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From today’s New York Times, comes this AP article about pro-Saddam rallies in Iraq. Here’s the best part of the entire article:

In Tikrit, about 700 people rallied in the center of town Monday chanting “Saddam is in our hearts, Saddam is in our blood.” U.S. soldiers and Iraqi policemen yelled back: “Saddam is in our jail.”

That’s classic! Almost as good as “Regards from President Bush.”

Something was telling me to check the news this morning as I got ready for church, but I really didn’t have time. So when I get to Sunday School what do I hear? That the murderous, worthless, scumbag former dictator Saddam Hussein is now in the capable hands of the Fourth Infantry. O YEA, BABY! My first question to those who had already seen the news: was he alive? I must admit that my first thought upon hearing that he was taken alive was ‘Too bad.’ But after thinking about it some more, he will be much more useful alive. Now they just need to get Col. West to interrogate him to find out where the goods are…

After thinking some more about this, I have come to the conclusion that unless President Bush does something in the next 10 months to really screw things up (read: caught in bed with a 10 year old boy), he’s just nailed the election. This is the worst possible news for the Democrats for 2004; Saddam’s capture is yet another feather in the cap of our President, and people will remember this come November. The Dems, who have been screeching ‘Where’s Saddam? Bush has failed unless he can capture Saddam,’ have just lost yet another argument against Bush. This is right on the heals of great economic news and the DOW closing over 10,000 for the first time in 18 months. Of course those ass-hat Democrats will find other things to complain about, but this is a glorious day and they can’t steal that.

Mona Charen has an excellent column from Sunday that everyone should read. She deals with how the Army is treating Pvt. Lynch and Col. West. One is a private who has been spun into a ‘hero’; the other is a true hero who averted a large scale attack and is now facing trial for his interrogation methods. Here’s the first paragraph

I sometimes wonder whether a nation that sends girls like Jessica Lynch into battle and punishes soldiers like Lt. Col. Allen West is quite in its right mind.

Now go read it.

As I just said, I’m at the airport in Austin, TX. A little while ago as I was walking to my departure gate, I saw a soldier in desert fatigues. I caught up with him and asked if he had just come from the Middle East or if he was on his way back over. He said he’d been home for two weeks and was going back to Iraq. I told him that I thought he and his fellow solderis were doing great work over there and thanked him for being willing to do it. He was very humble and seemed almost embarrased that I should be thanking him for what he does. He thanked me for thanking him and for caring. He deserves thanks from all of us.

I then told him that, in my estimation, most Americans know the truth about what’s going on in Iraq and don’t believe the doom, gloom and outright lies that are being presented on television. He agreed and said that’s what people keep telling him. I wished him good luck and told him that I would remember him and hoped that he made it back home safely. Unfortunately I didn’t get his name…

Godspeed, sir. And good hunting.

David Kay addressed the US Congress yesterday on the progress of his group’s search for WMDs in Iraq. Here’s an excerpt:

We have discovered dozens of WMD-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations during the inspections that began in late 2002. The discovery of these deliberate concealment efforts have come about both through the admissions of Iraqi scientists and officials concerning information they deliberately withheld and through physical evidence of equipment and activities that ISG has discovered that should have been declared to the UN. Let me just give you a few examples of these concealment efforts, some of which I will elaborate on later:

• A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research.

• A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials working to prepare for UN inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.
• Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist’s home, one of which can be used to produce biological weapons.
• New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.
• Documents and equipment, hidden in scientists’ homes, that would have been useful in resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS).
• A line of UAVs not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission that they had tested one of their declared UAVs out to a range of

It’s been two years now since 19 Islamic terrorists killed over 3,000 innocent people. Never forget what happened. Never forget that it was radical Islamic terrorists that did it, and that there are still lots of radical Islamic terrorists out there who want to kill as many Americans as possible. Yes, these practitioners of the vaunted “religion of Peace™” want to destroy us and our way of life. We can’t let that happen. President Bush is taking the fight to them instead of waiting idly by for them to attack us again on our own soil. That’s how it should be. Contrary to what the DemocRATs would have you believe, we are more safe and secure today than we were two years and a day ago. We are winning this war. We will be victorious.

