We ARE at war with Saudi Arabia - we just don't know it yet.
Topic: Taking back our Culture

I feel that it's my duty - most of all to the memory of my son, who died fighting Islamist terror in Iraq - to point out and keep on pointing out what is obvious when you see the evidence - we are at war with the leadership, and probably most of the people of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

A poll of adult men conducted by the Saudi security service shows that at least 90 percent of them approve of and support the Al-Qaeda terrorist group that killed 3000 Americans on September 11th, 2001. Several of their leaders, the Saudi royal family, supported the September 11th attack with money - personal checks from the wife of Prince Sultan (former Saudi ambassador to the US) were found in the personal effects of one of the 9/11 hijackers, and the paper trail extends much farther than that.

This post quotes extensive excerpts from an article published on January 31, 2005, "Report Links Brooklyn Mosque to Saudi Hate Material," in the New York Sun by Meghan Clyne. Read it and judge for yourself. Ms. Clyne's article is available at: http://www.nysun.com/article/8445 According to Ms. Clyne: "Just three miles from the site of the World Trade Center, the government of Saudi Arabia is distributing hate materials expounding an extremist Wahhabi ideology, according to a new report by the Center for Religious Freedom.... " "While this group typically monitors the state of religious freedom under oppressive regimes abroad, the center has just concluded a year-long study of 200 documents that it said were collected in more than a dozen mosques across America, bear the seal of the Saudi government, and spread hateful indoctrination. The group called the propaganda a violation of Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

"According to a press release and to the center's director, Nina Shea, the 89-page report, which was issued Friday, finds that the materials incite violence, inform Muslims that it is their religious duty to hate Jews and Christians, and even give specific instructions on how properly to express that hatred to one's infidel neighbors." "The Saudi-produced and - distributed materials denounce democracy - and democratic America - as un-Islamic.

Ms. Shea said the materials are directed toward recent immigrants. According to the report, Muslim newcomers are told that, while in America, they should think of themselves as operating behind enemy lines and should use their time in America either to acquire information and resources for jihad or to convert the infidels to Islam."

"The literature also promotes Wahhabism, the version of Islam officially embraced by the Saudi kingdom and adhered to by several of the September 11 hijackers, as the only true Islam, and it denounces more moderate Muslims who advocate tolerance as apostates. In Saudi Arabia, Ms. Shea said, apostasy is a capital crime. "If you're a Muslim and you become an infidel," she said, "you're put to death."

"According to the report, one of the strongest denunciations of so-called apostasy was issued in Brooklyn's Al-Farooq mosque, on Atlantic Avenue." A book published by the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs which was obtained from the Al-Farouq Mosque in Brooklyn, New York (written by a former Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, the late Bin Baz), authorizes Muslims to kill converts to Islam who violate their sexual mores, according to the report."

"According to the report's translation, Al-Farooq worshipers are told: "If a person said: I believe in Allah alone and confirm the truth of everything from Muhammed, except in his forbidding fornication, he becomes a disbeliever. For that, it would be lawful for Muslims to spill his blood and to take his money." The report emphasizes that this isn't the first time the Al-Farooq mosque has been cited in conjunction with terrorism and terrorist ideology. On Friday, the trial in Brooklyn federal court of a Yemeni sheik, Mohammed Ali Hasan al-Moayad, who stands accused of conspiring to raise millions of dollars for Hamas and Al Qaeda began. Some of this alleged fund-raising activity was allegedly undertaken at the Al-Farooq Mosque.

"A senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Andrew McCarthy, who led the prosecution of the ringleader of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Omar Abdel Rahman, spoke yesterday of Al-Farooq's other alleged connections to terrorism."

"The mosque, Mr. McCarthy said, was a regular stop for the blind sheik on his fund-raising tours in the late 1980s, and in 1989, the former prosecutor said, several conspirators in the Landmark Bomb Plot - which aimed to blow up the United Nations and New York City's tunnels - met at Al-Farooq before heading out to Long Island to conduct jihadist training activities."

"This latest revelation about Al-Farooq, Mr. McCarthy said, was 'just another drop in the barrel.'" "'What the Saudis do is very disturbing,' Mr. McCarthy said.

'We turn a blind eye to the really bad things the Saudis do ... to not appear as if we're being, God forbid, judgmental about Wahhabism and Saudi proselytizing of a particular brand of Islam that is very alarming to most people,'"

"Mr. McCarthy said the purported Saudi propaganda was further evidence that conducting a war on terrorism is 'a bad idea' when America is really engaged in 'a war against militant Islam.'"

"Saudi representatives in America, however, have denied spreading hateful materials to mosques, Ms. Shea said in her report. A spokesman for the Saudi Embassy, Adel al-Jubeir, says the Saudis 'don't approve of hate ideology in any way.'

She continued, 'But he's lying, they do promote this.'" "Several of the documents obtained by the center read, "Greetings from the Cultural Attache of the Saudi Embassy in Washington," Ms. Shea said." When the New York Sun's reporter Clyne asked Saudi officials in Washington about the hate literature bearing his country's seal, she was told that the officials were out of the country on the yearly hajj pilgrimage.

"While saying the Saudis may be 'lying low,' Ms. Shea emphasized that the report's focus was not on the activity of the mosques cited, but on what she said was an attempt by the Saudi government, over a period of decades, to create 'a fifth column within the American Muslim community."

