Drug Cartels & Islamic Terrorists cooperate

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Hizbullah, Mexican drug cartels working together

U.S. fears drug cartels, terrorists using rail and bus systems

Border lawmakers fear drug-terrorism link

Global Terrorist And Drug Trafficking Cartels

All in a day’s work fighting, ah, er, containing, ah, er, responding too, ‘man-caused disasters.’  (Like this administration?)  DON’T SAY WAR ON TERROR!  YOU MIGHT OFFEND SOMEBODY!

AND GET THIS!

Terror inmates may be released in US: intel chief

President Barack Obama’s intelligence chief confirmed Thursday that some Guantanamo inmates may be released on US soil and receive assistance to return to society.

“If we are to release them in the United States, we need some sort of assistance for them to start a new life,” said National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair at his first press conference.   (BAILOUTS FOR TERRORISTS!)

PLUS!

AIG & CITI BAILOUT MONEY GOES TO ISLAMIC TERRORISTS

 

DID YOU KNOW YOUR TAX MONEY IS GOING TO TERRORISTS?

I DIDN’T KNOW!

Clowns, Jugglers & Freak Shows: update 2.4.09

GET A LOAD OF THE #2 AT DOJ!    He defends pornographers and works for unlimited abortion on demand!  Hey!  The American way!

OBAMA NATION:  Voters’ remorse in only 90 days

Clinton/Carter redux- hope and change down the drain

CHECK OUT THE PARTIAL LINE UP OF TAX CHEATS AND FRAUDS

PELOSI’S  POWERPLAY:   one-party rule in the House

SHE EVEN FREEZES OUT HER OWN!

Tom Daschle and Tax Problems  history

 

What is next?  Carol Moseley Braun for Supreme Court?  Perhaps, but first CLOSE GITMO!  (But Mr. Obama: what do we do with 250 murderers?)

AND NOW A TREASURY SECRETARY WHO FORGETS TO PAY HIS TAXES!   Man, oh, man…it just keeps getting better!  (1.13.09)

[1.16.09]   THIS TOP ‘EM ALL!

CASS SUNSTEIN is supposedly Obama’s new Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Administrator.  Who knows what the job entails, but we do know, Cass is an animal rights extremist.   He wants to BAN HUNTING and believes anyone eating meat or wearing animal skins is a criminal.   Therefore, animals should be allowed to sue human beings.   Animals have rights too!  Oh man, oh man, oh man.

Rove told O’Reilly last week  it was Panetta who agreed with Clinton that originating rendition was a good thing, but now they are all totally against it even though it has been successful. 

Announced today (1.12.09)—Adding to THE GENERAL DIVISIVENESS:  Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson with his homosexual ‘spouse’  will say a prayer at one of President-elect Obama‘s inauguration events.  Location: the Lincoln Memorial.   Apparently this is a nod to all the homosexuals who came unglued because Obama invited Rev. Rick Warren to pray the invocation at the formal inaugural.  Warren, you see, is a traditional Christian minister who heeds Scripture.  Robinson is otherwise, a man responsible for the terrible split in the Anglican Church, worldwide.   Warren’s crime?  Ministering in love to the gay community, and at the same time, opposing gay marriage.  Capital offense doncha know?

ALL THE GET GO ON GITMO:  [From Roger Hedgecock, 1.14.09]

61 Ex-Gitmo detainees have returned to terrorism.  “Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said 18 former detainees are confirmed as “returning to the fight” and 43 are suspected of having done in a report issued late in December by the Defense Intelligence Agency.”  Now we are closing Gitmo and there are claims we are torturing, and the fix is what?  Bringing jihadists to court so that they can wage jihad in court?! Come on.

[Compiled by Allan Erickson starting 1.7.09]

So, here we are, 60 days after the presidential election. We elected clowns who are appointing clowns. And we are surprised it’s a circus?!  We just elected the least qualified individual in history to assume the Presidency, so is it any wonder he is displaying his lack of executive experience by nominating people who are likewise unqualified or ill-suited?

>Soon we get to enjoy a $24 million inaugural festooned with protests by gays, and protests by pro-lifers, and who knows, perhaps a riot sparked by a few Palestinians as well?

