Bill's Bites -- 2006.09.21
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White House, GOP Leaders Reach Deal on Detainee Legislation
WASHINGTON — A deal on the rules for questioning and trying suspected terrorists protects Americans and classified information while maintaining U.S. values, President Bush said Thursday.
"This agreement preserves the most — single most potent tool we have in protecting America and foiling terrorist attacks, and that is the CIA program to question the world's most dangerous terrorists and to get their secrets," the president said from Orlando, Fla.
"The measure also creates military commissions that will bring these ruthless killers to justice. In short, the agreement clears the way to do what the American people expect us to do: to capture terrorists, to detain terrorists, to question terrorists, and then to try them," Bush added. ...
Breaking: Bush, McCain reach compromise on “torture”
No details yet, but here’s a hint: One official said that under the agreement, the administration agreed to drop language that would have stated an existing ban on cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment was enough to meet Geneva Convention obligations. Convention standards are much broader and include a prohibition on “outrages” against “personal dignity.”
In turn, this official said, negotiators agreed to clarify what acts constitute a war crime. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, saying he had not been authorized to discuss the details.
The War Crimes Act defines “war crime” as follows: ...
Audio: National Black Republican Association radio ad rips Democrats
Allahpundit
Unfair and “unhelpful,” but as a means of giving the left the barest taste of its own racially demagogic medicine, it’s pure gold.
Clearly some right-winger’s face will have to have minstrel makeup photoshopped onto it in retaliation. But whose? Michael Steele’s the obvious candidate, but he’s condemned the ad. May I suggest Johnny Triangles? His post today about being patronized by white liberals was awfully “uppity,” and if there’s one thing our friends at firedoglake don’t like, it’s brown-skinned people who don’t respect their “betters.” ... My new mouse got here!
That $15.00 refurbished Microsoft Optical Intellimouse I ordered a few days ago got here today. Dantg it's nice to be able to decide how many times to click something and then do it! I feel like a whole new Dog.Now if I could just learn to type.
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Honor a Military Man or Woman
Shane Briscoe
American men and women are fighting the terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan and we owe them our support and encouragement. I, for one, do not believe you can support the troops but not the war, not their mission. It is a liberal lie from the same folks who are trying to keep the ROTC and recruiters off campus and are willing to intimidate military representatives if that is what it takes.
For the rest of us, those who understand we are in a fight to the death with radical Islamic fascists who would just as soon saw off our heads as look at us... we need to show our troops we support them. Here are a few suggestions how: ...
Pat Robertson Was Right
Shane Briscoe
Televangelist Pat Robertson caused a stir some months back when he suggested assassinating Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. Well, he's not looking so crazy after all these days. ...
Is Partition of Iraq the Answer?
Karl Bossi
Is it time to bite the bullet and seriously consider the partition of Iraq? A country whose borders the British originally defined without considering ethnic and religious consequences. Much of the ongoing civil unrest derives from internal strife and violence between the once-ruling Sunni in the north and the Shia in the south. Isn't it time that the administration come to grips with the reality on the ground and seriously move toward partition of the country? ...
Dems to Chavez: Don't insult Bush --that's our job!
Michelle Malkin
Just got off a cross-country plane ride and am catching up on Charlie Rangel's faux chivalry rebuke of Hugo Chavez and the Dems' purported defense of President Bush.
Staying away from CITGO
Michelle Malkin
Tons of readers are asking me for information about boycoting CITGO to protest sulfur-sniffing Hugo Chavez. Movement growing here and here. More here and here.
Jim Hoft notes that CITGO held a Chavez pep rally in Harlem. Fox News reports: Chavez, dressed in his signature red shirt, was introduced at the podium by activist actor Danny Glover.
At one point Chavez told the crowd, "sometimes the devil takes human form," a comment that drew some boos — and applause — from the crowd who interpreted the reference to mean President Bush. ...
