From The Archives...An Elephant Never Forgets!
BREAKING DEBATE EDITION
KERRY CLAIMS HE'S "NEVER, EVER" USED WORD "LYING" IN REFERENCE TO PRESIDENT BUSH ON IRAQ. JIM LEHRER: "New question, Senator Kerry. Two minutes. You've repeatedly accused President Bush, not here tonight but elsewhere before, of not telling the truth about Iraq. Essentially, of lying to the American people about Iraq. Give us some examples of what you consider to be his not telling the truth." SEN. KERRY: "Well, I've never, ever used the harshest word as you just did." (Sen. John Kerry, First Presidential Debate, Miami, FL, 9/30/04)
BUT IN DECEMBER 2003, KERRY TOLD NEW HAMPSHIRE EDITORIAL BOARD BUSH "LIED" ABOUT REASON FOR GOING TO WAR IN IRAQ. "Kerry also told a New Hampshire newspaper editorial board Friday that Bush had 'lied' about his reasons for going to war in Iraq, a word Kerry has been reluctant to use publicly for months. Yesterday he said he did not plan to use the word again." (Patrick Healy, "Kerry Camp Lowers N.H. Expectations Behind In Polls, Senator Now Seeks Spot In 'Top Two,'" The Boston Globe, 12/8/03)
AND IN SEPTEMBER 2003, KERRY SAID BUSH ADMINISTRATION "LIED" AND "MISLED." "This administration has lied to us. They have misled us. And they have broken their promises to us. The president promised to the people and the Congress that he would build an international coalition, respect the United Nations' process and only go to war as a last resort. I will tell you that from my war fighting experience, I believe there is a test for a president as to how you go to war. And that test is whether or not you can look in the eyes of parents and say to them, 'I did everything possible to avoid the loss of your son and daughter, but we had no other choice in order to protect the security of our nation,' and I know this president fails that test in Iraq." (Sen. John Kerry, Campaign Event, Claremont, NH, 9/20/03)
Thursday, September 30, 2004
Debate Could have gone better
I think the debate had to be given to Kerry. I don't think it was ever in doubt that Kerry wouldn't do well in this. Its easy to do well when you lie and pass it off as the truth. Nuc's in Korea are not this administrations fault, that was clearly a Clinton gaff, heck he gave them the material to build it. Bush should have made that clear. Kerry has a plan, but he doesn't tell us what that plan is. In fact its the same plan that Bush is using. One positive out of this, exit polling has shown that no one votes based on the debate. Another positive is Kerry looked rehearsed, almost as if he knew the questions a head of time. This will give Kerry some stamina and if we Bush supporters were looking for a knock out blow it didn't come today.
I hope that the American people understand Kerry's positions he put forward are not the ones he has held throughout the campaign. He is hoping, expecting the American people to be ill informed. I believe he is wrong, I believe he, like the mainstream media, is underestimating the knowledge we Americans have.
Kerry out right lied, I think the look of disgust on Bush's face was a clear sign that the President knew this.
I hope that the American people understand Kerry's positions he put forward are not the ones he has held throughout the campaign. He is hoping, expecting the American people to be ill informed. I believe he is wrong, I believe he, like the mainstream media, is underestimating the knowledge we Americans have.
Kerry out right lied, I think the look of disgust on Bush's face was a clear sign that the President knew this.
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Exposing Leftists' Radical Islam Connection
Exposing Leftists' Radical Islam Connection
A second article today by Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer: a review of David Horowitz's Unholy Alliance at Human Events.
I have long insisted that the problem of radical Islam is not a liberal or conservative issue; it's a human rights issue. The unfortunate fact, however, is that largely it is only conservatives who care about it. In the face of the global jihad, the left is strangely silent: no protest marches, no angry full-page ads in the New York Times. When the Left does notice an adulterous woman being stoned to death under Sharia law, or some other outrage in the Islamic world, it is usually dismissed as an aberration or somehow blamed on their all-purpose bogeyman: the United States government.
