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1. maria horvath:

Roger,

Both links connect to the U.N. story.

Aug 25, 2005 - 7:18 am 2. Keith_Indy:

sorry to threadjack you…

But a great sign of good things to come from LGF

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=17198_PJ_Media-_Help_Wanted&only

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Gee, we should actualy worry about the #1 immediate threat rather than global warming.

Sounds like the right priorities to me.

Why give more money to a failed/corrupt body to give to failed/corrupt states.

We’ve got a war to fight, and it’s time the rest of the world got on board.

BTW the two links go to the same place.

Here is the link to Cliff May’s letter to Cindy Sheehan

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/cliffordmay/cm20050825.shtml

Aug 25, 2005 - 7:19 am 3. Keith_Indy:

In a related article…

It really does sound like the “UN” can’t get its head around what terrorism means.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200508\FOR20050825c.html

A United Nations human rights official has urged the British government not to go ahead with plans to deport foreign Islamist radicals, but the minister responsible for law and order suggested the U.N.’s focus was skewed.

“The human rights of those people who were blown up on the Tube [subway] in London on July 7 are, to be quite frank, more important than the human rights of the people who committed those acts,” Home Secretary Charles Clarke told Britain’s commercial ITV News network.

“It is a balance, of course, and I acknowledge that there are real issues that have to be addressed, but I wish the U.N. would look at human rights in the round, rather than simply focusing all the time on the terrorist,” he said.

Clarke was responding to a statement issued by Manfred Nowak, special rapporteur on torture with the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, who urged Britain not to deport radicals to countries where they face the risk of torture.

Aug 25, 2005 - 8:52 am 4. Richard Nieporent:

Clarke was responding to a statement issued by Manfred Nowak, special rapporteur on torture with the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, who urged Britain not to deport radicals to countries where they face the risk of torture.

I have a better idea. Rather than tell Britain not to deport these Islamic radicals, why doesn’t the UN tell the countries where they are being sent to not torture them. After all aren’t these countries members in good standing of the UN? They wouldn’t dare to defy the UN, now would they? After all it is only the US and Israel that are evil.

Aug 25, 2005 - 10:48 am 5. flenser:

The fair and unbiased media are threatening to come down off the fence and take sides on the issue of Iraq, and you’ll never guess which side that is.

Aug 25, 2005 - 12:21 pm 6. Rick Ballard:

Flenser,

The press is beginning the publicity runup to ANSWER’s back to school ‘Days of Whine and Poses’ demonstration starring Cindy Sheehan backed by Joan Baez and as many other Vietnam Redux duds as can be wheeled up to various stages to croak the pathetic anti-war ballads.

It’s a shame that al-Queada doesn’t have a flag. Oh well, they can always dig out their old Viet Cong flags – or maybe use the Pali rag.

I wonder if I shall live to see a loyal press – in the US, I mean.

Aug 25, 2005 - 1:04 pm 7. Silicon valley Jim:

May’s letter is a good one. Another good one is one that Scott Ott of ScrappleFace fame found at the ranch:

http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/002289.html

It’s one of the best things that I’ve ever read. Ever. About anything.

Aug 25, 2005 - 1:42 pm 8. Pat Curley:

Flenser, Greg Mitchell at E&P is a toad who’s been pushing for newspapers to call for a withdrawal from Iraq for a year now.

I’ve blogged about his ghoulish call for more gory photos of US war dead, and his call for editorial pages to lead the way in demanding the US pullout from Iraq.

Loved the open letter to Cindy Sheehan.

Aug 25, 2005 - 3:08 pm 9. Kyda Sylvester:

Scott Ott is as eloquent as he is funny (thanks, SVJim) while Greg Mitchell is still a schmuck. And can someone please put a sock in Chuck Hagel’s big mouth? Please? “By any standard, when you analyze 2 1/2 years in Iraq … we’re not winning.” “I think our involvement there has destabilized the Middle East.” The man is descending into Boxer territory. Just when I think I’ve reached the bounds of my contempt for the Senate…

Given up on a loyal press, Rick; at this point I’ll settle for a marginalized press.

Does anyone else detect a whiff of panic in the opposition or am I engaging in a bit of wishful thinking? Mitchell claims that this is the “critical moment”, the “tipping point”, that now is the “moment of truth”, “do or die time”. Why? Why this moment? Have Cindy Sheehan, Chuck Hagel, tanking poll numbers and jitters about the Iraqi constitution come together to create the perfect storm that sinks the administration’s defense agenda and thereby does irreparable damage to the President? Is this the moment when MSM, through a concerted effort, resurrects itself and recaptures past glories? Or do Mitchell and others have a sense that the ME tide is in fact turning, just not in the direction they would wish, and that they have a limited window of opportunity for the Vietnamization of Iraq?

Some amazing reporting–among other things–from Michael Yon:

…once the shooting starts, a plan is just a guess in a party dress…

Aug 25, 2005 - 5:07 pm 10. dougf:

Does anyone else detect a whiff of panic in the opposition or am I engaging in a bit of wishful thinking?–Kyda S.

They are too delusional and too far in the grip of BDS to have the imagination to Panic.

This is just more of the same. It is akin to Water Torture where the effects are cumulative.This is the reaons for the poll numbers(well that and and criminally short attention spans amongst the population)

Whenever someone critiques GWB for one flaw or another or some policy which seems not be to precisely optimum, I always think of only one thing. He said he will stick it out no matter what and that is precisely what he will do. When his poll ratings are at 2, he will still ’stay the course’.

