Cowboy Steve

2006-03-08T22:43:00.000-05:00

Gitmo Guys

2. Bel Bacha,Ahmed Bin Saleh.

Algerian national, used a forged passport to travel to France, then went directly to the Finsbury Park Mosque, spent his free time listening to Jihadist cheerleader Abu Hamza*, then he traveled to Afghanistan via a false passport facilitated by the Finsbury Park Mosque.

While in Afghanistan, he encountered Usama Bin Laden on two separate occasions and met and stayed with three al Qaida leaders while in Kabul and Jalalabad.

Fled Jalalabad for the mountains at the approach of Coalition forces.

Stated he did not want anything to do with an armed militant group (GIA), because” they were terrorist and very bad people.”

*”Sheik” of the Finsbury Park Mosque, who had lectured on “jihad”and “Martyrdom”, gave a sermon entitled “Call to Combat” after September 11 2001.

2006-03-08T21:47:00.000-05:00

Terror Watch. The infamous Casio F-191w, this could earn you a ticket to Gitmo.

Why?

It's not that it was the only watch for sale in the al Qaida gift shop at Al-Farouq training camp, it is used by al Qaida to detonate IED's.

Retails for around $34.00, more than one Gitmo detainee was caught wearing one.

It's the little things.........

2006-03-05T17:06:00.000-05:00

Gitmo Guys.

1.AL QahTani, Khalid Malluh Shayi, "Al Jilba"-First reported Jihadist activity in 1996, his name was found on the persons of Arab Mujahidin crossing from Bosnia to Croatia.

In 2000 he apparently heard a Fatwa from a certain Sheik Hamoud Al Uqqla, a Saudi cleric who advocated jihad against Americans and Jews, condoned the September 11th attacks and raised money for Osama BinLaden until his untimely demise in 2001, so he made his way to Afghanistan.

He came by way of Pakistan, receiving some training there, staying at Taliban safe houses, he was listed among al Queda members who were slated for tactics, artillery, security, sniper and anti-aircraft training.

He attended Al Farouq training camp, run by al Queda in Afghanistan.

He was sent to the front, at Kwawaja Ghar, where he guarded sleeping quarters for the Pakistani’s in the front line, he was shot in the arm by a sniper, and surrendered to the Northern Alliance at Mazar-e-Sharif.

His name appears with other al Queda members in captured documents.

During his incarceration, he has been cited for assault, hostile activity and harassment of guards on numerous occasions, and was cited for making a weapon.

The detainee states he did not fire his weapons at any people, did not know of the September 11th or any other attacks, and was in Afghanistan not to fight, but to receive weapons training, and to guard things.

2006-03-05T16:51:00.000-05:00

Blogswarm: Captain Ed's Gitmo Project.
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com
I was assigned to evaluate SOE 3, which includes the following information.
Detainee
Affiliation
Hostile Acts
Confession Of Intent
Mitigation

I shall be posting a summary of each individual, there are 32 in total.

2006-02-20T21:35:00.000-05:00

A disturbing and enlightening poll in the U.K which shows 40%the Muslim population in favor of Sharia law in Britain is a harbinger of the future the West can expect from the Muslim colonies within our countries.

The cowardice exhibited in the face of the recent “cartoon riots” can only serve to give hope to those seeking a separate existence and autonomy within European, and before long, American and Australian territory.

The imposition of Sharia, already well under way in Britain and I expect other European nations as well will come about from the use of the same tactics we have seen employed in the past two weeks against the Danes.

The clear intention, which has proven already proven successful is to use our Freedom and openness coupled with the odious Multicultural mindset of our collective pseudo-elites to gain concessions based upon “tolerance”, “fairness” and anti-racism rhetoric.

The process is much more advanced in the European theatre than here due to the differing approaches our societies take in regards to assimilation of immigrants.

The United States, as a country of immigrants, and a land of unbounded opportunity, (despite what Democrats may tell you) has more experience in taking other persons from different cultures and “Americanizing” them, less so in recent years thanks to the moral equivalency prevalent in our society, but nevertheless recognized as an important aspect in our immigration success, so the process is lagging that in Europe.

