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  • Bush accepts some blame for Abu Ghraib

    The Washington Times writes that President Bush, in an interview with a reporter from the Saudi-run Middle East Broadcasting Center accepts some blame for the Abu Ghraib scandal;

    President Bush for the first time took a measure of responsibility for the 2004 Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq, during an interview with an Arabic TV network.

    “Abu Ghraib was a terrible disappointment. And admittedly, I wasn’t there on the site, but I was the Commander-in-Chief of a military where these disgraceful acts took place that sent the absolute wrong image about America and our military,” Mr. Bush said.

    I understand that President Bush is trying to firm up his legacy, but I’m not sure I like this new guy in the White House. Yes, he’s the commander-in-chief, and yes, he bears a small measure of responsibility because he’s the commander, but not to the extent he admits.

    It was a crime committed by seven dimwits who claimed they didn’t know that naked pyramids were  somehow inappropriate. And then they were so stupid, they took pictures of their antics and emailed the photos around to their friends. Their friends knew it was wrong – so why didn’t the perpetrators know it was wrong? They all received the same Law of Land Warfare class in Basic Training.

    Yeah, it did damage the image of the military, but only because the US media ran the pictures day-in-and-day-out – like the flushed Koran fairietale – to purposely damage the country and the military and fan the violence in Iraq.

    I’m waiting 9with unabated breath) for the New York Times and Washington Post apologize for their behavior during this war.

  • Ayers; no longer the unrepentent terrorist

    In a New York Times op-ed, Bill Ayers denies he’s an unrepentant terrorist – not the unrepentant part, the terrorist part.

    The Weather Underground crossed lines of legality, of propriety and perhaps even of common sense. Our effectiveness can be — and still is being — debated. We did carry out symbolic acts of extreme vandalism directed at monuments to war and racism, and the attacks on property, never on people, were meant to respect human life and convey outrage and determination to end the Vietnam war.

    Peaceful protests had failed to stop the war. So we issued a screaming response. But it was not terrorism; we were not engaged in a campaign to kill and injure people indiscriminately, spreading fear and suffering for political ends.

    So finely parsed isn’t it?  He plays the victim just like he did the night I heard him speak a few weeks back in DC. Then, as in this editorial, he claimed to be a victim of a media frenzy. The casual victim of the right-wing hate machine. You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet;

    I have regrets, of course — including mistakes of excess and failures of imagination, posturing and posing, inflated and heated rhetoric, blind sectarianism and a lot else.

    […]

    The antiwar movement in all its commitment, all its sacrifice and determination, could not stop the violence unleashed against Vietnam. And therein lies cause for real regret.

    We — the broad “we” — wrote letters, marched, talked to young men at induction centers, surrounded the Pentagon and lay down in front of troop trains. Yet we were inadequate to end the killing of three million Vietnamese and almost 60,000 Americans during a 10-year war.

    The real regret isn’t about the people who died because of the Weatherground’s action – the real regret is in the realization that they really couldn’t do anything to stop the war. I wonder if the dipshits in the modern anti-war movement understand that?

    Regardless, let’s look at some of WU’s projects, shall we? On March 6, 1970 a bomb went off in Greenwich Village accidentally. The bomb was an antipersonnel type bomb – they’d added roofing nails to the package of explosives, and it’s intended purpose was to kill NCOs and their dates at the Fort Dix NCO Club that night. Theodore Gold, Diana Oughton, and Terry Robbins were killed in the explosion. Cathy Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin survived the blast (because they were several floors above it).

    Kathy Boudin was arrested a decade later for the 1981 Weatherman Nyack, New York Brinks armored truck robbery which resulted in the murders of two policemen and an armored truck security guard. At that point,  Boudin was a member of the May 19 Communist Organization, along with several other former members of WU including David Gilbert, Samuel Brown, Judith Alice Clark, and Marilyn Buck.

    The fact that the Weather Underground, as an intact organization, didn’t kill anyone was purely accidental – they were bumbling Keystone terrorists, but terrorists, nonetheless. The intent was there – and of course, Ayers justifies that intent by waving the bloody shirt of US troops killed and Vietnamese killed. But, the truth is; Ayers and his merry band of dipshits planned to kill MORE American troops on our own shores – and he’s unrepentant about that.