"'It's political propaganda as much as it is religious,' Ms. Shea explained. 'We have to confront it in our bilateral relations with Saudi Arabia - at the highest levels of government, we have to tell the Saudis, 'No more.''"

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I agree. America is in the same state of blind denial toward Saudi Arabia's reign of hate that she was in toward Germany before 1941. If no American serviceman had set a boot inside of Iraq by now, the Saudis' hate literature against us would still be just as virulent, just as present, and used just as much to promote terrorism on our own soil and against Americans overseas.

When we kill Al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq, it means that there are that many less of them to attack us at home and abroad. There are already beginning to be public complaints about precisely this depletion of the "dumb Saudi" pool of potential terrorists from within Al-Qaeda. I'll say more about that in another post. 

It's time to show the Saudis that they cannot conquer the world with their "missionaries" who spread hate and terror around the world. If we have to use strategic nuclear weapons to sterilize the source of this infection, well, why not? It is better to risk dying as men than to live as slaves to those swine.

Before we do that, though, we should give the Muslims who are not part of the Saudis' campaign to spread hatred and terror the opportunity to defend and reclaim their holy places. I personally have no problem with Muslims as such. I don't agree with their theology, but I can say the same of many Christians. I actually got along well with most of the Muslims I met in college and had two Muslim roommates, one of whom was a Shiite from Iran, and the other a supporter of the Shah (this was back before the Islamic Revolution in Iran).

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What I have a real problem with is the Saudis and their violent, hate mongering sect of Islam. I would bet that most Muslims who are not part of that sect also have a real problem with the Saudis. Again, we should give the free Muslim world an opportunity to wrest control of their holy places back from the Saudis before taking the risk of making the desert to their east (and parts of the Persian Gulf) radioactive.

We have no quarrel with them. Saudi control of Mecca and Medina is actually a new thing, historically speaking. The Hashemites - basically just the King of Jordan now, unless the former Iraqi royal family wish to re-assert their claim to the Iraqi throne, which would probably just get them killed - have a better claim to the surrounding area and specifically to the stewardship of the Holy Places.

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But an even better claim rests with Islam worldwide - Muslims throughout the world who do not want to be remade in the Saudi mold. Worldwide, Muslims have some legitimate gripes with the rest of the world and with Christianity specifically. But the Saudis are doing what we are simply being falsely accused of - they take Qur'ans away from other Muslims visiting to make the hajj, often destroying what they don't simply steal, they rush around Mecca and Medina with demolition crews and concrete to flatten and pave over holy sites - things the vast majority of Christians have absolutely no interest in doing.  We simply don't care about interfering in Muslim worship.  And when this crucial fact gets better known, perhaps the vast majority of Muslims will recognize their real enemy and act to stop them.  God willing.

More Stuff You Won't See on TV News....
Mood:  incredulous
Topic: ...Those Who Will Not See

There's the version you get from Big Media, and there's the truth. 

(And why on Earth would someone make up stories about the war in Iraq turning out a whole lot better than the news people are telling us for the rare privilege of staying out there to be shot at?)

Quoted from Col. Jill Morgenthaler's "GI Jill's Adventures in Baghdad" blog:

"May 22, 2004

Hey, Everyone,

Things are quiet right now.  We begin the countdown to sovereignty for Iraq.  Good things are happening.  The Reserve unit that has received so much bad press has done good things.  Here’s one of their stories:

Men, women of the 372nd are also the good guys.
JAMES RADA
Times-News Staff Writer
CUMBERLAND:  What would you call a man who jumped into a creek to help people caught inside a truck that had rolled there? What would you call a group that helped build a center to enable women to become successfully independent? What would you call a group that made an entire city feel safer?  Would you call them heroes? Civic activists? Friends? Lately, these people have been called sadists, monsters and criminals. That’s because the good deeds and good work done by the 372nd Army  Reserve Unit have been forgotten and tarnished by the alleged misdeeds of a  few.  Sgt. Roger Plummer of Ridgeley, W.Va., served in Iraq from June 2003 to January 2004. He knows the men and women of the 372nd because he has lived with them, fought with them and worked with them.  Al Hilla was named one of the safest cities in Iraq because of the work done by the 372nd police,” said Plummer.

The Coalition Provisional Authority recognized the South Central Region of Iraq as progressing faster than any other unit, in part, because of the work done by Plummer and his fellow reservists.   Our personalities really helped us with that city,  said Plummer.  He said that when the 372nd was in charge of security there, the city had been safe and the Iraqi police department had been an open place where Iraqis knew they could come to get help. 

“We were open and the people felt comfortable with us, said Plummer.  Then the 372nd was sent to do other work and the replacement unit came in and turned the police department into a “fortress.  And that’s when all the trouble started when we closed ourselves off from them, said Plummer.  Plummer was part of a group of 372nd soldiers that was helping train an Iraqi boxing team to qualify for the Olympics as a way to restore national pride.  When a truck went off the road and into a creek, it was a member of the 372nd who dove into the water and began pulling Iraqis out of the truck.   He gave one old guy CPR for 20 minutes trying to save him, said Plummer.  The 372nd also held police academies for Iraqi policemen who had little or no training.  Plummer said that during the four months his platoon was assigned to the Coalition Provisional Authority it participated in the following projects:

• 8 women’s rights centers were built
• 6 schools were built or remodeled
• 6 youth centers were built
• 4 hydroelectric turbines were repaired
• 2 universities were built or remodeled
• 2 democracy centers were built
• 2 water filtration plants were rebuilt
• 1 airfield was built

“I couldn’t tell you how many miles of road I saw paved. I saw electrical lines run into cities that didn’t have power,” added Plummer.  The construction was performed by Iraqi contractors who bid on the jobs.  They were paid from money that had been confiscated from Saddam Hussein. 

