Mike Luckovich

By I Report, You Whine

June 9, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

If you believe in hell then you must believe in Heaven.

If you believe in satan then you must believe in Jesus Christ Lord and Saviour.

If you believe in punishment after death for the things you have done in life, then you must believe in Eternal Life.

These things I have no argument with whatsoever.

Good job Mike!

By I Report, You Whine

June 9, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

Another staggering blow to the hatemongering liberals in Atlanta:

Most of the liberal radio talk show network Air America, featuring the likes of Janeane Garafalo and Jerry Springer, will be off the Atlanta AM dial starting Monday.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

By I Report, You Whine

June 9, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

Fess up: How many of you inner city pinkos have tried doing the two step or have even listened to your most recent CD purchase:

Dixie Chicks’ latest tour struggling to take flight

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

You reckon people are getting tired of hearing you libs or what?

By I Report, You Whine

June 9, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

Part of Zarqawi’s myth may be attributed to a speech given in 2003 by then Secretary of State Colin Powell to the U.N. Security Council in trying to justify the war in Iraq. Mr. Powell claimed Zarqawi was, personally, the link between Iraq’s Ba’athist regime and Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network. Mr. Powell added this proved Iraq harbored a terrorist network, and mandated pre-emptive military action against the country.

By I Report, You Whine

June 9, 2006 08:05 AM | Link to this

The twin announcements of Zarqawi’s death and the filling of security posts lifted the hopes of Baghdad residents after months of discouraging news.

“Everybody is hoping that something has changed. Maybe there will be car bombs, but not like before. Maybe now something will change, and there will be more quiet. Those people killing others for wearing shorts, they were part of Zarqawi,” said Ahmed, a young father of two who is from a mixed Shi’ite-Sunni family.

The little things matter…..

By I Report, You Whine

June 9, 2006 08:05 AM | Link to this

Among the people most delighted by Zarqawi’s demise are Iraqi Shi’ites, for whom Zarqawi openly professed his hatred. He spoke openly of his determination to foment civil war between Sunnis and Shi’ites in Iraq. The Feb. 22 bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra (and the hundreds of deaths that followed in internecine warfare that followed) were part of his effort to destabilize Iraq and kill as many Iraqi Muslims as possible. It is no exaggeration to say that, over the last two-and-a-half years, no terrorist killed more people in Iraq (or for that matter anywhere else in the world) than Zarqawi.

By I Report, You Whine

June 9, 2006 08:06 AM | Link to this

Osama bin Laden is a drama queen. Post 9/11 history suggests we are fighting him — insofar as he represents something worth fighting — in exactly the right way. We have captured his guns, compromised his communications, frozen his money, killed his associates, and made it hard for him to travel. Once in a while, he issues forth from the border fastnesses of Pakistan with an ornate pronunciamento on something or other. We singe his robe with a Hellfire missile once in a while. Sooner or later, one of them won’t miss.

By I Report, You Whine

June 9, 2006 08:07 AM | Link to this

Like Stalin, Zarqawi has used barbaric levels of personal violence to drive all of us—resident inside the Iraqi hell or in the watching world—toward a psychological gulag, a place of submission. Faced with news earlier in the week of 17 heads in two fruit crates, we are expected to give up, to throw in the towel against the day when “the word of God will be supreme.” Each Soviet dissident was a singular event that stopped the world from internalizing the moral and psychological free fall of Soviet totalitarianism. Killing Zarqawi, who personally beheaded Americans Nicholas Berg and Eugene Armstrong, is a similar abrupt brake.

It stopped Zarqawi himself. His moral abyss is not inevitable. Those among us who insist on belittling yesterday’s achievement in Baqubah are simply lost to reflexive opposition to the U.S. side. But for many others, up against the insurgency, the possibility of reversing the recent drop in political support for this necessary effort seems possible again.

Start with the Iraqi police. On the news of Zarqawi’s death, they were seen rejoicing in Sadr City, one of Baghdad’s poorest districts. No order can be sustained in Iraq’s cities unless men have the courage to serve as police. Thus the insurgency makes them a top target.

Iraq’s new, aggressive Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said yesterday that Baqubah-area residents offered tips for the air strike. This is a potentially important turn. The respected Iraqi bloggers at Iraq the Model wrote this week from Baghdad, “Severed heads of civilian Iraqis were found twice in fruit boxes in and around Hibhib [near Baqubah]; a terrible crime that shocked Iraqis.” So there are limits.

By I Report, You Whine

June 9, 2006 08:07 AM | Link to this

Knock em out:

BAGHDAD, Iraq - America is preparing to launch a series of major operations against Al Qaeda in Iraq on the basis of key documents and contact details found in the operation that ended in the death of Al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

As soon as Zarqawi’s death was confirmed yesterday morning, 17 simultaneous raids were launched against sites in the country, particularly in Baghdad.

Here’s something you libs might like:

The news of his death was welcomed by Mr. Bush, who was seen smiling while his leading advisers laughed in delight at a private meeting in the White House.

By I Post News, Liberals Post Hate, Now Show Us

June 9, 2006 08:08 AM | Link to this

The idea of simply celebrating a victory - even a small or incremental victory - and leaving it at that somehow seemed never to occur to anyone. Just accepting that President Bush might have a good news cycle - and that they risked doing more damage to themselves than to their enemies by trying to dampen that - was a completely foreign notion.

As one of the more sane commenters put it at Daily Kos yesterday: “Come on, the guy did exist, blew lots of stuff up (mostly Iraqis), and we finally killed his murdering … a—. … Much more importantly, the Iraqi Parliament approved people for the Defense and Interior ministries. So could we quit being negative for one day at least?”

By I Post News, Liberals Post Hate, Now Show Us

June 9, 2006 08:08 AM | Link to this

Curse me, I know I’m going to hell for this: Why did the Jersey Girls describe the deaths of their husbands with such startling precision? “Men that we loved burned alive.” My mind wanders back to the victims of the Lockerbie bombing. In one powerful episode that was recounted in Harper’s magazine, the father of a girl who was killed when the plane went down asked about justice. He turned on the reporter and said, “How can there be any justice in this cruel world?” It is to make one weep. This poor soul gave no details, but delivered a powerful existential wail of pain: how can the cosmic scales of justice be righted when I’ve lost my girl? Think of that space in death (and the ineffable splendor of love) that unites us as humans created by God. It’s the space that creates a zone of quiet respect, mystery, and even fear that stops us short of details when the death of a loved one comes up. We evade out of deference to the tragedy of death, its inevitability, and the idea that it is a mystery allowed by God that we may at some point get to understand. It is where we are equal as persons, and politics disappears.

Many thanks for all the free advertising AJC!

By Brian Curtis

June 9, 2006 08:09 AM | Link to this

Andy, are you even AWARE of the fact that you’re only babbling to yourself? Or does that matter to you?

By Busted!

June 9, 2006 08:11 AM | Link to this

Like I said, I told you I would find it:

• By finch February 24, 2006 07:51 AM The Wall Steet Journal has a good editorial this morning on the Iraq mosque bombing and it’s aftermath. The Iraqi Violence: The Baathists Want a Sectarian War The WSJ concludess that this is an internal, sectarian struggle among Iraqis, and NOT a crisis stoked by foreign terrorists like Al Qaeda. In fact, this editorial doesn’t even mention Al Qaeda or Osama bin Laden. Sweet.*

I have no idea who the next poster is but he nails seeker, err, finch:

By Andy February 24, 2006 08:05 AM Sweet? No mention of Al Qaeda? Taken directly from the posted article: It is also remarkable that it has taken the Shiites so long to react this way. Carnage isn’t a strong enough word for the myriad bombings they’ve suffered over the past several years, for the most part with stoicism and equanimity. Their restraint is all the more impressive given that we all know why the terror is happening and who is responsible. Killing Shiites to foment civil war has been the explicit strategy of the Saddamists who dominate the insurgency and their jihadist allies like Abu Musab al Zarqawi.

The reason your boy seeker never gave Zarqawi credit for the chaos in Iraq, and in fact lied about his role as it did here^^, is because it did not fit it’s template of the “civil war” being fought. Finch couldn’t give credit to Zarqawi and build him up as Bush’s nemesis because it minimized the “civil war” expectation and it gave Al Qaeda too much credit.

By finch February 24, 2006 03:22 PM Danish, thanks for posting my link again. Yup, read the whole letter from Zawqahiri (Osama’s #2 man) to Zarqawi. It’s a classic “you’re doing a great job, BUT… “And the “but” is, stop blowing up other Muslims and their mosques. It cripples the “cause”. If Zarqawi blew up the Golden Mosque, he spat in Zawahiri’s face. And Al Qaeda’s. So much for control. Zarqawi’s a renegade free-lancer. If he didn’t, then Sunnis did. Hello civil war.

Watch what I’m saying, this waste of humanity will be the first one to cheerlead for “civil war” even as the killings start to subside in the next several months.

This war is all but over. Wake up the fat lady.

Yes!

By Angry Liberal Guy

June 9, 2006 08:13 AM | Link to this

Pardon me while I interrupt our regularly scheduled wingnut. We’re all glad that Nick Berg’s killer is dead but it begs the question. If we knew where to drop the bomb, couldn’t we have captured him instead of making a martyr out of him? There will be reprisals in which we will lose many of our brave service men and women. Imagine how humiliating it would have been for him to have to stand trial. I know some of you will mention that by capturing him we would have had to deal with kidnapppings for which the ransom would be to release him but since his death the kidnappings have already begun.

By I Post News, Liberals Post Hate, Now Show Us

June 9, 2006 08:14 AM | Link to this

Brian: You really should give it more than nine minutes, sweetie. Most of these pinkos can barely make out the words over seven letters but it will sink in here shortly.

By Angry Liberal Guy

June 9, 2006 08:16 AM | Link to this

Andy - why don’t you start your own blog so it will be easier for us to ignore your inane ramblings? As it is we don’t read them anyway.

By I Report, You Whine

June 9, 2006 08:19 AM | Link to this

Last Post! That includes I Post News, Liberals Post Hate, Now Show Us, I Report, You Whine and anything remotely connected to Andy.

With the demise of Air America to sate their raging mindless hatred and the recent death of their fearless killer in Iraq, I sense certain filthy little pinkos are going to be name jacking madmen today, detonating their little lib suicide vests all over this blog.

What other response to logic and reason do they have?

In other words, I’m out, don’t believe what they say, let me guess what it will be, “Andy is gay.”

That’s the limits of their knowledge.

By Goldie

June 9, 2006 08:19 AM | Link to this

Ha-ha, Lucko! Thanks for the great depiction of those devils in hell…

By Goldie

June 9, 2006 08:23 AM | Link to this

Andy/You Whine— This war is all but over. Wake up the fat lady.

That’s really great news, so why don’t you tell your pal Rumsfeld that this war is over? Save us all some bloodshed. Instead we’re looking at escalating violence and no troop deployments. And you call this “all but over”? I guess you want us to start promoting you as the next Sec. of Def. when we get rid of Rummy… we’ll see. Maybe we will!

By Oh Come On

June 9, 2006 08:25 AM | Link to this

By Angry Liberal Guy June 9, 2006 08:13 AM If we knew where to drop the bomb, couldn’t we have captured him instead of making a martyr out of him?

