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		<title>The eternal flame of Muslim outrage</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Every blogger worth his salt knows &#8220;Islamic Rage Boy.&#8221; He represents the professional Muslim grievance-monger, always at the ready to protest whatever manufactured insult could be exploited to curse the West. Christopher Hitchens wrote on the futility of appeasing the worldwide Rage Boy mob &#8212; a theme I&#8217;ve struck here for years , which bears repeating as we prepare to mark the 9th anniversary of 9/11, and which I reiterate in my syndicated column today. We didn&#8217;t start the fire. The eternal flame of Muslim outrage by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 Shhhhhhh, we&#8217;re told. Don&#8217;t protest the Ground Zero mosque. Don&#8217;t burn a Koran. It&#8217;ll imperil the troops. It&#8217;ll inflame tensions. The &#8220;Muslim world&#8221; will &#8220;explode&#8221; if it does not get its way, warns sharia-peddling imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. Pardon my national security-threatening impudence, but when is the &#8220;Muslim world&#8221; not ready to &#8220;explode&#8221;? At the risk of provoking the ever-volatile Religion of Perpetual Outrage, let us count the little-noticed and forgotten ways. Just a few months ago in Kashmir, faithful Muslims rioted over what they thought was a mosque depicted on underwear sold by street vendors. The mob shut down businesses and clashed with police over the blasphemous skivvies. But it turned out there was no need for Allah&#8217;s avengers to get their holy knickers in a bunch. The alleged mosque was actually a building resembling London&#8217;s St. Paul&#8217;s Cathedral. A Kashmiri law enforcement official later concluded the protests were &#8220;premeditated and organized to vitiate the atmosphere.&#8221; Indeed, art and graphics have an uncanny way of vitiating the Muslim world&#8217;s atmosphere. In 1994, Muslims threatened German supermodel Claudia Schiffer with death after she wore a Karl Lagerfeld-designed dress printed with a saying from the Koran . In 1997, outraged Muslims forced Nike to recall 800,000 shoes because they claimed the company&#8217;s &#8220;Air&#8221; logo looked like the Arabic script for &#8220;Allah.&#8221; In 1998, another conflagration spread over Unilever&#8217;s ice cream logo &#8212; which Muslims claimed looked like &#8220;Allah&#8221; if read upside-down and backward (can&#8217;t recall what they said it resembled if you viewed it with 3D glasses). Even more explosively, in 2002, an al-Qaida-linked jihadist cell plotted to blow up Bologna, Italy&#8217;s Church of San Petronio because it displayed a 15th century fresco depicting Mohammed being tormented in the ninth circle of Hell. For years, Muslims had demanded that the art come down. Counterterrorism officials in Europe caught the would-be bombers on tape scouting out the church and exclaiming, &#8220;May Allah bring it all down. It will all come down.&#8221; That same year, Nigerian Muslims stabbed, bludgeoned or burned to death 200 people in protest of the Miss World beauty pageant &#8212; which they considered an affront to Allah. Contest organizers fled out of fear of inflaming further destruction. When Nigerian journalist Isioma Daniel joked that Mohammed would have approved of the pageant and that &#8220;in all honesty, he would probably have chosen a wife from among them,&#8221; her newspaper rushed to print three retractions and apologies in a row. It didn&#8217;t stop Muslim vigilantes from torching the newspaper&#8217;s offices. A fatwa was issued on Daniel&#8217;s life by a Nigerian official in the sharia-ruled state of Zamfara, who declared that &#8220;the blood of Isioma Daniel can be shed. It is abiding on all Muslims wherever they are to consider the killing of the writer as a religious duty.&#8221; Daniel fled to Norway. In 2005, British Muslims got all hot and bothered over a Burger King ice cream cone container whose swirly-texted label resembled, you guessed it, the Arabic script for &#8220;Allah.&#8221; The restaurant chain yanked the product in a panic and prostrated itself before the Muslim world. But the fast-food dessert had already become a handy radical Islamic recruiting tool. Rashad Akhtar, a young British Muslim, told Harper&#8217;s Magazine how the ice cream caper had inspired him: &#8220;Even though it means nothing to some people and may mean nothing to some Muslims in this country, this is my jihad. I&#8217;m not going to rest until I find the person who is responsible. I&#8217;m going to bring this country down.&#8221; In 2007, Muslims combusted again in Sudan after an infidel elementary school teacher innocently named a classroom teddy bear &#8220;Mohammed.&#8221; Protesters chanted, &#8220;Kill her, kill her by firing squad!&#8221; and &#8220;No tolerance &#8212; execution!&#8221; She was arrested, jailed and faced 40 lashes for blasphemy before being freed after eight days. Not wanting to cause further inflammation, the teacher rushed to apologize: &#8220;I have great respect for the Islamic religion and would not knowingly offend anyone, and I am sorry if I caused any distress.