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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (35118)	7/1/2005 12:57:01 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Tonight NBC News anchor Brian Williams compared the Founding Fathers to modern-day terroristsas he tried to pooh-pooh the story about Iranian president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's alleged involvement in the 1979 hostage crisis at the U.S. embassy in Tehran. If anyone needed another example of the insanity of the liberal doctrine of moral and cultural equivalence, which came into fashion during the Cold War, this is it. It's actually less offensive for Williams to imply that our Founding Fathers were terrorists than it is for him to put them on a par with the bloodthirsty, unevolved barbarians who took over Iran in 1979. Williams indulges in the same, tired moral equivalency that led Michael Moore to declare Zarqawi as the Iraqi version of the Minutemen from our war of independence. I have a feeling Mr. Williams will be feeling a lot of heat in the next 24 hours as the celebration of US independence approaches..

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (35118)	7/1/2005 1:05:18 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 93284

Dont blame the messengers, it is Bush-Cheney who have failed us on every single major level. We need a strong media to root out corruption in our government and private sector. That's their job, along with keeping us apprised of the latest missing persons caper or celebrity trial.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (35118)	7/1/2005 11:51:45 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Terrorists Elected Throughout Muslim World; U.S. Strangely Silent By Debbie Schlussel debbieschlussel.com Terrorists, who take Americans hostage, are being elected to leadership positions all over the Muslim world. First, there's Iran. Yesterday, AP reported that Iran's President-elect was one of the captors of the American hostages who were taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy and held captive in Iran for 444 days from 1979-1981. Former hostages Chuck Scott, David Roeder, William J. Daugherty, Don A. Sharer, and Kevin Hermening said they recognize Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who won the Iranian "elections," as one of their captors. "He was extremely cruel," Sharer said. But some psychobabble psychologist knows better: Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus claims they have "false memories" based on race and ethnicity. Perhaps the ditzy Ms. Loftus of UC-Irvine might forget terrorists who held her captive for over a year. But normal people would not. Then, there's Lebanon (a/k/a Greater Syria/Iran). Hezbollah official and Syrian-backed Nabih Berri was re-elected Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament. Berri, head of the Shi'ite Amal Militia, served as spokesman, negotiator, and media mastermind for Hezbollah in its 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847, during which the Hezbollah hijackers tortured and murdered Navy diver Robert Stethem. Berri's re-election celebration resulted in the kind of celebration unique to the dimwitted, Muslim Arab Middle East: "festive" gunfire killed three and injured seven. The wimpy American "response" to the election of these America-haters and murderers is very telling. Regarding the Iranian terrorist's election, White House spokesman Scott McClellan uttered the usual fertilizer: "We are looking into [it] to better understand the facts." Whatever. To the "Lebanese" re-election of Berri, no response at all. What was that President Bush once uttered about being "on our side or the terrorists' side"? Which side are we on?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (35118)	7/1/2005 11:58:51 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 93284