European Socialist states realized, to support their low birthrates and huge welfare states that they would need to import an underclass to support their aging populations and bloated welfare states, the unwisely allowed unfettered immigration from North Africa, and other Muslim dominated regions, the hegemony of a European Nation is far less able to absorb alien populations, it is the zero sum game of suborning one identity, either you are or you are not a Frenchman, or a Dane, or a Britain.

Given the nature of Islam, which is not so much an ethnic designation as a religious and cultural one and firmly rejects assimilation and absorption into any one nation sate, rather to a worldwide community of believers, American style “melting pot” immigration is unworkable.

In many European cities there is already a certain level of de-facto home rule in the Islamic areas, all they lack is official standing for the Sharia courts and coercive powers for the religious police and judges.

In instances like these, any concession is seen as weakness, small things like sexually segregated swimming pools access for Moslems will only lead to further demands to accede to their misogynistic practices, which they see as vital to preserving their way of life.
The cartoon riots have shown us a great deal about both Western and Islamic societies, cowardice on our part, and an overreaching absurd intolerance on theirs.

One thing is for certain, Islam and Western society are incompatible under these circumstances and it is foolish to try.

2006-01-29T01:02:00.000-05:00

Palestinicrats.

The Palestinians had a choice, they could vote for the full blown raving lunatic killers of Hamas, or the more subtle, centrist appearing lunatic killers and corrupt kleptocrats of Fatah.

Understandably, they chose Hamas.

They will regret that choice but once, and that will be continuously.

They have chosen their fate, but I couldn't help but notice how their situation mirrors the plight of our own unfortunate Democrat party.

Well known man of the people, and failed presidential candidate John Kerry announced from the ski slopes of Davos, Switzerland, where the insufferably self important go to see and be seen, that he would be filibustering the Alito nomination.

His yodel was echoed by the lowing of the Bull Moose in heat of Ted Kennedy, well known Senator and degenerate.

Of course, Senator Kerry would have you believe that he was making a stand on principle, his was a valiant effort to save the Republic from the machinations of the sinister judge Alito and his obsession to create the Unitary Executive of every right-wingers dreams.

But the Argus-eyed blogosphere sees all, earlier that week Kerry had decided to begin posting, or telling a staffer to do so on a distasteful internet sewer catering to the deluded and venomous denizens of the moonbat wing of the Democrat party.

In Kerry's febrile imagination, he's the next President, and in an attempt to outflank the conventional wisdom candidate, the oh so centrist and triangulating Mrs.Clinton, he has made a bold move to capture the support, and money of the foaming at the mouth Democrat wing of the Democrat party.

Look for Kerry to veer even further to the left, while Clinton attempts to stride the center.

Leaving the Democrats in 08 with the choice between the raving lunatic Kerry and the corrupt kleptocrat Clinton.

And let me just say to various Democrat politicians and members of the Antique Media how impressed I am they have managed to not only parrot the phrase "Unitary Executive", but have sustained their use of it for almost three weeks.

They will do well, as long as no one asks them what it means, or asks Barbara Boxer how to spell it.

2005-08-31T18:30:00.000-04:00

Hurricane Katrina: Blog for Relief DayThursday, September 1,2005.

In conjunction with other Blogs, 391, at the moment, I am soliciting donations for the relief of Hurricane Katrina victims.

Different Blogs will choose a charity, I have chosen the Society of Society of Saint Vincent de Paul

SVdP Katrina link.

St. Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) was founder of the Congregation of the Mission, Daughters of Charity, Confraternities of Charity and Ladies of Charity. A man of deep faith, keen intellect and enormous creativity he has become known as the "The Apostle of Charity" and "Father of the Poor." His contributions to the training of priests and organizing parish missions and other services for the poor shaped our Church's role in the modern world.

The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul is an international charity founded in 1833, it's origin in the United States goes back to Missouri in 1845.

