Saturday, January 26, 2008

Holy Crap! It's a Saturday Night Linkfest!

 
Outside the Beltway's James Joyner pinpoints Hillary Clinton's amazing proclivity for underhanded (and some would say criminal) activities. In this case, Hillary's campaign has called for the delegates from Michigan and Florida to be reinstated.

Hillary Clinton has issued a call to retroactively seat the delegates from Michigan and Florida that were ousted for holding their primaries earlier than allowed. She does so in the language of party unity...

Of course, this is complicated somewhat by the fact that she ran unopposed in Michigan — because her opponents followed the rules and took their names off the ballot and she did not — and is expected to win Florida easily... Robert Prather observed in the previous post, “I suspect that this is only the beginning of the Clintons’ shenanigans...”

And this view isn’t just coming from the Clinton Derangement Syndrome infected Right Wing Conspiracy engaging in the Politics of Personal Destruction because they Hate Strong Women. ...[It's coming from] the Obama campaign...

I'm just wondering if Obama is considering using the RICO Statute to fight the Clinton Machine?

Parkway Rest Stop has the dialogue from the next Clinton-Obama debate. Warning: a lot of dialogue is bleeped out. Make sure the kids have left the room before opening the page.

Jonathan Chait, writing in the LA Times, reluctantly admits that the Right was right all along (hat tip: Dan Riehl). In this case, when it comes to the sleaze machine that is the Clinton Syndicate.

Something strange happened the other day. All these different people -- friends, co-workers, relatives, people on a liberal e-mail list I read -- kept saying the same thing: They've suddenly developed a disdain for Bill and Hillary Clinton. Maybe this is just a coincidence, but I think we've reached an irrevocable turning point in liberal opinion of the Clintons...

Perhaps they just read the Clinton's Top Twelve Fabrications List.

Clifford May at the National Review provides excellent insight into how evil harnesses "the dark desires of restive crowds."

Mark Steyn mourns the passing of Piglet.

World protests as Israeli police dogs attack Palestinian woman!

 
Eye on the World calls our attention to this amazing Reuters photo:

A Palestinian woman stands among Egyptian riot police as she tries to cross into Egypt through the destroyed section of the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, January 25, 2008. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)

Oops. I guess I wrote the wrong headline.

Of course, if those riot police were Israeli, the headline and caption would be radically different.

Ah, Reuters. Aren't they great?

An odd series of events

 
All over the world, a bizarre series of events occurred this week.

In Atlanta, a cat shivered during a strange snow storm.

A doghouse flooded in Missouri.

A long crack suddenly appeared in a glacier.

Elvis' grave was covered with a thin coat of ice.

In New York, some dude fried an egg on his car.

A BMW's radiator overheated on a highway in Iowa.

In Beijing, China, the worst pollution on the planet killed a few more people.

In Hollywood, a constipated Michael Moore passed gas during an interview.

Kids were swinging in a park on a beautiful clear day in Baghdad.

On a quiet creek in West Virginia, an entire family of beavers mysteriously disappeared.

What's it all mean?

Al Gore is in Davos, Switzerland, bloviating about climate change to increase the value of his carbon offset scams businesses.

Line o' the day: the 'complicated' marriage

 
On Gail Collins' assertion that "the Clintons have an extremely complicated marriage..."

It's not that complicated. It's a marriage of convenience.

And it's a fine example for their daughter.

                                                                                                            -- My wife. Just now.

Mr. Mubarak: tear down this wall!

 
Egypt moved to stop the influx of Gazans into its territory today.

Egyptian riot police blocked Gazan cars from entering Egypt on Saturday, the fourth day of a border breach, after Hamas militants had cleared a path for vehicles to cross.

Dozens of riot police formed human chains, blocking two passages used by cars that had carried large numbers of Palestinians across the border. Several Egyptian armored vehicles took up positions to back up the troops.

Earlier in the day, Egyptian border guards had allowed the cars to pass. On Friday, the guards had made a failed attempt to stop the influx of Palestinians, then traveling on foot, into Egypt...

Egypt faces a dilemma over how to handle the border crisis. If it acts forcefully against the Gazans, it could anger its own people, who are sympathetic to the Palestinians' plight. But if it does nothing, it risks infiltration by Islamic militants.

