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  • BDS in Vermont spreading like plague

    You’d think the Center for Disease Control would have investigators and doctors working on a cure for the Bush Derangement Syndrome that appears to be spreading in Vermont (Fox News link);

    Voters in two southern Vermont towns passed articles Tuesday calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President for violating the Constitution.

    More symbolic than substantive, the items sought to have police arrest Bush and Cheney if they ever visit Brattleboro or nearby Marlboro or to extradite them for prosecution elsewhere — if they’re not impeached first.

    In Brattleboro, the vote was 2,012 for and 1,795 against. In Marlboro, it was 43 to 25, with three abstentions.

    “I hope the one thing that people take from this is `Hey, it can be done,”‘ said Kurt Daims, 54, who organized the petition drive that led to the Brattleboro vote.

    He said he hopes Bush and Cheney are never arrested here; he wants them impeached before that could happen.

    Oh, yeah impeachment is a much more likely scenario, Kurt. He has ten months left in office – impeachment only takes a few days…ya dimwit.

    “It was emotional. There were heartfelt speeches on both sides,” [Town Clerk Nora] Wilson said.

    I’ll bet it was emotional – only an hysterical emotional outburst would push people to such an irrational decision.

    “It really carries no weight,” said Brattleboro Town Clerk Annette Cappy. “Our town attorney has no legal authority to draw up any papers to allow our police officers to do so, but the gentleman who initiated the petition, got the signatures, wanted it on the ballot to make a statement.”

    Well, there’s that and there’s also the fact that there’s little chance that President Bush or Vice President Cheney would show up within the jurisdictional limits of the town attorney, or that the local constabulary would be willing to have a shoot out with the Secret Service.

    Local reactions;

    “I realize it’s an extreme thing to do, and really silly in a way,” said Robert George, 74, a retired photographer. “But I’m really angry about us getting involved in the war in Iraq and him (Bush) disrespecting the will of the people,” he said.

    Actually, Bobbie George, I’d like to know how it is possible to disrespect the will of the will of the people. You’d think after 74 years you’d have a better command of your native language.

    Ian Kelley, 41, a local radio DJ, said he didn’t vote on the article.

    “It’s not a good reflection on the town,” he said. “Do I like either of them and would I vote for them? No. But I don’t think it’s cause to arrest them.”

    Barbara Southworth, a 66-year-old nurse, said she would’ve voted against it.

    “I forgot to vote because it was on the flip side,” she said.

    Maybe someone sensed what her intent was and marked her vote for her ala Florida in 2000.

    Michele Malkin writes that the BDS can be transmitted by television, too;

    The campaign is broadcasting CNN on a giant projector screen for the crowd of several hundred, which just cheered after seeing a graphic that showed Clinton with a large lead (so far) over Obama in Ohio. The next headline CNN displayed was “Citizens of Brattleboro, Vermont pass resolution to arrest Bush, Cheney.” The crowd went really wild at that.

    I guess the Democrats are really disappointed that president Bush can’t run in the next election so they can “redefeat” him again.

  • Benjamin calls for Marines

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    I picked this up from Jammie Wearing Fool; apparently Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin’s alligator mouth overloaded her hummingbird ass and when she chased a guy who spit on her down the street in Berkeley while she was blockading the famous marine Recruiting Station. The spitter stepped out of his car at which time Benjamin called for the Marines from the very recruiting station she was picketing to protect her from a long-awaited ass-kicking. (Canada Free Press link);

    “Medea Benjamin yelled and I quote “Marines!” She actually yelled for our help because this man had stepped out of his car. I even asked her if she was yelling Police and she told me, “I said Marines” then put her arm around my friend Allen (the Marine Vet). Ironic?”

    Of course we can’t read about this in the local media can we?

  • Leftwingnut Anarchists Vandalize D.C. Army Recruiting Office

    In an act of violence reminiscent of the Vietnam War ‘protests’, Code Pink assholes along with a contingent of leftover 1960’s SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) moonbats, trashed a U.S. Army recruiting office in D.C.

    Katie O’Malley reports:

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  • Kinsley; ignore your lyin’ eyes

    Today in the Washington Post, Michael Kinsley in an aptly titled opinion piece “Defining Victory Downward” tries to send out the message to the anti-war/anti-Bush troops that all is not lost (from their perspective) the “surge” isn’t working. So convoluted is his reasoning, at first Kinsley feels a need to redefine the word “surge” downward for us.

