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2007.05.09 Dem Perfidy // Islamism Delenda Est Roundup
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Halfway down the road to hell,
In a shady meadow green,
Are the souls of all dead troopers camped
Near a good old-time canteen.
And this eternal resting place
Is known as Fiddler’s Green.
-Author Unknown (via Sgt Hook)
And there shall our warriors rejoice at the sight as the Dhimmicrats parade by in chains on the way to their eternal reward. Pelosi threat to sue Bush over Iraq bill
By Jonathan E. Kaplan and Elana Schor (H/T: Jules C.)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is threatening to take President Bush to court if he issues a signing statement as a way of sidestepping a carefully crafted compromise Iraq war spending bill.
Pelosi recently told a group of liberal bloggers, “We can take the president to court” if he issues a signing statement, according to Kid Oakland, a blogger who covered Pelosi’s remarks for the liberal website dailykos.com. ...
It is a scenario for which few lawmakers have planned. Indicating that he may consider attaching a signing statement to a future supplemental spending measure, Bush last week wrote in his veto message, “This legislation is unconstitutional because it purports to direct the conduct of operations of the war in a way that infringes upon the powers vested in the presidency.” ...
Dan Riehl has some choice comments here.
Don't miss Dafydd ab Hugh's excellent analysis here.
Below the fold, newest items at the top:
- US Embassy Attacked During Cheney Visit
- How did they get here?
Answer: Three came across the Mexican border
- Tenet’s Tim Time
- Bush Would Veto Democrats' New Iraq Bill
- Does the LA Times know about the Fort Dix Six?
- The John Doe at Circuit City
- Jersey Jihadists, open borders, and the thanks we get
- A Little Competence Would Be Nice
- Democrats Move Closer To De-Funding
- Some other good early morning reads
- The political tornado in Greensburg
- KS Gov tries her hand at disaster chasing
Video added: Dingy Harry joins in after gov is debunked
*** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** US Embassy Attacked During Cheney Visit
Kim Priestap
The rocket attack did nothing to interrupt the vice president's activities in the embassy. A rocket exploded near the US embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday, an Iraqi defence official said, during a visit by US Vice President Dick Cheney to the heavily fortified mission.
Smoke could be seen rising near the US compound shortly after the blast, which was heard at around 6:15 pm (1415 GMT). The Iraqi official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, could not say if there were any casualties.
Cheney's movements during his visit are being kept secret for security reasons, but the vice president later confirmed at at a press conference that "I spent today here basically in our embassy and military headquarters." ...
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How did they get here?
Answer: Three came across the Mexican border
Michelle Malkin
So, what about the three illegal alien Jersey Jihadist suspects--the Duka brothers? Were they smuggled across the border or stowaways? That's what the feds are checking out now.
They're also checking to see if the three other accused jihadi plotters--one a naturalized US citizen, the other two green card holders--lied on their applications.
Yeah, that would be a shocker.
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Update: Shocked, shocked... Three brothers charged in the alleged Fort Dix terror plot have been living illegally in the U.S. for more than 23 years and were accepted as Americans by neighbors and friends who had no idea they would scheme to attack military bases and slaughter GIs. ...
*** Tenet’s Tim Time
By Fred Thompson
I watched George Tenet’s interview with Tim Russert on Meet the Press Sunday. Tenet’s new book gives his version of history leading up to September 11. It’s almost obligatory nowadays; after you have been in the inner circles of an administration, you write a “tell all” book, including private conversations with even the president himself.
I haven’t read the book, but I have followed the media accounts. My attention was drawn to Tenet’s statements that al Qaeda is here and waiting and that they wish nothing more than to be able to see a mushroom cloud above the United States.
Naturally, the media emphasis is not on that. ...
*** Bush Would Veto Democrats' New Iraq Bill
By Anne Flaherty and Lolita C. Baldor (H/T: Lorie Byrd)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House threatened on Wednesday to veto a proposed House bill that would pay for the war only through July—a limit Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned would be disastrous.
The warnings came as Democratic leaders wrestled with how to support the troops but still challenge President Bush on the war. Bush has requested more than $90 billion to sustain the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through September. ...
Lorie has more here.
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*** Does the LA Times know about the Fort Dix Six?