>More massive bailouts are planned: funded by printing funny money, which only devalues the dollar and puts off the inevitable. Anyone for a round of Monopoly?  Spending our way our of recession?  It’s never worked before, why now?

>On the foreign policy front the Obama team wants to open “dialogue” with Hamas.  Perhaps we should also open a dialogue with Charles Manson to learn how best to get along with murderous psychopaths.

>Sounding like a conservative, Obama promises tax cuts. What will you do with your $500? Run right down to Walmart and stimulate the economy!  Paul Krugman, “expressing his conscience as a liberal,” says Obama is way wrong to behave like Bush concerning Tax Cuts!  Other Democrats, including Pelosi and Frank, are actively opposing Obama’s tax cuts in certain areas.   There will have to be some tax increases to fund the stimulus and global poverty relief and global abortion services, but we’ll get to all that in 2010 presumably.

>Obama promises cuts in federal spending in critical areas, like national defense, and increases in entitlement spending which aggravates our economic woes. The Obama “stimulus plan” being rammed down our throats will put 600,000 people on the government payroll. (I hear the FBI is hiring, or are they?)  What better way to resucitate the economy than putting our granchildren in hock?

>Obama promises tax increases on “the rich” and on “corporations” and on “small businesses,” all of which promises economic depression.

>Massive deficits and national debt are nothing to worry about say incoming administration officials and Clinton’s econo-guy Robert Reich.

>Obama Illinois colleague/ally/or whatever Gov. Blago is arrested/impeached, appoints Burris to replace Obama in the Senate, Reid goes ballistic, refuses to seat Burris, then backs off after being called a racist, saying “I don’t work for Obama.” It’s the Chicago Way one supposes, or is it now the D.C. Way? Obama got Harry on the phone and ripped him a new one.  Liberals begin feeding on Reid’s carcass while Obama heads over to the White House to have lunch with Bush 1, Bush 2, Jimmy “apartheid” Carter and Slick Willy.  It was all very friendly and bipartisan.  Early on it was revealed in the last six years,  Burris and his consulting firm have donated about $15,000 to Blago’s campaigns, begging the question:  did the Governor wind up selling Obama’s Senate seat afterall?!

>Eric Holder is Obama’s designee for Attorney General.  Holder agreed with Reno and Clinton that CIA should not communicate with FBI, one of the reasons we failed to prevent 9/11.  Oh yeah.  Let’s go back and repeat fatal mistakes.  Cut intelligence, hamper intelligence gathering, hurt our military, and hope for the best.   Geez.  HOLDER AGREES WITH BUSH THAT THE  GENEVA CONVENTIONS  DO NOT APPLY TO AL-QAEDA!  (But of course this is lost on the likes of Joe Klein.)  And on top of all this, there is the controversy  surrounding Holder’s involvement in freeing  FALN terrorists.   Right!  Confirmation hearings today (updated 1.15.09] and we forgot all about the Marc Rich pardon!

>Hillary “The Hammer” Clinton is nominated for Secretary of State: a loose cannon as chief diplomat. (If they attack Israel, obliterate Iran! Putin has no soul. Force China to embrace women’s rights.  Global warming is a national security issue.) Her only real qualification appears to be her leverage, and Obama seems willing to comply, leaving Camilla Paglia to wonder aloud what dirt Hillary has on Obama. Confirmation hearings are underway today. We are hearing about conflict of interest given the millions shoveled Bill’s way by foreign powers!  And, by the way, remember Hillary accusing Obama of voter fraud and dirty tricks during the primaries?  (Shame on you Barack Obama!)  Apparently, all is forgiven, once she was nominated. Leverage.  Finally, she has told the Senate confirmation committee she will operate not as an ideologue.  Really?  Will through the brakes on ideology after 35 years of ideological struggle?

>Rumor has it Bill will replace Hillary in the Senate. Won’t that make the Obama administration a mere reflection of the 90s eh?  Or will it be Caroline Kennedy or Cuomo?  More mud wrestling ahead!

>There remain questions about Obama’s foreign campaign contributors, but pundits say no investigation is planned by the Federal Elections Commission because of political gridlock there.

>About a dozen lawsuits continue to challenge the citizenship status of the President Elect, raising the question about his eligibility to serve as President: obviously a right-wing conspiracy, or a Clinton conspiracy, or a Christian conspiracy.

