Posted 12:39 PM by a
OpinionJournal - Featured Article:

"The important thing as far U.S. policy is concerned is that there be no double standard on the issue of terror. The two sides have reached this moment of opportunity precisely because they believe Mr. Bush when he says terror won't be tolerated. If the Palestinians become convinced they cannot bomb their way to statehood, sooner or later a leader will arise who will make their independence a reality. "

Posted 11:59 AM by a
Victor Davis Hanson on Iraq on National Review Online

"These are still perilous times. But if anyone on September 12, 2001, had predicted that 22 months later there would still be no repeat of 9/11; that bin Laden would be either quiet, dead, or in hiding; that al Qaeda would be dispersed, the Taliban gone, and the likes of a Mr. Karzai in Kabul; that Saddam Hussein would be out of power, his sons dead, and an Iraqi national council emerging in his place; that troops would be leaving Saudi Arabia, Arafat ostracized, and Sharon seeking negotiations; that new Middle East agreements under discussion — and all at a cost of fewer than 300 American lives — then he would surely have been written off as a madman."

Posted 7:48 PM by a
Thomas Sowell:

"As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these imperfections. The only logical stopping place is totalitarianism -- unless we realize that tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom."

Posted 2:39 PM by a
Jonah Goldberg on National Review Online:

"According to the summary, 'This [conservative] intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic clichés and stereotypes, the researchers advise.' Good lord. Even to hint that the right has a monopoly on such tendencies is to lay the torch to the bonfire of absurdity. Liberalism in America is almost entirely reactionary. During the last presidential election, the Democratic rhetoric was all about 'Stopping' Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big This and Big That. Al Gore promised to distribute lockboxes and to fight urban sprawl to calm the 'quiet sadness' that plagues Americans. Leftwing magazines and activists brim with fear of technology in particular and change in general. And they pass on lies about how bad the environment is doing in order to terrorize their audience into action. Public policy in this country is crippled by the maddening psychological addiction of liberals to outdated ideas and downright antique bureaucracies."

Posted 8:45 PM by a
SantaMariaTimes.com

"Davis' standing in the polls has reached an all-time low, based in large part on his poor performance during the energy crisis a couple of years ago, and his role in the continuing budget deficit stalemate in the Legislature. He is perceived to be showing a lack of leadership, when that quality is so sorely needed.

We are no fans of Gray Davis, and have called on the governor more than once to step down in the name of the state's future. By the same token, we view this recall effort as nothing more than the latest round in the seemingly unending escalation of extremist partisan politics."

Posted 8:32 PM by a
SantaMariaTimes.com:

"In fact, the recall group's difficulty in coming up with funds to buy newspaper advertising may be a signal that their efforts lack strong and broad-based community support.

The other compelling reason against a recall is justification. It is clear that a vocal group of citizens disputes the actions of this City Council, but where is the evidence of malfeasance, which is the traditional and appropriate foundation for a recall effort?"

Posted 7:22 PM by a
The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: Comment on How Do I Love Thee, Dear BlogSis, Let Me Count the Ways...:

"I have only one complaint, that being that for every honest, patriotic and hard-working individual we allow in to the country, one Berkeley professor ought to be forced to leave.

You would think it wouldn't be too tough to convince one of them to abandon this racist, terrorist, murdering heartless society for the Authentic Third World Experience, but despite their rhetoric they have their probiscis deep into this nation and its freedom, much like ticks bury into a golden lab, sucking out the blood and returning nothing but annoyance, discomfort and disease."

Posted 6:34 PM by a
Majority Leader : Tom Delay

"Containment is not an option – to say nothing of appeasement.

Terrorism will either be confronted – dead on – or it will destroy the free nations of the earth.

But in the last 18 months, it has become clear that the extreme, Bush-hating wing of the Democrat Party has decided to either ignore or reject the fundamental realities of 21st century life.

And rather than distance themselves from the hate, the party's leaders have embraced it."

Posted 3:43 PM by a
Middle East: The Realities (washingtonpost.com):

"But remember that just yesterday we lost 3,000 lives in one day. And if this region is not transformed, on some future day we will lose 300,000.

The lives of those as yet unknown innocents hinge now on success in Iraq. If we win the peace and leave behind a decent democratic society, enjoying, as it does today, the freest press and speech in the entire Arab world, it will revolutionize the region. And if we leave in failure, the whole region will fall back into chaos, and worse."