All donations will go directly to to the Society's offices in Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana,
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Instapundit Round-Up.

2005-08-21T21:51:00.000-04:00

“‘Railroading Roberts' wanted to deny Legal representation to the Poor and Indigent!"

The second issue concerning the Legal Service Corporation and John Roberts comes about as a result of a request by Texans to abolish the L.S.C due to their relentless Liberal social- engineering –by- lawsuit.

Roberts penned a response on behalf of the White House Council, Fred Fielding, which could be contorted in the febrile imagination of your run of the mill Leftie along the lines of:

“Roberts supported Ronald Reagan’s slash and burn budget cuts against the poor, attempting to deprive them of legal representation, and packing the Legal Services Corporate board with Conservative Ideologues to protect the powerful from citizens speaking truth to power!”

The Legal Services Corporation is a Nixon era institution set up by congressional statute to “to promote equal access to the system of justice and improve opportunities for low-income people throughout the United States by making grants for the provision of high-quality civil legal assistance to those who would be otherwise unable to afford legal counsel."

Like many well meaning programs run by the Government or private institutions, it’s agenda was hijacked by left wing activists who then used it to promote their own ideas of “social justice, like the Endangered species Act and the E.P.A being used to stifle private development, or Boy's and Girl's clubs in New York being used as a slush fund for Air America.

The situation got so bad in Deaf Smith County in Texas, which in 1982 The Commissioners of that County, and several local legal associations wrote to President Reagan to complain, asking him to abolish the Legal Services Corporation.

They stated that instead of aiding the poor and indigent with legal assistance, the L.S.C in their county was instead “attempting to force their views of needed social change on local government.” And that they had “spent untold local funds defending ourselves in Federal Court in poorly founded cases.”

In response John Roberts drafted a letter on behalf of White House Council Fred F. Fielding, he writes “The President has…. often expressed concern about potential abuse in Legal Services programs” and he (the President) “proposed substantially greater reductions in federal funding…”and “The President has tried to appoint to the national Board persons who share his concerns that publicly funded legal assistance programs serve the needs of the indigent for legal counsel and do not become vehicles for political and social lobbying and other abuses of taxpayer dollars.”

The Legal Services Corporation is still in existance.

2005-08-21T02:02:00.000-04:00

Box O' HillaryBox 31, Thomas (not Captain Ed) Morrissey Item One.

Legal Services Corporation, Et All. (Circa 1982)Appellants,
Vs.
Howard H. Dana JR., Et All...Appellees

The Box, all sorts of things come in boxes, presents, shoes, Nantucket Red shirts, this one sat menacingly in a dark corner, a muffled rustling emanating from it's interior, I could not place the sound, hauntingly familiar, I drank another Guinness to fortify my courage and grasped the lid, it seemed cold, almost calculating and lifted it violently.

My heart jumped into my throat as I beheld the source of the dreaded sound, a swish, swish that could not be stopped, and to my horror I beheld............

A Pantsuit.

Forgive my week attempt at drama, but legal papers are mind-numbingly boring, the demented ravings of Paul Krugman or the spinsterly cattiness of Maureen Dowd would be preferable, if only for a laugh.

A synopsis of the case:

The crux of the matter is an appeal, specifically dealing with the question of "whether or not a District Court abused it's discretion by not granting a preliminary injunction to former members of the Board of Directors of The Legal Services Corporation ( which injunction would have permitted the former directors to serve on the Board in place of their successors ) on the grounds that the former Directors did not make a strong showing that they were likely to prevail on the merits of their claim that the Presidents recess appointment of their successors were invalid."

TheLegal Services Corporation is a Government agency that is "As defined by the Legal Services Corporation Act, LSC's mission is to promote equal access to the system of justice and improve opportunities for low-income people throughout the United States by making grants for the provision of high-quality civil legal assistance to those who would be otherwise unable to afford legal counsel."

