Our friends at the Jawa Report are not only all over the story about New Jersey’s own Jihadi, but had a direct hand in her being apprehended. How is that for cool?

This has become such big news since the Dinosaur Media picked it up. Who says right-wing blogs don’t provide valuable services? Kudos, Jawas!

NASA Ordered To Let Mohammed Atta Fly The Space Shuttle.

Yea.  Here’s another great idea from Teh Smartest President Ever:

NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said Tuesday that President Barack Obama has asked him to “find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries” as the White House pushes the space agency to become a tool of international diplomacy.

“In addition to the nations that most of you usually hear about when you think about the International Space Station, we now have expanded our efforts to reach out to non-traditional partners,” said Bolden, speaking to a lecture hall of young engineering students.

Your President is your new Travel Agent Terrorist.

“Non-traditional partners” meaning partners who contribute absolutely nothing to a mission and who do not want to come back alive.  Viewing our technological advances as potential weapons to use against us is also a plus.

When your “partner” starts yelling Allahu Akbar and storms the cockpit just know that we did everything we could to strip-search our own astronauts so that our intrepid Islamofascists would never tell the space aliens that we racially profiled them.

Is this post really hyperbole?  Nah.  Not when your Prez just named a terrorist sympathizing scumbag as your new ambassador to the Muslim world.  Once again highlighting that he’s more in tune with his Hussein than his Barack or his Obama.

You’ve got to love the Legacy Media spin though:

From the New York Slimes:

Report Faults 2 Authors of Bush Terror Memos

From the Hill, “we’ll have hearings on the hearings until I get the answer I want!” says husband of drunken bar brawling corruptocrat:

Judiciary chairmen vow hearings on torture memos report

From the Administration’s public relations farm team at the Washington Post(Op Trannies):

Authors of waterboarding memos won’t be disciplined

From Neo-nationalist People’s Radio:

Yoo And Bybee, Lawyers Behind ‘Torture Memos,’ Will Not Face Disbarment, Criminal Punishment

al-Reuters:

US: Lawyers Misconduct Shows Need for Torture Inquiry

They have a real funny way of describing how someone was found innocent.

What a traitor looks like:

Al-Qaeda is running the Department of Justice.  Foxes, henhouses and what’s for dinner:

Attorney General Eric Holder says nine Obama appointees in the Justice Department have represented or advocated for terrorist detainees before joining the Justice Department. But he does not reveal any names beyond the two officials whose work has already been publicly reported. And all the lawyers, according to Holder, are eligible to work on general detainee matters, even if there are specific parts of some cases they cannot be involved in.

So your Attorney General is taking his fellow travelers out of Al-Qaeda’s legal farm teams in the U.S. and is putting them in direct control of the Department of Justice advising on detainees that they or their firms represented.  What do I mean “formerly”?

They are still representing them.

As for everyone else, Holder lists no names and no cases, but in a paragraph filled with modifiers, he makes it clear that all the lawyers who had advocated for detainees are free to work on general detainee matters.

The senior Department officials referenced above, like other political appointees who are similarly situated, have recused from particular matters regarding specific detainees in which their former firms represent the detainee or another party and from decisions relating specifically to the dispositions of particular detainees represented by their former firms. These recusals pertain to decisions relating to particular matters involving specific parties who are or have been represented by their former law firms within the relevant time period. However, as noted above, these senior officials have been authorized to participate in policy and legal decisions regarding detainee matters, in particular matters regarding specific detainees whom their prior employer did not represent, and in decisions relating to the disposition of such detainees. [emphasis added]

Oh, well that’s clear as mud then.  I used to work for one terrorist/client and now I have to swap out with my buddy who was representing a different scumbag.  Attorney A used to work for Khalid Sheik Mohammed and Attorney B used to work for Osama Bin Laden’s driver – so it’s okay for Attorney B to represent for KSM at the Dept. of Justice and it’s okay for Attorney A to represent OBL’s driver.  And this isn’t a conflict of interest how exactly?

The DoJ should be prosecuting terrorists not representing them from the inside.  In simpler times, people called this treason.  Some of us still do.

And if you think hauling Bush attorneys in front of Congress for show trials when they did nothing wrong is high drama wait until we get a hold of you.  Holder and his entire squad of Guantanamo Bay representing goons, who he refuses to name or say what they are doing,  should be frog marched in front of a military tribunal themselves and dealt with accordingly.

Instead they prosecute the people who kept America safe for eight years and put the legal lunatics who represented the enemy in charge of their former clients.  Madness.

