Showing posts with label Hillary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hillary. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Did Hillary wiretap political foes?

 
Sweetness and Light links to an article in The Hill, which documents Hillary's bizarre -- and, so they say, completely illegal -- proclivity for wiretapping political rivals.

[T]wo Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters... [suggest] Clinton listened to a secretly recorded conversation between political opponents.

In their book about Clinton’s rise to power, Her Way, Don Van Natta Jr., an investigative reporter at The New York Times, and Jeff Gerth, who spent 30 years as an investigative reporter at the paper, wrote: “Hillary’s defense activities ranged from the inspirational to the microscopic to the down and dirty. She received memos about the status of various press inquiries; she vetted senior campaign aides; and she listened to a secretly recorded audiotape of a phone conversation of Clinton critics plotting their next attack.

“The tape contained discussions of another woman who might surface with allegations about an affair with Bill,” Gerth and Van Natta wrote in reference to Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton. “Bill’s supporters monitored frequencies used by cell phones, and the tape was made during one of those monitoring sessions...”

Reportedly, Clinton's campaign has not disputed any of the facts reported in the book.

Does it strike anyone else as the height of hypocrisy that Hillary would wiretap political rivals but prevent intelligence agencies from wiretapping terrorists? But maybe that's just me.

Hat tip: My Pet Jawa

Monday, October 15, 2007

Today's Bill n' Hillary Posts o' the Day

 
* Mitchell Langbert's brilliant Madmen, Hillary, and the Wizard of Oz:

...the left claims that centralized economic planning (monarchy) is economically superior to markets, a lie. The left claims that government power and regulation, much like the power of kings, is more humane than limited government and private enterprise, which is a lie. The left claims that monetary expansion, which favors the wealthy over the poor, is necessary to help the poor, which is also a lie...


* NHC has scooped everyone with the postcard that Bill Clinton would just as soon as forget. Click it now. You know you want to.

* Sean sends us a link to Snowball, a "medium, sulphur crested Eleanora cockatoo" who loves to dance and sing. Okay, it's not a Billary post --- but it's one with panache!

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Hillary's Top 12 Fabrications

 
I limited the list to twelve because it's late and I'm getting tired. I could've included Henry Cisneros, Janet Reno, the Barrett Report -- and numerous others, but this list is sufficient for now.

12. Interviewed by Katie Couric, Hillary claims she'd "always been a Yankees fan." Challenged by Couric that she grew up in Illinois and was apparently a Cubs fan, Hillary dissembled.

11. In an airport, she happened to run into Sir Edmund Hillary, who was the first man to climb Mt. Everest. She claimed that her mother named her Hillary after Hillary the climber. Only problem: he didn't make news climbing anything until five years after Clinton was born.

10. Hillary attended a race-relations conference in Boston with a group of teenagers and claimed that she was on her high school soccer team. She said that a player from the opposing team had told her that she hated her kind -- and Hillary said, "you don't even know me!" The attempt at empathy appears to be an utter fabrication, since there were no girl's soccer teams at her high school in the sixties when this supposed event took place.

9. Hillary said that daughter Chelsea was in danger on September 11th, 2001, claiming that her daughter went for a jog down to the towers themselves. When the planes hit, she was in close proximity to the WTC was very nearly in peril. However, Chelsea completely debunked her mother's story in a magazine article: she was staring shocked at the TV most of the day.

8. Hillary took $1,000 and with the help of well-connected friends (who Bill just happened to shield from inspections in the poultry industry) parlayed it into nearly six figures in a short period of time; she then failed to release her tax returns, such that the windfall wasn't disclosed until after the statute of limitations was lifted. Hillary's defense of her "preferential treatment" was that other customers in the same office also were allowed to trade without having enough cash in their accounts.

7. Hillary told a federal grand jury that she didn't work on a certain key project in the Whitewater scandal; however, she did so, was caught in the apparent fib, and then stated that she didn't recognize it by that name.

6. Bill Clinton granted pardons to four Hasidic men from upstate New York, amidst allegations the men had promised to drum up votes for Hillary's Senate run as a reward for the pardons. The men, who had been convicted of stealing millions in federal funds, all received clemency. Their Hasidic neighbors -- who traditionally vote Republican -- help hand Hillary the victory with an overwhelming number of votes. Hillary claimed she didn't know anything about it.

