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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong style="color: #232323;">Below are the video and transcript to Congressman Jim Bridenstine&#8217;s keynote speech at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event took place Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Rep. Jim Bridenstine: </strong>A lot of people might remember, it wasn&#8217;t too long ago, I went down to a military base in my state called Fort Sill.  I went down there to visit with the commanding general, and the reason I went is because the Department of Defense is being gutted right now.  The fires brigades and the air defense artillery folks that work down there, they&#8217;re getting cut drastically, and so I went down there and I wanted to meet with the commanding general, and when I was down there I said, hey, I&#8217;d like to take a visit of the UAC facility that&#8217;s here at Fort Sill, and the commanding general said you can go, but I&#8217;m not going to go with you.  If you would, by show of hands, do you remember this incident by chance, if you&#8217;d raise your hand if you&#8217;re remember.  I went down to Fort Sill to visit the UAC facility and I got rejected.  I got rejected.  Here I am a member of Congress, a representative of the people, a federal representative of the people going to a federal facility and seeing a federal mission, and they told me I couldn&#8217;t come in. They said you could come back in three weeks.  In three weeks you can come back and we&#8217;ll take you on a tour, and I said I&#8217;ve got to talk to somebody in your chain of command because this is not right, and you know what they said, they said, sorry, here&#8217;s the number for the guy in my chain of command and it was the Deputy Director of Communications, who also told me you&#8217;ve got to wait three weeks and we&#8217;ll take you on a tour, to which we immediately said, I told my staff I&#8217;m not one of these guys that runs to the media for every opportunity.  I don&#8217;t do that, but in this particular case, the First Amendment was given to us for a purpose, and it&#8217;s to petition the federal government, and I never realized that as a member of Congress I would be one of the people having to petition the federal government using the First Amendment.</p>
<p>In the next week and a half, we did 72 interviews on television. Seventy-two.  We were tired, but I can tell you this, after a week and a half we get an email from Health and Human Services and they said we&#8217;d like to take you on a tour of the HHS facility at Fort Sill housing the unaccompanied alien children.  It only took 72 interviews and a week and a half, and then they sent another email, and I&#8217;d ask everybody to get quiet because what this next email said is critically important.  I want you to listen to this.</p>
<p>The next email we got from HHS said we&#8217;re going to take you on a tour, but you can&#8217;t ask any questions, you can&#8217;t talk to the personnel that work there, you can&#8217;t talk to the staff, you can&#8217;t talk to the children, you can&#8217;t talk to the medical personnel.  We&#8217;re going to show it to you but you can&#8217;t ask any questions, to which we responded with an email of our own that we&#8217;re going to treat your restrictions the way the president is treating the law of the United States as a suggestion, and we gave them a list of everybody we expected to talk to once we got inside of this facility, and we got in and we started asking questions.  The No. 1 question I asked was how many children here have been abused.  We had a great panel with Dr. Fleming and Louie Gohmert and Jeff Sessions regarding the crisis on the southern border and immigration.  We had this great conversation.  Loved every minute of listening to these great folks talk about this issue, but here is why I have such a big concern.  The reports coming out of Lackland Air Force Base is as many as a third of the young girls had been abused, and when I talk about abuse I&#8217;m talking about sexual, I&#8217;m talking about horrible things that have happened to these young girls, and by the way they&#8217;re 12 years old.</p>
<p>So I wanted to find out in my state at Fort Sill the HHS facility how many of the children there had been abused, and I asked them, how many have been abused?  Well, we don&#8217;t have those numbers.  So I asked somebody else, how many children here have been abused?  Well, we don&#8217;t have those numbers.  I couldn&#8217;t get an answer.  Finally I asked a contractor and the contractor said it&#8217;s well over 25 percent, and then another contractor said, sir, it is well over 25 percent, and friends, here&#8217;s what everybody in this room needs to understand, the question is where is this abuse occurring?  It&#8217;s not happening in these facilities.  The abuse is occurring on the way to the United States, and the reason it&#8217;s occurring is because the children that were coming across our southern border, they already have parents that have been smuggled into the United States illegally, hundreds of thousands of them in 2014, and they made a decision that they want their family to come, including their children, and so they hire a coyote down in Mexico, and the coyote goes down to Central America to bring the children up to the northern border, and here&#8217;s what happens, and people in this room understand this.  The GAO has indicated, has said that we have operational control of over 44 percent of our southern border.  That means 56 percent of our southern border is not under operational control, and if we don&#8217;t control it, friends, somebody else does.  In this particular case, it&#8217;s controlled by drug cartels, transnational criminal organizations and when those children get to the northern border of Mexico, the southern border of the United States, then those transnational criminal organizations say we need more money.  If you&#8217;re going to come into the United States &#8212; and by the way, if you control the southern border of the United States you can make a ton of money, and they are doing it.</p>
<p>And so the children get up there, and the organized crime says they need $10,000.00 and we&#8217;ll let you across the border.  How many of these children do you think have $10,000.00 on them?  They call their parents, their parents don&#8217;t have $10,000.00.  They barely had enough money to pay the coyote, and ultimately the children have to come up with $10,000.00 and the drug cartels will get their money.  So they force the children into slave labor.  The force the children into prostitution.  Some of the children disappear altogether and it goes from smuggling into human trafficking, and some of the children just get killed.</p>
<p>People don&#8217;t realize it, friends, but there are, estimates are 70,000 to 100,000 dead bodies in Northern Mexico as a direct result of our open southern border.  We talk about all the crisis in the Middle East, Syria and Iraq.  Horrible stuff happening there, but on our southern border we&#8217;ve got 100,000 dead bodies just south of our border, and friends, here&#8217;s the deal.  When the organized crime starts making all of this money, which they are making a ton of money right now, they destroy civil society in northern Mexico.  Friends, if you&#8217;re a judge, and I know Louie Gohmert is a judge, you understand this as well as anybody.  If you&#8217;re a judge, a police officer, a politician, a mayor in northern Mexico, in many cases you are either on the payroll of the organized crime or you are dead, which is why there&#8217;s this 70,000 to 100,000 dead bodies, many in mass graves in northern Mexico right now.  The southern border is a national security issue as much as it is anything, and I&#8217;m going to talk for a second about civilized society and how it&#8217;s being lost because we&#8217;re unwilling to actually enforce the law.  The Secure Fence Act, which was passed before I got there, requires 100 percent operational control of the southern border, and yet the president doesn&#8217;t enforce that law.</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s the situation, I used to mention in the bio, I&#8217;m a Navy pilot.  I flew combat in Afghanistan in 2002.  I flew combat in Iraq in 2003. In 2010, I joined a reserve squadron and I started flying counter-narcotics missions in Central and South America.  My squadron alone, VAW77, the world famous Night Wolves, we used to bust $2 billion worth of cocaine every year on the high seas, $2 billion.  My squadron was one of many units in the military that did this kind of operation.  My squadron got eliminated.  That means $2 billion worth of cocaine is coming into our country that didn&#8217;t use to come into our country and $2 billion worth of cash is going to organized crime in northern Mexico and Central America.  What do you think that does to those countries?  And by the way, my squadron was one of many military units that have been cut under the sequester, and it is decimating the Department of Defense, in ways right now that the American public doesn&#8217;t realize, but I&#8217;ll give you an example.</p>
<p>Nicaragua calls the United States and they say we&#8217;re losing our civil society here in Nicaragua, our judges, our politicians, our police officers.  We&#8217;ve got high crime rates.  The organized crime is controlling our country.  We need your help with some counter drug operations, to which the United States says, sorry, can&#8217;t help you.  Who does Nicaragua call next?  The Russians.  The Russians are more than happy to provide the intelligence surveillance reconnaissance assets.  The Russians are more than happy to provide the ships on the ocean, to do the counter-narcotics operations.  The only thing the Russians are asking in return is military basing.  Do they want military basing for those assets to encounter drug operations?  No.  They want military basing for long-range strategic bombers in our hemisphere, and by the way, Nicaragua is not the only country in our hemisphere under negotiations for long-range strategic bombing for Russian bombers right now.  You&#8217;ve got Cuba and Venezuela.  Friends, all of this is a national security issue.</p>
<p>The other day, I looked up Homeland Security.  There&#8217;s leaked information from Homeland Security of how many folks have come across the southern border from Guinea and Sierra Leone and Liberia.  Friends, it&#8217;s almost 500 people that have been caught coming across the southern border in 2014 from those three countries which have the greatest outbreak of Ebola.  Almost 500 people caught.  The GAO says that one out of every five gets caught, which means there&#8217;s thousands in this country from those countries that are just unaccounted for completely.  Friends, the southern border of the United States is a national security issue.  It&#8217;s a national health security issue, and here&#8217;s the important thing I want everybody in this room to take away: The children are victims.  It is not their fault, and we don&#8217;t not like them.  The humanitarian thing to do, the right thing to do, the thing that will save lives and protect them is to enforce the law.</p>
<p>So when you think about foreign policy and national security, friends, it starts right here at home and I just talked about Nicaragua and the Russian military basing that is potentially going to occur there because of our absence, and I want to be really clear about what Russian is up to.  They&#8217;ve invaded Georgia.  They’re occupying South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia.  They&#8217;re moving the borders towards Tbilisi.  They&#8217;ve got 80,000 troops in Armenia.  They&#8217;ve cancelled energy contracts with Azerbaijan.  That&#8217;s all in the south caucuses.  You go over to Eastern Europe, the Baltic States.  Remember the Baltic States enthusiastically joined the European Union and NATO at the collapse of the Soviet Union.  Well, because of that Russia had to cut off their energy in the dead of winter.  People had to suffer.  People had to die.  In Poland in the Czech Republic they were building a missile defense shield.  Why were they building a missile defense shield in Poland?  It had nothing to do with the Russians.  It’s because Iran is building longer range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads and the Europeans said, we’ve got to have a missile defense shield to which Vladimir Putin said, if you keep building that missile defense shield, he said this through his generals, he said, we&#8217;re going to have nuclear war in Poland and the Czech Republic, and I&#8217;m sure everybody in this room remembers when the President of the United States met with Medvedev after that incident. He said wait until after my next election.  I&#8217;ll have the flexibility to bring down that missile defense shield and guess what happened.  He got elected.  The missile defense shield came down and then the Russians moved very quickly to give Edward Snowden asylum.  Friends, here is the lesson, and every lesson of history teaches this: Weakness is provocative and the more we demonstrate weakness the more we will be taken advantage of and the more provocative the enemies of the United States will be.</p>
<p>Then we get to Ukraine, Yanukovych.  This was Thanksgiving.  It was a year ago.  Yanukovych was trying to enter into an agreement with the European Union.  It was social reform, political reform, economic reform.  He wasn&#8217;t joining the European Union, but it included trade, and if you remember Vladimir Putin himself flew to Kiev on our Thanksgiving Day and he said if you sign that agreement we&#8217;re going to cut your energy off, and remember it was going into winter.  It was Thanksgiving Day and they did this before December 31, 2005.  In Ukraine people suffered, people died, they did it in 2009 as well.  So now Yanukovych makes the decision okay I&#8217;m going to align with Moscow temporarily.  Why?  Because he wants to keep energy for his people through the winter.  His people revolt.  Why?  They want freedom.  They want independence.  As people revolt Kiev gets set on fire and then Russia uses that as an excuse to invade and occupy Crimea and make no mistake, regardless of what the State Department says, Russia is now occupying broader eastern Ukraine.  That is happening right now and let&#8217;s talk about where else Russia is active. They&#8217;re helping the Assad regime in Syria, propping them up.  The Mullahs in Iran.  They&#8217;re going around the sanctions because Russia is enabling it.  19,000 nuclear centrifuges in Iran.  I&#8217;m sorry, there is no peaceful nuclear program that needs 19,000 nuclear centrifuges, and under the President&#8217;s P5+1 Joint Plan of Action they&#8217;re going to continue to allow Iran to enrich uranium with 9,000 plus nuclear centrifuges. They&#8217;re not even mentioning the heavy water reactor for plutonium in Iraq. The facility in Parchin which is responsible for creating the devices that can fly on long-range missiles, and I&#8217;m talking about of course nuclear capabilities. None of these are being talked about in the P5+1 Joint Plan of Action on Iran and I&#8217;m going to anchor here for one second.</p>