    They bombed the Pentagon, the US Capitol and the State Department – they didn’t kill anyone purely by accident – only because they were incompetent boobs. Remind you of anyone?

    ADDED: Don Surber writes that Ayers is a liberal’s dream;

    Thus we see the perfect liberal.

    He never takes personal responsibility for his actions.

    He is always the victim.

    And he hides his true identity.

    In his case, he hates America, and he hates capitalism.

    Ziggy send a link to Michelle Malkin about a community organizing group’s auction which offers a dinner with Bill and Bernadine house. Ziggy would like to see one of ya’all win the auction and spend the evening sticking your finger in Ayers’ eye.

    More from Jules Crittenden.

  • The War Against Terror, in case you forgot

    It’s been easy to forget that the war against terror is actually a war against terror the last few years while Iraq and Afghanistan became (and still are) political footballs. With the Left trying to call the war “imperialistic” and “immoral” they seem to forget that there are folks out there trying to kill us all. The action in Mumbai last week has brought that home to those of us who remain sane. While IVAW and World Can’t Wait (the Maoist-rooted communist organization) were protesting the war in San Francisco, innocent people were dying in Mumbai for no other reason than to shock the world. Gateway Pundit writes that the death toll may reach 300 after scores of bodies were found stacked in some of the hotel rooms.

    At least four of those killed were Americans. Not American spies, or American military personnel, but just Americans. Alan Scherr and his 13-year-old daughter Naomi were probably the same types who were protesting in San Francisco (Washington Post);

    Alan Scherr was an art professor with a comfortable life in the Maryland suburbs, but he spent 25 years studying Transcendental Meditation in a quest for something more. The search took him and his family to Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where they shed their old life in Silver Spring and meditated in the complex of a New Age mystic.

    Rabbi Gavriel N. Holtzberg, 29, and his Israeli wife, Rivka, 28 were apparently bound with telephone wires before they were executed in the Mumbai Jewish Center (Washington Post);

    “They were killed,” whispered Yeshiva boys just out of school, holding scooters and book bags.

    Grown men turned and strode away, suddenly tearing up.

    “I don’t understand how this works,” said Yosef Rodal, 18, a yeshiva student who said Gavriel Holtzberg was a distant relative. “How do bad things happen to good people?”

    Four peaceful people murdered purely for the shock value – no military goals, no tactical advantage. Just mass murder – and the 200 known dead weren’t enough. The only terrorist captured alive claims they were going for 5,000 dead (Daily Mail);

    Azam Amir Kasab, 21, from Pakistan, said the attacks were meticulously planned six months ago and were intended to kill 5,000 people.

    He revealed that the ten terrorists, who were highly trained in marine assault and crept into the city by boat, had planned to blow up the Taj Mahal Palace hotel after first executing British and American tourists and then taking hostages.

    Well, no they weren’t really highly trained – anyone can pull a trigger and pull pins on grenades. A highly trained force would have gotten out alive after killing a lot more people. As Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive wrote last night these ten people were “not much more than chimps with an evil purpose”. Curt at Flopping Aces says they’re just run-of-the-mill cowards.

    Does anyone think that ANSWER or World Can’t Wait or Not In Our Name are going to protest the people who sent the ten chimps out to kill innocent people? Not on your life. A few days ago, I got to listen to the same types defending Bill Ayers’ domestic terrorist activities as a logical result of American foreign policy. They damn sure aren’t going to condemn foreign terrorists.

    In fact, The Nation finds a Pakistani to condemn American and Indian State terrorism as the reason for the attacks. In between rants about ‘Hindu facism” and in the typical sleight-of-hand language of the terrorist apologists in this country to which we’ve become accustomed, Humayun Gauhar writes;

    Group terrorism is a last-resort cry of a people long oppressed. Poorly armed, in utter desperation, they turn their own bodies into bomb delivery systems for lack of cannons, missiles, Predator drones and helicopters armed with Hellfire Missiles, fighter jets and bombers that State Terrorists have. They don’t have Daisy Cutters so they make ‘Improvised Explosive Devices’. India is one of the biggest State Terrorists of them all. Pakistan is the biggest victim (and sucker) of both State Terrorism and group terrorism, a hapless country that always becomes a frontline state in a superpower imperialist adventure gone wrong in return for millions of ingrate refugees to share scare food with and thousands of foreign terrorists and freedom fighters pushed in by the failure of State Terrorism.