>Over at CIA, agents are scratching their heads wondering what Panetta will do to help them fight the war on terror, and apparently Panetta has the temerity to actually accept the appointment. Most intelligence experts, including Dianne Feinstein, are aghast Obama would nominate Panetta, a man who has as much business running CIA as Franken has being a Senator.  Rove just told O’Reilly it was Panetta who agreed with Clinton that originating  rendition was a good thing, but now they are all totally against it even though it has been successful.  However, Prof. Richard Russell has a different take on the Panetta nomination, saying he will likely do well given his experience as Clinton’s chief of staff.

>And it goes on and on! Bill Richardson has to withdraw from Obama’s nomination he serve as commerce secretary when it’s revealed Richardson is being investigated for financial irregularities involving campaign contributions and that controversy may spill over to implicate Obama as well. Word is Obama is rebounding nicely from this embarrassing circus performance, tagging the Governor of Washington, Christine Gregoire (!), a women elected twice by the narrowest margins (very controversial ballot counts driven by Franken operatives too!), a woman who cried on camera when her dog died, a woman who approved an anti-Christ atheist display next to a nativity scene at the state capitol just recently. On to Commerce! (Yikes, another circus act!)

>Al Qaeda blames Obama for war in Gaza.
>Gays call Obama a traitor for inviting Rick Warren to pray at the inauguration.
>Environmentalists criticize Obama’s public works program saying his idea of building roads will aggravate global warming.
>Al Gore obviously despises Obama.
>Joe Biden can’t get into a decent movie theatre. Cheney swears in Biden and almost heaved having to shake his filthy hand.

>Breaking News!  Howling Howard Dean feels snubbed by Obama.  Tough, tough, tough.

>Obama names the governor of Arizona — Janet Napolitano — to head Homeland Security and she has ZERO, ZIP, NADA relevant experience smack dab in the middle of a global war on terror and increasing dangers brought by illegal immigration. Never mind she has no experience in disaster response either.

>To head Dept. of Education? Arnie Duncan, Chicago “educator” sympathetic to the Bill Ayers school of social disintegration, promoter of gayness systemically. Nice. (Class! Class! You are genetically little different from chimps and you could have been aborted so sit still and listen or you’ll be shipped off to Havana! Now there’s a nice class.)

>To head Interior? Ken Salazar. Environmentalists don’t like him. Conservative Christians don’t like him. Perfect!

>To head Labor?  Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA.), very pro-Union, unclear where she stands on secret ballots for workers considering unionization.  Most Americans are not unionized.  Many workers believe union organizers are more of a threat than management.  Will this new administration force unionization by making it easier for organizers to force workers to join up? 

>Obama names a radical La Raza Fem, Cecilia Munoz, to serve as intergovernmental communications director, a woman who would like to see the U.S. turn over to Mexico various states, including Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. She also thinks it would be great to let all 12-20 million illegal aliens become citizens overnight, regardless of their criminal history, and those who oppose amnesty are motivated by hate, she says.

>And now we hear Sanjay Gupta, Obama’s answer to Joycelyn “We all die of something” Elders, is to be Obama’s surgeon general. Krugman and  Conyers are critical of Obama. Krugman, trophy-winning economist, fancies himself an expert on all matters, including healthcare, and says Gupta is a nutjob because he dared to challenge Michael Moore’s ‘facts’ in the film Sicko. Now there’s a circus act. The President should consider Michael Moore before appointing somebody to high office? Right Paul. Are you bucking for treasury secretary? Shall we run that by Michael Moore? Shoot, why not make Michael Moore head of the CIA? (Hey! Gupta’s cool. Leave him alone Paul!)

>Now, Gupta apparently thinks nationalized healthcare run by the feds is a bad idea, but Obama’s nominee for secretary of Health & Human Services believes we have to have universal healthcare, like Canada and England, where people stand in line for months for hip replacement, and by the time they get under the knife, they need their knees replaced too!   Tom Daschle is Obama’s man for socialized medicine, everyone’s favorite hyper-partisan from S. Dakota, run out of the Senate for being a general pain in the neck.

>Reported by The Heritage Foundation yesterday:  “Carol Browner, Obama’s new Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, used to be listed as a member of the Commission for a Sustainable World Society for Socialist International. That’s right, Socialist International. As of today, however, her bio was taken off the site.”  (Global warming as another hammer nailing the lid on the coffin of capitalism?)