Is anyone else asking the question: why doesn't Egypt simply subsume Gaza? Its people empathize with the Palestinians and both areas are predominantly Muslim.


Why doesn't Gaza simply become part of Egypt? Wouldn't that be the humane thing to do for the Palestinian people?

Mr. Mubarak: tear down this wall!

Temper, temper: when Bill Clinton attacked Dick Morris

 
Dick Morris opines that as Bill Clinton's temper becomes more visible, it serves as an increasing liability for Hillary's campaign. He recalls a tantrum that was first publicized nearly two decades ago.

...in 1990... during his last gubernatorial race... he was falling behind in the polls... When he learned of his decline... he immediately blamed me, accusing me of spending too much time with other clients. Yelling and screaming, he escalated his charges, refusing to listen to me tell him that his latest ad had not been on television yet when the poll was completed. He kept ranting.

Finally, I had enough. I stood up and said I was leaving, quitting the campaign. I grabbed my coat and headed out of the mansion. As I crossed the foyer, I suddenly fell to the ground, tackled by Bill Clinton. I saw his large fist coming at me. Hillary was trying to get between us, yelling “Bill, Bill, stop it. Think about what you are doing. Bill, stop it!”

Bill got up and I walked out the door. Hillary ran after me. She tried to calm me and asked me to walk around the grounds of the Mansion with her. “He only does this to people he loves,” she told me...

Gateway Pundit has the ten-year anniversary clip celebrating another masterful trait of the ex-president.


Don Surber pops the cork on the champagne as well.

Friday, January 25, 2008

Books on my Amazon wish-list

 
I didn't get these for the holidays, so they are still on my wish list.


The protaganist of Harry Reid's novel is a Senator that receives a $1 million windfall in a land sale related to a controversial rezoning effort.


Rep. William Jefferson's complex, multi-faceted story is worthy of a John Grisham novel: a web of front companies, thousands of dollars stored in a freezer, and hundreds of thousands "sloshing through bank accounts."


Sandy Berger's exciting tale reads like a spy story: top-secret documents left at a "dead drop," a commission investigating a massive terrorist attack, and a coverup of extraordinary proportions.


Hillary Clinton's rags-to-riches story describes a working girl's savvy investment of $1,000; and how -- through determination and sheer grit -- she was able to turn that into nearly $100,000 in just a few months' time. It's inspirational material of the highest caliber!


Ted Kennedy's classic tale of a party, a girl, a bridge, and a soggy morning-after needs no introduction.

Not-so-instant classic post from December 2006

Three Little Porkers offend Militant Quakers

 
Becta, a British organization that approves childrens' books, has officially rejected an updated version of The Three Little Pigs. Apparently, images of porkers offend militant Quakers, who are "sentenced to an eternity in hell" if they happen to flip a page and see an unexpected slice of bacon.

These freaking fictional pigs are really starting to tick me off. They've got some chutzpah, don't they?

Open-borders revolutionary backed by antisemites joins McCain

 
Is that an inflammatory enough headline for you? It reflects the latest developments in the McCain campaign.

Gateway Pundit alerts us to the fact that Juan Hernandez has joined the McCain for President campaign. Who is Juan Hernandez?

He is a former head of Mexico's Ministry for Mexicans Living in the United States. According to Michelle Malkin, who debated Hernandez on multiple occasions, Hernandez' mission was to tie repatriated Mexicans "emotionally, linguistically, politically to Mexico, because then they‘ll continue to send money home.”

In fact, Hernandez told Rep. Tom Tancredo that "it‘s not two countries; it‘s just a region.”

Hernandez refers to the so-called region of "Aztlan", the mythical southwestern portion of the United States that Chicano revolutionaries claim as their own.

Aztlan: an attempt to overthrow the United States government


Universities in the Southwest facilitate student participation in groups like MEChA. MEChA is one of several groups that intend to "reclaim Aztlán" (the outlined portion of the United States):

...we are a Chicana and Chicano student movement directly linked to Aztlán. As Chicanas and Chicanos of Aztlán, we are a nationalist movement of Indigenous Gente that lay claim to the land that is ours by birthright. As a nationalist movement we seek to free our people from the exploitation of an oppressive society that occupies our land...

Put simply, MEChA's mission is straightforward: overthrow the United States Government and establish a new form of government.