Spielberg's "Vengeance" Pandered to Terror, Last Summer By Debbie Schlussel June 27, 2005 Much is being made about Steven Spielberg's upcoming inaccurate, revisionist history and "balance" (code for morally equivocating Islamic terrorists with their victims) in his new film, "Vengeance"--about the Israeli Mossad's tracking down of Palestinian terrorists who murdered Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. But anyone who knows the history of this movie, based on a George Jonas book of the same name, should not be surprised. Jonas admits he has only one "source" for most of the information in his book and that many of the incidents could not be verified. Many of his "facts" were refuted by testimony in a Norwegian trial of Mossad agents who accidentally killed a Moroccan waiter, there, and were caught. Spielberg has not contacted anyone in the Mossad, the Israeli government, or the agents who were involved in the operation, some of whom discredited Jonas' book. As I wrote in a column on Spielberg's "Vengeance," last summer, Spielberg halted production to avoid upsetting terrorists during the Olympics. Just out of respect and "sensitivity" for terrorists' wishes. Then, Spielberg realized this was a bad P.R. move and had his publicist claim the reason was something almost as absurd, but much less believable: that Spielberg was just too upset each day--sobbing while reading pages of the script--to continue. Right, and the sob-scenes in "E.T." also made him halt production. Not. One wonders if Spielberg's "balance" will involve visiting the family of Cleveland-based parents of David Berger, the handsome, American-born, Israeli Olympic weight-lifter, who was among the murdered athletes. Don't count on it. The film, starring the outspokenly pro-Palestinian Ben Kingsley, is bound to be no different than the "balanced" Oscar-winning documentary, "One Day in September," which--as I wrote in another column--showed the murder of the Israeli Olympic athletes from the victims' families' and Palestinian terrorists' points of view--as an action thriller. Spielberg's "Vengeance," appears to be an indictment of our current War on Terror. According to Reuters, Daniel Craig, who stars in the film, told an entertainment magazine that , "it's about how vengeance doesn't . . . work--blood breeds blood." The one accidental assassination--of the Moroccan waiter in Norway--is being used to discredit the entire operation, which was a SUCCESSFUL War on Terror. There will always be accidental deaths in fighting terror, but that doesn't mean there shouldn't be a strong and swift response to it. Don't hold your breath for real balance, such as Spielberg visiting terror-host state Syria (on the State Department's terrorist list) to interrogate and film Jamil Al-Gashey, the only surviving murderer of the Israeli Olympic athletes. He enjoys a life of safety and freedom under the protection of Syria's government, where he moved because, he said, he didn't want his daughter to grow up without a father. No biggie that he killed the fathers of several daughters of the Israeli athletes. Don't look for any of that in "Fighting Terror is a Bad Idea, as Told by Steven Spielberg."

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (35118)	7/1/2005 12:09:44 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93284

Spielberg "Vengeance" Update: Steven's Stockholm Syndrome Worse Than I'd Earlier Diagnosed By Debbie Schlussel July 1, 2005 A New York Times article, today, confirms everything I've written (here and here) and worse regarding Steven Spielberg's upcoming "Vengeance" movie. It is now a certainty that Mr. "Schindler's List" will expend the capital he earned on that film <C>to now HUMANIZE(!) Palestinian terrorists who murdered the Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich in 1972. It's bad enough that Spielberg ran the script by Arafat-fan Bill Clinton--Arafat ordered the Olympic athlete massacre--and other assorted Clintonistas who drooled over Arafat, like Mike McCurry and Dennis Ross. Worse is the revelation that playwright Tony Kushner (a self-avowed socialist and gay activist) is praised for "humanizing the film's hunted Palestinians and giving a fuller sense of their motivation." Can you imagine if someone did a film humanizing Mohammed Atta and giving a fuller sense of his motivation?! Or perhaps he can do "Schindler's Other List," humanizing the Nazis and giving a fuller sense of their motivation. Unbelievable. We don't need more psychobabble about understanding the terrorists and why they hate us. Who cares why they hate us? A better question is: Why don't we hate them enough to quit doing crappy, Stockholm-Syndrome movies like this? If the Times doesn't make Spielberg's intentions--which I correctly predicted, last summer--clear once, it makes them clear twice. Kushner was hired by Spielberg "to humanize what he felt was too procedural a thriller," as written by another screenwriter. Spielberg released a statement calling the Munich Olympic massacre "a defining moment in the modern history of the Middle East," as if he's proud of that. It wasn't a "defining" moment. It was an EXTREMELY TRAGIC moment! One hint Spielberg is playing for the wrong team: "Vengeance" is being shot in Pan-Arabist Malta, which criminally prosecuted columnist Simone Endrich for criticizing Palestinian terrorists, homicide bombings, and the Maltese Prime Minister for participating in a pro-Palestinian demonstration. So glad Spielberg picked such an even-handed locale for "Vengeance." Other signs Steven Spielberg is glorifying the Munich Olympic terrorists: He * is concerned the project may be "misconstrued in the public mind" (if "Vengeance" denounced the terrorists, instead of humanizing them, there would be no reason for concern); * is being advised by "a Hollywood spokesman who specializes in crisis communications" (if the film were against terrorists, there would be no need); * is worried about "jeopardiz[ing] his tremendous stature among Jews" and that "admirers of his Holocaust work could misunderstand his new film and regard it as hurtful to Israel"; * released a short statement not just to the Times and Ma'ariv, but to Arab television network Al-Arabiya; and * is "studiously avoiding the most glaring potential trap: drawing a moral equivalency between the Palestinian attack and the Israeli retaliation," his advisors tell the Times. Morally equivocating terrorists and their victims is not a glaring trap or something that needs hard work in order to avoid. It's a no-brainer, but not apparently in this film, which apparently will do exactly this kind of moral equivocation he needs to "work so hard" to avoid. Unfortunately, Spielberg's idea of "Israeli assassins find[ing] themselves struggling . . . slowly giving way to troubling doubts about what they were doing," is nothing new. Been there, seen that. Another gay socialist Jewish screenwriter (just like Spielberg's Kushner) wrote a similar Mossad-assassin-has-doubts-about-killing-Islamic-terrorists-and-becomes-sensitive-guy thriller. It's called "Walk on Water," and I doubt Spielberg can improve upon that dreadful celluloid spittle. Given all this, it makes the disappointing, Oscar-winning Munich Olympic Massacre documentary, "One Day in September," look almost appetizing. Just two years after the Munich massacre, Yasser Arafat and company were rewarded with a Palestinian U.N. mission. One wonders what they'll get after Spielberg releases this propaganda piece, later this year, just in time for holiday gifts.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (35118)	7/1/2005 10:41:00 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