>Chris Dodd and Charles The Rangel are under investigation for malfeasance in office, people think Rahm Emmanuel, Obama’s chief of staff, is little more than a mafia thug, Rezko might spill the beans, and the Rev. Wright has a book out!

>Then along comes Nancy Pelosi opening the 111th Congress by  blocking Republicans  from having any legislative input, contrary to tradition and the idea of an open legislative process, as the FRC points out, thwarting Obama’s promise to bring open and bipartisan government.  Welcome to Pelosi’s power play toward tyranny.

What was that Speaker Pelosi? Something about the culture of corruption and how the Dems were going to usher in the golden age of ethics reform, all goodness and light? Shall we mention Barney Frank ($40,000 Fannie Mae campaign contribution), Jack Murtha, William Jefferson, Eliot Spitzer and all the allegations/investigations/evidence of corruption?

Those of us who predicted an Obama administration would be weak and stupid like the Carter administration were only partially right. This administration appears hell bent on being every bit as corrupt and shameful as the Clinton administration as well, and thus, Obama will do more damage than Clinton and Carter combined.

Clowns can really foul up the works in only 60 days if they put their minds to it! Makes you wonder what the circus will look like in 6 months! Just wait! Who will be national intelligence director? Pluto? How about Yosemite Sam to head up the Post Office, and can we get Daffy Duck to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs? (Duck season! Rabbit season! Duck season! Rabbit season! Fire! Blam!)

Onward to 2012, if we make it that far!

(PS: Say something nice? OK. He kept Gates on board. Score one. And, gas is only $1.69 a gallon!)

Killing Americans praises God

The ideological foundation of the 9/11 attacks

Must See Documentary

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,  the al-Qaeda terrorist who planned and executed 9/11, murdering 2,819 Americans that day, was charged in February of war crimes and murder.  He faces the death penalty.   On Dec. 8 in a Guantanamo military court, he pled guilty along with four co-defendants.   If the judge accepts the guilty pleas, essentially confessions, according to Robert Spencer, it will be very difficult for the new President to accommodate an ACLU motion to move the case to federal district court.

The ACLU claims that since the defendants were tortured, any confession or guilty plea must be thrown out.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 9/11 mastermind

Spencer reports: 

Mohammed stated in 2007: “I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z. I was the operational director for Sheikh Usama bin Laden for the organizing, planning, follow-up and execution of the 9/11 operation.” Monday’s letter said that Mohammed and his co-defendants had come to their decision to plead guilty “without being under any kind of pressure, threat, intimidations or promise from any party.” Meanwhile, one less noted but no less important aspect of the case was the ideological foundation of the 9/11 attacks. The defendants made that abundantly clear in their Monday statement: “Our success,” they declared, “is the greatest praise of the Lord.”

Obviously Mohammed and his co-defendants are glad to be martyred which will contribute to al-Qaeda recruiting efforts. Waterboarding is a controversial interrogation technique.  In a recent interview VP Cheney indicated waterboarding produced the desired results, the acquisition of information useful in saving American lives.  Critics have condemned the Bush administration for using waterboarding, stress position, sensory and sleep deprivation to extract information from terrorist detainees at Guantanamo.  The Administration has argued terror detainees do not qualify for consideration under terms of the Geneva Conventions, a legal determination supported by Obama’s nominee for Attorney General.   Those opposed to this position insist waterboarding and other techniques amount to torture, violations of Geneva.

Some intelligence sources indicate the entire matter is overblown and misses the point.   They say waterboarding has been used three times, that the other techniques are not torture, and in the main, a combination of drugs and deprivation techniques ordinarily produces desired results.

Recently the Supreme Court issued a ruling saying all Guantanamo detainees have a right to be charged and tried in American courts.  Military experts have said this will make it more difficult for them to get a hold of crucial intelligence required to continue protecting Americans.  Others say the ruling will mean detainees will be release to terrorize again, or they will be sent to prisons in other countries where they face real torture.