The 372nd also did little things, too, like making sure students had plenty of paper, pencils and erasers.  All of this was not easy for members of the 372nd, either. They were shot at with bullets and rockets. Some members survived car bomb blasts.  They endured this because they felt it was the right thing to do. They could see the progress being made with the people, according to Plummer.  He wants people to know of all the good work his unit did, and is still doing, in Iraq. James Rada can be reached at jrada@times-news.com"

and

"Good news:  Great stuff still happening here for a better and free Iraq.  Below is an excerpt from American Daily.

Mainstream Media Robbing Us Of Iraqi War Heroes

By Joe Mariani (06/04/2004) (Joe Mariani was born and raised in New Jersey. He now lives in Pennsylvania, where the gun laws are less restrictive and taxes are lower. Joe always thought of himself as politically neutral until he saw how far left the left had really gone after 9/11.)

 …The New York Times will probably never report the story of Corporal Samuel Toloza, one of 380 soldiers from El Salvador, which was carried in the Washington Times. Corporal Toloza, out of ammunition, bravely defended fallen members of his unit from Iraqi insurgents. He charged the enemy, armed only with a knife. ''One of his friends was dead, 12 others lay wounded, and the four soldiers still left standing were surrounded and out of ammunition. So Salvadoran Cpl. Samuel Toloza said a prayer, whipped out his knife, and charged the Iraqi gunmen." The Iraqis broke, and more Coalition troops arrived before they could regroup. Phil Kosnett, who heads the CPA in Najaf, has nominated six El Salvadorans for the Bronze Star.

''These guys are punching way above their weight,'' Kosnett said. ''They're probably the bravest and most professional troops I've every worked with.'' Yet their story is almost completely buried by the mainstream media's endless liturgy of doom, gloom, and quagmire.

You will probably never see the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders mentioned on ABC, CBS or NBC. When attacked by over 100 of Moqtada al-Sadr's so-called militia (in reality a gang of thugs with a religious motif), the 20 or so soldiers fixed bayonets and mounted a 19-century style charge. Taking only three casualties, the Scots captured or killed 35 of the enemy. No American media outlet saw fit to even mention this action, except those who carry Mark Steyn's opinion column. Not one seems to have thought of the Highlanders' action as newsworthy." 

Thank you, Col. Morgenthaler, for the straight poop.  God bless you, ma'am.

I guess the BBC might have passed that action over, too.  Just a guess. 

Sorry it took me so long to get around to it, but I had surgery not too long ago, and I'm just now getting my act together again.

Why spend time on this?  Because my son Armand Luke Frickey would have wanted me to remind you people that the folks on TV, NPR and the big papers are lying to you.  The one sure way to make this Iraq thing a fiasco is to bail out because Pelosi and Company have decided that's how it'll play out.  He died so that the rest of us could live here in peace.  It's time we began to earn that.

Someone's got to get the truth out.

The death of post-9/11 solidarity in America
Mood:  sad
Topic: ...Those Who Will Not See

A year and some months later, it's saddening to note how optimistic Mr. Nistorescu was in his praise of the American nation.

The Democratic Party jumps on every reverse in the war on terror as a sign of how morally and intellectually bankrupt the Bush Administration is (and the national leadership of the Democratic Party knows all about moral and intellectual bankruptcy - from the inside, having nominated a Communist fellow-traveler and lying bastard like John Kerry to the Presidency).

These people do not care at all about the lives of either innocent Iraqis,  Afghans, Europeans, Americans or our troops overseas.  My son and five other Louisiana National Guardsmen died because the terrorists in Iraq know that killing six Americans in one detonation would give them ten days of continuous television coverage in this country - at least.  

CBS News pestered me on the phone for over a month for permission to do one of those obnoxious minor-key woodwind "Isn't it horrible we're still in this war" features on their Evening News show about my son's death, because his widow wanted time to think about whether he would have appreciated being used in antiwar leftist agitprop.  They apparently had no problem with going around her back for permission from someone not my son's next-of-kin.  (And this was when Dick Thornburgh and company was busy giving CBS a clean bill of health for their handling of Rather's and Mapes' solicitation and use of the phony Bush National Guard memos.)

Going back to the general from the specific, it didn't take very long for the vaunted solidarity between Americans after 9/11/2001 to vanish. 

No charge is too scurrilous for the left wing in this country to make about the Bush White House, no lie too transparent to tell.  And nothing the left wing says is too ridiculous for the "mainstream press" (in other words, the press with massive amounts of money behind it) to report as straight news, rather than as partisan opinion.

It's just like living over the fence from a particularly psychotic mother-in-law - no, in this day of ridiculously cheap long-distance telephone calls, it's more like, for your beloved spouse's sake, being reluctant to block incoming calls from her phone number and that of the family members who will let her use their phones.