Hernandez: backed by Antisemites


An article from the Aztlan Communications Network (2002) blames Hernandez' prior problems on the "Zionists" ("Fox extends Mexican Government into Aztlan"):

The new cabinet level agency replaces the "Office for Mexicans Living Abroad" that was headed by Juan Hernandez of Dallas, Texas. Mr. Hernandez was born in Texas but he obtained dual citizenship in Mexico under a recent law passed by the Mexican Congress. Mr. Juan Hernandez was ousted by Zionist Foreign Minister Jorge Gutman after he stepped on the mercurial secretary's toes...

The "Revolutionary Council and Provisional Government of Aztlan" sent a copy of a communique to La Voz de Aztlan stating that it welcomes the Mexican government's initiative to help Mexican nationals here in Aztlan but that it vehemently rejects the Mexican government's new connections to Zionists and Zionism...

Put simply, Juan Hernandez appears to be an open-borders revolutionary who is intent on overthrowing the U.S. Government. Furthermore, by dint of his Aztlan connections, he is linked with virulent antisemitic forces.

Please consider that if you intend to vote for John McCain.

If you're a Republican considering voting for John McCain...

 
...here are some recent headlines for your consideration.

• CNN: Bill Clinton: John McCain and Hillary are 'very close'

• Time: McCain's Mother: Son has no support from GOP Base

• New York Times: Bill Clinton: Hillary and McCain would be most civilized election in history

• AP: Sen. Mel 'Open the Borders' Martinez endorses McCain

Oh, and the New York Times just endorsed Senator McCain.

McCain's a great candidate, just not for the Republican Party.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

MEMRI: Rules of Jihad

 
Interesting snippet from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series ("Summary of the Document of Right Guidance for Jihad Activity in Egypt and the World"):

Jihad Requires the Permission of One's Parents and Creditors

"Article 4: It is not permitted to go out to fight jihad without the permission of both parents and the permission of one's creditors, because acting rightly with one's parents is an individual obligation (fardh 'ayn), and they have rights over their son, and [thus] he should not go out to jihad without their permission. This appears in an authentic hadith.

"Likewise, Allah does not accept martyrdom as atonement for a mujahid's debts, and he should not go out [to fight jihad] without the permission of his creditor.

"This has become pandemic in our times. We find parents who only learn that their son has gone to fight jihad after his picture is published in the newspapers as a fatality or a prisoner."

Looks like this guy didn't get the "no-debt--for-suicide-bombers" memo.

Check this out... I'm like totally getting out of my 350Z payments, dude!

On Killing Civilians

"Article 9: Prohibition against killing civilians. The prohibition against killing those civilians who are visibly Muslims is emphasized in the Prophet's saying, 'Every Muslim's life, property, and honor is inviolable to other Muslims', as told by Muslim [i.e. in Muslim Ibn Al-Hajjaj's compendium of hadith].

"Those whose condition is unknown [i.e. when it is not known whether or not they are Muslim], it is not permitted to attack them, even in a state of fighting, until the truth of their condition is known, because Allah said (Koran 4:94): 'Oh you who believe, when you go forth to fight jihad, distinguish' [Muslims from non-Muslims]."

So let me recap: killing Muslim civilians -- Bad. Killing civilians of unknown religious background -- Bad. Killing civilians who are not Muslim? Godspeed, Mr. Suicide Bomber!

Exclusive close-ups: Bigfoot on Mars

 
The Telegraph (UK) reports that an eerie figure was spotted by the Mars explorer in 2004.


The shadowy image appears to resemble old photographs of "Bigfoot" (otherwise known as "Sasquatch" [Canada], "Yeti" [Tibet] and "Michael Moore" [Hollywood]).

The photograph, taken in 2004 by the Mars explorer Spirit, appears to show a human shaped object that looks startingly like previous photographs purporting to have captured Bigfoot.

Careful photographic analysis by our star cub reporter Biff Spackle reveals quite a surprise.

Oh, those crazy, whacky Clintons! They really know how to get free PR!

"Hillary Clinton: She'll say anything and change nothing"

 
In the latest RCP poll, Barack Obama leads Hillary Clinton 39.3 to 28.3. Native South Carolinian John Edwards pulled down a pathetic 15.7% from the folks who presumably know him best.

Meanwhile, what the candidates are slinging looks less like mud and more like Mr. Hankie's family reunion.

