The Final, Last Desperate Jihadoterrorist Onslaught In Iraq Has Begun

Expect things to get REALLY REALLY BAD in Iraq from here until the elections. This is "make or break" time for Jihadoterrorism in Iraq.

The Next Front in the GWOT?

SYRIA. EVEN Chirac is talking tough ... well: tough for a Frenchman, that is.

MEANING: If Syria doesn't get out - SOON, and by a time certain, and if the "armed militias" are not dismantled, then... BOOM. Sometime soon - like right after the Iraqi elections.

NOTE: This is a PREDICATE for a state of Palistan.

NOTE: This sends another clear message to Iranistan.

NOTE: EVEN France has forgiven MOST of Iraq's debt with them.

Dutch Pol': "No More Immigration Without Assimilation"

Looks like Holland is waking up - tho' sadly it took two vicious post-9/11 murders to stir them from their sleep (Pim Fortuyn's and Theo Van Gogh's).

Now, a very popular Dutch pol' (Geert Wilders) is calling for a 5 year halt to all NON-WESTERN immigration. He said that un-integrated immigrants threaten Dutch culture.

"He cited a report by Dutch intelligence saying recruitment for jihad, or holy war, is taking place in as many as 20 mosques in the Netherlands, and said they should be closed and their imams, or preachers, arrested and deported. 'If we don’t do anything ... we will lose the country that we have known for centuries. People don’t want the Netherlands to be lost, and this is something that I get angry about and I am going to fight for, to keep the country Dutch,' he said." (According to AP as reported by MSNBC.)

I believe all countries EVERYWHERE should expect ALL immigrants to ASSIMILATE. In fact, I've coined a catch-phrase - based on an earlier one that was pretty effective ("No taxation without representation.") - which captures this belief: "No immigration without assimilation."

We need it here as much as they need it in Europe.

(MORE GEERT WILDERS QUOTES HERE.)

Old Media Bias: Marine Shooting versus Kofi's "no confidence" vote

Two GOOGLE NEWS searches reveal Old Media's continuing anti-Bush/anti-American bias -

EXHIBIT A: 114 stories on Kofi's "no confidence" vote

Annan faces UN staff’s no-trust - Daily Times, Pakistan - 1 hour ago [...] all 79 related » [...] UN workers to condemn chief - all 35 related

EXHIBIT B: 6,950+ stories on "Marine shooting."

[...] Arab world inflamed by video of Marine shooting Minneapolis Star Tribune (Sunnis outraged over Marine shooting man in mosque Cleveland Plain Dealer [...] all 325 related Arab world aghast at Marine shooting in mosque [...] - all 140 related »

Unfortunately for the Old Media and the Left, NEW MEDIA will get the news out and the truth out - and expose their bias.

Time for an "Oil for Food Scam" Ultimatum: "Cooperate fully, or we will take the US out of the UN!"

The complete lack of cooperation that the US Congress is getting for its investigation of the "Oil for Food Scandal" - also know as "UNSCUM", and "Oil for Genocide" - must be met with MORE than contempt; it must be met with ACTION:

The president should demand immediate and full cooperation and transparency or withdraw from the UN.

The means for doing this is already in Congress. In 2003, Congressman Ron Paul of Texas sponsored a Bill that would do just that - H.R. 1146 - and it's time for President Bush to dust it off, and wave beneath the noses of Kofi Anan and Jacques Chirac and Vladimir Putin and Gerhard Schroeder: cooperate fully with our investigation, or this Bill will become law.

AT THE VERY LEAST... WE SHOULD WITHHOLD DUES UNTIL WE GET COMPLETE COOPERATION; WE DID THIS IN THE 1990'S - UNDER THE HELMS-BIDEN ACT (TO GET SOME REFORMS THROUGH THE UN)- AND IT WORKED THEN --- IT COULD WORK AGAIN.

AP: "Cash-strapped NoKo Might Sell Plutonium to Terrorists"

U.S. Military Commander in South Korea:

N. Korea May Sell Nukes
By SANG-HUN CHOE / Associated Press Writer

"SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Impoverished North Korea might resort to selling weapons-grade plutonium to terrorists for much-needed cash, and that would be "disastrous for the world," the top U.S. military commander in South Korea said Friday. Gen. Leon J. LaPorte said the communist state may have harvested plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear rods, which experts say could yield enough material for several atomic bombs."

The North Koreans must be prevented from doing this. There are only two ways to guarantee this is prevented: (1) regime change; and (2) pre-emptive destruction of North Korea's plutonium and all their nuclear facilities.

If the intelligence to accomplish the latter is not good enough to guarantee success (and all the lousy intel' we used in Iraq leads me to believe that our intel' on NoKo is probably just as bad), then we must pursue the former - preferably with the aid of the Chinese.

Time is of the essence. We and the Chinese should immediately send a message to the NoKo military that they must overthrow Kim and hand over all the nuclear sites and materials AT ONCE. In return we guarantee them amnesty and aid. And a timetable on re-unification.

Waiting and wishful thinking are not reasonable options.

CAUSE OF ARAFAT'S DEATH DETERMINED!!!!!!

ODDLY ENOUGH: Arafat was killed by the same exact thing that killed Pierre Salinger while getting a pacemaker, Princess Diana after her car accident, and 15,000 old French men & women during a heat-wave - the French healthcare system! Oddly enough.