The hard-line socialists in our country's electorate want power, and they literally will destroy our country and its government to get it.  They see themselves as morally superior to us and thus qualified to peel away right after right from us until we behave in a way pleasing to them.  (Remember the Clinton administration, guys?)

The hard left wing in this country are the psychotic in-laws of America.  It's long past time for a family intervention.

CBS Evening News with Katie Couric - New anchor, same old bias
Mood:  sad
Topic: HOW LAME IS THIS?

CITGO and Hugo Chavez - This Is a Good Idea Why?
Mood:  incredulous
Topic: HOW LAME IS THIS?
How Lame is This?

(A new feature in this until-now dormant blog.)

One of the ads on ABC's Sunday morning show was from CITGO (a company whose current name struck one of my friends in junior high school as perfect for an lemon-lime-flavored laxative) bragging that its backing by Petroleo de Venezuela gave it perfect ability to respond to changes...

...such as Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez's sliding even further off the edge of the stage into support for leftist and other extremist terrorism?

Just how does CITGO think pimping for Hugo Chavez improves their appeal to the American business market?

Does CITGO think that providing a large additional source of funding for someone who really admires the leaders of Iran, North Korea and Cuba is a major selling point for their product?

Waiter! Whatever they're drinking, I want a double on the rocks.

More evidence of Saddam's WMD capacity having been relocated to Syria
Topic: ...Those Who Will Not See
From the business section of the British newspaper The Spectator (online version)

http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Stories.aspx?&StoryID=699BCFDC-3F0B-4625-B5A0-E2D75B759246&SectionID=F3B76EF0-7991-4389-B72E-D07EB5AA1CEE)

"Captured videos link Saddam to WMD in Syria
By Fraser Nelson
19 February 2006


REAMS of unpublished Iraqi documents from Saddam Hussein’s official archives may be translated after the disclosure of video evidence that shows him discussing germ warfare and attacks on the United States.

Some 36,000 boxes of captured documents may be opened to investigate claims suggesting the “smoking gun” evidence may lie in Syria. The discovery was made by non-governmental agencies – leading to calls for all the documents to be made public so similar groups can search them for clues which government auditors may have missed.

On Saturday, a meeting entitled The Intelligence Summit – an American donor-funded group – was convened in Virginia where it played video highlights of conversations they translated showing Saddam and his deputy talking about biological weapons.

One official asks to divert civilian electricity from Basra’s generators to help enrich uranium. Tariq Aziz, Saddam’s deputy, is on tape discussing biological weapons and what they would do if France and Russia would not help them.

Saddam also refers to terrorism. “This story is coming, but not from Iraq,” he says. This was taken to rule out his involvement in organising a terrorist attack, but there is a dispute over the translation of his comments.

Separately, Ali Ibrahim al-Tikriti, a former Iraqi commander, gave an interview to an American website where he claims: “Saddam’s weapons are in Syria due to certain military deals that were made going as far back as the late 1980s.”

Peter Hoekstra, a Republican who chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, is leading calls for other documents to be made public. The Pentagon is expected to agree. The Iraq Survey Group originally found 40m documents.

In recent months, interviews with Iraqi officials and translated recordings have shown Saddam was considering chemical weapons and may have had links to al-Qaeda and a secret weapons of mass destruction programme in Syria."

This is just one more piece of evidence that Saddam moved his weapons of mass destruction program to where UNSCOM inspectors couldn't find it. I don't expect the liberals to pay attention to this any more than to any of the other evidence that has been produced showing that Saddam was in the WMD business almost to the day of the invasion.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Welcome back to the Cold War.
More stuff I found on open source intelligence:

http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=4435"

"Amir Taheri on Iran: The second clock is ticking.

Amir Taheri just wrote a column in Asharq Al Awrsat pointing out that Iran's rush to nukes will be shaped by its domestic politics - specifically, an ongoing battle between the most dangerous faction led by Ahmadinejad, and a more risk-averse group of Mullahs, including former President Rafsanjani.

April is the critical month. That is when a new Supreme Guide, with supreme power over the President, may be elected by the Mullahs' "Assembly of Experts." If the fanatics gain control over the top job, there will be nothing to stop them from controlling Iran and its bombs.

Taheri also confirms that Ahmadinejad truly has an Apocalyptic vision about the return of the Mahdi, the Hidden Imam of the Shia sect. Ahmadinejad "puts the Mahdi ahead of all prophets and claims that he has" a private personal channel" to the "Hidden Imam."

Another important point is that Ahmadinejad's ideological guide, Ayatollah Yazdi, utterly rejects the usual warrant for double-talk:

"He is totally against both taqiyah (obfuscation) and kitman (dissimulation) which have been perfected into veritable arts by the mullahs over the centuries. Thus he often says aloud what most mullahs think in silence."

In sum:

1. Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said that he wants Israel wiped off the map.

2. For twenty years, Iran has been moving toward nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. They are now near the point of no return, where they can no longer be halted without a massive military attack.

3. Ahmadinejad, according to multiple sources, is a fanatic who wants to bring about an Islamic Apocalypse, a total world war that would bring back the messiah of Shia Islam.

4. Ahmadinejad rejects the policy of lying followed by previous Mullahs, so that we should take him at his word.

5. On the other side, Israel is said to have some 200 nuclear weapons, including a second-strike capacity, able to destroy Tehran if Jerusalem or Tel Aviv are hit by surprise.