Look at these pinkos stewing over this guys death.

The same libs that whine about Ann Coulter dissing the “Jersey Girls” have no problem at all insulting the families of the people this guy beheaded. What they say is ten times worse then anything Coulter has said, how can you argue on behalf of a savage who got exactly what he deserved?

By Nomad

June 9, 2006 08:28 AM | Link to this

I normally find it hard to like most of Luckovich’s offerings due to my conservative nature. However, I like this one.

By finch

June 9, 2006 08:36 AM | Link to this

Thanks for the transcriptions, Busted. I have to laugh thinking about all the time you spent finding stuff that just proves my point. It shows I have been saying all along that Zarqawi was “a renegade free-lancer” who “spat in Zawahiris (al Qaedas) face” and who wanted to forment civil war, just for the hell of it. Al Qaeda is evil, but Zarqawi was even worse. Get it?

Your inability to recognize sarcasm (hello civil war, sweet!) is one of your many shortcomings.

Grow up.

By RW-(the original)

June 9, 2006 08:41 AM | Link to this

Angry Liberal Guy,

Try to keep up with current events. Zarqawi was alive when we got there. Now crank up your whacko conspiracy machine and get Mothra out there to say we murdered him in cold blood.

Brian Curtis,

If you find a newspaper in your driveway in the morning do you fire off an angry letter about those reporters babbling to themselves while you were sleeping?

By One of the Majority's Voices of Dissent

June 9, 2006 08:42 AM | Link to this

Andy,

What, we don’t get to be amused by your garbage for the rest of the day? I guess you finally got that job as a daytime stockboy at the Golden Pantry.

By Civil War, Sweet

June 9, 2006 08:48 AM | Link to this

No one gets off on the bombing of a mosque in Iraq quite the way seeker does and Al Zarqawi did.

Wish it away all you want, finch, that’s the beauty of the internet that you “superior intellectual elites” can never seem to remember: Every word you say is there for eternity.

So say something else stupid.

You’re the biggest anti American cheer leader in here and I got the proof of it.

Sucks, don’t it?

By Lord Help Us

June 9, 2006 08:51 AM | Link to this

Nothing that happens to this deranged killer in Hell could possibly equate to the horror caused by his involvement in bombings, murder, maiming of US armed forces and innocent Iraqi men, women and children.

Unfortunately, our own need for a non-Iraqi ‘bogeyman’ in Iraq helped to create the persona and myths and, ultimately, made Zarqawi more effective.

Richard Clark, having served under 3 Presidents as the counterterrorism adviser on the National Security Council, knows a lot more than the wingnuts posting here and among other myths exposed about Zarqawi notes that:

Myth Three: The death of Zarqawi will significantly set back the insurgency. Remember, we were also told that the death of Uday and Qusay Hussein would weaken the insurgency. When Saddam was captured, many speculated that his arrest would diminish the fighting. Almost exactly one year ago, Cheney said that the insurgency was “in the last throes.” Since those events and statements, the rate of insurgent attacks and the casualties from those attacks have steadily increased and are now at an all-time high.

It’s The Competence, Stupid!!

By Civil War, Sweet!

June 9, 2006 08:59 AM | Link to this

Bye the way seeker, google “Luckovich AJC finch samarra mosque bombing sweet” and see where it takes you. It was really quite easy, thank you very much.

Sucks, don’t it?

By bobby

June 9, 2006 09:01 AM | Link to this

The fact that liberal talk radio doesn’t have a huge following shouldn’t surprise anybody, and here’s the reason. Conservatives just aren’t critical thinkers. They have to be told what to think and what to believe. That is why Rush, Sean, and Neal have been so popular for so long. Conservatives display the classic “follow the herd” mentality. This is why there is so little intelligent debate about any relevent issue on this blog, and why so many of these CLUCO’s (Clueless Conservatives) just have no idea what they are talking about. They don’t understand, or have an appreciation for, what the US Constitution says or means. They wrap themselves in God and the Bible, though they understand neither. For me, it’s fun to debunk the things these people say and just sit back and watch their eyes glaze over. Like the guy last week who stated there was no evidence whatsoever of global warming. Listening to too much Limbaugh, me thinks.

Also, the less one of these CLUCOs know, the more they use personal attacks. Just scroll thru the blogs above to see what I mean. Soooooooo predictable.

BTW, when the Dixie Chicks released their album in May, it debuted No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200, making them the only group in history to have three albums debut at No. 1 on the Top 200.

Three cheers for free speech!

By Chasing A "Bogeyman"

June 9, 2006 09:05 AM | Link to this

The nickname Z-Man may suggest a Hollywood thriller with a conclusive chase scene. The hunt for al-Qaida’s Prince of Iraq, however, has been long, complex and frustrating. In 2004, when I served in Iraq, Z-Man topped Multi-National Corps-Iraq’s wanted list. One of the special operations liaison officers attached to Corps’ headquarters would greet me in the morning with a wry, “We were busy last night.” The special ops personnel stay busy — but hunting senior al-Qaida leaders ranked as the highest priority. The corps’ senior special ops liaison officer told me the week I left Iraq: “We’ll get Zarqawi, eventually. But it’s a hard, slow job finding one guy with the kind of protection he has. It’s not a Hollywood movie.”

Choice: You can believe a whining stupid anti American liberal or you can believe one of our soldiers.

By Lord Help Us

June 9, 2006 09:11 AM | Link to this

Richard Clark: Darn, I can’t find anything you wrote or said that backs up your 9:03 Post.

I have however, found a number of items in which you emphasized the threat of Al Qaeda to the Bush Administration prior to 9/11 that were incompetently ignored. Please help clear this up…

It’s The Competence, Stupid!!

By Lord Help Us

June 9, 2006 09:16 AM | Link to this

Chasing A Bogeyman: Please share with us all exactly which Myth Richard Clark identifies that is destructed by your 9:05?

It’s The Competence, Stupid!!

By finch

June 9, 2006 09:22 AM | Link to this

have however, found a number of items in which you emphasized the threat of Al Qaeda to the Bush Administration prior to 9/11 that were incompetently ignored. Please help clear this up…

And what, in heaven’s name, does this have to do with your claim that I was a Zarqawi cheerleader?? Which I never was?

Your obsession with me is really starting to look like an illness. You have nothing better to do?

By Chasing A "Bogeyman"

June 9, 2006 09:24 AM | Link to this

LHU: Put down the pipe and slowly back away.

By N-GA

June 9, 2006 09:24 AM | Link to this

“MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!”

By bobby

June 9, 2006 09:24 AM | Link to this

Dear Chasing a “Bogeyman”,

You are a shining example of a Clueless Conservative. That’s what I love about this blog. It is so easy to make a point. You support our soldiers fighting in Iraq, as we all do. I guess you forget that thousands of our soldiers have died in Iraq to achieve this goal - to allow Iraq to form a Constitution, the foundation of a democratic country. And in the same post, you proudly display your hatred of the US Constitution. You have neither a tolerance for a difference of opinion (free speech), nor an understanding of why our soldiers are in Iraq. (Here’s a hint - it’s not to fight Al-Qaida).

Trying to figure out why you people think the way you do makes my head hurt.

Please please please turn off talk radio and start thinking for yourself. And please try to rid yourself of your anger, your utter intolerance, and your deep hatred of those who’s opinions differ from yours. Not only is it not healthy, it’s not Godly. Think about that when you are sitting in church this Sunday, OK?

By Buy Danish

June 9, 2006 09:24 AM | Link to this

Al Qaeda is evil, but Zarqawi was even worse. Get it?

Finch,

I guess we have a new form of moral equivalency:

No longer is it confined to an argument that ‘all cultures are equal and Americans can’t “judge” other cultures’. Nope, now it’s degraded to an argument as to whether “Where’s Osama” Bin Laden is less evil than “Welcome to Hell” Zarqawi. Airplanes into buildings versus beheadings. Granted there was more hands on butchery with Zarqawi, but ultimately there is NO difference.

I’m curious as to why you didn’t have “Where’s Zarqawi” bumper stickers printed up. All of your focus has been on Osama, yet now you say that Zarqawi was worse. Maybe it was a super-secret diversionary tactic that you were using as an agent for the CIA to make Zarqawi feel safe?

finch, you were busted. You claimed that Zarqawi had nothing to do with blowing up the Samarra Mosque. WRONG.

Why did you claim that? Because to admit Al Qaeda’s role in Iraq serves to justify its place as a battleground in the War on Terror.

Just like your claim that despite a long and detailed letter from Bin Laden to Zarqawi with instructions to establish a Caliphate in Iraq, that their conspiratorial alliance didn’t matter. Nope, we can’t admit to the significance of that link, because the war would be justified. Just like you, err Seeker, couldn’t admit to the Iraqi connections to the first World Trade Center bombing. Busted.

That’s why Goldie had to practically spit out (her?) admission that Zarqawi was a bad guy - what was it - 6 posts after pretending it didn’t really matter? Busted.

Andy,

Keep up the great links, excellent research, and incisive commentary. You are not talking to yourself - we hear you loud and clear.

By Lord Help Us

June 9, 2006 09:29 AM | Link to this

Chasing a ‘Bogeyman’: I shall interpret your 9:24 as evidence that you have been smoked out (get it?).

It’s The Competence, Stupid!!

By Truthman

June 9, 2006 09:32 AM | Link to this

Bottom line: If we hadn’t taken our eys off the prize (Afghanistan/bin Laden), we wouldn’t have needed to kill ANYBODY in Iraq!! March 13, 2002 George W. Bush, when asked about bin Laden, said, “I don’t know where he is and, frankly, I don’t think about him that much.” Defend that you grumpy, white warmongers on this site. Thank goodness black folk, who die at a greater rate than all other service members, aren’t taken in by all the stupid white Christo-facist zombie brigade members who post their Ann Coulter wannabe vitriol on this site. It’s the blacks and Hispanics who will help us take back American November 5. The neo-cons KNOW their days are numbered. November 5 will be their Waterloo. There’s nothing they can do because America is wise to their hateful, leave-no-millionaire-behind, theocratic BS. Deal with it neo-conmen!!

By Eric

June 9, 2006 09:35 AM | Link to this

Since Dubya created al-Zarqawi by making Iraq a terrorist state, it’s certainly his responsibility to fix the mess. Unfortunately, al-Zarqawi was destroyed in spite of that Dumb-ss, not because him.

By Just Ask Goldie

June 9, 2006 09:36 AM | Link to this

bobby, here is a shining example of a POS liberal

By Civil War, Sweet!

June 9, 2006 09:38 AM | Link to this

By finch June 9, 2006 09:22 AM have however, found a number of items in which you emphasized the threat of Al Qaeda to the Bush Administration prior to 9/11 that were incompetently ignored. Please help clear this up…

I have no idea where this^^ came from?

I do know what this is though:

And what, in heaven’s name, does this have to do with your claim that I was a Zarqawi cheerleader?? Which I never was? Your obsession with me is really starting to look like an illness. You have nothing better to do?

I never said you were a Zarqawi cheerleader. In fact I said the exact opposite, that you had to minimize Zarqawi because of your obsession and love for an Iraqi “civil war” (Sweet! remember?)