<p>There is a reason what the President is doing right now to accommodate Iran is wrong and it is because it is extremely dangerous and destabilizing for the best ally the United States has in the Middle East, Israel.  And I will say this on Israel, the Land of Judea and Samaria is not occupied territory.  It belongs to the Jewish people who have had a relationship with that land for over 4,000 years.  And neither the President of the United States or the United Nations has any authority to give that land away.  Only Israel has the authority to negotiate over the land that belongs to Israel, period, end of story.  So you think about what&#8217;s happening in the world and you see that weakness is indeed provocative.  When you think about what Russia is doing, and by the way here&#8217;s an easy answer on the Russian issue.  People don&#8217;t realize this.  Russia relies on energy for 53 percent of its revenue to the Kremlin.  Fifty-three percent of the revenue to the Kremlin is from the export of energy and 84 percent of that energy is going to Eastern Europe, who by the way send ambassadors to my office in Washington, D.C. asking us to send our energy because they no longer want to be dependent on Moscow.  There is an easy way to solve this crisis.  We could dry up 53 percent of Russia&#8217;s revenue simply by exporting American energy.  And interestingly, it&#8217;s not Moscow that&#8217;s preventing us from exporting American energy.  It&#8217;s Washington, D.C.  Friends there are solutions here and, by the way, here&#8217;s the thing: That&#8217;s not a sanction, that&#8217;s allowing the free market to be free, and I know people in this room believe in free markets.  It doesn&#8217;t require firing a shot. It doesn&#8217;t require a sanction, and, oh, by the way, Russia has recently seen fit to send long-range bombers to the Gulf of Mexico.  I don&#8217;t know if you guys have read these reports, and interestingly they&#8217;re defense minister came back and said, well, that&#8217;s not going to work as long as energy prices are about $80.00 a barrel.  We can&#8217;t afford to do this.  Friends energy prices are going to come back and it&#8217;s up to the United States to actually fill the void that everybody understands is happening in Eastern Europe as it relates to energy.</p>
<p>I want to, I&#8217;m going to close here.  I know Ann told me not to take a long time so I&#8217;m not going to take a long time.  I want to close here. Actually, I&#8217;m going to say one thing.  I have to talk about ISIS.  I have to talk about the Middle East and then I&#8217;m going to close.  I flew combat in Afghanistan in 2002.  I flew combat in Iraq in 2003.  Our Americans, in 2002, or, actually, I don&#8217;t &#8212; it was early in the war &#8212; we damaged a guy named al-Zarqawi.  He was a Lieutenant to Osama Bin Laden.  You guys probably remember al-Zarqawi.  It was compliments of a 500-pound bomb, compliments of the United States Air Force, that damaged al-Zarqawi, and as a Navy pilot that pains me to say that the Air Force dropped that weapon, and I say that with all due respect to Governor Rick Perry who&#8217;s in the front row here who&#8217;s an Air Force pilot himself.  We&#8217;re good, he says we&#8217;re good.  Thank you. sir.  But here&#8217;s the important thing: al-Zarqawi was in Afghanistan, he was part of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. He was a Lieutenant to Osama Bin Laden, and when we damaged him, his ribs, his leg &#8212; he went to Uday Hussein&#8217;s hospital in Iraq.  That&#8217;s where he went to get his care, and at Uday Hussein&#8217;s hospital he got cured and then he became the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and ultimately he was killed compliments of two 500-pound bombs of the United States Air Force, but not before he trained his own lieutenant, al-Baghdadi, who now is the leader of ISIS.  Friends, this is an al-Qaeda affiliated force.  All of the authorities necessary to destroy it currently exist, and the President shouldn&#8217;t go on TV and give us a laundry list of everything he won&#8217;t do and, oh, by the way, when he gives us that laundry list he&#8217;s giving it to the enemies of the United States.  What he should do is he should go on TV and tell us what he&#8217;s already done to eliminate this threat, and it could have been eliminated, and if you go back to 2006 when Obama was a senator, he said these words.  He said a precipitous withdraw from Iraq would lead to &#8220;chaos, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, genocide.&#8221;  He said it would engulf broad swaths of the Middle East and endanger the United States of America.  Senator Obama in 2006.  Then he ran for President.</p>
<p>Well that message wasn&#8217;t going to work when you&#8217;re running for President, so then he said it was an unjust war.  That we took our eye off the ball, which was Afghanistan, and he&#8217;s going to be the President that would end this war.  Then he became President, and if you look at what happened next, he had his own Iraq team.  Ambassador Crocker, General Petraeus.  They said keep 20,000 to 24,000 troops in Iraq.  Keep them because we&#8217;ve had all these gains from the surge.  If you remember the Iraqi economy was growing. Things were at peace.  You had an inclusive government, stability and his team said keep 20,000 to 24,000 troops.  You have to have that or else we&#8217;re going to lose the gains of the surge, and the President said, no, I promised something else, give me a different plan, and they come back with a different plan, and they said keep 10,000 troops.  It&#8217;s going to require more risk.  By the way, when they say more risk, for those of us in the military that means more of us are going to suffer.  It will require more risk, but we can sustain the gains of the surge with 10,000 troops.  The President said, no, I promised something else.  Then it was the President himself in a phone call with Malaki who said that any status of forces agreement we come to has to be ratified by the Iraqi Parliament, and, friends, for those of us in the military the status of forces agreement is how we have diplomatic immunity.  It is how when we fight in a foreign country we fall under American law not under foreign law, and that&#8217;s critically important if you want to have a foreign fighter.  And the President, in a phone call with Malaki &#8212; historically all the status of forces agreement is, is an exchange of diplomatic letters.  It&#8217;s our State Department and their diplomats saying we&#8217;re going to exchange diplomatic letters, Americans have diplomatic immunity.  That&#8217;s all it had ever been, but because the President wanted a zero-two presence in Iraq, ultimately he said it has to be ratified by the Iraqi Parliament, knowing full well that the Iraqi Parliament can&#8217;t agree on what day of the week it is, let alone how many American troops need to be in Iraq.  The agreement was scuttled.  Every last troop came home.  And just as Senator Obama predicted in 2006, chaos, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, genocide.  It engulfs broad swaths of the Middle East and it&#8217;s a danger to the United States of America.</p>
<p>Al-Baghdadi has said himself that the next confrontation will be directly against the United States of America.  Friends, al-Qaeda was a terrorist organization.  ISIS is a caliphate.  It has an army.  It is well trained.  It is well financed.  It is well equipped.  They&#8217;re recruiting from throughout the world and they are looking for people that have American passports, and indeed they have recruited hundreds of Americans to join their ranks, many of which the administration has already admitted have come back to the United States.  Friends, this is a very real threat.  It has to be taken seriously, and what I will tell you is this: This idea that we are going to train and equip so-called &#8220;moderate Syrians&#8221; is not gonna work.  Here&#8217;s what they said, we&#8217;re gonna have 5,000 troops in a year; 5,000 moderate Syrian rebels in a year.  By the way, a lot of them have already fled and turned over weapons to ISIS and 5,000 &#8212; I gave a speech, in fact, I talked to Mike at the Red State Convention down in Fort Worth, Texas.  I hear a clap for Fort Worth. And at the time in that speech I was talking about how dangerous ISIS was because they&#8217;ve got 15,000 troops in their army.  Well now the CIA unclassified is saying that it&#8217;s 30,000 troops in a matter of just a couple of months, and again now they&#8217;ve got heavy armor, American tanks, Abrams Tanks, with ISIS flags flying on the top.  This idea that we&#8217;re gonna train and equip so-called moderates, it hasn&#8217;t worked.  If you look at what weapons they have right now, it&#8217;s because we train and equip the Iraqi Army, which fled at the first conflict.  Friends, this is going to require American leadership, and this is a critically important thing that America has to understand.  Without us, it&#8217;s only going to grow, and the longer we wait the worse it gets, and I want to be clear again why this is so dangerous not only to us, but ISIS has its sights set on Israel.  This is a threat to Israel, our greatest ally in the Middle East.</p>
<p>Now, sure.  I would like to, I&#8217;m gonna close now.  At this time I really am.  I see Mike standing over here.  I might take a few more minutes just to upset Ann Coulter.  Okay here&#8217;s a &#8212; I&#8217;m in such trouble.  When I first got elected a friend of mine came to me and he said, he worked really hard, he delivered all kinds of signs throughout the neighborhood.  I challenged an incumbent Republican in a Republican primary which is very difficult and it&#8217;s very hard to find friends when you&#8217;re doing that, but this guy was loyal to me from day one, he worked really hard and we overcame millions of dollars and 11 years of incumbency, and he said I will never ask from you for anything, but I just want one thing I said, and he said, it&#8217;s the only thing that I will ever ask for, he said I want you to get a group, a bipartisan group, Republicans and Democrats alike, and I want you to go down to Arlington National Cemetery and sit there for an hour together and reflect on all the sacrifice that has been given for this nation, and a couple of months ago we made that happen.  Four hundred thousand markers.  Hill after hill, row after row, mile after mile.  Freshman class Republicans and Democrats alike reflecting on the sacrifice and, friends, that is a very small portion of all the sacrifice that has been given for this great country.  One of the markers, there is a gentleman named Martin Treptow who fought in World War I.  Ronald Reagan talked about him in his first inaugural address, and he died on the Western Front delivering messages back and forth between battalions, and when they recovered his body they found on him a journal and in that journal they found these words.  It said &#8212; and he was a barber from Illinois who got drafted.  His words said:  &#8220;America must win this war.  Therefore I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure.  I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone.&#8221;</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t just a few weeks ago now I went down to a funeral for a friend of mine who died in the Middle East, and this was in Georgia, and my whole squadron &#8212; he got, he was sent, what we call individual augmentation.  He&#8217;s a Navy pilot, but he got sent on the ground to the Middle East, and there he died.  So we were at his funeral.  My whole squadron, VAW77, the Night Wolves, my squadron, which no longer exists to do the counter-drug operations that I&#8217;ve already talked about, but all the Night Wolves gathered and we spent time talking about our friend.  The last time I saw these guys I was just a pilot in the squadron and here I am with my buddies and now I&#8217;m a member of Congress.  Thanks.  And they looked at me and they said, &#8220;Jim, our country is in peril.  We have threats all over the world that will change the landscape for the next generation,&#8221; and it&#8217;s not just foreign, it&#8217;s also domestic.  They said, &#8220;We are willing&#8221; &#8212; they&#8217;re not with 77 anymore, but they&#8217;re all still serving in the reserves somewhere &#8212; &#8220;we are willing, but we&#8217;ve got to have leadership.  We need somebody that will stand up and tell us what needs to be done, &#8217;cause right now we are not feeling it.&#8221;  Friends there is an entire country of people who served this nation in uniform and every single one of them feels the way Martin Treptow felt when he wrote that in his journal and I got to tell you as a member of Congress who&#8217;s serving his first term, I got to tell ya, that is the one thing more than anything else that gives me hope and I really do have a lot of hope.  What is right about America, and I know this has been said before, can fix what is wrong about America and there&#8217;s an entire nation of people that are willing to do the right thing knowing that we need to handoff to the next generation what we ourselves inherited.  Thank you so much for having me.  It&#8217;s an honor to be here.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;The Great Betrayal&#8217; Defends Those Who Won’t Defend Themselves</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Horowitz’s new book unveils the Democrats' treachery in Iraq -- and the tragedy and bloodshed it spawned. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/gb.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-246525" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/gb-238x350.jpg" alt="gb" width="238" height="350" /></a><strong>To order &#8220;The Great Betrayal,&#8221; Volume III of David Horowitz&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.blackbookoftheamericanleft.com">Black Book of the American Left</a>,&#8221; click <a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/collections/books/products/the-black-book-of-the-american-left-volume-iii-the-great-betrayal">here</a>.<br />
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<p><em>Volume III: the Great Betrayal</em>, the latest installment of David Horowitz’s <em>Black Book of the American Left</em> (Second Thought Books, 2014), does what George Bush wouldn’t do: defend himself from a personalized left-wing onslaught. Horowitz’s book provides an understanding of the order of battle the Left used during the Bush administration to delegitimize Bush’s foreign policy and ultimately destroy Bush’s brand, and why it happened.</p>
<p>How this happened, and Bush’s ineffective response, isn’t just a nostalgic journey through the last decade. Bush’s ineffective response to the Left holds lessons for the incoming Republican congressional majority as well as GOP White House hopefuls who will face the same progressive buzzsaw. But <em>the Great Betrayal</em> also has tough lessons for American voters. Modern political debate isn’t conducted between two camps seeking the same goals through different means. It is a debate between two wholly opposed worldviews, and if Americans fail to realize the true nature of the Left, liberty is threatened. Will voters support candidates who understand this, or pick yet another nominee for President who seems not to understand?</p>
<p>As President Bush fought wars against Islamic terror from 2003-2009, first the institutional Left, and then the institutional Democratic Party fought a rhetorical war of destruction against Bush. “Yet the president has blundered in one particular way that cannot be attributed to internal foes,” Horowitz writes. “He has failed to sell the war adequately to the American people, and to answer the charges coming from his left flank. In the presidential television debates, for example, he chided Senator Kerry for saying the war in Iraq was the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. ‘This confuses people,’ the President said. It does more than that,” Horowitz chides.</p>
<p>Here we see classic Bush-clan caution with language. Deflecting Kerry’s charge with kind prose might be appropriate at the Kennebunk River Club, but in the modern national debate, something sharper is required. I encountered the same public relations strategy when I worked at the Justice Department during the Bush administration. One favorite tactic included – <em>Responding to the attack will just prolong the story</em>. That approach obviously failed because ten years later the story that President Bush was a failure is still going strong.</p>