5. In January 1996, a long sought-after copy of billing records from the Rose Law Firm were identified. The mysterious reappearance of the billing records, sought for years via various subpoenas, has never been fully explained. Shortly after their rediscovery, Hillary Clinton made history as the only First Lady ever called to testify before a Grand Jury. Of particular interest to investigators has been Ms. Clinton's work on an option agreement that "was principally designed to further obfuscate and hide the fraudulent nature of the underlying Castle Grande transactions." Hillary claimed that her initials on the billing records were effectively a misrepresentation and that "it was not an area that I really know anything... about."

4. The Washington Post and Washington Times report that Clinton aides removed "Whitewater papers" from Vince Foster's office moments after being notified of his death on July 20, 1993. The White House claimed that Hillary was notified of Foster's death at 9:45 pm; she called aide Maggie Williams at 10:13; Williams is observed by Secret Service officer Henry O'Neill exiting Foster's office with documents. Interestingly, PBS reports that investigators believe that the Rose Law Firm records that magically reappeared in 1996 were Vince Foster's copies. Attempting to explain her innocence in the ransacking of Foster's office, Hillary states in 1994 that "I -- I can tell you what I know which is that I did not know that Vince had any of the documents related to our personal business in his office until after his death."

3. In a sworn declaration taken on April 7, 2006, Hillary Clinton testified that she had "no recollection whatsoever of discussing any arrangement with [Peter Paul] whereby he would support my campaign for the United States Senate... I do not believe that I made any such statements because I believe I would remember such a discussion if it had occurred." Peter Paul's Hollywood fund raiser contributed as much as $2 million to her Senate campaign. However, a video has recently come to light in which Hillary helps plan the event, coordinates entertainers such as Cher, and acknowledges Paul's generosity. From all appearances, Hillary -- unaware of the newly released videotaped evidence -- lied under oath in 2006.

2. Hillary's brother Hugh was paid around $400,000 by a crack cocaine dealer and a "fake baldness cure" salesman; Bill Clinton pardoned them both (two of 140 pardons later termed "smelly" by CNN commentators). She later claimed she had no idea her brother was representing the drug dealer.

1. During her relentless courtship of religious voters, Hillary has described abortion as a "tragic choice", defined herself as a "praying person", and employed evangelical Christians on her staff. She's gone so far as to appear in a documentary about the late Barry Goldwater, praising the ultra-conservative Arizona Republican and reminiscing about her initial foray into politics as a "Goldwater girl".

In short, Hillary's expressed complete amnesia regarding Norman Hsu, the Rose Law firm records, Travelgate, Whitewater, the cattle futures contracts, Peter Paul's fundraising concert, her brothers hawking pardons and commutations, etc. And this ignorance is her central qualification for the presidency?

Hat tips: Blue Site, CNN, Daily Kos, EIB, Free Republic, Hillcap, Jeramayakovka, PBS, Time Magazine, Washington Post, Washington Post, WND

Shocking new film -- Hillary Uncensored -- comes to Dartmouth

 
Doug from Upland writes to let us know that the explosive new film Hillary Uncensored is headed to Dartmouth. The documentary will premiere at the Hanover, New Hampshire school on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 2pm. The film describes what some have called "the largest election law fraud in history."

How explosive is the film? The "rough cut" of the trailer was uploaded to Google as a private -- i.e., hidden -- posting in July. For the past three days, it's been Google's top-ranked video.

You can see a sneak preview of the trailer here. And if you happen to be in Manhattan, the film will be shown on Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 7pm at the historic Metropolitan Republican Club.

The video itself is fascinating. Federal election law experts are on record as saying that a newly discovered videotape (included in the documentary) "shows Hillary Clinton in the process of committing at least four or five felonies under federal election law."

A whistleblower-support organization called the United States Justice Foundation relates that "the tape indicates Clinton – despite denials throughout six years of investigation – was directly involved with business mogul Peter Franklin Paul in producing a lavish Hollywood fundraiser in August 2000 that eventually cost Paul nearly $2 million."

In fact, if Clinton participated in the planning of the fundraising event, it:

...would make Paul's substantial contributions a direct donation to her Senate campaign rather than her joint fundraising committee, violating federal statutes that limit "hard money" contributions to a candidate to $2,000 per person. Knowingly accepting or soliciting $25,000 or more in a calendar year is a felony carrying a prison sentence of up to five years...