In the latest brouhaha, Hillary was forced to pull a controversial ad in South Carolina.

Under fire for airing misleading attacks on Sen. Barack Obama, the Clinton campaign has pulled a radio ad that quoted the Illinois senator calling Republicans "the party of ideas" and suggesting he thought those ideas superior to Democratic ones. But the Obama campaign has already counter-punched, launching a new radio spot saying Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will "say anything" to get elected.

The Clinton campaign did not immediately explain why it had pulled its radio spot, which had triggered a furious response from the Obama campaign and touched off a wave of criticism from Democrats who said the Clinton campaign has grown excessively aggressive in recent days. The Obama ad was no less fierce. It reminded voters that Clinton had voted to authorize the war in Iraq, saying she "voted for George Bush's war," and accused her of making "false attacks" on Obama.

"Hillary Clinton: She'll say anything and change nothing," the ad says.

That's a hell of a t-shirt slogan!

And would it be impolite to giggle at this point?

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The Clintons: "stealing from children to reward Indonesian billionaires"

 
Investors Business Daily has a startling story of Clinton shenanigans that are doubly outrageous. Not only did the Clintons facilitate the illicit contribution of over $1 million from an Indonesian coal syndicate, but -- in an apparent quid pro quo -- Bill Clinton locked the door to the the world's largest coal field, conveniently located in Utah. The field could have contributed greatly to American's energy independence.

Hillary Clinton called President Bush's talks with the Saudis about increasing oil output "pathetic." But it's not as pathetic as her co-president husband locking up billions of tons of clean coal in exchange for political contributions...

A large part of America's energy dependence on foreign sources can be traced to Sept. 18, 1996, when President Bill Clinton stood on the edge of the Grand Canyon on the Arizona side and signed an executive proclamation making 1.7 million acres of Utah a new national monument.

...In fact, the declaration of 1.7 million Utah acres as a national monument, [deprived] an energy-starved U.S. up to 62 billion tons of environmentally safe low-sulfur coal worth $1.2 trillion and minable with minimal surface impact, was a political payoff to the family of James Riady.

He's the son of Lippo Group owner Mochtar Riady. James was found guilty of — and paid a multimillion dollar fine for — funneling more than $1 million in illegal political contributions through Lippo Bank into various American political campaigns, including Bill Clinton's presidential run in 1992.

Clinton took off the world market the largest known deposit of clean-burning coal. And who owned and controlled the second-largest deposit in the world of this clean coal? The Indonesian Lippo Group of James Riady... The Utah reserve contains a kind of low-sulfur, low-ash and therefore low-polluting coal that can be found in only a couple of places in the world. It burns so cleanly that it meets the requirements of the Clean Air Act without additional technology.

...a large portion of the coal-rich Kaiparowits Plateau within the monument belonged to the children of Utah. When Utah became a state in 1896, ...a trust fund was created to collect and hold all the revenues directly for the benefit of schools. [Now], the schools stand to lose as much as $1 billion over the next 50 years. Phyllis Sorensen, head of the Utah chapter of the National Education Association, called Clinton's action a "felonious assault" and "stealing from the schoolchildren..."

Sarah Foster has additional info as does the Newsmax archives from 2001.

Update: Linked by Mitchell Langbert. Thanks!

Real torture in Iraq: Saddam's House of Horrors

 
Hewa Aziz ("Saddam's House of Horrors"):

Despite the passage of 17 years since the liberation of the city of Sulaymaniyeh and the whole Iraqi Kurdistan region following the 1990-1991 uprisings against the former Iraqi Baathist regime, the traces of terror and suffering still remain in attestation of the brutality of the deposed regime.

The residents of Sulaymaniyeh still recall a dark time in which Saddam's Red Prison existed; a compound of cinderblock buildings, ranging over 3,000 square meters, in which the Red Security intelligence was based.

The torture chambers and solitary confinement cells in this 'red' compound have earned their name by virtue of the red paint that coats the facade of the buildings – a living testimony of the bloody legacy it left behind.

Today the site has been converted into a museum; a torture museum which is known as "The National Museum of the Kurdish Revolution and Victims (So That We May Not Forget)"...

Shhhh... no one tell the progressives.

They still think that the hazing stunts at Abu Graib qualify as torture.