Feel safe knowing that the Department of Homeland Security has everything under control from their strategic command post monitoring the comments section at the Huffin’ Glue Post:

As the winter Olympics begin, the Department of Homeland Security has disclosed that it will be monitoring the comments and posts on websites and social media like Twitter for information on possible terror threats. Among the sites listed in a privacy impact statement filed Friday afternoon by DHS are the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post, Twitter, Google and this web site, the Blotter.

Don’t you feel safer already knowing that instead of monitoring phone calls from Yemen to Dearborn, Michigan or that sketchy guy from Pakistan sitting in 26D who keeps trying to set his Hanes on fire that your witty and insightful comment on Sarah Palin writing notes on her hand has the attention of Janet Reno’s butch cousin.

I’m sorry. I thought this Address To The Nation was to all of the American people. Not just “The Nation” editorial staff.

This entire speech is nothing more than an attempt to calm his leftwing base. He needs to rehash why we are in Afghanistan as if anyone has forgotten.

One second he’s claiming Iraq was a distraction and that he’s not going to go into it and the next second he immediately goes into it and to my total surprise admits that he was always against it and does not support it which should really be a morale booster for the troops in that theater.

And it sounds like he’s going to try to Kosovo Afghanistan with a NATO-led gambit as if we can’t see Wesley Clark’s grubby fingerprints all over it.

If you are left uninspired listening to his hopey hokum – don’t worry. This speech was not for you. This speech was for Queen Nancy and in an attempt to please everyone he’s going to disappoint them all.

Amid unimaginable and unprecedented deficit spending in The Worst Economy Since The Great Depression ™, one Barack Hussein Obama lets the US taxpayers feed and pamper several hundred multimillionaire Hollyweird bigshots while his loyalist minions contemplate yet another tax on the middle class to pay for the war we were already paying for in the first place. Headed by a Ways and Means Committee Chairman who should be indicted for tax evasion no less.

“We’re not trying to insult anybody. We’re just trying to keep in the forefront what the financial costs are,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey (D-Wis.) told POLITICO.

He says with a straight face after voting to quadruple the current deficit with one bill and claiming that it won’t cost you a thin dime.

Is there anything this government does that we don’t already pay for? They want to tax you harder for a war they have no intention of winning.

Sacrifice your Trillion dollar pet projects and bunk science boondoggles to pay for your War of Necessity? Hells no.

Praise the Hague and pass the Arugula.

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Meanwhile, in another part of the world, The Men who caught the mutilator behind the Fallujah Massacre are being court-martialed because the terrorist had an owie on his widdle wip.

The three, all members of the Navy’s elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral’s mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.

Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named “Objective Amber,” told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.

The inmates are truly running the asylum. We need another tax to fund the criminal prosecution of our own soldiers and to baby the madmen who mutilate their corpses (and hang them from bridges) while their Commander-in-Chief slobs knobs with the Hollywood directors who portray our troops as borderline lunatics waiting to snap.

Were that it true…

It’s not too far fetched.  After all, his old law firm was representing at least 17 Gitmo detainees earlier this year.  What?  Is Lynne Stewart not available?  She is out of jail after all and now celebrated on the college talk circuit.

The last time New York put on a trial for the terrorists, the Blind Sheik’s attorney was convicted of conspiracy to provide material support that directly led to the deaths of hundreds:

One of the most incendiary communications was a message Stewart herself gave to the Reuters news service in June 2000 in which the sheikh announced his withdrawal of support for a cease-fire between the Egyptian Islamic Group and the Egyptian government.[12] The truce had been in place since 1997, just after his followers in Egypt had opened fire on tourists at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, killing 58 foreigners and 4 Egyptians.[13] Subsequently, high-casualty Islamist terrorism resumed in Egypt on October 7, 2004, with a series of bombings that killed 34 in and around the Egyptian Sinai resort of Taba. On July 23, 2005, three bombs exploded in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, killing at least 64.

Government investigators searching Stewart’s law offices found a draft of the sheikh’s fatwa that bin Laden later said inspired him.[14] In it, Abdel Rahman enjoined his fellow Muslims everywhere to kill Americans, even children, “to treat them with brutality,” and to “drown their ships, shoot down their airplanes, kill them on earth, in the sea or in the sky, kill them everywhere you find them” in order to obtain his release from U.S. prison.[15]
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In May of 2000, according to the prosecution, tapes indicate that Yousry told the sheikh and Stewart that the Abu Sayyaf group had kidnapped tourists in the Philippines and was threatening to kill them if the sheikh and Ramzi Yousef were not released. Stewart commented, “Good for them.”

All while the Blind Sheik’s show trial was being held in New York. “How could he have been responsible when he was locked up in jail all night?”, as the Joker might ask.

“Bottom line is we have had terrorists housed in New York before,” Mr. Schumer said.