Now that the video has come to light, Doug alerted the FBI to a series of suspicious events including possible FEC violations.

Back to the premiere. Doug offers a humorous take regarding the reasons Dartmouth is a particularly apt choice for the premiere of the film:

New Hampshire is, of course, buzzing with political activity as the candidates are trying to get their message out to the voters in the state that has traditionally held the nation's first primary.

It really is about time that the voters in New Hampshire become acquainted with the scandal and coverup directed by Hillary that eclipses Watergate. Obstruction of justice, campaign finance felonies, a sham trial, and four false FEC reports are not the best items to have on a presidential candidate's resume...

Dartmouth will be a great venue. It was the recent scene of a Democratic debate. Peter Paul went to school there. Hillary went there for a Winter Carnival blind date and got ditched. Her date got stinking drunk... stripped down to his shorts, got his surfboard, and tried to surf the little moguls on the golf course.

Hillary talked about that blind date with Peter at the Spago luncheon. He has the discussion on film. She was very animated and told how everyone was watching this guy and worried that he might freeze to death.

Hillary, of course, lied in her sworn declaration to the court in which she said she could remember nothing of what she and Peter had discussed. When she says that at her deposition, she will be confronted with the film. What about it, smartest woman in the world?

This should really be fun. It would be a nice touch if I could see a protester get tazed...

Here's a request for a favor: check out the trailer and then email this post to three of your friends with a request they do the same.

It's time we broke the mainstream media's blockade of Peter Paul's historic civil suit against the Clintons.

Update: Doug from Upland certainly has brass. Check out his invitation (click to zoom):

Will Hillary be polite enough to RSVP? Stay tuned.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Line o' the Day: When is a fatality a convenience? When you're in the UK

 
Don Surber quotes Charles Moore, a UK columnist on the British health care system.

Each new patient is just an added cost and each dead patient is an administrative convenience.

The NHS is, with our state school system, the last major survival in this country of the idea of the 1940s that government can decide what is best for us and make sure that it is done... A colleague of mine, who investigated alternative healthcare systems when the extreme dirtiness of many British hospitals first became an issue, went to France to compare. In hospital after hospital, he found floors so clean that you could have eaten your lunch off them. Did the Health Minister order them to clean them, he asked an administrator.

He was met with a look of incredulity. “Of course not. We run ourselves. Patients have a choice of hospital. If they do not choose us, we get no money. No hospital can survive if it is not clean.”

In France, hospitals compete. In the UK, people die because there is no competition. Go ye therefore hence, and read it all.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

The Hillary Spend-O-Meter

 
Hillary Clinton told the Boston Globe today, "I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all." 

It must have been a Freudian slip. Hillary Clinton is on a roll, introducing new plans to spend your money by expanding government... just about every day. Truth be told, she's invented so many big-government agencies over the last two weeks alone that it's getting hard to keep track. That's why the Hillary Clinton Spend-O-Meter was introduced -- it's the quickest way to see how Hillary will affect your already over-taxed wallet.

Every time Hillary proposes a new "solution", the Spend-o-meter will be updated to reflect a realistic estimate of the spending required to fund it. The current picture reflects $440 billion for her plan to have the government take over health care (a low estimate, guaranteed); $100 billion for her taxpayer-funded retirement program; $6 billion for government-funded transportation; and much more.

In fact, today, on the Spend-o-meter's first day, it is already registering $724 billion.  And it's still a year before Election Day.  Can she hit $1 trillion before Thanksgiving?  Will she make it to the $2 trillion mark before the party conventions next summer?  Visit Clintonspendometer.com to see how much of your hard-earned money Hillary Clinton is promising to spend, as she says, "on behalf of the common good."

"Common good"... Sounds kinda... Communistic to me. If she's elected, I wonder where the Gulags will be located.

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Hillary: don't call socialized medicine 'socialized medicine'!

 
Say Anything reports:

Hillary goes off on a reporter at the National Association of Black Journalists Presidential Forum for daring to call socialized medicine... well... socialized medicine. [Video here]

What do you think she’s angry about more, that she’s essentially being called a socialist or that a black man dared wander off the liberal plantation to question her “we liberals know what’s best for you” policies...?

...the audience question came from a freelance writer named Kiara Ashanti, who wanted to know why the Democratic White House hopeful was pushing for, what he called, “socialized medicine... Why are you still insisting upon moving that system in here when particularly it will hurt African American communities more than anyone else?”