Quick, someone hide the blowtorches and battery cables! Real instruments of torture could damage the delicate sense of Democrats' "moral equivalence".

Several months ago, Kevin Sites' Hot Zone covered Saddam's not-so-little Shop of Horrors:

...a Kurdish rebel hanging by his wrists from a metal hook, his arms bound behind his back -- a position intended to use the prisoner's weight to dislocate his shoulders.

He is dressed in the traditional Kurdish "sharwal" baggy pants and his shirt is partly untucked. Two electric alligator clips are attached to his earlobes from where wires run to a green hand-cranked electrical generator on a metal desk. His face is frozen in a moment of agony. The room is paneled in wood to muffle his screams.

Ahmadinejad to make "landmark" visit to Iraq

 
Asharq Alawsat is reporting that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has agree to pay a "landmark" visit Iraq.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accepted an invitation to visit Baghdad, Iraq's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, a landmark trip that would make him the first leader of Iran to visit its former foe.

Iran and Iraq fought an eight-year war in the 1980s in which hundreds of thousands were killed, but relations have improved since Saddam Hussein was ousted in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and a Shi'ite Islamist-led government came to power.

"President Ahmadinejad has accepted an invitation from President (Jalal) Talabani to come to Iraq," Iraqi deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abawi told Reuters...

U.S. and Iranian officials were to have held a fourth round of talks in Baghdad in mid-December on curbing violence in Iraq but the meeting was put off. No new date has been set, U.S. embassy spokeswoman Mirembe Nantongo said.

The U.S. military said at the weekend there had been a sharp drop in the number of Iranian weapons being used in Iraq but no let-up in Tehran's training and financing of Iraq militias.

Memo to Mahmoud: watch out for the exploding Pizza.

Or the poisoned water.

Or the hair dryer with a teensy, weensy electrocution problem.

Have a relaxing stay!

Something Hamas and Fatah can agree on

 
Kevin Peraino, writing in Newsweek ("The PR War in Gaza"), describes one thing that Hamas and Fatah can agree on.

Consider the case of Mahmoud Zahar, currently the most powerful Hamas figures in the Gaza Strip... One of the movement's leading hawks, he displays a deep suspicion of most Westerners, journalists included. A New York Times reporter once asked the Islamist, who is a medical doctor by trade, about his field of expertise. "Thyroids," Zahar replied. "I'm very good at cutting throats."

...[yet] some secular West Bankers I talked to last week were a little choked up when they heard the news that Zahar's 20-year-old son, Husam, a militant in Hamas's Izzedine al-Qassam militia, was killed during a recent Israeli incursion into northern Gaza. Husam is the second of Zahar's three sons to have been killed by Israeli forces; in 2003, Zahar's son Khaled died when an F-16 dropped a bomb on his father's house in an assassination attempt.. "I feel sorry for him," said one secular Palestinian friend, who is generally no fan of Zahar's. Even President Mahmoud Abbas -- who is still fuming about the Islamists' June coup in Gaza -- offered Zahar his condolences, which the Islamist quickly accepted. It was the first time Hamas and Fatah leaders had said anything supportive about each other in months...

I could see folks getting a "little choked up" for the throat-cutter's terrorist son.

Widow of Militant Quaker warns France of Attack

 
I'm still a novice at reading French, but Le Parisien (French for "The Fans of Paris Hilton") is reporting that a terrorist's widow has warned France that a major attack is imminent. Fatiha Mejjati, the wife of dead Al-Quaida terrorist Karim Mejjati, said that France would be "punished" for its loyalty to the United States. Karim was reportedly whacked in Saudi Arabia after he was linked to the 2004 Madrid Subway bombings.


I know she's a widow, but she looks hot!

If I'm translating this article correctly, Al-Quaida is the infamous group of Militant Quakers who advocate waging "Quihad" (Quaker Holy War) to establish a global "Qualiphate".

Hat tip: Gateway Pundit

Most Americans are in cell-phone jail

 
Bob Sullivan:

[In the cellphone economy, you can't] act like a rational consumer in a normal, functioning market economy. You don’t go buy the new phone, or get the cheap new plan. You don’t reward the more efficient company with your business. You can’t. You’re in jail.

Imagine if you couldn’t switch coffee shops or grocery stores without paying hundreds of dollars in penalties. Preposterous? No — not in the world of cell phones.