<p>Another tactic was – <em>Responding will just lend legitimacy to the story</em>. The Bush administration failed to understand that the media environment was transforming in fundamental and permanent ways. The attack by a left-wing blog, purportedly not worthy of response, became a headline in the <em>New York Times</em> months later. Narrative was germinating amongst the activists on the far left, implanting among the many new left-wing blog sites, and eventually reaching full maturity in the papers and network media the Bush administration took seriously. Instead of confronting the leftist narrative in the seemingly outlandish blogosphere, the Bush administration allowed the attacks to mature unimpaired. What’s worse, when the attacks matured, as it did with Senator Kerry’s attack, Camp Bush seemed more comfortable debating intellectual points than responding with a mighty rhetorical fist in the nose.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the failure to fully comprehend the nature of the leftist attacks still haunts us. Those unrebutted attacks on Bush defined the 2008 election. “The domestic divisions over both wars were initiated by a radical left whose agendas went far beyond the conflicts themselves,” Horowitz begins <em>the Great Betrayal</em>. “[I]n 2008, the party nominated a senator from its anti-war ranks who became the 44<sup>th</sup> president of the United States.”</p>
<p>The history described in <em>the Great Betrayal</em> is particularly relevant over the next two years. Many in the Republican Party, particularly in Congressional leadership, seem not to understand the Left’s order of battle. Instead of recognizing the power of the new conservative media, they still seem to care what the <em>New York Times</em> says. Instead of recognizing the malignant pedigree of the current gang governing in Washington, some still use rhetorical slogans from a vanished time, such as making Washington “work” or “finding common ground.” Many in the GOP fully understand the new media battlespace and the genuine radicalism of the modern Democratic Party. Unfortunately, not everyone does, and <em>the Great Betrayal</em> documents the unashamedly radical anti-constitutional core of the modern Democrats.</p>
<p><em>The Great Betrayal</em> makes it clear that something more than differences of opinion characterize the dispute between left and right. Congressman Ron Dellums provides one example of many contained in the book. Horowitz takes readers back to the Reagan administration, when a communist regime, with Soviet oversight, was elongating runways on the Caribbean island of Grenada. The threat of a new Soviet client state able to launch bomber and fighter forces so close to America was too much for President Ronald Reagan. American military forces in 1983 invaded and extinguished the threat.</p>
<p>What the Marines found in Grenada is astonishing. Documents seized showed that Dellums had coordinated his domestic opposition to Reagan’s Grenada policy with the communist junta in Grenada, going so far as to provide draft reports for the regime to edit before being published by the House of Representatives. Horowitz describes the materials found on Grenada by the Marines, including a letter from Dellums’ chief of staff Carlottia Scott. The letter to the communist dictator said Dellums was “really hooked on you and Grenada and doesn’t want anything to happen to building the Revolution and making it strong.   . . . The only other person that I know of that he expresses such admiration for is Fidel.”</p>
<p>The emissary for these pro-communist efforts to undermine America? Current Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA). “Another document liberated by the Marines contained the minutes of a Politburo meeting attended by the Communist dictator and his military command. ‘Barbara Lee is here presently and has brought with her a report on the international airport that was done by Ron Dellums. They have requested that we look at the document and suggest any changes we deem necessary. They will be willing to make the changes,’” records <em>the Great Betrayal</em>.</p>
<p>There is no common ground to be found with someone like Barbara Lee. There is no language too strong to condemn the Left’s open collusion with the enemies of America, whether in 1983, 2004 or in the years ahead.</p>
<p>Dellums’ collusion with America’s enemies served as a taste of what was to come. Horowitz notes Dellums was “the first Sixties radical to penetrate the political mainstream.” After colluding with the communist enemies of America, Dellums went on to serve as Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, complete with the requisite security clearances.</p>
<p>The Left is still playing the long game against America. Why? Horowitz:</p>
<blockquote><p>“America is revolutionary because it is a society based on institutions and values that are inclusive, tolerant, democratic, anti-authoritarian, libertarian, and conservative (skeptical of majorities, based on a deeply held moral individualism).”</p></blockquote>
<p>I would submit it is even worse. There is now a clear and undeniable correlation between secular hostility toward religion and political ideology, excluding the small Muslim population in the United States. Those who tend to believe (or respect) in universal religious truths, tend to be on the right side of the spectrum. Those who demean, attack and deny universal religious truths tend to be leftists. Because America was founded on universal truths regarding the dignity of man, our nation is in the crosshairs domestically, and around the world.</p>
<p>In the past, particularly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, these attacks were directed elsewhere, and not as directly at core American institutions like the Constitution, religious liberty or the family. “What has changed is that the enemy is so nakedly the aggressor against us and not, for example, a hapless Third World people like the South Vietnamese,” notes Horowitz. “What has changed is not that our declared enemy is more evil than the Soviet enemy, but that he is more <em>transparently </em>failing to pay even lip service to ‘social justice’ and other left-wing values as the communists did.”</p>
<p>Horowitz can decode the left in ways natural Republicans cannot. He was of the left. What are unrecognizable sounds to Republicans are familiar melodies from Horowitz’s youth. <em>The Great Betrayal</em> examines the unbroken pedigree of the modern Left, the radical Islamists, those who drove the anti-Bush narrative of the last decade, and the Soviet apologists of a generation ago. Unless conservatives, constitutionalists, and American voters understand what Horowitz describes in <em>the Great Betrayal</em>, a timid approach to this threat may produce disasters anew we can’t yet contemplate.</p>
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		<title>Why the World Did Not Know about WMD in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reason the Bush administration never crowed about the approximately 5,000 chemical munitions that U.S. forces uncovered throughout Iraq.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/SuperStock_1792-80825.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245529" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/SuperStock_1792-80825.jpg" alt="1792-80825" width="324" height="215" /></a>After U.S. Central Command called on us to help transport from Iraq enough yellowcake uranium to make several atomic bombs stored at Saddam’s nuclear weapons complex, I realized why neither the Pentagon nor the White House advertised the presence of this WMD precursor: safety and security.</p>
<p>Before the U.S. military moved in to secure the facility after the 2003 invasion, looters had been there first. Even though the universally recognized yellow-and-black radioactivity warnings were posted on the bunkers, locals had ripped open the storage areas and stolen casks of yellowcake with many sickened as a result. More importantly, we did not want the insurgents alerted to the exposed stockpile as they might attack the facility. This is also why the George W. Bush administration did not crow about the approximately 5,000 chemical munitions that U.S. forces uncovered throughout Iraq, as recently reported by the New York Times. That is a serious quantity of WMD, by any standard. Interestingly, the Bush team could have diluted near-uniform shock at the failure to find WMD by highlighting these discoveries instead of allowing the narrative we all know to solidify: “no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq found except a few dozen old, mustard-gas artillery shells left over from the 1980s Iran-Iraq War.” Yet President Bush and his advisors chose to protect the troops and the mission rather than score political points back on the war’s second front, the American body politic. (None of this, however, mitigates any unpreparedness by the Pentagon to treat service members exposed to chemical weapons.)</p>
<p>Before my company arrived to provide guards and to build and operate a base camp for U.S. Department of Energy scientists dissecting Saddam’s nuclear weapons facility, the American Army had occupied the site with almost a company of infantry. This was quite a bit of combat power tethered to a non-populated, static location when needed to actively defend the people against the elusive al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorists and Iranian-allied militias rampant until early 2008 when the American Surge forces and the Sunni Arab “Awakening” had turned the tide delivering our victory in the Iraq War. The limited number of combat troops available did not permit fixing them at every site where WMD were found or might be found. Hence the requirement to not advertise that Saddam had left thousands of chemical weapons lying around, potentially under any mound in mostly flat Iraq. That would have set off a dangerous treasure hunt—and if found, a tremendous threat to American troops and everyone in Iraq especially if weaponized nerve gas had ended up with al-Qaeda.</p>
<p>We were able to move the yellowcake successfully because of our proven relationships with the tribes along our supply line to the nuclear weapons facility, located at the center of an area known as the “Triangle of Death,” due to extensive U.S. combat fatalities suffered there. Because of our and other U.S. government contractors’ employment of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, we helped drain the swamp (or “sea” in Maoist terms) whence the al-Qaeda insurgency sprung. The uranium operation caused us, as usual, to rent trucks from the surrounding tribes with comprehensive war-loss insurance (meaning if a truck got blown up then the owner took the loss). This in turn caused the tribes to look outwards on the convoy movements to protect their expensive tractor trailers instead of inwards—searching for a chance to attack. Doing business for the tribes with the American government, and then the Iraqi government, turned out to be safer than supporting the nihilistic, totalitarian jihadis and the traitorous Sadrists, minions of Iran.</p>
<p>Regardless of what position one takes on the U.S. invasion, the world could not abide by large quantities of nuclear weapons precursor in the hands of the genocidal tyrant in Baghdad. As we are seeing with the current, seemingly endless negotiations with Iran, the millionaire mullahs of Tehran are using the pretext of “peaceful” nuclear power generation in order to assert that the denial thereof is a direct assault on a nation’s sovereignty. Consequently, the concept that we could have gotten the yellowcake removed from Iraq as a part of lifting the rapidly degrading sanctions and truly certifying the country clean of all chemical weapons without the overthrow of Saddam defies logic and experience. The continued possession by Iraq of approximately 5,000 chemical warheads undiscovered after almost eight years of aggressive UN inspections along with the existence of enough yellowcake uranium to make 14 or so nuclear bombs with technology that the Iranians and Libyans already possessed calls for a new coda to replace “Bush lied, people died.” Certainly, we should look to the reinstatement of a principle justification for the American invasion of Iraq.</p>
<p><i>Carter Andress is president of AISG, Inc. (American-Iraqi Solutions Group) and the author, with Malcolm McConnell, of </i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Victory-Undone-Defeat-al-Qaeda-Resurrection/dp/1621572803"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Victory Undone: The Defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Its Resurrection as ISIS</span></a><i> (Regnery, October 2014).    </i></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2014 20:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to travel back in time to the distant past, that&#8217;s what the Muslim Middle East is for. Here we have the charming tale of a simple man. An ordinary man. A <a href="http://halalporkshop.blogspot.com/2014/06/he-takes-personal-delight-in-killing.html">man with a camel who likes to drink coca cola</a>.</p>
<p>And there&#8217;s only one thing he likes more than giving him camel coca cola. Drilling heads. Or possibly battering them to death with concrete blocks. Okay maybe two things.</p>
<p>And while he may love his camel, he loves the idea of killing the Vice President of Iraq even more.</p>
<blockquote><p>Shiite militants have posted a video on YouTube celebrating Abu Deraa returned following years of being untraceable in Iran. In the video, he appeared talking with armed men who belong to a militia he leads in Baghdad. An officer appeared in the video, standing behind him for protection.</p>
<p>“He is said to take personal delight in killing — sometimes with a bullet to the head, sometimes by driving a drill into the skulls of his victims. On other occasions, Iraqis say, he gives them a choice of being shot or battered to death with concrete building blocks,” the report said.</p></blockquote>
<p>And they say Muslims don&#8217;t believe in freedom of choice.</p>
<blockquote><p>The 44-year-old man appears in the video short and bold with a light, black beard. In different video he appeared pouring the Cola into a camel’s throat and telling him: “Drink it all.”</p>
<p>He vowed to sacrifice that camel if he succeeded in killing Tariq al-Hashimi, Iraq’s former vice-president, who is a Sunni.</p></blockquote>
<p>I suspect the camel will outlive both of them.</p>
<blockquote><p>Challenged on claims that he has ruthlessly killed thousands of Sunnis, his only answer is to invoke a simple Islamic prayer that is a part of the Arabic vernacular &#8211; &#8220;Inshallah&#8221;, which means &#8220;God willing&#8221;.</p></blockquote>
<p>Religion of peace. Also camel sacrificing and skull drilling.</p>
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		<title>The Great Betrayal: Vol. Three of the Black Book of the American Left</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democrats' treachery in the War on Terror.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/gb1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245238" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/gb1-238x350.jpg" alt="gb" width="179" height="263" /></a><b>Below is David Horowitz&#8217;s introduction to his new book,</b> <b><i>&#8220;The Black Book of the American Left, Volume III: The Great Betrayal.&#8221; </i>(Order <a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/collections/books/products/the-black-book-of-the-american-left-volume-iii-the-great-betrayal" target="_blank">here</a>.) We encourage our readers to visit <a href="http://www.blackbookoftheamericanleft.com/" target="_blank">BlackBookOfTheAmericanLeft.com</a><wbr /> – which features David Horowitz’s introductions to Volumes 1-2 of this 10-volume series, along with their tables of contents, reviews and interviews with the author.</b></p>
