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Sorry, But It’s
Time to Stop Apologizing

It’s important, though,
not to judge all our servicemen and women by what happened in Abu Ghraib
or to judge what happened there by the standards of behavior applied
to civilian society.
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for “opinion”

Hackworth
exposed abuse scandal

The story began to unravel
earlier this year with the actions of Ivan Frederick, father of an Army
reservist turned prison guard in Iraq, Staff Sgt. Ivan Frederick, who
became the target of an investigation for mistreating prisoners.

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for story

Arabs use porn to attack
America

Graphic photos appearing
on Arabic websites of U.S. servicemen raping and sexually abusing Iraqi
women were actually taken from American and Hungarian pornography sites.

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for story

Language Issues
Prove Challenge to Brown

…a
task made more complex and difficult by an ever-growing number of students
(and their parents) who aren’t even native English speakers. Click
for story

 


 

Left-wing
filmmaker Michael Moore was as seditious as ever on April 14 when he
said this about those who kill Americans in Iraq: “The Iraqis who
have risen up against the occupation are not ‘insurgents’ or ‘terrorists’
or ‘The Enemy.’ They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers
will grow — and they will win.”
























The
Good & the Bad

Some shades of black and white in Iraq By Deroy
Murdock

“Kerry would be described
as devious, self-absorbing, manipulative, disdain for authority, disruptive,”
Plumly said, “but the most common phrase you would hear [was] ‘requires
constant supervision.’ “

Kerry
Was a ‘Loose Cannon’ While in Vietnam, Says Ex-Commander
By
Robert B. Bluey

Since 1971, I have refused
many offers from John Kerry’s political opponents to speak out against
him. My reluctance to become involved once again in politics is outweighed
now by my profound conviction that John Kerry is simply not fit to be
America’s commander in chief. Nobody has recruited me to come forward.
My decision is the inevitable result of my own personal beliefs and
life experience.

Unfit
for Office

I was on Mr. Kerry’s boat in Vietnam. He doesn’t deserve to be commander
in chief By John O’Neill

Are John Kerry’s presidential
ambitions and the shape and images of his campaign more about a mid-life
crisis writ very large than any underlying set of ideas?
Little
Red Corvette

Do the pictures of John Kerry in his Lycra cycling suit make you wonder
if he’s running for the right reasons? By Hugh Hewitt

Why are we shocked by these
images from Abu Ghraib, but when the victims are women (or gay men)
the images are called pornography or “adult entertainment”?
Not
Unfamiliar

Images of sexual abuse and humiliation in Abu Ghraib By Donna M. Hughes

The goal seems to be less
to punish the offenders than to grab one more reason to discredit the
Iraq war.
Abuse
and the Army

The military, not CBS, discovered the outrages at Abu Ghraib

Is the scandal an inspiration
to our enemies? Most assuredly. Were the acts acceptable? Of course
not. Must they be investigated and justice meted out? Yes, and surely
will be…The scandal can and will be used by the mischievous and malicious
at home and abroad to attempt to tarnish the character of the troops
we’ve so come to respect and feel grateful for. This is most unjust.
A
Humiliation for America

Why the abuse of Iraqi prisoners is so disheartening

“We’ve forgotten
what Western civilization is,” Meyer told NewsMax.com. “We
no longer teach it in the schools. If you come to the schools where
I live and ask a group of high school students ‘what is Western
Civilization?’ They’ll tell you it’s slavery, the oppression
of women and we don’t recycle.”
Former
CIA Official: U.S. May Fall Like USSR

For two decades polls increasingly
have indicated public dismay at the spin and fantasies of the press.
In fact, a recent Gallup Poll says Americans rate the trustworthiness
of journalists at about the level of politicians and as only slightly
more credible than used-car salesmen.
The
Crumbling of the Fourth Estate

From The Economist

Congressional
527s Are a Flop

What’s
in a Number?
10 Statistics That All Politicos
Should Heed

The
problem with Kerrynomics

It’s not about partisan
politics they explain, it’s a “veterans’ issue.” If the Democrats
“had a fit choice for president we’d go home.” They “do
not want Senator Kerry to be commander-in-chief of our brave and honorable
men.”

Kate’s
Take: Brothers Against Kerry

By Kate O’Beirne

Letson says he remembers
his brief encounter with Kerry 35 years ago because “some of his
crewmen related that Lt. Kerry had told them that he would be the next
JFK from Massachusetts.”