Posted 6:09 PM by a
Taking Liberties Taking Liberties:

"But some day, small children will be reading somber historical accounts about the dark night of fascism under John Ashcroft. (Thanks to Ashcroft, at least they'll be reading them in English, rather than Arabic.)

If liberals applied half as much energy to some business endeavor as they do to creating the Big Lie, they would all be multimillionaires.

What are we to make of people who promote the idea that America is in the grip of a civil-liberties emergency based on 100 hazy stories of scowls and bumps and one-week detentions? Manifestly, there is no civil-liberties crisis in this country. Consequently, people who claim there is must have a different goal in mind. What else can you say of such people but that they are traitors?"

Posted 6:03 PM by a
Welcome to anncoulter.com!:

"But how about a lie in a major national speech slandering your own country? In Clinton's acceptance speech at the 1996 Democratic National Convention, he said:

We still have too many Americans who give into their fears of those who are different from them. Not so long ago, swastikas were painted on the doors of some African-American members of our Special Forces at Fort Bragg. Folks, for those of you who don't know what they do, the Special Forces are just what the name says; they are special forces. If I walk off this stage tonight and call them on the telephone and tell them to go halfway around the world and risk their lives for you and be there by tomorrow at noon, they will do it. They do not deserve to have swastikas on their doors. "

Posted 5:09 PM by a
WorldNetDaily: Approaching imperial overstretch:

"Foreign policy bankruptcy is a condition that invites a run on the bank by a nation's enemies and adversaries. So today, we see axis-of-evil nations defying the Bush Doctrine and driving toward nuclear weapons, Iraqis rising up to expel us, Muslim fanatics slipping into Iraq to attack our soldiers, and alienated allies sitting back and relishing watching the 'American hyper-power' thrash about."

Posted 2:42 PM by a
Bush should guard his right flank - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED:

"But on the war front, he should not compromise an iota. He must do what he judges to be in the national interest, whatever the electoral effect. Not that he needs my advice on that point. He is a patriot and would gladly sacrifice his career, and even his life, on behalf of his nation's safety. That is why, as an American, I will vote for him. We are damned lucky to have this man at the helm in these perilous times."

Posted 2:37 PM by a
Bush should guard his right flank - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED:

"Yet, conservatives have a strong point when they argue (as Rush Limbaugh did recently regarding prescription-drug subsidy legislation) that what good is it to elect conservatives who don't govern conservatively in order to win the next election (when, theoretically, they will be free to let their conservatism flower)."

Posted 12:13 PM by a
OpinionJournal - Featured Article:

A GENTLE REMINDER OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FACT AND FICTION.

"During ground fighting, coalition troops exhibited far more concern for Iraqis than did Saddam's forces, who consistently used civilians, street clothes and residential areas to lay traps for coalition forces. In some cities, one member of each family was held hostage, to force the others to fight. Saddam placed tanks and military equipment in residential districts, next to mosques and on top of hospitals. Of 24 schools inspected in the city of Najaf, all were found to have been converted into armories. Coalition soldiers cared for, fed and treated wounded Iraqis--soldiers and civilians. Surrendering Iraqi soldiers begged coalition forces for food and water. Photographers caught one soldier running with a wounded boy in his arms to get him treatment, and another, cradling an orphaned baby. One American soldier threw himself on a grenade, because a girl was nearby; the soldier lost his leg."

Posted 11:25 AM by a
Pentagon Leaders Warn of Dangers for U.S. in Liberia:

"As for the Pentagon, he said, 'There's no question, they don't want to go near Liberia.' A member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Mr. Payne said bluntly that the reluctance was racist. 'It's because they're African, and they're black, and they don't count,' he said."

Posted 6:22 PM by a
OpinionJournal - Extra:

"Right now the Democrats are running around like chickens with their heads cut off, in thrall to their extreme wing, and trying to peddle a message full of recriminations. But they'll soon realize that their message of hatred, panic and shame isn't selling to the majority of voters here, and they'll either fade into political insignificance for the next 20 years, or (far more likely) the idiots will get marginalized and more-practical voices will emerge. Within a year, the argument will no longer be about whether we should have gone in. It will be about what we should do next."