You thrashing around in desperation is the premium entertainment for the day. I love it when you look under a rock and some slimy reptile squirms in the sunlight. It reinforces the Conservative belief that Goodness will always triumph over evil.

By Civil War, Sweet!

June 9, 2006 09:40 AM | Link to this

Ooops, cut myself short on the seeker/ finch comment:

Sucks, don’t it?

By RW-(the original)

June 9, 2006 09:41 AM | Link to this

bobby,

Since you read the blog to analyze the perceived failings of conservatives and tout the superiority of liberals and their love of the Constitution, with special emphasis on freedom of speech, will you please enlighten us on just who has been demanding that Ann Coulter be silenced and that everyone else form a lynch mob to go after her?

By SarahConnah

June 9, 2006 09:46 AM | Link to this

Anyone else notice that President Bobblehead’s popularity numbers always rise in direct comparison to the amount of bloodletting? ie: Zarqawi, “Saydamn’s” boys (Itchy and Twitchy), various bumper sticker assaults in Iraq/Afganistan and of course his real bonanza, September 11, 2001. Talk about marketing oneself! Can’t hold a candle to the Bush Reich! I suggest the following bumper slogan for America post 2000 “Fool me once with a crook…twas all it took!” Curtsie!

By Goldie

June 9, 2006 09:47 AM | Link to this

Oh great, Bush’s cheerleaders are back — so very tiring.

OK. Rah-rah-rah and a p** cum bah! Oh boy, did that feel good! (And I suppose that’s supposed to make me feel patriotic somehow?)

Some of you are so simple-minded and easily swayed by fascist propaganda. Truly pathetic.

By Jimmah Cawter

June 9, 2006 09:54 AM | Link to this

Hey!

The Left will see defeat in Iraq, as it did in Vietnam, as welcomed confirmation of its own moral superiority. And in response perhaps we will soon get another Jimmy Carter, who each year assures us that not one American soldier has died under his watch as the entire nation is imperiled. Forget that despite such smugness an embassy was stormed; Khomeinism was birthed; Afghanistan was invaded; a holocaust continued full-bore in Cambodia; Central America was in the midst of a Communist insurrection; and we were reduced to boycotting the Olympics.

By Cindy

June 9, 2006 09:57 AM | Link to this

RW, Murtha was right. War is war and killing happens and it is especially nice when the U.S. military scores so big as with Zarqawi. HE was the enemy. However, purposely selecting to kill INNOCENT children should always be a crime. It is so tragically sad that we misuse our military by putting them in such a situation. Look at all the mental illness coming out of this war. Is it a wonder? And you neo-cons just cheer it on. Well, I am glad that my husband is retired and doesn’t have to suffer this republican hell because he deserves much better.

By finch

June 9, 2006 09:58 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

No moral equivalency. A flip remark about evil doesn’t mean I have a yardstick. They’re both really really evil.

I have always said here that Zarqawi was “Al Qaeda” in name only. He had his own agenda, even more grandiose than bin Laden’s. When Osama got tired of him blowing up Muslims in Iraq, and told him that, Zarqawi’s response was to blow up more Iraqi Muslims. He was truly a loose cannon.

I think it was Zarqawi’s love of charred, mangled death that finally did him in. The Iraqi Sunnis (Baathists) who might have once supported him realized he was a psycho and turned him in. Simple as that.

If you’re saying I think Zaraqawi was a rebel free-lancer who didn’t give a damn about Osama’s far more dangerous strategy, then you’re right.

In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if Osama personally decreed that Zawahiri’s whereabouts were no longer worth protecting. Knowing the US would find out, he lets us do his dirty work.

Do I still think Saddam’s Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11? Well, even your President admits that.

By Victor Davis Hanson

June 9, 2006 09:59 AM | Link to this

In truth, the good that the United States has achieved in successful wars usually has far overshadowed the horrific means used to achieve it. That is why formerly fascist German and Italian newspapers on the cheap can roast the United States today. And why upscale South Koreans are not, like their northern counterparts, eating grass; why there are not now Banzai marches in Tokyo; why there are Kosovars and Bosnians still left on the planet; why the odious Daniel Ortega is freely running for office; why Gen. Noriega is not clubbing his opponents on the streets of Panama City; and yes, why the Eastern Europeans wish to join the EU instead of being forced into the Warsaw Pact, and why the Russians use oil profits, not missiles, to get their way. In contrast, does anyone believe that Vietnam, or Haiti, or present-day Somalia is better off for our past failures?

But please spare us the scripted outrage that is simply cheap cover for wanting Iraq to end as Vietnam, as there appear ten stories on Haditha for every one about either an American victory over terrorists or help for Iraqi civilians. Any true moralist who cares for the Iraqi people should pray that this war doesn’t devolve into helicopters on the embassy roof—followed by the old predictable liberal silence when the real killing begins.

By Good Point

June 9, 2006 10:01 AM | Link to this

By SarahConnah June 9, 2006 09:46 AM Anyone else notice that President Bobblehead’s popularity numbers always rise in direct comparison to the amount of bloodletting? ie: Zarqawi, “Saydamn’s” boys (Itchy and Twitchy)

I agree, let’s make Bush’s poll numbers sky rocket by killing more of these savages, I’m all for it.

By Amelia

June 9, 2006 10:04 AM | Link to this

Those guys at the gate must be waiting for Ann Coulter.

By bobby

June 9, 2006 10:13 AM | Link to this

Clarification - I don’t tout the superiorities of liberals or their love of the US Constitution. Regarding clueless conservatives and their ignorance of the US Constitution and what is says and means, I just call it as I see it. Didn’t the GA State Legislature just pass these laws - allowing the Ten Commandments to be hung in public buildings; allowing the teaching about the bible in public schools? All blatantly unconstitutional, all proudly passed by our Republican legislature, who are proudly supported and elected by their proud Republican constituents, who proudly support the war in Iraq. Yes, conservatives are truly clueless when it comes to understanding and appreciating the US Constitution.

These are not perceptions, they are fact. Sorry. I know the truth hurts.

Regarding Ann Coulter, that’s the beauty of our Constitution, and more specifically, free speech. She has every right to write a book like this, and her critics have every right to criticize a book like this. Isn’t the US Constitution a great thing?

By Civil War, Sweet!

June 9, 2006 10:14 AM | Link to this

By finch June 9, 2006 09:58 AM In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if Osama personally decreed that Zawahiri’s whereabouts were no longer worth protecting. Knowing the US would find out, he lets us do his dirty work.

Quick, name the number 2 Al Qaeda guy in Iraq.

Zarqawi was the strategy. If this wormy little seeker is going to now start saying that a “civil war” is not the only way that Al Qaeda can win in Iraq, then it had better come up with an alternative plan other than “Bin Laden this, Bin Laden that.”

Bin Laden saw that a-ss get scattered across the palm grove just as sure as Bush did. And he’s thinking how much safer it will be for him in Somalia, for now anyway.

I’d like to see Bin Laden strolling through Baghdad.

Fat lady, you getting ready?

Sucks, don’t it?

By Al Zarqawi

June 9, 2006 10:19 AM | Link to this

I was wounded in Afghanistan and I ran to the safety of Iraq. Thank you Mr. Bush for opening the borders of Iraq so I could find safety and start a campaign of death!

By getalife

June 9, 2006 10:20 AM | Link to this

It was a very sick exhibition of the GOP standing up and cheering for the indicted DeLay leaving office yesterday. Like the thing they call ann, these people have no shame or morals and are truly going to hell.

Nice toon Mike! When that thing they call ann goes to hell the schedule will read: 9/11 victims revenge with Ann all the time.

By Lord Help Us

June 9, 2006 10:21 AM | Link to this

Thanks for the posts, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

Everybody close your eyes for a moment and imagine the world today if, during the 80’s, these two Presidents had NOT supported, armed and trained Saddam Hussein and had NOT supported, armed and trained the Islamic radicals in Afghanistan that morphed into the Taliban…

Don’t go crazy, just think about it…

It’s The Competence, Supitd!!

By Pathetic Little Hypocrites

June 9, 2006 10:25 AM | Link to this

This Zarqawi killed nearly as many innocent women and children as Bill Clinton did at Waco and these liberals are sad, even outraged, to see him go.

Sickos.

By finch

June 9, 2006 10:29 AM | Link to this

You’re just talking yourself into a corner, dittohead. I’ve always said that Zarqawi was a renegade who severed his ties with Al Qaeda. And I haven’t changed my mind.

I’ll eat crow if the volumes of Zarqawi documents, CDs, etc. supposedly seized from the safehouse where he died prove that he and Osama worked closely on a long term strategy for Iraq and the Persian Gulf.

I’m not holding my breath.

Until then, you’re just “bashing” me with opinions that I’ve never denied. And wasting lots of your time doing it.

Grow up.

By Go Get Them!

June 9, 2006 10:33 AM | Link to this

Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the notorious headsman of Fallujah—and the man Osama bin Laden once referred to as “the prince of al Qaeda in Iraq”—was killed Wednesday.

Though I’ve spoken briefly with some of those directly involved in the raids, most are far too busy to comment. One senior infantry commander, in fact, told me early Thursday, “Can’t talk. As you can imagine, we are taking advantage of developments.”

That said, experts from Baghdad to Washington to Quantico, Virginia (where U.S. Marine officers train) to Coronado, California (home of the U.S. Navy SEALs) tell National Review Online that the immediate tactical and the long-term strategic implications are enormous, and newly developed intelligence is being aggressively acted on.

Bin Laden coming up next?

Lt. General John Bruce Blount (U.S. Army, ret.) is former chief of staff of Allied Forces Southern Europe. Speaking from his home in Columbia, S.C. he says:

Al Qaeda in Iraq is not built like the U.S. Army or the Marine Corps: It is an ad hoc organization. They are going to have some real trouble getting reorganized. Zarqawi was probably the only guy who could coordinate with Osama bin Laden.

By truthman

June 9, 2006 10:40 AM | Link to this

WE NEVER SHOULD’VE BEEN IN IRAQ WE NEVER SHOULD’VE BEEN IN IRAQ WE NEVER SHOULD’VE BEEN IN IRAQ WE NEVER SHOULD’VE BEEN IN IRAQ

That is the truth, you grumpy, white wife-won’t-give-you-a-Clinton-BJ asswipes!!

By Yeah, He Was Just A Myth, Sure Thing

June 9, 2006 10:41 AM | Link to this

Zarqawi was a very important man in the terror network. I first noticed him some years ago, reading the German and Italian press. Several terrorist cells in those countries had been rounded up, and court documents showed that in both countries the network had been created from Tehran, by Zarqawi. Thus, years before we went into Iraq, Zarqawi was already a major player in international terrorism, and in recognition of his skills he was sent into Iraq as one of the organizers of the terror war against us and the Iraqi people.

Despite his intonations against the Shiites, and his manifest efforts to promote civil war in Iraq, Zarqawi was happy to work with the radical Shiite regime in Tehran, and they were happy to work with him. It is quite wrong to view him as a leader of one faction in a religious war; his promotion of religious conflict was simply a tactic designed to destabilize Iraq and drive out the Coalition.

If Bin Laden “gave” us this huge physical and psychological victory, I would like to thank his dumb a-ss.

By Go Get Them!