<p><a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/collections/books/products/the-black-book-of-the-american-left-volume-iii-the-great-betrayal"><em>The Great Betrayal</em></a> is the third volume of my collected writings that make up <em>The Black Book of the American Left</em>. Its chapters focus on events beginning with the Islamic attacks of 9/11 and culminating in the Iraq War. They describe what can now be seen as a tragic turn in our nation’s history that has already profoundly and adversely affected its future.</p>
<p>The effort to remove the Saddam regime in Iraq by force was initially supported by both major political parties. But in only the third month of fighting the Democratic Party turned against the war it had authorized for reasons unrelated to events on the battle- field or changes in policy. This political division over the war fractured the home front with crippling implications for the war effort itself and, beyond that, America’s efforts to curtail the terrorist activities of other regimes in the Middle East, most pointedly Syria and Iran. The internal divisions were greater than any the nation had experienced since the Civil War, and the betrayal by the Democrats of a war policy they had supported was without precedent in the history of America’s wars overseas.</p>
<p>The internal divisions at the end of the Vietnam War were not at all commensurate with those over Iraq. The 1972 McGovern presidential campaign, which called for an American retreat from Vietnam, was launched after ten years of fighting with no result, when both parties had already conceded the war could not be won. The conflict between the two major parties was over how to end the war and over what the war had become, not—as in Iraq—over whether the war was illegal and immoral to begin with and should never have been fought. The Democrats’ opposition to a war they had authorized, represented a betrayal of the nation and its men and women in arms that has no equivalent in American history.</p>
<p>The domestic divisions over both wars were initiated by a radical left whose agendas went far beyond the conflicts themselves. In the decades that followed their efforts to bring the Vietnam War to an ignoble end, the left had made ever deeper inroads into the Democratic Party until, in 2008, the party nominated a senator from its anti-war ranks who became the 44th president of the United States.1 Of far greater significance than the successful candidacy of one anti-war spokesman, however, was the path the entire Democratic Party took in first abandoning a war its leaders had approved, and then conducting a five-year campaign against the war while it was still in progress.</p>
<p>I have written two previous books about this defection and its destructive consequences. The first, Unholy Alliance (2004), documented the emergence of the post-9/11 anti-war movement, its tacit alliance with the jihadist enemy and its malign influence on the Democratic Party’s fateful turn.2 The second, Party of Defeat (2008), was written with Ben Johnson and focused on the sabotage of the war effort by leaders of the Democratic Party, by progressive activists and by a left-leaning national media. This chorus of opposition took advantage of American missteps to conduct a no-holds- barred propaganda campaign worthy of an enemy, even going so far as to leak classified information that destroyed vital national security programs and put all Americans at risk.3 Political opponents of the war attacked the moral character of the commander-in-chief and the mission both parties had endorsed. This assault on America’s role in the war dealt a devastating blow to American power and influence from which they have yet to recover.</p>
<p>It is customary and natural for human beings to identify with the communities they inhabit, and on whose health and security their lives depend. This is the foundation of all patriotic sentiment. But once individuals become possessed by the idea that political power can be “transformative” and create a fundamentally different human environment, they develop an allegiance to the idea itself and to the parties and entities in which they see it embodied. Such individuals come to feel alienated from the societies they live in but are determined to replace, and finally to see their own country as an enemy because it is the enemy of their progressive dreams. This is how generations of leftists came to identify with the Communist adversary and its cold war against the democracies of the West.</p>
<p>When the Communist empire collapsed, I was curious to see whether this progressive reflex would survive the fall. Lacking the real world instantiation of their dreams Soviet Russia had provided, would progressives continue to volunteer as frontier guards for America’s enemies, even the most reprehensible among them?4 The answer was not long in coming.</p>
<p>On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down, liberating hundreds of millions of captive people from their Soviet prison. The following August, Iraq’s sadistic dictator ordered his armies into Kuwait and erased that sovereign nation from the political map. Unlike the Soviet rulers who paid lip service to progressive ideals, Saddam Hussein was a self-identified fascist who did not pretend to advance the cause of “social justice” or liberal values. Even by 20th-century standards, Saddam was an exceptionally cruel and bloody tyrant. But he was also an enemy of the United States, and that proved enough to persuade progressives to lend him a helping hand. When America organized an international coalition to reverse Iraq’s aggression, the progressive left opposed the action as though America rather than the Saddam regime were at fault.</p>
<p>At the time, the only reason there were no large protests against the war over Kuwait was because progressives were freshly demoralized by the Soviet debacle and still in disarray. But their mood changed over the course of the next decade. As the millennium approached, leftists began to regroup, organizing a series of large and violent demonstrations against “globalization,” the term with which they re-labeled their old nemesis “international capitalism.” When Islamic fanatics attacked New York and Washington in 2001, leaders of the globalization protests repositioned their agendas to focus on the new American “imperialism” in Afghanistan and then Iraq. Eventually, millions of leftists at home and abroad participated in protests to prevent America and the coalition it led from removing Saddam Hussein. Without overtly supporting the Saddam regime as they had the Kremlin, progressives resumed their role as frontier guards for the enemies of the United States.5</p>
<p>The chapters of <em>The Great Betrayal</em> consist of articles that were written as the post-9/11 events were unfolding. Because they were written as the events were taking place, the individual chapters are best read in sequence, and are arranged in chronological order for that purpose. I have edited the selections to clean up infelicities that are the price one pays for working on deadlines and in the heat of battle. Some repetitive passages have been excised, while some new passages have been inserted to clarify the historical context for readers coming at these issues for the first time. In making these texts more readable I have refrained from inserting views of the events that I did not hold or express at the time.</p>
<p><strong>Notes: </strong></p>
<p>1. Barack Obama’s long-standing roots in the radical left are documented in Stanley Kurtz, Radical-in-Chief, Threshold, 2010.</p>
<p>2. Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, Regnery, 2004.</p>
<p>3. <i>Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America’s War on Terror Before and After 9/11 </i>(with Ben Johnson), Spence, 2008.</p>
<p>4. See the introduction to Volume II in this series for the origins of the term “frontier guards” to describe the behaviors of the international left.</p>
<p>5. These developments are described and analyzed in Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, Regnery, 2004.</p>
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		<title>The Democrats’ Great Betrayal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unprecedented treachery for which the world is paying a dear price.]]></description>
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<p>Yesterday Regnery published <em>The Great Betrayal</em>, a book I have written to mark a watershed moment not only in the War on Terror, which is really a war against the Islamic Jihad, but a watershed moment in American history. The events and controversies chronicled in <em>The Great Betrayal</em> describe an unprecedented defection by a major political party from an American war in progress, and a five- year effort by that party to sabotage the war and undermine America’s troops in the field.</p>
<p>The Democrats’ campaign against the war in Iraq was very different from their opposition to the war in Vietnam, which came after American troops had been in the field for more than a decade and both parties had agreed on a withdrawal. In contrast, the watershed moment in Iraq came in June 2003, when the war was little more than three months old and American troops were facing a ferocious resistance from terrorist forces. In that month the Democratic Party ran a national TV ad accusing Bush of lying about Saddam’s determination to build weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>The focus of the Democrats’ attack was sixteen words in Bush’s State of the Union Address in which he referred to a British report that Saddam Hussein was attempting to buy yellow cake uranium in Niger. The statement was true, but a massive campaign in the leftwing media along with the Democrats’ imputation that Bush had lied about the rationale for the war began a five-year effort to slander America’s commander-in-chief and condemn the war in Iraq as illegal, immoral and unnecessary. The consequences of these attacks can be seen in the emergence of ISIS in the vacuum created by the Democrat-led withdrawal from the region, the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Christians in Iraq, Syria and Libya and the creation of 18 million refugees in six-year tenure of the “anti-war” president, Barack Obama.</p>
<p>Why did the Democrats turn against a war they had authorized and why did they accuse Bush of deceiving the American people (“Bush lied, people died”)? Not because of anything that had taken place on the battlefield in Iraq. The Democrats turned against the war because an anti-war activist named Howard Dean was set to win the Democratic presidential primary &#8211; which happened to coincide with the invasion &#8211; by a wide margin. It was Dean’s surge in the polls that caused John Kerry and John Edwards who eventually became the Democratic standard bearers to do an about face, repudiate their previous support of the war, and turn on the president as the chief culprit in the conflict rather than the sadistic tyrant Saddam Hussein. The Democrats even lied about the rationale for the war which was not the existence of weapons of mass destruction but Saddam’s violation of the Gulf War truce and 17 UN Resolutions designed to<em> prevent</em> him from building weapons of mass destruction.</p>
<p>Why did the Democrats claim – falsely &#8211; that Bush lied about the reasons for the war? Because the Democrats could not admit that they were turning against a war they themselves had authorized for partisan political gain, undoubtedly the most shameful act by a major political party in the nation’s history.</p>
<p>The Democrats went on to conduct a five-year scorched earth campaign against America’s war in Iraq, which was in effect the central front of the war on terror, as the creation of an Islamic terrorist state has since shown. Democrats did not merely oppose the war but slandered the president as a liar and war criminal, defended the leaks of national security programs (which led to their destruction), converted a minor incident in the Abu Ghraib prison into an international scandal which was then used to defame their country and demoralize its troops, and actively sought to defund the war effort in Congress and force an American defeat. They eventually succeeded in this effort by nominating a leftwing anti-war activist who upon reaching the White House proceeded to make America’s defeat in Iraq a <em>fait accompli</em>, thus creating the vacuum that ISIS has filled.</p>
<p>Did Bush lie about Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction as the Democrats claimed? The discovery by ISIS of 2200 rockets filled with Sarin that Saddam had buried explodes this myth, which has been wielded for over a decade by America’s enemies and detractors to undermine the war on terror. Could Bush have lied about the intelligence on Iraq? Hardly. Democrats like John Kerry sat on the intelligence committees and had access to every piece of information that Bush did.</p>
<p>It was Kerry and his running mate Edwards who lied, and the entire Democratic Party leadership along with them. And it’s in Syria and the Levant, Afghanistan and Iraq that our country is now paying the price for this treachery and deceit. And soon, if our military leaders have assessed the threat correctly, we will be paying for their treachery here at home.</p>
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		<title>We Drove Saddam’s Yellowcake to the Baghdad Airport</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know Baathist Iraq’s WMD potential existed.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ert.jpeg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244250" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ert-450x301.jpeg" alt="ert" width="306" height="205" /></a>As someone who led the company that transported 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium—enough to make fourteen Hiroshima-size bombs—from Saddam’s nuclear complex in the Iraq War’s notorious “Triangle of Death” for air shipment out of the country, I know Baathist Iraq’s WMD potential existed. In early 2008, we secretly moved over several nights 140 truckloads carrying 5500 barrels of extremely heavy radioactive material provided to Iraq as part of the French-supplied Osiraq reactor destroyed by Israeli fighter bombers in 1981. The virulently anti-Semitic Saddam had announced “here begins the Arab bomb” and the Israelis took him at his word.</p>
<p>The recent article in the New York Times, however, caught us all by surprise. Random caches of old chemical weapons found post-invasion were old news, but not “roughly 5,000” warheads and bombs, many filled with still active, nerve agent. That’s an enormous quantity even if evidently left over from the 1980s Iran-Iraq War. Just “antiques,” as the Washington Post’s Karen DeYoung quaintly put it at a Center for Strategic and International Studies forum on Iraq.</p>
<p>At the least, this shocker (after so many years of repetitious “Bush lied [about WMD], people died”) further points to the world’s inability to trust that the UN inspectors could ever realistically certify Saddam clean of his nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programs. He had to be deposed, and the only way to do it was for us to invade and overthrow his dictatorship. Here was a genocidal, expansionist tyrant who had used chemical weapons on his own people and that of a neighboring nation (Iran), publically celebrated 9/11, and allowed a chemical weapons laboratory affiliated with al-Qaeda to operate within his security forces’ reach inside his country’s borders in contested Kurdistan (Khurmal).</p>
<p>The article in the Times references the Duelfer Report that summed up the official American investigation of Iraq’s WMD as definitive in that there were no ongoing WMD programs pre-invasion, yet fails to mention that every section of the report on the different types of weapons of mass destruction concluded that the evidence gathered by investigators clearly indicated that once sanctions were removed Saddam would reinstate his WMD programs. In addition, the article mentions that the chemical weapons program was not active for over ten years, but not the biological weapons program, which extended into 1996 and was only discovered because Saddam’s son-in-law defected, even after five years of aggressive UN inspections.</p>