Kerry
Purple Heart Doc Speaks Out

The medical description of his first wound

It is our collective judgment
that, upon your return from Vietnam, you grossly and knowingly distorted
the conduct of the American soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen of
that war (including a betrayal of many of us, without regard for the
danger your actions caused us). Further, we believe that you have withheld
and/or distorted material facts as to your own conduct in this war.

“We
Know the Truth”

Some of Kerrey’s Vietnam colleagues challenge
the Democratic candidate

Kerry ‘loose cannon,’
says ex-commander
Vets line up to describe former colleague as ‘vain’
opportunist
unfit for presidency

On the Editorial Page
The
U.N. tries to obstruct Congress’s Oil for Food probe

Why
won’t the U.N. answer questions about its Iraq scandal?

Best of the Web today with
James Taranto

”It became clear to us
now that Zionism is behind terrorist actions in the Kingdom. I can say
that I am 95 percent sure of that”, he said.

“As news of the disgraceful
mistreatment of prisoners by American soldiers sweeps the world, our
enemies celebrate a major propaganda gift,” writes Ralph Peters
in the New York Post.

and
more
.

Exploiting the liberties
of free societies, terrorists are using the mass media to sow divisions
among and within the democracies, terrorism experts report.

Terrorists
Cheer Kerry’s Rhetoric

The U.N. has no definition
of terrorism. For years, a working group of the General Assembly has
been unable to finalize a comprehensive convention against terrorism
because consensus has been blocked by the Organization of the Islamic
Conference (OIC). The OIC maintains that blowing up people in the name
of self-determination or an end to occupation does not count as terrorism.

The
Kerry-Kofi Plan for America’s Future
Democratic candidate plans to outsource our foreign policy
By
Anne Bayefsky

He says many of the academy’s
textbooks he has reviewed contain passages promoting hatred of non-Muslims.
For example, the eleventh-grade text says one sign of the Day of Judgment
will be when Muslims fight and kill Jews, who will hide behind trees
that say: “Oh Muslim, oh servant of God, here is a Jew hiding behind
me. Come here and kill him.”

Yes, the Religion of
Peace

Look
who’s teaching Johnny about Islam

Saudi-funded Islamic activists have final say
in shaping public-school lessons on religions
By
Paul Sperry

Then our host chants the
liberal mantra: “Bush has alienated us from the rest of the world.
Europe hates us. The Muslims hate us. He’s taking us into an abyss!”

The crowd raises their
goblets, yelling “Kill Bush.” Leftport, Connecticut

Why I’m
taking flight from the Bush-hating ‘burbs
By
Alan Bromley

As the humanitarian crisis
in the Darfur region of Sudan continues to spread, the country’s
appointment to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights prompts
an American walkout

UNconscionable

Calls are growing for the
resignation or sacking of Donald Rumsfeld, America’s defence secretary,
over coalition troops’ abuse of prisoners in Iraq

The
buck stops where?

 

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ECONOMY
GROWING AND YOU HAVEN’T HEARD?

You probably haven’t
heard about this yet … but do you realize that the federal
budget deficits are now about $100 billion lower than previously
estimated? That’s right … $100 billion lower. Some non-government
economists are suggesting that we’re about to enter a period
of economic growth that rivals the growth we had through the
’80s and ’90s. Jobs are being created (by private businesses,
not by government) at a rapid clip … and you haven’t heard
the news. And why not? Because that news doesn’t serve the ends
of the mainstream media, that’s why.

-Neal Boortz

CAN’T LIVE WITH
YOU, CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT YOU

One of the Iraqi
prisoners who was abused by U.S. reservists says he is so humiliated
he can’t return to his hometown. So, he wants to come live in
the United States. Think about this for a minute. This Iraqi
is abused by Americans. As a result of that abuse he wants to
go live in America. Damn … we are one evil, horrible country,
aren’t we?”

– Neal Boortz

STICK TO CARTOONING
MR. RALL

“…Mr. Tillman served an evil president and an evil cause.
Anyone with an open mind after 9/11 could easily have learned
the truth, that the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq occured
instead of a war on terror, not as part of one. A person who
planned to risk his life in combat should reasonably be expected
to dig a little deeper rather than to fall for Bush’s transparent
lies. We all judge each other, and while Tillman’s decision
to sacrifice millions of dollars for his beliefs is admirable,
his belief that killing the citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan
had something to do with defending America was not. At best,
Tillman was foolish and
misguided.

“Finally, it’s time for troops who signed up post-9/11
to take a little personal responsibility. It’s one thing for
a career soldier to go where the politicians tell him or her
to go, but quite another to join the military when the ‘president’
is an illegal usurper occupying the White House, he’s an out-of-control
warmonger using the deaths in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania
to promote a partisan political agenda and his wars are nothing
more than grabs for control of oil and gas resources and pipeline
routes.”