6. France, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and others within the 2,000 km range of Iranian missiles cannot possibly believe that a massive nuclear exchange next door will leave them untouched.

It follows that all powers - European and Islamic - in and near the region must want Iran's radicals out, and nuclear development brought to a halt. It was France that secretly gave Israel the plans for Saddam's nuclear reactor in 1981, making it possible for the Israeli Air Force to destroy it in a single bombing raid. The French built the reactor, took Hussein's money, and then ensured that it was blown up.

If the past is prologue, it would seem that Russia, France, and even the Arab countries will secretly cooperate with a US-Israeli effort to destroy Tehran's nuclear capacity, simply to ensure their own survival. If that does not happen, we will be back to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, or much worse."

I think that Mr Taheri is mistaken - if the past is prologue, Europe - or at least the political movers and shakers in Europe - will be paralyzed by fear of the consequences of alienating worldwide Islam, far too paralyzed to act in time to save themselves or us.

Not to be unnecessarily insulting, but if the past is prologue we face the prospect of not one but a whole group of Hitlers with weaponry far in advance of anything Nazi Germany had, and with an ideology just as murderous, intolerant and ruthless.

Waiting for Europe (not to mention the International Atomic Energy Agency or any other part of the UN) to take the action needed to defuse the threat from militant, nuclear-armed Iran and some of the other rogue nations and organizations which have nuclear weapons or are apt to have them soon is suicidal.

The United States must act. Further, it must act without the fuzzy-minded dithering we've seen so far from the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate. It's because of them that we've gotten into the mess we have now.

I'd be lying if I said that this was the fault of the Democrats alone. Obviously the Abramoffs and Safavians of the Republican party elite have trivialized their party's influence.

But one Republican in particular may cost us victory in the more active phase of the war against terror with his autocratic control of his Congressional subcommittee.

That would be Rep. David Hobson (R, Ohio), who has kept funding for research into new types of nuclear weapons particularly suited to digging enemy installations out of deep reinforced-concrete bunkers and new installations for maintaining the nuclear weapons we have now bottled up for years.

Since some of the Iranian nuclear resources we're most concerned about are buried as much as 1,000 meters - 5/8ths of a mile - deep, we NEED that technology vitally. Actually, we needed the funding for that technology many years ago if we were to have the actual bombs we need now. Hobson has already done the damage that Islamist terrorists have been praying for.

And it's difficult to understand under any circumstances why a patriotic American would prevent our nation from having the facilities we need just to maintain the nuclear weapons already in our arsenal.

Those weapons accumulate "poisons" - products of radioactive decay of the fissile materials which make the big boom. The fissiles must be removed and replaced by re-conditioned fissile material. The largest facility we had for doing this, Rocky Flats in Colorado, has been shut for several years.

Pantex in Amarillo, Texas is an old and dated facility, but Hobson has even held up funding for its remodeling to meet our country's needs, much less the additional plant we need to replace the capacity we lost when Rocky Flats was shut down.

Thanks loads, Rep. Hobson.

I don't think that any chance exists at all that Iran will dismantle its nuclear capacity voluntarily. They have protected the facilities they need to build nuclear weapons much more effectively than even we have.

The protection the Iranians have placed around their nuclear program, burying parts of it a thousand meters underground, indicates that they are ready for it to survive even a nuclear attack.

We really need the nuclear bunker busters that Senator Kerry spoke so disparagingly of during one of the presidential debates, and which Represenative Hobson has effectively prevented us from designing, much less building. Thanks again, guys.

Now, because of faint-hearted, misguided idiocy on the part of some of our own politicians, we will have to use "silo-buster" nuclear warheads to burn out Iran's buried nuclear weapons program.

Unfortunately for everyone concerned, the Iranians have buried their nuclear facilities so deeply that several successive hits will be needed on the kilometer-deep facility and probably on the others as well, in order to assure their total destruction.

This will, because these weapons are not designed for the task of destroying bunkers of that depth, and because the targets consist of special nuclear materials themselves, mean that a successful nuclear bomb run on those facilities will create huge plumes of radioactive fallout hundreds of miles long.

Not only will much of Iran be rendered too radioactive to support life for weeks, but parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Burma, Bangladesh, Thailand, Cambodia, perhaps even Malaysia, Indonesia, the Phillipines, Australia, Hawaii and our own West Coast will be affected as well.

The mission probably wouldn't be worthwhile if it wasn't a certainty that the fallout from the destruction of Israel by Iran (or the terrorists they support) and Israel's retaliatory strikes would be even more deadly and widespread. Not acting is no longer an option.

Iran has just succeeded in making itself Public Enemy Number One. No clear-thinking world power can sit by and let Iran make nuclear weapons which it will either give to Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah, or use itself in ways that cannot be sanctioned.

Welcome back to the Cold War, ladies and gentlemen.

Carthage Must be Destroyed!
I found this in the Yahoo group "open source intelligence" today.

It bears reading, because it is the most sensible thing I've read so far about Islam's demand to censor our newspapers:

"Muslims and the imperceptibility of the West
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By Mohammad Asghar
2006/02/12

http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/MohammadAsghar60212.htm

SOME political cartoons published by a Danish newspaper are behind the Muslims' rage, which they have been displaying for some days by resorting to all kinds of violence in the part of the world they call their own. They have attacked foreign embassies; they have burned the national flags of even those nations, which have nothing to do with the publication of the cartoons. Their agitation is also responsible for the death of some people.

