Gore Vs Scalia

Former Vice President Al Gore took a swipe at Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Wednesday, referencing the conservative jurist's recent skepticism in a global warming case and role in the 2000 presidential election.

"In the arguments, Justice Scalia said, 'I'm not a scientist, I don't want to deal with global warming.' I just wish he felt that way about presidential elections," Gore joked on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."

Gore, a bit of advise for ya. I would avoid taking on Scalia in any kind of debate about …well anything. Scalia actually has a brain while you are just a dilettante poser who pretends to have one. Scalia would eat you for lunch…then spit you out for want of any flavor.

Iraq to Protect Itself Starting Next June

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said today that he believed Iraqi forces would be ready by next June to take full control of security in Iraq, an issue on which he pressed US President George Bush during their Amman, Jordan, summit.

In making the argument that his military and police could handle security in the country, al-Maliki has routinely said the force could do the job within six months.

“I can say that Iraqi forces will be ready, fully ready, to receive this command and to command its own forces and I can tell you that by next June our forces will be ready,” Maliki said in an interview with ABC television’s Charles Gibson.

Apparently the MSM will have to redouble its efforts to inform everyone of the civil war waging over there. The Iraqi’s apparently didn’t get the memo.

You Mean We Don’t Already?

More than 20 citizen groups are urging the new Democratic leaders in Congress to include in any ethics reform the denial of pensions to lawmakers convicted of felonies.

"We must end the practice of rewarding lawmakers who abuse the law with plush pension packages funded by the American taxpayer," the coalition wrote in a letter to be sent Thursday to Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Harry Reid, who will become Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader when Democrats assume control of Congress in January.

And politicians wonder why the public at large thinks they are all corrupt pack of crooks, liars and thieves….sheesh.

Story

Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres appealed for united action against Iran Wednesday, saying the country appears stronger than it really is because of a lack of an international consensus over its nuclear ambitions.

Peres did not call for military action, but said a common approach such as economic sanctions was needed.

While I don't disagree that the nation is made to look stronger as it contrasts with the weak vacillating behavior of the Western powers that be I have to wonder if Peres is playing with a full deck here. Sanctions? I mean come on this is a regime that regularly arrests, tortures and kills dissidents in its country. Their concern for the welfare of its citizenry is nil. These are the people who sent children out as minesweepers. How, pray tell, are SANCTIONS suppose to make Iran step into line? 

I first read the article because I thought the title was amusing..the article is anything but amusing. I have edited out some portions so as not to post the entire article.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is demanding Congress investigate US Airway's removal last week of six imams from one of its flights. The Muslim-rights group claims the imams, who were behaving suspiciously, posed no threat.

It's "very, very inappropriate to treat religious leaders that way," a spokesman fumed.

According to CAIR, imams are as harmless as Buddhist monks and deserve no less respect. Tell that to flight attendant Kimberly Banducci.

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Here's what happened: On Oct. 23, 2003, Sheikh Ahmed Hamman Mahmoud Hamman claimed he needed assistance as he boarded Delta Flight 1586. Banducci, who was flight coordinator that day, escorted the Egyptian imam, dressed in a flowing robe, to his seat. As she helped him get seated, Hamman remarked in heavily accented English how good she smelled and asked her name.

As she began to recoil from the bearded man's passes, he suddenly grabbed her face with one hand and wouldn't let go. Banducci told him he was hurting her and asked for help from passengers in the immediate area. She was able to pull away, but then His Most Holiness grabbed both her breasts and again would not release his grip. Banducci yelled at him to let go, but he refused, squeezing even harder. Only after she screamed for help and two air marshals broke cover did the man back down.

As authorities questioned him, Hamman acted like he couldn't speak any English. The Miami-Dade Police Department took him into custody where he was booked the next day for felony battery, the police report says. Delta did not press charges, however, and kept the incident from the press.

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A local Muslim leader bailed the violent groper sheikh out of jail. Authorities say a man named Sofian Abdelaziz (aka Sofian Zakout, aka Sofian Abdelaziz-Zakout, aka Sofian Zakkout) representing the American Muslim Association of North America, or AMANA, posted bond for the 35-year-old Hamman, who was visiting Florida during Ramadan. Abdelaziz-Zakkout, a Kuwaiti native, was his trip sponsor.