The lovely Ann Coulter just keeps turning out excellent columns. Today’s is no exception. Read it. It’s good. Here are a few snippets from it:

Vermont Gov. Howard Dean has been issuing diatribes against the Bush administration that would surpass even Tariq Aziz with severe menstrual cramps.

and

Apparently it is urgent that we replace the best fighting force in the world with an “international peacekeeping force,” i.e., a task force both feared and respected worldwide for its ability to distribute powdered milk to poor children.

and this

Since we didn’t let the U.N. lose the war for us, the least we can do is let them screw up the peace.

Yeah, she’s good.

It seems that the illustrious U.N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan, has his boxers in a bunch over the bombing of the U.N. HQ in Iraq last week. While the loss of life there was tragic, Kofi’s statements today show once again what a joke the U.N. has become. The laughable “Security Council” today passed a resolution that is supposedly going to make things safer for U.N. folks and other “humanitarian aid” workers. That’s fine. Make them safer. But Kofi had this to say about the resolution:

[T]he resolution sent a message to those who believed they could advance their cause by targeting aid workers.

Sure it did, Kofi. As if the people who are willing to strap explosives onto themselves and walk into a crowd are going to be scared of the posturing of a poor excuse for a bureaucrat. I don’t know that anything scares them. That’s why the only course of action is to take the fight to them and wipe them out.

Hey Kofi! Why don’t you speak out about the terrorists working inside Iraq taking out Americans? Or the other Islamic terrorists like Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, that have such a proclivity for blowing up women and children? Where’s your righteous indignation over the latest bus bombings in Israel, eh? Ass.

This is just too good! The Moonlite BunnyRanch, a legal brothel in Nevada, is offering freebies to all servicemen returning from Iraq. (This is a much better offer than reduced admission to Disney World…) According to this CNN article, so far 13 men and three women have taken them up on it. They also plan to offer half-off rates for all those in uniform for the next few weeks. Pants - er, hats off to the owner and the lovely ladies of the BunnyRanch for showing their patriotism in such a novel way.

This story, posted on Yahoo! News currently has this title “U.S. Troops Shoot Two Iraqis After Being Rocketed”, which is fine, but when I saw it for the first time this morning at around 0545, it had a slightly different title: “U.S. Troops in Shooting Spree After Being Attacked” (emphasis mine). Quite a bit different, isn’t it? The original story used the “shooting spree” line in the body of the story as well, whereas the new, improved version merely says “Residents accused the soldiers of firing indiscriminately.” It’s perfectly fine to report claims by residents of US troops “firing indiscriminately”, but to call it a “shooting spree” is editorializing at best, and spinning at worst. I’m guessing from the reporter’s name, Khaled Yaqoub Oweis, that he’s an Arab, but I’m not sure. Not that it would affect his reporting, right? After all, as a journalist he can detach himself from any emotional or cultural bias and just report the facts can’t he? Of course he can… At least that’s what the Dan Rather’s of the world would have us believe.

My biggest problem with this is that Reuters would send out a story with a title like that. The use of the phrase “shooting spree” was calculated to give the story an anti-American slant by the reporter, or perhaps the editors. The editors should have stopped it before it ever hit the wires. To someone’s credit, they’ve since changed it, but not soon enough.

The police in Suadi Arabia have just caught three more worthless Arabs who were attempting to hijack a plane to crash it into innocent civilians! Schweet! I only wish they had resisted arrest…

I just read this over at Sgt. Stryker’s and I swear that if they would give me the chance to personally kill some of these terrorists who kill little boys and girls and innocent folk in pursuit of some bullshit political goal, I would. These bastards deserve a slow and painful death. Make it take as long as possible before they get to see Allah, and make it hurt. Really hurt. I mean please-kill-me-now type hurt. I’ve said before that I hope there is a special place in hell for these people. There are few who so richly deserve absolute torment as terrorists, especially these worthless Islamic barbarians who seem to enjoy blowing up buses and cafes.

Whether it’s true or not (probably not), I love the supposed story of General Pershing and how he handled an Islamic terrorist problem. It involves lots of pork.