GOP Funds Ahmadinejad-Chavez Speaking Tour
(2006-09-21) -- The Republican National Committee (RNC) today offered to fund a coast-to-coast U.S. speaking tour featuring Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in the weeks leading up to November's Congressional elections. ...
Fauxtography: Lebanese death pimp gets his close-up at the UN
The perfect capper to three days of terrorist propaganda at Turtle Bay: ...
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Rosie says Bush calls people who disagree with him “evildoers”
Which is technically true. He used that term to describe Al Qaeda after 9/11, and Al Qaeda does in fact disagree with him.
So I guess Rosie’s right.
She also thinks Khrushchev’s “shoe” speech at the UN happened sometime in the 1970s, but we’ll give her a pass on that. More important is to watch and see which comment draws applause from the audience here — Hasselbeck’s response to O’Donnell or O’Donnell’s later response to her.
Regardless, I wouldn’t read too much into it. We’re talking about the View here. The audience is barely sentient. ...
Harkin stands up for Chavez: “I can understand the frustration”
Democratic Senator Tom Harkin came out in defense today of Chavez’s speech to the UN in which the Venezuelan dictator ruler blasted President Bush as the devil: ...
Hurricane Hugo Hits Turtle Bay
A tropical wind blew mightily through the halls of the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, launched by Latin America's biggest blowhard and an apparent candidate for Paxil. Claiming that George Bush was "El Diablo", Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez claimed he could still smell the sulfur at the podium from Bush's appearance the night before, delighting the usual crowd of tyrants and kleptocrats: President Hugo Chavez, the combative Venezuelan leader, denounced President Bush in a U.N. speech Wednesday as a racist, imperialist "devil" who has devoted six years in office to military aggression and the oppression of the world's poorest people. ...
Democratic Nonsense On Allen's Heritage Made Clear
Today's Washington Post explodes the myth that Senator George Allen hid his Jewish heritage from voters out of shame or fear of the reaction from Virginia voters. After a whispering campaign by Allen's political opponents regarding the religion of his grandfather Felix Lumbroso, whom the Nazis jailed in Tunis during the African campaign, Allen finally confronted his mother last month about the rumors, when she confirmed that she had been raised as a Jew in North Africa. Michael Shear went to the source, interviewing Etty Allen herself: Henrietta "Etty" Allen said Wednesday that she concealed her upbringing as a Jew in North Africa from her children, including Sen. George Allen (R-Va.), until a conversation across the dining room table in late August. ...
The Rally That (Almost) No One Covered
One of the most well-known philosophical questions known to popular culture asks whether a falling tree makes a noise if no one witnesses it. Now we can add whether a rally attracting tens of thousands of supporters for Israel outside the UN exists if no newspapers bother to report it. Fortunately, the New York Sun and Power Line manage to outdo the rest of the media in informing readers: As world leaders convened for the second day of the United Nations General Assembly, tens of thousands of supporters of Israel gathered across the street from United Nations headquarters to protest President Ahmadinejad of Iran and to call for the unconditional release of the Israeli soldiers kidnapped on July 12. The international and national leaders who stepped up to the podium also challenged the United Nations to take preventative action against the Iranian leader who threatens the Jewish people with genocide. ...
String him up
Bryan Preston
Shoko Asahara, mastermind of the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, has lost his final appeal. If there are terrorist playing cards, one of the aces in the deck surely ought to bear the face of Shoko Asahara, the fanatic, half-blind guru of Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo sect. Aum, you may recall, blazed to world notoriety in March 1995 with its rush-hour nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. The New Age cult made real the nightmare scenario that a handful of terrorism experts had warned about for years – that an independent group, not backed by any state, could obtain weapons of mass destruction and use them indiscriminately against civilian targets. Aum was years ahead of al Qaeda in its quest for WMD, and its record on this is the stuff of nightmares.
Last Friday, after a decade in the courts, Asahara had his final appeal rejected by Japan’s Supreme Court, ...