Why? Because to the left any conflict in the world must be the result of Western aggression, either historic (the Crusades, colonialism) or current. And as David Horowitz illustrates in harrowing detail in his new book Unholy Alliance, the American left not only shares the radical jihadist view of America as the source of all evil in the world, but is now actively making common cause with America's enemies.
"The demise of the Cold War involving the USA and the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s left military strategists in the West searching for a new enemy"--and they fastened on radical Islam. This was the assessment of Pakistani journalist Abdus Sattar Ghazali. But it isn't original to him. Horowitz shows that it has become a commonplace among Westerners as well. He quotes Columbia professor Eric Foner in the wake of 9/11: "I'm not sure which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House."
The left, Horowitz recounts, quickly turned its attention entirely away from the murder and mayhem of 9/11 to half-baked "analyses" of the "real causes" of the atrocities of that day. This search for root causes, he says, "was a code for the utopian agendas of the left. It was a declaration of war against the War on Terror"--a war that is being waged with particular ferocity in the 2004 presidential campaign.
This anti-anti-terrorism is motivated by an anti-Americanism that was born, as Horowitz details, in Communism and the Vietnam-era antiwar movement. Although the revolutionary fact (the Soviet bloc) has been consigned to the dustbin of history, the revolutionary illusion persists, and continues to identify America as the chief obstacle to its utopia. Horowitz quotes another Columbia professor, Nicholas De Genova: "Peace is not patriotic [but] subversive. . . . Peace anticipates a very different world than the one in which we live -- a world where the U.S. would have no place." De Genova, of course, won nationwide notoriety when he declared just before the beginning of the Iraq war: "The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military. . . . I personally would like to see a million Mogadishus."
Horowitz explains that "as long as America continues to maintain the will and ability to protect what radicals regard as the global order of 'social injustice,' all reforms and social advances within the existing structure of American democracy will be illusory." In other words, it won't be enough for the left to elect John Kerry: America itself must be brought down.
What's more, this creates a peculiar harmonic convergence between the left and radical Islam. "The goals of radical jihad," says Horowitz, "are purification and social justice, both of which are to be achieved through the institution of Islamic law in the states conquered by Islamic arms."
Hence we see the phenomenon, which Horowitz traces in detail, of leftists like lawyer Lynne Stewart, who has been indicted for aiding and abetting the terrorist activities of her client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman. Rahman is currently doing time for his role in the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. For this Stewart has been stoutly defended by the ACLU, the American Bar Association, and other stalwarts of the left. "In their defense of America's terrorist enemies," Horowitz notes, "the organizations of the legal left are reminiscent of Communist Party fronts of the Cold War era."
Ghazali was right about one thing: Communism and radical Islam are indeed quite similar in many ways. And as Horowitz outlines in this book, the American Left is once again showing what side it's on.
A second article today by Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer: a review of David Horowitz's Unholy Alliance at Human Events.
I have long insisted that the problem of radical Islam is not a liberal or conservative issue; it's a human rights issue. The unfortunate fact, however, is that largely it is only conservatives who care about it. In the face of the global jihad, the left is strangely silent: no protest marches, no angry full-page ads in the New York Times. When the Left does notice an adulterous woman being stoned to death under Sharia law, or some other outrage in the Islamic world, it is usually dismissed as an aberration or somehow blamed on their all-purpose bogeyman: the United States government.
Why? Because to the left any conflict in the world must be the result of Western aggression, either historic (the Crusades, colonialism) or current. And as David Horowitz illustrates in harrowing detail in his new book Unholy Alliance, the American left not only shares the radical jihadist view of America as the source of all evil in the world, but is now actively making common cause with America's enemies.
"The demise of the Cold War involving the USA and the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s left military strategists in the West searching for a new enemy"--and they fastened on radical Islam. This was the assessment of Pakistani journalist Abdus Sattar Ghazali. But it isn't original to him. Horowitz shows that it has become a commonplace among Westerners as well. He quotes Columbia professor Eric Foner in the wake of 9/11: "I'm not sure which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House."
