by: Idontdowindows2 at September 08, 2004 03:09 PM (XxQKw)
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Video still doesn't work. Also they had Muslim clerics who were willing to go talk to them. But you have to understand something here; there was to be no talking and no hostage was to be left alive. They were there to kill and terrorize and they almost did it all. Islam is not a peaceful religion. I disagree that a Muslim is forbidden to deliberately kill women and children. Woman are ants to them, to crush under their feet and children? well, they can always make more. They made several mistakes and that is how half of them survived. 210 victims are still unidentified due to burns and some may never be identified; they just don't have the capability there for DNA testing. I hope Putin allows people in to help. These suicide terrorists killers were there for one purpose and one purpose only - to terrorize and then kill every person in that school. Like Georgy above, when one of them made a mistake, like a comedy of errors, he ran like hell and hid himself in a cabinet where he stayed until Russian soldiers found him and that is the only reason why he is alive today. Islam is a religion that really needs to either go away completely or revised so no one can use it as an excuse to kill.
~C
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at September 10, 2004 01:43 PM (D39Vm)
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Clash of civilizations...
Posted by: Donkey at September 11, 2004 05:17 PM (CIAbG)
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you can find the video at:
http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/udland/article.jhtml?articleID=197365
Posted by: rogerio at September 12, 2004 05:25 PM (BkwWp)
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This is the rebirth of Hitler
Posted by: Molly at September 17, 2004 03:17 PM (K5YEd)
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for one thing i have a a 23 month old and for that person to kill a baby is wrong fucking punk ass bitch.i hope die and fucking burn in hell for what you done to that little baby then making teens have sex with you. they need to cut your dick off and shove it down your pie hole killing kids is not right and for you to do that i hope you die drown your ass in hot water.then cut your balls off and place them in a jar what if some one killed your kids then what you will die for what you did to all the people you hurt
Posted by: chablis at October 13, 2004 07:55 AM (G0l/A)
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As you are reading this, there are 14 major conflicts taking place on the globe. Of those 14, on at least one side of each are Muslims, or "practitioners of the religion of peace." As far as I'm concerned, the only truth stretching GWB has committed thus far was his proclamation of Islam as a "religion of peace, case closed." Sure, there are some kooky things in the Bible, but I don't see radical Christian fundamentalists running out to kill indiscriminately as a result of whatever it might be that they believe. Minus an abortion doctor here or there, it just isn't happening in the name of Christianity. That tells me something. I guess you're smart enough to do the math.
Some would cite Timothy McVeigh as an example of Christian terrorism because of his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. This is misguided since McVeigh never purported himself to be a "freedom fighter" for God or anything of the sort. As a matter of fact, he defiantly purported himself to be a "freedom fighter" against what he perceived to be a government operating outside the bounds of the Constitution. Maybe he was correct about the government, but he was an evil, murderous scab of a human being none-the-less. There's quite a profound difference between the above mentioned varieties of "freedom fighters." McVeigh was interviewed by Lou Michel, co-author of the book "American Terrorist." Michel talked about it with CNN in a story posted on April 1, 2001. The following is an excerpt:
QUESTION: Does McVeigh have any spiritual-religious beliefs?
LOU MICHEL: McVeigh is agnostic. He doesn't believe in God, but he won't rule out the possibility. I asked him, "What if there is a heaven and hell?” He said that once he crosses over the line from life to death, if there is something on the other side, he will -- and this is using his military jargon -- "adapt, improvise, and overcome.” Death to him is all part of the adventure. ##
So much for the blue-eyed white-devil Christian terrorist theory we repeatedly hear used as a means of convincing us that there is no pattern within the terrorist genre.
The most troubling thing is that Muslims in the United States seem rather silent when atrocities occur by the hand of Islamic extremists, such as the Russian school massacre or bus bombings in Israel. Following the slow, agonizing decapitation of Nick Berg using what might as well have been a plastic butter knife, I heard nothing from American Muslim groups on any major media outlet in the United States. When an alleged terrorist cell was busted in Buffalo, NY, I saw no prominent American Muslims on TV discussing their satisfaction amid the arrest of a group of possible criminals. We instead heard accusations of religious hatred on the part of GWB and John Ashcroft.