Matthews says he’s “been against this bullsh*t war from the very beginning”
Allahundit
It’s a slow news day so I have to pretend I’m linking this because I care what Chris Matthews thinks, not because of the cheap thrill in hearing a semi-obscure media personality use profanity on live radio.
It’s true that he opposed the war from the start. This Salon interview from the month before the invasion has him comparing Bush to Bernhard Goetz and rocking away on his favorite hobbyhorse, the alleged cooptation of U.S. foreign policy by Israeli influences. Quote: ...
Iran’s Prez: We don’t even need an a-bomb
Bryan Preston
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tosses out another misdirection: UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted Thursday that Tehran’s nuclear program is peaceful and said he is “at a loss” about what more he can do to provide guarantees. “The bottom line is we do not need a bomb,” he said at a news conference on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. “The time for nuclear bombs has ended,” he added.
Ahmadinejad said his country has not hidden anything and was working within the framework of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
What the AP report leaves out is context. ...
Video: Meredith Vieira embarrasses herself in Clinton interview
Allahpundit
There’s nothing much newsworthy about this except Clinton’s hint that maybe the U.S. should drop its demand that Iran halt uranium enrichment before talks can begin. He never comes right out and says that, but he does endorse a “maximum amount of contacts.” A good interviewer would have pressed him on it. Too bad none were available.
Four segments here. The first is Vieira begging him to slam Bush. The second is Vieira begging him to say Bush should meet with Ahmadinejad. The third is Vieira fawning embarrassingly over him. And the fourth is Vieira trying to fawn embarrassingly over him before he cuts her off. Good stuff, NBC. Definitely a step up from Katie. ...
Video: Rangel warns Chavez not to attack “my president”
Allahpundit
This would have meant a lot more coming from a guy who hadn’t referred to Bush in the past as “our Bull Connor.” ...
Syria: US Attacked Its Own Embassy
Dan Riehl
According to this report, senior members of the Baath Party in Syria claim the US attacked its own embassy last week, while newspapers continue to speculate as to who perpetrated the attack and at the Counterterrorism Blog, Walid Pharez wrote of inside information suggesting it was Syria and Olivier Guitta agrees.
After a careful review of news reports, images and several videos, below is my case that the Syrian Government did indeed launch the attack, one never intended to damage or enter the embassy which would have been an act of war against the United States.
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The Futility Of 'Clarifications'
The Pope offered yet another clarification of his comments at the University of Regensburg, attempting to ease the rage of Muslims around the world following his criticism of violence in religious conversion. The repeated attempts to appease Islamists have begun to create a different reaction from non-Muslims, as the New York Times' Ian Fisher reports from Rome: ...
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Audio: Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir on AQ’s alleged nuclear plot (H/T)
Live on the phone from Islamabad. What a coup for Glenn Beck; I haven’t seen this story covered anywhere in the mainstream media aside from the two recent posts at the Blotter about Adnan al-Shukrijumah. Excellent, excellent job by Beck and his staff. ...
Bombshell: ABC independently confirms success of CIA “torture” tactics
Ace e-mailed me the instant this finished airing on O’Reilly with the subject header “must record”. He was right, as you’ll see.
Anti-”torture” absolutists like Sullivan adamantly deny that harsh tactics produce reliable information. It’s their way of avoiding the moral dilemma presented by a ticking time-bomb scenario. But they’ll have to face it now, because in four short minutes Brian Ross utterly explodes that particular article of quasi-religious faith as fantasy. Not only did they break Khaled Sheikh Mohammed; not only was the information he gave them valuable; not only did it save lives; but Ross’s sources include people within the CIA who are opposed to the practices.
Video: Anderson Cooper cracks wise at Ahmadinejad
He accused Mike Wallace of being a “representative of the Zionist regime” when Wallace asked him one too many uncomfortable questions about where Hezbollah gets its money and weapons from. Tonight Cooper prodded him on the Holocaust and he fell back on the same shtick, inquiring as to whether these were AC’s own questions or whether perhaps a third party had prepared a list for him. An accusation to which Cooper had the perfect reply. ...
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