Don Surber
Timing is everything in journalism and comedy. The day after the FBI prevents the biggest terrorism threat since 9/11, the LA Times ran an editorial smacking President Bush for “eavesdropping” on Americans: When the Bush White House proposes changing a law that protects Americans from unchecked electronic surveillance, civil libertarian knees begin to jerk. And understandably so. ...
Blah, blah, blah. The Washington Post, New York Times and the rest also ignored the Fort Dix Six. Readers read this for what it is: A failure to credit the FBI with an obvious success.
*** The John Doe at Circuit City
Michelle Malkin
I said it yesterday. I repeat it today: Thank you, whistleblower. Now, we know a bit more. He works at Circuit City: A male employee who works at Circuit City behind the Moorestown Mall is the unsung hero that first enabled authorities to foil the Fort Dix terror plot.
Circuit City corporate spokesman Jim Babb confirmed this morning that a current employee was asked by one of the alleged terrorists to dub a Jihadist training VHS cassette into a DVD...
*** Jersey Jihadists, open borders, and the thanks we get
Michelle Malkin
Yesterday morning, I noted early on that Fort Dix had been a refuge for ethnic Albanians from Kosovo. As I suspected, Agron Abdullahu, one of the Jersey Jihadist suspects, was indeed one of the thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo whom we welcomed there in 1999 (hat tip: Allah): A trained sniper during the war in Kosovo, Abdullahu and his family were among thousands given safe haven in the U.S. under the Clinton administration to protect them from the Serbs. For months, they would be housed in refugee camps at Ft. Dix, a circumstance which now points to a terribly ironic twist.
Terribly ironic? Or sadly predictable?
WPVI interviewed one of Abdullahu's co-workers: "He never really came out and said he had a hatred towards Americans and I told him many times, 'look, you would have been left there if it wasn't for us helping you out.' If Clinton didn't bring them in, he never would have had the chance that he had. This is how he repays us," [Bob] Watts said.
Indeed. That's the theme of my syndicated column today. Here you go: ...
*** A Little Competence Would Be Nice
Confederate Yankee
It should probably come as no small wonder that the majority of the American people are against the War in Iraq; getting faulty misleading or inaccurate or even purposefully biased information does that.
Time and again and again, our soldiers and Marines tell us that the war they are fighting in Iraq is not the one being reported in the professional media.
Karin Brulliard's article in today's Washington Post is a prime example, starting with the headline, "Bombs Kill 20 in Sunni Insurgent Stronghold."
It may come as a bit of a shock to both Brulliard and her WaPo editors, but Ramadi has not been an insurgent "stronghold" by any practical definition for months.
*** Democrats Move Closer To De-Funding
Ed Morrissey
The Democrats have moved closer to using their actual Constitutional power to defund the Iraq war in a compromise bill being floated in the House. In the new supplemental, funding for the troops in Iraq would only be unconditional for two months. After that, it would cease entirely unless the Iraqis passed an oil revenue sharing plan and other restructuring bills that have not progressed as planned: A House Democratic proposal introduced yesterday that would give President Bush half of the money he has requested for the war effort, with a vote in July on whether to approve the rest, hinges on progress in meeting political benchmarks that Iraq has thus far found difficult to achieve....
One concession has to be made, which is that the Democrats have finally started to work within their Constitutional authority. Prior plans used elaborate ruses to force the President to end the war by juggling troop requirements and the like, all of which infringed on his authority as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Hillary Clinton has begun to pursue an equally noxious violation of the Constitution by attempting to revoke the original authorization for the war, which she and other Democrats claim the President could not veto. It would amount to a diktat by the legislative branch, one about which the Supreme Court would have to squelch its laughter before throwing it out with great force. ...
I hope when the mushroom clouds eventually start rising above the U.S. Reid, Pelosi and Murtha are together so they have a couple of minutes to congratulate each other on how well they handled the war just before they die. Three would be OK. Anything longer is more than they deserve.
(Update) Don't miss Ed's follow-up post here.
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Some other good early morning reads (I might or might not find time for excerpts later):
*** The political tornado in Greensburg
Michelle Malkin
President Bush heads to Greensburg, Kansas tomorrow to tour the devastation from the recent tornado.
Meanwhile, the political hurricane is still swirling in the wake of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' smackdown over a claimed National Guard shortage that she blames on the Iraq war. ...
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