We are likely entering WW4 (the third world war having been the Cold War), and the citizens of the United States have a nasty history in the course of such conflicts. In WW2, as you likely are quite aware, a frustrated American public perceived the Japanese American community to be less than enthusiastic toward the endeavor the nation was about to embark upon against Japan. Furthermore, there were numerous examples of Japanese Americans who were actively working to undermine the efforts of the US government against Japan. Anxiety lead to action, and so it was that on February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the forcible internment of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry. What a disgraceÂ… but a necessary disgrace.
If you're a Muslim living in America, and you're reading this, please try to understand history and the lessons it teaches. Please don't serve as an impediment to this just and necessary pursuit of your country, for history has a tendency to repeat, and sadly, it seems that the wheels of repetition might already have begun to irreversibly turn.
Mike Walker
tombrokenjaw@kmeat.net
www.kmeat.net
Posted by: Mike Walker at October 19, 2004 11:35 PM (6PNIi)
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nobody ever mentioned the name of the school
Posted by: kenalona at November 01, 2004 06:16 PM (gQca7)
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Necessary Disgrace? Sounds like Hitler. Human Dignity and true freedom are whats worth fighting for, not racists and their governments... True freedom heads don't fall for the okiedoke dummy!
Posted by: not retarded at February 28, 2005 11:02 PM (+yCf7)
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Sounds like Hitler? Very in-depth commentary on your part (sarcasm). You read my entire post, and just like some slow-witted talk-radio caller, you chose to zero in on only one facet of what I've said, rather than ingesting the whole of what's been laid out. You're incapable of reacting to anything other than a sliver of text that's caught your narrow spectrum of attention. Hitler was FAR from declaring a disgrace the internment of anybody short of a blond-haired blue-eyed kraut here or there, let alone a Japanese American or Jew, for that matter... despite any hollow alliances between Germany and Japan. If a nation is at war in the midst of the single most important conflict in the history of human kind, you boil the whole of the internment of Japanese Americans in the course of that conflict's pursuits as having been "racist"? That's all? You're a short-sighted cliche who lacks the ability to employ forward-thinking, and if you'd allow me to be as inarticulate as yourself, you're also a douche-bag.
Posted by: Mike Walker at April 16, 2005 03:42 PM (PAUNZ)
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If u have seen wat the Russian army has done to the Chechen children, u will say this is nothing. I do agree that they should not have taken hostages, children on top of that. Islam DOES say that u are not allowed to kill women, children, old people, and anyone who is not fighting against u. The Chechens have been in this war against Russia for a long time now, and i dont think the people who did this could think straight anymore or hope for peace from all the things they have seen. Chechens are peaceful people if u are peaceful with them. And Islam is a peaceful religion, it's jus that some people misinterupt it.
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Posted by: sumit kumar at May 22, 2005 02:14 AM (TZ0X2)
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To my knowledge, the quran calls for the death of infidels, i.e. anyone who isn't islamic. Either I'm wrong on this or I'm not. All it takes is someone willing to pick up a copy of the quran at your local 7-11 or cheap motel lobby to establish this once and for all. There is no ambiguity.
Posted by: Mike Walker at May 25, 2005 01:32 PM (QMTWG)
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Two Italian Women Taken Hostage In Iraq

Their names are Simona Pari and Simona Torretta (the latter pictured right). They were in Baghdad working for a humanitarian organization. The question of the day: will the Arab world rise up and demand their safe release?
Reuters:
Gunmen have abducted two Italian aid workers and two Iraqis in central Baghdad in a brazen attack that will alarm foreigners who are already on edge from widespread kidnappings.
Witnesses told Reuters about 20 men with AK-47 assault rifles and pistols with silencers stopped their vehicles in a busy commercial area of Baghdad and raided a building housing humanitarian organisation Bridge to Baghdad.
They left with Italian staffers Simona Pari and Simona Torretta and two Iraqis, a women who worked for another Italian organisation Intersos and a male engineer who worked for Bridge to Baghdad.
The abductions raised the stakes in kidnappings that have gripped Iraq for months, with more than 100 foreigners and Iraqis seized since April mostly outside of the capital.
The latest abductions are likely to fuel uncertainty over the fate of two French journalists whose kidnappings have triggered intense diplomatic efforts to free them.
Insurgents kidnapped and killed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni last month as he travelled to the southern city of Najaf. In April, kidnappers killed Italian security guard Fabrizio Quattrocchi.
