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The rumors are building and the sabers are rattling. Could it be that President George W. Bush finally will put action behind the war of words toward Iran? Some writers from the UK Telegraph seem to think so ( Bush setting America up for war with Iran):

Pentagon and CIA officers say they believe that the White House has begun a carefully calibrated programme of escalation that could lead to a military showdown with Iran.

Though the sources are unnamed, the recent flurry of activity and the rare French comment essentially saying war in on the horizon, make for some interesting speculation.

What is most likely happening here is a calculated PR campaign to push Iran to meaningful dialogue. It’s common knowledge that Iran is fighting a proxy war by supporting and supplying insurgents in Iraq (and from their perspective, why not?). The negative sentiment that surrounds Bush and the hostility he faces from Congress make taking Iran head-on a politically dangerous move.

Does Bush have the guts to take on Iran? Do the American people have the guts? The military aspect of the confrontation would be easy enough initially. The superiority of US war machine can quickly and decisively dismantle tactical and strategic targets. The bigger questions will be “what next” after the bombing. Like Saddam’s Iraq, it’s easy to pick off targets with cruise missiles and stealth bombers. The key lesson though is that those strikes didn’t stop Iraq from being a problem in the Gulf.

Would there be a revolution and regime change because of the strikes? Doubt it. Will the US invade Iran? No way. Will the strikes cause the Iranian leadership to repent from being enemies of America? Nope. Ultimately, it would be a black eye, a bloody nose, a broken lip, and that’s all.

More interesting and provocative would be the targeting of Iranian leadership. It’s hard to make a case for strategic targeting alone. The problem is the leadership of Iran. Nuclear facilities don’t build themselves. Taking the war to Ahmadinejad would send the clearest signal that the US will not play games with rogue terrorist sponsor nations. Anything less than that, is a waste of time.

Saddam Hussein is dead.

Political guru Karl Rove made a lot of brash statements during the last few weeks of the American election cycle. When speaking to NPR’s Robert Siegel, Rove said:

MR. ROVE: Yeah. Look, I’m looking at all these Robert and adding them up. And I add up to a Republican Senate and a Republican House. You may end up with a different math, but you’re entitled to your math. I’m entitled to “the” math.

Yeah, ok Karl.

Thanks to this pair of ostriches, Bush and Rove, America now gets to listen to the certifiably nuts Nancy Pelosi.

The writing has been on the wall for weeks. No amount of “optimism” was going to save the day. The bigger question is whether Bush and Rove actually believed what they were saying? Bush has said many times that “he doesn’t pay attention to polls”. Rove claimed to have insider information with polling and thus his cheery demeanor. Both of them were flat wrong.

The only saving grace to this election disaster will be if Pelosi is encouraged to be the Liberal idiot that she is. If she does not moderate her position and somehow thinks she has a mandate, she’ll be the catalyst to motivate the Republican base for the 2008 Presidential elections.

If I were the Republicans, I’d try to motivate Pelosi and the Democrats to be as socialist/communist as possible. Push them to mount spirited defenses of anti-family and anti-military policies. Give them every opportunity to show themselves to be the anti-Americans they are.

Karl Rove proved this election cycle that he’s willing to cheerlead people on the Titanic to keep polishing that brass. Put away the “yes-man” Republican polls Karl. The worst lies are the ones you tell yourself.

Ever defiant to the end, justice was served today when Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging.

You would think the world would rejoice at the punishment of such an evil leader, yet the Euro Libs got bent out of shape:

But symbolic of the split between the United States and many of its traditional allies over the Iraq war, many European nations voiced opposition to the death sentences in the case, including France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. A leading Italian opposition figure called on the continent to press for Saddam’s sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment

The people of Europe are but a shell of what they used to be. Truly a generation has been lost to Liberalism.

You also have to love the “unbiased” AP reporting when the writers go on to say:

Lost in the drama of Sunday’s death sentence was any mention of the failed search for the alleged weapons of mass destruction that Bush said led the United States to invade and occupy Iraq in March 2003.

I’m surprised they didn’t bring up the “mission accomplished” incident or how many US servicemen were killed as well.

In the build-up to this verdict the media Libs have been planting the suggestion that there will be outrage at a guilty verdict. Today they went shopping for Sunnis to find this anger.

But in Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit, not far from Dujail, 1,000 people defied the curfew and carried pictures of the city’s favorite son through the streets. Some declared the court a product of the U.S. “occupation forces” and condemned the verdict. Policemen wept in the streets.