    So as long as it remains perfectly legitimate to kill innoncent people in large numbers to make a point, we can’t expect the Left to engage in meaningful discussions about how to defend ourselves since everything we do in that regard seems to be the wrong answer. If we can’t agree that there’s no rational justification for murdering innocents, I guess there’s nothing to talk about.

  • IVAW causes First Casualty in SF (Updated)

    Preaching to the choir, the Iraq Veterans Against the War took their worn and tired message to San Francisco for their performance recreation of what they call “First Casualty” which refers to the truth being the first casualty of war. They disrupted “Black Friday” shopping in Union Square for two hours before their press conference.

    Actually, it’s just a way to meet hairy-legged hippie chicks. I mean they can’t be serious. (You can click these pictures for a larger view)

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  • Anti-war clowns feel cold slap of reality

    Obama was their hope, he was their change. The far Left tossed Hillary Clinton aside and stalked Nancy Pelosi because they weren’t quite as anti-war as the moonbats had hoped. Obama was the hope – but now, not so much.

    The World Socialist Web Site laments the appointment of Robert Gates to another year at the helm of the Pentagon as the absolute betrayal of the Left by Obama;

    Obama won the Democratic presidential nomination over Senator Hillary Clinton in large measure because he appealed to the same antiwar sentiments that had propelled the Democrats to their victory in the 2006 congressional elections. His mantra throughout the primary campaign—a rebuke to Clinton and other rival Democratic candidates who had voted for war in the Senate—was that he would end the war in Iraq, “a war that should never have been authorized and never been fought.”

    Now, with the retention of Gates at the Pentagon, and the widely reported offer of the State Department to Clinton—as well as the selection of a slew of pro-war figures for lesser national security positions—Obama is reassuring the military, the intelligence agencies and the ruling elite as a whole that he will be firmly committed to the defense of US imperialism, including clinging to every inch of territory and every drop of oil secured by the Bush administration’s criminal aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    I’ll tell them right now, that no honorable person can take the oath of office and do what the Left expects of him. Before they got their cold slap of reality, Obama got one, too. That anti-war stuff worked on the BDS sufferers in the Democrat Party, but it didn’t work in the general election. Obama hardly mentioned the war after he won the primaries. He knows what the Left won’t accept – Americans don’t want to suffer another post-defeat period like we did after Vietnam.

    So, in a related piece, someone named Dee Knight writes that the key to ending the war is veterans and currently-serving military personnel;

    Whether President Obama plans to live up to the promise or not is beside the point, especially for the GIs: they want to go home and they don’t want to wait. We should look closely at this. We need to assess the mood of the GIs and their families. We should not expect it to be uniform, but we can be sure there will be a surging mood to get out of Iraq . And a lot of GIs will want to get out of Afghanistan – or stay out of it – at least as strongly. This mood could take many forms: petitions, sit-downs, AWOLs, etc.

    The vets’ and resistance movements should encourage the idea that the GIs can and will end the war NOW. And we should demand that the new president not only bring the troops home, but also:

    Make a serious effort to heal the wounds of the vets who were forced to fight there;
    Help vets get jobs and education;
    Grant unconditional amnesty to those vets and resisters who are either in exile or jail/brig/stockade, or suffering the long-term effects of less than honorable discharges.

    Granting amnesty to the criminals isn’t going to help the folks who’ve done their job. It won’t “heal their wounds” or help them get jobs and education. If one single event turned veterans against Jimmy Carter and the Democrats it was when Carter gave amnesty to draft dodgers. Many haven’t forgiven the Democrats since (it was what turned me away from Democrats). But the anti-war crowd has found their voice and rebuilt the momentum they lost after Vietnam. They’ve learned that they need a continuity of their movement beyond their political goals.

    The Left’s refusal to turn loose of their anti-war blather at this point only reinforces our continued need to support the legitimate and proven VSOs as well as the new arrivals like Gathering of Eagles, Move America Forward and Eagles Up. Our side used to condemn them for not speaking up against the Clinton Wars, we’d be just as hypocritical if we didn’t continue to support the troops during an Obama Administration. The anti-war clowns are planning anti-war activities in the Spring and we need to continue to show up, to be seen and to be heard supporting the US war against terror.