In the Bullpen notes that "
A Bridge to Baghdad is an organization attempting to end sanctions to Iraq and provide more international support for the nation." Nice. Next thing you know they will be grabbing Mother Theresa's corpse and threatening to behead it.
Others: The Command Post, Jeff Quinton, In the Bullpen, James Joyner
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well you know these terrorist...uh...i mean freedom fighting militants...uh... insurgents are only attacking people that are in Iraq trying to make a profit of the war. Oh wait...
no they are killing people that are trying to make the lives of everyone better!!!! Man, boy was i wrong, in my defence if you listen to the broadcast news....
Posted by: Monkey at September 08, 2004 06:59 PM (lM85f)
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Do we need more evidence that Bush is escalating a war on terror? It's a good time to step back and ask ourselves whether attacking a country that didn't have an Islamic extremist problem and turning it into a breeding and training grounds for Islamic extremists, while angering the rest of the Arab world, alienating our own allies, and moving our focus away from the guys who attacked us on 9/11 (anyone remember bin Laden? -- three years is too long!) is really the best approach. This war is costing us an awful lot of money (not to mention lives, God bless them).
The point isn't really whether the terrorists are justified in what they're going. The point is whether WE are going about this in the best possible way.
Posted by: kwer5 at September 14, 2004 10:39 PM (qOy+A)
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kwer5...You said "the point is not really whether the terrorists are justified or not in what they're doing", THAT's THE WHOLE POINT ! Not how you detour, derail the issue of the enemy's monstruosities which is a key to understand their nature, the nature of Islamic Fascism. In fact you make a non-issue of these executions, you make an issue of Bush. Bush is to blame.Hurrah Micheal Moore, you are not alone in your lunacy! Oh,,,,and save your patronizing laments for the lives lost...you disgrace them using them as mere argumentative tools to soften your pro fascist inclinations...shove your false compassion.
Posted by: PAX at September 22, 2004 11:56 PM (X/AHs)
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Why cant we hack into these Islamic sites and block them from posting the videos?
Posted by: Vinny at September 23, 2004 07:47 AM (BxvwF)
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hmm..this is quite interesting
Posted by: generic drugs at September 26, 2005 03:06 AM (Xt85K)
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Who is Kitty Kelley?
Kitty Kelley's new book
The Family is causing quite a storm. Perhaps the biggest
revelation in the book is that George W. "Bush did coke at Camp David when his father was President, and not just once either." Quite a shocking revelation, if true, and sure to reinforce the convictions of those who believe that George W. Bush is an overgrown frat boy who never really grew up. But who is Kitty Kelley and can her work be trusted? Is this, as she claims, a family biography or does her work represent nothing more than the National Enquirer in book length form?
Kitty Kelley's books include the 'biographies' of Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra, and Jackie Kennedy. Kelley once coined herself 'the Queen of sleeze' and if the subject matter of her books doesn't warn you of the type of reading material she supplies than this might: her book which 'researches' dirt on the House of Windsor has been banned in Brittain for it's libelous accusations.
Kitty Kelley has a penchant for ascribing inflamatory quotes to famous people, often relying on scorned lovers or others who have a bone to pick with her biographical subjects. For instance, in her unauthorized biography of Nancy Reagan she claims Nancy said that President Reagan:
orders killings like he orders linguine.
Kelley also
accused President Reagan of abandoning a girlfriend after impregnating her. According to Kelley, Reagan denied the child was his and walked away from the relationship.
If that wasn't bizarre enough, Kelley also accused the President of being a rapist:
He pushed his way inside and said he just had to see me. He forced me on the couch . . . and said, 'Let's just get to know each other.' It was the most pitched battle I've ever had, and suddenly in a matter of seconds I lost. . . . They call it date rape today.
Kelley also accused Nancy Reagan of having an affair with Frank Sinatra, and that the two had sex in the Governor's Mansion while Reagan was Governor.
As you can see, Kitty Kelley is no stranger to using unreliable sources to make her point: she has never met a celebrity without a sordid past. Kelley herself has been the subject of at least one unauthorized biography Poison Pen, written by former Reagan aid George Carpozi, Jr. The book is not one I can heartily recommend, as it uses Kelley's own libelous tactics against her, but it does debunk much of the myth that Kelley does her homework. This book documents case after case where Kelley uses unreliable sources to put her subjects in the most unflattering light.
