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Iran and syria are at it again

Lebanaon looks set to explode. Again.

Clashes broke out in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley today as rival factions prepared for what many in the country feared would be a bloody showdown between the Government and the Shia group, Hezbollah.

At least one person was killed when fighting broke out in a mixed Sunni and Shia neighbourhood near the Bekaa town of Chtaura as supporters of Hezbollah and the allied Amal Movement fought partisans of the pro-Government Future Movement.

(Note from Markos: Can somebody please find an angle to Blame Boosh™ for this? It’s patently obvious that the criminal invasion of Iraq by the crusaders and occupiers has stirred up this unpleasantness in a region where peace and tranquility have otherwise reigned for centuries. Please pass on approved progressive responses to Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean).

Uh-oh! Methinks perchance Messrs Carter and Obama are needed to smooth things through with a bit of hope and, errrm, some change, and some talking to enemies, and stuff.

Last night, Sheikh Rashid Qabbani, the Sunni mufti of Lebanon, delivered unusually harsh criticism of Hezbollah, describing the party as an “armed gang of outlaws that have carried out the ugliest attacks against the citizens and their safety”.

An armed gang of outlaws! WHAT???? These people are legitimately-elected representatives of the people!! Or perhaps he’s absolutely right, and the scales are falling from the eyes of the people regarding radical Islamism - Lebanon could actually become, together with Iraq, a bulwark in the fight against these barbaric savages, if they tough it out and destroy the rag-tag gangs who actually do the fighting (Hezbollah will of course deploy their very own Comical Ali to hail the great military victories of their street thugs, all the while downplaying the actuality of Lebanese troops shooting them like fish in a barrel).

The Higher Shiite Council, the leading authority for Lebanese Shia, today accused the Government of “bias” and blaming it for triggering the crisis.

Triggering it by not capitulating to the threats of a bunch of seventh-century hoodlums, one assumes?

But Marwan Hamade, the Minister of Telecommunications, told The Times that the Government had no intention of rescinding its decisions.

“Hezbollah has unmasked itself. It is not a resistance movement, but a militia trying to take power in Lebanon,” he said.

Quite so, old chap, quite so. The only part you need to add is ‘funded by a pencil-necked weirdo and a grinning midget psychopath from the Axis of Evil’.

Courage, as a proven fabulist once said.

Today’s Anti-Islamofascist Action: Save Media Freedom in Yemen

URGENT help needed, via Jane at Armies of Liberation, who is the go-to for news about the Yemeni dictatorship. A prominent pro-democracy journalist in Yemen is facing a jail sentence–again:

Renowned journalist Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani is one of Yemen’s most prominent democracy advocates - for which he has paid a steep price. His paper has been closed, his website blocked, and his children threatened. He is now due to be sentenced on May 21 for “insulting the president” and “demoralizing the military.”

During his arrest in June of 2007, Al-Khaiwani was beaten and his six-year-old daughter slapped unconscious. While released on bail in August, Al-Khaiwani was kidnapped and tortured by thugs who threatened his life if he continued to write about Yemen’s president.

As al-Khaiwani’s sentencing approaches, there is growing fear a guilty verdict will open the door for a brutal crackdown on Yemen’s already-endangered journalistic community. Join with al-Khawiani’s supporters in Yemen and throughout the world as we urge the Yemeni government not to imprison journalists for their work.

Al-Khaiwani stands on principle for free speech. When he was arrested in 2004 (for “insulting the president”), prison guards broke his jaw - yet he still refused to agree to stop writing. In June of 2007, he was re-arrested on similar charges and dragged outside in his underwear. After being released on bail, he abducted by gunmen who broke his fingers threatened to kill him if he “wrote another word against the president or national unity.”

Civil rights advocates inside Yemen and abroad believe the charges against al-Khaiwani are unsubstantiated and simply punishment for his critical reporting. In fact, one of the main pieces of evidence used against him by prosecutors is an unpublished article criticizing Yemen’s president.