The left, Horowitz recounts, quickly turned its attention entirely away from the murder and mayhem of 9/11 to half-baked "analyses" of the "real causes" of the atrocities of that day. This search for root causes, he says, "was a code for the utopian agendas of the left. It was a declaration of war against the War on Terror"--a war that is being waged with particular ferocity in the 2004 presidential campaign.
This anti-anti-terrorism is motivated by an anti-Americanism that was born, as Horowitz details, in Communism and the Vietnam-era antiwar movement. Although the revolutionary fact (the Soviet bloc) has been consigned to the dustbin of history, the revolutionary illusion persists, and continues to identify America as the chief obstacle to its utopia. Horowitz quotes another Columbia professor, Nicholas De Genova: "Peace is not patriotic [but] subversive. . . . Peace anticipates a very different world than the one in which we live -- a world where the U.S. would have no place." De Genova, of course, won nationwide notoriety when he declared just before the beginning of the Iraq war: "The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military. . . . I personally would like to see a million Mogadishus."
Horowitz explains that "as long as America continues to maintain the will and ability to protect what radicals regard as the global order of 'social injustice,' all reforms and social advances within the existing structure of American democracy will be illusory." In other words, it won't be enough for the left to elect John Kerry: America itself must be brought down.
What's more, this creates a peculiar harmonic convergence between the left and radical Islam. "The goals of radical jihad," says Horowitz, "are purification and social justice, both of which are to be achieved through the institution of Islamic law in the states conquered by Islamic arms."
Hence we see the phenomenon, which Horowitz traces in detail, of leftists like lawyer Lynne Stewart, who has been indicted for aiding and abetting the terrorist activities of her client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman. Rahman is currently doing time for his role in the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. For this Stewart has been stoutly defended by the ACLU, the American Bar Association, and other stalwarts of the left. "In their defense of America's terrorist enemies," Horowitz notes, "the organizations of the legal left are reminiscent of Communist Party fronts of the Cold War era."
Ghazali was right about one thing: Communism and radical Islam are indeed quite similar in many ways. And as Horowitz outlines in this book, the American Left is once again showing what side it's on.
Kerry's new coalition
Scrapple Face ^ 9/28/04 Scott Ott
John Forbes Kerry said today that he will not "go it alone" during Thursday night's presidential debate, which will focus on foreign policy and national security.
"At the debate I'm not just going to do one thing differently that George W. Bush," said Mr. Kerry, "I'm going to do everything differently. Not only will I build a real international coalition to confront the leader of the current regime, but I also have an exit strategy."
Asked to react to Mr. Kerry's plans to bring the leaders of France and Germany to the debate, President Bush said, "Bring 'em on. Next question."
John Forbes Kerry said today that he will not "go it alone" during Thursday night's presidential debate, which will focus on foreign policy and national security.
"At the debate I'm not just going to do one thing differently that George W. Bush," said Mr. Kerry, "I'm going to do everything differently. Not only will I build a real international coalition to confront the leader of the current regime, but I also have an exit strategy."
Asked to react to Mr. Kerry's plans to bring the leaders of France and Germany to the debate, President Bush said, "Bring 'em on. Next question."
Call for investigation
It looks like there is a bit of fall out for the lies and forgery Dan Rather perpetrated on America. It looks like his ratings are dropping. Is that enough, ultimately his rating will go back up or at least stop dropping. What about the forgery? What about trying to influence the election with libelous / slanderous report. I thought it was illegal to do. It's time Rather was investigated for his part in the crime.
While we're at we need to check the connection between CBS and the democrat's.
While we're at we need to check the connection between CBS and the democrat's.
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Kerry has a new look
I don't want to poke fun at John Kerry...Yes I do.
Orange, the man looks like George Hamilton on steroids. The next leader of the free world and he uses spray on tan, blush, bo-tox and has $5000 haircuts. What's next a sock in the crotch. He must be worried about the female vote. He should be, he want's to be the protector of their children and he's more concerned about his looks then the war against militant Islam.
Orange, the man looks like George Hamilton on steroids. The next leader of the free world and he uses spray on tan, blush, bo-tox and has $5000 haircuts. What's next a sock in the crotch. He must be worried about the female vote. He should be, he want's to be the protector of their children and he's more concerned about his looks then the war against militant Islam.