And what kind of sources does Kitty Kelley use? Kelly claims that Bush used coke at Camp David based on Neil Bush's scorned ex-wife's word. Professor Bainbridge quotes the Mirror article cited above as naming the source:
She quotes his former sister-in-law Sharon Bush who claims: "Bush did coke at Camp David when his father was President, and not just once either."
And Talk Left exposes the relationship
Sharon Bush has with George:
The former President Bush refused Sharon's request for a $467,000 loan to keep her Houston mansion, telling her to find something cheaper. "The divorce is final," the elder Bush wrote, "[and] the best thing for you to do is get on with your life. Close the unhappy chapter with Neil, find a job, and look to the future, not the past."
Sharon is also not the most stable person:
After Sharon pulled some hair out of Neil's head, his lawyers accused her of practicing voodoo. But Sharon shot back: "I pulled Neil's hair out because I wanted to get it tested for cocaine, not because of voodoo."
Kitty Kelley has a history of using unreliable sources to make her subjects look bad. Her books are inflammatory and filled with half-truths, lies, and inuendos. Kelley's work represents the worst of the worst in writing, a cross between the fiction of the Weekly World News and the gossip of the National Enquirer. If ever there was an author worthy of contempt, Kitty Kelly is it.
Update: The source for the cocaine allegation is publicly saying she never made the statement. Kitty Kelley just makes things up.
Others ripping this book apart: Prof. Bainbridge, Talk Left, Say Anything, Jeff Goldstein, Tac Jammer, Everything I know is Wrong, Captain Ed
Others who say inane and stupid things: Wonkette (right, who cares if the accusation is true....In that spirit my 'sources' tell me that Kerry of kills puppies for fun.)
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Is it a sad indictment of me that every time I saw "Sharon" in your article, I mentally pronounced it as "Sha-rone" (as in Ariel) rather that "Sharin'" (as in Tate).
And I'm not even Jewish. Oy vey!
Posted by: Senator PhilABuster at September 07, 2004 10:55 AM (UHfuz)
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That's funny, Senator, I did that too.
Nice work on Kelly, Dr. Shackleford, but I wonder how necessary it is. This whole story smacks of desparation, and the impact just feels like shooting blanks. Kerry et al ran out of real ammo a long time ago.
Posted by: Sobek at September 07, 2004 11:37 AM (XwlU1)
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It is truly pathetic that these guys have sunk to this low. The Bush-hate books are overfilling shelves in bookstores, and Kitty Kelley - the Grand Doyenne of the Smear - gets trotted out for one more. Not that I think it will matter as Bush already took all these hits before. Although the 'friend' card is new. Can it be that the left is stooping to
gay-baiting Bush? My, oh, my whatever will Andrew Sullivan say?
Remind me again how the barking moonbats are able to say that the left never goes negative?
Posted by: MartiniPundit at September 07, 2004 03:16 PM (fLdsW)
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I believe this is not the full story. I was quite skeptical of Kitty Kelley as well when I first heard about this book, and I haven't read any of her other stuff. But then I read a lengthy excerpt of it and while I agree that her threshold for sourcing is not Washington Post/Times quality, it's a lot better than I expected it to be and she's a lot more competent a political observer than I expected her to be. Most of what she said in the excerpt that I read jives with what I know overall about the president. She also doesn't make false accusations, as far as I can tell, but rather cites lots of people and lets the reader decide who's trustworthy and who isn't. She sometimes seems to lead the reader into controversial and unsubstantiated territory, but she doesn't make claims like "Bush smoked crack in a DC alley." Rather she quotes people, generally identifies them, and usually provides at least some sort of backup or evidence for the source's story. When both the source and the backup are a bit flimsy, it's easy to simply say, "This is just a rumor."