The argument putt forth by the plaintiffs (a bunch of Carter holdovers, including one Hillary Rodham) is that the President did not have the authority to make recess appointments to this specific entity, they claimed that members of the board were not "officers of the United States" as the Constitution defined that term, and that they could only be appointed by the Advice and Consent of the Senate.

Seems simple, they were wrong, as the Court found, but nothing in D.C is simple, there's a twist.

The twist, in the usual Democrat fashion of insisting that rules apply to others and not to them, Hillary and her pals were themselves Carter recess appointments.

So I guess her argument was " we recess appointments deserve to keep our recess appointments because the President cannot make recess appointments."

Thank goodness the D.C Circuit Court, of which Robert Bork was a member was able to cut through this Gordian knot of Demo-lawyer-crat thinking and Hillary went on to bigger and better things.

Roberts’s involvement is unclear; his name was not listed as an Administration legal official participating in the conclusion.

Roberts does give his opinion of the Legal Services Corporation, in a letter.

Upcoming:

Part 2 “‘Railroading Roberts' wanted to deny Legal representation to the Poor and Indigent!"

2005-08-21T00:42:00.000-04:00

I forget which of the months is the cruelest, but August certainly deserves to be it.

Ungodly heat, extended vacations, if I never see, or wear Nantucket Red ever again to the end of my days, I'll depart this veil of tears a degree happier.

Boredom

Hockey is back, which is a great thing as is Eklunds Hockey Rumors.

Nothing in the news has piqued my interest, I shan't debase myself to comment on the pathetic nonsense occurring outside the Presidents Ranch other than my preceding assessment.

Boredom, until Deus Ex Machina in the form of The Blogfather Hugh Hewitt, and his adopt a box of documents program, I have received Box 31, not the box 31 currently being reviewed by Captain Ed at Captains Quarters.

Thanks to Generalissimo Duane for being so quick to respond.

My box has Hillary.

2005-07-18T18:42:00.000-04:00

Tancredo-Stupid.

In an apparent bid to prove Nancy Pelosi does not have a monopoly on monumental stupidity in the House of Representatives, Colorodo Congressman Tom Tancredo provides another gem in the embarrassment of riches for Al-Jazeera coming from Washington morons, by threatening to nuke Mecca or other Islamic Holy sites in retaliation for a catastrophic attack on the U.S.

Stupid,stupid stupid.

Major challenge in dealing with Isalamofascists is their lack of territory or a capitol in which to strike them. If they did, they would be dead now. Instead the cowards mix in with civilian populations in order to cause civilian casualties, and get what they think would be good p.r, they want to present an image of Americans wanting to kill all Muslims, and wage war on all Islamic countries, as opposed to those who are a threat, or may become a threat to us.

Tancredo's statement plays right into their hands, and those who condemn Ted Kennedy, Pat Lahey and Dick Durbin for their statements which give prophaganda points to our enemies had better do the same to Tancredo, although his motives may be different the outcome is the same.

Bomb Damascus, Bomb Tehran, that's where the enemy is, bomb Saudi Arabia flat, just don't touch the holy sites, our enemy does not lie there, and the deaths of innocent Muslims to avenge the death of innocent Americans will not kill the people we need to kill, and will make it more difficult to do so.

2005-07-16T16:35:00.000-04:00

Anniversary of the Execution of The Romanovs.

In 1918, the Royal Family of Russia, as well as four others associated with the Romanov court were gunned down in a cellar in Yekaterinburg, near the Urals, in Russia.

The Bolsheviks shot, and in some re-shot The Tsar Nicholas, his Wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five children, four girls, and one boy.

If you are so inclined read The Last Tsar:The Life and Death of Nicholas the Second, I read it years ago.

I cannot help but feel profound disgust for those who killed them, Nicholas was neither good, nor bad. He wasn't much of anything at all.

An accident of birth, he was unsuited for the job, he was Kerrylike in his indecision, people did horrible things in his name, things he never would have done himself.

