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June 4, 2005
Good News Bad News
These past few weeks I've been spending time working on bringing up this site and helping to get Threats Watch ready for launch.
There's been a ton in the news that has riled me up one way or the other, I just haven't had time to write much on it.
John Bolton
Are we ever going to get John Bolton confirmed? I swear I do not know why we are allowing the Democrats to stall this forever. Their claim that they need more documents is ridiculous. They're on a fishing expedition and everyone knows it.
The president could do a recess appointment, but that would be a de facto admission that he couldn't get confirmed. The Democrats would have a twofold victory; first they'd scream foul and get a lot of good press out of that, second they'd crow about how they'd been "proven" right about Bolton. It would be very demoralizing to conservatives.
Judicial Nominees
Once again the other day I got a letter from the GOP wanting money. This one was from the state party. And once again I sent the envelope back with a letter saying that I wouldn't be sending any more money to a general GOP fund until we ended the Democrat filibusters. I will and have given money to individual Republicans like Senator Geore Allen and Representative Frank Wolf, but not to the party as a whole, until this is resolved.
If enough of us do this believe you me they'll get the message.
Iraq
So much happening there; Operations Matodor, Lightning, and Thunder have, from what I read at Belmont Club and StrategyPage, met with success. As I've said before in longer posts, we're winning this thing.
Yes there is much more fighting to come. And there will be setbacks. But as I heard Mark Levin say to some liberal callerLook on the Sean Hannity show a few months ago (from memory):
Look, this is a war. It's hard. If it was easy, Clinton would have done it!
When I heard that I swear I almost drove off the road I laughed so hard.
As for the war, the terrorists in Iraq are losing because they are alienating the Iraqi people. Here's StrategyPage:
The terrorists have followed the path of least resistance. Thus they avoid attacking American troops, and concentrate more on easier targets, like Iraqi police and civilians. Attacking mosques has become a favorite tactic, although this enrages the more religious Iraqis, who are the very people the al Qaeda terrorists are doing all this for. While the mosque is usually, but not always, a Shia one, that makes little difference to most Iraqis. The mosque attacks, more than anything else, have turned Iraqis against the terrorists.
Gitmo and the Koran
Of all the stories this one made my blood boil the most. Here we are, in the middle of a war with people who are evil almost beyond belief, and Amnesty International and all sorts of other liberals are all up in arms because our interrogators may have done something disrespectful to the Koran.
ARRRUUUGGGHHH!!!
These prisoners at Gitmo are the modern-day equivalent to the Nazi SS Einsatzgruppen ("Extermiation squads"). No that does not mean that anything goes with regard to how we treat them. There are still limits and we should not torture them. But neither do they deserve ACLU lawyers. As I've written before (but don't have time to find the link) they are "illegal combatants" and for a variety of reasons do not deserve nor should be given Geneva Convention protection.
As for the Koran, oh heaven help me. Muslims wherever have no business rioting over an allegation, true or no, that the Koran has been treated disrespectfully. That they did so in Afghanistan points to the diffuculties we face there.
In my opinion if we defaced the Koran so what. It's a legit interrogation technique. And as the invaluable Michelle Malkin documents, the prisoners at Gitmo have defaced it themselves. Yes you read that right.
Our media of course aren't helping us much. And this brings up...
Deep Throat
I haven't completely made up my mind on this one. My comments here won't be about whether Mark Felt did the right or wrong thing, but about the press in general.
Vietnam and Watergate have become the twin holy grails of liberal reporters (almost redundant, I know). There entire career seems to be pursuing the dream of the crusading reporter who proves that the US military is lying, that all American wars will immediately become another Vietnam, that the president (especially if a Republican) is lying and can be brought to his knees with the right scandal.
Yes I know some conservatives got carried away during the Clinton years. There is a tendancy to believe every bad thing you hear about your political opponents. But while all the Clinton scandals may not have been true, he did deserve his impeachment.
Anyway, these past few weeks have certainly been interesting.
Stay tuned for more.
Posted by Tom at June 4, 2005 2:33 PM
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It is something of a mystery how one can desecrate a pile of crap like the (un)Holy Qu'ran.
Not much Qu'ran reading time was necessary for this humble blogger to fully understand that this assemblage of toilet tissue sheets was preaching the death of ME, as in Indigo, not Middle East.
It is a tome that may have started as an innocent religion of peace, but all that was abbrogated by the later religion of hate, intolerance, and bloody killing we see today.
The book has desecrated itself beyond all western infidels poor attempts at disrespect.
Posted by: Indigo Red at June 5, 2005 5:00 PM
I share your anger Tom.
Well, as for Bolton, I hope he does get appointed soon.
Posted by: The Outlaw Michael Cosyns at June 5, 2005 6:15 PM
