Bill's Nibbles-- 2007.02.09
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 items within this post as I add new things that I think belong "above the fold."
- Veterans As Democrat Political Footballs
Bruce Kesler
It is patently dishonest for a political party to misrepresent the views of veterans or to malign veterans.
Democrats, since Vietnam, have electorally suffered due to their cut-and-run abandonment of the achievements by our military and Democrats’ association with radicals who maligned veterans’ service.
Democrats do not seem to have learned much from that except to shield their similar undermining today behind false organizational fronts and platitudes of support that ring hollow. The tactic may find acceptance in media friendly toward Democrats, but still falls flat among most Americans. ...
- Siniora Standing Up To Hezbollah?
Ed Morrissey
Critics of the agreement that ended the Israeli campaign against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon last summer pointed out that Hezbollah appeared free to re-arm itself without much interference. The UNIFIL forces that were supposed to keep the peace wound up explicitly stating that disarming Hezbollah fell outside of their mission, and that responsibility lay with the Lebanese Army. At the time, that force made it clear that they would not start a civil war by stripping Hassan Nasrallah and his organization of its arms, but would instead concentrate on moving back into the sub-Litani region with as little conflict as possible.
That appears to have changed, possibly spurred by Nasrallah's attempts to bring down Fuad Siniora's government. The Lebanese authorities have seized a shipment of weapons meant for Hezbollah, and they do not intend on giving it back to them: ...
Al-Sadr Press
Jules Crittenden
[L]et’s give the AP credit where it’s due. Even though this article on the arrest of an allegedly corrupt deputy health minister is overly concerned with the reaction of Sadrist members of parliament, it does include some kickass details. This is surge as surge is supposed to done, and gives me hope. I’d like to thank the Associated Press for the imagery that follows: ...
- Al-Khamenei Press
Jules Crittenden
I’m no fan of the Associated Press. The wire service that is (a) American and (b) supposed to be providing non-partisan material to newspapers of all stripes, now carries al-Qaeda’s water in cases such as L’Affaire d’Jamil, has acted as an apologist for Saddam Hussein, and is prosecuting an unrelenting campaign of distortion against the Bush administration. I’m used to it. I figured I’d seen it all before.
But this AP article floored me, as I performed the meatball surgery on it necessary to make it moderately acceptable for the print edition of the Boston Herald.
The AP isn’t just opposed to a U.S. attack on Iran. It is actively on Iran’s side. How else to explain these first three paragraphs: ...
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