As time will tell, we will see that he will be prosecuting the United States and the previous administration and not the men who attacked this country on September 11th.

In that, the terrorists won.  They kill us and we give them an attorney, a culturally sensitive meal three times a day and a taxpayer supplied prayer rug to wish for our deaths.

They won our national election in November 2008 and now they are just rubbing it in.

This decision befits President Obama’s rushed and misguided announcement on his second day in office that he would close Gitmo within a year. This was before the Administration had thought through what to do with the 215 prisoners there, though it did win him applause in Europe and on the American left. Yesterday’s decision rids Gitmo of these meddlesome detainee cases in order to speed up this entirely political shutdown.

I know I’ve said it before.  Back before the election I was speaking with a colleague about how you can’t worry about politics so much and that once in a great while that you have to let go and put your faith in the hands of the American people to do the right thing.

Again, boy was I wrong.   America voted to lose and got exactly what it wanted.

Sure, we can all take different socio-economic backgrounds, life experiences and what have you to bring additional perspectives to any project but looking beyond racial, ethnic, religious, gender, height, etc. to achieve your common goals is the measure of how far we’ve come as a society.

President Obama, extending condolences to the community at Fort Hood, Texas, reminded Americans on Saturday that people of “every race, faith and station” serve in the military — an oblique attempt to prevent a backlash against Muslims in the wake of Thursday’s shootings by an Army psychiatrist.
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“They are Americans of every race, faith, and station,” he said. “They are Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and nonbelievers. They are descendents of immigrants and immigrants themselves. They reflect the diversity that makes this America .

That is exactly wrong. Christians and Jews aren’t fragging their comrades and yelling out “God Is Great” while doing it. There is a fundamental defect in Islam that Obama refuses to recognize and why he is partly responsible for what happened.

It’s the Flying Imams case in a military setting. People are afraid to bring the nutty things Hasan was saying to the fore and confront him because they are cowed by political correctness. They were afraid of being called racists even as their lives were being threatened and serious red flags being raised.

Maybe if Dr. Medicine Crow, the Congressional Medal of Honor non-winner told you that Hasan was sending dangerous smoke signals and that he had a peyote vision of bad mojo that you would pat him on the headdress for bitterly clinging to the traditions of his ancestors.

“We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing,” the president said in the Saturday address.

Actually, we can. This “we can never know what drives men to do bad things” genuflecting is a load of bull. The shooter is alive. Fucking ask him! It’s Journalism 101. Of course we can know what leads men to do things. They’ll tell you if you’d be so kind as to put down your existential excuses and just listen to them.

Is it that hard to ask? Only if the answer is that you don’t want to know or refuse to recognize what the truth is.

And that’s the crux of our nation’s 12-step mentality. The people who can make a difference refuse to admit that we have a problem in the first place. Instead, we’ll rock back on some shopworn corporate Diversity seminar rigamarole about how a Muslim, a Jew, a Christian, a black lesbian, two Samoan transgenders and an angry dwarf all walked into bootcamp at the same time without noting that the Muslim who was handing out Korans the morning of and praising suicide bombers was planning to kill all of them.

All the diversity in the world will never assimilate the person who does not believe in the goal of the team. So for everyone who likes the cliches about “diversity is our greatest strength”, please take a long look at the body count this week and note that it’s also your greatest weakness.

The Jawas have video up of an interview with one of Hasan’s mosque-mates post-shooting:

Duane : I’m not going to condemn him for what he did. I don’t know why he did it. I will not, absolutely not, condemn him for what he had done though. If he had done it for selfish reasons I still will not condemn him. He’s my brother in the end. I will never condemn him.

Gavin Lee : There might be a lot of people shocked to hear you say that.

Duane: Well, that’s the way it is. I don’t speak for the community here but me personally I will not condemn him.

Gavin Lee : What are your thoughts towards those that were victims in this?

Duane : They were, in the end, they were troops who were going to Afghanistan and Iraq to kill Muslims. I honestly have no pity for them. It’s just like the majority of the people that will hear this, after five or six minutes they’ll be shocked, after that they’ll forget about them and go on their day.

Sounds like somebody needs hugs. In five or six minutes “Duane” should be tracked down and questioned for his involvement and foreknowledge if his story doesn’t add up with what’s on Hasan’s computer.

If only there were some way we could know what’s going on in their minds. It’s really quite a mystery! Like “how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop” – the world may never know.

Or, we could just take their comments at face value and assume that the enemy is among us and that we’re usually protecting them under the flags of tolerance and diversity.

13 dead. The shooter to be canonized by the Left as a victim of tour extensions and PTSD (which he wasn’t) and “Duane” still walks the street to preach and teach hatred to all of tomorrow’s martyrs in our own country and underwritten on our dime.