All I ask is for you to send a letter–it’s already filled out, you just have to send it. You won’t get spammed or anything; you can opt-in for updates from them about freedom of the press in Yemen if you want. (Or you can just read Jane’s blog, like I do, and get other news as well, like the latest on the USS Cole bombers.) You can keep your name off the public list, too.

Jane tells me this is due to get some major media coverage in the region, so every bit of support is needed. Just one minute of your time, please. Click and send the letter.

9/11 Truth Finally Revealed!

HAHAHAHAHAHA 9/11 TROOF!!1!!11

For extra laughs, look at the angry retarded troofers in the YouTube comments. (Trust me, there are few things as fun as getting troofers upset.)

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Note: Do not feed troofer trolls here. Just mock them. They are impervious to logic and/or anything that proves they are wrong. Believe me, it’s not worth your time. BTDT, got the “government shill/bury brigade” moniker at Digg to show for it. I know Google will be bringing the idiots here, so consider it Google’s entertainment gift to us, at least until I get tired of them and start lowering the banhammer on troofers.

Moveon.org & the DNC: 100 Years of Stupid

The Stupid.

That one’s from the DNC, not MoveOn.org, but what’s the difference? Not to worry, though, moveon.org has released their own “100 years” strawman ad called “Candles.” Really, if this “100 years” strawman is the best they’ve got (and it appears to be their election strategy, along with “McSame” - LOL), I’m thinking we’ve got smooth sailing on the horizon. Obviously the libs really do believe voters are too stupid to figure out that it’s dishonest nonsense.

But for the libtards’ benefit (since they apparently are that stupid), a little fact checking is in order. Not that MoveOn or the DNC care about those pesky things called “facts.”

Please, Democrats, do stick with that strawman campaign!

Vote Democrat

Thank you President Carter

Jimmy Carter loves thugs and dictators. If you regularly violate human rights and torture, murder, maim, imprison or otherwise destroy ordinary people then by all means, President Carter is your friend. He decides that since Hamas is so good at this, he would go chat with them to see how he can help them feel good about themselves.

Now, I really haven’t seen much of this in the news about Carter’s trip to see Hamas and it really isn’t surprising that the news media is ignoring it. Here’s why: Earlier this week, Carter defended his trip to see Hamas. He said he failed to convince them to stop shelling Hamas for a month. Note, not stop shelling period, no, just for a month. So it’s ok to kill Jews, as long as you wait a month? Is that it Mr. Carter?

So when Carter got there, they negotiate and agree to peace for 10 years as long as Israel agrees to the pre-war borders. Carter comes out and announces a big win. However, during the very next meeting, Hamas launches the biggest attack in about 5 years. Killing 3 soldiers and hurting a child. They did this is during the meeting, while Carter is sitting there with the top terrorist. He was totally oblivious to what is happening. Hamas then comes out and contradicts everything Carter said after the first meeting.

That’s not the worst of Carter’s woes. Hamas, as you know, is a puppet of Iran. What do you think led the Iranian news (and news stations all through the Middle East) that night. Carter, shaking hands with Mr. Hamas-boss super-imposed with the details of the new attack. Carter was used. He was pulled off the roll, used to wipe and then flushed. Carter, by virtue of being an ex pres, has credibility. When he is seen with a group like Hamas, he gives them legitimacy. He gives them the pictures they need to coerce people. “The U.S. is on OUR side, you better obey or you’ll disappear with their blessings”. Carter either didn’t realize this or he didn’t care. The State Dept has a study that shows that terrorist groups like to launch their biggest attacks while “negotiating” for peace. It was standard operating procedure here and Carter swallowed it hook, line and sinker. Carter was reduced to a stammering “I did my best, yada yada yada…” and looks like a complete fool.

