More Concessions To Gitmo Prisoners

Filed under:Our Money,War on Terror — posted by Q Ball on 3/19/2010 @ 3:25 pm

The detainees in Gitmo who decided to represent themselves were given laptops.

The computers, without Internet access, were provided to Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other suspected 9/11 conspirators at the prison at the U.S. naval base in Cuba after approval by senior Pentagon officials in September 2008.

In addition to Mohammed, the other al Qaeda members who were given computers were Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al-Hawsawi.

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President Demonizes Opposition

Filed under:Bill of Rights,Culture War,Our Money,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 3/11/2010 @ 5:15 pm

From: Chuck Norris

As for other Americans who oppose his far-left agenda, the president jeered at them before a live audience a few months back, when he condescendingly declared: “Those folks who are trying to stand in the way of progress, let me tell you: I’m just getting started! I don’t quit. I’m not tired. … It is important for those folks to understand I’m just ready to go. We’re just going to keep on going.”

The president demonizes any opposition and even tried socially to quarantine No. 1 Fox News as an illegitimate news organization because some commentators disagree with him. His actions remind me of these words of Fulton J. Sheen’s: “Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.”

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Gore Agrees Saddam Was A Threat

Filed under:War on Terror — posted by Q Ball on 3/8/2010 @ 4:56 pm

This C-SPAN video is from 1992:

Why is Google Protecting Islam?

Filed under:Bill of Rights,Culture War,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 1/14/2010 @ 4:15 pm

Don’t think Google is protecting Islam? Watch this.

More Security Theater

Filed under:Bill of Rights,Culture War,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on @ 11:14 am

From: Ann Coulter

…Also prohibited in the last hour of international flights will be: blankets, pillows, computers and in-flight entertainment. Another triumph in Janet Napolitano’s “Let’s stay one step behind the terrorists” policy!

…This, allegedly, was the price we had to pay for safe airplanes. The one security precaution the government refused to consider was to require extra screening for passengers who looked like the last three-dozen terrorists to attack airplanes.

Since Muslims took down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, every attack on a commercial airliner has been committed by foreign-born Muslim men with the same hair color, eye color and skin color. Half of them have been named Mohammed.

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Afghanistan – Where is the F***ing Air?

Filed under:War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 12/9/2009 @ 6:04 pm

This is bull shit. Americans and coalition forces are dying because McChrystal and Obama want to win a PR war. If a Taliban sniper takes up a position in your mud hut and you don’t run out the back and hide in a ditch, you are the enemy and your mud hut is enemy infrastructure.
Solution? Apply liberal amounts of US air power and adios sniper, adios mud hut, adios goat-herding Taliban sympathizers. The Marines shoot everyone that stumbles out of the smoke with a weapon and voila. Otherwise bring everyone home right now! Then later if we need to we can follow the corporal Hicks protocol from Aliens, ” dust off and nuke the site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.”

From: Wired

…with a single stroke, McChrystal took the US’s biggest technological advantage off the table. The military would have to make do without one of its most potent weapons.
It hasn’t been easy. While accidental civilian deaths dropped by 87 percent in the eight weeks following the order, American fatalities have more than doubled from 2008 levels.

…While the debate rages in Washington, the Marines on the ground are mostly on their own. Even with Paz’s squad being attacked from three sides, a bombing run is not automatic. The Marines not only have to prove that civilians won’t be hurt, they also must guarantee that the bombs won’t so much as scratch civilian homes.

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Another Muslim Hijacking Dry Run?

Filed under:Bill of Rights,Culture War,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 12/3/2009 @ 6:34 pm

This is alleged to have happened on an AirTrans flight from Atlanta to Houston just after push-back. If true, it is unbelievable. The email from Tedd  Petruna that started this is bouncing all over the Internet.  I received a copy today.

From: Debbie Schlussel

I begin with the caveat that I don’t know whether or not this is true.  However, it certainly sounds like it is, and the guy-Tedd J. Petruna of NASA–has his e-mail address and home and work phone numbers plastered all over the internet as does his friend, A. Gene Hackemack, who sent this out.  I’m glad he did.  People need to know about this stuff, which the FBI, TSA, and every other fed in the alphabet soup of the “We’re Here to Help You” Souffle is trying to keep under wraps.  I think it’s probably true.

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Multicultural Illusions Kill

Filed under:Culture War,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 11/10/2009 @ 8:07 pm

Brilliant Analysis from Mark Steyn:

…What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that’s the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy – in Afghanistan and in Texas.