&#8221; And who could forget the global Danish cartoon riots of 2006 (instigated by imams who toured Egypt stoking hysteria with faked anti-Islam comic strips)? From Afghanistan to Egypt to Lebanon to Libya, Pakistan, Turkey and in between, hundreds died under the pretext of protecting Mohammed from Western slight, and brave journalists who stood up to the madness were threatened with beheading. It wasn&#8217;t really about the cartoons at all, of course. Little-remembered is the fact that Muslim bullies were attempting to pressure Denmark over the International Atomic Energy Agency&#8217;s decision to report Iran to the UN Security Council for continuing with its nuclear research program. The chairmanship of the council was passing to Denmark at the time. Yes, it was just another in a long line of manufactured Muslim explosions that were, to borrow a useful phrase, &#8220;premeditated and organized to vitiate the atmosphere.&#8221; When everything from sneakers to stuffed animals to comics to frescos to beauty queens to fast-food packaging to undies serves as dry tinder for Allah&#8217;s avengers, it&#8217;s a grand farce to feign concern about the recruitment effect of a few burnt Korans in the hands of a two-bit attention-seeker in Florida. The eternal flame of Muslim outrage was lit a long, long time ago. ]]></description>
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		<title>Associated Press Orders No Pictures Shown of Burned Korans; Burned Christian Bibles, Not So Much; Update: Koran Burn Canceled</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ **Written by Doug Powers Hot off the press from the AP&#8217;s Department of Double Standards we find this : 09/09/2010 AP Press Release Memo to AP staff from Standards Center: Guidance &#8211; planned Sept. 11 Quran burning Colleagues, As you know, a group known as the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., has announced that it intends to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11. The concept of this planned event is offensive to many Muslims worldwide. National leaders and spokesmen for other religious denominations have also found the plan repugnant. Should the event happen on Saturday, the AP will not distribute images or audio that specifically show Qurans being burned, and will not provide detailed text descriptions of the burning . With the exception of these specific images and descriptions, we expect to cover the Gainesville event, in all media, placing the actions of this group of about 50 people in a clear and balanced context. Last year, the AP didn&#8217;t appear to think twice before showing pictures of burned Christian bibles : Update: Koran burn called off , AP photo editors&#8217; weekend just got less stressful: GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The anti-Muslim leader of a tiny Florida church backed off his threat to burn the Quran, defusing an international firestorm Thursday after he said he was promised that a planned Islamic center and mosque would be moved away from New York&#8217;s ground zero. The imam planning the center, however, quickly denied such a deal. Throughout this whole flap, did you feel like the lunch meat of sanity unwillingly trapped between two slices of kookbread in a wacko sandwich? &#8220;An exercise in over-reaction&#8221; doesn&#8217;t begin to sum it up. (h/t WZ ) **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe ]]></description>
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		<title>Who Is Pastor Terry Jones, and Why Is he Burning the Koran?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Religion , Gay Rights , Terror , National Security , Culture , Disputations , Afghanistan , Conservatives , Hate Crimes , Middle East , Ground Zero Mosque The Gainesville, Fla. pastor is attracting headlines and condemnation as an extremist. But he shares a history with many American Christians.]]></description>
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		<title>Appeals Court Sides With Bush Obama Administration on Seizure of Terror Suspects</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I had to catch myself for a second. Sides with the Obama administration on terrorist rendition? The ruling is on "extraordinary rendition," of course. The policy for which leftists wanted Bush administration war crimes trials. And now we've got Barack Obama in power continuing the policy. Hey, way to "regain America's moral stature in the world"! Okay, but according to the New York Times : A sharply divided federal appeals court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit involving the Central Intelligence Agency’s practice of seizing terrorism suspects and transferring them to other countries for imprisonment and interrogation. The ruling handed a major victory to the Obama administration in its effort to advance a sweeping view of executive secrecy power. Sweeping view of executive power? How many millions of words were written by leftists attacking proponents of that? Indeed, folks like John Yoo still can't get a break. And there's more : The decision bolstered an array of ways in which the Obama administration has pressed forward with broad counter-terrorism policies after taking over from the Bush team, a degree of continuity that has departed from the expectations fostered by President Obama’s campaign rhetoric, which was often sharply critical of President Bush’s approach. Among other policies, the Obama team has also placed a United States citizen on a targeted-killings list without a trial, blocked efforts by detainees in Afghanistan to bring habeas-corpus lawsuits challenging their indefinite imprisonment, and continued the C.I.A. rendition