So, why do I say thank you to him? Why has the news media pretty much ignored this? Simple. Barack Obama says he wants to negotiate with Hamas. He says he’ll meet with them without pre-conditions. Thank you Jimmy Carter. You just showed us what the real world does to a hippie fantasy. We can now point at your abject failure to show what a failure Obama WILL be. His biggest foreign policy plank, meet with people that we used to refuse to meet with, is now toast. Every time he suggests it, we can hang Carter around his neck and sink him. This hippie “sing cumbaya and talk” junk does not work with thugs. We knew that. Now, more people will know it too. We just need to keep reminding them. So thank you President Carter. You showed what a fool you are, and by extension, what a fool Obama is.

General Petraeus Recommended for CENTCOM Chief

If anyone’s deserving of a promotion, it’s General David Petraeus.

Army Gen. David Petraeus has been asked to take over the U.S. military’s Central Command, which oversees combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Associated Press.
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Army Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno is expected to take command of coalition forces in Iraq, according to CNN and AP.

CNN has streaming live coverage (so does Fox News) of the press conference, and of course it’s on teevee right now.

More at Hot Air for the moment. Abu Muqawama says the real story, buried by CNN, is that LTG Odierno is headed back to Iraq to replace Petraeus. I’ll be waiting for insider commentary in the comments there, and at the Small Wars Journal and Blackfive.

Jimmy Carter honors Yasser Arafat

He doesn’t even pretend that he doesn’t support terrorists any more, I guess. So progressive of him to lay a wreath at Arafat’s grave.

Read more from Nice Deb.

jimmy Carter and hamas

It’s no wonder Carter is reportedly planning (along with Manbearpig) to endorse Barack Obama if Hillary doesn’t “step down”–they both have a special place in their hearts for the scum who want to “push Israel into the sea.”

Barack Obama refuses to criticize Jimmy Carter’s meeting with Hamas. Is it because Carter may soon endorse him or because Obama once helped fund an organization opposed to Israel’s existence?

Think Dhimmi Carter is a great guy? You’ll looove Barack Obama. Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama: Friends of “palestine!”

Meanwhile, Gay Patriot has sounded the call to contact your Senators asking them to censure Jimmy Carter.

Including his term in office, but mostly after, Carter has a history of actions intended to undermine and destroy the United States of America. His meeting this week with Hamas should be the last straw for those who believe in this nation.

I’m all over it. I’d say unless your Senator is named Barack Obama, you should too (Obama would be a waste of a phone call or email).

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GySgt William “Spanky” Gibson

I’m sick of ugly libtard elitists. Let’s talk about a real American hero instead.

Meet Gunnery Sergeant Spanky Gibson.

Spanky was deployed to Iraq in January 2006 as a Joint Terminal Aircraft Controller. From a forward position, he coordinated, integrated and directed the actions of combat aircraft engaged in Close Air Support (CAS) and other offensive air operations. On 16 May 2006, Spanky was injured while conducting a foot patrol in Ramadi. He was attached to the 1st Iraqi Army Brigade, 1st BN, when he was shot by a sniper in the left knee cap. His wounds resulted in the loss of his left leg, just above the knee.

Now this is a hell of a story.

More here:

Gunny Gibson lost his entire leg after an Iraqi sniper fired a round through his knee in Ramadi in 2006 - May 16, 2006 - just 19 months ago. He is the first full leg amputee to be returned to the fight - redeployed as an active marine. This Gunny had been in the marines for 18 years - that is who he is. He said all he wanted to do was get back into the fight. He said returning to Iraq was his first step back to feeling like he was a marine again. He runs half marathons with his prosthetic and it was when he swam in a race from Alcatraz and ended up at the feet of General Mattis out in California. As he emerged from the water General Mattis asked him what he could do for him - he said, “Sir, send me back to Iraq.” It was the only way he said that he would feel whole again. His wife and 4 year old daughter are in Oklahoma. This marine is now supporting his unit from the back - coordinating fire in the Combat Operations Center in Camp Fallujah.