June 9, 2006 10:45 AM | Link to this

By finch June 9, 2006 10:29 AM I’ll eat crow if the volumes of Zarqawi documents, CDs, etc. supposedly seized from the safehouse where he died prove that he and Osama worked closely on a long term strategy for Iraq and the Persian Gulf.

I got your lame a-ss figured slam out, it was easy, all I had to do was think slimy anti American thoughts and your mindset became perfectly clear:

By Go Get Them! June 9, 2006 10:33 AM Al Qaeda in Iraq is not built like the U.S. Army or the Marine Corps: It is an ad hoc organization. They are going to have some real trouble getting reorganized. Zarqawi was probably the only guy who could coordinate with Osama bin Laden.

Answered that question, didn’t I?

Sucks, don’t it?

By Dusty

June 9, 2006 10:47 AM | Link to this

Goldie, Sarah, Cindy etc.

It will take a lot more than rah-rah-rah and cum ba yah to make you patriotic. In fact, I think it is impossible for you to develop any type of loyalty to this country. There are no signs of it.

Calling your country a Third Reich and our troops killers of innocent children is not only a big fat lie but terrorist propaganda. Then throw in that”the president’s popularity is only measured by bloodletting”.

Such comments can only come from minds twisted by hate.

We celebrate progress in the war in Iraq so those citizens will be free and our troops can come home. You three don’t need to put your personal poison on our patriotic purposes.

By finch

June 9, 2006 10:48 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Are you losing your touch? (I’m writing this with a smile, okay?). There’s a story out that’s right up your alley, and if you’d found it, you’d be beating me over the head with it.

Here’s a clue. Book.

By Buy Danish

June 9, 2006 11:11 AM | Link to this

Some of you are so simple-minded and easily swayed by fascist propaganda. Truly pathetic.

Goldie,

You mean like this?:

By SarahConnah/June 9, 2006 09:46 AM

Anyone else notice that President Bobblehead’s popularity numbers always rise in direct comparison to the amount of bloodletting? ie: Zarqawi, “Saydamn’s” boys (Itchy and Twitchy), various bumper sticker assaults in Iraq/Afganistan and of course his real bonanza, September 11, 2001. Talk about marketing oneself! Can’t hold a candle to the Bush Reich! I suggest the following bumper slogan for America post 2000 “Fool me once with a crook…twas all it took!” Curtsie!

By Buy Danish

June 9, 2006 11:13 AM | Link to this

Finch,

Just got in and have to catch up on the latest posts.

Thanks for the tip. I’ll go on a clue hunt and will get back to you. Do you want a $25 million dollar reward?

By Buy Danish

June 9, 2006 11:18 AM | Link to this

By bobby/June 9, 2006 09:01 AM

The fact that liberal talk radio doesn’t have a huge following shouldn’t surprise anybody, and here’s the reason. Conservatives just aren’t critical thinkers…

Wow Bobby! That like made so much sense! Thanks for the deep critical thinking commentary dude. I just wonder if there is anyone on the planet who is smart enough to figure it out.

Finch,

I’ll be with you shortly.

By just wondering

June 9, 2006 11:28 AM | Link to this

why no one seems to care when a right wing propogandist nutcase like ann coulter makes loony comments like she has (though I am sure some of you will defend them)?

ps. you guys are a bunch of friggin nutcases on here. i am glad my friends and i are civil when we talk politics.

and “i report, you whine”, why don’t you start your own blog? or better yet, get off your ars in front of your computer and go enjoy the world some. get a job, get a girlfriend, get a dog, stop the hate that seems to pour out of you everyday in the form of right wing propoganda.

you all (right and left) make me feel sad for the future of this country.

By getalife

June 9, 2006 11:29 AM | Link to this

Zak was alive when the police arrived and they say he rolled over and may have tried to escape. So I wonder who killed him.

I think if it was an Iraqi policeman, the US owes him $25 million.

By Hello

June 9, 2006 11:30 AM | Link to this

I’m so excited and I just can’t hide it I’m about to lose control and I think I like it I’m so excited and I just can’t hide it I know I know I know I know I know I want you, I want you

By RW-(the original)

June 9, 2006 11:33 AM | Link to this

bobby,

I agree completely with your description of free speech going both ways. That’s why I don’t understand the liberals on here demanding that she be silenced and that everyone else must demand that as well.

I much prefer letting people say whatever they want and criticizing it accordingly.

Cindy,

Mothra has convicted our soldiers without a trial or for that matter any formal charges being brought. Even if he turns out to be accurate he wasn’t right in doing that. In the spirit of yesterday’s blog I will ignore you calling me names.

By SarahConnah

June 9, 2006 11:35 AM | Link to this

In 2002-03, the Bush Reich knew the where-a-bouts of Zaqarwi on a 24-7 basis. Many times the military wanted to ‘take him out’. He was safely tucked away in the Iraqi ‘no fly zone’ so even “Saydamn”, who wanted him removed, couldn’t bomb his butt. Pres Bobblehead and his carbal (insert security councel ie:C. Rice et al) rejected any attempts to ‘terminate’ Ol’ Zak because the Reich needed him alive and ticking to further their case about Al Qiada and non associate “Saydamn”. The Bush crime family ‘lost’ track of Zak after the invasion. Wonder how many deaths attributed to Ol’Z many have been averted if the recommended action had taken place in ‘02? Now I know all you Kool-Aid drinking repulsivicans discount anything that isn’t fed to you by Faux News or Bush Limbaugh, but just for the record the above information was reported in ‘04 by NBC Defense Department reporter Jim Miklaszewski. Go ahead and guffaw it. It is after all ‘The blind leading the blind’ in your perverted, sick Bush World. Curtie!

By getalife

June 9, 2006 11:35 AM | Link to this

just wondering,

You forgot to say get a life.

There have been many comments on the thing they call ann’s comments.

I have a question, is ann a woman or a man?

By Let Me Guess

June 9, 2006 11:38 AM | Link to this

By just wondering June 9, 2006 11:28 AM ps. you guys are a bunch of friggin nutcases on here. i am glad my friends and i are civil when we talk politics.

just wondering: Bush Sucks.

just wondering’s “friend”: Yes he does. We watching fahrenheit 911 again tonite?

By Must You Lie?

June 9, 2006 11:43 AM | Link to this

By getalife June 9, 2006 11:29 AM Zak was alive when the police arrived and they say he rolled over and may have tried to escape. So I wonder who killed him.

The Real Deal:

“We did in fact see him alive,” Caldwell said. “There was some sort of movement he had on the stretcher and he did die a short time later. There was confirmation from the Iraqi police that he was found alive.”

He said that when the terrorist “attempted to sort of turn away off the stretcher, everybody resecured him back onto the stretcher. … He died almost immediately thereafter from the wounds he’d received from this airstrike.”

By Ralph

June 9, 2006 11:44 AM | Link to this

Ann= She Beast

neither man or woman. just a beast with some, just some female anatomy.

By Must You Lie?

June 9, 2006 11:46 AM | Link to this

The group MoveOn.org is spending $300,000 on ads targeting Pryce and other lawmakers. The ads say they accepted thousands of dollars in donations from defense contractors and then “opposed penalties for contractors like Halliburton who overcharged the military in Iraq.”

Tom Griesdorn, president and general manager of WBNS-TV, said the station didn’t air the ad because its attorneys “did not feel comfortable with the documentation provided by Moveon.org,” he said.

Another fake document, my goodness, do you libs ever learn?

By Buy Danish

June 9, 2006 11:52 AM | Link to this

Finch,

I’m not losing my touch, I just haven’t had time to read the news today!

Bingo!

Congress to hold hearings into OKC bombing Examining foreign connection to plot, including Arab terrorists

By Joan

June 9, 2006 11:59 AM | Link to this

I have no love for Al Queda, but all of the gleeful dancing around the death of this fanatic makes me wonder if we aren’t all becoming beastly, like the wild boys in Lord of the Flies. Maybe, for our next out of control person, we should look in the mirror.

By Buy Danish

June 9, 2006 12:00 PM | Link to this

Sarah DisCONNected,

Why don’t you stop shouting and provide us a link?

By Liberals Live In A Lie

June 9, 2006 12:06 PM | Link to this

By Joan June 9, 2006 11:59 AM but all of the gleeful dancing around the death of this fanatic makes me wonder if we aren’t all becoming beastly, like the wild boys in Lord of the Flies.

Lord of the Flies was a story, was it not? We’re comparing America to a book?

I guess we are already living the liberal looney tunes.

By Midori

June 9, 2006 12:15 PM | Link to this

would someone please, PLEASE get Andy a job.

Or a purpose.

or a life.

PLEASE?

By finch

June 9, 2006 12:18 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Close enough.

House Panel to Probe Oklahoma City Bombing

I’m looking forward to this. Not because I want to be proven right. Because I want to know the truth.

By Buy Danish

June 9, 2006 12:19 PM | Link to this

False Joan,

Are you posing as Jean D’Arc “the Maid of Orleans*?

Puhlease, try the no Saint Saint stuff on Mother Sheehan. Oh, and let us know when you’ve finished cross-dressing and get on your steed, I’ll be happy to get some news media out for you to catch the action.

As Andy says, “Cut”.

This is an interesting story from yesterday:

Special ops A-Team helped nail Zarqawi

When Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida leader in Iraq, was killed today by 500-pound bombs dropped by two F-16 fighter jets on a house north of Baghdad, it was the result of intelligence information gathered, in part, by an elite task force of international special operations forces formed just a month ago with the express purpose of taking him out….

This is cool!:

To avoid detection, the team dressed in clothes bought from second-hand stalls in Baghdad’s back-street markets. They regularly sprayed themselves with a pungent, sweat-smelling odor known as “souk scent.” Each man wore contact lenses that turned their eye color brown or black. The goal was to permit them to look like any other Iraqi peasant as they hunted the most bloodthirsty killer in Iraq.

But this is going to get the Libs (and their newest convert False Joan) in a frenzy:

“The Untouchables” were assured in advance they need fear no investigation into their methods to bring Zarqawi to summary justice.

As will this:

While officially Israel denies any presence in Iraq, four Mossad assassins were assigned to serve with the unit.“>http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50559)

By Buy Danish

June 9, 2006 12:28 PM | Link to this

Woops, I don’t know what happened to that link.

Here

By Buy Danish

June 9, 2006 12:31 PM | Link to this

finch,

What do you mean, “close enough”? Sheesh.

But since my story isn’t EXACTLY your story, then I guess you don’t get to collect the $25 mil reward.

BTW, I want the truth too. Keep Jamie Gorelick away and we might get it.

By Buy Danish

June 9, 2006 12:31 PM | Link to this

RW,

I’m so sorry about the herpes, but the scab broke when you got so rushed. Oh, and next time, please let your dog join us

BD :)

By Goldie

June 9, 2006 12:35 PM | Link to this

Ralph— you’re absolutely right. Ann “Adam’s-apple” Coulter is a beast and the right-wingers here just love what she has to say, no matter how despicable. Shows you just how deep in the muck they exist. Their cues are from way back with the Reagan/Lee Atwater/Newt Gingrich rules of character assassination, and they just parrot whatever hatred is being spewed by their “leaders” on any given day.

By Casual Observer

June 9, 2006 12:39 PM | Link to this

Just a remark but I believe when the liberals go to jacking Buy Danish’s name, it is a sure sign that she is tearing that a-ss up.