Contrast that with the bloodthirsty lunatics who followed him, both Lenin and Stalin wallowed in death, mass murder and starvation were tools to be used, by them, for them.

The Royal family managed to take some of their jewels with them to their death-house, diamonds were hidden in the corsets of the girls, when they were shot the first time the bullets just bounced off.

Head shots.

A terrorist drives his explosive laden vehicle into a group of Iraqi children who were committing the awful crime of taking candy from American soldiers, a little boy and young girls are gunned down in a Russian cellar.

Americans should be proud to have such enemies, they are what we are not, and can never be.

And Ted Kennedy and Dick Durbin will never make it so, no matter how hard they try.

2005-07-16T16:05:00.000-04:00

This just in!

Ted Kennedy to probe Gitmo Lingerie Torture.

Finally!

I hear he's driving over.

2005-07-16T14:56:00.000-04:00

How relentlessly P.C. is the New York Times?

I followed a link to the John Tierney article, "Where's the Newt?" http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html, fantastic article,read it, now!

Of course you have to create an account, which involves the usual e-mail surrender as well as personal questions, ( the N.Y. Times cares about you.), like gender income etc.

Being petty and small minded as I am, I of course lie, although since the New York times lies to me all the time it may be justified on some level.

I wanted to fit in so I decided to create a profile as a would be suicide bomber, my security question-"what's your favorite book", why the Holy Qu'ran, of course, job title-clergy, I guess the Times does not consider Jihad a job, Infidel dogs!, Industry-religion, assembly line terror, it's a growth industry!

Then there was location, I wanted Pakistan because that's where the best Madrassas are. I don't know what creeping vine is the Middle East equivalent of Ivy, but the walls must be festooned with it in Karachi, but then I saw "Palestinian territories-Occupied."

Interesting, apparently these "Palestinian territories" of which they speak are the only in the world currently under occupation, since no other place was so designated.

The problem I have with this is every other place named seemed to be a definable sovereign state, or a territory thereof, and I happen to know that Palestine is not a country, and with the way Abbas is handling things it never will be.

What Israel is currently occupying are lands formerly belonging to various Arab countries, like Egypt, Syria and Jordan that lost them after they declared war on Israel and were promptly bitch-slapped back home.

The Arab armies told the local Arabs to clear out so they could have plenty of room to slaughter Jews, which they did and when things didn't quite go as planned they became the worlds first permanent refugees.

Yes, in most instances refugees who are born in foreign countries and live there for a generation or so are absorbed into that nation, but not the Palestinians, and purposely so.

Leaving aside the "there goes the neighborhood" quotient, in this case literally given the annoying habit of Palestinians to explode in their constant search for 72 raisins of exquisite clarity, they are kept as permanent refugees by other Arab states, and our friends The U.N. to provide valuable propaganda material against Israel, and help prevent Global Warming by keeping the bus population under control.

These Palestinians have a country, whichever one they were part of before the ill fated Arab wars, it's just that they can't be allowed back because they are the stick Arab countries, the U.N. and various lefties can use to beat Israel over the head.

The Times just swallows this whole.

2005-07-16T14:30:00.000-04:00

No problem, Bob.

If as many claim Valerie Plame was covert, why did the C.I.A. not take concrete steps to stop Robert Novak from publishing her name?

Novak contacted the C.I.A., as a responsible journalist should, and asked them if his naming her in an upcoming column, the one that created this tempest in a teapot, and asked them if he could.

The C.I.A's response was to give him the green light.

What can we discern from this?, let's ask our panel, gathered from average folks across the political spectrum.

Unwashed Leftist, what are your "feelings" about this?

"Obviously the evil C.I.A was working hand in glove with the Bush Regime in their plan to smear these two great American heroes who exposed their lies, she was probably undercover at Diebold uncovering how touchscreen voting machine convert every vote for Kerry into a vote for Bush, her cover was blown and Bushco. stole the election,again!

Mr.Moderate, any thoughts?

"what's a Plame?"

How about you, gun toting fundamentalist Christian?