UPDATE: Killer attended same mosque as September 11th attackers at the same time they were there!

If there were only some way we could “connect the dots”. No sense in trying, I guess. Or even asking. Who knows what drives mad men to do the things they do? It’s much more thoughtful to sit there and stroke your chin about What Can Never Be Known than to get to the bottom of it.

Oh, here it is! He attends radical mosques that preach hate against our country and encourages this type of “acting out” as our nanny-state SMART DIPLOMACY overlords are wont to say. At least he’s not listening to that Glenn Beck. He’s the real terrorist after all.

I suppose you haven’t heard much about the jihadi crazy person who committed an act of islamic terrorism engaged in a man-made tragedy against Ft. Hood soldiers and civilians yesterday.

Well, I, for one, can assure you that this person was NOT an islamic extremist.

I think he may have been all wee-wee’d up about having to go serve overseas. But I’m not entirely sure, because I only get my news from ABCCBSMSNBCCNNPBSNPR. They’ve told me this was just another isolated crazy person with absolutely no ties to radical islam.

That’s a load off.

I’m sure glad we have a President who understands that the real threats against this country are imaginary increases in global temperature, unborn children, free market economies and the Constitution. Makes me sleep a little more soundly.

h/t Laura

You know that whole troops thing?  Not gonna happen.

At least not until we topple the Karzai government so that we can have a “credible” Afghan partner.  Nothing says “stability” like overthrowing your last “partner”.

Echoing Kerry:

Success in Afghanistan will not be defined by military objectives, Kerry said. “There is no military success ultimately to Afghanistan.”

Emanuel told CNN the U.S. effort requires getting answers to a “set of questions that have to have answers, that have never been asked.”

Obama “will not be rushed to making a decision without asking firm questions and challenging the assumptions,” he said.

Take your time, Miss.  We understand a delicate lady like President Obama reserves the right to change her mind. It’s not like you had two years of running for President to think of how to handle this question or 9 months in the Office, give or take a week or two lobbying for the Olympics, date nights or many vacations to hash out these “distractions” from the full-scale offensive in favor of socialized medicine.

9 months in and Bush was already dealing with 9/11.  By all means, take your time.

Does this war make my ass look fat?  Will Firedoglake and hullabaloo write nasty blog posts about my Change deficit?

Quick, hire Newsweek to take a poll asking how many average New Yorkers think my ass makes tasty chocolate soft-serve.

It’s not like there are people already in Afghanistan who can see that you’ve abandoned them .

NOW there are no gays in Iran.

Notice he never answered the question about Iran’s treatment of women.

On October 6, 2009, Rahim Mohammadi was executed in Tabriz, a city in northwest Iran, after being convicted of sexual abuse and rape during sexual relations between males …

He was hanged for committing homosexual acts, or Lavat, which doesn’t seem to be a part of the actual case, but he was not executed for the crime of forcing his wife into prostitution.

The lawyer explained that Rahim Mohammadi and Kobra Babai, married for approximately 16 years and with a 11 year old daughter, were living in conditions of extreme poverty and they were forced to rely on economic assistance from state organisations. Some employees of these organisations allegedly offered further money to the man to have sexual relations with Kobra, and he accepted. The woman was therefore made to prostitute with about forty men, according to public statements by lawyer Mostafai.

Rahim Mohammadi was flogged severely a few days before his execution and was hanged while his body was crushed because of the lashes he had received.

His execution was brutal and unjust in my opinion, but I don’t feel he’s any kind of a poster child. However, I do wonder what justice was served against the state employees who paid to rape his wife.

Oh here it is:

Mr. Mohammadi’s wife, Kobra Babai, was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery and could be stoned to death in the near future.

Do you really think he’ll pull through?

The obvious question – how can anyone tell a comatose state from his natural state? More importantly, who will threaten us with death now? Stupid question, as the queue stretches from Tehran all the way to some of the more dank corners of the White House.

This one’s for you, Ayatollah Assahola.

I don’t know what Day By Day’s copyright standards are or I would have reposted it here but this pretty well sums it up.

(Beware: unctuous female screed alert. Please note that estrogen, like a vampire, only enters blogs when invited and given a log-in.)

Sex and Love in Manistan.

This whole story epitomizes why I think the modern day Islamic culture is an enormous death cult. The ultimate deceit is the one that is presented with seemingly pious motives. But with all the poetic scripture cleared away, today’s practicing muslim is raised to believe that death is life and hate is love.

A leading Egyptian scholar has demanded that people caught importing a female virginity-faking device into the country should face the death penalty.

Abdul Mouti Bayoumi said supplying the item was akin to spreading vice in society, a crime punishable by death in Islamic Sharia law.