Posted 2:36 PM by a
Eject! Eject! Eject!

LITMUS TEST

"Two of the most malignant and cruel mass murderers, rapists and torturers to ever walk the earth have departed the planet – and the left sneers.

There was a time – I can remember it clearly, though it seems a lifetime ago – when “liberals” were people who fought for humanity and human rights, people who despised murder and torture. Now, wherever we look, the people who call themselves the most “liberal” seem to be the sole remaining defenders of murder, rape and torture.

What the hell has happened to those people?"


That's a very good question. But what's the answer?

Posted 11:13 AM by a
OpinionJournal - Featured Article:

"Many of the coalition's post-April 9 troubles have come because U.S. officials took a victory lap and underestimated the desperate ruthlessness of Baath loyalists. The new Iraqi security force is a welcome change in tactics to meet this threat, assuming Mr. Bremer really lets it fight. If we mean what we say about Iraqis running a free Iraq, there's no better way to prove it than letting Iraqis fight and die for it. "

Posted 4:57 PM by a
Victor Davis Hanson on Iraq on National Review Online

"That Mr. Bush has not always been liked through this difficult reestablishment of sanity about America's role around the globe is lamentable, but also to be expected. Yet if he is successful in this long-term endeavor, we will have then reestablished deterrence, and our next administration will have it a little easier in maintaining rather than creating ex nihilo American reliability and respect.

Over the past two years we have been trying to return from an out-of-kilter past to the mean: to a place where terrorists do not believe it is tolerable to poach some Americans, where nations do not unleash their stealthy killers loose against us, where we cease ignoring — or paying bribes — to murderers, and where our allies resemble friends rather than enemies."

Interested in depth beyond mere sound bites? This then is for you, Victor Davis Hanson at his best.

Posted 12:42 PM by a
Opinion Journal:

"Clearly too, in advancing his road map President Bush will need all the power and prestige he can muster. Foolish caterwauling about obscure intelligence disputes can only undermine his standing and authority. In reaching for ways to denigrate the president's military victory, the critics risk undermining the historic opportunity that victory has forged."

Posted 12:27 PM by a
OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today:

"It is time for the White House to acknowledge that it made a profound strategic mistake in waging war in Iraq without the support of the international community, and that the United States and its small band of allies do not have the resources, expertise or legitimacy to stabilize Iraq, let alone establish the conditions for an Iraqi democracy.

It is also time for the White House to request that the United Nations take over primary responsibility in Iraq as the only way of accomplishing this goal."

And this is what the firestone of criticism of President Bush is really all about. To which I reply, BALDERDASH.

Posted 3:12 PM by a
U.S. General Says Iraq Has Become a Guerrilla War (washingtonpost.com): "WASHINGTON (Reuters)

"U.S. troops are facing a classic guerrilla war in Iraq spearheaded by Saddam Hussein loyalists, and American forces need to adapt their tactics to crush this increasingly organized resistance, the head of the U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday."

Posted 11:13 AM by a
OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts:

"Let's review Anthropology 101. Population groups have distinct body types. Elite football players, dependent on speed and jumping ability, are disproportionately of West African descent. Why? Because, as dozens of studies have shown, they have (on average) smaller and more efficient lungs, higher oxidative capacity, more fast-twitch muscle fibers, and a muscled but lean body type."

Posted 12:03 PM by a
OpinionJournal - Featured Article:

"The Democratic motive has very little to do with intelligence disputes. The campaign is really about assailing Mr. Bush's credibility, which Democrats realize is his greatest asset. That's why they throw the words 'lie' and 'untruth' around like loose change, as if Mr. Bush had deceived a grand jury."

Posted 11:50 AM by a
OpinionJournal - Thinking Things Over Responses:

This From Clinton's Defenders

Leonard R. Webber - Gulfport, Miss.

"What is truly amazing, is those who accuse the president of being a liar are the same ones who defended Bill Clinton's numerous lies. That, in itself says all that needs to be said."

Posted 12:24 PM by a
Victor Davis Hanson on War on National Review Online

"We are winning this war. But we should never forget, because of our amazing success so far, that we are still in a war — a big one against Islamic fascism and the abettors of terror in the Middle East that started on September 11 but will follow certain historic rules that did not suddenly first appear in 2001, nor can be easily ignored by present experts. Our task — ordeal if you will — is that we must make war so godawfully terrible to our enemies, and the rewards of peace and reform so humanely sweet to our friends, that the vast middle in between will have no problem choosing sides."