Muslims' violent reaction against the cartoons has generated huge debate among those people whose voice and discourses demand our attention. Some of the renowned debaters believe that the publication of the cartoons was not appropriate because, they maintain, Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, was not a political figure. They also tell us that, since depiction of his features in any form or shape is offensive to the Muslims, all the non-Muslims of the world should respect their religious sensitivity by being sensitive to the Muslims' Islamic beliefs.

In my judgment, most of the non-Muslim debaters are wrong. All of them, who hold the above views, are misinformed. They are not aware of the True Islamic History, nor are they aware of the Islamic agendas that drive each Muslim's life on earth.

Apart from being a religious dictator, Muhammad was also a brute and ruthless political leader. While forcing Islam on the Pagans, Jews and Christians of the Arabian Peninsula, he also established the first Islamic State, with its capital in Medina. It was this action of his that had led his successors to establish the Islamic Empire over one-third of our earth, and to rule over it for over 1,100 years.

Since Muhammad was both a religious as well as a political dictator, non-Muslims have every right to publish, and see his cartoons in their newspapers. Any action taken by the Muslims to prevent them from expressing themselves and their views tantamount to interfering in their internal affairs as well as to denying them the right of _expression their political systems have granted them through their constitutions.

No self-respecting and freedom-loving people should cave in to the Muslims' demands, no matter how violently they want to impose them on others. They should stand up, and face the madness of the Muslims, with all available means at their disposal. Failure to do so would eventually prove disastrous for the West.

One day, it would find itself in the same position in which, the Philippines finds itself today. Emboldened by its soft attitude towards its fast growing Muslim population, it is now fighting for its own existence. Had the authorities in the Philippines adopted a hard posture towards the Muslims before they could become a threat for its existence, it would have saved itself all the trouble, and the bloodbath, it is now struggling to prevent in the wake of a war of secession they have been fighting on its soil.

The Quran tells the Muslims that the earth and all that it contains belong to Allah (3:109). It also tells them that the only Religion that is acceptable to Him is Islam, which He made perfect (cf. 5:3), while Muhammad was still alive.

As the followers of the perfect religion of Allah, Muslims are His Representatives on earth. This position of theirs makes them the owner of the whole earth as well as of everything that it contains.

According to the above doctrine of Islam, non-Muslims are the illegal occupiers of the lands they are now living on. Since their religions are not acceptable to Allah, all of them must either be evicted from their homes, or be killed for refusing to submit themselves to Islam.

Most Muslims' mind is heavily influenced by the above doctrine of their religion. It makes them dream for the day when they would become the owner of the entire earth by evicting or killing its non-Muslim inhabitants. They have been working secretly on their mission for a long time, but the publication of the cartoons by the Danish Newspaper has exposed their secret. It has also enabled the whole world to know how infuriated Muslims can become, if one dares to publish some cartoons of their Prophet.

By their violent actions, Muslims are telling all the non-Muslims of the world that they cannot express their views even in their own backyard, as it
hurts or is likely to hurt their religious sentiments. They are also telling them that they would be beheaded, if they dared to offend them by doing anything that is prohibited in their religion.

Instead of realizing the grave threat that the Muslims pose to the non-Muslim world, many Christian debaters and commentators have chosen to take their side by claiming that since Muslims do not insult the revered personalities of other religions, non-Muslims should reciprocate their so-called noble gesture by not insulting their Prophet. This is a fallacious position and those who propagate it must be told that they are digging their own graves by using the above argument in favor of the Muslims.

Muslims do not respect or revere the personalities of non-monotheistic religions. Given the opportunity, they would not hesitate even for a second before razing to ground all the Hindu temples and the Buddhist monasteries together with all the idols and statues that are housed in them.

How easily Muslims can trample the feelings of other religious people is discernible from one of the actions of the Muslim leaders of Afghanistan. They destroyed three of the old statues of Buddha who is deeply revered, and worshipped, by his followers.

Despite this outrageous action of the Muslim leaders of Afghanistan, no Buddhist is known to have reacted against the ordinary Muslims, nor are the Buddhists known either to have burned the national flag of Afghanistan, or destroyed Muslims' property anywhere in the world.

Why?

As Buddhism is a real non-violent way of life, its practitioners do not react violently even against those who insult, defile or destroy the statue of its founder. This Buddhist attitude cannot be found in the Muslims, hence their destructive agitation against Denmark, and the Christians of the West.


The West must take note of it, and take appropriate actions for defending its peoples' rights in the face of the Muslim onslaughts. Its inability or unwillingness to act now is likely to produce two results:

1. Muslims would take over the West and then turn it into their own Islamic State.

2. They would turn all of its inhabitants into Dhimmis and treat them according to the directive of the Quran, which is:

[Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Apostle, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth {i.e. Islam}, (even if they are) of the People of the Book {i.e. Jews and the Christians}, until they pay the Jizya {protection tax} with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued] (Sura - or Chapter - 9; verse 29).

Do you, the people of the West, want the Muslims to take over your land? Do you want to become their slaves?

If your answers are in negative, in that event, please refuse to submit to the mad demands of the Muslims. Instead of defending them on one pretext or another, tell them to behave and to mind their own business so that you may be able to accommodate them in your midst.