“...Oh, man – that was a string of misrepresentations about me and the systems in other countries,” Clinton began her response. “Number one, I have never advocated socialized medicine, and I hope all the journalists hear that loudly and clearly because that has been a right-wing attack on me for 15 years, and it is wrong.”

But, it’s not wrong. The health care system Hillary Clinton and her fellow Democrats support consists of taking wealth from everyone (or, more accurately, the top 50% of wage-earners who pay all the taxes) and redistributing it to everyone in the form of medical care. Wealth redistribution, put simply. And what is socialism if not wealth redistribution?

Regarding the original version of HillaryCare, the Mises Institute wrote (July 1996):

What was the core of Clinton's "Health Security Act"? Let's look at Health Security: The President's Report to the American People. "Every American," wrote Clinton, "must have the security of comprehensive health benefits that can never be taken away.... We must--and we will--outlaw insurance company practices that discriminate against consumers and small businesses and make care available to all Americans, no matter where they live or how old or sick they are."

Is that socialism? Of course. If insurance companies aren't allowed to take into account how sick a person is, or is likely to be, there is no way to compute risk, assess profits and losses, cut costs rationally, or otherwise allow a market to work the way it should. The voluntary market system, in which medical services are delivered on a free enterprise basis, is pushed aside by a command-and-control system that ends up creating more problems...

By every reasonable definition, the initial version of HillaryCare was socialized medicine. And when Hillary denies it, she's spinning fairy tales -- again.

It's a canard, to be sure, but here's how you call tell when Hillary's lying: her lips are moving.

Monday, October 08, 2007

Movie Extravaganza: Sandy Berger and the She-Clinton!

 
Sandy Berger -- the former Clinton national security adviser who admitted to the theft and destruction of 9/11 documents -- is now an adviser to Hillary Clinton's campaign. Hillary's aides are unapologetic about Berger's advisory role. I figure it's time for a movie about Sandy.



Disgusted? Enraged? Just multiply that by four years if you know who gets elected.

Sunday, October 07, 2007

SCHIP for Dummies and Self-Employed Woodworkers

 
I know, I know, SCHIP isn't a very interesting topic. It's the childrens' healthcare program that Congress wants to expand using an additional $35 billion of our money. SCHIP, if memory serves, stands for Socialized Childrens' Healthcare Insurance Program. President Bush vetoed the expansion on Wednesday, stating that it would grow the program beyond low-income families into a subtle form of socialized medicine for the middle-class.

For yesterday's response to President Bush's radio address, the Democrats trotted out 12 year old Graeme Frost. Frost was badly injured an an auto accident and, thanks to SCHIP, was able to recuperate.

Using complex tools available only to real journalists (or perhaps it was just Google), freeper Icwhatudo discovered some intriguing background information on the Frost family.

The Frosts live in a 3,000 square foot home; the parents own their own design firm, and the kids are attending private school at $20 grand apiece. In addition, the family appears to not only own their home but also the building in which their business is located. But somehow they qualify for SCHIP?

Mark Steyn has the definitive linkage and savages Paul Krugman in a manner reminiscent of, --er-- well, Genghis Kahn. Gonna put some ice on that, Paul?

Thurber's Thoughts explains why SCHIP makes about as much sense as naming Hillary Clinton as Senate Ethicist.

Congress has chosen a source to pay for the bulk of their proposed $35 billion increase in the State Children's Health Insurance Program - cigarette taxes.

According to numerous reports, expansion of the program (which would allow families with income up to $82,000 to qualify) would be financed with a 156 percent increase in the federal cigarette tax, taking it to $1 per pack from the current 39 cents.

And this tax will impact recipients of the SCHIP program more than others. Low-income people smoke more heavily than do wealthier people in the United States, making cigarette taxes a regressive form of revenue. Nearly one-third of all U.S. adults living in poverty are smokers, compared with 23.5 percent of those above the poverty level...

So we allow expansion of the program to those who are not 'low income' or in poverty by imposing a tax that impacts low income and the poor more than others. Where's the logic in that? [Ed: it's a Democratic idea. 'Nuff said?] ...Rep. Jack Kingston [said] during the House debate,

"...in order to get enough money to pay for this, it would require 22 million new smokers"

In other words, Democrats want to pay for a childrens' healthcare program by expanding the percentage of poverty-stricken smokers.