<p>There’s no question in my mind, Saddamist Iraq would have reconstituted its WMD programs once UN sanctions faded away—a push Security Council veto-wielding members Russia and France were actively working toward because of oil field opportunities. (Petroleum companies from both countries signed huge, new contracts with Saddam pre-invasion.) And given the yellowcake inventory, nuclear weapons with available Pakistani and North Korean technology might not have been far off. After over ten years in effect, the sanctions system was actively degrading with banned flights landing in Baghdad, the Oil for Food program corrupted, and, as a result, would have collapsed if we had not invaded—thus leaving Saddam free to threaten the world again with WMD.</p>
<p>The greater problem, however, of significant quantities of chemical weapons hidden at some date prior to the US invasion points to a current and growing threat. The leader of the neo-Saddamists allied now with ISIS is Izzat al-Douri, a former Iraqi army general and last member of the senior Baathist leadership not executed or imprisoned. There is a distinct possibility that Saddam’s minions hid these munitions with the intention of disinterring them for deterrent use once again. And in fact, this is why Saddam’s military and secret police leaders never ceased to believe Iraq possessed WMD and could therefore project terror onto the Kurds and the rest of the region (Israel and Iran, specifically) until the end because Iraq did possess WMD, even after the dictator’s death by hanging. The Iraqi army and security services did not handle “special” weapons without the knowledge of the regime’s leaders. So to think that Saddam and his immediate circle, including al-Douri, did not know the locations of the WMD discussed in the Times article begs credulity.</p>
<p>Much of the area where the “antique,” yet still potentially potent chemical weapons discovered by US forces is now in the hands of ISIS, the forces of al-Douri, and their allied Sunni Arab tribes undergirding the “caliphate” occupying almost a third of Iraq. With hundreds of Western passport holders fighting in Syria and Iraq, the most immediate threat to the United States is the spread of jihadi terrorism to Europe now that ISIS has a border with Turkey, a gateway to the EU.</p>
<p>Can one even imagine the impact of a weaponized sarin-gas attack in Paris?</p>
<p><strong><em>Carter Andress is president of AISG, Inc. (American-Iraqi Solutions Group) and the author, with Malcolm McConnell, of </em>Victory Undone: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Victory-Undone-Defeat-al-Qaeda-Resurrection/dp/1621572803">The Defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Its Resurrection as ISIS</a><em> (Regnery, October 2014).  </em></strong></p>
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		<title>Hold Obama and the Democrats Accountable for the Terrorist Threat</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/140528-obama-west-point-mn-1155_a321bf5f75359e045403b1c5436f31aa.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242534" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/140528-obama-west-point-mn-1155_a321bf5f75359e045403b1c5436f31aa-438x350.jpg" alt="140528-obama-west-point-mn-1155_a321bf5f75359e045403b1c5436f31aa" width="327" height="261" /></a>Originally published at <a href="http://www.redstate.com/diary/DavidHorowitz/2014/10/06/hold-obama-democrats-accountable-terrorist-threat/">RedState.com</a>. </em></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Since 1945 Republicans have not won the popular vote unless national security was the primary issue. But security issues were virtually absent from the 2008 and 2012 elections. This gave victories to Barack Obama, the most anti-military president in American history. Fortunately, the prospects for 2016 are looking marginally better because Republicans are now actually focusing on the fact that an anti-military presidency has ominous consequences for the 300 million Americans whose safety is the primary responsibility of the commander-in-chief.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">That said, there is much to be desired in the Republican message, which is tepid, diffuse and easily missed. When Politico wrote a story about the recent change in Republican strategy it was all about the shift away from the tax-cutting emphasis of recent years, <a style="color: #b82026;" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/republicans-shift-away-from-tax-cutting-mania-111359.html?hp=f2">rather than towards the national security issue</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So let me describe the reality we are actually facing, which is a necessary preface to the way the Republican Party should be framing its strategy and should be emphasizing the dangers of having a Democratic president like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton – or for that matter a Democratic Congress – leading us in wartime.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I will leave out of this wartime equation the threats from Russia and China, which Obama and the Democrats have done so much to foster. I will focus only on the threat posed by Islamic jihadists, who at this moment can easily penetrate the borders that Obama and the Democrats have done so much to wreck. And carry with them chemical and biological weapons, and – if Iran builds the bombs which Obama the Democrats have made almost inevitable – nuclear weapons as well.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">This is easily the greatest terrorist threat in our history, far greater than what transpired before and after 9/11. ISIS, al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas and other Islamic terrorist armies now control territory (and attendant resources) from Afghanistan through Iraq Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Somalia and other regions of Africa, Asia and the Middle East.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Why has this happened? Because Obama and the Democrats have waged a ten-year war against the war on terror, against American military strength, against an American presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, and against the very idea that Islamic forces have declared war on us. For ten years Democrats have been determined to treat terrorists as individual criminals, arrest them and try them in American courts where they will have all the protections of the American legal system that they are seeking to destroy. So hostile has Obama been to the very notion of a “War on Terror” that he has purged the very term from the official government vocabulary and replaced it with “overseas contingency operations” which describes exactly nothing.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">To create the power vacuum which Islamic jihadists have filled, Obama had to defy the advice of his Secretary of Defense and his intelligence advisers. He did this in part by absenting himself from nearly half his daily intelligence briefings, and in part by saying no to absolutely crucial measures that his military staff proposed for countering the threat from ISIS and other terrorist groups. Obama saw to it that America would relinquish its military base in Iraq (a country that strategically borders on Afghanistan, Syria and Iran) or to keep the 20,000 American troops stationed there as his Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff urged him to do.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Obama hated the Iraq War so much that he was willing to betray all the American soldiers who gave their lives to keep Iraq out of the clutches of Iran and safe from the terrorist threat. If Obama had just listened to the advice of his military staff, there would be no ISIS today. Obama’s deliberate, calculated surrender of Iraq (and soon Afghanistan) and failure to stop Syria’s Assad when he crossed Obama’s red line is the greatest and gravest dereliction of duty in the history of the American presidency.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">And make no mistake, Obama was not alone. For ten years the Democrats have been sabotaging the war on terror, beginning with their disgraceful scorched earth campaign against President Bush and the War in Iraq and continuing with their full-throated cry for the abandonment of Iraq after Bush had won the peace and contained the terrorist threat. Their support for Obama’s appeasement of Iran and Hamas, his support for the Muslim Brotherhood, and his diplomatic assault on Israel, America’s only true ally in the Middle East, is not only a national disgrace but the heart of the crisis that is looming on the international horizon.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">If Republicans fail to articulate the sources of this crisis, and specifically to indict Obama, Hillary and the Democrats for their betrayal of America’s interests and their failure to protect the American people then Republicans electoral prospects will be dim, and with them, their country’s future.</p>
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		<title>How Obama’s Arab Spring Created the Islamic State</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2014 04:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Muslim-brother-3-500x340.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242425" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Muslim-brother-3-500x340-450x334.jpg" alt="Muslim-brother-3-500x340" width="338" height="251" /></a>Over a decade ago, the U.S. conquered Iraq; its military and intelligence were on the ground for years with autonomy.   In other words, U.S. influence and authority was more pronounced in Iraq than probably any other Muslim country in the world.</p>
<p>And yet it is in this one Muslim nation, where the U.S. had most authority, where U.S. blood and treasure were spent, that the absolute worst Islamic terrorist group—the Islamic State—was born.</p>
<p>Coincidence?</p>
<p>Or is this too related to the great “Arab Spring” failures of the Obama administration?</p>
<p>Consider: <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-was-warned-repeatedly-of-consequences-of-withdrawal-from-iraq/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Obama was repeatedly warned</span></a> that withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq would lead to something exactly like the Islamic State—with all the atrocities that have become synonymous with that name.</p>
<p>Indeed, arguing against early troop withdrawal, Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, once made the following now prophetic <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/11/bush-in-2007-delivered-eerily-accurate-warning-about-iraq-unrest/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">remarks</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>To begin withdrawing before our commanders tell us we are ready would be dangerous for Iraq, for the region and for the United States.</p>
<p>It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>It would mean that we’d be risking mass killings on a horrific scale.</p>
<p>It would mean we allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>It would mean we’d be increasing the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous.</p></blockquote>
<p>The point here is not to “side” with Bush—the idea of transporting “democracy” to an Islamic country was ill-conceived from the start—but rather to demonstrate that Obama was thoroughly warned what troop withdrawal would lead to: the Islamic State.   The same U.S. military and intelligence sources that allowed Bush to make that prescient statement also <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2014/10/02/panetta-memoir-blames-obama-for-collapse-in-iraq/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">shared their assessments with Obama</span></a>.</p>
<p>Yet Obama withdrew anyway.  In December 2011, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/14/barack-obama-iraq-war-success"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Obama declared the Iraq war a success</span></a> and pulled out American troops.  And, to the eyes of most Americans, things were relatively quiet—until, of course, the world heard that a head-chopping, infidel-crucifying, mass-murdering “caliphate” had “suddenly” arisen.</p>
<p>Was Iraq also part of the euphoria of the Obama-endorsed “Arab Spring”?</p>
<p>Recall that final troop withdrawal from Iraq occurred at the height of the Arab Spring when the Obama administration was simultaneously betraying key U.S. allies in the Islamic world such as Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak.</p>
<p>If the U.S. was not going to stand by its former “secular strongmen,” but instead was willing to hold hands with their traditional enemies, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists, why should it have supported Iraq’s Nouri Maliki?</p>
<p>After all, the narrative adopted by the Obama administration was that the Arab people were breaking the bonds of authoritarianism, and the U.S. administration was supporting their efforts, most notably by turning its back on longtime allies in the name of “democracy.”</p>
<p>And surely Maliki was seen as the greatest of all “U.S. puppets,” a divisive figure that stood in the way of the Sunni Spring?</p>
<p>Despite the narrative that Maliki was for complete troop withdrawal, “<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/380508/no-us-troops-didnt-have-leave-iraq-patrick-brennan"><span style="color: #0433ff;">it’s</span></a> well-established that behind closed doors, he [Maliki] was interested in a substantial U.S. presence.”  Indeed, the <i>New York Times</i> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/world/middleeast/failed-efforts-of-americas-last-months-in-iraq.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=1&amp;"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reported</span></a> that Joe Biden had said that “Maliki wants us to stick around because he does not see a future in Iraq otherwise.”</p>
<p>More specifically, in a 2012 debate with Mitt Romney, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/11/obama-adjusts-iraq-narrative-now-blames-george-w-b/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Obama decried the presence of any American forces in Iraq</span></a> (video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgyu11TZEFc"><span style="color: #0433ff;">here</span></a>), adding that</p>
<blockquote><p>You’ve got to be clear, both to our allies and our enemies, about where you stand and what you mean. Now, you [Romney] just gave a speech a few weeks ago in which you said we should still have troops in Iraq.  That is not a recipe for making sure that we are taking advantage of the opportunities and meeting the challenges of the Middle East.</p></blockquote>
<p>What do Obama’s assertions mean?</p>
<p>Was Obama being “clear, both to our allies”—the Sunni Islamists whom he allied with during the Arab Spring—“and our enemies”—the Arab autocrats who stood in their way?</p>
<p>Was Obama showing both groups “where you [U.S. president] stand and what you mean”?</p>
<p>Was troop withdrawal Obama’s way of “taking advantage of the opportunities”—riding the Arab Spring wave—“and meeting the challenges of the Middle East”—winning Muslim hearts and minds by abandoning autocrats?</p>
<p>Here, then, is another perspective on the rise of the Sunni Islamic State in Iraq—one closely connected to the many other Arab Spring failures of the Obama administration.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Secretary of Defense/CIA Director: Rise of ISIS is Obama&#8217;s Fault</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2014 15:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It couldn't come at a worse possible time for Obama.]]></description>
