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Syria: Clear Danger

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The truth about the Israeli air strike on a Syrian location September 6th has been confirmed. Israel, up to now, had been suspiciously silent about the affair. I wrote about the incident and its implications for Israel, Syria, Iran and North Korea here. Israel is still at its highest alert.

Benjamin Netanyahu told NewsMax:

Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu has broken a two-week official silence over the Israeli air strike on Syria, acknowledging for the first time that it was a government operation and hinting that it was a major success.

“I was privy to the matter from the outset and I gave my backing,” he told Israeli television on Wednesday. “But it’s too early to be discussing this.”

Asked if he had congratulated Prime Minister Ehud Olmert once the mission was over, the conservative leader said: “In person? Yes.”

Netanyahu shed no new light on the targets the Israeli F-15-I jets took out, which remains a tightly-held secret.

Speculation in the Israeli and the U.S. media has focused on a suspect shipment from North Korea, possibly of nuclear-related material – that arrived in Syria just days before the Israeli Air Force struck in the early morning hours of Sept. 6.

Reports in both Israel and the United States speculated that North Korea sold Syria nuclear weapons material – and possibly a nuclear warhead – which prompted Israel to launch the strike.

North Korea could simply be seeking to earn money before its facilities are dismantled” under the disarmament agreement reached with the United States, one official speculated. “Or Syria could have agreed to stockpile equipment or material for them until some later date.”

Americans, the DEM (Defeatist, Elitist Media) and our government seem to be shocked that Syria would attempt to acquire a nuclear program. But considering the totality of the circumstances, the tentacles of Iran are everywhere, and extend clearly to Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and every other country adjacent — including North Korea and Russia.

And yet we allow the Iranian President to come to the US, to make his propagandist statements, to take center stage, to invite him to an alleged institution of higher learning. And take the stage he shall, trot out his rants he will, take complete advantage because he is not stupid, but rather very plotting. We play into Ahmadinejad’s hands at our expense.

Make no mistake, dear readers. It is the bulk of the world against the United States. And it is because the US appears to be weak once more, perceived as a Paper Tiger — and because the rest of the named nations realize that a loosely-linked but organized coalition of nation-states work more effectively against the Great Satan. If you doubt it is because we appear weak, ask yourself: do you believe that this conglomertion would occur if Reagan were President? I would wager not. In truth, Reagan did not help with his minimal response to the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon. But the Paper Tiger perception was enforced time and again during the Clinton Administration to the point where AQ realized “if at first you fail (1993), try, try again (2001).”

Every generation thinks it lives in the most dangerous of times. I truly believe that, in toto, these are the most dangerous of times for the United States — the last, best chance for the survival of the entire planet.

BZ
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Between Them and Them

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From the DailyKOS:

From Hunter:
I used to think that the Republicans were primarily little more than marvelous opportunists. Their effectiveness at “catapulting the propaganda” over the last two decades have been astonishing, and never more so than in the last six years.

If you believe that the GOP has the most remote handle on its party, you really are a Moonbat within an ocean of so-called ‘bats. The GOP doesn’t have the first clue as to what it needs to do next. Trust me. I USED to contribute to the RNC. They are CLUELESS.
Case in point, obviously: the MoveOn ad. The horrible, mean, cruel MoveOn ad that questioned the integrity of an Army general simply because he had a proven history of making, you know… intentionally misleading statements based on transparently manufactured statistics. It’s still the talk of the news cycle, because Republicans are outraged — yes, outraged! Offended! Disgusted! Repulsed! Exclamation points!! — that such a thing would happen in politics. Not the manipulation of numbers and of evidence, mind you, that long being the standard currency of unpopular wars: no, the offense was the ad.

The ad was, according to the greater populace, clearly “over the top.” What portion of “over the top” do you not get? Thankfully, as far as WE are concerned, you don’t “get it” at all. The Senate excoriating your ass: you are STILL oblivious. And for that we thank you.
The irony has not been lost on anyone, I imagine. For six years, opponents of the war have had their patriotism, their integrity, their very status as Americans questioned by Republican administration officials in their public statements, by Republican senators on the floor of the Senate, by Republican congressmen in the House, from the White House press office, in the pages and websites of every conservative and Republican rag out there, by Republican activist groups, on Republican radio programs, by Republicans holding up signs on street corners, and so on. Along with a generous application of rank dishonesty, it has been the standard and defining element of War On Terror Discourse. It has been as prevalent as now-faded yellow ribbon magnets, and exactly as substantive. The questioning of patriotism, of Americanism, of integrity, and of courage was the id of the war, and the ego and super-ego as well.

As well you should. There is but one path for Demorats: get out. And for those of you who just tuned in: Get. Out. What part of that do you not understand? My solution? Get. Involved. Get more troops IN. Put MORE 5.56 mm rounds into the HEADS of Iraqis. Watch them explode. Pattern yourselves after Blackwater. Do your JOBS. Release the ROEs. Let our soldiers KILL PEOPLE and BLOW SHIT UP.
You lack patriotism if you question the President. You lack patriotism if you question the competence of the war planners. You lack patriotism if you do not support the correct number of tax cuts (namely, every one proposed.)