This writer has suggested the following hypothetical to challenge those who agree with the thinking at the ACLU:  

You are President.  You have three detainees in custody and you know they are fully aware of at least one imminent attack on American soil.  They have detailed knowledge: the when, the where, the who, the how.  Al Qaeda is behind the attack, and these detainees know it will happen soon, it will involve WMD, and it will kill 100,000 Americans, minimum.  You are running out of time.  All your intelligence and military advisors tell you none of the detainees are responding to traditional interrogation techniques, including drugs.  They unanimously recommend water boarding.  What do you do?

 

So far without exception, the vote is “waterboard.”

 

President Elect Obama has indicated he will look into prosecuting Bush administration officials, centering on the issues surround torture and the prosecution of the war on terror.  Sen. Carl Levin is calling for an investigative commission toward those ends as well. 

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Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of eight books on Islam and jihad. Spencer is a weekly columnist for Human Events and the website Front-Page Magazine, and has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the U.S. intelligence community.

Mumbai another wake up call, and still we sleep

 

 

FIRST, sincere condolences to all friends and family of the victims of Mumbai, and all victims of Muslim terrorism everywhere.  We can honor the victims best by facing the truth and acting accordingly.  This is an ideological war, and no amount of political correctness or law enforcement adequately addresses global jihad.

From Mark Steyn recently (with more below):

“Islamic imperialists want an Islamic society, not just in Palestine and Kashmir but in the Netherlands and Britain, too. Their chances of getting it will be determined by the ideology’s advance among the general Muslim population, and the general Muslim population’s demographic advance among everybody else.”

ISLAM: WHAT THE WEST NEEDS TO KNOW

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-871902797772997781

Although the N.Y. Times and other American media outlets refuse to identify the Mumbai murderers as Islamic terrorists, other journalists are not so squeemish about the truth. 

International reporters have identified the perpetrators as belonging to groups named Deccan Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba, often referred to as Al Qaeda Junior.

“But whether the group Deccan Mujahideen is local or foreign, a new group or operating under an assumed name, the undeniable fact is that it is comprised of the Islamic men.”

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2008/11/27/mumbai-attacks-who-are-the-deccan-mujahideen.aspx

“Consider first an article in LA Times by Martha Nussbaum, a professor at the University of Chicago. The article was headlined `Terrorism in India has many faces’. But one face that Nussbaum fails to mention specifically is that of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Islamic terror group originating in Pakistan (and Afghanistan) that seems to have been centrally involved in the attack on Mumbai. ”

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Jihads_True_Face/articleshow/3781351.cms

And Mark Steyn is, as always, straight-forward, articulate, and fearless in his relentless pursuit of truth:

“It’s missing the point to get into debates about whether this is the ‘Deccan Mujahideen’ or the ISI or al-Qaida or Lashkar-e-Taiba. That’s a reductive argument. It could be all or none of them. The ideology has been so successfully seeded around the world that nobody needs a memo from corporate HQ to act: There are so many of these subgroups and individuals that they intersect across the planet in a million different ways. It’s not the Cold War, with a small network of deep sleepers being directly controlled by Moscow. There are no membership cards, only an ideology. That’s what has radicalized hitherto moderate Muslim communities from Indonesia to the central Asian ‘stans to Yorkshire, and co-opted what started out as more or less conventional nationalist struggles in the Caucasus and the Balkans into mere tentacles of the global jihad.”

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/ideology-mumbai-gunman-2242227-muslim-terrorists

“There was a photograph that appeared in many of the British papers, taken by a Reuters man and captioned by the news agency as follows: ‘A suspected gunman walks outside the premises of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus or Victoria Terminus railway station.”‘The photo of the ‘suspected gunman’ showed a man holding a gun. We don’t know much about him – he might be Muslim or Episcopalian, he might be an impoverished uneducated victim of Western colonialist economic oppression or a former vice-president of Lehman Brothers embarking on an exciting midlife career change – but one thing we ought to be able to say for certain is that a man pointing a gun is not a ‘suspected gunman’ but a gunman. ‘This kind of silly political correctness infects reporters and news services worldwide,’ wrote John Hinderaker of Powerline. ‘They think they’re being scrupulous – the man hasn’t been convicted of being a gunman yet! – when, in fact, they’re just being foolish. But the irrational conviction that nothing can be known unless it has been determined by a court and jury isn’t just silly, it’s dangerous.’

