Steven Den Beste, in a long article on voting patterns, comes up with the brilliant analogy of the Democratic primary race as the card game Hearts. It’s a great match… which is not a surprise given the source.
From:Howard Dean Campaign
To:Campaign Staffers
Re:Authorized Automobile Car Decals
The following decals may be displayed on staff member automobiles. BE SURE to use the ones appropriate to your region, and remove inappropriate decals if you change regions.
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For once… not about political affairs.
As a professional in the computer industry, I subscribe to Wired Magazine. I was amazed to discover that I could not renew via a web page! This magazine purports to be the voice of the ultra-modern web world.
Pathetic!
If one only read the Washington Post or the New York Times, you would get the information that years of diplomacy and sanctions led to the stunning surrender of Libya’s WMD program. You would not hear that Gadaffi stated that the war in Iraq was the deciding factor!
The New York Times at least credits the “urgency” to “American stances on Iran and North Korea and the war in Iraq” but titles its article “Secret Diplomacy Won Libyan Pledge on Arms.”
But the facts are given by the Italian Prime minister as reported in the Telegraph:
Col Gaddafi of Libya, […] said: “I will do whatever the Americans want, because I saw what happened in Iraq, and I was afraid.“
The conversion of two major newspapers to propaganda organs is truly stunning. The New York Times and the Washington Post are sliding into irrelevance because of their lack of honesty.
Thanks to Right-Thinking from the Left Coast.
UPDATE: In a conversation with Fox News, former arms inspector Hans Blix said that events in Libya showed that you can have a handover of WMD’s without going to war. Perhaps he read the New York Times instead of the Telegraph. But then, coming from Hans Blix, is it surprising that he should have this view?
Hey Hans… here’s a message for you: It DID take a war to get Libya to take this step. The Iraq War did indeed result in finding weapons of mass destruction and dangerous programs… just not in Iraq!
UPDATE: Safire points out the silliness of the “diplomacy did it” idiots.
Omar, at Iraq The Model has an eloquent and fascinating discourse on these subjects. Examples:
we give conspiracy theory-fortified milk to our babies once they pass the age of 6 months.
…calling all of you to support the just struggle between civilization on one side and terrorism and dictatorship on the other.
Useful Fools has raised the Democratic Candidate Opportunism Threat Level to Orange.
This is due to increased threat of both terrorism, increase chatter by the candidates and expected cynical use of any resulting terrorist event by them.
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In yet another example of how far the great BBC has fallen, a BBC internal memo instructs reporters to call Saddam “the former leader of Iraq” and not to call him a “dictator”. The reason: technically, he was elected. I wonder if they apply the same rule to Hitler, who was also elected?
This is right up there with Reuters’ practice of refusing to call terrorists, well, “terrorists.”
When leading elite news organizations cannot get the most basic nouns right, is it any wonder that Europeans are so poorly informed about world events?
Today there was apparently an extremely significant victory in World War IV (poorly named The War on Terror). Libya has announced that it is abandoning its WMD programs (including a very advanced nuclear program that was “close to producing weapons”).
The left is baffled. How could this have happened? Did the sanctions finally work?
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The Democrat presidential candidates (with the honorable exception of Joe Lieberman) are striving show that they will abandon Iraq at their first opportunity, as their party did previously in Vietnam and Mogadishu. Their intent is clear, even when they say “We will stay, but…”. They mistakenly believe that Bush is an illegitimate president, and thus his every action should be reversed, no matter the cost. At best they claim plans to turn the problem over to the heroes and fantastic country builders at the U.N. Furthermore, they offer no alternative method of dealing with Islamist terrorists, who have already killed thousands in our homeland and plan to kill millions more.
Bin Laden learned well the lessons of Vietnam, which is that anti-war Democrats are his best chance to win this war.
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In National Review’s blog, K-Lo writes:
MAD MADDY [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Hannity and Colmes just replayed a segment from earlier on Fox during which Mort Kondrake relayed a conversation he had with Madeline Albright in a Fox green room. She asks, Do you suppose the administration has Osama bin Laden and will bring him out before the election? Kondrake said that he asked her if she was serious and she suggested it is a real possibility. She was our secretary of state.