Good job, Danish!

You win!

By Classic Posts For You!

June 9, 2006 12:46 PM | Link to this

By finch May 3, 2006 09:46 AM Seeker stomping all over Hater. I mean Andy. What a fine read! You go girl!

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 9, 2006 12:51 PM | Link to this

Well, well, well. Speaking of “Busted!”, I know where finch and everyone else is getting their “info” from. Why it would be from David Corn and The Nation, the world’s greatest commie, err, Progressive magazine.

That is why finch slipped and said, “Al Zawahiri” instead of “Al Zarqawi” earlier today.

Read this and weep.

P.S. Rush Limbaugh is busting your butts, and has just pointed out that the NY Times allowed a story to slip through that BUSTS your “Zarqawi is Bush’s Frankenstein” theory.

Air America is dying. Can’t even rely on the Times. What will you all do? I think I’ll buy some Zoloft stock today.

By Dusty

June 9, 2006 12:54 PM | Link to this

Is it possible that Ann Coulter says the truth?

Why else would so many people read her books and columns? Liberals seemed consumed by everything she says or prints. Conservatives don’t quote her so much as understand her.

The big deal about a FEW 9/11 widows. The country bent over backwards in sympathy for their terrible loss. So now these few widows are out heckling politicians and making accusations? It is not likable or sensible and Coulter makes that point without any bones about it.

The same with Sheehan. The loss of a son is soul shaking but Sheehan turned against the country her son fought for. That is neither sensible or likeable and Coulter said so in her own direct way.

The truth is still the truth even when it is presented in a caustic manner. If you don’t like her words, then don’t read them.

And skip stupid questions like whether she is a man or a woman. Look in the mirror and say “Am I a man or a mouse?” Only a mouse would look at a picture of Coulter and not recognize her gender.

By R dubya

June 9, 2006 12:57 PM | Link to this

Yes, CO, her strap-on is brutal. She’s the best!

By Cindy

June 9, 2006 01:05 PM | Link to this

Dusty, Get a life; try the Army. I supported my husband through his 20 plus years; I know I am patriotic. You are thowing that word around and you don’t have a clue what you are talking about? The freedoms of the constitution are what Defense is about, not a President’s wild whim. The fact that I have feelings for our military as human beings, not as a war machine does NOT make me unpatriotic. And the rest of you cons (neo) are showing your STUPIDity by saying liberals support Zarqawi; what a bunch of lies, but that is typical given their incompetent leader. By the way; it was the military that got Zarqawi, not Bush. And RW, I am mad right now that people can be so blind and uncaring, but I apoligize to you for any name calling; I didn’t realize I called you a name.

By RW-(the original)

June 9, 2006 01:25 PM | Link to this

Cindy,

At 9:57 you addressed a comment to me with a list of complaints and said “And you neo-cons just cheer it on”, maybe you weren’t talking to me anymore in which case I withdraw my complaint and if you were I accept your apology.

You do realize that you and I are destroying the reputation of this blog, don’t you?

By Dusty

June 9, 2006 01:57 PM | Link to this

Poor Cindy,

Always assuming the wrong thing. My husband and son have served a total of 21 years in the military.

But I was patriotic before then. Seems like always. My father served overseas in the military during wartime, binding up their wounds you might say, as he was a doctor.

So cut out your baloney, Cindy. The president is Commander-in-chief of the military. Guess you didn’t notice.

By Truthman

June 9, 2006 02:02 PM | Link to this

Do you mean “fake document” as in the Swift Boat ads that savaged an American War hero, John Kerry, while W hid away during the war. Neo-cons, Al Franken has $10k waiting for someone to come forward with information that served with them in Alabama during 1972-73. Since y’all hate Franken so much, why hasn’t one stupid, white neo-con come forward to support W? The reason: Because W was AWOL!

November 5, neo-cons, November 5!!

By getalife

June 9, 2006 02:03 PM | Link to this

Most people would rather listen to people who have suffered loss and made a difference by the tragic events of 9/11 and Iraq, than hate speech by things who profit from spewing their hatred.

Of course, wingnuts do not understand this logic because they dared to criticize the worst President this country has ever seen. Ann truly represents conservatism and is a wake up call to expose their mind set.

By Truthman

June 9, 2006 02:07 PM | Link to this

Hey, all of you.

I’ve worked for the Army for 22 years (I still do). The Iraq invasion was a huge mistake that is being paid for in young men and women’s blood (obviously not by anyone on this blog). I’m tired of my friends and co-workers dying for lyings SOB like Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bush/Rice - none of whom EVER served!!!

By hewhoasks

June 9, 2006 02:14 PM | Link to this

Good cartoon, Mike.

Those poor demons of Hell. No time to listen to Rush today.

By Thomas

June 9, 2006 02:15 PM | Link to this

Ann Coulter is the cheerleader of political party gone war crazy. Kill Kill Kill Kill, take over the world, if its not a christain country then invade it, and call anyone a traitor that disagrees with this (un)Holy crusade.

She profits off this controversy and the neo-sheep eat it up.

Shehan lost a son serving in the military - now she is branded a traitor because she ask “why?”..

The Jersey Girls lost family in the attack on the WTC by Osama Bin Laden, and they want answers as to what really happened, Yet their losses are compunded by Ann and the political neocons as being self serving because they dare question the vague rhetoric.

Many others who are War heroes, good Honest people, and caring people are being called Traitors, Communist, and much worse, just because they want answers to the questions from an administration that wants to hide it’s faults using every tool they can, including the all famous tool of dictators - “National Security”

Those of you that praise (and follow) the cheerleader of the Crusade for an eternal war without question are the people that really do scare me. This is far beyond what Nazi’ism, or even George Orwell ever dreamed up. This is the most horrible world I could ever think of living in where we finally become a Warmongering Police State that has no mercy, sympathy, or morals for that matter. A world of laws to make Citizens one and all political prisoners and slaves.

It was a wise man that once said “Question Authority” because if you don’t then the authority will dictate your every move, thought, and prayer for the rest of your lives.

Please Think for yourselves! That is the greatest power you have!

By bobby

June 9, 2006 02:15 PM | Link to this

The thing about conservatives is that you can try to tell them something over and over and over but it just never sinks in. Conservatives NEED the Limbaughs and Hannitys to tell them what to think and how to think. That is why these shows are so popular. Most of the conservatives I know are not capable of good clean political debate because they do not understand the issues past what is fed to them by their talk show Gods. They do not understand the US Constitution. Heck, they don’t even understand the bible, which they so readily throw in your face. They hear one sound bite from Limbaugh and repeat it ad infinitum - “There is no evidence of global warming whatsover.”

I mean, scroll to the top of this blog. Most comments from conservatives fall into one category - personal attacks.

Here in Georgia they elect and support lawmakers who pass legislation which flies in the face of the US Constitution. That speaks volumes for how and why conservatives think the way they do. They wrap themselves in their patriotism for so many of us to see, arrogantly proclaiming their appreciation and love for our soldiers in Iraq, while not giving a rat’s behind about how the US Constitution is being raped by their own party.

Please, leave the thinking and opining to those who have something to say that makes sense.

By finch

June 9, 2006 02:22 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish the Very First.

Read this and weep.

I read it and laughed. For starters, I’ve never said President Bush “made” Zarqawi. He was an egomaniac who made himself into a very dangerous terrorist.

Some other stuff there is pretty funny, too! I hadn’t read it before and it sure isn’t what I think.

By Cindy

June 9, 2006 02:23 PM | Link to this

Dusty, My step father was in WWII. He was in field artillery and liberated 2 of Hitler’s camps. And he’s a great Democrat, so just show your stupidity by calling us all unpatriotic, typical threatening ploy of the Bush groupies. And Defense is about the Constitution, not a President’s wild whim, even if he is the CiC; otherwise we would be a military dictatorship.

IF what you say is true; you are a SHAME to the military family with your ignorant accusations of “unpatriotism” toward fellow members.

Thank you Truthman, but these people wear blinders when it comes to politics and can’t see reality. Now, Dusty will be calling you unpatriotic for your comments.

By What's "White" Got To Do With It?

June 9, 2006 02:23 PM | Link to this

By Truthman June 9, 2006 02:02 PM Do you mean “fake document” as in the Swift Boat ads that savaged an American War hero, John Kerry

Where’s Kerry’s service records?

while W hid away during the war. Neo-cons, Al Franken has $10k waiting for someone to come forward with information that served with them in Alabama during 1972-73. Since y’all hate Franken so much, why hasn’t one stupid, white neo-con come forward to support W? The reason: Because W was AWOL!

This information based on a fake document. This is the first time that I heard of Franken’s offer, you reckon he might want to spread the word?

Clinton went to Russia to escape Vietnam, think about that for a second, crackpot.

By Huge

June 9, 2006 02:30 PM | Link to this

First and foremost, I owe an apology to BD and Dusty for the comments I made yesterday evening in regards to 9/11. In the cold morning light, I reread them and they are clearly out of line. Many here take pride in their juvenile name-calling and assinine insuations, but I’ve tried to refrain. I failed this time and am truly sorry. Understandably, BD had some harsh words in reply, but given the circumstances, really showed some restraint. I both noted and appreciated that.

Now, on to something else.

This from RW - Frankly I find your demands for speech control much more offensive than Ann’s commentary. What she is saying may turn a few stomachs, but what you want to do destroys the entire foundation of our country. Why do you hate the U.S. Constitution?

I’ve reread every single reference to Ann Coulter in the past two days and there is not one single, solitary reference to any speech control or censorship, by me, or anyone else. Not one. This is just typical red herring nonsense and spin. It happens nearly daily here.

I stand by my assertions, that people of character will stand up and repudiate, in this instance, that one sentence she uttered about those “women enjoying their husbands deaths.” Notwithstanding the merits of her argument, is it really so hard for you to admit that this is a dispicable thing to say and worthy of contempt?

OF COURSE liberals, just like neo-cons spout similar grabage a great deal of the time; as evidenced by this blog. They too could be called for it, but apparently I am one of a few, who believe this is a worthy effort. Sometimes it seems to me that most have given up the fight to call for civility and reason?

Let me repeat - I abhor censorship (I remember that ignorant campaign by Tipper Gore and others). I also abhor people passively accepting hate mongering in the guise of intelligent debate. So by all means, say all of the disgusting twisted little things you can think of about your “foes”; just know that I will never endorse or quietly accept it. A fools game? Probably…

And RW, as for my hatred of the US Constitution; early in my life I raised my right hand and repeated the following sacred oath: I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign AND domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. It lives in me as much now, as it did then. I presume that you have never spoken such an oath, nor can appreciate what it means to wear the uniform of the US military and the sacrifices involved. But, unlike certain knuckleheads here, I will not challenge your or anyone elses patriotism. You see, I believe that the love of this nation is a common thread amongst us and this stupid arguement over whose form of patriotism is the TRUE one is just plain juvenile. It reeks of the religous bigotry that sometimes appears here. Yes, it sells well, especially on the far right, but it really is a snmall minded non-arguement, IMO. The question is how do we, as fellow Americans, make this “grand experiment” as good as the promises it inherently holds?

By Do Liberals Think Before They Speak?