In a word, brilliant!

Update: Gauis offers his plea - Why my family needs SCHIP!

Hat tips: Bizzyblog and Larwyn

Media Matters: now featuring Hillary's bag-men!

 
Yesterday, Conservative Belle scooped the entire blogosphere and the mainstream media. Her detective work links the Democratic front-group Media Matters directly with Clinton Staffers Rick Ridder and Craig Hughes.

This is the same Media Matters that claims tax-exempt status as a non-partisan IRS 501(c)(3) organization. Because they are so obviously partisan, many observers believe they are clearly in violation of the tax code.

...when I did a record search on Media Matters in the business center section of the Colorado SOS's site, I found something curious. They have registered under ID 20061240245 with a statement of foreign entity authority and according to the filing results, their 'registered agent' is listed as Ridder-Braden, Inc. in Denver, CO. Next, I looked up Ridder-Braden, Inc and found who they are (emphasis mine).

Rick Ridder - President and Co-Founder; He has served as a senior consultant for three presidential campaigns (including both Clinton/Gore campaigns)

Craig Hughes - Director of Research; Craig came to RBI after working as Eastern Political Director in the Clinton White House from 1998-2000. In that position, he supervised political activities for the President, First Lady, Vice President, and Mrs. Gore in twelve Eastern states. Craig was one of the earliest staff members hired for the Clinton for President Campaign in 1991, and subsequently worked for both Clinton/Gore campaigns as well as the Democratic National Committee.

Belle also has concerns that Media Matters may be violating Maryland law.

If attorney Mark Levin is right, It's only a matter of time before Media Matters is shuttered as a "criminal enterprise".

Illustration: the invaluable Ramirez

Saturday, October 06, 2007

Job Creation Streak: best since 1939

 
Suitably Flip points us to this stunning graph.

Government statistics show "not only a September payroll increase of 110,000, but it revised the August estimate from a decrease of 4,000 to an increase of 89,000.  At 49 months (assuming future revisions don't reverse September's gains), the [job creation] streak now stands alone as the longest unbroken period of job creation since we started tracking it in 1939."

I blame Bush.

Flip goes on to note Hillary Clinton's ridiculous assertions from two weeks ago: "...speaking at the Women Impacting Public Policy's annual meeting, cherrypicking September's preliminary estimate to suggest the economy is not creating jobs."

We could close this gap, create more employment at a time when our economy desperately needs more employment, and create millions of new jobs that will get us over this, you know, barrier that we're not creating jobs. We lost 4,000 jobs in our economy last month. We're not seeing the job creation.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Another day, another Hillary fabrication.

Friday, October 05, 2007

How liberals and conservatives differ

 
Here's one important way: liberals progressives believe Hillary's cackle is "utterly endearing" -- and that it's "helped her."

Listen for yourself with your eyes closed. And imagine four years. Four loooooooong years.

Thursday, October 04, 2007

Progressives lied. Nielsen ratings died.

 
At Newsbusters, Mark Finkelstein catches the Clinton-Soros left in yet another fabrication.

At the 2007 YearlyKos konvention, Hillary claimed she'd helped found the Soros-funded Media Matters front group.

Yesterday, on MSNBC, Tucker Carlson interviewed Paul Waldman, who is a "Senior Fellow and Director of Special Projects" of Media Matters. Pressing Waldman on Hillary's claim, Under close questioning by Carlson, Waldman wound up contradicting Hillary's claim.

CARLSON: ...What does Hillary Clinton mean that she "helped start" Media Matters?

WALDMAN: Well, I think she's supportive of what we do, and a lot of people have encouraged us.

CARLSON: Did she help start it?

WALDMAN [pictured in the midst of this moment]: Uh, uh, no. I think she's been somebody who encouraged it and was supportive like a lot of progressives.

So who's lying? Given their track records, Waldman and Hillary are both fibbing, if that's possible.

Having seen PMSNBC's ratings, though, I'm surprised anyone even taped the show.

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Democrats worry about Hillary heading the ticket

 
Evans & Novak (hat tip: Larwyn):

Democrats: Sen. Hillary Clinton's (D-N.Y.) first place in the fundraising race strengthened the appearance that this is her race to lose, which has brought out some Democratic worries about her as the nominee...