From the start, wireless providers have worked hard to lock you up into losing situations, constructing walls with cancellation fees, service-specific phones, and the loss of your phone number.

Worse yet — cell phone companies can, and do, change their side of the contract unilaterally. Consumers seemingly have no options to decline the higher prices. In other words, they can raise prices, and you can’t quit. Consider this note of complaint, filed with the Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group by a consumer named Kerry:

I’m currently in the middle of a two-year contract with Verizon Wireless. They just notified me that they are dramatically increasing the charges I pay for receiving each text message from 2 cents to 10 cents.

When I called to complain, they left me with a few choices, and I was unhappy with all of them. I could simply accept the increase in charges. Alternatively, I could sign up for an unlimited text messaging plan for another $5/month, but only if I renew with Verizon for another two years. Or, I could end my contract and pay an early termination fee of $175.

If I don’t pay the fee and change my plan to get the best rate for text messaging, then I'm locked in with Verizon for even longer than I originally would have been had they just kept the rates the same. And since the new plan also has an early termination fee, I’ll face the same problem if they decide, without my agreement, to change the plan again to suit their needs...

Bob has some excellent advice for waging war against the telcos.

And long-term, is there anything that could transform the wireless environment for consumers? The hopeful answer is "yes".

A valuable swath of wireless spectrum will be auctioned off by the FCC starting tomorrow. Google, of all companies, is one of the qualified bidders. CIO Today speculates on what Google might be up to.

The AP: willful accomplice in the run-up to idiocy

 
The Associated Press is marketing a new website by antiwar watchdog group Center for Public Integrity,, which lists "935 false statements" by President Bush and his administration during the run-up to war. The new site's headline reads Orchestrated Deception on the Path to War.

The Center's claim is galling on two fronts:
  • The group had no access to any classified documents, intelligence summaries, shared foreign intel, Presidential Daily Briefs, or similar material that would help them judge the veracity of the statements.
  • The group carefully restricted which persons could issue false statements (e.g., they had to be Republicans), ignoring the scores of Democrats who had access to the same information and made the same "false" claims.


"Saddam's goal ... is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed." -- Madeline Albright, 1998

"I never believed in the link between Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and Islamist terrorism," -- Madeline Albright, 2003


"As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." -- Nancy Pelosi, 1998

"This war has been a grotesque mistake that has diminished our reputation in the world and has not made America safer." -- Nancy Pelosi, 2004


"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retained some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capability. Intelligence reports also indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons, but has not yet achieved nuclear capability." -- Robert Byrd, 2002

"[I]t is clear that the Administration's rhetoric played upon the well-founded fear of the American public about future acts of terrorism." -- Robert Byrd, 2003


"There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed." -- Ted Kennedy, 2002

"Iraq was not a breeding ground for terrorism. Our invasion has made it one." -- Ted Kennedy, 2003.


"Saddam’s existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraq’s enemies and against his own people. He is working to develop delivery systems like missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles that could bring these deadly weapons against U.S. forces and U.S. facilities in the Middle East." -- John Rockefeller, 2002

"The absolute cynical manipulation, deliberately cynical manipulation, to shape American public opinion and 69 percent of the people, at that time, it worked, they said 'we want to go to war'... [Saddam] wasn't going to attack us. He would've been isolated there... He would have been in control of that country but we wouldn't have depleted our resources preventing us from prosecuting a war on terror which is what this is all about." -- John Rockefeller, 2006


"The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow." -- Bill Clinton, 1998

"Saddam is gone. It's a good thing, but I don't agree with what was done... It was a big mistake. The American government made several errors ... one of which is how easy it would be to get rid of Saddam and how hard it would be to unite the country." -- Bill Clinton, 2005


"Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." -- Al Gore, 2002

"He [Bush] betrayed this country! He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place." -- Al Gore, 2004


"(W)e need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime. We all know the litany of his offenses. He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation." -- John Kerry, 2003

"Iraq was not a terrorist haven before the invasion... Iraq was not even close to the center of the War on Terror before the president invaded it." -- John Kerry, 2003

No party has changed course more often, more wrongly and with less commitment to the national security of the United States than the modern Democrat Party.

I think I'm going to summarize all of the false statements by the AP and the CPI and publish my own expose of their idiocy. Though I may need something more powerful than an Access database to track all of their fabrications.