He's also a radical Islamic activist who is a close personal friend of the notorious Shukrijumahs of South Florida, a Saudi family whose son, Adnan, is an al-Qaida operative thought to be in line to head an encore attack on America. The FBI calls him "the next Mohamed Atta." His late father was a local Wahhabi imam on the Saudi payroll.

Not surprisingly, Abdelaziz-Zakkout recently defended an accused al-Qaida confederate of Adnan Shukrijumah at his trial. He also opposed the U.S. strikes on Afghanistan after 9/11, and the U.S. assassination of al-Qaida terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq.

Back to the Saintly Six imams kicked off US Airways Flight 300. Their ringleader Omar Shahin whined, "What happened to us is terrible." No, what happened on 9/11 is terrible, and airlines and their passengers will be damned if they'll tolerate any more treacherous tricks from packs of truculent Muslim men on board their flights.

Shahin knows of such shenanigans. At his former mosque in Tucson, Ariz., he ministered to two college students removed from an America West flight after twice attempting to open the cockpit. The FBI suspected it was a "dry run" for the 9/11 hijackings, according the 9/11 Commission Report. One of the students, Hamdan al-Shalawi, had trained for attacks in Afghanistan, the report says. The other, Muhammed al-Qudhaieen, became a material witness in the 9/11 investigation.

Even so, the pair filed racial-profiling suits against America West, now part of US Airways. Defending them was none other than Shahin, the public face of the Slighted Six imams who returned to the US Airways ticket counter at the Minneapolis airport to scold agents before the cameras, and then staged a protest at Reagan International Airport in Washington.

In an "Arizona Republic" interview after the 9/11 attacks, he acknowledged once supporting Osama bin Laden through his hardline Saudi-backed mosque in Tucson. FBI investigators believe bin Laden operated a cell there. Hani Hanjour, the hijacker who piloted the plane that hit the Pentagon, attended the Tucson mosque along with bin Laden's one-time personal secretary, according to the 9/11 Commission Report. Bin Laden's former chief of logistics was president of the mosque before Shahin took over.

"These people don't continue to come back to Arizona because they like the sunshine or they like the state," said FBI agent Kenneth Williams. "Something was established there, and it's been there for a long time." And Shahin, a native of Jordan, appears to be in the middle of it.

Shahin now heads the North American Imams Federation, which is affiliated with the innocuous-sounding American Open University, where he teaches Islamic studies. The radical Islamic school, known by law enforcement as "Wahhabi Online," has raised a number of red flags at the FBI, including the fact that:

-- It's founder and chairman, Jaafar Idris, is a Sudanese radical on the Saudi payroll who was recently deported for visa fraud and spreading extremism in America.

-- A co-founder, Salah As-Sawi, is a professor at Al-Azhar in Egypt, a bastion of the dangerous Muslim Brotherhood. In fact, American Open University is a fully accredited satellite campus of Al-Azhar. As-Sawi worked with Idris at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Sciences in Washington, a propaganda center set up by the Saudi Embassy to spread Wahhabism in America. It was raided after 9/11 and is still under surveillance by federal authorities.

-- Alumni of the "university" include convicted members of the Virginia Jihad Network.

-- The school has received funding from a suspected al-Qaida front that has expressly advocated suicide attacks and using airliners as weapons. The Islamic Assembly of North America, or IANA, is bankrolled by the Saudi religious minister who stayed at the same Washington-area hotel as the hijackers the night before they attacked the Pentagon. (He feigned a heart attack when FBI agents tried to question him and was subsequently evacuated with other Saudi officials on White House-approved escape flights after 9/11.)

A former CAIR official, Bassem Khafagi, headed IANA. He pleaded guilty to terror-related charges and was deported.

CAIR, which is listed as a partner organization to Shahin's North American Imams Federation, insists American imams are peace-loving "patriots."

Oh? Would that include Omar Abdul-Rahman, the blind sheikh serving life for plotting to blow up several New York landmarks? Or Imam Ali al-Timimi, a native Washingtonian, also behind bars for soliciting local Muslims to kill fellow Americans? Or fugitive cleric Anwar Aulaqi, the U.S.-born imam who prepared some of the 9/11 hijackers for martyrdom?