The device is said to release liquid imitating blood, allowing a female to feign virginity on her wedding night.

There is a stigma about pre-marital sex in conservative Arab societies.

A “stigma”!? Really?

I’m cool with abstinence before marriage. I think the whole notion is very romantic. But in America it is seen as a choice that arises from a sense of responsibility and self-respect. Forced abstinence is akin to rape to me.

The vilification of healthy sex is not a moral virtue. A culture where a girl can go to jail for trying to run off with her boyfriend, where she can be executed for being raped, and heaven forbid there’s no blood on her wedding night, her own dad might actually have to do the honorable thing and kill her. Poor guy.

Hell, all of this can be prevented when she’s 10 if you just do some intensive scraping with a broken piece of unsterilized glass and sew her up without anesthetic. But there’s still the possibility that the little ho might go carousing and lose her precious hymen anyway. Really they should just go ahead and do away with the girls that are born without one. Oh and the other 57% that never bleed due to a sufficient opening should be made to die a slow stoning.  I always wonder about them.

This glorification of death comes from the core of Islamic teaching: that you live to sacrifice and suffer. Self-sacrifice even to the point of destroying natural familial bonds. It doesn’t take reading very many honor killing stories to realize that Sharia culture is one that makes murdering your own flesh and blood, killing the child God himself blessed you with, a lesser crime than violating man-created gender barriers. Why wouldn’t this kind of thinking progress into the kind of suicide/homicide we’re seeing today?

I think the big elephant in the Middle East might be the under appreciated notion that a man needs love. The kind that’s freely given. Given by his mother and father and romantic partners. When he doesn’t have that, when he is taken from his mother when he is young, taught to treat the one who has provided affection for him as a second class citizen, when the wife he ends up with is a woman who is angry and beaten down and treats him with fear and disdain, he doesn’t feel powerful, he feels desperate. He has a hole inside him that he can’t fill with his false religion or his second or third angry wife. He ends up picking up a gun to shoot, and balling up his fists to fight. Who does he want to fight? The ones who have the love he didn’t get. How does he do it? By killing himself. A human unworthy of love. Having a happy, healthy life is a “stigma” in the Sharia culture. Why wouldn’t a “good muslim” blow himself up?

That’s why we hear “God is Love” over and over again in our “hedonistic” Western culture. It is not some saccharine statement made to make us feel warm and fuzzy. It’s to be taken literally. Where there is no love there is no God.

Almost a full year of being asleep at the wheel and Barack Van Winkle suddenly awakens from his nap:

President Barack Obama has called congressional leaders to the White House on Tuesday to discuss the worsening situation in Afghanistan, according to congressional sources.

Your opinions have been unnecessary to this point but now that it’s going to hell I’d like to ask for your input on how we can share the blame as I have been ignoring this major foreign policy issue for an entire year hoping that it would go away.

Tuesday’s bipartisan, bicameral leadership briefing on Afghanistan will mark the first time in six months that House Republican leaders have been invited to the White House to discuss official business.

First time in six months he’s asked for an opinion outside of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.  Coward.  Own it.  It’s yours now.  You void your warranty if you don’t check in for maintenance with the adults every once in a while.

“The president is confident with where we are in the process,” Gibbs said.

And if you buy that, I’ve got a bridge in Fallujah that I’d love you to sell you.

He really should just go unilateral on this one.  Listen to his nutty followers and undermine the Karzai government while they lay in wait at home with their digital cameras on charge for all the caskets to follow for making the mistake of ever listening to them.

They loved the Tet Offensive so much they want Oliver Stone to direct the sequel.

How long before the last soldier is airlifted by helicopter from the top of a building in Kabal?

Well, we can’t say that al Qaeda doesn’t own a television set.  They’ve done everything right over the last year.

First, the US casualties were so low in Iraq and Afghanistan that the media was allowed to switch the focus back to “it’s the economy, stupid” in the final days of the US presidential campaign last year so that Americans would think they weren’t a problem anymore and could elect a peacnik – which “we” did.

And once he started getting all wobbly on the effort, despite his numerous persuasive speeches on how he was tear them a new one in Afghanistan, they give him a bloody nose because he’s a paper tiger that’s going to fold like yesterday’s New York Times:

Saturday’s battle was the deadliest for US forces since the battle of Wanat, and the deadliest for coalition forces in Afghanistan since 10 French troops were killed in an ambush in eastern Afghanistan in August 2008, according to Agence France-Presse.

This year has seen a rise in the number of US casualties in Afghanistan as the US troop presence has increased to 68,000 and the frequency of confrontations with the Taliban has grown. The Christian Science Monitor reported last month that 80 percent of Afghanistan now sees heavy insurgent activity, as opposed to 54 percent two years ago, with the violence growing particularly in northern Afghanistan.