In that piece, they say you can email the Gunny:

I asked him if he would engage some of our viewers with e-mails - take questions and he said yes - so if anyone wants to write to him and give him a bit of support and ask him what it is like to be back - here is his e-mail: gibsonwespanky a+ yahoo d0+ com or if that doesn’t work try gibsonwlspanky a+ yahoo d0+ com.

Another Gunny over at Townhall wrote about him in February, and Gibson responded in the comments:

February 21st, 2008 at 5:16 am:
To everyone, I will like to say “Thank You” to all of you who have given opinion or gratitude for what we all do, in service to our country. I usually stay pretty low-key when it comes to a camera or a reporter. It always seems to find me but, as an above the knee amputee, I think it is important to not only show my fellow Marines but all citizens that our abilities still exist. We new fighters strive to prove to all that fought before us that we do not wish to tarnish their hard work. Our service in Iraq or Afghanistan is to assist them in some of the same ways we needed assistance 232 years ago. War sucks, getting injured or dying sucks, but all of us serving raised our right hand and swore to do what is a responsibility. I take not one day back in my service. I would much rather be the Marine injured than one of my young Marines who have a long life to live. Thank you all again. I will gladly answer all of your emails as soon as I get the free time to do so. This was a quicker method to reach the masses. If you want to know the true heroes, its the family members that put up with us doing this job. Or holding our hand while we learn to walk again. To let go of that hand, as hard as it might be, to let us return to the same place that changed our life. My wife Chaney is the hero, I just support.
Semper Fi, GySgt Spanky Gibson

Damn. Thank you, Gunny and Chaney Gibson. Y’all are amazing. OORAH!

(How is it that I just now found this story by surfing around LiveLeak?)

Kossacks Can’t Read!

ZOMG, BUSH AUTHORIZED TORTURE!!11!

FAIL.

What’s important now we have at least ONE signed memo which establishes George W. Bush as the executive authority making final decisions in the NSC process which established a United States run torture regime; the document shown at the bottom of this post.

Wow, the President is the authority who makes final decisions in the NSC? Stunning news!!! Not.

Here’s the shocking document (PDF) that has all the Kossacks in an uproar. Please take note of items 3 through 5, but read it all thoroughly and tell me–where does he “authorize torture?”

Click the thumbnails to see full-size.

Libs are absurd, hysterical, lying idiots. It must suck having your entire worldview based on lies and fallacy.

(Also not news: Diggtards can’t read, either.)

Stupidest person in America?

Maybe. (Warning: it’ll make your blood boil.)

Uncle Jimbo and Drew M (at Ace’s) give this pathetic douchebag the beatdown which he so desperately deserves. For example, Uncle Jimbo:

Do the planet a favor Mr. DeBord and STFU about real men. Your attempt to portray Gen. Petraeus as a chickenhawk is the weakest of all arguments especially coming from someone who could only charitably be called even a girly man. Go back to your fern-filled loft and compare notes on the latest swill turned out by the grape-stompers. You need to leave the important business of who shall lead our country in war to those whose concept of it has progressed farther than fashion commentary about a man whose glass you are not fit to fill.

If that drooling idiot were on fire, I wouldn’t spit on him to put it out. He is a world-class asshat, to put it mildly. Thoroughly beclowned.

BTW, here’s his Amazon review of his own book (he graciously gave himself five stars, of course). Jerk. Feel free to make a contribution to the discussion. ;)

McCain’s Q&A with General Petraeus

Video from yesterday. Real Clear Politics also has video of Petraeus’ opening statement, and videos with Clinton’s and Obama’s disgraceful charades.
First, McCain’s opening statement. Nobody speaks with such clarity on the issue of Iraq (as well as foreign policy in general) like John McCain does.

This is John McCain’s Q&A with Gen. Petraeus.

Jimmy Carter to meet with Hamas (!)

Ex-Presidents For Genocide!

NEW YORK CITY — Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.

The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Carter was planning a trip to Syria for mid-April, during which he would meet with Khaled Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, on April 18.