" she wasn't undercover"

You all make excellent points, let me pose a hypothetical question.

What if the C.I.A knowing Wilson was lying about being sent to Niger by the V.P., and knowing that it was actually his wife, a C.I.A. employee who got him the job, and that Novak knew it, they decided not to bother because she was being exposed and they did not want to appear to be covering up a case of nepotism and misconduct.

Your response?

Unwashed leftist, your reaction please

" got any pot?"

Mr.Moderate?

"huh?"

Gun toting evangelical guy?

" screw this, I have to go kill a large mammal for my militias pot luck supper"

2005-07-16T13:28:00.000-04:00

Who's to Plame?
She is, the more you examine Valerie Plame's actions in this ridiculous episode the worse she looks.

We have the two examples of nepotism practiced by her in sending her husband off to Niger despite his lack of qualifications in the areas of intelligence gathering and W.M.D.

Nepotism, while unpleasant, (especially when you yourself don't benefit from it) is a way of life if you're from Boston and happen to be Irish. It usually takes such benign forms as some deadbeat relative of a local politician or State government being hired by the M.D.C to make sure the ice at the skating rinks stay cold, or as a toll taker on the Mass.Pike.

But at the C.I.A? I thought they were involved in important matters like kidnapping terrorist in Italy, or inventing the a.i.d.s virus or smuggling cocaine. The first rule of nepotism hiring is out of sight, out of mind the last thing you want is the ne'er do well relative of yours fouling something up and having the uncomfortable " who hired this moron" question asked. Although Nepotism would explain how Bay of Pigs went so wrong, Teddy forget to gas up the Olds for the 90 mile drive from Miami to Cuba, and the Rebels ran out of Scotch and floozies well ahead of schedule.

But it was the "who hired this moron" question that is the genesis of Nadagate, as John Tierney of the New York Times so aptly named it.

The who is Valerie Plame, the moron is Joe Wilson who's only discernible talents are in garnering publicity and keeping a straight face while lying. Who, in their right mind would send a rank amateur with exibitionist tendencies on an errand which could have serious ramifications on National security and policy issues?

Someone who wanted a specific result from the Niger "investigation" that's who, Valerie dispatched her dimwit husband to Niger to investigate a report of Iraq trying to buy yellowcake that she deemed "crazy. Any person in Wilson's position, which was mostly horizontal on the couch watching Opera between jaunts to Africa arranged by his wife, would know, she- who- must- be- obeyed wanted him to discredit the Niger-Iraq yellowcake report, no matter what he found, and that is just what he did.

The lefts bad guy in this is Karl Rove, who it seems is being vindicated at an alarmingly rapid pace, the right points to Joe Wilson.

To me it's neither the evil genius nor the amiable dunce, but the desk bound mid level Langley soccer mom, the photogenic and apparently mute proto-martyr Valerie Plame.

She dispatched her houseboy on a mission to discredit the administration, she sat knowingly by when he was the Liberal media's flavor-of-the-month and allowed him to lie about how he was dispatched by Dick Cheney, when she knew different, and he lied about a host of other issues, including the Iraq yellowcake connection, the Italian forgeries timeline and a host of other deceptions, including her status as a "covert" agent, which she certainly was not.

Why haven't the intrepid truth seekers of the exempt media bothered to ask her one simple question?

I don't think after two glamour shots in Vanity Fair she could credibly claim she can't answer question based on shyness or fear of being identified.

"Hey Val,were you a covert agent, in the sense of the law that is the crux of the grand jury investigation?"

A simple yes or no answer would suffice.

2005-07-14T22:54:00.000-04:00

Chuck Schumer: "It Sucks To Be Me"

You know your scraping the bottom of the Washington media barrel when you have to ride on the ridiculous fraud Joe Wilson's coat tails to get some face time.

Your Chuck Schumer, your life is one constant attempt to get attention, any attention.

You are constantly reminding people that you are the (chronologically) Senior Senator from New York.

You are running to escape a shadow, not your own, but a much larger, pantsuited one, and you know you'll never make it.