Should Muslims fail to pay heed to the above conditions, you must boycott them and their businesses. Should you fail to do the above two things, please note, your future is bleak and you, your children or your grandchildren may end up being their slaves.

In your action lies your future wellbeing. So, do not hesitate nor procrastinate; rather, act quickly, if you want to save yourselves and your progeny from the evil designs of the Muslims. But should you choose to ignore this advice, and you or your progeny become the victim of the Muslims, in that event, you would have none to blame but yourselves for the plight and sufferings that are in store for you and your descendants."

Hard words, but true ones.

By going to the ridiculous lengths we have gone to in order to accommodate the Muslim governments of the world, we have allowed a well-known sponsor of worldwide terror, Iran, to accumulate all the equipment and supplies needed to produce nuclear weapons.

Now Iran has elected a leader who says in no uncertain terms that he thinks Israel (which has done his country no harm at all) should be wiped out, and implied that we're next. All because we listened to the fools in our news media and the even more foolish and crooked liberals in Congress and failed to act when it would have been cheap and safe to do so.

Now we have either got to undertake a massive campaign to subdue Iran and destroy her nuclear capability - which, realistically, given the location of some of her nuclear stockpile under 1,000 meters (about 5/8ths of a mile) of concrete, rock and soil, must be a nuclear attack, using the same weapons we have developed to destroy Communist missiles in THEIR underground storage - or sit there and wait for our major cities and those of Europe and our allies elsewhere to be vaporized.

As horrible as it seems, even to me, this is our only chance to strike while it can still be done without mass murder happening.

And after that, we must leave worldwide Islam in no doubt that ANY attempt to impose their mores, lifestyle or politics on us will be met with violent resistance of a sort they are not prepared to deal with.

The ancient Romans failed to take sufficient steps to deal with the Carthaginians in their time and were nearly conquered for it. Like us, they tolerated foolishness from a republic that was just corrupt enough to put political patronage (in the appointment of the two generals at Cannae who allowed themselves and their troops to be encircled and slaughtered not far from Rome herself) above the welfare of the Republic - and Rome nearly died of it.

It's time to put an end to all of that now.

No more pretending that the UN and Europeans have a say in OUR self-defense. America must destroy those who would enslave us, and we must do it NOW while we still can.

Any other course would be disastrous to our children and grandchildren.

Is Dubya Trying to Hustle the East?
Mood:  not sure
Topic: ...Those Who Will Not See
Watching George W. Bush's first address after Hurricane Katrina cut her swath across the Gulf Coast, I was encouraged at first by his announcement that New Orleans would be rebuilt - higher. That made sense, and moreover, it was classic Dubya - common sense response.

Then he started promising billions and billions of dollars for reconstruction of the Gulf Coast, and everything went to hell in a hurry.

Waving multi-billion dollar works projects ($60 billion, I believe was the figure mentioned) before local politicians is... the mind runs out of metaphors vivid enough to plumb the outright stupidity of the act. And to name a figure before relief agency workers have had a chance to estimate what fixing New Orleans will actually cost... the President all but invited the $240 billion counter-proposal from Louisiana's Congressional delegation... a figure magnificent in its temerity, impudence and ambition.

But Bush held out a subtlety which most people may have missed - he promised to propose these massive spending bills to Congress. Proposing massive spending programs is not the same thing as writing the checks.

Congress, especially the Democratic Congressional caucus, is now potentially in a severe bind of their own creation. Nancy Pelosi and the other members of the Hate Bush First Club didn't even wait for Katrina to make landfall before blaming George W. Bush and FEMA for every death and every dollar of damage caused by the storm, loudly demanding investigations into the incompetence.

It turns out that the incompetence which prevented the FEMA aid from getting to Jean Q. Stormvictim was mainly traceable to local people, most of whom belonged to the same party as Nancy Pelosi and friends. Oops. The press gracefully pointed their cameras elsewhere as Congress, New Orleans' loud-mouthed blame-flinging mayor, and the Governor of Louisiana rearranged their positions to cover their badly-exposed asses.

Bush also demanded investigations, and (with a mischievious gleam in his eye?) promised plenty of inspectors general to look into
- why there weren't enough buses ready in New Orleans to transport elderly citizens to prevent over forty of them from drowning in one old folks' home alone, and
- why one parish emergency preparedness official was found to have four truckloads of badly-needed emergency supplies in his home, and
- why the mayor of New Orleans was at one point inside a room at the Hyatt Regency with a couple of staffers and a laptop computer instead of his designated post, the city/parish emergency operations center.

Before Ray Nagin started blaming everyone else but himself for the events surrounding Katrina, he should have taken a little time to reflect that as the chief executive of New Orleans city government, making sure that the city emergency preparedness plan would survive contact with a category five hurricane and twenty-foot storm surges long enough to coordinate the provision of aid with FEMA was... HIS responsibility.

Not President George W. Bush's, not Governor Kathleen Blanco's (who was intelligent enough to realize that FEMA was not totally responsible for the countless glitches between federal, state and local officials in providing aid to the besieged), but Mayor Ray Nagin's.

So George W. Bush has bought himself some time by making it clear that the decision-making process surrounding both the preparations which were not made before Katrina and the provision of even the sixty billion dollars suggested for Bush's proposed rebuilding program was everyone's responsibility. Some Congresscritters took the initiative, identifying "pet projects" (otherwise known as "pork") which could be cut or deferred in order to fix what broke after Katrina and Rita.