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A Mosque Grows in Tucson

Filed under:Culture War,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 10/7/2009 @ 1:32 pm

I drove past a mosque in downtown Tucson this week. There is an 18th century Spanish Mission about 9 miles away and the mosque, which appears to have a prefab fiberglass dome, is right next to a big catholic church. I can imagine some factory overseas where they turn out fiberglass mosque domes by the hundreds.

Seeing this unexpected island of Islam surrounded by a sea of Catholicism made me think how angry the hundreds of millions of true believers of Islam must be at Osama. If he had not been so anxious to bring about jihad, the steady and inevitable spread of Islam would have gone on mostly unnoticed by the work-a-day world.

The following conversation took place before the collapse of the Soviet Union and long before the “War on Terror”.

From Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, p 52. John Perkins is speaking with a woman in Indonesia.

“But why should there be such animosity between Muslims and Christians?” I asked. … “Because,” she said …”the West—especially its leader, the U.S.—is determined to take control of all the world, to become the greatest empire in history. It has already gotten very close to succeeding. The Soviet Union currently stands in its way, but the Soviets will not endure. Toynbee* could see that. They have no religion, no faith, no substance behind their ideology. History demonstrates that faith—soul, a belief in higher powers—is essential. We Muslims have it. We have it more than anyone else in the world, even more than the Christians. So we wait. We grow strong.” *Reference to Arnold Toynbee’s Civilization on Trial and The World and the West.

Ice Cream and Dog Poo

Filed under:Culture War,General,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 9/28/2009 @ 11:14 am

This by MARK STEYN is a must read.

From: Investor’s Business Daily

Barack Obama is not to blame for whichever vagary of United Nations protocol resulted in the president of the United States being the warm-up act for the Lunatic-for-Life in charge of Libya.But it is a pitiful reflection upon the state of the last superpower that, when it comes to the transnational mush drooled by the leader of the free world or the conspiracist ramblings of a terrorist pseudo-Bedouin running a one-man psycho-cult of a basket-case state, it’s more or less a toss-up as to which of them is more unreal.

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Freezing the CIA

Filed under:War on Terror — posted by Q Ball on 8/24/2009 @ 3:24 pm

The Obama administration has just announced an investigation in to CIA interrogations that may have violated the law. The president said repeatedly during his first month in office that he wanted to look forward not backward and all but ruled-out investigations of the type now under way. The administration is now content with CIA officials using only the Army Field Manual and nothing more while conducting interrogations. This is ridiculous because the Army Field manual was designed to be used by common soldiers when they had captured the enemy in the field. It was not intended to be used against the top echelon of al-Queda. I have concerns that the investigation will lead to a chilling effect that will sweep through the CIA causing most agents to consider what will happen to themselves if they do act, rather than what will happen to this country if they do not act.

Reason online has similar concerns.

Iran: Congress, not Obama Shows Leadership

Filed under:Culture War,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 6/24/2009 @ 10:42 am

From: Human Events

While President Obama equivocated about the protests in Iran last week, Congress showed real leadership.

By an overwhelming bipartisan vote, both the House and the Senate passed resolutions expressing clear support for “all Iranian citizens who embrace the values of freedom, human rights, civil liberties, and rule of law.”

Republicans and Democrats alike condemned the Iranian government’s violence in the streets and suppression of independent communication through cutting off internet and cell phone access.

Congratulations to Democrats and Republicans in Congress for standing up for American values and standing up for the Iranian people.

Hacking Threat to National Security Overblown?

Filed under:Bill of Rights,Technology,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 6/4/2009 @ 10:50 pm

From: Threat Level

Is hacking a real threat to the United States or is it just the latest overblown threat to national security, whose magnitude is being exaggerated to expand government budgets and power?

That’s the question asked by Threat Level editor Kevin Poulsen at a panel in Computers, Freedom and Privacy in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. And it’s important because the government is spending billions of dollars on computer security, and President Obama is elevating cybersecurity to a national priority, using language that makes even security experts wince.

MSNBC still Whining about Waterboarding

Filed under:Culture War,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 5/7/2009 @ 3:50 pm

From: Ann Coulter via Human Events

Contrary to MSNBC hosts who are afraid of bugs, water and their own shadows, waterboarding was most definitely not a “war crime” for which the Japanese were prosecuted after World War II — no matter how many times Mrs. Jonathan Turley, professor of cooking at George Washington University, says so.

All MSNBC hosts and guests were apparently reading “Little Women” rather than military books as children and therefore can be easily fooled about Japanese war crimes. (MSNBC: The Official Drama Queen Network of the 2012 Olympics.)