Posted 12:01 PM by a
OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today:

"Smith says she'd like to contact people who are 'not judgmental,' and you can see why. In 1994 her two sons, three-year-old Michael and four-year-old Alex, disappeared. She told police a black man had snatched her kids, but this turned out to be a lie. Smith had murdered her own children by driving her car into a lake while they slept in their car seats. Kinda makes her love of 'waterfalls' seem a bit sinister, not that we'd want to be judgmental."

Posted 11:32 AM by a
OpinionJournal - Featured Article:

"But modern famines like the one that impelled President Bush to act in 1992 in Somalia are not natural disasters. Rather, they are the byproduct of civil wars and massive state failure. To deploy U.S. forces to mitigate them is, whether we like it or not, to take sides in the political struggle that caused them in the first place."

Posted 11:28 AM by a
OpinionJournal - Featured Article:

"John Adams's stern admonition to the nation, more than two centuries ago--that it was not the job of the U.S. to go out and fight monsters--cannot and should not be dismissed lightly. It is one thing to protect the vital interests of the republic, whether economic or strategic, and quite another to commit ourselves to endless wars of altruism."

Posted 5:42 PM by a
Liberal Democrats' Perverse Foreign Policy (washingtonpost.com):

By Charles Krauthammer

"It was the left that led the opposition to war in Iraq. Now it is the left that is most strenuous in urging intervention in Liberia. Curious.
No blood for oil, it seems, but blood for Liberia. And let us not automatically assume that Liberia will be an immaculate intervention. Sure, we may get lucky and suffer no casualties. But Liberia has three warring parties, tons of guns and legions of desperate fighters. Yet pressure is inexorably building to send American troops to enforce a peace."

Posted 5:22 PM by a
Jonah Goldberg's Goldberg File on National Review Online:

"The founders designed the amendment process to make us all wear the hat of a Founding Father. But when the Court simply redefines the existing words to mean whatever the majority wants, the Constitution is not longer about precommitting future generations to agreed-upon rules, it's about rank power in the here and now. You may not weep over the fact that this nullifies our ancestors efforts to set the rules of the game. But I hope it bothers you that the rules of the game are still being changed and you have almost no say in what kind of Constitution your descendents will live under. That is unless your name is Sandra Day O'Connor. In that case, you deserve to be congratulated because you're the Founding Mother of my child's Constitution."

Posted 10:10 AM by a
Thomas Sowell:

"Those who continue to repeat the dogma of 'equal respect' for all cultures and the mindless mantra of being 'non-judgmental' must have a faith which passeth all understanding. Do they seriously believe what they are saying or do they think this sort of cant is necessary in order to avoid being hit with a nasty label like chauvinist or racist? "

So you see, the socialist governments will do whatever is required to keep their power over the people intact. They will never ever admit however, that it is impossible to meet all of the expectations of the worlds impoverished people. Rather than admit the failure of collectivism, they will stand by while the goose that lays the golden eggs waddles into the killing fields and dies. There will never be enough, coming from those who give according to their ability, to satisfy the appetites of those who demand that to which they feel entitled, based solely on their wants.

That's what I think. What say you?

Posted 9:51 AM by a
Walter Williams:

"The teacher's union is part of the problem, as well. During the 1990s, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) deemed that forcing teachers to supervise home rooms was unprofessional.

Through contract negotiations, this method of student control was abolished. UFT also argued that it was unprofessional for teachers to have cafeteria supervisory duties; they were replaced by school aides.

The cafeteria quickly became student gang turf, where fights and other disorderly behavior became routine. School aides are easily intimidated by students, and for fear of retaliation, they rarely confront gang-affiliated students."

Posted 9:42 AM by a
Walter Williams:

"Winter 2002-2003 saw extreme cold conditions. In the Midwest, the daily temperature was 4 degrees Fahrenheit cooler relative to the 10-year average, the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic roughly 3 degrees cooler. I wonder why reporters aren't tracking down Bill Clinton, Al Gore and the environmental wacko brigade to query them about global warming this winter and spring. Maybe they're appearing on Western television news, since the Pacific Northwest average winter temperatures have been the second-warmest in the last 30 years in the region.