“Just so. This isn’t law enforcement but an ideological assault – and we’re fighting the symptoms not the cause. Islamic imperialists want an Islamic society, not just in Palestine and Kashmir but in the Netherlands and Britain, too. Their chances of getting it will be determined by the ideology’s advance among the general Muslim population, and the general Muslim population’s demographic advance among everybody else.

“So Bush is history, and we have a new president who promises to heal the planet, and yet the jihadists don’t seem to have got the Obama message that there are no enemies, just friends we haven’t yet held talks without preconditions with. This isn’t about repudiating the Bush years, or withdrawing from Iraq, or even liquidating Israel. It’s bigger than that. And if you don’t have a strategy for beating back the ideology, you’ll lose.

Whoops, my apologies. I mean ‘suspected ideology.’ ”

In years to come, try telling little Moshe Holtzberg his parents were killed by a ‘suspected ideologue.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090440/Nanny-saves-year-old-orphan-terrorists-killed-parents-Mumbai-Massacre.html

FURTHERMORE:

Mumbai’s Lesson: It Pays To Listen

“The world was stunned by the murder last week of nearly 200 people in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, apparently by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, which demands the end of Indian rule in Kashmir and Islamist rule throughout South Asia.

The seven-plus years of remarkable safety America has enjoyed have had the unfortunate side effect of lulling all too many of us into complacency about the reality of the 21st century. (This is why we at Investor’s Business Daily mark the 11th of every month with a reminder to readers of the attack of Sept. 11, 2001, running photographs of some of the tragic or heroic events that took place that day.)

The prevention of a repeat of 9/11 wasn’t magic. Nor was it luck.

We have our courageous law enforcement officers at the federal, state and local level to thank.”

AND…

“Perhaps most importantly, we have our outgoing commander in chief to thank, the much-maligned President George W. Bush. There’s no doubt that history will vindicate the president who went far beyond his Constitutional duties in selflessly protecting the American people.”

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=313114177076938

Bush, Biden, Obama, Blame and Bluster

By Allan Erickson

10.25.08

 

Remarkable.  Astounding.  It isn’t enough to blame George W. Bush for all of recent history, worldwide.  It isn’t enough to blame the man for global warming, hurricanes, declining test scores, racism, economic crises around the world, Islamic terrorism, Russian expansionism, and Iranian nuclear ambitions.

 

Now it’s game to blame Bush for future events: he is responsible for whatever will happen, but only if it’s bad.  Anything good that happens will be credited to another account.

 

The remarkable and astounding Sen. Joe Biden said in Seattle Oct. 19:

 

“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year old senator president of the United States of America.  Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

 

People were understandably alarmed.  What could Biden be referencing?  What does he know that we do not know?

 

The FBI reports Al Qaeda is planning a post-election attack, surmising they’ll wait until after Nov. 4 in deference to Sen. Obama’s campaign.  Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda have already made it clear they prefer an Obama White House.  Why would they test the mettle of someone they like?  Biden declined elaboration: nice of him to stir the pot and leave the flame flickering; very vice-presidential don’t you think?  Do you call it fear mongering?

 

Intelligence reports indicate Iran is planning a pre-emptive strike against Israel.  The Russians and the Venezuelans have been playing military games in the Caribbean.  The Chinese still have Taiwan stuck in their craw.  Nuclear Pakistan is volatile. Nuclear North Korea faces food riots.

 

Who knows what Biden was saying and why?  Many people wonder out loud if he knows what he is saying, and why. Perhaps he was getting us ready for a Russian invasion of the Ukraine?  Sen. Obama was obviously embarrassed by Sen. Biden’s “rhetorical flourish.”

 

Sen. Biden has been in the U.S. Senate since we had Nixon to kick around.  He has served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for many years, now its chairman.  In that position he has access to intelligence seen only by the President and a handful of others.  Sen. Biden knows things few people ever know. He is supposedly trusted to maintain confidentiality.

 

Didn’t Bush summon both Obama and McCain to the White House for briefings given the elevated terror chatter and threats reported just recently?

 

So, in the wake of Biden’s remarks and high level briefings, Sen. Obama tried calming fears, explaining away Biden’s flourish:

 

“We are going to face a number of threats and tests and challenges because for the last eight years we’ve had a policy, a bad set of policies, that have resulted in two unresolved wars, bin Laden and al-Qaeda communicating regularly and training folks to potentially attack America and an economy that has been in a free fall.”