Monday, September 27, 2004
Finally some Justice
From Fox News
KARACHI, Pakistan — Police stepped up patrols around foreign consulates and government offices in this volatile city Monday, fearing a backlash after Pakistani forces killed a suspected top Al Qaeda (search) operative wanted for his alleged role in the 2002 kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (search).
Amjad Hussain Farooqi (search), also accused in two attempts on the life of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf (search) in December 2003, died in a four-hour shootout Sunday at a house in the southern town of Nawabshah. Two or three other men, one of them an Islamic cleric, were arrested. Like Farooqi, they are all Pakistanis.
Daniel Pearl can rest a little bit easier now that his murderer is spending his time in Tarterus
KARACHI, Pakistan — Police stepped up patrols around foreign consulates and government offices in this volatile city Monday, fearing a backlash after Pakistani forces killed a suspected top Al Qaeda (search) operative wanted for his alleged role in the 2002 kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (search).
Amjad Hussain Farooqi (search), also accused in two attempts on the life of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf (search) in December 2003, died in a four-hour shootout Sunday at a house in the southern town of Nawabshah. Two or three other men, one of them an Islamic cleric, were arrested. Like Farooqi, they are all Pakistanis.
Daniel Pearl can rest a little bit easier now that his murderer is spending his time in Tarterus
Sunday, September 26, 2004
How its done
The Israelis know how to get rid of their enemies. The only thing holding them back is the United States. If we would just get out of their way they could clear Israel and Syria of theirs and our terrorist enemies. But President Bush would rather call their actions an obstacle on the "roadmap" to peace. Just where does he think the roadmap is leading. I watched a debate between Reagan and monthly and their were debate the same things we're debating: Islamic Fundamentalists and Illegal aliens slipping through the siv we call a border. Things haven't changed in 20 years.
Below is the article I read early this morning. Its from AP
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - A car bomb killed an operative of the Palestinian militant group Hamas as he turned the ignition Sunday, and Israeli security officials acknowledged that the Jewish state was involved.
Sunday's killing was the first by Israel of a Hamas member on Syrian soil and came after weeks of Israeli warnings that members of the Islamic militant group would not be safe anywhere.
Police at the scene of al-Zahraa district explosion were seen retrieving pieces of the body of Izz Eldine Subhi Sheik Khalil. The car exploded outside his home at 10:45 a.m. when he tried to start it, Hamas officials said.
In Israel, the government issued no statement, but security officials acknowledged Israeli involvement in the killing. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity.
Israel blames Syria for a Hamas bus bombing that killed 16 Israelis last month, saying it is ultimately responsible for the actions of Hamas and other militant groups it gives shelter to. Khalil's killing appeared as much a warning to Syria as to other Hamas militants.
The Syrian information ministry said in a statement carried by the official news agency, SANA, that Khalil had not engaged in any activity inside Syrian territory.
Ahmad Haj Ali, an adviser to the Syrian information minister, described the killing as a "terrorist and cowardly action."
"This is not the first warning" Israel has tried to convey to Syria, Haj Ali said. "What happened indicates that Israel's aggression has no limits."
The killing, he said, "was meant to deliver a message to the entire world that says: 'We are capable of striking anywhere in accordance with the Israeli agenda.'"
Israel has killed many Hamas leaders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including the group's founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, earlier this year. But Sunday's slaying was the first time a Hamas member had been killed by Israel in Syria. Israel unsuccessfully tried to assassinate Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Jordan in 1997.
A member of the Hamas political bureau, Mohammed Nazzal, told The Associated Press in Cairo, Egypt, that Khalil, 42, used to work for Hamas in Gaza. Israel expelled Khalil from Gaza in 1992 along with a large group of Palestinians who spent weeks in the no-man's land between Israel and Lebanon when the Lebanese government initially refused to accept the deportees to protest their expulsion.
Palestinian sources told AP in Cairo that Khalil was killed because he had been working as a liaison between the group's Gaza leaders and the political wing based in Damascus.