Many media people have been journalism and/or communication majors. Most of these programs have little analytical rigor. Along with departments of education, they are a dumping ground for the most ill-prepared students. That might explain a lot."

Posted 9:36 AM by a
OpinionJournal - Featured Article:

"The District already spends well over $15,000 per student (the national average is $8,500), three times more than in 1980. Yet in the latest National Assessment of Education Progress report, D.C. public school students scored lower than all 50 states. Seventy-two percent of black D.C. students read at the 'below basic' level, which means they have 'little or no mastery of fundamental knowledge and skills.' Who can possibly defend such results?"

Posted 7:13 PM by a
OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today

SOCIALISTS CUT TAXES BIG TIME.

"[Germany's] government this week approved the plans of the finance minister, Hans Eichel, to lop €22 billion ($26 billion) off income taxes from January. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder hopes that the cuts, which should prune the average worker's tax bill by 10%, will help to fizz up the economy. . . . France is also cutting taxes, regardless of the effect on the budget deficit. President Jacques Chirac has now confirmed that he will press ahead with the 30% cut in income taxes that he promised in last year's election campaign. "Income tax has been reduced by close to 7%", he said last week, "and this reduction will continue."

Granted, Schroeder and Chirac haven't yet acknowledged America was right about Iraq, but at least they're ahead of our Democrats where tax policy is concerned."

Posted 12:02 PM by a
Kim du Toit - Daily Rant:

"Note for the CBC: Perhaps if you stopped referring to the President as a moron, or as a right-wing fundamentalist, or as someone owned by Big Oil or Enron, or as someone who allowed 9/11 to happen so he could enrich his family -- perhaps if you stopped doing all those things, he might actually care about what you think.

As things stand, however, I suspect he has pretty much the same opinion of you that I have: you're a bunch of racist, self-serving socialists who are trying to unravel the fabric of the republic. "

Posted 10:14 PM by a
Moral relativism erodes freedom - The Washington Times: Commentary

"Unchecked judicial activism leads to the erosion of all the foundational principles of limited government. Federalism takes a hit because the federal court usurps state prerogatives; the separation of powers is damaged because the court encroaches into the legislative sphere; the Bill of Rights is assaulted because the 9th and 10th Amendment rights of the people and the states (and the reserved powers doctrine) are diminished. And the rule of law takes a punch to the gut when the highest arbiter of law in the nation says we are a government of men — five out of nine robed men, to be more precise — not laws."

Posted 8:59 PM by a
DEFINE FAIR.

nicedoggie.net

"However, there's one thing that I think everyone has missed. Fascism, Communism, Socialism - they are the SAME THING. Different brand names, but inside the bottle the same vile venom of totalitarianism. The swastika, the hammer-and-sickle, and the donkey stand for the same thing - oppression, misery, poverty, and death."

AND THAT SHOULD PUT TO REST ANY NOTION OF A TOTALLY FAIR, JUST, HUMANITARIAN, PROSPEROUS AND FREE WORLD GOVERNMENT.

Posted 8:30 PM by a
The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: Comment on Dealing With Socialism...:

"WHY has every Socialist experiment resulted in disaster, from Lenin and Stalin to Castro and Pol Pot? There is no successful Socialist country, that much is obvious. But, why not?

Here's a quote, from memory, from an earlier thread:
How could a Philosophy that claims so loudly to champion the well-being of Men and Women work so feverishly to stifle their very essence; a longing to exercize their Freedom and creativity?
Because it was, and is -- at it's core -- the figment of a tyrant's imagination. To think that a Utopia could be built at the expense of Liberty is rediculous on it's face. Yet, there are men and women who are so certain in their own minds that they know a better way to a Great Society that they seek, by any means, to force the Idea down the People's throat. The irony is lost on them."

Posted 8:16 PM by a
The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler

I started reading, reading, reading and reading some more, hoping that I could find an explanation that would let me hang on to my kind-hearted belief in universal "fairness". I WANTED it to be true, who doesn't?, but I kept drawing blanks. All I could find in defense of my beloved Socialism was rhetoric, I couldn't find ONE SINGLE EXAMPLE of it "working".