The fact is, however, and she's right, that many people seem to have a romanticized image of the president, and maybe even the Bush family in general. The truth is Bush led a very mediocre life prior to running for president (or perhaps governor if you like his work down there in Texas). He was a C student, heavy drinker, and womanizer who not only avoided the Vietnam war, seemed to have little interest in it at all -- or politics or anything else substantial, for that matter. This isn't rumor or innuendo. It's verified by virtually anyone who came in contact with a young Bush. While in the National Guard, which he'd joined to escape the Vietnam war, there seems to be, the best that I can tell, a pretty significant gap in his record. Kelley cites rumors, and acknowledges them as rumors, that Bush's gap had something to do with the Guard implementing a random drug testing policy. There's little doubt that Bush was once not only a heavy drinker, but also a harder-core drug user. As Kelley notes, Bush has never denied using (or even selling) cocaine. Kelley wrote that a reporter asked Bush whether he himself could have passed the background drug screening required of White House officials; after checking the screening process, Bush called the reporter back and said that if the question was whether Bush had used drugs within the past seven years, the answer was no. Seven years? That's not a long time ago for a guy who was running against Clinton on a platform of restoring values to the White House.
After the Guard, Bush tried his hand in the oil business, but by all accounts he did a terrible job. He lost money but was bailed out by powerful friends of his father (yes, even Michael Moore gets it right that in a few cases the money came from Saudi Arabia).
Then one day Bush ran into Billy Graham, who planted a "mustard seed" of hope in Bush's heart, and he shortly developed new confidence in himself, confidence based not on his prior experience but on believing he was being guided at least partly by God. He would buy a stake in the Texas Rangers, and run that organization, where his biggest accomplishment was trading away Sammy Sosa (for those who don't follow baseball, Sosa is one of the greatest power hitters of all time). In a somewhat lucky break, the value of the organization skyrocketed during this time and Bush made back many times what he'd invested.
Drawing on his father's formidable connections in Texas, Bush would then make a run for governor, despite having virtually no relevant experience, and having not even demonstrated much of a prior interest in politics up to that point. An earlier girlfriend had said of Bush that his only real interest was sports, and Bush has said, "I don't remember" whether he even discussed the Vietnam war while in college. What he did do was party hard and crack lots of jokes, and his best strength -- one that would come in handy -- was his ability to remember names. But his early boss had said of him, "He wasn't one of those people where you said, 'Boy, whatever he does he's going to be a big success.' "
One day former Secretary of State George Shultz had an inspiration: Bush should run for president. Shultz shared his thought with Bush, who had pondered a run but hadn't been sure he could pull it off. Bush's parents weren't sure either, but with Shultz's words of encouragement and the faith-inspired confidence he'd gained from Graham, Bush decided to pursue a run.
Kelley correctly notes that Bush at this time was running more on a "brand name" than on his own experience. The Bush network in politics was notoriously wide, wealthy, and loyal, and the first Bush had been a respectable enough guy, never having offended too many people. In short, Bush wouldn't have to establish his credentials -- he was a Bush -- he would only have to establish a little bit of zing, and convince people he wasn't an ethical schmuck like Clinton. So Bush all-but-bypassed the normal process of scrutinizing a candidate to determine whether he's truly best-qualified to be commander-in-chief. Since he was a Bush, after all, he must be qualified. So people went about trying to determine whether they liked him. (This despite the fact that Bush is nothing like his father, who was among other things the youngest commissioned naval officer in history; the younger Bush at the same age was a partier, drinker, cocaine user, war-dodger, mediocre employee, and avid sports fan.)
Gore suffered congenitally from a condition of being stiff-as-a-board and emotionally distant, and had to overcome the baggage of Clinton's moral transgressions, but he at least had Clinton's economic sucesses on his side. And more voters did indeed pick Gore than Bush, by a slim margin, but they happened to live in the wrong places.
After entering office, Bush's ratings would decline gradually month after month, but on 9/11 America put the early months of the Bush presidency behind them and came together for common cause. Most Republicans have not looked back since. (And this has caused me to lose some faith in the Republican party. It disappoints me when so many people are cheerleaders, and so few seem to be probing into what's really best for the country.) Most of the high-ranking members of the George Bush Sr. administration, however, and even George Sr. himself (privately, according to many), have questioned the wisdom of Bush's Iraq policies.
Most Americans believe terrorism and the economy are the two big issues. What we have is Bush's former top counterterrorism official, Richard Clarke, telling us Bush has done a "terrible job" in the war against terrorism. Another top counterterrorism official, Rand Beers, got so mad he left and joined the Kerry campaign. Bush's former Treasury Secretary, Paul O'Neill, has told us worryingly that Bush did not even appear to understand what O'Neill was telling him on economic issues, and in cabinet meetings Bush was "like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people," that there was "no discernible connection."