How about imams Mohammed al-Hanooti and Siraj Wahhaj (a CAIR and NAIF board member), both unindicted co-conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing conspiracy?

Perhaps CAIR is referring to other imams in New York who were recently busted for buying shoulder-fired missiles. Or the one in Lodi, Calif., who planned to build an al-Qaida terror camp there, and on and on.

Yup, they all wear halos all right. Or is that orange jumpsuits? Oh, that's right, they're all so misunderstood and mistreated. Boo-hoo, somebody call the wha-a-a-a-ambulance.



Now here is what I want to know...why are these people allowed to remain in the United States?

How about a congressional investigation into CAIR...no scratch that congress could manage a trip to the mailbox without messing it up.

 

 

More Rangel

Raising retirement age or reducing benefits can't be ruled out if the Social Security system is to be saved from going bust, Rep. Charles Rangel said yesterday.

"All of these things are on the table to find some way to make certain that Social Security is solvent," said Rangel, who is poised to take control of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.

Rangel (D-Harlem) discussed the fate of Social Security - which some have estimated will have a cash-flow problem as soon as 2017 and run out of money by 2040 - during a Manhattan breakfast talk sponsored by Crain's New York.

Any solution will cause some pain, according to Rangel. "If you call tax increases pain - and I do - that'll be a part of the mix, too," he said. "There's no easy way to do it, but it has to be done."

But the congressman also swore Social Security and Medicare health benefits would not be scrapped entirely. "If you're talking about getting rid of entitlements, forget about it," he said.

Boy Pelosi has got to be wondering how she can get Charlie Rangel to shut up.

I can’t help notice that just as republicans said the democrats solution would be..its raise the retirement age, cut benefits raise taxes blah blah blah. By the time the democrats are done only 90 year old widows under the poverty line will have social security…they’ll only get a check for ten bucks a month and it will cost us all 40% of our gross pay...but hey it’ll still be around. Democrats are such idiots.

Iranian President Letter

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made an unprecedented and direct appeal to the US people, urging them to reject US foreign policy.

In a letter to "Noble Americans" Iran's president said the US administration's use of "coercion, force and injustice" weakened its global position.

I say we get Ted Kaczynski to send him a personalized reply.

Lebanon

Iranian opposition sources revealed that the Islamic Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave orders to Hezbollah to establish the Islamic Republic in Lebanon , Western diplomatic sources expressed grave concern over the power of Damascus and Tehran, to start a civil war in Lebanon, and called on the government of President Fuad Siniora to alert the army and declare martial law in the country to prevent war ...

The political Iranian opposition living in the UAE capital, said that Khamenei had already given the green light to the leadership of Hezbollah »« to start work for the establishment of a Shiite Islamic republic in Lebanon, in large part at least if unable to control all the country and to be in direct contact with the mother Republic of Iran, and the Shiite Islamic Republic, which has become ready to announce in Iraq.

I smell civil war.

 

Aside from the obvious fact that once again secularists are attacking Christian’s the thing that most angers me about the Chicago argument for why they refused to screen The Nativity at the Christmas festival is the patent disingenuousness of those who promote such nonsense.

They claim that their rationale is to avoid offending non Christians. Liars. Yes that’s right. They are liars. Such a rationale is completely unsupportable as an argument. Fully 85% of those living in the United States of America consider themselves to be Christian. While I have no specific evidence to tell me how many non Christians would actually be offended by (horror of horrors) a Christian film be shown as a Christian festival my own personal anecdotal observations of non Christians tells me that the number of those who would be actually “offended” by such a thing is far less then there total number.

Furthermore, I would note that it is just totally absurd that to suggest that the appropriate means of insuring that people are not offended is to denude the Christmas holiday of any mention of Christ which of course offends all of the Christian’s themselves. It is simply not possible to argue from any rational perspective that Christians do not find such abuse of their own holy days and festivals inoffensive and considering their numbers as being far superior it is irrational and illogical to attempt to argue that “offending people” is the primary concern of such actions. Clearly the idiots who came up with this idea were NOT concerned about offending Christian’s which puts the lie to their claim…that they didn’t want to offend people. Rather a distinct and unavoidable decision was made to ignore the offense given to so many Christians as being unimportant or insignificant.