Here’s the full article

There’s an article in this mornings New York Times by Eason Jordan who is the chief news executive for CNN. In this article he details the stories from Iraq that they “haven’t been able to report” lo these long years over concerns that their Baghdad staff, or those Iraqis who assisted them, would be put in danger. [The NYT requires a free registration to read their articles, and that bothers lots of folks, but this article is one you need to read.] It details people “disappearing”, tortured, killed by the secret police of the regime. Mr. Jordan had actual conversations with Uday Hussein, the son of the Butcher of Baghdad, who told him of murder plots in the works. He has seen torture and death, but “couldn’t” report on it. I do understand not being able to report these things for fear of getting someone killed, but why, then, has CNN been so amazingly negative about the war and ridding the world of Saddam, when they had personal knowledge of the atrocities going on inside Iraq? (I have my own ideas as to why…)

Here’s just a sample of what’s in this article (emphasis is mine):

A 31-year-old Kuwaiti woman, Asrar Qabandi, was captured by Iraqi secret police occupying her country in 1990 for “crimes,” one of which included speaking with CNN on the phone. They beat her daily for two months, forcing her father to watch. In January 1991, on the eve of the American-led offensive, they smashed her skull and tore her body apart limb by limb. A plastic bag containing her body parts was left on the doorstep of her family’s home.

I’m sure in the coming weeks and months we’ll hear of even worse things that have been going on inside Iraq. This was a brutal, savage, godless regime whose reign of terror is finally at an end. No thanks to the peaceniks, leftists, Democrats, French, Germans or Canadians, of course, who, through their desire for “diplomacy” and appeasement, would tacitly allow the torture to continue.

The brutal, savage regime that did things like this to their subjects is on it’s last leg. Last toe, really. The regime that ruled by fear, torture and death is itself dying. The people in Baghdad and Basra are celebrating in the streets. Giving flowers, hugs, high fives, thumbs up, and ‘V’ for Victory signs to our troops. The people in Baghdad helped US forces drape an American Flag over the head of a giant Saddam statue, and then pull it down. Citizens are chanting “No Saddam! No Saddam!” openly, without fear of being executed as an enemy of the state. This is a beautiful thing. These people are realizing that they are free from the despot. Take a look at this photo and tell me that these people aren’t grateful.

The “classic” song set against photos from the Liberation of Iraq. Get it here, here or here.

This is really funny. It’s Jonah Goldberg discussing Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the “Information Minister” for Iraq. He’s the one I mentioned earlier that’s just so darn funny to listen to. Here’s a clip from Jonah:

Still, I’ve got to say I love this Information Minister guy. He’s like a Muslim Michael Moore on the Atkins diet. But, as numerous readers have suggested, his press briefings are Monty Pythonesque. It’s as if he’s borrowing from both the Dead Parrot sketch and the Black Knight scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. We say the Medina division has been degraded by 70 percent, he insists: “‘Tis but a flesh wound.” We say the Baghdad division has been destroyed, he says: “We have Coalition forces exactly where we want them.” We say there’s no fight left in the enemy, he says: “We’re just resting.” Terry McAuliffe should offer this guy a job.

Way to go, Jonah! Jabbing the wacky al-Sahaf, Michael Moore and Terry McAuliffe all in a single paragraph! I love it.

An amazingly funny editorial in the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal. Here’s a snippet:

Nous acceptons that le French détestent la guerre. Nous des Américains détestons la guerre aussi. Mais nous also detestons Saddam Hussein. Comme John Wayne put it in “Le Jour Plus Long” — l’excellent film au sujet de la libération de la Normandie — “You can’t give the enemy a break. Send him to hell.” Maybe quelque chose gets lost in la traduction, but certainement vous get le point.

Pretty darn funny, if you ask me.

Finally! Police have brought out the rubber bullets to quell an “anti-war” protest out in Oakland. These losers were trying to block the port used by a shipping company that is supposedly profiting from the war. I read earlier that the company was taking supplies to the troops. Regardless, as I said here, when these “peace” protesters stop being passive and actively try to screw up commerce or the war effort, it’s time to get rough. It seems the police in Oakland came to that conclusion as well.

What is the Iraqi “information minister” smoking? This guy is in complete denial of reality. He goes on TV saying there are no US troops “anywhere near Baghdad” when 400+ live newsfeeds exist to the contrary. His latest big one is filled with laughable lines like “The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget.” Indeed, a lesson in how to kick the crap out of your enemy and how to collect thousands of prisoners. He added that American troops were beginning to “commit suicide on the walls of Baghdad.” BZZZZZT! Sorry, wrong again! The only folks committing suicide in Iraq are these idiots who try to take on a tank with a pickup truck.

Addressing 20,000 people (including 12,000 Marines) at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina today, the President began thusly:

There’s no finer sight than to see 12,000 Marines… unless you happen to be a member of the Iraqi Republican Guard.

O yeah!