So this is where we are, and many Republicans, for reasons that are growing increasingly unclear to me, continue to back this president, rarely explaining precisely why they are backing him other than offering vague quasi-patriotic rhetoric that echoes that of the president himself (or his campaign team). I'd be totally lying if I said all of this doesn't bother me. A lot. In fact, I'm deeply concerned for the future direction of this country.
One reason I think some of this comes across as a bit shocking to certain circles is that there's a pretty big cognitive dissonance in a lot of cases between what Bush has actually done, and how some Americans perceive him. You know, 9/11 was terrible, but it doesn't mean we can stop examining our leadership. There is nothing more important in a democracy, and if any of our founding fathers could chime in here, they would agree with me.
p.s. About one of those cocaine charges. In her book, Kelley uses Sharon Bush, the former wife of the notoriously non-value-oriented Neil Bush (cocaine, Asian prostitutes, et al), and one other unnamed source (known confidentially to her lawyers, but not to the public) for the suggestion that even after Bush was born-again he used cocaine at Camp David. Kelley told Matt Lauer that Sharon had told her Neil was very unhappy that she had been talking to Kelley and even morbidly suggested if she didn't stop she'd find herself in a dark alley. Kelley has three separate witnesses to various interviews between her and Sharon; and Sharon's own publicity person, who accompanied her on a four-hour lunch with Kelley, would not deny Kelley's account of the meeting, though Sharon has since denied she made the accusations.
Posted by: heq at September 15, 2004 12:51 AM (qOy+A)
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i just recieved from an undisclosed source that kitty kelley is the lesbian lover of john kerry's wife
Posted by: e swenson at September 15, 2004 04:42 PM (++FXb)
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To Kitty Kelley, perhaps we owe some gratitude for helping shed light on one of the great mysteries of our time--just who, or what, is George W. Bush? Hapless cutup, or self-righteous crusader? Apparently both, which may explain the consternation he generally leaves in his wake.
But at the same time, undeniably, he has a human personableness with which many Americans identify. They drink, too. They get angry and swear. They have something to prove, in living black and white. They find Jesus, then fall off the wagon. But they just don't happen to do it in front of an international press, or with a finger poised on a superpower's military might.
The first President Bush had a signature term to describe his approach--"prudent". That's what the second President Bush failed to inherit, whether expressed in the fraternity or Middle-east. And without it, statesmanship withers.
But don't it play good at the bar?
Posted by: Kohut's Dog at September 15, 2004 05:16 PM (49vL7)
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To Kitty Kelley
Thank you for reading my email. I was born and raised a Christian in Iraq. I had reached the rank of Colonel in the Iraqi army, working closely with Saddam Hussein and his family. My family and I were forced to flee in 1991. Saddam Hussein had ordered another purge and my name was on the list. Recently I contacted a writer by the name of Marty Farnsworth. He and I collaborated in the writing of the screenplay, The Iraqi. It is now in the hands of Professor Richard Walter, head of the film department at UCLA. It will be produced in Hollywood soon. I am looking for someone to write my life story (biography) for me or to refer me to someone interested in Iraqi life and culture, how they are thinking, and how to win this war. It is kind of you to consider helping me to start this step with you. Please contact me if you would like more information.
Sincerely,
Romeo Eshalom
romeoeshalom@hotmail.com
Phone: (623) 776-7407
Fax : (623) 776-7407
9190 N 80th Ln
Peoria, AZ, 85345
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Your apologies and generalities cannot excuse this criminal nation of the foul deeds that are recognized by the civilized world, which includes The World Court and the United Nations. Media apologists must carry the guilt and convictions yet to come. Kitty Kelley provides excellent insights.
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One owes Kitty Kelley NOTHING; she makes her sordid living at other peoples'expense.
I have to wonder why it's dangerous for a person who may or may not swear to have his finger on "the button."
Furthermore, I'd like an example of an instance when Bush "[fell] off the wagon" after "meet[ing] Jesus."
Explain to Romeo in AZ why we should have let the UN keep us out of Iraq. Twelve years is long enough to wait.
Posted by: Nan Gill at September 20, 2004 03:19 PM (sG2HQ)
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Is Kitty Kelly Jewish?
Posted by: Eddio at September 26, 2004 10:24 PM (Px3uW)
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The allegation by Kelley that George Bush senior is a PEDOPHILE can be backed up by a documentary film called "CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE".