– Ted Rall’s response to public outrage over his cartoon depicting
Army Ranger Pat Tillman as an idiot, 5/3/04

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ANTI-AMERICAN
HATE SPEECH


“Now it’s official: American troops occupying Iraq have
become virtually indistinguishable from the SS. Like the Germans
during World War II, they cordon off and bomb civilian villages
to retaliate for guerilla attacks on their convoys. Like the
blackshirts who terrorized Europe, America’s victims disappear
into hellish prisons ruled by sadists and murderers. The U.S.
military is short just one item to achieve moral parity with
the Nazis: gas chambers.”

– Cartoonist Ted Rall, 5/5/04

LIVE BY RACE-BAITING,
DIE BY RACE-BAITING


“Democratic strategist Donna Brazile criticized Sen. John
Kerry yesterday for failing to put black and Hispanic leaders
into senior campaign positions, saying it raised serious questions
about his commitment to racial diversity.”

– Washington Times, 5/5/04

FRAGGING
KERRY CAMPAIGN


“During his time in the Vietnam war, John Kerry was seen
by colleagues as a self-serving, ‘loose canon’ who
came only to launch a political career, said the commander over
his swift boat division, who spoke at a press conference in
Washington with 17 other veterans. Retired Rear Adm. Roy Hoffmann,
who headed Coastal Division 11, is one of more than 200 veterans
who have signed a letter asking Kerry to authorize the Department
of the Navy to release all of his military records, including
health documents.

“Hoffman said Kerry ‘arrived in country with a strong
anti-Vietnam War bias and a self-serving determination to build
a foundation for his political future. He was aggressive, but
vain and prone to impulsive judgment, often with disregard to
specific tactical assignments,’ Hoffman said. ‘He
was a loose cannon.’ The press conference and letter was
organized by the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which
contends the Massachusetts senator and presumptive Democratic
presidential nominee is unfit to be commander in chief.”

– WorldNetDaily.com, 5/4/04

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WORKING THE SYSTEM

“While John Kerry has released some of his military records,
he has yet to account for exactly how he received his injuries
that led to his three Purple Hearts. This is important, of course,
because 1.) Kerry has made his military service in Vietnam a
campaign issue and 2.) the rule at the time was three Purple
Hearts got you sent home from Vietnam. So was (he) working the
system? It sure looks like it with every passing day.”

– Talk show host Neal Boortz, 5/5/04

LT.
KERRY’S LONELY PURPLE HEARTS CLUB BAND(AID)

“The story (John Kerry) told was different from what his
crewmen had to say about that night (for which he received his
first Purple Heart). According to Kerry, they had been engaged
in a fire fight, receiving small arms fire from on shore. He
said that his injury resulted from this enemy action. Some of
his crew confided that they did not receive any fire from shore,
but that Kerry had fired a mortar round at close range to some
rocks on shore. The crewman thought that the injury was caused
by a fragment ricocheting from that mortar round when it struck
the rocks.

“That seemed to fit the injury which I treated. What I
saw was a small piece of metal sticking very superficially in
the skin of Kerry’s arm. The metal fragment measured about 1
cm. in length and was about 2 or 3 mm in diameter. It certainly
did not look like a round from a rifle. I simply removed the
piece of metal by lifting it out of the skin with forceps. I
doubt that it penetrated more than 3 or 4 mm. It did not require
probing to find it, did not require any anesthesia to remove
it, and did not require any sutures to close the wound. The
wound was covered with a bandaid.”

– Dr. Louis Letson to columnist Byron York, National Review
Online

IF THE MAN’S UNFIT, HE
OUGHT TO QUIT

“Nineteen of the 23 officers who served with John Kerry
and every one of his commanding officers in Vietnam have signed
a letter that says he is not fit to be commander in chief. .
. . The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth could have impact because
of the impressive number of veterans involved. Hundreds of Vietnam
vets, from admirals to seamen, have signed the letter. . . .
This large group goes a long way toward countering the handful
of veterans who have defended Mr. Kerry in commercials and on
the stump. . . . Widespread opposition to his campaign by Vietnam
veterans shows they have neither forgotten nor forgiven his
disgraceful allegations against his fellow GIs. The resentment
could grow into a serious political force.”

– Washington Times editorial, 5/5/04

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LIKE
‘NAM AFTER ALL?