June 9, 2006 02:31 PM | Link to this

By Thomas June 9, 2006 02:15 PM It was a wise man that once said “Question Authority” because if you don’t then the authority will dictate your every move, thought, and prayer for the rest of your lives.

The same people that want the government to control health care, regulate energy and the environment, pay their way through life, provide them with a fat pension that they don’t have to contribute to.

I can’t believe people can be this silly and still take themselves seriously.

Is this a joke?

By Dusty

June 9, 2006 02:39 PM | Link to this

Truthman,

Why do you tell so many lies?

George W. Bush received an honorable discharge after his service in the military. Rumsfeld is a graduate of Annapolis and was a Navy flier in the Viet Nam era.

Chaney and Rice are now serving in the government of the United States as Vice President and Secretary of State. It is not the military but it is serving.

Why don’t you get your facts straight before you spout off?

By Cindy

June 9, 2006 02:41 PM | Link to this

Do your research. Clinton was in the same draft as my “then” boyfriend. He drew a higher number and was never called up. This happened after his request was granted.

And have you noticed how quick the conservatives are to attack ANY Democrat who has actually been on the ground in a war? Any respectable human being should be ashamed at what was said of Kerry. Anybody who believes supporting the military is patriotic should have stood up for Kerry when he was being so badly slandered.

Thank you Honorable Kerry for putting your life on the line for this country.

Thank you Truthman for putting your life on the line for this country.

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 9, 2006 02:43 PM | Link to this

finch,

I didn’t mean to imply that you were one of the Dr. Frankenstein crew. I was referring to deranged posters like this:

By One of the Majority’s Voices of Dissent/June 8, 2006 02:13 PM

It’s good that we finally got Zarqawi. It’s worse that we created him in the first place.

He(?)is not alone with this view. I just don’t have the energy to go back and find all the idiots who spew this.

By Getalifefreak

June 9, 2006 02:48 PM | Link to this

They still have a number 1 Alubum. Can you say that? When has expressing free speach and personal views become a crime. Communist Russia..here we come. The Gov’t can tell us what to thing, say and do. I kinda like it how it is now.. even allowing you to have your stupid, redneck-ignorant opinion. http://music.monstersandcritics.com/news/article1171389.php/DixieChicksseeslumpingticketsalesdespite%231_album

By Dusty

June 9, 2006 02:51 PM | Link to this

Cindy,

Your patriotism is so difficult to recognize I must have missed it. Calling our country bloodthirsty, stupid, war mongers, child killers and the like just doesn’t go over well with me. You didn’t say ALL of that but the crowd you run with says things even worse.

As to military records, I only mentioned my family’s because your every post mentions military records. My family and I support this country proudly and there is no doubt about it. We love it and act like it.

By I Shouldn't Butt In, But..

June 9, 2006 02:51 PM | Link to this

Doesn’t huge’s post read like a campaign speech? What office is this pompous gasbag running for?

By getalife

June 9, 2006 02:58 PM | Link to this

I saw Ann on Lou Dobbs and her eyes reminded me of Charles Manson on one of his rants.

By Conservatives Swallow

June 9, 2006 03:01 PM | Link to this

Let the “backwash” of Bush support on the blog have their little space. It’s the only way they can cope with life, and it’s perfect that they are on the AJC site, since they see things like a newspaper, only in black and white.

By Huge

June 9, 2006 03:01 PM | Link to this

Andy, Your post of 2:51 merely confirms that you are the head sleazebag here. BFD…

By One of the Majority's Voices of Dissent

June 9, 2006 03:02 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Libs don’t say our country is bloodthirsty, war mongering, stupid, etc.; we say you conservatives are those things, which of course you are.

Just like with Buy Danish, if you have relatives who have served this country, it makes it that much more pathetic that you hold the beliefs that you do, beliefs that do nothing but damage the country, its people, and mankind in general when they are put into practice. Speaking of Buy Disgraceful, where is Granny Weatherall today?

By RW-(the original)

June 9, 2006 03:05 PM | Link to this

Huge,

I bet when you took that oath they didn’t tell you that you were fighting for the right to force everyone to agree with you or to STFU.

This phony indignation over Ann Coulter’s point of view is too orchestrated by left wingers and the MSM to believe it is genuine.

When you began, or at least when you changed your name to Huge, you said you had read extensively and knew all about each of us. If that were true you would know all about my military record or lack thereof. It’s written here in several places and, unlike you liberals, my story doesn’t change.

By Tim

June 9, 2006 03:09 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Chaney had 4 deferments from the draft. Bush used his father’s influence to get into the “Champagne Unit” in the Air National Guard and then was AWOL in WARTIME, which is defined as desertion. He then got an early out to go to business school after his application was turned down by the University of Texas Law School. Rumsafeld was a pilot in PEACETIME 1954-1957. THEM’S THE FACTS,DITTOHEAD.

By One of the Majority's Voices of Dissent

June 9, 2006 03:14 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Your quote: “George W. Bush received an honorable discharge after his service in the military.” You think maybe that had something to do with daddy’s influence? The same way daddy’s college has made Buy Disgraceful so pompous? An honorable discharge in his case doesn’t mean he actually did anything honorable. To the contrary, he was a deserter.

Tom Delay, the poster boy for Republican corruption, got a standing ovation on his way out the door. Bush gave away handfuls of “Freedom Medals” to people who screwed up so badly they should be put on trial for treason. Former FEMA director Mike Brown got a “Good job, Brownie!”

So don’t give me this crap about, “He got an honorable discharge.” You’re the kind of person who thinks Richard Nixon was a great man simply because he was elected to be president, Robert E. Lee was fighting for a noble cause, and Iraq was responsible for 9-11. Turnip.

By I Shouldn't Butt In, But..

June 9, 2006 03:16 PM | Link to this

Huge: You wouldn’t believe how easy that was, you come in here pontificating about your discussion group superiority, how you would never, never resort to name calling, heck, all it took was one post to get you to call me a sleazebag.

Hahahahahaha. These libs are too much.

By Goldie

June 9, 2006 03:25 PM | Link to this

My family and I support this country proudly and there is no doubt about it. We love it and act like it.

And Dusty, the same can be said for your liberal friends, too, here on the blog. You don’t have sole ownership of patriotism just because you believe that your view is the only correct one. You are so wrong to think that your “party” and ideology are the only ones who matter.

We are all Americans here and we love our country, too. We love it so much that we work to make changes for the better.

By finch

June 9, 2006 03:27 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

I appreciate the clarification. I don’t think Bush had anything at all to do with “making” Zarqawi. In the worst of ways, he was a self-made man.

By Cindy

June 9, 2006 03:28 PM | Link to this

Dusty said: “My family and I support this country proudly and there is no doubt about it. We love it and act like it.”

Could have fooled me the way you trash patriotic American citizens like me and my family.

Yes, the conservatives think they have the military and patriotism market cornered. My military history postings are just to point out another of their hallucinations.

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 9, 2006 03:32 PM | Link to this

where is Granny Weatherall today?

Cindy,

Funny you should ask, because I just posted this response to Dr. Frankenstein

Listen, I’ll make this really easy for you. Please tell us what your vision for America is, and your plan to accomplish it. Okey dokey?

Dusty,

Cheney was also Secretary of Defense, which of course is a big No No if you’re a lib.

By Goldie

June 9, 2006 03:32 PM | Link to this

all it took was one post to get you to call me a sleazebag.

Well, the shoe sure fits, yes? And you’re obviously so proud of your sleazebag moniker that you took the time to post it again for all to see. Be proud, sleazebag!

By Goldie

June 9, 2006 03:36 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

One of my favorite Bob Dylan songs is “With God On Our Side.” You should listen to the words sometime and see if anything at all reaches you. You’re delusional today.

By Huge

June 9, 2006 03:40 PM | Link to this

I bet when you took that oath they didn’t tell you that you were fighting for the right to force everyone to agree with you or to STFU.

You still don’t get it do you? And exactly, how am I tring to force everyone? Really that’s such a silly thing to say, wouldn’t you admit?

This phony indignation over Ann Coulter’s point of view is too orchestrated by left wingers and the MSM to believe it is genuine.

Oh really? Like that lib O’Reilly and “many other conservatives”? His words, not mine. That’s fine, but I really doubt your expertise on determining the difference between me being phony and genuine.

…you said you had read extensively and knew all about each of us…

Really, just too goofy and paranoid to comment on.

If that were true you would know all about my military record or lack thereof.

Sorry, I don’t know ALL about you and your service. I guessed I missed ALL of that! Let me guess - you were there when Kerry lied about pulling people out of the Mekong? Just kidding, don’t have a cow man!

Seriously, as former brothers in arms, I kind of like you though we’re eons apart on some of these matters. That’s OK…

By getalife

June 9, 2006 03:56 PM | Link to this

This just in:

Mr. Murtha to be majority leader.

By Goldie

June 9, 2006 03:59 PM | Link to this

We have right-wingnuts that come here to the blog and want to defend Ann “Adams-apple” Coulter’s vomit… it’s the same thing as defending those so-called Christians in Kansas who go to military funerals and wave their signs saying “God is glad you’re dead!”

Both instances are despicable and indefensible. And yet some of you continue to defend these atrocities. Poor pathetic souls you are.

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 9, 2006 04:07 PM | Link to this

Attention Rabid Coulterphobes,

Here is a WSJ column by the great Dorothy Rabinowitz. Why not hate her too?

But the best known and most quoted pronouncement of all had come in the form of a question put by the leader of the Jersey Girls. “We simply wanted to know,” Ms. Breitweiser said, by way of explaining the group’s position, “why our husbands were killed. Why they went to work one day and didn’t come back.”

The answer, seared into the nation’s heart, is that, like some 3,000 others who perished that day, those husbands didn’t come home because a cadre of Islamist fanatics wanted to kill as many of the hated American infidels in their tall towers and places of government as they could, and they did so. Clearly, this must be a truth also known to those widows who asked the question—though in no way one would notice.

Who, listening to them, would not be struck by the fact that all their fury and accusation is aimed not at the killers who snuffed out their husbands’ and so many other lives, but at the American president, his administration, and an ever wider assortment of targets including the Air Force, the Port Authority, the City of New York? In the public pronouncements of the Jersey Girls we find, indeed, hardly a jot of accusatory rage at the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks. We have, on the other hand, more than a few declarations like that of Ms. Breitweiser, announcing that “President Bush and his workers … were the individuals that failed my husband and the 3,000 people that day.”

I’ll see if I can find a few more people for you to hate, so you can enjoy your weekend…

By Dusty

June 9, 2006 04:07 PM | Link to this

Poor little hornets,

Because I said my family loves this country and acts like it, the hornets are all abuzz.

If you persist in callng this country and its military such names as Third Reich, child murderers, blood yearning, etc., I shall have trouble recognizing your patriotism. That is not my way of making our country a better place.

You cannot change military records to suit your fancy. An honorable discharge is still an honorable discharge whether you like it or not. And if you are in the military, you serve whether it is war time or not.

If you want to bring up this discharge subject, tell us about Kerry’s discharge. Has anybody seen it? Why doesn’t he release it?

When I want to hear about God, I don’t listen to Bob Dylan. I prefer the lessons and sermons I hear at church. Why don’t you try it?