program – though the administration says it now takes greater safeguards to prevent detainees from being mistreated. Okay, but I thought Obama once said of the Bush administration : "Our government made decisions based upon fear rather than foresight and all too often trimmed facts and evidence to fit ideological predispositions," he said. "In other words, we went off course." Right. He means our previous government, of course, even though he's now following the exact same policies. The ACLU is criticizing the wrong government as well , the one before the Obama administration: Ben Wizner, a senior A.C.L.U. lawyer who argued the case before the appeals court, said the organization was deeply disappointed in the ruling. “To this date, not a single victim of the Bush administration’s torture program has had his day in court,” Mr. Wizner said. “That makes this a sad day not only for the torture survivors who are seeking justice in this case, but for all Americans who care about the rule of law and our nation’s reputation in the world. If this decision stands, the United States will have closed it courts to torture victims while providing complete immunity to their torturers.” Let's just chalk this up as one more reason why folks miss George W. Bush. Honesty. Integrity. Moral clarity. Yep, those are the things we had in the presidency before this administration. They were the right qualities --- and the right policies --- at the time. The courts think so, even if the neo-communists don't. ]]></description>
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		<title>This Is Where We Begin to Say No</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ From Andrew McCarthy, at National Review (via Memeorandum ): For the better part of two decades, Americans have been murdered by Islamists and then lectured that they are to blame for what has befallen them. We have been instructed in the need for special sensitivity to the unceasing demands of Islamic culture and falsely accused of intolerance by the people who wrote the book on intolerance. Americans have sacrificed blood and bottomless treasure for Islamic peoples who despise Americans — and despise us even more as our sacrifices and gestures of self-loathing intensify. Americans have watched as apologists for terrorists and sharia were made the face of an American Muslim community that we were simultaneously assured was the very picture of pro-American moderation. Americans have had our fill. We are willing to live many lies. This one, though, strikes too close to home, arousing our heretofore dormant sense of decency. Americans have now heard Barack Obama’s shtick enough times to know that when he talks about “our values,” he’s really talking about his values, which most of us don’t share. And after ten years of CAIR’s tired tirades, we’re immune to Feisal Rauf, too. We look around us and we see our country unrivaled by anything in the history of human tolerance. We see thousands of thriving mosques, permitted to operate freely even though we know for a fact that mosques have been used against us, repeatedly, to urge terrorism, recruit terrorists, raise money for terrorists, store and transfer firearms, and inflame Muslims against America and the West. As Islamists rage against us, we see Islam celebrated in official Washington. As we reach out for the umpty-umpth time, we find Muslim leaders taking what we offer, but always with complaint and never with reciprocation. We’re weary, and we don’t really care if that means that Time magazine, Michael Bloomberg, Katie Couric, Fareed Zakaria, and the rest think we’re bad people — they think we’re bad people, anyway RTWT . Also, the typically lame leftist response at Blue Texan's Crib : Nearly nine years after Wingnut Christmas, it's equal parts scary and satisfying to see conservatives admits what we suspected all along - they're a legion of racist bedwetters for whom there was never a distinction between invading Iraq/Afghanistan and simply killing Muslims - even though Bush said otherwise. Bedwet this, you freaking creep: ]]></description>
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		<title>NATO asks for more troops for Afghanistan 
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ AP - The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan is asking for 2,000 more soldiers to join the 140,000-strong international force here, NATO officials said Monday. It was unclear how many would be Americans. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of the Struggling Antiwar Movement</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The old-fashioned understanding of the "antiwar" movement hardly explains the left's anti-everything protest agenda nowadays. But wouldn't you know it, the folks at Politico played right into the sweaty palms of America's domestic enemies with its whitewash of a report: " Anti-war groups battle for survival " (at Memeorandum ). As longtime readers of this blog will recall, the hardline anti-American cadres are on the front lines of virtually every leftist protest rally in recent years. From the Stalinist backlash against Prop 8 supporters in 2008, to the Phoenix anti-SB 1070 march last May, the ANSWER Coalition and an assorted bunch of ragtag anarchists, reconquistas, 9/11 truthers, and gay rights ayatollahs have been at the forefront of the barricades. And of course we'll continue to have antiwar protests on every anniversary of our continued