Month: June 2006

Say ‘No’ to the chronic drip. It’s gotta stop.

Now that’s justice.

…to this question is…

YES.

They think ideas like this actually work.

I’m a believer in a tried and true doctrine.

You won’t find any believers among this crowd, especially among the “leaders” who come up with statements like this one.

Marianne Williamson is chairwoman of the Peace Alliance, a grassroots campaign supporting legislation before the U.S. Congress to establish an American department of peace.

Williamson said the legislation “represents a more spiritual, progressive and enlightened consciousness.”

Ah, but there’s one big problem with legislating peace.

It only works on paper.

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Thanks for writing, Bill.

The Gentleman from Pennsylvania can’t seem to stop babbling.

American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea or Iran, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said to an audience of more than 200 in North Miami Saturday afternoon.

A former Marine and a prominent critic of the Bush administration’s policies in Iraq, Murtha reiterated his views that the war cannot be won militarily and needs political solutions. He said the more than 100,000 troops in Iraq should be pulled out immediately, and deployed to peripheral countries like Kuwait.

“We do not want permanent bases in Iraq,” Murtha told the audience. “We want as many Americans out of there as possible.”

For the good of the country, the Democrats need to relieve Jack Murtha of his seat and send him to a nice home where he can play checkers on the patio, sit in the TV room to watch the Price is Right, and eat salisbury steak every other Thursday night.

What do you do when a government you helped form in a country you liberated turns around and proposes to forgive the terrorists who have been trying to kill you?

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has presented a national reconciliation plan to parliament aimed at stemming sectarian tensions and violence.

The 24-point plan offers an amnesty to some insurgents, but not those from groups who have targeted civilians.

It outlines plans to disarm militias and beef up Iraqi security forces ahead of a takeover from coalition forces.

Although the plan is still being evaluated by the U.S., it’s hard to ignore the fact that the plan clearly states that amnesty will not be offered to insurgents who have targeted civilians.

So, what about the insurgents terrorists who have targeted U.S. and Coalition troops?

And then there’s this…

Compensation will also be offered to former prison detainees “and those who were killed by Iraqi and American forces”.

Yeah, that’s right. Being pardoned isn’t enough it seems. No, the terrorists should be paid too, apparently.

And so it goes.

This is a difficult matter. The U.S. and our allies have worked hard to liberate and help start a new democracy in Iraq. Yet now that the government is formed and is exerting its power through new plans and programs for the country, it will be hard to step aside and let them do it their way. Especially when they propose asinine ideas like amnesty to killers in the hopes that the bribery will somehow miraculously stop the fighting.

Won’t that kind of be like letting the terrorists win?

Can we fully support a newly democratic, sovereign Iraq, no matter what choices they make?

JonBenet Ramsey’s mother Patsy died today of cancer.

UPDATE: 08/17/06 – John and Patsy Ramsey appear to be vindicated as John Mark Karr is arrested and confesses to the murder of JonBenet Ramsey.

Former Democratic Vice President Walter Mondale (yes, he’s still alive) suggests a U.S. strike on North Korea. Clinton’s defense secretary William Perry agrees.