*... Obama has begun to become more pointed in his critiques of her, specifically assailing her vote in favor of the Iraq War. Because Iraq was a key motivator for Democratic voters in 2006, this is Obama's best opening. The questions are: (a) Will Obama hit hard enough? and (b) Can he come across as knowledgeable and beat the rap of being too wet behind the ears on serious issues?

*... The New York Times has recently run a handful articles and columns criticizing Clinton or worrying about her as the party's nominee. Veteran Democrats fear she is too polarizing with too high negatives and that she could actually lose in a year that, by all rights, should be tilted heavily towards the Democrats.

I really don't know what they're worried about. All of Hillary's controversies are behind her.

Sandy Berger's Reward

 
So Hillary Clinton has quietly appointed Sandy Berger her national security adviser. Yes, this is the same fun-loving Sandy Berger who stole and destroyed classifed documents related to the 9/11 investigation.

While the truthers are busy investigating how Halliburton imploded WTC 7, Richard Miniter discloses the real reason Berger risked his career and reputation to steal the 9/11 documents.

My informed sources suggest that what Berger destroyed were copies of the Millennium After-Action Review, a binder-sized report prepared by Richard Clarke in 2000—a year and half before the 9-11 attacks. The review made a series of recommendations for a tougher stance against bin Laden and terrorism. There are 13 or more copies of this report. But only one contains hand-written notes by President Bill Clinton. Apparently, in the margin beside the recommendations, Bill Clinton wrote NO, NO, NO next to many of the tougher policy proposals.

You can see why Clinton might be happy to see these records vanish down the memory hole... So Berger was stuffing in pants and socks and later shredding the evidence that President Clinton did not want to take a tougher line on bin Laden, following the 1998 attack on two U.S. embassies that killed 224 people (including 12 American diplomats).

[Now Hillary] makes Berger one of her top three foreign policy advisers... and I have a few questions:

Did she bring him aboard to reward him for his criminal destruction of classified material? Or did she sign him up because of his stellar record in fighting bin Laden in the late 1990s?

If Miniter's sources are correct -- and, from the looks of things, they are -- it's easy to determine why Berger took the risks he did.

Bill Clinton's legacy and Hillary Clinton's hopes for the presidency rested on Berger's ability to purge the National Archives of the incriminating material.

In truth, the Clinton pair -- otherwise known as the triangulators -- were unwilling to take any risks that would result in the capture or assassination of Bin Laden. That Hillary would name a convicted thief of classified documents to a sensitive role isn't practical, but it is payback. It is Sandy Berger's reward.

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Harry Reid demands that Rush Limbaugh apologize

 
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took the Senate floor today to demand that conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh apologize for his "phony soldiers'' commentary. The faux controversy appears to have been manufactured by far left PR group Media Matters.

Observers point out that Limbaugh's comments referred to discredited liberal mini-celebs and not the troops:

From Jesse MacBeth to Scott Thomas Beauchamp, liberals and anti-war moonbats have suspended logic and reason to embrace people because they liked what they had to say, regardless of whether the tales made sense, or their credentials were as they claimed.

Was this a simple diversionary tactic? It would appear so.

Recall:

* Democratic front-group MorOn.org called General General David Petraeus "General Betray-us" and Hillary Clinton essentially called the decorated veteran a liar.

* “Let me be clear. The violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge. The inability of American Soldiers to protect these tribes from Al-Qaida said to these tribes: We have to fight Al-Qaida ourselves.” -- Sen. Charles Schumer

* “I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and — you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows — (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything…” -- Senator Harry Reid

* “If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans [Soldiers] had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings.” -- Senator Dick Durbin

* “There was no firefight, there was no IED that killed these innocent people. Our troops [Haditha Marines] overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood. They actually went into the houses and killed women and children. ” -- Representative John Murtha

* “Shamefully we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.” -- Senator Ted Kennedy

* "And there is no reason… that young American Soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the – of – the historical customs, religious customs.” -- Senator John Kerry (in a manner reminiscent of Genghis Kahn)

* “The War on Terror is a slogan designed only for politics, not a strategy to make America safe. It’s a bumper sticker, not a plan.” – Former Senator, Former Vice Presidential candidate, Presidential Candidate John Edwards

News flash for Reid and MorOn.org: Rush will apologize when Schumer, Reid, Durbin, Murtha, Kennedy, Kerry, and Edwards apologize for their egregious remarks.

Hat tip for most quotes: J. D. Pendry