“By our souls, by our blood we sacrifice for you, Saddam,” the Tikrit crowds chanted.

I doubt it was just the policemen weaping today. I’m sure there were many Libs crying and wishing it was Bush being sentenced instead of the mass-grave loving Saddam.

Even as I watched the live news covering this verdict, CNN was practically begging for the outraged masses to come pouring out into the streets. Dire warnings of sectarian violence and anarchy were repeatedly promised by the news hack in Iraq.

Hopefully the sentence will be carried out soon and live on TV.

In a rare display of complete insanity, a recent poll reports that Britons (and others) think that George Bush is more dangerous than Kim Jong-Il and the Iranian Hitler Ahmadinejad.

Asked whether they thought the U.S. leader was a great or moderate danger to peace, 75 percent of British people said yes. Some 87 percent felt the same about bin Laden, while Kim scored 69 percent and Ahmadinejad clocked 62 percent.

The “Old Europe” socialist Liberals prove they have no common sense and no desire to preserve their lives against the growing world-wide threat of radical Islam.

Islamofascists aided by the Liberal media have thoroughly brain-washed many in the world to call good evil and evil good. What hope is there to win the global war on Islamofascists when the very people you seek to help view you worse than your enemies.

Life is not going to get any better for the Britons either. Another recent article described how life in the UK is being transformed into a Big Brother nightmare with cameras tracking every move and computers watching every transaction.

This is what happens when men lose the will to fight. They turn to the government and give up their freedoms for the “hope” of safety and peace. You cannot have freedom without courage to fight for that freedom. You cannot have safety unless you are willing to die in defense of your homeland.

The United States is fighting for freedom and for the right of people to live in peace yet these fools think that madmen are better. Truly disgusting.

Harking back to Reagan’s speech and the idea of a moral imperative, a group has brought the disgusting atrocities committed by the North Koreans to the UN for review (and hopefully action). The report describes:

Pyongyang’s brutal treatment of its citizens, from the beatings of pregnant women to force miscarriages to the abduction, torture and execution of political prisoners.

“It is clear that (North Korean leader) Kim Jong-il and the North Korean government are actively committing crimes against humanity,” they said in a letter introducing the report, which was prepared by the nonprofit, independent U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and by the DLA Piper law firm.

The report, largely based on previously published material, estimates that North Korea imprisons “upwards of 200,000 people in its modern-day gulag” and that double that number have died in the its prison network over 30 years.

It describes prisoners being fed near-starvation diets that they supplement with insects, being beaten until their eyeballs pop out and being entombed in “sweatbox” solitary cells so small they are forced to crouch for months.

What type of regime commits or allows acts like these? How can the World turn a blind eye toward the sufferings of others? Is it not the righteous thing to actively overthrow such an evil government?

The current North Korean government and policies add no value to this planet. Many expect the wimps at the UN to turn away from the moral imperative here like they have done in other parts of the world.

Yeah, let’s all six-party talk. What a pathetic joke.

Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy “accommodation.” And they say if we’ll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he’ll forget his evil ways and learn to love us.

All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer — not an easy answer — but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.

Proving that truth is eternal, I came across a speech that Ronald Reagan gave in 1964. Though the Cold War is over, the truth about facing an enemy that threatens us rings yet today. The phrase that hit hard for me was “peace without victory”.

How true today. The Libs haven’t changed at all. What do they want to do with North Korea? How about Iran? What of Syria and Saudi Arabia? The answer is the same each time; they want accommodation. They want peace without victory. They want to tuck their coward tails and run.

And they say if we’ll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he’ll forget his evil ways and learn to love us.

Six-party talks anyone? UN resolutions? Summits? Negotiations? I wish I could make US politicians watch Reagan speeches again and again until they get it. You have to do what is morally right, not what is least confrontational. You have to bring peace through victory over your enemies, not through accommodation.

The sad part is that many will learn this lesson the hard way and what will be the cost?

So the French are facing a Palestinian type uprising, jihad, call to war, and the article describing the problem starts with this vague comment:

The recent ambush was emblematic of what some officers say has become a near-perpetual and increasingly violent conflict between police and gangs in tough, largely immigrant French neighborhoods that were the scene of a three-week paroxysm of rioting last year.