Since clearly avoiding the giving of offense was NOT the objective I will leave it to the reader to draw their own conclusions as to the true motives of these people while instead raising yet a further question…why does a nation of Christians continue to tolerate the election of officials who are so clearly bent on destroying the standing of their own faith in their communities.

Story

President Bush’s national security adviser has raised serious doubts about Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s ability to control sectarian violence, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

National security adviser Stephen Hadley told Bush and other top administration officials in a Nov. 8 classified memo that the United States may have to take steps to strengthen the Iraqi leader politically, the newspaper said in an article posted on its Web site.

Gee what was your first clue.

“His intentions seem good when he talks with Americans, and sensitive reporting suggests he is trying to stand up to the Shia hierarchy and force positive change,” the memo said.

“But the reality on the streets of Baghdad suggests al-Maliki is either ignorant of what is going on, misrepresenting his intentions or that his capabilities are not yet sufficient to turn his good intentions into actions.”

My own suspicion is that he misrepresents his intentions to us..but then I have limited information. If he is trying to get control of the situation rather than contributing to its destabilization then by all means help him out..but if he isn't we need to determine that and take appropriate measures.

Good Piece by Andrew McCarthy.

This is a war of will. If we lose it, the historians will marvel at how mulishly we resisted understanding the one thing we needed to understand in order to win. The enemy.

In Iraq, we’ve tried to fight the most civilized “light footprint” war of all time. We made sure everyone knew our beef was only with Saddam Hussein, as if he were a one-man militia — no Sunni Baathists supporting him, no Arab terrorists colluding, and no Shiite jihadists hating us just on principle.

No, our war was only with the regime. No need to fight the Iraqis. They, after all, were noble. They would flock to democracy if only they had the chance. And, once they hailed us as conquering heroes, their oil wealth would pay for the whole thing … just 400 billion American dollars ago.

This may be the biggest disconnect of all time between the American people and a war government.


I would suggest reading the whole article.

Story

Syrian President Bashar Assad said Wednesday his country will continue to challenge U.S. efforts to exert control over the Middle East, sounding a defiant tone ahead of President Bush's arrival in the region for talks on Iraq.

"Colonialism has not ended. In the past they used to call it colonialism, today it is called liberation of people. ... Names differ but the essence is the same. As colonialism continues, revolution and resistance continue," Syrian official media quoted Assad as saying.

Ah so of course the the Iraq Study Group comes to the conclusion we musty work WITH Syria to resolved the regional problems. How brilliant!! How could I have possibly missed such an obvious solution.

 

 

US Bombed Madrasah

This is interesting…

THE bombing of a Pakistani madrasah last month, in which 82 students were killed, was carried out by the United States, a Pakistani official has admitted, writes Christina Lamb.

The madrasah in the tribal agency of Bajaur was bombed during a visit to Pakistan by the Prince of Wales amid allegations that it was being used to train suicide bombers.

Considering the source I am skeptical of the truth of this. More likely the Pakistan government did it after the political fallout has decided to blame it on us. But even if we did do it I am not shedding any tears. Blowing up a bunch of suicide bombers doesn’t get me all weepy.

Immigration Filibuster?

Story

Sen. Jon Kyl said yesterday that a Republican-led filibuster would be on the table to block immigration legislation supported by congressional Democrats and President Bush that grants citizenship rights to illegal aliens.
"It would be in order," the Arizona Republican told radio host Laura Ingraham yesterday. "My only question is whether we've got the votes to do it."

The republicans had better hope they can filibuster it or things are going to get ugly in the party.

The one good thing about bringing this back up will be that McCain will have to go on record yet again as supporting amnesty. Something that wont endear him to the base.

First they are stupid...then they are…

Speaking on FOX News Sunday, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., had this to say about the courageous volunteers who have signed up to serve their country during the War on Terror:

"I want to make it abundantly clear: if there's anyone who believes that these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. . . If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the Army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq."