There has not been a President with his DETERMINATION in decades. History has thrown up a throw-back at the precise time he is needed. Frankly without his willingness to bet the farm, I doubt we would be where we are today. For good or bad, this is entirely his era.

Aug 25, 2005 - 6:05 pm 11. Kyda Sylvester:

Ah well, too bad. The hyper-ventilating is beyond tedius; I was looking forward to a full fledged panic attack.

In the same vain, the LAT performs CPR on the Plame Thang: A CIA Cover Blown, a White House Exposed (9 pages–I’m not kidding)

Can the Downing Street Memos be far behind?

Aug 25, 2005 - 6:33 pm 12. chuck:

Mitchell claims that this is the “critical moment”, the “tipping point”, that now is the “moment of truth”, “do or die time”. Why? Why this moment?

These folks live in an alternate reality that I don’t inhabit. They may actually believe all this stuff. What looks like desperation may just be the continuing divergence of these alternate streams of reality. I suspect that even if Iraq becomes prosperous, peaceful, and free at some future time there will histories and articles chronicaling the continuing Iraqi quagmire and the utter failure of Bush’s Iraq idiocy. *Sigh*.

Aug 25, 2005 - 6:34 pm 13. Rick Ballard:

The President expressed his (correct) view of the MSM by specifically identifying (correctly again) Adam Clymer in an anatomical manner with which his Vice-President was in accordance “big time”. I’m sure that the President would extend that description to the vast majority of those covering national affairs for MSM outlets. I would join him in his observation.

He doesn’t have any need for them and they no longer (if they ever did) ’speak for the American people’. What they say, write or do is of little moment when the President’s party holds the legislature and the President holds the party purse strings (and he does).

The news is that Bolton (how’d that thumb in the eye feel Dems?) delivered a rather pointed ‘Dear Kofi’ message today.

Notice has been served and Sen. Coleman needs to either move his bill or get behind Rep. Hyde’s bill. There will be no substantive change at the UN until we cut our funding.

Aug 25, 2005 - 6:57 pm 14. Kyda Sylvester:

I like Bolton’s suggestion that the entire document could be scrapped and replaced with a brief statement best. 750 amendments–LOL. So far the Ambassador doesn’t disappoint.

Aug 25, 2005 - 7:31 pm 15. Syl:

What’s with these people, anyway? It’s time for a discussion about Iraq?

Excuse me?

We’ve been discussing it for three years already and had an election last November which decided the issue.

Losers. All they want is a do-over.

Aug 25, 2005 - 7:40 pm 16. JD in Oslo:

Here’s another take on Bolton’s challenges:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/?id=110007150.

Hopefully we are in for a hot autumn!

JD in Oslo

Aug 26, 2005 - 4:38 am 17. Kyda Sylvester:

US envoy sets out to wreck UN reform deal

America’s controversial new ambassador to the United Nations is threatening to torpedo 12 months of negotiations on the reform of the organisation.

We can only hope.

Aug 26, 2005 - 11:28 am 18. Kevin P:

Roger:

The skewed logic of the U.N. and their leftist supporters never fails to amaze me. Over the last two decades their “peace keeping forces” have failed unless they have been aided by our military or the waring factions have tired of killing each other. In almost every case if one side of the conflict has challenged the UN forces they have folded and allowed the agressive side to achieve all or some of their goals. The oil for food program has showed that they are vunerable to corruption and that their internal control of their own programs are not good enough. Even the remodel of the U.N. remodel has been shown to be a financial goody bag for UN members to enrich themselves and their cronies.Even the number one man has shown that the best way to get influence and contracts at the UN is to make sure his children are taken care of.

And what is the U.N. answer to requests for reform? Give us more money, more control, even the ability to tax it’s member nations. And the tax plan punishes the more productive nations and allows the unproductive and corrupt countries to enrich themselves without reforming their broken governing systems. They are like a junkie who wants to change but his life but does not include quiting his drug use in the game plan. The denial at that organization is totall and all the MSM can say is Bolton is ruining all of their plans. Thank God he is! There was no reform in the reform plan, there is just a promise to continue their crimes on a larger scale.

Kevin Peters

Aug 26, 2005 - 11:57 am 19. Bostonian:

“They are like a junkie who wants to change…”

Except that they have exactly zero intention of ever doing that. The kleptocrats at the UN are doing just what they want to. To them, there is no problem.

Aug 26, 2005 - 4:13 pm 20. Kevin P:

Bostonian:

You are right, I should have written claims he wants to change. Most organizations or political groups that are caught ripping people off and that are grossly ineffective lose power. The U.N. does the very same thing and has the balls to ask for more and act like the injured party when someone suggests clipping their wings.

Kevin Peters

Aug 26, 2005 - 10:50 pm 21. braveword:

Seemingly off topic, Cindy Sheehan, apparently the mother of Casey Sheehan, was not informed of the fact that the US has no military draft. And the apparent son actually volunteered for the fateful mission that was to be his last. As it turns out, it was one of many that he volunteered for.

Casey was a great American soldier who was performing his duty as he chose to do. For that, I thank him as should we all. I’m confident that history will show IN THE FUTURE, that Cindy had a period of grieving where she became delusional (by her own admission) and that she was listening to all the wrong people.

She’s getting a pass from me. The fault will lie with those that have constructed this media event.

And they will be called Ultra-Liberal Democrats.

Aug 27, 2005 - 10:45 pm

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