    I don’t know who invented this label, but the word “surge” evokes images of the sea: a wave that sweeps in, and then sweeps back out again. The second part was crucial. What made the surge different from your ordinary troop deployment was that it was temporary. In fact, the surge was presented as part of a larger plan for troop withdrawal.

    Although he is right, in some respects, his whole premise for the failure is that the tide of troops hasn’t swept back out yet – well, except for only 30,000 troops (nearly 20% of the surge forces) who’ve been rotating back for the last three months. But in typical Leftist fashion, Michael declares the surge a failure because there might still be 100,000 troops in Iraq a year from now (62% of surge strength).

    But the whole strategy of the surge was to stabilize the situation in Iraq so that a political solution to Iraq’s balkanized tribes could be worked out without mortar shells falling on them every ten minutes. It has never been about reducing our troops under a deadline – some nebulous Kinsley cooked up in his apparently-adled mind.

    In fact, Charles Krauthammer, in the same issue of the Washington Post, reports on some of the political solutions that have been reached in recent weeks;

    First, a provincial powers law that turns Iraq into arguably the most federal state in the entire Arab world. The provinces get not only power but also elections by Oct. 1. U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker has long been calling this the most crucial step to political stability. It will allow, for example, the pro-American Anbar sheiks to become the legitimate rulers of their province, exercise regional autonomy and forge official relations with the Shiite-dominated central government.

    Second, parliament passed a partial amnesty for prisoners, 80 percent of whom are Sunni. Finally, it approved a $48 billion national budget that allocates government revenue — about 85 percent of which is from oil — to the provinces. Kurdistan, for example, gets one-sixth.

    What will the Democrats say now? They will complain that there is still no oil distribution law. True. But oil revenue is being distributed to the provinces in the national budget. The fact that parliament could not agree on a permanent formula for the future simply means that it will be allocating oil revenue year by year as part of the budget process. Is that a reason to abandon Iraq to al-Qaeda and Iran?

    But Democrats feel a need to keep moving the goal posts while the political game continues, otherwise they’d have to admit the failure of their ideas and their politics at some point. Admitting that the surge is working wouldn’t be very encouraging to the Democrats allies in al Qaeda and Iran and end the war before the Democrats can shoulder aside Republicans and take credit for the victory.

    Besides, I don’t see Michael Kinsley declaring Bosnia a failure because we still have troops there 12 years after President Clinton told us they’d be withdrawn.

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  • Links fit for a Full Moon

    All of the lunatics are out I guess;

    Michael Moore says we should invite the corpse of Fidel Castro to speak at the Oscars if he promises to keep it under 5 hours. “As long as he keeps it under five hours. I’m telling you, that’s got to be a ratings grabber.”

    Solomonia has the video of Cindy McKinney in hijab bashing the Jooos for her Muslim buddies.

    Ztruth reports Hussein Ibish, founder of the Foundation of Arab-American Leadership claims that bloggers are responsible for Muslim hatred these days – apparently they’d just got the media cowed and now all of these irresponsible independent journalists invoking that pesky 1st Amendment is screwin’ it up for them.

    Gateway Pundit writes that the St Louis Dispatch joins those Muslims in bashing his blog and Little Green Footballs’ Charles Johnson. Johnson posts an email exchange with the author.

    Chickenhawk Express dredges up an Indymedia report of a “guerilla action” against a recruiting station on 14th Street in DC.

    Flopping Aces‘ Curt writes that, of all people, Chris Mathews has exposed the ideological emptiness of the Obama campaign.

    SeeDubya‘s dad thinks the Obama campaign looks more a Nazi Rally than an American political campaign.

    Jammie Wearing Fool keeps inflation watch on Mgabe’s Zimbabwe – today’s tally; 100,000%.

    Moonbattery says that the moonbats are ripening in Berkeley’s trees and almost ready for harvesting.

    “Ooops, I forgot that boxcutter in my hollowed out novel” from Michele Malkin.

    Wordsmith spots the latest in moonbat automobile-enhancement.

    Gribbit compares Obama to Jim Jones with an assist from Halle Berry.

    PJ Comix at DUmmie FUnnies has video compilations of the Obama Fainting Brigades

    After all of that, click over to the McCain Blogette for more rational people wearing cheesehats.

  • The Last Word on the Berkeley Insanity

    I met Debbie Lee last September as she bravely stood alone on a corner in Washington DC facing down the IVAW and ANSWER clowns with the story of her son, the first Navy SEAL killed in Iraq. She took her story to Berkeley (h/t Blackfive)

    [youtube _6VeLpMloUs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6VeLpMloUs]

  • Nancy Pelosi’s “Failure” Mantra

    Pelosi echoes Harry (”the war is lost”) Reid:

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said twice Sunday that Iraq “is a failure,” adding that President Bush’s troop surge has “not produced the desired effect.”