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<p>You know that things are bad when a Clinton loyalist who was rewarded with heading up Defense and the CIA <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/panetta-obama-white-house-responsible-for-chaos-in-iraq/">is running to sell you out</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Obama’s former Secretary of Defense and Director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, has blamed the president for the chaos unfolding in Iraq.</p>
<p>Time previewed Panetta’s upcoming memoir, Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace. In the book, Panetta said he and others in the Obama administration pushed for a residual force of U.S. troops to remain in Iraq but their efforts were stymied by White House.</p>
<p>“The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests,” Panetta wrote&#8230;</p>
<p>My fear, as I voiced to the President and others, was that if the country split apart or slid back into the violence that we’d seen in the years immediately following the U.S. invasion, it could become a new haven for terrorists to plot attacks against the U.S. Iraq’s stability was not only in Iraq’s interest but also in ours. I privately and publicly advocated for a residual force that could provide training and security for Iraq’s military.</p>
<p>To my frustration, the White House coordinated the negotiations but never really led them. Officials there seemed content to endorse an agreement if State and Defense could reach one, but without the President’s active advocacy, al-Maliki was allowed to slip away. The deal never materialized. To this day, I believe that a small U.S. troop presence in Iraq could have effectively advised the Iraqi military on how to deal with al-Qaeda’s resurgence and the sectarian violence that has engulfed the country.</p></blockquote>
<p>This isn&#8217;t new. This version of events was well known. I <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/the-great-betrayal/">wrote about it a few years ago </a>in The Great Betrayal. But it was limited mainly to conservative critics.</p>
<p>Now Panetta, whose people were obviously the source of the leaks of that version of events, is openly putting it out in his memoirs. And it couldn&#8217;t come at a worse possible time for Obama.</p>
<p>Panetta is rushing to excuse his own role and prevent himself from becoming a scapegoat for <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obama-born-again-idiot/">Obama&#8217;s latest &#8220;intelligence failure&#8221;</a>.</p>
<p>But it can also be seen as Hillary Clinton ramming a knife in Obama&#8217;s back and kicking him out on the way down. The last thing that Obama needed now was his own top defense figure coming out and saying that the rise of ISIS could have been prevented if he had the country&#8217;s interests at heart, instead of his own political agenda.</p>
<p>Panetta is saying that Obama did not want to be associated with any agreement. He wanted the buck passed to the military. The military was tired of the buck. The White House&#8217;s message to Iraq was that it didn&#8217;t want to be involved. The message was received.</p>
<p>Maliki climbed all the way into bed with Iran and the rest is well&#8230; current events.</p>
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		<title>Daniel Greenfield on &#8220;A Christian Federation in the Middle East&#8221; &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Freedom Center's Shillman Journalism Fellow stresses why Middle Eastern Christians have to stop thinking like a minority.]]></description>
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<p><span id="productTitle" class="a-size-large"></span>Ann-Marie was joined by Shillman Journalism Fellow <strong>Daniel Greenfield, </strong>who came on the show to discuss <strong>A Christian Federation in the Middle East, </strong>stressing why Middle Eastern Christians have to stop thinking like a minority <strong>[starts at the 6:55 mark].</strong> The dialogue occurred within the context of <strong>&#8220;ISIS Rising,&#8221; </strong>in which Greenfield analyzed Obama&#8217;s policy of fighting terrorists by arming terrorists.</p>
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		<title>Left-Wing Activists Hold White House &#8220;Die In&#8221; to Support ISIS Genocide</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 01:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One man held up a sign that read: “THERE IS NO MILITARY SOLUTION.”]]></description>
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<p>A few rich leftists decided to lie as if they were dead outside the White House in support of their belief that ISIS should be allowed to kill as many Christians and Yazidis as it wants without American interference.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure how fake deaths trump real deaths in the moral calculus of the morally retarded like Code Pink&#8217;s Medea Benjamin.</p>
<blockquote><p>Five demonstrators today shut down a checkpoint at the White House, days after an intruder scaled a fence.</p>
<p>One man held up a sign that read: “THERE IS NO MILITARY SOLUTION.” Four others played dead on the sidewalk in front of the northwest checkpoint along Pennsylvania Avenue.</p></blockquote>
<p>If WW2 proved anything, it&#8217;s that military solutions don&#8217;t work. If only we had negotiated more with that nice Mr. Hitler.</p>
<blockquote><p>“When will we realize war is the worst thing we can possibly do?” one protester yelled.</p></blockquote>
<p>Our war is worse than their war. It&#8217;s fine when ISIS kills non-Muslims. But it&#8217;s horrifyingly evil when we kill ISIS.</p>
<blockquote><p>The protest organizer, Campaign Nonviolence, describes itself as a group “committed to nonviolent social change … representatives of organizations that normally do not have a voice and have little influence in the places of power in Washington DC.</p></blockquote>
<p>Poor non-influential folks like wealthy leftist Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, a group of terrorist supporters with an all-access pass to Washington.</p>
<blockquote><p>Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, who like Swanson was not arrested, said Obama’s justification for the current U.S. military campaign “sounds like George Bush all over again.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Code Pink&#8217;s co-founder Jodie Evans is an Obama bundler.</p>
<blockquote><p>Activist David Swanson said the airstrikes are an irrational, fear-driven response to the beheading of two American journalists by the Islamic State group.</p></blockquote>
<p>Which part of killing the terrorists who are killing Americans is &#8220;irrational&#8221;? Irrational is insisting that self-defense doesn&#8217;t work.</p>
<blockquote><p>“War is terrorism,” said John Dear of Campaign Nonviolence, who was among those arrested. “Of course we’re against this stupid bombing of Syria and Iraq.”</p>
<p>Dear, a Roman Catholic priest, said “peaceful means are the only path to a peaceful future.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Dear is welcome to test this theory by going to Iraq and trying to peacefully prevent Christians from being murdered. Until he&#8217;s willing to do that, he can stop trying to take the moral high ground while hiding behind the soldiers who keep him safe.</p>
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		<title>Bill Whittle: Obama Is Bush Lite</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2014 04:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong>He&#8217;s launched airstrikes and is threatening ground troops but IT&#8217;S NOT WAR. He took a victory lap for Osama bin Laden but opposed the means that got his location. He&#8217;s broken every Progressive policy and gospel on the books, and he&#8217;s doing the same things for the same reasons his predecessor did, only he&#8217;s doing them late, doing them badly and blaming everyone else. In his latest Firewall Bill Whittle shows why Barack Obama is nothing more than Bush Lite. See the video and transcript below:</strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">TRANSCRIPT:</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">BUSH LITE</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Hi everybody. I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">President Obama, when told that airstrikes alone very likely would not be enough to stop the murderous scythe of ISIS, as it destroys entire ethnic populations on his watch, has told his Joint Chiefs that he would make a decision about deploying US ground forces “on a case by case basis.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">What does that mean? Nobody really knows. He doesn’t really know either. But what it sounds like is that we may need to send troops on specific missions against specific targets – as in a police raid &#8212; but this is in no way to be construed as “boots on the ground.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">If Barack Obama has to deploy US Marines to Iraq wearing flip-flops so that he can claim he didn’t put boots on the ground, then that is what he is going to do: anything other than admit that an ongoing campaign of airstrikes and troops on the ground is, in fact, war.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Because Barack Obama is against war. He is launching airstrikes and deploying soldiers and killing people – but this is not war. Any questions?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Yeah, I have a question. Is there anybody left out there who doesn’t see this Progressive president doing the exact same things as that swaggering Texas cowboy, George W. Bush – and not only doing them, but not doing them nearly as well? Is there anybody out there who once voted for Captain Hopenchange who doesn’t see that he has broken not just every progressive promise but every progressive gospel – and done it late, and done it badly? Anybody who doesn’t see this empty suit for what he is: namely, Bush Lite?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Where do we begin?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">How about Executive Order 13492 &#8211; Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities. Barack Obama was sworn into office on January 20th, 2009. Two days later, on January 22, 2009, he signed the executive office ordering the closure of the detention base at Guantanamo Bay. President Bush understood the need for such a secure facility, far from American soil because of the dangers of a large-scale rescue attempt of so many high-value terrorists. Bush Lite called it “a stain on America’s honor.” It’s still open though. You know why? Because as it turns out, there is a need for such a secure facility, far from American soil because of the dangers of a large-scale rescue attempt of so many high-value terrorists. So Bush Lite keeps it open in violation of his own order.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Hey, speaking of Gitmo…</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">President Bush assumed the responsibility – and the concomitant waves of criticism – of ordering the extraordinary rendition – waterboarding – of a very small number of top terrorists. One of these – the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – KSM &#8212; who not only admitted to but in fact bragged about the murder of more than 3000 American civilians – broke under waterboarding; a procedure which, I might add, our own special forces warriors volunteer to endure at part of their POW training.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Senator – later candidate – Obama denounced this as torture. But it was the waterboarding of KSM that gave us the name of the courier who revealed the location of Osama bin Laden. After dithering and worrying about the possibility a failed mission for at least 100 days, Bush Lite took time from the links to take credit for getting Bin Laden, a victory given to him by his predecessor’s moral courage and for whom not a word of thanks was uttered.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">One more thing: President Bush declared early that he was going to focus on destroying Al Qaedas ability to strike, rather than chasing one single man. That’s why the man that Bush Lite bragged about killing was not connected to the levers of power, moving his chess pieces against the Great Satan through a series of secret conduits. He was a beaten, bitter old man, who sat in a shawl, watching porn and speeches of himself back in his days of glory, before President Bush broke those levers and scattered those pieces by killing Al Qaeda in the sands of Iraq. Bush Lite, bungling a routine Status of Forces Agreement, told the few survivors – actually, he promised them – that we were getting out; those survivors are now known as ISIS.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">President Bush occasionally left the Oval Office for a round of golf. Bush Lite occasionally leaves a round of golf for the Oval Office. And while President Bush, certainly, was not without his faults – they were the faults of a man facing difficult decisions who made them and then owned up to them in the face of merciless political and personal criticism from people like Bush Lite, who now are forced by the same circumstances to make the same decisions, but who makes them late, and makes them badly, and who then blames anyone but himself.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Perhaps President Bush was not, in fact a bad man who just liked killing people for fun. Bush Lite is doing the exact same things he did: is he a bad man who likes killing people for fun too? Or is it that the job may be a little harder than it looks from the outside? That maybe there aren’t good choices; just a bad choice and a worse choice?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Finally – heresy of heresies! – I think that not only is President Bush a better man than Bush Lite… I think he’s a far smarter man as well.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">WHAT?!!! Obama went to Harvard!</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Bush went to Harvard too. And Yale. He went to both.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">BUT BUSH WAS A C STUDENT!!!</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">True. And Bush Lite on the other hand…</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">…Well, no one knows what kind of student Bush Lite was, because he has, at great expense, kept his records sealed. We do know that when he was elected President of the Harvard Law Review, Harvard Law Review President Lite never wrote a single law review.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">That seemed odd to me for the longest time, until it finally dawned on me: of course Bush Lite wrote law reviews. He just never had any law reviews PUBLISHED. Must be because he was so brilliant, right? That’s why they never published any of the President of the Harvard Law Review’s Law Reviews? Ort is it because once they read one or two of them they realized – as the rest of us are realizing just today! – that the fabled intellect is as dull and mundane as the fabled savvy and fabled strength and fabled everything.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So do I really think President Bush is smarter than Bush Lite?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Hell yes I do! Absolutely!! President Bush was an instrument-rated, supersonic fighter pilot. Barack Obama handed out forms. Which one do you think is easier?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">That’s how Bush Lite likes things though: easy. Relaxed. Let men make the decisions to win wars. The women in his life will tell Bush Lite when it’s safe to grab the credit.</p>
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		<title>Saudi Joined ISIS to &#8220;Free Iraq of Jews&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last Jews in Iraq are long gone. Mission accomplished?]]></description>