Go tell that to my brothers who went to Iraq willingly and believed in what they were doing. Democrats just disgust me. They claim to support the troops but then they say crap like this which just reveals their true feelings about soldiers they think that soldier and Neanderthal cretins who cant do any better in life and so they get suckered into military service…oh but they support the troops. Meanwhile conservatives think military folks represent the best and the brightest.

Americans Don’t Like Kerry

Democratic Sen. John Kerry, mulling a second bid for the U.S. presidency, finished dead last in a poll released Monday on the likability of 20 top American political figures.

Maybe there is hope after all…

Anyone who hasn't read Hugh Hewitt's interview with Victor Davis Hanson ought to do so.

Victor is one of the clearer thinkers on the GWOT and he plays hard ball.

Some potent excepts

HH: Victor Davis Hanson, if you had a chance to visit with the President tonight, what would you be telling him?

VDH: Don't give up. Don't weaken. Don't hesitate. Don't pause. Do not cut a deal with those two governments. They're killing American soldiers through surrogates in Iraq. They're trying to destablize Lebanon like they did in the 1980's. They're the source of most of the evil that's now causing us problems from Afghanistan to Iraq. And this idea that you're going to bring James Baker back, and that team back who gave us everything from Iran-Contra to jobs, jobs, jobs as the only reason we're going to go into the Middle East, to flank the Jews. I could go on, but it's a very sensitive point with me.  I think a lot of us, Hugh, stood by this administration through thick and thin when the paleocons turned on them, when the liberal hawks turned on them, when the neocons are starting to bail. But my God, if you're going to go into the Middle East, and put 130,000 Americans in harm's way, fighting for democracy, and then you turn around and you appease those two governments who are killing people, I don't think a lot of us are going to stand for that.

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let's be candid, Hugh. The problem right now isn't...it may be the left wing Congress, but he's got another problem, and that is he's bringing in Robert Gates, and he's bringing in the Baker realism, and that doesn't have a good record. That's the people who said don't talk to Yeltsin. Let's stick with Gorbacev. Let's not go to Baghdad. Let the Shia and Kurds die. Let's arm the Islamisists to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan and then leave. It's not a good record. It's short-term expediency at the expense of long-term morality. And it's not in the interest of the United States to do that, to cut a deal with these countries.

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HH: Now what about the calculus in Israel tonight, Victor Davis Hanson? They clearly miscalculated about Hezbollah. Hezbollah has not been wounded or weakened. Or if it was, it has responded by going aggressively internally to expand its power base in Lebanon. How ought Israel be reacting to this attempted coups?

VDH: Yeah, I think Israel's learned that when Syria and Iran supply Hezbollah with the methods to attack Israel, that you don't go back and fight in the suburbs and get on CNN and be shown to be inept. What you do is you give the Syrian government a list of targets. And you say to Hezbollah okay, the next time you send in a missile, or you go across a border, we're taking out the Damascas power station. That's all. We're not going to get on the ground. We're going to take it off. And the next time you do it, we're going to take out an airfield. And you give the Syrians about fifty targets, and just say it's up to you how much you want to escalate this process. But I would not get involved with Hezbollah in Lebanon. I'd go right to the source of it in Syria.

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Yeah, well...yeah, but here's the height of moral depravity. We have this New Yorker/Washington insider, this high nasal twang acting silly and stupid when thousands of people's lives are in jeopardy, and Americans are fighting for freedom, and she's looking at this as some type of Oedipal arrangement between Bush I and Bush II. It's just ridiculous, because what's happening right now is that a government is trying to have a systematic plan of assassination to destroy democracy, and she can't seem to make the simple moral calculus that people who are risking their lives every day in Iraq need our support. And it's not just some stupid, little political inside the Beltway game that she writes her stupid, little columns about. It's people's lives at stake. Just listening to that just reminded me how amoral these people have become, when they don't believe in anything anymore.

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and what's very strange about this Democratic opposition is that they are welcoming people like Baker and Scowcroft, as they see these people as far more closer to their own point of view. That shows you that they don't have an ideology. They don't have anything other than opposing George Bush, because they used to be the people, if we go back to 1991, and you read what a Rick Atkinson was saying, or Tom Ricks, or all these people were damning Bush I, and they were saying there were amoral, that Jim Baker didn't help the Shia, the Kurds. We tried to raise money and have a mercenary war. We had too many troops. Suddenly, they come around and they give you the exact opposite diagnosis of what's wrong now, and they say that we need Baker, we need Colin Powell. We don't like Wolfowitz, even though Wolfowitz was their hero in '91. They have no consistent ideology, other than being against whatever Bush is for.