2005-07-14T20:53:00.000-04:00

War on terror Myths I'm sick of hearing.

We (the U.S) created Bin Laden.

Nonsense, I don't base this on any third party sources, no links to websites to back up my position, this is first hand knowledge.

In the late Nineties, I worked for a company which was engaged by a member of the Saudi Royal family to do work here in the greater Boston area.

He was a prince, which is not nearly as impressive as it sounds there are tens of thousands of Saudi Princes on the loose, and as a prince he had body guards, these body guards and I as well and some of the servants would often have tea in the small guest house on the property, which was used as servants quarters, the guards were Saudi's, the servants mostly Yemeni's, all fluent in English, I liked them all, they were well mannered and very hospitable.

One day our conversation for some reason veered in the direction of Afghanistan, and the war against Russia, in which one of the bodyguards saw combat. Thinking we could have a moment of solidarity I made a statement to the effect of " we helped you guy's", the bridge between cultures promptly collapsed in to the river of good feelings with the Guard becoming visibly agitated and pointing what I assume was his trigger finger towards my face declared "we took nothing from you!"

He went on to explain that there were essentially two groups of forces fighting the Russians, the indigenous Afghan Mujahadeen, who we did supply, most notably with Stinger missiles, and an "Arab" contingent comprised of recruits from the Gulf states, like Saudi Arabia, including Bin Laden, who were solely supplied and financed by wealthy Saudi and other well to do Gulf state Arabs, like the Bin Ladens.

It was a point of pride that they did not accept money from the United States, and given their generally dim view of us, it makes perfect sense.

This ties in with another G.W.O.T myth "Osama would never cooperate with Saddam, because Saddam was a secular Muslim, and Osama was a fundamentalist."

You usually hear this myth as a corollary to the first, and for some reason those who breathe the rarefied air of the "reality based community" never really seem to realize that if Osama wouldn't take money or assistance from Saddam because he was not Muslim enough, why would he accept money and aid from the" Great Satan", who isn't Muslim at all?

unfortunately, this is a point not nearly nuanced enough for your average lefty and whatever you do don't mention the Molotov/Ribbentrop pact as an example of ideological enemies working together to their mutual benefit, they usually say " the Russians fought the Germans in the Second world war" and think they won the argument.

And don't mention any of this either The Mother of All Connections ,Stephen Hayes, The Weekly Standard.

Although Liberals have through natural selection( at least those luckily enough not to have been aborted) adapted the remarkable ability to ignore anything which conflicts their narrow, small minded world view, large amounts of facts such as contained in the above mentioned article do cause spontaneous combustion and the stench of burning dreadlocks, unwashed armpit hair and Birkenstocks is truly awful, the smell is even worse if it's a male liberal.

The latest, and equally specious myth " the war in Iraq is creating terrorists." Again this is usually found along with myth two, in the shape of "there were not any terrorists in Iraq before we invaded!" (a deeply insulted Abu Nidal could not be reached for comment.)

We heard this mantra for quite some time, it was a talking point waiting for an event and the 7/7 bombings provided the pole for this cheap floozy of logic to gyrate upon, the pathetic Washington Post exclaimed through some type of trans-Atlantic recently atomized suicide bomber mind - meld that the psycotics who murdered complete strangers who were offending the prophet by going to work in the morning were "irate" over Britain's involvement in Iraq.

You see it's very simple, fighting terrorism creates terrorism, so if you don't fight it their won't be any, until there is an attack, then you can fight it but only if everyone agrees.

The French, for some reason are vital to this formula, if they give you the nod, like Afghanistan, most likely your fighting terrorism won't result in more terrorism, unlike Iraq, where their disagreement means it most likely will.

Being simple minded, I ask the question "if these British Muslims were so irate, why didn't they blow themselves up in Iraq?"