Hamas is one of the most active Palestinian groups opposing the interim peace accords with Israel and has been responsible for numerous suicide bombings in the Jewish state.
Sunday's Israeli action was its first inside Syria since last October, when Israeli warplanes bombed a base of Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian militant group that stages attacks on Israelis. That air attack, the first in two decades, was retaliation for a Jihad suicide bombing at a restaurant in Haifa that killed 19 people.
In the Shajaiyeh neighborhood in Gaza, people converged on home of Khalil's family to pay their condolences.
Rafik Khalil called his brother a "martyr."
"Since he left the country, we have had no contact with him because he chose to live a secret life," Khalil said.
AP-ES-09-26-04 1036EDT
Below is the article I read early this morning. Its from AP
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - A car bomb killed an operative of the Palestinian militant group Hamas as he turned the ignition Sunday, and Israeli security officials acknowledged that the Jewish state was involved.
Sunday's killing was the first by Israel of a Hamas member on Syrian soil and came after weeks of Israeli warnings that members of the Islamic militant group would not be safe anywhere.
Police at the scene of al-Zahraa district explosion were seen retrieving pieces of the body of Izz Eldine Subhi Sheik Khalil. The car exploded outside his home at 10:45 a.m. when he tried to start it, Hamas officials said.
In Israel, the government issued no statement, but security officials acknowledged Israeli involvement in the killing. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity.
Israel blames Syria for a Hamas bus bombing that killed 16 Israelis last month, saying it is ultimately responsible for the actions of Hamas and other militant groups it gives shelter to. Khalil's killing appeared as much a warning to Syria as to other Hamas militants.
The Syrian information ministry said in a statement carried by the official news agency, SANA, that Khalil had not engaged in any activity inside Syrian territory.
Ahmad Haj Ali, an adviser to the Syrian information minister, described the killing as a "terrorist and cowardly action."
"This is not the first warning" Israel has tried to convey to Syria, Haj Ali said. "What happened indicates that Israel's aggression has no limits."
The killing, he said, "was meant to deliver a message to the entire world that says: 'We are capable of striking anywhere in accordance with the Israeli agenda.'"
Israel has killed many Hamas leaders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including the group's founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, earlier this year. But Sunday's slaying was the first time a Hamas member had been killed by Israel in Syria. Israel unsuccessfully tried to assassinate Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Jordan in 1997.
A member of the Hamas political bureau, Mohammed Nazzal, told The Associated Press in Cairo, Egypt, that Khalil, 42, used to work for Hamas in Gaza. Israel expelled Khalil from Gaza in 1992 along with a large group of Palestinians who spent weeks in the no-man's land between Israel and Lebanon when the Lebanese government initially refused to accept the deportees to protest their expulsion.
Palestinian sources told AP in Cairo that Khalil was killed because he had been working as a liaison between the group's Gaza leaders and the political wing based in Damascus.
Hamas is one of the most active Palestinian groups opposing the interim peace accords with Israel and has been responsible for numerous suicide bombings in the Jewish state.
Sunday's Israeli action was its first inside Syria since last October, when Israeli warplanes bombed a base of Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian militant group that stages attacks on Israelis. That air attack, the first in two decades, was retaliation for a Jihad suicide bombing at a restaurant in Haifa that killed 19 people.
In the Shajaiyeh neighborhood in Gaza, people converged on home of Khalil's family to pay their condolences.
Rafik Khalil called his brother a "martyr."
"Since he left the country, we have had no contact with him because he chose to live a secret life," Khalil said.
AP-ES-09-26-04 1036EDT
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
First Blog
I was listening to Rush this afternoon and was surprised by how much Kerry as influenced are understanding of the war in Vietnam. The movies, the news, the books; all written or made as if what Kerry said in the Senate hearings was true. He said our soldiers were criminals and we believed him. We have let a lie change our country almost destroy it. We must stop this man and the Liberals that form his support network.
As a side I am glad Vietnam has become his campaign centerpiece, it gives us a chance to repair the damage he caused.
Mike
As a side I am glad Vietnam has become his campaign centerpiece, it gives us a chance to repair the damage he caused.
Mike
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