IMHO, every non-uniformed, non-official country recognition or representation enemy combatant/terorists we catch should be milked for all they are worth by our allies in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then summarily executed. Shoot them with bullets soaked in pig's blood and then bury them in the entrails of the pigs you killed to get the blood. Every now and then, leave one alive who sees this occur...one that we and our allies deem is of no value...and then send him off to report to his cohorts. Use their own culture and belief against them...because they are: 1) Surely using ours against us, and... 2) They will quickly see that one of the prciniple reasons they indoctrinate these suicide fools is to make them believe that their behavior is acceptable is suddenly and eternally removed from them in their own eyes. Psyops. By the rules of warfare, fighting the way they do, they are sabotuers and spies and deserving of the same fate. Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (35118)	7/1/2005 10:46:08 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Rice Pilaf Again?! Richmond Times-Dispatch Jul 1, 2005 We have in hand, courtesy of the Senate Republican Caucus via the folks at powerlineblog.com, a menu for the meals fed to detainees at Guantnamo Bay -- that "gulag of our time," in the words of Amnesty International and others of that ilk. Prisoners of the Soviets' Gulag Archipelago ate a few hundred calories a day, if they were lucky, mostly thin soup made of fishheads and the like. At Gitmo, detainees are given -- well, let's see . . . . For breakfast: Pancakes, syrup, orange juice, fruit, milk, margarine, and coffee or tea. Or a whole-wheat bagel, oatmeal, juice, fruit, scrambled eggs, milk, margarine, and coffee or tea. Or whole-wheat bread, Raisin Bran, orange juice, fruit, milk, a "veggie patty," margarine, and coffee or tea. For lunch: Whole-wheat pita, long-grain brown rice, canned peaches, steamed asparagus, northern beans, margarine, and tea or drink-ade. Or whole-wheat bread, tossed green rice, fresh fruit, wax beans, a seasoned beef patty, margarine, and tea or drink-ade. Or a whole-wheat bread slice, garlic mashed potatoes, canned pears, seasoned peas, kidney beans, margarine, and tea or drink-ade. For dinner: Noodles Jefferson, a whole-wheat bread slice, fresh fruit, green beans, carrot sticks, baked chicken breast in broth, margarine, and tea or drink-ade. Or rice pilaf, whole-wheat pita, fresh fruit, steamed cauliflower, a veggie patty, margarine, and tea or drink-ade. Or whole-wheat bread, long-grain brown rice, fresh fruit, steamed carrots, broccoli or celery, lemon baked fish, margarine, and tea or drink-ade. Other menu items include pineapple, okra, a beef patty with onions, succotash, black-eyed peas, Lyonnaise rice, spicy baked fish, bayou chicken breast, acorn squash, honey-glazed chicken, chickpeas, spinach, tandoori chicken, and mustard dill baked fish. The daily caloric intake from the meals ranges from 2,500 to 2,900. Of course, the menus above represent just one 12-day cycle. Some detainees -- prisoners of the terror war -- have been held for years now, and even the most creative Army cooks can come up with only so many permutations of the available fare. Plus, all that margarine must be rough on the arteries. So it's no wonder Senator Dick Durbin compared Gitmo with the gulag, Nazi death camps, and the killing fields of Cambodia. Rice pilaf again? The horror. timesdispatch.com