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 9, 2006 04:17 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

Please stop making stuff up. Not ONE person on this blog has defended these wackjobs. These people are not representative of Christians, anymore than John Wayne Gacy represents Democrats.

Indeed, we defend those members of the military who have blocked them from getting access to families, and support legislation that prevents these hideous nutcases from getting too close to the military families.

But didn’t the ACLU intervene on the Kansas Kooks behalf? Why yes they did!

Portions of a new state law intended to prevent protesters from disrupting funerals for soldiers killed in Iraq are unconstitutional and should be struck down, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a federal lawsuit filed yesterday.

So Goldie, why don’t you send of a letter of complaint to that powerful left Wing organization known as the ACLU?

Freaking ignorant hypocritical idiot fool

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 9, 2006 04:20 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Here’s an even better source for the ACLU’s position. Enjoy.

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 9, 2006 04:20 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Here’s an even better source for the ACLU’s position. Enjoy.

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 9, 2006 04:22 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

Here’s an even better source for the ACLU/Westboro “church”. Enjoy!

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 9, 2006 04:29 PM | Link to this

Today’s Opinion Journal has all sorts of stuff that might make Cindy sit up and take notice about the lukewarm enthusiasm for Zarqawi’s death.

It also has measured comments about the most hated woman in Left America, Ann Coulter.

Indeed, there’s so much enteraining material here today, I suggest reading the whole darn thing.

Enjoy!

By RW-(the original)

June 9, 2006 04:38 PM | Link to this

Huge,

Eons apart eh? You really have a fascination with trying to make things sound big, but I digress.

You had a 50/50 chance, but went the wrong way. My military service was two years of Army ROTC. I did get the benefit of a young lady, motivated by the words of a decorated veteran that accused the entire military of being wanton killers and egged on by her “brave” male protester friends, spitting directly in my face for wearing the uniform.

Frankly I’m surprised to see you backing away from your demands that a lynch mob be formed to go after Ann. I thought maybe you would be one of the few libs with balls enough to stick to your guns instead of backtracking and trying to obfuscate your words. (This paragraph takes considerable editorial license since you guys always use double talk to keep from being held to a position)

By This Cracks Me Up

June 9, 2006 04:38 PM | Link to this

Former Rep. Tim Roehmer, D-Ind., a member of the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks, called Coulter’s “hate-filled attack on the patriotic heroes of 9/12 _ the widows of 9/11 _ reprehensible and undignified.”

For two reasons, 1. Her book sales will go through the roof, thank you 2. We’ve just been through a five and a half year period where the libs and their drive by media has been absolutely free, and often congratulates themselves for impugning Jesus Christ and his followers, President Bush in some of the most disgusting ways imaginable and red state Americans for their beliefs and voting preferences.

And now these tender mercied little pinkos are outraged, just so outraged.

I’m probably not helping the situation but they can all go to hell.

Sucks, don’t it?

By Goldie

June 9, 2006 04:39 PM | Link to this

Danish— so, it’s good to know that you do draw the line somewhere for what’s considered decency. Both Coulter and the Kansas whackjobs are big supporters of your fascist agenda. Both hate “f*” etc. and see everyone who doesn’t agree with them as enemies. Sound familiar?

And yes, the ACLU will defend everyone’s right to free speech, whether you approve or not. What’s the issue here? They’re doing their job. They also defended the KKK’s right to march in Skokie, Illinois back in the 70’s, to everyone’s dismay. Try and tell me something I don’t know for once.

By Goldie

June 9, 2006 04:42 PM | Link to this

When I want to hear about God, I don’t listen to Bob Dylan. I prefer the lessons and sermons I hear at church.

Obviously. You do have such an open mind. It was real hard to tell there for a moment where you get your ideas. Thanks for clarifying for everyone.

By Goldie

June 9, 2006 04:49 PM | Link to this

It’s really a desperate situation to be clinging to a failed presidency, like what we have today, isn’t it? All of the right-wingnuts here on the blog everyday, trying to win the hearts and minds with their style of “spreading democracy.”

(And my favorite is when Bush said, “I have to keep repeating everything over and over… to kind of catapult the propaganda!” Aren’t they all just adorable with their methods of showing love to all Americans? Very touching….)

By RW-(the original)

June 9, 2006 04:49 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Please don’t start listing things Goldie doesn’t know. This blog would crash for sure.

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 9, 2006 04:52 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Sorry I sent something to you that was meant for Goldie. Please find a way in your heart to forgive me!

By Goldie

June 9, 2006 05:04 PM | Link to this

This Cracks— I’m probably not helping the situation but they can all go to hell.

Same to you, buddy. Have a nice life!

By Ooops, I Forgot

June 9, 2006 05:04 PM | Link to this

The libs have also been saying things about our soldiers:

they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

I think Ann is being nice, don’t you?

By Goldie

June 9, 2006 05:06 PM | Link to this

Danish and Dusty— ooh, it’s getting late. You’d both better be running off to your weekly Aryan Nation meeting now — I’m sure they’ll miss their district leaders if you’re not there on time!

By Dusty

June 9, 2006 05:07 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

I forgive you the first time And the second time. Even a third but I sure do hate reading about the ACLU. Please let Goldie do that. That is her instruction manual and she’d be lost without it.

Oh, I forgot. She would still have her Demo Instruction Manual on Bush Did It. But I think she has memorized that one.

Come on over for dinner. We are having chili and corn cakes. Bring your own RolAids.

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 9, 2006 05:19 PM | Link to this

RW,

Okay, I’ll just list one:

Goldie,

I guarantee you that Ann Coulter despises the Westboro “Church” nutcases as much as I do, so your DESPERATE attempt to link us to them is well, just desperate.

Moreover, it seems to me that you’re the one with a fascist agenda. You want to force your “progressive” agenda down everyone’s throats, change America to a country that is unrecognizable (through the courts not by we the people), and when the American people in great numbers rebel, you and your soulmates spew your hatred of conservatives, call us every vile name in the book, try to link us to serial murderers, and tell us to STFU, all the while sanctimoniously pretending that you are Ms. Sweetness and Light.

Now go write that letter to the ACLU, or the Kansas Kooks. Your slippery attempt at wiggling out of your ridiculous statements felt desperately flat.

Dusty,

Dinner sounds great!

Goldie will have to report back on that meeting she is so knowledgeable about on Monday. Maybe her ACLU pals will be there so it will be Party Time!

By Claudia Rosett

June 9, 2006 06:16 PM | Link to this

Third, in raids that accompanied the strike on Zarqawi, U.S. and Iraqi forces have acquired what White House spokesman Tony Snow has described as a “treasure trove” of intelligence. The cars, explosives, guns, ammunition and safe houses required for al-Qaeda’s murderous operations turn up courtesy of a network that points to other nodes. That may not immediately stop other operations already in place, but it can have a big effect down the road, leading to other top figures in the command.

The greatest weakness of the United States in this war has been our tendency, within our own domestic debate, to quickly dismiss our victories and dwell on each al-Qaeda bombing or beheading as a sign of impending defeat. The death of Zarqawi needs to be understood as a sign that the deeper currents are running our way.

By getalife

June 9, 2006 06:23 PM | Link to this

I bet Ann does not go to church.

By getalife

June 9, 2006 06:35 PM | Link to this

Told ya

Godless indeed.

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 9, 2006 06:36 PM | Link to this

Here are some of Ann the satirist’s greatest hits.

Frenzy time!

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 9, 2006 06:42 PM | Link to this

Just out of curiosity I did a google search of Liberal+fascist which took me here

Goldie,

Enjoy this blog. It’s called “The Dumb Democrat” and it is tailor made for you.

By finch

June 9, 2006 06:51 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Ann Coulter: Jesus Would Approve

There’s really no need to ridicule her. In the First Amendment tradition of “make a fool of yourself!” she’s doing a fine job all by her lonesome.

By GoldieHo

June 9, 2006 06:52 PM | Link to this

I love fool like Goldie. It is angry losers like her who will ensure Republican dominance for the next decade.

Keep on demonstrating your ignorant hatred, Goldie. We love you for it. You guys gonna win an election some day?

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 9, 2006 06:56 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

Wow! What a scoop!

Do you think A.C. might not be attending that church in New York because she moved to……….Florida?

Not that church attendance is a reliable measure of one’s Christian faith anyway.

Sheesh.

You all are a laugh a minute.

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 9, 2006 07:01 PM | Link to this

finch,

Ann Coulter is a ……..hang on, because this might shock you……a……..satirist.

It helps to keep that in mind when you read her comments. Try putting SARC after every sentence, and it will start to make sense.

P.S. I’d be a bit embarrassed to be cooing with getalife after his last post.

By RW-(the original)

June 9, 2006 07:40 PM | Link to this

It appears that the humorless jackals that run this site aren’t happy with our after hours alternative.

I know we tried our best to hide the site from ml’s detection, but our efforts have been foiled by the remarkable sleuths that staff the AJC. I mean they might have been able to figure it out by reading our advertisements right here. In a nice touch they have even asked google to block my sites from the google search engines.

Maybe one day the AJC can set some of these bloodhounds loose on a real story and actually get the facts right on something for a change. Who cares if you run a screaming banner headline that 12 miners have been found alive, with nothing to substantiate your story, when a small time blogger might be giving Mike Luckovich a little publicity?

By AJC Dicktective

June 9, 2006 08:14 PM | Link to this

Hey RW: You should have turned in getalife to the sleuth at the AJC. Just tell them that he is the blog hysteric and nanny, nothing gets past him including the cover art. This would have bought you at least a week plus we could have had a good laugh at getalife being in jail or covered up with lawyers.

I really don’t understand why they’re so agitated. They must have a highly inflated opinion of themselves, you think? Hell, I don’t go to his site for the cartoon, please, sometimes I don’t even look at it.

I’m here to harass the liberals, not to see the stick man drawings.

By bombs away!

June 9, 2006 10:35 PM | Link to this

Bush characterized the U.S. enemy in Iraq as “a combination of rejectionists, Saddamists and terrorists.” The terrorist group, he said, “is the smallest but the most lethal” of the three.

The Sunni rejectionists and Saddamists are still there and theyre really happy Zarquiri is dead. He was giving all the other assassins, head-choppers and market bombers a bad name!

By RW-(the original)

June 10, 2006 12:56 AM | Link to this

June 10, 1964 the Senate Republicans were finally able to break the Democrats filibuster against the Civil Rights Act. For those of you that live in the land of make believe that says all those Democrats switched parties later, please do some research. Robert Byrd would be a good start.

By This Ought To Get A Good Whine

June 10, 2006 04:52 PM | Link to this

Just like finch, er, seeker, says, Al Zarqawi was on the outs with Al Qaeda:

Cairo, Egypt —- Al- Qaida’s No. 2 man praised Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a videotape broadcast Friday but did not mention his death in a U.S. airstrike, suggesting the tape was made earlier.

An Al-Jazeera anchorman said the tape was made before al-Zarqawi’s death was announced Thursday because al-Zawahri praised the al-Qaida in Iraq leader’s efforts to confront U.S.-led forces.

Does finch ever tire of being wrong? Or does he do it on purpose?

Cut

Raids Target Zarqawi Group- U.S. strikes dozens of sites, hoping to weaken Al Qaeda in Iraq. Cities brace for retaliatory violence after the terrorist leader’s death.