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<p>The last Jews in Iraq are long gone. By the time Saddam was overthrown there were about a dozen left. <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/iraq-arrests-saudi-who-joined-isis-to.html#.VBfVMPlr7J8">So mission accomplishe</a>d?</p>
<blockquote><p>The Iraqi Civil Defense has released a six-minute video showing the arrest of a 21-year-old Saudi national, who reportedly left Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq to “free the land of Jews.”</p>
<p>Hamad Al-Tamimi had allegedly been ordered to leave the front lines in Syria and go to Iraq by the head of one of the IS battalions.</p>
<p>According the video, Al-Tamimi said he first became interested in fighting abroad via the Internet. “I saw videos and pictures of children being killed. This prompted me to get in touch with an IS member in Iraq, known as Abdulmajeed Al-Otaibi, via Twitter,” he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s not specified whether the videos made him outraged or whether he wanted to kill children.With Jihadists, it&#8217;s an open question.</p>
<p>Iraq had been as &#8220;free of Jews&#8221; as Saudi Arabia for some time now. It&#8217;ll shortly be free of Christians at the rate things are going. But it&#8217;s not exactly like <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/1703/uk-anti-semitism-muslim-schools">they teach Saudis real history</a>. If you get all your news from Al Jazeera, you might conclude that the Jews are running Iraq.</p>
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		<title>Don’t Mention the War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 04:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The administration can’t agree on what it needs to find a strategy for.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/obama-0828.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241123" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/obama-0828-432x350.jpg" alt="obama-0828" width="344" height="279" /></a>Bill Clinton was ambiguous about the definition of “sex” and “is.” Barack Obama is uncertain about what the definition of “war” might be.</p>
<p>And wars are central to the duties of the man in the White House.</p>
<p>Whether or not we’re in a war depends on who you ask and on which day of the week you ask him. Secretary of State John Kerry said that bombing ISIS in two countries wasn’t a war. After the White House spokesman said it is a war, Kerry agreed that maybe it might be a war after all.</p>
<p>Forget about finding a strategy, this administration can’t even agree on whether the thing that it needs to find a strategy for is a war.</p>
<p>Democrats don’t like the “W” word. They bomb more countries than Republicans do, but they find a prettier name for it.</p>
<p>One of the first things that Obama did in Iraq was to change the name of the war. It was no longer Operation Iraqi Freedom. It was now Operation New Dawn. Even though there were 50,000 troops in Iraq, the combat mission was officially over. The 50,000 were renamed “Advise and Assist” brigades.</p>
<p>As John and Yoko said, the “W” word really could be over if you wanted it to be. Or pretended it was.</p>
<p>Obama bombed Libya to implement regime change, but no one called it a war. It was just one of those things where we dropped a lot of bombs on another country in coordination with rebels on the ground to help them take over that country. Definitely not a war. Possibly one of those “man-caused disasters.”</p>
<p>At least that was how Obama Inc. tried to rename terrorism in the early heady days of hope and change.</p>
<p>A compulsive need to avoid calling things what they are is an obvious form of denial. But when a politician at the head of a government begins behaving in that shifty way, it’s also deeply dishonest.</p>
<p>Democrats could defend Bill Clinton’s need to lie about what they termed his private life, but even they can’t defend an administration that plays Clintonesque word games with something as big as a war.</p>
<p>We are currently not in a war with the Islamic State, which according to this administration is neither Islamic nor a State, with a strategy of possibly destroying them (unless that doesn’t work out and then we’ll settle for degrading them) and we are backed in this non-war by a coalition of Muslim nations that can’t as of yet be named, but which have possibly pledged to help us with certain undetermined things.</p>
<p>These undetermined things include aiding the Syrian Islamist rebels, some of whom are fighting alongside ISIS, some of whom are fighting ISIS and some of whom switch back and forth based on their mood, the latest shipment of TOW missiles from the CIA and how much the Saudis are paying them.</p>
<p>We don’t know a lot more about the war, which may or may not be a war, than we know about it.</p>
<p>And that’s the problem.</p>
<p>Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was mocked for talking about “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns” by people who are too stupid to realize that their ignorance has turned the world around them into “unknown unknowns.”</p>
<p>Obama’s culture of denial, his charm bracelets of Orwellian synonyms for conflict that seem to have been invented by a bureaucrat with no sense of humor, turn everything into unknown unknowns. If we can’t even properly define what we’re doing, how can we do it at all? If we can’t even admit that we’re fighting a war and that ISIS is inspired by Islam, how can we beat an enemy that we can’t fight or name?</p>
<p>For the longest time this administration refused to admit that ISIS was a threat or that it was at war with us. Only when the Jihadists were preparing to knock on the doors of the US embassy in Baghdad, was it finally able, after a delay of some weeks, to use the “W” word.</p>
<p>What you call something is important. Ideologues, like the kind that fill the ranks of Obama Inc, think that changing a name changes reality. It doesn’t. A rose will still be the same plant by any other name and ISIS will still be the same band of Islamic headchoppers even if you insist on referring to them as a junior varsity team of man-caused disasters belonging to no particular faith or religion.</p>
<p>It’s your awareness of reality that changes.</p>
<p>Casinos and credit card companies use substitution to diminish your awareness that you are spending money.  Drug companies play soothing music and show pastoral scenes while telling you the lethal side effects. Car salesmen and cable companies avoid giving you the full amount that you’ll be paying.</p>
<p>Obama has a bad habit of using these same tactics. His administration tried to make the illegal war in Libya look good by refusing to call it a war and comparing the cost to the Iraq War using bogus figures. It tried to erase the existence of terrorism by refusing to use the word to describe terrorist attacks that were taking place, whether at Fort Hood or in Benghazi.</p>
<p>His tactics showed that he didn’t believe that the problem was terrorism, but the overreaction of Americans to terrorism. All he had to do whitewash every attack as an isolated incident that had nothing to do with Islamic terrorism and then Americans would cease to be aware of terrorism. If Iraq were to vanish from the evening news, no one would know that Al Qaeda there was getting bigger and bolder.</p>
<p>In the latest leaked private conversations printed in the <i>New York Times</i>, Obama whines and mopes, he blasts critics and denies that his policies have failed. Despite his muscular rhetoric in public, in private he complains that he is being stampeded into bombing ISIS. It’s a revealing conversation because it shows a man who believes that his failures are not the problem. It’s other people becoming aware of those failures that concerns him and forces him into addressing them. ISIS isn’t the problem: America is.</p>
<p>ISIS is to Obama as Monica was to Bill Clinton. They’re both the dirty little secrets of powerful men that they did everything possible to hide. And once that was no longer an option, they quibbled over words.</p>
<p>Denial only works until reality forcibly intrudes. Even with a friendly media, the philandering of the President of the United States couldn’t continue indefinitely. And even with a friendly media, the rise of a new generation of Al Qaeda after the Arab Spring wouldn’t stay buried in the back pages forever.</p>
<p>It was only a matter of time until everyone knew.</p>
<p>Futile exercises like debating the meaning of “War” are delaying tactics. People are not interested in abstractions like the meaning of “Is,” “War,” “Sex” or “You can keep your doctor.” They take words at their common meaning. If bombs are falling, it’s a war. And if it’s a war, then it has to be won.</p>
<p>Democrats don’t believe in wars now because they don’t believe in winning. Instead of wars, they spend a lot of time on “interventions” as if dropping tons of explosives on a country is like telling your drunk cousin to stop drinking. They never win any of these interventions and that’s fine because Americans don’t really care what happens in Yugoslavia, Haiti or Somalia.</p>
<p>But on September 11, thousands were murdered in one day.  The Democrats don’t like calling what happened on that day an act of war. Americans however know it’s a war and are determined to win it.</p>
<p>Obama was guiding Americans away from the awareness that we were in a war. In wars, someone wins and someone loses. If he refused to call it a war, maybe we wouldn’t realize that we were losing.</p>
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		<title>Obama’s Non-Strategy on ISIS – on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 04:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No steps forward, two steps back.]]></description>
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		<title>The War at Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2014 04:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ali-Muhammed-Brown.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240981" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ali-Muhammed-Brown-445x350.jpg" alt="Ali-Muhammed-Brown" width="267" height="210" /></a>As the Islamic State beheads a third hostage and the world recoils in horror and <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/uk-beheaded-aid-workers-brother-says-islam-not-to-blame">reassures</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/cameron-on-islamic-states-claim-to-be-islamic-nonsense-islam-is-a-religion-of-peace">itself</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/uk-muslim-leaders-demand-that-cameron-call-the-islamic-state-the-un-islamic-state">that</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/australian-pm-high-terror-alert-not-about-religion">all</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/when-is-an-islamic-state-not-islamic">this</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/catholic-cardinal-mccarrick-embraces-islam">has</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/uk-historian-bill-maher-is-wrong-we-cant-blame-islamic-state-on-islam">nothing</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/us-terror-expert-islamic-state-not-bound-by-the-structures-of-traditional-islamic-warfare">to</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/obama-the-islamic-state-is-not-islamic">do</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/kerry-islamic-states-hateful-ideology-has-nothing-do-with-islam">with</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/australia-police-raid-islamic-bookstore-two-muslims-face-terror-charges-official-says-this-has-got-nothing-to-do-with-islam">Islam</a>, it is useful to remember that jihad activity continues in the United States – although hardly anyone notices amid the rush to dissociate Islam from the mounting violence committed in its name and in accord with its literal teachings.</p>
<p>Take, for example, a Muslim from Seattle, Ali Muhammad Brown. <a href="http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/seattle/2014/08/20/seattle-double-murder-suspect-ali-muhammad-brown-fourth-homicide/14324141/">KING 5 News</a> reported that Brown is “currently in jail on $5 million bail for the alleged murder of a college student in late June.” He has “already been charged with gunning down two men at 29th and King Street in Seattle’s Leschi neighborhood on June 1.” And he is “now the prime suspect in a fourth homicide.”</p>
<p>The report noted laconically in its fifth paragraph, without elaboration, that “multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation say Brown told police he carried out the murders because he was on a jihad to kill Americans.” <a href="http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2014/08/accused_serial_killer_says_livingston_teens_murder_was_vengeance_against_us.html">NJ.com added</a>, also deep in its story on Brown’s murders: “Prosecutors say Brown is a devout Muslim who had become angered by U.S. military intervention in the Islamic world, which he referred to as ‘evil.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2014/08/accused_serial_killer_says_livingston_teens_murder_was_vengeance_against_us.html">That report also noted</a>: “Ali Muhammad Brown said he considered it his mission to murder 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin as an act of ‘vengeance’ for innocent lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Iran. ‘All these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government. So a life for a life.’” This is a reference to the Qur’an: “We ordained therein for them: ‘Life for life, eye for eye, nose or nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth, and wounds equal for equal’” (5:45).</p>
<p>New York radio host Todd Pettengill, host of WPLJ’s “The Todd Show,” <a href="http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2014/09/radio_host_livingston_teens_murder_evidence_that_domestic_terrorism_is_already_here.html">said</a> that Brown’s murder of Tevlin was evidence that “domestic terrorism is already here.” Pettengill declared: “It was in fact an act of jihad, perpetrated by a fellow American who sympathized more with those who want to annihilate us than with his own country and its people.”</p>
<p>Pettengill is right. Domestic terrorism is indeed already here. And it was here before Ali Muhammad Brown went on his killing spree. Another Muslim from Seattle, Musab Mohamed Masmari, was <a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/07/31/masmari-sentence-to-10-years-in-prison-for-neighbours-arson">sentenced on July 31</a> to ten years in prison for pouring gasoline onto a stairway in a famous gay nightclub, Neighbours, and setting the stairway on fire last New Year’s Eve, when the club was crowded. If the fire had not been put out – the carnage would have been great.</p>
<p>Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg said: “One of Masmari’s close associates was interviewed by investigators and reported that Masmari confided in him that he ‘burned a gay club’ and that he did it because ‘what these people are doing is wrong.’” In <a href="http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/friend-said-gay-club-arson-suspect-may-be-planning/ndPpr/">another report from February</a>, we learn that an informant told the FBI before this attack that Masmari could be planning “terrorist activity,” and that he had “opined that homosexuals should be exterminated.”</p>
<p>This incident should have been the impetus for a national discussion of violent Sharia enforcement in the U.S., and an examination of what could be done to stop Sharia vigilantism. Instead, the mainstream media largely ignored the obvious motive; in this report, it is discussed as “homophobia,” with no hint that this was one of the first incidents of violent Sharia enforcement in the U.S.</p>