But getting back to what I believe is a mistake the President will regret, loudly mentioning a dollar figure without having any idea of how much money will really be required to fix everything that broke looked like a phony gesture. New Orleanians and the people of the Gulf Coast in general aren't possessed of super-normal intelligence or exceptional in very many ways, but they are wise enough in the ways of the world to notice when something doesn't add up. They'll be curious about that sixty billion-dollar figure, about how it was arrived at and how much actual help they can count on from the President and Congress.

Usually, when you rebuild a house that was flattened by a storm, you get estimates, THEN start lining up financing and writing checks. The President did the process backwards, without asking the people in the area to contribute their opinions as far as I can tell. Not good.

Rudyard Kipling had a cautionary tale for those who mistake simplicity of manner for lack of sophistication:

"...And the end of the fight
Is tombstone white
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear,
“A fool lies here
Who tried to hustle the East."

(to the Secret Service - this quotation refers to the President's possible political future, nothing else - I am actually a strong supporter of the President and wish him and his family nothing but prosperity and length of days):

While Kipling was referring to the "East," he meant Afghanistan and the rugged country around the Khyber Pass. New Orleans has often been referred to as America's "Mediterranean port" - it is on the same subtropical latitude as Cairo, and many of its inhabitants speak with an accent more redolent of Brooklyn or lower Manhattan than the Cajuns of the surrounding swamps or the Scots-Irish who live across Lake Pontchartrain in what are known as the "Florida Parishes." It is a sophisticated Eastern Seaboard city, or even, as Robert Penn Warren said, a Mediterranean one moved down to the very core of the Deep South.

And New Orleanians will be watching carefully to see what the President meant by naming a firm dollar figure for storm repairs and relief while Katrina's flood waters were still hiding the storm dead and much damage whose extent was unknown, and some of which a month later is still unknown.

The president may have been a sharp trader in the petroleum futures market, but in bandying about huge figures to repair damage whose extent is unknown, he has placed not money, but his reputation up on the trading block. Even a lame-duck President has to consider the worth of his word... at least, I had strong hopes that we have gone back to the days when lame-duck Presidents didn't wade resignedly into disgrace at the end of their terms from abusing their word. I hope I was right.

Hurricanes, Lies and the Mainstream Press
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Dumb Press Tricks
The Mess After Hurricane Katrina isn't Bush's Fault.

I'm feeling like crap, but feel as though I must weigh in on the merde du boeuf emanating from the Democratic Party's designated Newt Gingrich surrogates (Pelosi, Schumer, Kennedy, et al and ad nauseam) and their groupies in the alleged mainstream media.

The Mayor of New Orleans, from his "emergency operating center" in a hotel room at the New Orleans Hyatt Regency, issued a missive blaming everyone else for the inundation of his city, especially the President of the United States, the Department of Homeland Security, and FEMA. His analysis is a bit skewed, to say the least.

I have observed civil defense and emergency preparedness operations for many, many years, and have some observations about the mess post Hurricane Katrina:

- In peacetime and the absence of an immediate disaster or crisis, FEMA and Homeland Security basically write checks to state and local governments, trusting the local agencies to prepare for floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc., as each agency perceives its needs. Not much checking up on how the money is spent happens unless an extraordinary cock-up or scandal occurs.

- The Levee Board of New Orleans is infamous for scandals, misappropriation and outright stupidity in its operation. Last year, they spent $2 million dollars of money which might have been used to buy concrete, aggregate and labor to shore up the levees near the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish on a statue. A statue.

Before then, there have been a regular succession of low-key scandals involving defrauding of gun companies and such at the Levee Board.

- Not much clarity of thought is used to determine where emergency operating centers (basically bunkers or other facilities used to coordinate emergency action during a disaster). The practice has been to bury the things in basements of tall buildings, assuring that

(a) the Governor, Mayor, whoever would be entombed under many tons of rubble in the event of nuclear attack and

(b) in the event of a flood, these people would at the very least be driven from their emergency operating center by flood waters (I've seen it happen personally at the Louisiana State Emergency Operating Center after unusually severe rainstorms).

Perhaps the most cheering part of the President's speech tonight is the promise to send inspector generals to audit how the sums we've spent to date to assure the people of New Orleans failed to do so - and possibly to arrange the relocation of those responsible across the Gulf Coast to the Federal Prison for political crooks in Eglin Air Force Base known as "Club Fed".

Again, out of respect for states' and municipal rights, FEMA and the Federal Government basically wrote checks to local governments and told them to go forth and make their people safe. If FEMA had sent people down to assure that this really happened, there would have been sharp words about the Federal Government's interference in local affairs.

In New Orleans that approach failed dismally.

Another encouraging statement by the President was the announcement that emergency operations would from now on be coordinated from the top down, with Federal confirmation of state and local actions.

I believe the investigations into what happened in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast will show that this Federal oversight is badly needed in many local government emergency preparedness agencies.

The Democratic flakmeisters on Capitol Hill tried to blame President Bush for something which was mainly local responsibility. They are going to wind up with plenty of egg on their faces, God willing.

Just don't hold your breath waiting for ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and PBS to report on it when it happens, because they prostituted their journalistic integrity in exchange for a chance to be king-makers, trying to shoe-horn their favorite party back into power last year.

They just don't get it - no one believes them any more.