“As outrageous as it is…the abuse of Iraqi prisoners
of war has not done half the damage to the allied cause as American
dithering in Fallujah. . . . (W)hat has all the marks of debacle
at Fallujah will have a more lasting effect because it suggests
to the Iraqis and the Arab world beyond Iraq that the Americans
may not be the tough guys everyone thought they were. This is
a slander on the courage and competence of the U.S. military,
but perception is reality in the Middle East as well as inside
the Beltway.

“The Iraqi perception of American resolve in Fallujah will
inevitably be that when the going got tough, the Americans got
going: Under the pressure of an approaching election, the Bush
administration surrendered the city…

“(Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers) and his men
on the ground are not at fault for SNAFU in Fallujah. This Vietnamization
of the Iraqi strategy…is a war strategy that could only have
been born in a Republican White House. Richard Nixon’s Christmas
bombing of Haiphong put the North Vietnamese on the run in 1969.
And then, in a fit of deadly compassion, the White House stopped
it. The rest is shameful history.

“…The soldiers and Marines in Iraq, and the cause they
were sent 10,000 miles from home to fight for, deserve better
than a SNAFU like this. Much better. George W. Bush can be grateful
to the gods, if not to God, that he’s running for re-election
against John Kerry. A credible Democraticalternative might ride
the Fallujah foul-up right up Pennsylvania Avenue.”

– Wesley Pruden, Pruden On Politics, 5/4/04

WHY SOME DON’T
TAKE LIBERTARIANS SERIOUSLY

As you can see, all’s not quiet on the Iraqi front. Things aren’t
looking good right now. But the solution isn’t to hoist the
French battle flag (the white one), tuck our tails between our
legs and skedaddle on home. The solution – and I can’t believe
this nation’s political leaders STILL haven’t figured this out
since Vietnam – is to WIN by CRUSHING the enemy…period. Our
military knows how to do it; it’s what they’re trained to do
and they’re the best in the business. If this is war – and it
is – then cut the dogs loose; “international opinion”
be damned.

Or we can follow the advice of the Libertarian Party: “The
growing turmoil over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners has demonized
the United States and doomed the U.S. mission to failure and
the best solution is to bring American troops home as soon as
possible,” the LP says in a press release on Tuesday. “It’s
time for U.S. politicians to pull the plug on their latest Frankenstein-like
experiment in nation-building,” said Joseph Seehusen, Libertarian
Party executive director.

As long as the LP sounds like a Howard Dean/Jacque Chirac echo,
Americans who understand that the federal government has a legitimate
responsibilityfor national defense – which includes killing
bad guys before they kill us – no one will give their otherwise
laudable positions on domestic issues the time of day. And rightfully
so. Surrender, retreat and appeasement are not rational policy
positions for the United States of America. It’s no wonder Libertarians
can’t get their candidates elected.

– Chuck Muth, News and Views

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BAPTIST
HOMESCHOOLING RESOLUTION
, OR IS THAT REVOLUTION

“A resolution
that will be considered by the Southern Baptist Convention next
month calls on the millions of members of the denomination to
pull their kids out of government schools and either homeschool
them or send them to Christian schools.”

– WorldNetDaily.com, 5/4/04

SHOCKER

“Companies, politicians and pro-Saddam Hussein activists
from countries that opposed the war in Iraq figure heavily in
a list of about 270 recipients of suspected oil bribes from
Iraq under the scandal-plagued United Nations oil-for-food program,
investigators say. . . . The leaked Iraqi list of about 270
recipients covers just one year – 1999 – and relates to just
one facet of the overall fraud: That is ‘vouchers’ that could
be sold by the bearers to legitimate oil brokers and shippers,
who then would have the right to purchase and market the Iraqi
crude.”

– Washington Times, 5/3/04

LIFE IN KERRY’S UNITED NATIONS

“The United Nations has threatened to fire two officials
who wrote an expose of sleaze and corruption during its peace-keeping
missions of the 1990s. . . . Still reeling from the Iraqi oil-for-food
scandal, officials in the upper echelons of the United Nations
are alarmed by the promised revelations of wild sex parties,
petty corruption and drug use… The authors also complain that
they encountered ‘bureaucratic betrayal’ on missions, as the
United Nations purportedly struck cynical deals with corrupt
local officials.”

– London Sunday Telegraph, 5/2/04

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WRONG TIME FOR OJT

“In the midst of an international war on terrorists who
have already claimed 3,000 lives on the home front, can America
afford thepotentially disastrous consequences of four years
of on-the-job training for John Kerry? Despite repeatedly asserting
throughout his presidential campaign that he brings to the race
’35 years of experience in national security, foreign affairs
and military affairs,’ Mr. Kerry has in fact compiled an abysmal
record replete with poor judgments and deeply flawed policy
recommendations.”