America voted for the weak horse.  Of course Obama has no intention of a “surge” in Afghanistan.  He wasn’t for the one in Iraq that worked even after it worked.  He’s a lover (of himself first and foremost), not a fighter.  No, if he moved to silence the resurgent al Qaeda network in Afghanistan with the vigor he’s gone after our country’s Generals they would need to recruit a speech pathologist:

General Petraeus’s aides now privately call him “Dave the Dull,” and say he has largely muzzled himself from the fierce public debate about the war to avoid antagonizing the White House, which does not want pressure from military superstars and is wary of the general’s ambitions in particular.

The general’s aides requested anonymity to talk more candidly about his relationship with the White House.

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But until the president makes a decision, and determines if he wants to deploy General Petraeus to help sell it, the commander is keeping his head down. “He knows how to make his way through minefields like this,” said Jack Keane, the former vice chief of staff of the Army.

Petraeus has made his way through the minefields of Iraq but now it’s his employers that are trying to frag him.  After all, what do several Generals with winning records know about fighting a war than a community agitator who has zero military experience, who never held a real job and who was in the Senate for about a year before running for President?  He’s more worried about Petraeus’ presidential aspirations than winning Afghanistan.

Next year we will see how America loves the guy who lost a war that was under control when he took office.

More from Teh Smartest President Evah:

Rice said on “Meet the Press” that “the president has to make a judgment based not only on military assesments” but on reports from diplomats and ambassadors in the region.

“The president, as commander in chief, has to look at more than what’s happening in a single theater,” Rice said…

That’s right – discount the word of our generals in favor of regional diplomats and ambassadors.  After all, they always have our best interests at heart.  Trade our guys in Afghanistan in favor of, say, a meaningless UN resolution on Iran.  Throw in a unilateral nuclear arms reduction for the icing.  It’s bulletproof!

I’m sure they’re shaking in their Members Only jackets and not just because the Brutal Afghan Winter  ™ is coming.

The military coup is almost underway so says one Bruce Ackerman in the Washington Post this morning. Take that NewsMax!  Gen. Stan McChrystal had the nerve of trying to get the President’s attention while he was off galavanting across Denmark to win crooked land deals for Chi-town’s Crony Communists and it’s a sign of the apocalypse.

Is there some other way, through our Dowdian tinted glasses that we’re supposed to interpret this post by Jim Crow in the Washington Post?

News of McChrystal’s position (ed. – against Obama undermining the Karzai government) had been leaked to Bob Woodward and was published in The Post early last week. But it is one thing for some nameless Washington insider to engage in a characteristic power play; quite another for McChrystal to pressure the president in public to adopt his strategy. This is a plain violation of the principle of civilian control.

Nevertheless, precedents have the habit of adding up. Unless McChrystal publicly recognizes that he has crossed the line, future generals will become even more aggressive in their efforts to browbeat presidents.

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Though McChrystal may feel “crushed,” he should show more self-restraint. Indeed, his breach should provoke a broader discussion of the meaning of civilian control in the 21st century. It may well make sense for the Pentagon, or a special commission, to frame more concrete guidelines so that we may avoid future breaches.

The Pentagon should throw McChrystal in the brig, huh? Let the Black Panthers go, open the gates of Gitmo and prosecute the CIA agents but Heavens forbid! – a breach of protocol.  The thing is McChrystal is his guy!  He picked him.   This isn’t some leftist holdout fragging him like Richard Clarke did to Bush.  Some political holdover with an axe to grind sending out a vague e-mail saying some day, some time, a guy who attacked us before who he failed to pursue for 8 years is probably going to do it again eventually.

This is your guy – who you are ignoring – desperately trying to get your attention and that he needs some help and you’re off playing footsie with the OIC to raise money for political patrons.  More than likely because he’s doing it because loves his country and in no small part because you’re going to blame him when it all goes to shit after you dedicate all the resources necessary for him to lose the task you put in his charge.

Ackerman may be content to tell the Generals to sit down, shut up, ride in the back of the bus and drink at segregated water fountains but it’s time for the current resident in the White House to embrace the rich mosaic of diverse opinions when his own people are trying to prevent him from getting a lot of good people killed over political expediency.

All that’s left now is to uncover how long he’s been working for the Mossad.

A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.

A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver.

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A London-based expert on Iranian Jewry said that “jian” ending to the name specifically showed the family had been practising Jews.

“He has changed his name for religious reasons, or at least his parents had,” said the Iranian-born Jew living in London. “Sabourjian is well known Jewish name in Iran.”