 

Story

Muslim religious leaders removed from a Minneapolis flight last week exhibited behavior associated with a security probe by terrorists and were not merely engaged in prayers, according to witnesses, police reports and aviation security officials.
Witnesses said three of the imams were praying loudly in the concourse and repeatedly shouted "Allah" when passengers were called for boarding US Airways Flight 300 to Phoenix.
"I was suspicious by the way they were praying very loud," the gate agent told the Minneapolis Police Department.
Passengers and flight attendants told law-enforcement officials the imams switched from their assigned seats to a pattern associated with the September 11 terrorist attacks and also found in probes of U.S. security since the attacks -- two in the front row first-class, two in the middle of the plane on the exit aisle and two in the rear of the cabin.
"That would alarm me," said a federal air marshal who asked to remain anonymous. "They now control all of the entry and exit routes to the plane."
A pilot from another airline said: "That behavior has been identified as a terrorist probe in the airline industry."

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Three of the men asked for seat-belt extenders, although two flight attendants told police the men were not oversized. One flight attendant told police she "found this unsettling, as crew knew about the six [passengers] on board and where they were sitting." Rather than attach the extensions, the men placed the straps and buckles on the cabin floor, the flight attendant said.

So far as I’m concerned these men should have been given a one way ticket to Guantanimo with a complimentary water board session. Instead we have this…

Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, called removing the imams an act of Islamophobia and compared it to racism against blacks.
"It's a shame that as an African-American and a Muslim I have the double whammy of having to worry about driving while black and flying while Muslim,"

And this

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, Texas Democrat, said the September 11 terrorist attacks "cannot be permitted to be used to justify racial profiling, harassment and discrimination of Muslim and Arab Americans."

I’m almost ashamed of my native state for electing this idiot. The idea that we would ignore behavior clearly associated with terrorist activity in a post 9-11 world is utterly absurd and ANYONE who think that we should consciously and legally choose to IGNORE indicator’s like the one’s listed above is a fool…period end of story. They have no business being in congress.

Oh and lets go straight to the heart of this...the honesty of the men involved.

They claim

they were not discussing politics and only spoke in English, but witnesses told law enforcement that the men spoke in Arabic and English, criticizing the war in Iraq and President Bush, and talking about al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

So who do we believe?

How about this?

The imams who claimed two first-class seats said their tickets were upgraded.

However

The gate agent told police that when the imams asked to be upgraded, they were told no such seats were available.

So basically these men are liars. All of the professionals involved in this believed it was either a terrorist probe or else a setup for just the kind of publicity that it has gotten by the liberal press.

Either way I don’t much care...at a bare minimum the airline acted completely appropriately and frankly I think that our government did us all a disservice by letting these clowns go.

I keep meaning to post this but it kept slipping my mind over the holiday.

I want to say congrats to fellow blogger James Biga over at Biga's Rants.

He recently broke into the top ten over at Townhall's blog's and I have to say it's well earned.

He is a hard hitter who doesn't pull punches and doesn't mess around when it comes to radical Islam.

If you haven't you should pop over and check him out.

 

I borrow the title from this article because the question is an important one.

The answer from me is “I sure hope so.”

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, quoted on Haaretz.com, put the threat in context by comparing Iran with Nazi Germany: “It’s 1938 and Iran is Germany. And Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs.” Referencing Ahmadinejad’s assertions that Iran will never give up its nuclear quest, Netanyahu said, “Believe him and stop him….he is preparing another Holocaust for the Jewish state.”

The problem is the rest of the world is in Chamberlain mode not Churchill mode and with the democrats in congress applying pressure on the administration to pull out of Iraq I have ZERO confidence that the U.S. will do anything leaving it in Israel’s hands to do something...anything.

Make no mistake folks. Iran is on a quest for nukes and NOTHING is going to stop them short of destroying their program facilities and then when they rebuild them…destroy them again. If we do nothing Israel will have to do something.