I couldn't find ONE example, not even a small one, to justify Socialism as a viable method of government. And I WANTED to, but it JUST... WASN'T... THERE...

Every avenue I went down led to mass graves...

Every day I was faced with news of men, women and children being shot in the back for committing the "crime" of wanting to leave the Workers' Paradise on the other side of the Curtain. Every day I heard news of people who simply "disappeared" for doing nothing more horrid than mentioning that maybe Socialism wasn't such a great idea after all.

All it takes for this kind of thing to keep happening, over and over again, is for the Idiotarians of the world to succeed in drowning the concept of Evil in an immoral, stinking swamp of "shades of gray".

NEVER FORGET!

Posted 11:27 AM by a
OpinionJournal - Extra:

"That's a lot, even for very wealthy countries that have a lot of money to spend on things like war.' Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest said the federal government isn't spending enough on the problem because 'the Republicans' $400 billion federal deficit will not allow for such things.' Stephen Joseph, the San Francisco trial lawyer who filed (and later dropped) a suit to ban Oreo cookies, warned that 'male conservative Republican right-wing elements' are the biggest opponents of this litigation. 'They're more worried about freedom,' he said. 'They don't care about kids."

Posted 11:07 AM by a
OpinionJournal - Featured Article

"We sympathize with those at the State Department who've drawn up plans to send U.S. troops to Liberia, on humanitarian grounds and to buy some global goodwill. But the Pentagon's objections here seem persuasive: The U.S. is already engaged in foreign deployments that are hard and dangerous and in which American security interests are directly at stake.

Those deployments are stretching U.S. forces thin enough, no thanks to the French, without another months-long foray into Africa. At this stage in the war on terror, American security interests have to trump solely humanitarian claims. Having left America alone to clean up Iraq, the French and their U.N. friends can take care of Liberia."

Posted 10:12 PM by a
OpinionJournal - Featured Article:

"France took up its responsibilities in the Ivory Coast, the United Kingdom in Sierra Leone, and the United States has a special tradition in Liberia,' says Dominique de Villepin, the French Foreign Minister. So liberating Iraqis from a dictator was an act of imperialism, but sorting out a civil war in West Africa is now America's moral obligation. We suppose we should be grateful that the French and U.N. have rediscovered the virtues of American power."

Posted 4:13 PM by a
Eject! Eject! Eject!

"Get this through your heads, you socialist ninnies! There is not a big, limited pot of wealth that is filled with the Magic Sweat of Authentic Third World Laborers, that America uses its military to steal from when we run out of wealth here at home.

Here’s something even the dimmest hippy protester / poet should be able to wrap his mind around:

You buy a legal pad: $1.29
You steal a Bic pen from the counter at Kinko’s: free.
You write the script for Weekend at Bernies 3: Bernie’s Revenge!: free.
You hire someone to type it: $30.00
You have Kinko’s print 5 copies: $62.20
You mail the 5 copies: $7.82
5 idiots in Hollywood love the idea: free
They enter a bidding war: free
You get a check for: one…million…dollars!"

Posted 4:05 PM by a
Eject! Eject! Eject!

"The idea that the United States can steal 10 trillion dollars a year from dirt-poor nations that don’t produce anything of value is absolutely insane, and yet, and yet, we hear it again and again and again from the professionally outraged who must be dim and obtuse beyond human imagining to keep making such an absurd and ludicrous lie the basis of their entire philosophy."

Posted 2:34 PM by a
FT.com Home US:

"The US faces another damaging diplomatic row with Europe over its decision to try six suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in secretive military tribunals.

The European Union's executive commission warned on Friday that applying the death penalty to any of the suspects detained at the US base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba would risk undermining international support for the US-led war on terrorism."

Such threats are simply unacceptable. The United States should tolerate no more demands from european leftist elitists. What better time than this nations 227th birthday to say in no uncertain terms, enough already, move on with your flight from realism. You people are sick and we don't want your contagion to spread to our shores. Do what you have to do, we'll do what we have to do, and history can declare a winner.

Posted 12:13 PM by a
Washington Times-Tony Blankley

"The American public is in this for the long haul. They will not turn on the president for sticking it out in Iraq, Afghanistan or anywhere else that makes sense. They understand this is a war to the death — either the terrorists and their hosts, or ours. If these deaths are seen to be necessary for victory, many deaths will be honored by the public. If they are seen as meaningless errors, even one would be seen as too many. The continuing deaths of American and British soldiers in Iraq should not be rhetorically minimized — but sanctified."