It seems some of them had recently gone to Pakistan, and I'm sure their irritation was such that it could have easily led them to Saudi Arabia, or Syria and into Iraq, on the Syrian visa application if you check the box marked "Jihad" ( it's between bookishness and tourism) you move to the front of the line, and other British Muslims have made the trip, so why not them?

I'll concede that our invasion of Iraq is a sore spot with the Islamofascist types but is you average Muslim in the street angry enough about a blood thirsty dictator who murdered millions of his fellow Muslims to be driven to murder, and their own death by it?

There are many roads to terrorism, whether it be a madrassa in Karachi, or a Mosque in Leeds, or a middle class existence in Cairo, like Mohammed Atta, the basic building material is hate, without it nothing else is possible, and that hatred needs fuel, you need to be taught very well to be fluent enough in the language of hatred to end your own life to kill strangers, is the Iraq war a fuel to the fire yes, but someone has to light it first.

Don't take my word for it, listen to the psychopath welfare lay about who Killed Theo Van Gogh:

"I did what I did purely out my beliefs" the 27-year-old Muslim told judges after entering court clutching a Quran. "I want you to know that I acted out of conviction and not that I took his life because he was Dutch or because I was Moroccan and felt insultedted."

Good thing he hadn't heard about Iraq, or things could have gotten ugly.

2005-07-14T18:21:00.000-04:00

Carl Rove and His Giant White Hat.

Who's the bad ( or gal) guy in this sorry saga of Joe Wilson, Mrs Wilson and Karl Rove?

The chances are infinitesimal that Rove will be charged with a crime, much lees convicted of one. As evidenced by the Democrats quick shift from calling for his resignation for outing Plame to the fall back of "dishonesty" towards the President, Karl Rove is guilty of one thing.

Telling the truth.

The contents of the e-mail disclosed by newsboy Matthew Cooper, revealed that in a conversation initiated by Cooper, ostensibly about welfare reform, which switched to the topic of media flavor-of-the-month Joe Wilson and his fictional travelogue of his trip to Niger and what he didn't, or at least thought he didn't find,Rove warned him "not to get too far out" on the Wilson story.

Rove was right, Wilson's story was completely discredited, he gave Cooper the benefit of his knowledge that Wilson had lied about his being dispatched to drink sweet tea y the pool at the Niamey Hilton, and ask the odd question, in French, of his pals in the Nigerland government by Vice President Dick Cheney.

Wilson was dispatched by the W.M.D proliferation department of the C.I.A, where his wife worked, she had recommended him based upon his knowledge of local pols and the French language, both of which he may have picked up on a previous trip in 1999, at the recommendation of his wife.

Rove knew Wilson was lying about being sent by Cheney he told Cooper, who churlishly repaid Karl's kindness by distorting what he said in the slightly more intelligent older sibling of People magazine, Time.

So we know Wilson lied, a lot, what about super secret agent Valerie Plame?
She knew he was lying about who sent him gadflying about the sub-Sahara, doesn't she have the obligation, as a government employee, to point that out, husband or no husband?

Instead she let the lie stand, and it is the unraveling of that lie which led to Novak's column, his lies about the genesis of "the sixteen words", forged documents, and others would not have necessarily led to his wife, but falsely claiming the V.P sent him surely would.

No lie about Cheney, no connection to her no "outing" of a "covert agent", these people are victims of their own deceptions, quite frankly either they were to stupid to think anyone would find out, or just didn't care.

In any case, I have a difficult time finding sympathy for people who are victims of their own dishonesty, and even less since it is patently obvious that they are both just cheap media whores and the thought she was ever in any real danger is laughable, unless that two page spread in Vanity Fair is a new C.I.A hide in plain sight, or Jaguar as the case may be tactic to throw off the legion of foreign assassins who are addicted to the musings of curmudgeonly Paleo-cons.

Medal for Rove, for being the only guy in room telling the truth.

Hopefully "runaway" or "crusading" prosecutor Fitzgerald (The New York Times keeps confusing me about which type he is) will slap an indictment on this mullett headed fraud Wilson, and the ducking stool for his equally distasteful wife.