BAGHDAD — The United States conducted at least 56 raids against targets connected with Abu Musab Zarqawi’s Al Qaeda in Iraq organization in the 48 hours after his death, seeking to capitalize on the killing by disrupting his network of fighters, military officials said.

After killing Zarqawi and five others Wednesday by bombing his hide-out, U.S. forces conducted 17 raids in Baghdad and at 39 additional sites Thursday and Friday, said Army Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad.

Looks to me like Iraq was covered up with Al Qaeda. It also looks like they won’t be there much longer.

Fat lady time?

Cut

Wooten’s blog, signed editorials encourage lively discussion

“We still sit around and discuss the issue as a group, and the editorial still represents the consensus of the board,” said Tucker. “But the individual who is the expert writes it and signs it.”

Make 100% positively sure that every anti American angle is fully considered.

Having a name and e-mail address attached makes an editorial seem more personal.

Plus it’s a time saver. When ever I see Bookman’s name I just moveon.org.

Cut

Didn’t I tell you this dude was insane?:

Shocked and angered party members, who have been working to appear united as Republican approval ratings decline, said Mr. Murtha’s move could potentially devastate their efforts.

Another Democratic aide said Mr. Murtha is “putting the cart before the donkey.”

That’s what you get for not listening to me.

There you go, young Republicans, stay home in November and you’ll turn the leadership of the United States over to a pack of turncoat traitors who hate our soldiers.

Get out the vote for real.

Cut

Mr. Stark sees a wag-the-dog moment: “This is just to cover Bush’s [rear] so he doesn’t have to answer” for Iraqi deaths, he told Amy F* of The Washington Times. “Iraq is still a mess — get out now.”

Mr. McDermott said that “one person, dead or alive at this point, is hardly significant,” muttering about “White House spin.”

Mr. Kucinich said that Zarqawi was a small part of “a growing anti-American insurgency,” and that we should get out of Iraq now.

Meanwhile, Iraqis were rejoicing in the streets at the demise of the country’s murderer-in-chief. Absent Zarqawi, Iraq’s prospects are unmistakeably brighter.

But it’s all about Bush-bashing for these three partisans. Iraq could turn into Switzerland overnight and they’d still be intoning darkly.

For failing to see the blood on Zarqawi’s hands, the three Bush-bashers are the Knaves of the Week.

Cut

Before considering the possible implications for the war in Iraq and the global struggle against terror, we should pause to celebrate so striking an instance of injustice avenged, and justice vindicated. The unjust—even the barbarically unjust—prevail all too often in this world. It is good for civilized people to see, as Marshall Wittmann put it, that “evil has suffered a setback.” In the blunt words of Paul Bigley of the United Kingdom, whose brother Ken was captured and beheaded by Zarqawi, the terrorist “deserved what he got and may he rot in hell.”

Which is why the libs are all distraught over his death; because evil lost again.

Cut

We should be prepared to express outrage at the apologists for fanatical Islam, who attempt to run interference on behalf of those arrested by raising specious counter-charges of “racism” and the like.

Let me repeat myself. Every time we show “sensitivity” by trying to appease the sort of people who would drive explosive-laden trucks into buildings, and machine-gun the survivors, the fanatics advance.

Cut

A true liberal, head up his a-ss and all:

No one has been more supportive of a strong national defense and tough action against terrorism than I (Arlen Specter.) However, the administration’s continuing position on the NSA electronic-surveillance program rejects the historical constitutional practice of judicial approval of warrants before wiretapping and denigrates the constitutional authority and responsibility of the Congress… .

By For all you conspiracy buffs

June 11, 2006 08:47 AM | Link to this

Just like finch, er, seeker, says, Al Zarqawi was on the outs with Al Qaeda:

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was the foreign “freedom fighter” who was universally despised in his adopted country. And he was hardly admired by Osama’s Al Qaeda.

Zarqawi was absolutely hated by most normal Iraqis on both sides of the sectarian divide. He was seen as having been behind the whole trend of car bombs that have killed civilians across the country, Shia and Sunni, since late 2003. People saw him as having introduced a new form of brutality to Iraq.

Zarqaqi marched to his own psychotic drummer, which is why the “Death to America” crowd, from the Baathists to Osama, wanted him to go away.

Iraqi police documents, discovered later, showed that Saddam Hussein’s security forces, far from collaborating with Zarqawi, were trying to arrest him… As for al-Qa’ida, in Afghanistan Zarqawi had led a small group hostile to it, and was never a close adherent of Osama bin Laden.

Zarqawi was an out of control renegade. His attacks didn’t further the cause of radical Muslim unity, because he was killing so many Muslims. This is why his “martyrdom” is getting such faint praise from other Arab fanatics.

By I Report, You Whine

June 11, 2006 03:12 PM | Link to this

Yep, it’s that time again:

An added benefit to the Ann Coulter kerfuffle, aside from record book sales, the libs are pulling their masks off and revealing their true selves. And they are advocating censorship:

Two New Jersey Democrats are pushing to have Ann Coulter’s new book “Godless: The Church of Liberalism,” banned from all bookstores in their state because she criticized four 9/11 widows known as “the Jersey Girls.”

We already knew it but now it’s on record.

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Well, good:

3 detainees hang selves at Guantanamo

The detainees had apparently used their clothing and sheets to fashion makeshift nooses in what military officials believe was a coordinated suicide pact.

“They have no regard for human life,” he said. “Neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation but an act of asymmetric warfare against us.”

Call me old fashion but I think this is better than them coordinating against us.

P.S. I had to find that last paragraph from a different source other than the Atlanta Urinal, they had scrubbed the pro American angle from their story.

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Experts to review how al-Zarqawi died

Maybe that 500 pound bomb that fell on him?

Also, an Iraqi man raised fresh questions, telling Associated Press Television News that he saw U.S. soldiers beating an injured man resembling al-Zarqawi until blood flowed from his nose.

Why didn’t they behead him? Man, they passed up the perfect opportunity.

“We frequently receive allegations which prove to be unsubstantiated,” Gordon said.

But that doesn’t stop us from printing screaming Anti American full page headlines.

“We frequently receive allegations which prove to be unsubstantiated,” Gordon said.

You mean like Haditha?

The AJC is sick, sick, sick.

But they have company:

Fidel Castro: Zarqawi Killing a ‘Barbarity’

President Fidel Castro called the U.S. airstrike that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi a “barbarity,” saying he should have been put on trial.

None other than their favorite as-shole.

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This is too easy:

It’s true that Clinton couldn’t find Eric Rudolph for a long time, But I don’t recall him ordering an invasion of Colorado to distract everyone from his failure.- The Vent, 6/11/06.

I know, he bombed Iraq instead, hahahahaha, stupid little liberals.

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DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in Iraq vowed on Sunday to carry out large-scale attacks that would “shake the enemy” after the killing of its leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, but did not name a successor.

Promise?

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Hail To The Chief!

Polling done on Thursday for the IBD/TIPP Presidential Leadership Index gave Bush a 44.2 rating, up from 39.1 in the prior days of June and 38.9 in May. The last time the Index reached this level was in December, when it hit 44.3.

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Few men have so richly deserved death as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He met a swifter and cleaner end than what he meted out to Arabs and Americans alike; his violence included torture and beheadings, videotaped not only for purposes of propaganda, but, one suspects, out of a near pornographic pleasure in capturing human suffering on camera. As the head of one of the most important insurgent groups in Iraq, his demise is not only an occasion for pride in the prowess of American forces, and satisfaction at retribution dealt out, but a real blow to al Qaeda in Iraq.

Unless of course you are a pinko at the Atlanta Urinal who is overwrought that Zarqawi might have suffered, poor thing.

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“Their departure would be a devastating blow to the Diocese of Virginia for a number of reasons,” said the Rev. J. Philip Ashey, pastor of South Riding Episcopal Church, the first congregation to depart the diocese after the Robinson ordination. “I think many people look to the Falls Church for leadership.”

The diocese’s bishop, the Rt. Rev. Peter J. Lee, supported the Robinson consecration with his vote, but has said homosexuals will not be ordained within the diocese itself.

Mr. Yates said the Falls Church has made no decision and has no current plans to break with the diocese, but the church has sent a letter to Bishop Lee calling for him to “repent and return to the truth” about his support of the Robinson ordination. Church leaders also are talking with the bishop about plans to retain the property if a split might occur.

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The presidential elections in Colombia and Peru were stunning triumphs for President Alvaro Uribe and ex-President Alan Garcia, as well as democracy in Latin America. At the same time they were a resounding defeat for Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and his perfervidly promoted Bolivarian Alternative.

Even Mr. Uribe’s closest supporters were surprised at his 62 percent landslide win in Colombia, and thousands of Peruvian voters held their breath and elected Mr. Garcia despite a failed 1985-90 presidency rather than allow Ollanta Humala, warmly endorsed by Hugo Chavez, to take office.

Socialism ain’t the answer.

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This is it:

Instead, I (Mike Pence) will soon be introducing legislation, the Border Integrity and Immigration Reform Act. This bill is tough on border security and tough on employers who hire illegal aliens. It will include a guest worker program—but it will not include an amnesty. I believe this legislation is a strong alternative to the amnesty plan passed by the Senate; and I hope that it will serve as an attractive alternative to my colleagues in the House of Representatives.

But my bill does not include a so-called path to citizenship, i.e., an amnesty, for the some 12 million illegal aliens in this country. Instead, it insists that they leave and come back legally if they have a job opportunity in the U.S. They will be allowed to do so under the terms of a guest-worker program that will be implemented by firms in the private sector, not by a new government bureaucracy.

and require the Secretary of Homeland Security to certify that all these border security measures are substantially completed before any new guest worker program would begin.

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Let me be clear: The problem with Gore is not that he is a hypocrite. The problem with Gore is that he has no idea he is not Lancelot. He has this scary ability to block out any facts that make him less than a perfect, selfless eco-hero, and in his need to present himself as the world’s savior, he’ll say anything — no matter how hysterical.

Sums it up pretty good for me.

Then, the film cuts to a personal vignette of loss, lest moviegoers notice that Gore himself did not change the Washington culture from the White House. After listening to Gore talk about his decades crusading on global warming, you might expect the movie to highlight his many achievements as vice president and designated chief nerd on the environment in the Clinton administration. Instead, the movie essentially airbrushes out Gore’s eight years on Pennsylvania Avenue.

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I thought we knew this wouldn’t pass and the Republicans were just playing to their base?:

Conservatives Are Losing on Gay Rights By Steve Chapman

If this is progress, it’s on the order of a shipwreck survivor swimming toward the nearest island, 500 miles away: going in the right direction, but with no chance of getting there. All the leading indicators suggest that the smartest thing the amendment’s supporters could do is pack it in.

You reckon, Stevie is being insincere and playing to the ignorance of his democrat following?

By Filthy Mouth Murtha

June 11, 2006 04:27 PM | Link to this

Listen to what this little punk has to say:

A sergeant who led a squad of Marines during the incident in Haditha, Iraq, that left as many as 24 civilians dead said his unit did not intentionally target any civilians, followed military rules of engagement and never tried to cover up the shootings, his attorney said.

Where does he get off defending himself? Doesn’t he know that all of us libs have him found guilty and sentenced to death already?

Why doesn’t he hate America like I do?