Tax cuts, you dipshit, benefit EVERYONE. Even YOU, you Greek Croseus; like you Greek dudes don’t stick together. NOT.

You lack patriotism if you object to Social Security “reform” packages. You lack patriotism if you point out dishonesty on the part of political leaders. You lack patriotism if you ask where Osama bin Laden is.

Ever try to track a needle in a haystack? Ever wonder why we don’t have HUMINT priority sources instead of ELINT and COMINT and SATINT priorities?

Guess you’d have to ask the CARTER ADMIN, wouldn’t you, you defeatist fuck.

You lack patriotism if you point out where he is not. You lack patriotism if you disagree with how the “war on terror” is fought, or worse yet if you express that disagreement in such a way as to inconvenience an American elected official. You lack patriotism if you print certain stories in a newspaper, such as any investigative story that questions the effectiveness of Republican leaders, or which shines too bright a light on the policies of our glittering new war.

Our glittering new war has somehow managed to keep the exploding Homicide Bombers from staining our shores. But you wouldn’t acknowledge that, would you, you DEM sychophant?
For six years, anyone on the opposing side of a Republican proposal have had our “integrity” questioned at every turn, and at podiums throughout the capital, by the top members of American government. As a matter not only of course, but of intentional strategy.

And that strategy has resulted in ZERO casualties since then, has it not?

And how many casualties has Israel, for example, suffered since then?

Fine. Then shut the fuck up.

BZ
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Engrish

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I’ve always thought that, if I had extra time and/or the ability to do so (or upon my retirement), I’d want to start a company that did nothing more than write Instruction Manuals for various devices and pieces of equipment. In my opinion, this is an horrible vacuum that needs to be filled by logic and sensibility.

— Primarily because most manuals utilize English as a second, third or fourth language OR because most manual writers have little if ANY concept of how to relate the product to the average consumer.

In other words: HRITIN PRAIN ENGRISH, HRITEBOY.

An absolutely WONDERFUL warning tag I observed on the Tank scooter owned by my brother in San Diego:

Proof of my point doesn’t get any better than that.

BZ

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‘Jacket’s Visit

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Morton Kondracke and Juan Williams can’t understand what the problem is with Iranian President Ahmadinnerjacket speaking at Columbia University this coming Monday, the 24th, confirmed by CU President Bollinger. Has there been even one peep from a CU trustee? A faculty member? A donor? An alumni?

Both Williams and Kondracke believe ‘Jacket should be heard. That he should be given the forum.

I disagree — just a bit, eh?

He was finally denied access to Ground Zero in New York — but certainly not because Mayor Bloomberg was doing his job. For Christ’s sake, Bloomberg invited the man. And let his Police Commissioner take the heat for the over-riding denial — in pussified terms of “security.” When braced on the fact, Bloomberg and his office remain stultifyingly silent.

There might be a few things Columbia should consider prior to hosting ‘Jacket:
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the head of a state sponsor of terror clearly supplying weapons and expertise to kill and wound Americans in Iraq.

— He has supplied Hezbollah with the rockets used to wage indiscriminate war against the civilians of Israel last year.

— Iran has a long record of organizing and directing bloody terrorist assaults around the globe, including the attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983.

— Ahmadinejad stated in June of this year: “God willing, in the near future we will witness the destruction of the corrupt occupier regime,” referring to Israel.

— Back in 2005, Ahmadinejad loudly and publicly proclaimed that Israel “must be wiped out from the map of the world.”

This is the urging of genocide, a violation of all the law of nations. A violation of UN strictures.

Yet he is welcomed with open arms by this same UN.

Rudy Giuliani, who removed Yassar Arafat from NYC’s Lincoln Center in 1995 (a move, shockingly-enough, criticized by the Clinton Administration), said in re Admadinejad’s impending visit:

Under no circumstances should the NYPD or any other American authority assist President Ahmadinejad in visiting Ground Zero. This is a man who has made threats against America and Israel, is harboring Bin Laden’s son and other al-Qaeda leaders, is shipping arms to Iraqi insurgents and is pursuing the development of nuclear weapons. Assisting Ahmadinejad in touring Ground Zero – hallowed ground for all Americans – is outrageous.”

Meanwhile, back at the Beltway, the Demorats and their sniveling syncophatic Moveon.org Lockstep Leftists are completely SILENT on this issue. Best not to stir the restive herds, they figure. And not without good reason, eh? This’ll all blow over in time, eh? Because, after all, it has been proven time and again that the American electorate has precisely ZERO collective historical memory. Eh?

This UN venue, the potential Ground Zero venue, is about nothing more than PROPAGANDA. Not even necessarily propaganda on the world front; it is all about propaganda INSIDE IRAN and the portrayal of Ahmadinejad as a worldly individual willing to travel to the proverbial “belly of the beast” and exit unscathed.

Do we learn nothing of history? Do we have no concept of the vast power of propaganda?

The UN and even the US are offering themselves to this manipulative Islamist as nothing more than Useful Idiots.

BZ
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