 

All Bush’s fault you see?  The future’s not ours to see, but whatever comes down, it is the fault of GWB, you see?

 

According to BHO it is folksy the way Al Qaeda plans attacks. Isn’t it convenient to blame the future shortcomings of the presumed Obama administration on Bush? Isn’t it interesting how Biden prepares us for catastrophe while ushering in Camelot, urging BHO boosters to stand by their man no matter the cost?  It’s a kind of mass inoculation to silence critics before they realize there’s something to critique.   

 

If it is reasonable and right to blame GWB for whatever international crises we experience in the next four years, is it also right and reasonable to blame Bill Clinton for 9/11?  How about blaming Carter for a radicalized Iran, or for Fannie Mae?  Presumably, we can also blame Obama’s successor for attacks during an Obama administration.

 

For now, we are assured the war on terror is not the fault of terrorists.   It’s Bush’s fault.   Global economic devastation is not the fault of Fannie Mae, liberalism, corruption on Wall Street and in the halls of power in D.C.  It’s Bush’s fault. 

 

And whatever goes wrong at the Round Table these next four years?  You guessed it!  Bush’s fault!

 

The sheep bleat, nod approval, and follow without question.

 

(And they say American “adults” suffer from an inability or unwillingness to take personal responsibility?) 

 

Well, come January 21st, at least we won’t have GWB to kick around anymore. 

 

Or will we?

 

Perhaps we can blame him for keeping our children safe for seven years, for liberating 25 million Iraqis, for liberating 20 million Afghans, for decimating Al Qaeda, for marginalizing Kaddafi, for containing the Taliban, and striking fear into Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and Syrian. 

 

No.  That would be too charitable, and too politically inexpedient.

 

It is hard to imagine a President McCain blaming others.

 

 

PS:  It is to laugh, listening to Obama and Biden preach about economic development and the middle class.   They’ve have never worked in the private sector.  They’ve never run a business.  They’ve never had to make payroll.  All they have ever done is feed at the public trough, yet they presume to tell us how this economy works, and how it should work, by insisting the government steal from productive, hardworking Americans, to subsidize the so-called disenfranchised.  And then, adding insult to injury, Obama and Biden decry the very class warfare they aggravate, and claim any critic is a racist etc.  They’ve got you comin’ and goin’ America, and you are willingly stumbling right into the pit.  You think Fannie Mae was a disaster?  That was only a foretaste, just like 9/11.

 

PPS:  Holding to the logic of senators Biden and Obama, should we blame JFK for Vietnam and the Cuban missile crisis and a prolonging of the Cold War?

 

PPPS:  You notice something curious.  GWB doesn’t ever blame anyone else.  You never hear him condemn the Democrats.  Interesting…

FBI agents say al-Qaida attack likely after election

Ex-FBI Analyst Predicts Attack After Election

By Ron Kessler, NewsMax, 9.30.08

 

http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/Kessler_al_Quaida_terror/2008/09/30/135910.html?s=al&promo_code=6C0F-1

 

Al-Qaida or affiliated groups probably will attack the United States in the months after the election to “welcome” the new president, says Frederick Stremmel, a former top FBI counterterrorism analyst.  Stremmel, who retired from the FBI a year ago after working the major counterterrorism cases for 25 years, tells Newsmax that al-Qaida would not attack before the election.

 

Al-Qaida knows that an attack before the election would help elect Republican Sen. John McCain, Stremmel says. The terrorists would prefer Democratic Sen. Barack Obama because they believe he would “swing the pendulum back” to more lenient anti-terrorism policies, Stremmel says. “If my analysis is on the mark, al-Qaida has already chosen its target and the time to stage an attack,” he says.

 

James R. Fitzgerald, a former FBI profiler who interviewed terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and has had access to al-Qaida documents, agrees with Stremmel’s assessment.

 

“I believe the most dangerous time in the near future for this country will be between Election Day and President Bush’s last day in office,” says Fitzgerald, who now is with the Academy Group in Manassas, Va., which provides profiling services for private industry.  Al-Qaida knows that, if it attacked before the election, “It would get McCain elected,” Fitzgerald says. “For obvious reasons, they would much prefer Obama.”