    “The purpose of the surge was to create a secure time for the government of Iraq to make the political change to bring reconciliation to Iraq,” Pelosi said on CNN’s “Late Edition.” “They have not done that.”

    Yeah, the ‘desired effect’ was total victory for Islamofascism and defeat of U.S. forces.

    The speaker hastened to add: “The troops have succeeded, God bless them.”

    Much to your dismay, Pelosi.

    ……Anchor Wolf Blitzer asked: “Are you not worried, though, that all the gains that have been achieved over the past year might be lost?”

    “There haven’t been gains, Wolf,” the speaker replied. “The gains have not produced the desired effect, which is the reconciliation of Iraq. This is a failure. This is a failure. The troops have succeeded, God bless them. We owe them the greatest debt of gratitude for their sacrifice, their patriotism, and for their courage and to their families as well.

    Didja get that? “Blinky” Pelosi can’t even get her defeatest story straight. She claims ‘failure’, yet in the same fetid breath she thanks us for our success.

    “But they deserve better than the policy of a war without end, a war that could be 20 years or longer. And Secretary Gates just testified in the last 24 hours to Congress that this next year in Iraq and Afghanistan are going to cost $170 billion.

    It would’ve been cheaper to use a couple of neutron bombs, but hey, they wouldn’t listen to me.

    We deserved better leadership than what we were saddled with between 1992 and 2000. FIVE terrorist attacks happened under Bubba’s watch; Khobar Towers, USS Cole, the U.S. Embassy attacks in Kenya and Tanzania, and the first  World Trade center attack in 1993. His response? He wagged the dog in Mogadishu and Bosnia. He was too busy getting re-election cash from Bejiing and blow jobs from Monica to care about national security.

    We also deserve better than mealy-mouthed leftwing democrats calling us “mercenaries” and “Nazi’s”, and telling us that they don’t think the sacrifice of the fallen in this war was “worth it”. We know more than anyone about how sacrificing for democracy works, having defended it for over 230 years.

    “Afghanistan is not settled because the president took his eye off the ball and took the full attention that should have been in Afghanistan, and shifted some of that to Iraq, a war without end, without a plan, without a reason to go in, without a plan to win, without a strategy to leave. This is a disaster … we cannot perpetuate.”

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8422.html

    Well let’s see now, al Qadea and the Taliban have gotten their asses royally kicked in Iraq and Afghanistan. There were 3000  reasons to go in and kill them. The plan is working. We’ve won. When Baghdad and Kabul are ready to take the reins, we’ll be through.

    The Democratic wing of Al Qaeda just can’t let go of their defeatist ambitions. On the other hand, the Al Qaeda in Iraq already know they’re beaten to a pulp:

    Al-Qaeda in Iraq faces an “extraordinary crisis”. Last year’s mass defection of ordinary Sunnis from al-Qaeda to the US military “created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight”. The terrorist group’s security structure suffered “total collapse”.

    These are the words not of al-Qaeda’s enemies but of one of its own leaders in Anbar province — once the group’s stronghold. They were set down last summer in a 39-page letter seized during a US raid on an al-Qaeda base near Samarra in November.

    The US military released extracts from that letter yesterday along with a second seized in another November raid that is almost as startling.

    That second document is a bitter 16-page testament written last October by a local al-Qaeda leader near Balad, north of Baghdad. “I am Abu-Tariq, emir of the al-Layin and al-Mashahdah sector,” the author begins. He goes on to describe how his force of 600 shrank to fewer than 20.

    “We were mistreated, cheated and betrayed by some of our brothers,” he says. “Those people were nothing but hypocrites, liars and traitors and were waiting for the right moment to switch sides with whoever pays them most.”

    Assuming the two documents are authentic — and the US military insists that they are — they provide a rare insight into an organisation thrown into turmoil by the rise of the Awakening movement. More than 80,000 Sunnis have joined the tribal groups of “concerned local citizens” [CLCs] that have helped to eject al-Qaeda from swaths of western and northern Iraq, including much of Baghdad.

    US intelligence officials cautioned, however, that the documents were snapshots of two small areas and that al-Qaeda was far from a spent force.