deployments, in March and October, for example, to mark the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I've covered some of the recent protests in Los Angeles, and it's always the same: An antiwar industry with nothing new to say. For background, be sure to read " The Politics of Peace: What's Behind the Anti-War Movement? " And especially this: The irony of the modern “peace” movement is that it has very little to do with peace — either as a moral concept or as a political ideal. Peace is a tactical ideal for movement organizers: it serves as political leverage against U.S. policymakers, and it is an ideological response to the perceived failures of American society. The leaders of anti-war groups are modern-day Leninists. As Lenin used Russian war-weariness in 1917 to overthrow the Czar, so American street revolutionaries use reactions to the war on Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein as a way to foment radical political change at home ... Their aim is a “struggle” against “oppression” and “imperialism,” code words in the lexicon of revolutionary socialism. Not In Our Name (NION), a satellite of the Revolutionary Communist Party, decries the War on Terror as a Bush Administration ploy: “We will not stop until all of us are free from your bloodthirsty domination.” The one thing that's correct at Politico is that the end of the "Bush regime" brought a fundamental change to the left. Yes, true revolutionaries don't care if Obama's in power. But folks like Code Pink are career oppotuntists. They've been milking their ties to the Democratic Party to weaken America from within. Funneling money to al Qaeda in Iraq and serving as the Obama administration's liaison to the Taliban in Afghanistan are perfect examples. Don't buy this crap about a "stuggling" antiwar movement for a minute. There'll always be some "racist hegemonic imperialist Zionist project" somewhere to mobilize against. There's never a dull moment. ]]></description>
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		<title>How Far We’ve Come in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ We&#8217;re nation building in Afghanistan and Iraq to set up Western-style democracies. In many ways we&#8217;re encouraging them to be just like us. And today there is great news on that front: Afghanistan&#8217;s Kabul Bank is getting bailed out by their citizens .. just like their American counterparts! They even got into the mess in a similar manner, corruption and risky real estate by the banksters: The panic began last week when the Central Bank ousted the chairman and the chief executive officer of Kabul Bank, after discovering that the bank had acted recklessly, lending tens of millions of dollars to allies of President Hamid Karzai and pouring money into risky real estate investments in Dubai. $300 million dollars of Afghanistan&#8217;s sovereign funds have been withdrawn from foreign central banks to pay for it. They say that no American taxpayer dollars are going to be used for Afghanistan bailouts, but you never know. Filed under: Politics ]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Blair — Radical Islam is World&#8217;s Greatest Threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Astute Bloggers breaks the story, once again. But see BBC story (via Memeorandum ). This is a feature interview with the former prime minister, on the eve of the publication of his memoirs, where he indicates that: " There is the most enormous threat from the combination of this radical extreme movement and the fact that, if they could, they would use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons ." Blair is consistent, and kudos to him for not kowtowing to the radical left's "war criminal" lies. In fact, Blair wrote one of the most important policy articles while he was still in office, at Foreign Affairs , " A Battle for Global Values ." It's even more vital today: This is not a clash between civilizations; it is a clash about civilization. It is the age-old battle between progress and reaction, between those who embrace the modern world and those who reject its existence -- between optimism and hope, on the one hand, and pessimism and fear, on the other. In any struggle, the first challenge is to accurately perceive the nature of what is being fought over, and here we have a long way to go. It is almost incredible to me that so much Western opinion appears to buy the idea that the emergence of this global terrorism is somehow our fault. For a start, the terror is truly global. It is directed not just at the United States and its allies but also at nations who could not conceivably be said to be partners of the West. Moreover, the struggles in Iraq and Afghanistan are plainly not about those countries' liberation from U.S. occupation. The extremists' goal is to prevent those countries from becoming democracies -- not "Western-style" democracies but any sort of democracy. It is the extremists, not us, who are slaughtering the innocent and doing it deliberately. They are the only reason for the continuing presence of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is also rubbish to suggest that Islamist terrorism is the product of poverty. Of course, it uses the cause of poverty as a justification for its acts. But its fanatics are hardly champions of economic development. Furthermore, the terrorists' aim is not to encourage the creation of a Palestine living side by side with Israel but rather