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (35118)	7/1/2005 10:49:31 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

Where is the liberal outcry that these thugs get better food than US children in the school lunch program? Rice Pilaf Again?! Richmond Times-Dispatch Jul 1, 2005 We have in hand, courtesy of the Senate Republican Caucus via the folks at powerlineblog.com, a menu for the meals fed to detainees at Guantnamo Bay -- that "gulag of our time," in the words of Amnesty International and others of that ilk. Prisoners of the Soviets' Gulag Archipelago ate a few hundred calories a day, if they were lucky, mostly thin soup made of fishheads and the like. At Gitmo, detainees are given -- well, let's see . . . . For breakfast: Pancakes, syrup, orange juice, fruit, milk, margarine, and coffee or tea. Or a whole-wheat bagel, oatmeal, juice, fruit, scrambled eggs, milk, margarine, and coffee or tea. Or whole-wheat bread, Raisin Bran, orange juice, fruit, milk, a "veggie patty," margarine, and coffee or tea. For lunch: Whole-wheat pita, long-grain brown rice, canned peaches, steamed asparagus, northern beans, margarine, and tea or drink-ade. Or whole-wheat bread, tossed green rice, fresh fruit, wax beans, a seasoned beef patty, margarine, and tea or drink-ade. Or a whole-wheat bread slice, garlic mashed potatoes, canned pears, seasoned peas, kidney beans, margarine, and tea or drink-ade. For dinner: Noodles Jefferson, a whole-wheat bread slice, fresh fruit, green beans, carrot sticks, baked chicken breast in broth, margarine, and tea or drink-ade. Or rice pilaf, whole-wheat pita, fresh fruit, steamed cauliflower, a veggie patty, margarine, and tea or drink-ade. Or whole-wheat bread, long-grain brown rice, fresh fruit, steamed carrots, broccoli or celery, lemon baked fish, margarine, and tea or drink-ade. Other menu items include pineapple, okra, a beef patty with onions, succotash, black-eyed peas, Lyonnaise rice, spicy baked fish, bayou chicken breast, acorn squash, honey-glazed chicken, chickpeas, spinach, tandoori chicken, and mustard dill baked fish. The daily caloric intake from the meals ranges from 2,500 to 2,900. Of course, the menus above represent just one 12-day cycle. Some detainees -- prisoners of the terror war -- have been held for years now, and even the most creative Army cooks can come up with only so many permutations of the available fare. Plus, all that margarine must be rough on the arteries. So it's no wonder Senator Dick Durbin compared Gitmo with the gulag, Nazi death camps, and the killing fields of Cambodia. Rice pilaf again? The horror. timesdispatch.com