One small police union claims officers are facing a “permanent intifada.” Police injuries have risen in the year since the wave of violence. (emphasis added)

Oh please, “gangs” and “largely immigrant”?! This is the type of Liberalism that will get the French killed. You must name your enemies. You cannot cower in fear of the Islamic terrorists.

Later in the article the AP writer Keaton reports:

Michel Thooris, head of the small Action Police union, claims that the new violence is taking on an Islamic fundamentalist tinge.

“Many youths, many arsonists, many vandals behind the violence do it to cries of ‘Allah Akbar’ (God is Great) when our police cars are stoned,” he said in an interview.

Is it just a “claim” or is it a fact? Note this comment as well:

Distrust and tension thrive. Rumors have flown around some housing projects that police are hoping to use the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ends this week, to round up known troublemakers, on the basis that fasting all day will have made the youths weaker and easier to catch.

Ok, so let me follow this. These “gangs” in “largely immigrant neighborhoods” celebrate the “Muslim holy month of Ramadan”? While these “youth” may run around in gangs, they are by practice Jihadists who scream “God is great” when they practice terror and mayhem.

Liberal cowards. You see the enemy stare you in the face and you hear him call for your death, yet you lie to yourself and others. You hear the enemy cry out to his “god” while he tries to kill you, yet you will not name him out of cowardice. When the blade is at your throat, it will be too late.

What exactly will it take to awaken the world to this threat? Pacifism and “talk” will not stop this enemy. Calling Islamofascists “gangs” of “immigrants” will not stop the threat to your very way of life.

Fools. You hear the thunder in the distance but do nothing to prepare for the storm. You tell yourself “it will pass” but it is raging in your direction.

“Many youths, many arsonists, many vandals behind the violence do it to cries of ‘Allah Akbar’ (God is Great) when our police cars are stoned,”

Remember those words well, my friends.

What a week. US Intel says that North Korea is prepping for another nuke blast. Guess desperate times call for desperate measures? Of course Secretary Rice (along with others) are still begging for North Korea to come back to the six-party talks.

I wish I had a direct line to someone in the State Department. I would ask them “what exactly do you hope to accomplish in the six-party talks?” It doesn’t make any sense to me. North Korea does whatever it wants and habitually lies. What assurance can you get from a liar? What agreement can you make that won’t be broken?

The most bizarre news lately is the reported apology for the Oct 9th nuke test by Kim Jong Il.

The Chosun Ilbo daily quoted a Chinese diplomatic source as saying Kim made the apology and the reiteration of his government’s known position in a meeting Thursday morning with State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, who visited Pyongyang as a special envoy of Chinese President Hu Jintao.

I’m sure most Liberals believe he is sincere. I wonder if Secretary Rice thinks he’s sincere? Yeah, I’m sure he’s real sorry. There is an off-chance that the Chinese turned up the heat and Kim Jong got nervous, but it’s most likely just another slick move to allow China to thwart any escalation in sanctions (after all he said he was “sorry”).

If another nuke test happens, we’ll know for sure it was just a rhetorical bluff.

Looks like North Korea got the message. Today’s it’s being reported:

Blaming the United States for instigating U.N. Security Council sanctions against it, North Korea on Tuesday called the resolution approved over the weekend a “declaration of war.”

North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency that the country wants “peace but is not afraid of war.”

The North “vehemently denounces the resolution, a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward (the North) and totally refutes it,” the statement said, according to a report from The Associated Press.

The North Koreans are pathetically hilarious. They lie, build nukes, act like mad-men, make threats against their neighbors, and then cry like babies when the world slaps sanctions on them. Seriously, Kim Jong is really lucky that he’s still alive. It wouldn’t be too hard for the US to send a GPS guided bomb with his name on it.

Most likely the North Koreans are trying to test the resolve of neighbor states. Now having played the “war” card, people who fear confrontation will call for “talks” and other conciliatory gestures. The Libs here in the US will most likely start calling for “dialogue” saying that the sanctions are useless provocations that will lead us to another war. You know the line.

Meanwhile, Rice continues to promote her failed policy:

“We must remind North Korea that a positive path remains open to it through the six-party talks,” Rice said. “Thus far, North Korea has chosen the path of confrontation and all that that entails — deepening isolation, a failing economy, and few opportunities for its oppressed peoples.

What is with these people in the State Department? Six-party talks, Six-party talks. Shut up already. North Korea doesn’t want them and they have failed for how many years now? The talks existed to stop the North Koreans from going nuclear. Too late. It’s time now for sanctions and regime change.