to prevent it. They fight not for the coming into being of a Palestinian state but for the going out of being of an Israeli state. The terrorists base their ideology on religious extremism -- and not just any religious extremism, but a specifically Muslim version. The terrorists do not want Muslim countries to modernize. They hope that the arc of extremism that now stretches across the region will sweep away the fledgling but faltering steps modern Islam wants to take into the future. They want the Muslim world to retreat into governance by a semifeudal religious oligarchy. Yet despite all of this, which I consider fairly obvious, many in Western countries listen to the propaganda of the extremists and accept it. (And to give credit where it is due, the extremists play our own media with a shrewdness that would be the envy of many a political party.) They look at the bloodshed in Iraq and say it is a reason for leaving. Every act of carnage somehow serves to indicate our responsibility for the disorder rather than the wickedness of those who caused it. Many believe that what was done in Iraq in 2003 was so wrong that they are reluctant to accept what is plainly right now. Some people believe that terrorist attacks are caused entirely by the West's suppression of Muslims. Some people seriously believe that if we only got out of Iraq and Afghanistan, the attacks would stop. And, in some ways most perniciously, many look at Israel and think we pay too great a price for supporting it and sympathize with those who condemn it. If we recognized this struggle for what it truly is, we would at least be on the first steps of the path to winning it. But a vast part of Western opinion is not remotely near this point yet. This ideology has to be taken on -- and taken on everywhere. Islamist terrorism will not be defeated until we confront not just the methods of the extremists but also their ideas. I do not mean just telling them that terrorist activity is wrong. I mean telling them that their attitude toward the United States is absurd, that their concept of governance is prefeudal, that their positions on women and other faiths are reactionary. We must reject not just their barbaric acts but also their false sense of grievance against the West, their attempt to persuade us that it is others and not they themselves who are responsible for their violence. And what does that kind of moral clarity get you in today's upside-down world? Well, an egg attack, for one thing. See Gateway Pundit, " Radical Leftists Chuck Eggs &#038; Shoes at Tony Blair in Dublin (Video) ." ]]></description>
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		<title>The Absolution of Barack Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Newsweek 's Jonathan Alter just doesn't get it. See, " ‘The Illustrated Man’ ." Obama's certainly socialist --- or neo-socialist, as Jonah Goldberg has explained --- and that's to say nothing of "terror-coddling." Our maddening times demand that the truth be forthrightly stated at the outset, and not just that the president has nothing in common with the führer beyond the possession of a dog. The outlandish stories about Barack Hussein Obama are simply false: he wasn’t born outside the United States (the tabloid “proof” has been debunked as a crude forgery); he has never been a Muslim (he was raised by an atheist and became a practicing Christian in his 20s); his policies are not “socialist” (he explicitly rejected advice to nationalize the banks and wants the government out of General Motors and Chrysler as quickly as possible); he is not a “warmonger” (he promised in 2008 to withdraw from Iraq and escalate in Afghanistan and has done so); he is neither a coddler of terrorists (he has already ordered the killing of more “high value” Qaeda targets in 18 months than his predecessor did in eight years), nor a coddler of Wall Street (his financial-reform package, while watered down, was the most vigorous since the New Deal), nor an enemy of American business (he and the Chamber of Commerce favor tax credits for small business that were stymied by the GOP to deprive him of a victory). And that’s just the short list of lies. And of course it's not Obama's fault that these perceptions --- right or wrong --- stick like melted marshmallows. It's that like many things, there's another side to it. Language, for one thing. Obama just doesn't have the knack for appearing American, much less resoloute. I mean, he spent the first year touring the globe apologizing for America's allegedly racist, imperialist history. And on foreign policy, every big decision in the war on terror has been worse than removing impacted molars. Minimizing our threats and prolonging tough decisions on troop requests is just the start of it. Forget sympathy for sharia, Obama sympathizes with Iran's frantic efforts to get the bomb. And the bills are coming due. Worse than Jimmy Carter is a pretty accurate dismissal at this point, but we'll know more on November 2. Most voters are probably thinking along more pragmatic lines, like job-creation, and because this administration focused on such non-socialist agenda items like non-socialist nationalized health care over restoring the economy, the Democrats are looking to a defeat of bloodbath proportions. " Obama's Waterloo " is sounding pretty accurate these days, although folks dismissed the idea back in the day. ]]></description>
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