If there were ever any doubt as to where Carter stands on terrorism vs. Israel–and for that matter, the West in general, including us–this ought to settle it. Hamas? I shouldn’t be surprised, but HAMAS? A former President of the United States is going to legitmize this?

“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”

“The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. ”

“There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”

“After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.”

THAT is Hamas. What next, Hizb’allah? I’m sure he’d have no problem meeting and chumming around with the mullahs in Iran; after all, at least they are a recognized government by the civilized world (unfortunately).

How about Osama Bin Laden next? Oh wait…then he might be asked to tell where Bin Laden is, and that might be too much to ask of Jimmy Carter.

No wonder Carter hearts Obama.

stein hoist Story and pic via LindaSoG, who’s got a companion “guess who” with it.

UPDATE: James Taranto nails it:

This is par for the course for Carter, who has spent decades trying to undermine American foreign policy and won a Nobel Peace Prize for it. It reminds us of one reason we’re uneasy about the idea of electing Barack Obama, who has made much of his desire to meet with hostile foreign rulers and has given us no reason to think he will take a hard line with them, à la Reagan with Gorbachev.

America elected Jimmy Carter 32 years ago and is still paying the price. Suppose history repeats: Obama wins and has a failed one-term presidency. Will he be jetting around the world meeting with terrorists and despots and denouncing America in 2040? Maybe not, but the thought gives us a shudder.

A note about the Blogads

Okay, I admit I sold out. There’s an ad ~~up there~~ scheduled for tomorrow that says “Support Troop Withdrawal.” To hell with that group. I took their money because it’s money in my pocket rather than in some moonbat’s pocket–or worse, supporting the candidacy of some miserable defeatist like Obama, Murtha, or John F’n Kerry. Besides, I need the money more than the average latte liberal does.

Anyway, I apologize for having that stupid thing–if I could change the headline, I would. Of course, I do support troop withdrawal–WHEN IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN ARE STABLE, and not a minute before then. I’m thankful that Veterans for America “supports the troops,” but they’re unapologetically partisan and their stance on the war reflects it. According to them, the surge has failed. I guess you know what that means–run away! Whatever. Thanks for the money, VFA (formerly Vietnam Veterans of America), but you’re wrong.

The other ads? Click ‘em! The more you click, the better my stats look and I can charge more money for ads. Please?

What I Learned on my Trip

I am back from the OEF theater of operations and I have learned a few things. One, the troop morale is high everywhere I visited. I was at a few different sites in Afghanistan, one in Kuwait, one in Qatar and then Manas, in the old Soviet Union. I didn’t see any despondent troops, and the majority were very upbeat.
I also gained a love for Qatar Airlines. Their service was awesome.
Finally, I learned that women from India and Pakistan can not sit still. I felt I was surrounded by professional mall walkers during both of my long flights. All in all it was a worthwhile trip, and I am more upbeat than ever on our chances for success.

Danish Cartoons Round 2? Kurt Westergaard on “Fitna”

Heh.

Support Geert Wilders - sign a petition.

To: The Dutch Government

WHEREAS Geert Wilders has exercised his fundamental human right of freedom of expression and spoken out, with facts and evidence, of the threat posed by radical Islam;

WHEREAS certain elements within Islamic communities have threatened a boycott of Dutch goods if Geert Wilders is not punished by the Dutch government for exercising his freedom of expression; and

WHEREAS certain elements in Dutch industry and the Dutch government are suggesting that Geert Wilders be prosecuted civilly or criminally, in order to prevent such a boycott;

IT IS RESOLVED that, in the event that the Dutch government attempts, in any way, to punish or prosecute Geert Wilders, civilly or criminally, for exercising his freedom of expression, the undersigned will initiate a boycott of any and all Dutch goods.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

You read that right–prosecuted.

Meanwhile, Fitna IS back up at LiveLeak. Three cheers to LiveLeak for reversing their decision to kill it!

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