A spokesman for the Israeli embassy in London said it would not be drawn on Mr Ahmadinejad’s background. “It’s not something we’d talk about,” said Ron Gidor, a spokesman.

I wouldn’t want to take credit for that one either.

Forget working on that uranium li’l bubbie, you just dropped the bomb on us.  Black is white.  Coke is Pepsi.

Given his numerous comments about wiping Jews off the face of the map, why not start with himself?  Let’s see how committed you are to this idea.

In response to the bombshell news of NuttyJacket’s lineage, the Obama administration has severed all diplomatic ties and Zbigniew Brzezinski has recommended that fighter squadrons be mobilized immediately to put the Mad Jew down like the zionist running dog he is.

Pissing On My Parade:  So-called “Iranian expert” explains that in no way can Ahmadinejad have a drop of Jew-dom him.  After all, he’s a direct bloodline relative of the Prophet Mohammed!

Uhh, yea.  Right.  Next thing you’re going to tell me that the 12th imam is walking the Earth and that he’s talking to him because the End Is Nigh.

Strong words from Max Boot on der Waffler-In-Chief vis-à-vis The Good War of Necessity That We Are Going To Fight and Win That I’m Currently Thinking We Don’t Need To Win So Much Anymore Because of A Poll I Read Last Week:

Maybe he’s panicking over falling public support for the war, especially among his liberal base. Yet this war remains far more popular than the one in Iraq was in 2006 when President George W. Bush approved the “surge.” If Obama asks for more troops, Congress is unlikely to oppose him.

We can’t let a little thing like Obama abandoning his previously zealous support for expansion of the Afghan front, that was his sole plank to support what a super-intelligent Smart ™ foreign policy badassssss that he was, distract us from the real fight for healthcare for illegal aliens because they paid state sales tax on a six pack of Modelo or dropping the bunker busters on the melanominically-challenged media mujahideen holed  up in the mountainside of Crackerstan.

True to form, the liberals who righteously touted Afghanistan as the Good War and Iraq as The Bad War are channeling their inner-John Paul Joneses.  “We have not yet begun to not fight!” That’s the way that old white man’s saying goes isn’t it?

But they’ll gladly send those red-state morons who  couldn’t get into college and like to kill babies and brown people to die for the cause they said they believed in out of political expediency.

Remember that the next time you see one of their websites support package drives for troops, Valour IT, and the like.   Anyway.  Time’s a wastin’.   That $40 a pound fair trade coffee isn’t going to drink itself.

AP (9/12/09) Reports: U.S. to give Afghan detainees new rights
AP (9/12/09) 5 U.S. troops among 50 killed in Afghan violence

After sucker punching Honduras for standing hand-in-hand with democracy, you just had to know that this was coming next:

The Obama administration attacked Israel on Friday for giving the green light to the building of hundreds of new homes in the occupied West Bank even as the two sides negotiate a freeze on settlement construction.

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“We regret the reports of Israel’s plans to approve additional settlement construction,” said Robert Gibbs, White House spokesman.

Suggested Obama Mid-East foreign policy title “Leave No Enemy Behind”.

Don’t worry any of our faithful Israeli readers.  It’s not just you that Obama hates.  It’s that you’re not using Union labor to construct the settlements and that building new homes when the old ones were still fine (give or take a few bulletholes) does not help to “green” the West Bank with environmentally-friendly jobs for “at-risk” Palestinian youth.  As if biodegrading back into Mother Earth in a thousand pieces wasn’t enough.

According to the Israeli official, a suspension of construction would be authorised only if the “conditions are right”, including if Arab countries made efforts to normalise ties with the Jewish state.

Read:  never.

The only question I have is what kind of sanctions await Israel for violating His word.  Do you cut off funds like you did for Honduras all at once or do you start by cutting off all military aid and sales as a wink and a nod to the Islamic hardliners Obama’s been groveling at the feet of like a slave since his Reign of Error began?

Whatever you say – never claim that he likes to meddle in the affairs of other countries.  Boy, he never does that.

Perhaps the Israelis can engage in the same spirited dialogue with the Palestinian encroachers that Iran did with their protesters to gain Mssr. Obama’s respect back.

Time magazine posits a most unusual “viewpoint” that terrorists and enemy combatants should be given the expectation of a fairer chance in American courts or else Dick Cheney wins in a surprisingly frank and honest defense of their hero, one Zacarias Moussaui:

It isn’t easy to have sympathy for Frenchman Zacarias Moussaoui (ed. – But Christ knows Time magazine will sure try), the only person convicted in connection with the September 11 terror attacks. During his trial, Moussaoui pledged his allegiance to Osama bin Laden and prayed that al-Qaeda succeeds in its violent jihad against the U.S; he also mocked the families of 9/11 victims and dared the court to inflict the harshest punishment for the crimes which, after veering erratically between denial and advocacy, he finally took responsibility for.