Posted 11:53 AM by a
War morale during the waiting period - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED

"Mr. Bush's central attributes are honor, fortitude and (if I may use an antique word) manliness — what the ancients called virtue. The President should not run from these deaths but embrace them. He should meet with their families and publicly avow the value and importance of these sacrifices. Because they are not meaningless or senseless — but every bit a part of the noble struggle against terrorism. The president obviously believes that. His character will drive him to publicly validate those convictions, notwithstanding any contrary counsel he may receive.

Posted 12:05 PM by a
OpinionJournal - Featured Article Responses:

"Britons and Canadians who decry President Bush as a 'cowboy' are eager to get on the wagon train to America to build their careers and make their fortunes. The most obvious case in point is Peter Jennings of ABC News, a Canadian citizen who never misses an opportunity to attack American foreign policy, but who, despite his long residency in this country will not lower himself to become an American citizen."

Posted 11:51 AM by a
OpinionJournal - Featured Article Responses: "The American Idea
Eileen Johnston - Salt Lake Ciy

America is everywhere. That is true. Why? Because America is an idea. It is the idea that people can govern themselves. It is the idea that free markets, rule of law, and honest courts unleash the human creative spirit so that it can soar to heights unimagined.

The residual communists and socialists in our midst can't stand it that freedom is winning in the free market of the world's ideas. "

Posted 11:49 AM by a
OpinionJournal - Featured Article Responses:

"They Hate Us Because They Need Us
David Jacobs - New York

It's a contradiction. They hate us because they love us. They hate us because they need us. They hate us because they are jealous of us. We're bad, but immigrants flock here, they want our foreign aid, they can use our troops at certain times.

Pride is hard to swallow. "

Posted 11:45 AM by a
OpinionJournal - Featured Article:

"No one said good things about America in Egypt in the 1990s, either. It was then that the Islamists of Egypt had taken to the road, to Hamburg and Kandahar, to hatch a monstrous conspiracy against the U.S. And it was then, during our fabled stock market run, when globalizers were celebrating the triumph of our economic model over the protected versions in places like France, when anti-Americanism became the uncontested ideology of French public life. We were barbarous, a threat to their cuisine, to their language. Our pension funds were acquiring their assets. We executed too many criminals. All this during a decade when we were told that we were loved abroad."

Posted 6:47 PM by a


July 02, 2003
GEORGE'S REPLY TO KOFI

Bush may send 500-1,000 troops to Liberia

Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations has made a request of President Bush that he commit U.S. troops to a humanitarian peace keeping force in Liberia. I've been thinking about the request and have done a preliminary draft of a suggested reply:

Sounds to me more like a job for "The International Community."

U.S. forces are preoccupied with more important work. Namely, staying alive in hot spots around the world. Hot spots, ha ha, did you get it Kofi? I suggest you put together a coalition of the willing, and dispatch French and German troops along with troops from other nations, all under the banner of the United Nations.

I also suggest you keep Senator Carl Levin, U.S. Senator from the United Nations/United States apprised of what you decide to do without our participation.

Hopefully, a course of non-action on our part will result in an outpouring of love for the United States from around the world since it differs 180 degrees from the course we followed in Afghanistan and Iraq. In those two cases we were accused of being unilateralists, baby killers and empire builders, out to steal the worlds oil supply.

O'yah, one other thing Kofi. Our troops and their commanders would probably be hauled before your International Court of Justice if we met your request. And I don't think that's right. You should have those folks dismiss the charges against General Tommy Franks. As you know, he works for me and Don Rumsfeld and he makes a real good hand. We'd hate to lose him if the "International Community" through the "International Criminal Court" puts him in prison for conducting that shock and awe warmup drill over in Iraq.

Let's try to stay in touch Kofi. If I can't reach you, I'll talk to Carl Levin, the Senator for the United Nations. You can always reach me at the regularly scheduled Halliburton meetings. I'll be there with Dick Cheney talking about oil, but I'll have my cell phone with me so I can take your call.

Love and good luck,

George, Once Governor of Texas and now,
The Boy emperor of the world. Yippee!