Bill's Nibbles-- 2007.02.07
Contributed by Bill Faith
Some Bill's Bites posts, some things I excerpted and linked but I'm sending you to the original post. I may rearrange the order of the links within this post as I add new things that I think belong "above the fold."
- Culture of Death
Another from Memri. Hassan Haydar in London’s Al-Hayat examines the Iranian “Culture of Death, the exaltation of martyrdom by Iranian proxies in Lebanon and Gaza. He notes that while Hezbollah TV and other outlets encourage their people to die stupidly, they also praise American and Israeli anti-war groups and military parents who want their soldiers to live: ...
- Is Everything We Know About Joe Wilson’s Trip to Niger Wrong?
New evidence from the Libby trial could change the storyline.
By Byron York (Hat tip: Ed Morrissey)
... The accepted version of events is that Vice President Dick Cheney got things started when he asked for information about possible Iraqi attempts to purchase uranium in Africa. After that request, CIA employee Valerie Plame Wilson suggested sending her husband to look into the question, and after that, the CIA flew Joseph Wilson to Niger to investigate. But the new documents suggest that Mrs. Wilson suggested her husband for the trip before the vice president made his request. In other words, Joseph Wilson’s visit to Niger, which everyone believes was undertaken at the behest of the vice president, was actually in the works before Dick Cheney asked his now-famous question. And if that is true, our current understanding of the chronology of events is wrong. ...
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A J Strata has more here.
- Carter Attacks:
Accuses Simon Wiesenthal Center of 'Falsehood and Slander'
Daniel Freedman (Hat tip: Scott Johnson)
After the Simon Wiesenthal Center sent 25,000 signed petitions to Jimmy Carter protesting his book, Carter responded, accusing the Center of "falsehood and slander."
The Center's head, Rabbi Hier responded: "Let me say, Mr. President, that I am not one who believes that Israel is infallible ... the only reason there is no peace in the Middle East is because of Islamic extremists who refuse to compromise, not because of the State of Israel.
We post the full exchange below: ...
- Iran Not Exactly Denying Accusations
Ed Morrissey
The US has accused Iran of fomenting the Shi'ite insurgencies and supplying materiel and weapons to an even broader range of terrorists in Iraq. Recently, the US has captured five Iranian agents in Irbil as part of the wider rules of engagement for the pacification of Baghdad and Anbar, an action protested by both Iran and Iraq. Newsweek interviewed Iran's ambassador to Baghdad, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, and asked him to respond to these American accusations, among other topics -- and he didn't exactly deny them: ...
- The Watada Doctrine
by Jules Crittenden, Special to PJM
The deeper meaning behind the court martial of Lt. Ehren Watada and why this soldier is the darling of the anti-war movement. ...
- Republicans Want To Like Rudy, If They Can
Ed Morrissey
John Podhoretz explains the surprising popularity of Rudy Giuliani in the early stages of the 2008 presidential primary campaign, writing that Republicans want to like Rudy -- if he'll let them. In his New York Post column, Podhoretz notes more than a few of the hurdles that Giuliani faces, but insists that neither conservatives nor Giuliani want to go to war over them: ...
- Hardball, Anyone?
Jules Crittenden
That’s what Stratfor suggests the US is playing in the abduction of that Iranian diplomat … who, Stratfor suggests, is an Iranian intelligence operative: ...
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