But other than that, what’s not to love?  As Time’s Bruce Cumley pounds his high chair as to why Moussaoui deserves a new trial,

“Why? Because justice and sympathy are different issues.“

Perhaps I missed key segments of the Sotomayor kabuki but did everyone finally settle on “Sympathy” being more important than “Justice” because something tells me that if Moussaui had been found innocent at trial that Cumley wouldn’t be arguing in favor of forsaking double jeopardy to try him again out of “sympathy” to 9/11 victims.

So we don’t have enough sympathy for the accused and that’s grounds for a new trial.  What of the evidence?

However, Moussaoui continued to make himself the ever-ready scapegoat in the pursuit of 9/11 justice that seemed to provide no other perpetrators to prosecute. He was, indeed, a dream come true for the prosecution. First, he fired his defense team, zigged and zagged between pleading innocent and guilty, and ranted in ways that had some observers questioning his sanity. And the circumstantial evidence against him didn’t make Moussaoui look any better: he was arrested in August, 2001 while attending a Minnesota flight school. When investigators took a closer look at him after 9/11, they discovered jihadist literature and plane flying information on his computer. Further inquiry led to the discovery that Binalshibh had wired him $14,000 from Germany; a check with French officials showed that he’d long been under watch as a suspected jihadist who’d made the de rigeur trip to al-Qaeda’s Afghan haven.

But Moussaoui had been in jail nearly a month when the attack occurred, meaning he couldn’t have been directly responsible for it. Moussaoui was also a lousy student who flunked out of several flight schools.

All that was missing was an Al Franken for Senate sticker on a rented van filled with ammonium nitrate.

If TIME Magazine ever decides to get out of the fake journalism racket, it would probably be a seamless transition to get into the goalpost moving business.  The court should have disregarded Moussaoui’s part in pursuit of killing US civilians because he was a special needs student at every flight school he attended to get the requisite training.  He’s associating with international terrorists, they’re wiring him money presumably not to reimburse him for the falafel they went in halfsies on last Friday night after mosque and traveled to Afghanistan to jump the walls and play on the monkey bars with his fellow jihadis.  Now since Moussaoui is not a rocket surgeon we need to let him go and reward his failure.

Welcome to the Clinton School of Anti-Terrorism.  If only it ended there.  Cumley then asserts that it is imperative that President Pyrite let Moussaoui go lest the U.S. appear to fall short of our ideals for fairness against those who would slit our throats and have their way with our livestock:

His mother Aicha el-Wafi, told TIME that Moussaoui informed her that he pleaded guilty in the fatalistic belief the process had to be rigged, that no American court would ever give a sworn enemy a fair chance. American values include respecting the rights of even those who attack them. That’s been a key consideration in Obama’s moves to roll back many Bush administration policies in the war on terror.

Oh noes!  Terrorists aren’t getting a fair chance to kill us and that’s against the True American Values ™ that Obama will hopefully restore. Can we declare TIME magazine al-Qaeda’s mouthpiece yet?

Yes we can! Mandatory Sunday morning reading on the release of several Iranian terrorists earlier this week who have killed hundreds of US soldiers in exchange for a couple of dead bodies. It’s so bad you just know that there’s more of this “smart diplomacy” to come. Not that it’s going to get much play in the state-run media.

If I were the church-going type, I’d start praying around this point.

Yes, I know I’ve been AWOL, but I’ve still been tuned in. The goings on in Iran should have everyone’s full attention – well, that attention that you’re not using to try and fight The Obamessiah’s USSA socialist Utopia. Our president can’t be bothered to “meddle” in Iran (this is because he’s likely on the side of the little Hitler and shares his love for general election fraud), but Howie has some suggestions on how to help the Iranian protestors. The original site that carried this guide is down for the count, but more is at Mere Rhetoric.

As most of you already know, I’m a very lame Twitter user, but I’ve changed my timezone to Tehran and encourage others to at least do that. It may not have a big impact but muddying the waters for the little Hitler’s henchmen can’t hurt.

Buffet favorite Cara Ellison is all over the Iranian situation, as are many of the blogs on our blogroll, so tune in.

While I realize that Mousavi is not exactly a best friend to the U.S., he does represent a far more moderate islamic wing and has the support of the vast numbers of Iranian young people who are more open to Western ideas and freedom. Our Dear Leader may be on the side of the Mullahs, but we should use the power of information and whatever tools are available to help these protesters, who are literally being slaughtered for standing up against oppression. It’s a far cry from our tea party movement – though I’m sure Buurrrack, Rahm and Janet are taking copious notes.