    ……The Anbar letter conceded that the “crusaders” — Americans — had gained the upper hand by persuading ordinary Sunnis that al-Qaeda was responsible for their suffering and by exploiting their poverty to entice them into the security forces.
    Al-Qaeda’s “Islamic State of Iraq is faced with an extraordinary crisis, especially in al-Anbar”, the unnamed emir admitted.

    In an apparent reference to al-Qaeda’s brutal tactics, he said of the Americans and their Sunni allies: “We helped them to unite against us . . . The Americans and the apostates launched their campaigns against us and we found ourselves in a circle not being able to move, organise or conduct our operations.”

    He said of the loss of Anbar province: “This created weakness and psychological defeat. This also created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight.

    The morale of the fighters went down . . . There was a total collapse in the security structure of the organisation.” The emir complained that the supply of foreign fighters had dwindled and that they found it increasingly hard to operate inside Iraq because they could not blend in. Foreign suicide bombers determined to kill “not less than 20 or 30 infidels” grew disillusioned because they were kept hanging about and only given small operations. Some gave up and went home.

    Finally the emir recommended rewards for killing apostates, using doctors to kill infidels and offering gifts to tribal leaders. He said al-Qaeda’s fighters should be sent to more promising areas such as Diyala province or Baghdad — which is exactly what happened.

    Rear-Admiral Gregory Smith, the US military spokesman in Baghdad, called Abu-Tariq’s testament a “woe-is-me kind of document”. It calls the Sunnis who switched sides a “cancer in the body of al-Jihad movement”, and declares: “We should have no mercy on them.”

    The author lists those who have made off with al-Qaeda weapons or money, describes the group’s arsenal, including C5 rockets, which are used against helicopters, and records the fate of the battalions under his command.

    Most of the first battalion’s fighters “betrayed us and joined al-Sahwah [the Awakening]”, he says. The leader of the second ran away and all but two of its 300 fighters joined the Awakening. The activities of the third were “frozen due to their present conditions”. Of the fourth he writes: “Most of its members are scoundrels, sectarians, non-believers”.

    He lists 38 people still working for him but beside five names he has written comments like “We have not seen him for twenty days” or “left us a week ago”. He concludes, wistfully: “And that is the number of fighters left in my sector.”

    Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3346386.ece

    Gee, the beleaguered Abu-Tariq sounds so much like Pelosi, it’s downright scary.

  • Yuh-uh, IVAW don’t disrespect vets

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    The above photo is from Adam Kokesh’s blog (click the photo for link) – the banner was designed by Jonathan DeWald and posted on Kokesh’s blog just this last Sunday (h/t Robin for sending me the link this morning). In the event that Kokesh takes it down, I’ve saved a .pdf of the web page.

    But I’ve been getting emails and comments in reference to the post below about how I should stop being disrespectful to veterans and I should stop questioning their service – at least one of the commenters here also commented on Kokesh’s post. That same commenter disavowed knowing DeWald – well the page URL has DeWald’s name in it, for pete’s sake and since you commented on his artwork, Army Sergeant, you’re certainly familiar with his work, aren’t you?. I didn’t see you criticize DeWald or Kokesh like you’ve tried to chastise me.

    DeWald – a member of the Iraq Veterans Against the War who has never set foot or laid eyes on Iraq – is questioning the service of members of the Gathering of Eagles.

    First off, the name of the organization doesn’t make the claim that it’s an organization of veterans like IVAW claims to be an organization of veterans who served in Iraq. A classification that DeWald can’t claim, by the way. I’ve at least been to Iraq three times in the space of a month – each time under combat conditions – but I don’t qualify for membership in the IVAW.

    Secondly, I’ve never met a member of the Gathering of Eagles who wasn’t a veteran – most are veterans of Viet Nam.

    Now if DeWald and Kokesh are trying to claim that the Gathering of Eagles members aren’t “real” veterans because they haven’t served in Iraq, DeWald must include himself under that “never served” tag, too, and Kokesh would have to admit that he didn’t serve honorably in Iraq, since he smuggled an Iraqi pistol back from Iraq during his service there – which is why he was busted a pay grade and he was refused a second tour to Iraq.

    Of course, neither will admit to the reality of the circumstances, mainly because they’re self-serving hypocrites and a bit delusional. But before the rest of you, who might have legitimate reasons for being members of IVAW, go off half-cocked, please look at the public face you’ve put on the organization. If you want to save a modicum of credibility, you have to purge your ranks of the criminals, liars and sociopaths.

    And try applying the same standards to your own ranks that you try to impress upon me.