<p>There are many more recent domestic terrorism cases as well. In mid-June, a Tampa Muslim named Sami Osmakac was convicted of plotting to bomb a Tampa bar and then blow himself up in a jihad-martyrdom suicide attack in another crowded area of the city. <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/jury-starts-deliberating-sami-osmakac-terrorism-case/2183695">Osmakac said of non-Muslims</a>: “We will go after every one of them, their kindergartens, their shopping centers, their nightclubs, their police stations, their courthouses and everything until we have an Islamic state the whole world.” Shades of “slay them wherever you find them” (cf. Qur’an 2:191; 4:89; 9:5).</p>
<p>Then there was<b> </b>Ahmed Abassi, who, according to the <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/06/03/tunisian-man-gets-plea-deal-for-amtrak-terror-plot/">New York Post</a>, wanted to derail a New York-to-Toronto Amtrak train. He also discussed with another jihad terrorist “a plot to release bacteria in the air or water to kill up to 100,000 people.” He was also, according to Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara, plotting to “commit acts of terror and develop a network of terrorists here” in the U.S.</p>
<p>Abassi could have gotten fifty years in prison, but he “avoided terrorism charges by pleading guilty in Manhattan federal court to lying on his visa application and to immigration officials when asked why he flew to the United States in 2013.” Consequently, he could soon be a free man. What could possibly go wrong?</p>
<p>And let’s not forget Mufid Elfgeeh, a Muslim businessman from Rochester, New York. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/yemeni-accused-plotting-kill-troops-191419361.html">AP</a> reported on June 2 that Mufid Elfgeeh “bought two handguns and the silencers as part of a plan to kill members of the U.S. armed forces returning from war as well as Shiite Muslims in western New York.”</p>
<p>AP, as anxious as Barack Obama or David Cameron to absolve Islam of responsibility for the evils done in its name, explained that Elfgeeh (like Ali Muhammad Brown) was plotting to kill troops “as vengeance for American actions overseas.” So why did he want to kill Shi’ites as well? As vengeance for Iran being a bitter enemy of his bitter enemy, the U.S.? Obviously Elfgeeh is a Sunni Islamic jihadist who wants to kill members of groups that he considers to be enemies of Islam. But AP will never tell you that.</p>
<p>The war is not just in Iraq and Syria (and Nigeria, and Thailand, and the Philippines, and Afghanistan, and Israel, and Egypt, and on and on). It is in the United States already. That war is the Islamic jihad against the West and the free world. There will be many more men like Ali Muhammad Brown and Musab Mohamed Masmari in the United States in the coming years. Actions like theirs will one day, not too long from now, be a more or less daily occurrence in the United States. But no need to be concerned: just remember, when things get really hot, that <i>all this has nothing to do with Islam</i>.</p>
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		<title>‘Justpeace’ Movement Urges Nonviolent Resistance to ISIS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 04:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good luck with that.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bg.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240455" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bg-367x350.jpg" alt="bg" width="257" height="245" /></a>While President Obama dithers about whether to “destroy” ISIS or “manage” them, the Christian left is urging him to engage the butchers in nonviolent, “community-level peace and reconciliation processes.”</p>
<p>The Catholic, Washington-based Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns recently <a href="http://www.maryknollogc.org/article/53-national-religious-groups-academics-ministers-urge-alternatives-us-military-action-iraq">posted</a> a letter addressed to President Obama and other White House officials at the end of August. Signed by 53 national religious groups (including Maryknoll), academics, and ministers, the letter urged the White House to avoid warfare in Iraq by resorting to “a broader set of smart, effective nonviolent practices to engage hostile conflicts.” The strategies are part of “a fresh way to view and analyze conflicts” offered by an emerging ecumenical paradigm called “justpeace” (a cutesy combination of justice and peace). This approach was initiated by the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FaithForumOnMiddleEastPolicy/info">Faith Forum for Middle East Policy</a>, a “network of Christian denominations and organizations working for a just peace in the Middle East.”</p>
<p>The signers expressed their “deep concern” not so much over “the dire plight of Iraqi civilians” being slaughtered by ISIS as “the recent escalation of U.S. military action” in response. “U.S. military action is not the answer,” they claim, sounding a pacifist note common among left-leaning Christians. “We believe that the way to address the crisis is through long-term investments in supporting inclusive governance and diplomacy, nonviolent resistance, sustainable development, and community-level peace and reconciliation processes.”</p>
<p>Good luck with that. It doesn’t take a diplomatic genius to know that ISIS’ response to such flaccid tactics would be the same as the one they delivered recently in a video warning to the U.S.: “We will drown all of you in blood.”</p>
<p>But the left deals in wishful thinking, not reality. Thus the signers affirm, with Pope Francis, that “peacemaking is more courageous than warfare” – a statement that makes a great bumper sticker for Priuses but has no basis in fact. “It is licit to stop the unjust aggressor,” concedes Pope Francis, but “stop” does not mean wage war, which he calls the “suicide of humanity.”</p>
<p>Typical of the blame-America-first left, the letter’s signers faulted “decades of U.S. political and military intervention, coupled with inadequate social reconciliation programs,” for “the current crisis in Iraq.” More violence, they believe, will simply lead to “a continual cycle of violent intervention” that does not address “the root causes of the conflict.” You know that when the left speaks of “root causes,” they mean poverty, social injustice, imperialism – all of the familiar grievances whereby the left legitimizes “freedom fighters” such as ISIS. The left is also fond of the notion of the “cycle of violence” – as if both sides are equally to blame, and if one side takes the bold step to end that cycle, the other side will stop as well.</p>
<p>“We… deeply share the desire to protect people, especially civilians,” the letter continues, but “there are better, more effective, more healthy and more humanizing ways” to do that. Those steps include the following recommendations:</p>
<ul>
<li>Stop U.S. bombing in Iraq “to prevent bloodshed, instability and the accumulation of grievances.”</li>
<li>Provide “robust humanitarian assistance” to refugees fleeing the violence, “in coordination with the United Nations.”</li>
<li>Engage with the UN, all Iraqi political and religious leaders, and others in the international community on diplomatic efforts.</li>
<li>Support community-based nonviolent resistance strategies to transform the conflict and meet the deeper need and grievances of all parties.</li>
<li>Strengthen financial sanctions against armed actors in the region by working through the UN Security Council.</li>
<li>Bring in professionally trained unarmed civilian protection organizations.</li>
<li>An arms embargo on all parties to the conflict.</li>
<li>Support Iraqi civil society efforts to build peace, reconciliation, and accountability at the community level.</li>
</ul>
<p>I don’t see how any of these are more effective than annihilating ISIS militarily, particularly since the UN is worthless and hardcore jihadists would simply consider the above methods to be indications of weakness from our side. The signers close the letter by asking Obama to “move beyond the ways of war and into the frontier of just peace responses to violent conflict.”</p>
<p>Priests like those at Maryknoll naturally seek peaceful solutions – that’s understandable, and peaceful solutions are certainly preferable if they are available or possible. But working toward peace requires the willing participation of all parties. If one side is hell-bent on genocide, and views conciliatory overtures from their enemy as pathetic weakness, then all the “community-based nonviolent resistance” in the known universe isn’t going to persuade them to compromise for the sake of peace; on the contrary, it will only encourage and embolden them to keep slaughtering. This ugly reality may not sit well with the utopians of the Christian left, who believe that harmonizing “Kumbiyah” will soften savages who think nothing of burying children alive, selling women into slavery, and sawing people’s heads off.</p>
<p>ISIS is not an isolated group of “extremists,” as Obama likes to call them (“extreme” what?). They are part of a surging worldwide jihad against a Western civilization that the jihadists view as weak, decadent, and dying. A falling camel attracts many knives, as the Arabic saying goes, and the jihadists smell blood. They are not impressed or moved by promises of “inclusive governance” or “reconciliation processes.” They don’t respect interfaith dialogue or hashtag diplomacy. They don’t desire peace – at least, not as we define it. Peace for them means not coexistence, as our bumper stickers urge, but worldwide submission to Allah. They respect only strength. When we work up the cultural and military will to show them that we, and not the jihadists, are the strong horse of which bin Laden spoke, we will be on our way to peace.</p>
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		<title>Andrew Klavan: Whatever Leftists Say, It&#8217;s Opposite Day!</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong>In this special episode, our host, Andrew Klavan, recounts the litany of assurances Barack Obama and his leftist companions have made, none of which are true&#8230; See the video and transcript below:</strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Hurrah!  It’s Opposite Day — the day when everything is exactly the opposite from what we were told it would be.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">For instance, remember in 2011 when Barack Obama told us “the tide of war is receding?”  Remember during his re-election campaign that year, when he said Al Qaeda had been decimated.  Remember afterwards, when he withdrew all our troops from Iraq and he said, we were “leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq” and “America’s war in Iraq will be over.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Well, yahoo!  It’s Opposite Day!.  Everything Obama said is just the opposite!  The tide of war is in full flood and engulfing much of the middle east.  Al Qaeda’s murderous warriors have reconvened as the Islamic State, more powerful and more brutal than ever.  And of course Iraq is awash in bloodshed and if the U.S. doesn’t stop it there, it’ll soon be right here with us!</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">What a crazy day.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Hey, here’s another one.  This is fun, huh?  Remember the 2004 speech when Obama said “There’s not a black America and a white America&#8230; there’s the United States of America&#8230;”  Remember when the Economist and the New Yorker and NPR all told us Barack Obama’s election signaled a post-racial age.  And the New York Times heralded his election with the headline:  “Obama moves America Beyond Racial Politics.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Surprise!  It’s Opposite Day!  Yes, Ferguson Missouri has been rocked by the worst racial riots in years. A New York Times CBS poll says 87 percent of Americans feel that race relations in our country have either stayed the same or gotten worse since Obama’s election.  And it’s Obama’s own administration that has stoked the tensions, with corrupt Attorney General Eric Holder playing the race card every time he gets caught in a new scandal, and Joe Biden accusing Republicans of wanting black people back in chains, and Obama himself repeatedly suggesting his opponents are driven by racism.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">This is a great day, right?  Ha, gotcha!  It’s the opposite.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Let’s not stop now!  Remember when Obama pressed the reset button to improve our relations with Russia — those guys who are currently invading the Ukraine.  Or remember when Obama promised a transparent and ethical administration that would “do our business in the light of day” instead of arresting opposition filmmakers on trumped up charges and bugging investigative journalists and auditing conservative groups to shut them up and enforcing only those laws he likes while rewriting other laws without the consent of congress.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Oh &#8211; and hey, remember how leftists felt virtuous for supporting Obama and his policies.  Oh, wait, never mind, leftists still feel virtuous&#8230;  because for them it’s always&#8230;   Opposite Day!</p>
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		<title>Over 1,100 US Troops Deployed in Iraq</title>
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<p>Obama officially withdrew twice from Iraq. It looks like he&#8217;s going to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-approves-deployment-of-350-more-troops-to-iraq/2014/09/02/b05aa99a-3306-11e4-a723-fa3895a25d02_story.html">have to withdraw a third time</a>. Maybe this time the job will actually be done.</p>
<blockquote><p>President Obama on Tuesday authorized the deployment of an additional 350 troops to Iraq in response to a State Department request last week for more protection for U.S. personnel and facilities in Baghdad.</p>
<p>“These additional forces will not serve in a combat role,” the White House said.</p>
<p>A Pentagon statement said the new deployments “will come from within the U.S. Central Command area of operations and will include a headquarters element, medical personnel, associated helicopters and an air liaison team.”</p>
<p>The new order brings to more than 1,100 the total number of U.S. military personnel authorized for Iraq since early June, when Islamic State forces began a blitz across the country, seizing towns and cities in the northwest and central parts of the country.</p>
<p>Of that number, a total of 820 are now responsible for protecting the U.S. Embassy and the airport in Baghdad and the U.S. Consulate in Irbil in the northern Kurdish region&#8230;</p>
<p>Separately, Obama authorized 300 troops to Baghdad and Irbil to assess and assist Iraqi and Kurdish security forces fighting the militants. The 300, not all of whom have been deployed, have been sent to joint operating centers in Baghdad and in Irbil, where they are helping to direct a U.S. air campaign that has conducted 124 airstrikes against Islamic State forces in northern Iraq.</p></blockquote>
<p>Obviously there&#8217;s no combat involved in any of that. We had US personnel on Sinjar, no combat risk there. We have 820 people there to protect diplomatic facilities and Baghdad airport.</p>
<p>The ridiculous coyness is dishonest and wrong. The US is bombing ISIS, but the White House won&#8217;t use the &#8220;W&#8221; word. Obama did this before when he &#8220;withdrew&#8221; while leaving more troops than the US had in Vietnam as &#8220;advisers&#8221;. Despite the unpopularity of the Iraq War, the American people are willing to accept the need to deal with ISIS, but they don&#8217;t like being lied to.</p>
<p>Obama puts a premium on playing word games and on technicalities even when it isn&#8217;t necessary and isn&#8217;t accomplishing anything.</p>
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