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The confrontation between the Clintons and Condi that erupted after Bill’s interview with Chris Wallace on September 24th was (is?) based on the claim, by Clinton, that he left behind a “comprehensive plan” on counter terrorism for the Bush administration when he left office. In making his point he relied heavily on Richard Clarke, author [...]

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Hezbollah anti-Condi banner

It is disturbing to see criticism of Dr. Rice in the conservative blogosphere after her recent keynote address to the American Task Force on Palestine gala in Washington, DC, October 11, 2006. The dinner was held to honor a Republican Arab-American, (Blog editor’s note: Please accept our appologies for using a “hyphenated American” [...]

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Life in Las Vegas taught me many years ago that if you want to truly understand something that you have to follow the money.  That’s what Secretary Rice did with her Mideast trip.
First, she makes an unannounced trip to Baghdad to deliver the message, “Get to work!  The meter is running.”  Then, she goes to Kurdish [...]

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“Five years after 9/11, the worst attack on the American homeland in our history, Democrats offer nothing but criticism and obstruction and endless second-guessing,” Bush said at a Republican fundraiser.
“The party of FDR and the party of Harry Truman has become the party of cut and run,” Bush told a convention-center audience of over 2,000 …

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The NYT’s and WaPo are both running stories today about an National Intelligence Estimate report due out shortly. The crux of the articles points to our Iraq War is the cause of the escalation of radical Islamic extremists..We are fighting in Iraq, therefore we created the problem.
Hugh Hewitt accuses the NYT’s of publishing …

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As we have addressed here and here, Clinton became enraged with Chris Wallace and if the reaction from the viewers is any indication, he did himself no favors!
Allahpundit says the righties are going to have a field day fact-checking him. Points to take away:
1. He showed leadership by not pulling out of Somalia while …

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This is a quote from Sam Harris in his article; Head-in-the-Sand Liberals Western civilization really is at risk from Muslim extremists. He is the author of “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason” and “Letter to a Christian Nation” Why do I cite his article? Well, he is a self-professed …

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Harvard University invited Khatami, the former President of Iran to speak on the subject of “Ethics of Tolerance in the Age of Violence.” What did Khatami bring up?
Khatami, widely considered a reformer in Iran, was often met with applause from the Kennedy School audience…
In response to another question, Khatami also justified his country’s …

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Tell me what your reaction was!
Hot Air has a comparison of edited vs. unedited tape from the film! And this comment
Here’s a quote to get the ball rolling: “Berger, Freeh later thought, was not a national-security adviser; he was a public-relations hack, interested in how something would play in the press.”
Michelle Malkin:
Betsy …

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Rush Limbaugh appeared in the Free Speech segment of The CBS Evening News. Here is a link to the video via Hot Air or via CBS And the transcript via CBS
(CBS) It is time to face a hard cold fact: Militant Islam wants to kill us just because we are alive and don’t …

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As seen at NewsBusters, Noel Sheppard shares an e-mail he recieved from “Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran of the CIA that used to head up “Alec Station,” the Counterterrorist Center’s Osama bin Laden unit. (Update: Scheuer is the individual regularly referred to in the 9/11 Commission report as “Mike”.) ”
Sheppard asked “Is the scene …

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He’s on our side?

When the Secretary General went to visit Southern Beirut, Hezbollah protesters surrounded him shouting anti-American, anti-Israeli, and anti-UN slogans.
You might be surprised to hear this, but according to a report on al-Jazeera, Kofi is “an agent of the Americans.”

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“… Israel will be permitted to open fire only after a request for such is submitted to the UN and the UN approves it in writing.”
In other news
Fragile Ceasefire Holding, Despite Two Incidents
Two Hizbullah terrorists were killed in two separate clashes with IDF troops in southern Lebanon, but the ceasefire is largely holding. 161 Israelis [...]

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A real effort for peace, or disinformation? Visit CAIR’s website and decide for yourself.

In a ploy for media exposure (Nothing wrong with that, we do it, too!), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has established “Not in the Name of Islam,” an online petition and website where Muslims can publicly denounce violence done in the [...]

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Christy Hardin Smith wrote this idiotic piece today.
In case anyone had any question that the latest foiled terror plot was being used to political advantage by the Bush Administration, let me rid you of that doubt right now:
You tell me — crass, wrong, opportunistic, or arrogant? I lost people that I knew on September [...]

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Anti-war, Anti-Israel, Anti-Joe The New Democrats.
We have two. One is the Republican party, led by George W. Bush. Its heart and mind are mostly in the right place. Its performance as a governing party in time of war is, admittedly, another matter. Do we have a strategy for victory in Iraq? Not if one [...]

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Quote from al-Qaida:
O people! The viciousness of the Russian soldier is twice that of the
American soldier. If the Americans suffer one tenth of the casualties the
Russians suffered in Afghanistan and Chechnya, they will flee and never
look back. That is because the current structure of the American and
Western armies is not the same as their structure [...]

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Japanese troops in Iraq, 2005.Photo credit: Mohammed Ameen, Reuters

Despite incredible domestic political obstacles, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, president of the Japanese Elvis Fan Club, and not a bad karaoke singer, to boot, welcomed home his troops from Iraq after completing their entire tour of duty in Iraq — as pledged at the time of [...]

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Okay, folk, feeling the need to explain what makes Dr. Rice a stand-out secretary-of-state, I wanted to explain her fresh approach to the Middle East. Warning: this is a over simplification, but as I have been a teacher of young children the last umpteen years- what can I say, I am who I [...]

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How much of a liability is the liberal blogosphere for the Democrats?
When the bombs began to fall in the Middle East, the Daily Kos had a problem. And the Daily Kos’s problem could soon be the Democratic party’s problem.
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