– Washington Times editorial, 5/2/04

KEEPING PRIORITIES STRAIGHT

“At a recent meeting of senior staff members, Democrats
said, Mr. Kerry’s aides became entangled in a lengthy debate
over what might seem to be a less-than-urgent issue: whether
they should send a Democratic operative to Bush rallies dressed
as Pinocchio, a chicken or a mule to illustrate various lines
of attacks Democrats want to use against [President] Bush.”

– New York Times reporter Adam Nagourney

BLACK LIKE… NOBODY ON THIS
CAMPAIGN

“Some Democratic political insiders are griping that the
Kerry campaign purportedly lacks any real amount of African-Americans
in its inner circle. Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) —
who was a Dean supporter complained to the AP last week that
he was ‘concerned about diversity’ in Kerry’s senior policy
people. Washington Post writer Terry Neal — who is black —
also echoed Jackson’s comments on Friday. . . . Kerry may have
to address this matter further — and fast — or face criticism
from the Republicans that the Bush Cabinet reflects more diversity
than the Kerry campaign leadership.”

– Ron Gunzburger, Politics1, 5/3/04

WORDS TO LIVE BY

“I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.”

– Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Haiti) at last weekend’s pro-choice
march in
Washington, DC, “Inside the Beltway,” 5/3/04


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HIGH COST OF DIVORCE
& UNWED MOTHERHOOD


“As assistant secretary [of Health and Human Services]
for children and families, I oversee 65 different social programs
at a cost of nearly $47 billion each year. Go down the list
of these programs – child welfare, child-support enforcement,
programs for runaway youth, antipoverty programs – the need
for each of these programs is either created or exacerbated
by the breakup of families and marriages.”

– HHS chief Dr. Wade Horn testifying before the Senate last
Wednesday

PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN ACTION

“Chance that an American adult believes that politics and
government are too complicated to understand: 1 in 3. Chance
that an American who was home-schooled feels this way: 1 in
25.”

– Harper’s Index, May 2004

VIETNAM
VETERANS AGAINST KERRY

Websites and
Buttons by Vietnam Vet Richard Rongstad

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DOING THE WORK
OF… NAME THE COUNTRIES

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A variety of links I
think you’ll find interesting, helpful or thought provoking…if nothing
else, entertaining

Why Liberals
Hate Bush

Dear Senator
Kerry

Kerry, Clinton, Kennedy,
Others on WMD

Lessons
from Iraq

Can Arab democracy happen? By John Derbyshire

Gunnery
SGT. R. Lee Ermey

Retrosexual Offensive

Mike’s Flag
– from Sarge

According
to a report by the American Electronics Association
,
high-tech companies blame second-rate math and science education in
the U.S. for the offshoring of high-tech jobs. From Wired

The Splendid
Homes of John Kerry

White
men can’t jump. The politically correct can’t think
by Eric
Burns

Five
questions to demand of any statistic

Excerpt
from Ann Coulter Commentary on Kerry
…gigolo?

The
Perpetual Adolescent
by Joseph Epstein

Off the Internet Circuit
forwarded to me by Nadine Gulit…
How
to be a Good Liberal

Lo,
the Poor Terrorist

For some on the Left, purported bigotry against Muslims explains Islamist
terror

The
Separation of School and State

A
Marine’s Journal

Link
to Part 5 with links to previous 4 parts

The
Case for Cannabilism

List to Live
By

About Diversity

On
Religion
and its importance to keeping self-governing democracy
in balance

Senators
with the most money

The Politics of Honor and
Humiliation in the Middle East…
a
fundamental understanding
(Adobe pdf document.
If you don’t already have Acrobat Reader get the free download…click
here
.)

DEMOCRAT vs DEMOCRATIC

I often hear and read,
in various contexts, about the “democratic” party. If people
knew what they were talking about, they would say the Democrat Party
as they say the Republican Party. From my perch, I would say that conservative
Republicans are the ones who truly believe in being democratic as opposed
to Democrats who truly want to tell us how we are to live and what we
can and cannot say. So, let’s don’t confuse democratic with Democrat.

SECULAR AND LIBERAL

It occurs to me that in
recent years the words secular and liberal have become synonymous. There
are those who are saying that The Passion is dividing Americans…I
suspect that if there’s a division, it is between me and liberal
securalists
.

Check out the cool
clock

Zell
Miller: We’re Divided Between Wimps and Warriors

– a Democrat like they used to make



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