The Discovery Channel was going to aire it but was suddenly invaded by CIA agents that demanded the film be halted 3 hours before it was to aire.
Posted by: Reggie at November 24, 2004 06:44 PM (Xz1gW)
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Well, if she uses "unreliable sources" as the author says, why did nobody win against her in court (justice) for defamation ?
Because she went to court, for many of her previous books, but she has always win ...
Posted by: Flo at January 24, 2005 02:05 PM (ptPnr)
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I NEED TO REACH WITH KITTY KELLEY. DO YOU HAVE HER EMAIL.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
Posted by: PATRICIA MYERS at May 16, 2005 09:12 AM (ywZa8)
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I would love to reach Kitty Kelley as I have a question or two re her book on Frank Sinatra as it has shocked me to the core that he was such a terrible human being. Could I have an email address please?
Thankyou
Peter
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Kerry Lied While Good Men Died Campaign
Just when John Kerry thought his Vietnam troubles were over, another group emerges. I wonder if he really meant it when he said "Bring it on"? From
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KERRY LIED . . . while good men died
A gathering of Vietnam veterans from across America
Where: Upper Senate Park, Washington, D.C. It is easy to get to, shady and pretty, with a great view of the Capitol dome in back of the speaker's platform. THIS IS A NEW LOCATION AS OF 7/17/04
When: Sunday, Sept 12, 2004 2:00-4:00 PM (EDT)
Why: To tell the truth about Vietnam veterans.
To counter the lies told about Vietnam veterans by John Kerry
All Vietnam veterans and their families and supporters are asked to attend.Other veterans are invited as honored guests.
Thanks to
Jane for e-mailing me about this.
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And Thank You for posting it. I can't wait to see the media coverage.
Posted by: Jane at September 07, 2004 09:29 AM (PcgQk)
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Hey Jane!
It won't be for lack of coverage. I'll be sure to post as well, and to pass it on.
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Turkish Hostage Freed
Via the early to rise
Jeff Quinton good news, but there are dozens of others still held hostage:
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul reported Monday that kidnapped truck driver Mithat Civi, a Turkish national, had been freed by his captors.
Right On Red also has a good take on it.
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China Cracks Down on Porn
Ok, I'm not a big fan of porn but if liberty means anything it is that one ought to be able to choose, even when such choices are wrong. Morality is meaningless without the option of choosing the bad. Anyway, now I know why the Dalai Lama is so pissed about Chinese oppression. I mean, what else are a bunch of celibates going to do for fun? From
Xinhuanet:
Those who are engaged in the profit-oriented production and dissemination of pornographic materials through the Internet, mobile communication terminals and"phone-sex" services in China are subject to punishment as severe as life imprisonment, according to the latest legal interpretations.
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Rusty, this is part of a massive campaign China's currently using to shut down p0rn sites and phone services. This is actually quite a minor part...there have been riads and closures of internet cafes, servers, ISPs, bans, blocks and all sorts of goodies.
With the lamentable state of Chinese sex education it is foolish. But China often engages in morality campaigns.
Posted by: Simon at September 07, 2004 04:37 AM (OyeEA)
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"Morality is meaningless without the option of choosing the bad."
Well said, sir.
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Abu Bakar Ba'asyir Indictment Sparks Riots in Indonesia
Religious right or Muslims, it's all the same. You remember the great Oklahoma City Riots of '96 when Christans in that city rampaged the streets over the Tim McVeigh indictment, right? Read the whole story. Notice that one rioter yelled "You are American puppets" at the police. Abu Bakar Ba'asyir has been accused of involvement in the Bali nightclub bombing which killed 202, including 88 Australians.
Jakarta Post:
Supporters of terror suspect Abu Bakar Ba'asyir fought a running battle with police officers and hurled shoes and other debris inside a courtroom, shortly after a judge dismissed on Monday the lawsuit against the arrest of the elderly cleric.
Judge Syamsul Ali announced at the South Jakarta District Court that police had valid grounds to detain Ba'asyir on terror charges.
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More Letter Bombs Found in London
Wow, here's some news I totally overlooked. Possible terror connections written all over this. That, or the Brits have their own Unabomber running amok.
Scotsman:
Four more letter bombs were recovered by police from homes and a sorting office this morning in an area where 10 of the mystery packages were found at the weekend....