    This blog will continue in that endeavor – and we’ll continue to point out the idiots and ass clowns who try to undermine the morale and good order and discipline in the military.

  • Federal judge orders Gitmo prisoners released

    This is why courts and law don’t work when fighting terrorists. From the Washington Post;

    The decision came in the case of six Algerians who were detained in Bosnia after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and have been held at the military prison in Cuba for nearly seven years. U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon, a Bush appointee, ruled that five of the men must be released “forthwith” and ordered the government to engage in diplomatic efforts to find them new homes.
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    In an unusual move, Leon also urged the government not to appeal his ruling, saying “seven years of waiting for our legal system to give them an answer” was long enough.

    In the case of the sixth Algerian, Belkacem Bensayah, Leon found that the government had met its evidentiary burden and could continue to hold him. Bensayah’s lawyers said he would appeal.

    The judge urged the government to not appeal his ruling. Why? Because the decision was specious.

    In the case of the Algerians, the government presented mostly classified evidence in closed hearings that its attorneys asserted proved the men planned to attack U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

    […]

    Leon said the government did not provide enough credible and reliable evidence during a series of closed hearings to justify the detentions of the five Algerians…. The government did not provide enough information about the source to determine whether he or she was credible or reliable, Leon ruled.

    Funny how these guys kept their mission secret and only confided in a single incredible and unreliable witness. So secret, that the judge didn’t want to believe the witness or the evidence against them. The government ought to establish a half-way house for these five in the residence next to Judge Leon‘s home – ya know, just to asimilate them into the real world since their long imprisonment.

  • Shocking; al Qaeda doesn’t buy Hope nor Change

    I thought the planets were all going to align, dogs would start dating cats and terrorists would pelt us with flowers when Obama was elected. Apparently Ayman al-Zawahri isn’t buying the whole hope and change thing;

    Al-Zawahri also called Obama—along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice—”house negroes.”

    Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term “abeed al-beit,” which literally translates as “house slaves.” But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as “house negroes.”

    MSNBC has some more disturbing quotes from Zawahri;

    The tape also criticizes Obama for his position on Israel, stating that this proves his “stance of hostility to Islam and Muslims”.

    Al-Zawahri also urged Muslims to continue attacks against “criminal America”.

    The 11 minute and 23 second message is the first public comment by an al-Qaida about Obama’s electoral victory.

    Holy smokes! That might just mean that those folks who hate us, hate us because we’re Americans, not because of our policies or our leaders (as Democrats told us the last eight years). It may mean they want to blow us up no matter which party controls the reins of government. Jeez, I’d never thought of that.
    The Jawa Report has the complete transcript and video.

  • Obama’s base

    Reminiscient of the Sal in Harlem audio,   John Zeigler, the radio talk show host that first broke the story of John Kerry’s “botched joke” about our troops being stuck in Iraq because they’re dumb, is releasing a documentary called “Media Malpractice” in which he interviews some Obama voters and asks them simple questions like “What do you think about Barney Franks” and “What party controls Congress” to measure the impact the media had on voters in the recent election. The results will surprise no one who is regular reader of this blog. Here’s 10 minutes from the documentary;

    At his website, How Obama Got Elected, Zeigler admits that an interview of 12 people isn’t scientific, but he commissioned a Zogby poll to do a real sample and Zogby got similar results;

    512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points

    97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates

    Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

    57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)

    81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)

    82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)

    Read the rest at the link.

    The media refused to discuss any negative information about Barack Obama or Joe Biden and yet they made big deals about John McCain’s non-existent affair with a lobbyist, questioned the parentage of Sarah Palin’s son, and swallowed completely fake stories about Joe the Plumber. Just so we could have the first affirmative action President. I still remember the wringer that the Bush family went through from the beginning of the 2000 campaign, and yet the Obama and Biden families have come out of the campaign still smelling like roses.

    Of course, the media did the same thing for the Gore and Kerry campaigns, but somehow it didn’t work out for them well enough. It seems with practice comes perfection.

    Hat tip to Gateway Pundit.