Given what the Japanese did to prisoners, waterboarding would be a reward for good behavior.

It might be: waterboarding PLUS amputating the prisoner’s healthy arm, or waterboarding PLUS killing the prisoner. But waterboarding on the order of what we did at Guantanamo would be a reward in a Japanese POW camp.

To claim that the Japanese — architects of the Bataan Death March — were prosecuted for “waterboarding” would be like saying Ted Bundy was executed for engaging in sexual harassment.

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Can You Speak Newspeak?

Filed under:War on Terror — posted by Q Ball on 4/8/2009 @ 12:11 am

We are no longer fighting a war on terror against state-less terrorists or enemy combatants and there will not be any more terror attacks. This is all due to our new president and his use of Newspeak in the United States in the year 2009. The war on terror will now be known as the “overseas contingency operation”; “man caused disasters” will replace terrorist attacks and enemy combatants or terrorists will be known as…well they haven’t figured that one out just yet, but I can guess it will be something similar to: “the people who are double-plus ungood and who attempt acts of a similar nature”. I am sure everything is much clearer now to everyone and there will no longer be any confusion about the fruit salad.

President Fails Our Wounded Vets

Filed under:Our Money,War on Terror — posted by Q Ball on 3/17/2009 @ 1:46 am

The President has proposed a new plan that would place the burden of care for disabled veterans on private companies, instead of the government. The idea is that the government should be reimbursed for the veterans´ healthcare. There are countless ways to make money and the Presidentś first idea is the government should not have to pay for the healthcare of our service men and women?

U.N. Power of Discussion

Filed under:War on Terror — posted by Maverick on 3/13/2009 @ 10:30 am

According to guardian.co.uk, the South Korean foreign ministry issued a statement regarding the imminent launch of a North Korean rocket stating, “If North Korea goes ahead with the launch, we believe there will be discussions and a response by the security council on the violation of the resolution.”

I cannot believe that anyone actually believes that the U.N. really has any power. What good is a United Nations Security Council resolution if the strongest response they can muster is a discussion. Saddam didn’t care about the U.N., and he was much more composed than Kim Jong Il.

Obama Intel Nominee Blames Jews For His Woes

Filed under:Culture War,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 3/11/2009 @ 3:35 pm

From: WSJ

Freeman’s nomination could not withstand the broad bipartisan opposition that ensued. And if there was any doubt about his unfitness for an intelligence post, he dispelled it yesterday by publishing a screed, quoted by Politico, in which he blamed his own disgrace on a Jewish conspiracy:

“The libels on me and their easily traceable email trails show conclusively that there is a powerful lobby determined to prevent any view other than its own from being aired, still less to factor in American understanding of trends and events in the Middle East,” he wrote.

“The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and an utter disregard for the truth.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, issued a statement saying that Freeman’s “statements against Israel were way over the top and severely out of step with the administration” and that the White House “did the right thing” in defenestrating him.

Islam Trumps Justice in Netherlands

Filed under:Bill of Rights,Culture War,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 2/2/2009 @ 6:51 pm

A member of the Dutch Parliament is to be prosecuted for hate crimes for making a film critical of Islam. Here is Pat Condell’s response.

Dutch MP to be charged
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/euro…

“America Last Man Standing” – Speech by Geert Wilders
http://www.cicentre.com/articles/gw_a…

Decision to prosecute is political
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1…

American Woman Burned Alive by Taliban

Filed under:Culture War,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 1/30/2009 @ 5:01 pm

In November 2008 Paula Loyd, a civilian contractor and  social scientist working for the Human Terrain program in Afghanistan, was doused with flammable liquid and set on fire by an Afghan man. The Taliban took credit for the attack.

The Taliban has a long history of setting women on fire as a way of punishing them for perceived immodesty.

Paula died from her injuries on January 7th 2009.

See how the “Fair and Balanced” Reuters reported the attack.

KABUL (Reuters) – A U.S. civilian shot dead an Afghan civilian who tried to set fire to another American on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.

At least 4,000 people have been killed in Afghanistan this year, some 1,000 of them civilians. It is still rare though for foreign civilians to be directly engaged in the conflict.

The shooting occurred after an altercation, a U.S. military statement said.

“Reports indicate the local national was shot after pouring and igniting a flammable liquid on another U.S. civilian. The civilian sustained serious burns and was transported to the nearest coalition forces medical facility for treatment,” it said.

I would say that the Afgan did more than “try” to set Paula Loyd on fire. A religious fanatic burns an American woman alive but Reuters reports it as the death of an Afgan “civilian”. No agenda there.


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