Officers have so far been unable to determine a motive or a connection between the recipients of the brown A4 envelopes, but they have issued a warning to the public to exercise caution.
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Safety Dance in Fallujah
An unmanned US spy plane has crashed in Fallujah. Sources say residents danced in the streets with glee. Unofficial reports indicate they were doing the 'safety dance', more evidence that Iraq's path to development might take years longer than expected. The surviving members of
Men Without Hats could be reached for comment.
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All is not wrong in Iraq. Please read
http://insideviewfromiraq.blogspot.com/2004/09/iraq-media-is-misleading-world.html
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Chechnya and the Jihadi Connection
Dan Darling does a great job of supplying the background info necessary to understand the Chechen conflict. He also delves into the connections between the jihadists and the Chechen nationalists. They run deep. It is possible that Chechens have a legitimate bone to pick with their Russian masters and I don't find it hard to believe that the Russian military is guilty of war crimes in Chechnya. However, the Chechens have chosen our enemies as allies. They chose unwisely. Now is the time to back the Russians in their efforts to annhialate the jihadi movement in Chechnya and surrounding provinces. It will be an ugly campaign, but no uglier than the campaign that wiped National Socialism off the map.
The country [Chechnya] was taken over by a mixture of international terrorist organizations, Wahhabi theocrats, drug cartels, and other criminal organizations that subsided more or less on generous funding from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.
This funding helped the Wahhabis to finalize control over the institutional infrastructure of the de facto independent state and led for calls for the imposition of sha'riah even though most Chechens (and Caucasus Muslims in general) are Sufis. The al-Qaeda presence in Chechnya was headed up by bin Laden's protege Amir ibn al-Khattab, a Saudi national who had previously assisted Islamic fighters in the Tajik Civil War and the Armenia-Azerbaijan War over Nagorno-Karabakh.
There's more,
read the rest.
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This is what people are afraid of... sympathy for the Checkens. It's like the world saying the Russian soldiers stormed the school, which they did not.
I'm surprised you haven't listed Logic&Sanity and The Laughing Wolf with fatwa's. While Stan slept, I continued the watch and summed it up several times. They had no idea what they were dealing with there at the time. And the word for them is TERRORIST.
~C
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Kerry Camp Accuses Swift Boaters of War Crimes
It's pretty odd when Atrios starts defending Kerry by accusing the Swift Boaters of being guilty of war crimes. I guess the logic is, "Kerry is telling the truth that he was a war criminal, but since the Swift Boaters deny that they are war criminals they are a liars and can't be trusted about all that other stuff." Right? Via
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Now the right had seized upon the Vietnam War, too -- specifically the role, in uniform and out, of Sen. John Kerry. And to Means, it seemed just as wrong.
Means, a 55-year-old investigator for several Bakersfield law firms, was particularly annoyed by the words of one retired admiral. Roy F. "Latch" Hoffman, one of the co-founders of the pro-George W. Bush group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, had publicly criticized Kerry, a former Swift boat commander, for having brought back stories about alleged war crimes by U.S. forces -- often carried out, Kerry said in 1971, "with the full awareness of officers at all levels."
Seemed to him, Means said, his own Swift boat crew had come close to committing a war crime themselves one day. A senior officer, hitching a ride up the coast aboard their Swift boat, had ordered the crew to fire on a small group of unarmed Vietnamese fishermen working their nets in unrestricted waters, Means said. The boat's commanding officer had refused to comply.
Was that the way the boat's commander remembered the incident too, all these years later? Means had to know.
So he got on the Internet and hunted down Thomas W.L. "Tad" McCall, the retired Navy captain who'd commanded Means' boat, PCF 88, as a newly minted ensign. Means called him.
Not only did McCall remember the day in question, and that confrontation off the coast of South Vietnam, he remembered the name of the officer who had given the command to shoot: "Latch" Hoffman himself, then a Navy captain in charge of the entire Swift boat task force in Vietnam.
The next morning Means told me the whole story. Then I called McCall myself.
McCall, now 60, remembers March 14, 1969, because it was his 25th birthday. He'd only been running a Swift boat for a few weeks, having arrived in Vietnam in January 1969, the same month as Means.
McQ over at QandO does an
excellent follow up on why this matters so much to so many. It's because John Kerry meant the things he said in 1971.
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