Bush's Groundbreaking Appointments Break Records and SHATTER Left-wing Myths

From Dissecting Leftism:

"Limousine-liberal Democrats and their media poodles, many of whom send their children to near-segregated private schools, have basically ignored the racial triumphs Powell and Rice embody. Just as they have barely noted that Rod Paige, the departing secretary of education, is the first black to hold that job. Or that Ann Veneman, the departing secretary of agriculture, is the first woman to hold that job. Or that Alberto Gonzales, if confirmed, will be the first Hispanic attorney general. Or that Bush has an Arab-American and two Asian-Americans in his cabinet. Had a Democratic President made those appointments, the celebratory coverage would invoke Harry Truman's integrating the armed forces or Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson's battle for civil rights. Talk about your double standards."

Indeed.

AP: "Castro sees Bush hand in bin Laden video"

Castro obviously suffers from the same disease as Michael Moore and the rest of the Left: BDS.

How can we arrange to get him sent to France for some "medical" treatment?

EXIT STRATEGY MAPPED OUT

The exit strategy for US military forces in Afghanistan and Iraq has been mapped out. CLICK HERE TO SEE MAP.

(I think some should come home via Damn-ascus, too.

(READ MORE HERE. AND HERE.)

POPULATION DENSITY AS A PREDICTOR OF VOTING

GLENN linked to an article at TECHCENTRALSTATION by Patrick Cox titled "A Tale of Two Maps."

Cox - and others who have been commenting on the various RED STATE/BLUE STATE maps - generally look for sociological explanations for the glaringly obvious correlation between population density and party affiliation, as if everyday aspects of urbaneness and urban civil, class and tax structures might explain why a clear majority of people who choose to live in more densely populated areas tend to be Democrats. (In fact, Kerry and the Democrats carried only cities with a population of over 500,000, while Bush carried a majority in all cities with a population of less than 500,000. So what we might ask is: "what is so different about these 500,000+ cities that makes them so blue?")

Even I have previously suggested that city-folk are less traditional (and more faddist and bourgeoiseophobic) than country-folk.

PRESTOPUNDIT provides an example of a very densely populated and VERY RED area - ORANGE CONTY, CA - and suggests that it is because they have only one major newspaper and it'ss libertarian.

But perhaps the explanation is simpler; perhaps we must merely look at HISTORICAL reasons for the BLUE/city versus RED/country dichotomy.

Historically, cities have been part of the stronghold of the Democrat Party (along with the rural south - which they began losing in the 1970's due to LBJ's Civil Rights laws and The Great Society); the Democrat Party built its machine upon farmers, immigrants, industrial unions, and civil servants - ALL of these groups (except the now largely GOP farmers) are predominant only in the cities.

And - as David Brooks has so thoughtfully proved - party affiliation is largely hereditary - so the urban Democrat affiliation is a hand-me-down -- a VESTIGE -- of the demographics of the old Democrat machine.

A close examination of the 2004 presidential election results reveals that Bush and the Republicans made gains in all cities, so even this vestigial party affiliation may be gradually disappearing --- and with it, the Democrat Party as a viable national party.

This is not merely caused by Bush. This is partly because the Democrats have less "government largesse" to dole out to these special interests. After all, since Clinton and Congress "changed welfare as we know it," immigrants and the poor are far less dependent on government welfare - and as a result these voters are less likely to continue to align themselves with the party that promises more government welfare. These partisan promises ring false and hollow now.

And unions - another key part of the Democrat machine - are also shrinking.

As a result, the Democrat Party has less to offer, and fewer people to offer it to.

That's why they must reinvent themselves.

I suspect that if they lean further to the Left - and become the party of nationalized healthcare, and of subservience to transnational, international, and/or multilateral organizations - they will only shrink more rapidly. Which means they must move to the right - to get back to the center.

I suspect that this would alienate their Left-wing and cause a major schism. If the Left split off from the DNC and joined up with the Greens and the Reform Party, then we are headed to a three party system. And a permanent GOP majority.

The new IAEA/Iran/EU "nuke deal" is not even 3 days old, and Iran has already caught in a LIE!

CNN. NYTIMES. "Reuters". All bastions of Left-wing/Old Media propaganda are All reporting that the IAEA/Iran/EU nuke deal is essentially "Dead BEFORE Arrival."

See this earlier post for more on why Iran, the IAEA, and the EU cannot be trusted - which means, of course, that no deal with them is worth the paper it's written on. Which means, of course, that the only guarantee of a non-nuclear armed Iran is... regime change.

Powell's future...

Powell has been asked by a NYC GOP Congressman to run for the Senate against Hillary in 2006 (hat tip THE CORNER).

Maybe he'd rather be governor of NY? Or of Virginia?

YUP: unseating Governor Warner (a rich, centrist, southern Democrat governor - who would obviously thus be a formidable presidential candidate in 2006), is a high priority for the GOP. Powell would win in a landslide.

FOR THE JIHADOTERRORISTS THERE'S BEEN NO CONVERSION ON THE ROAD TO RAMALLAH

FIVE NEW NEWS ITEMS:

1 - Abbas barely escapes an assassination attempt the day after Arafat's internment.

2 - HAMAS is boycotting the elections.

3 - alAqsa rejects Abbas and instead backs convicted murderer and terrorist Bargouti.

4 - HAMAS rejects call to halt terrorism, between now and the election.

5 - The Turkish press is reporting that the PNA fears an outbreak of widespread mass violence.

WHAT DOES THIS ALL ADD UP TO?

The fact that nothing has changed for the better with the Palestinian Arabs. Arafat's death has not converted the Jihadoterrorists from genocidal anti-Zionists into non-violent "two-staters."

When will it change for the better? How can it change for the better?

See this post (below): The Road to Ramallah Begins in Baghdad, and goes through Damascus and Tehran...

Chirac's Paris-itic Necrosis

Chirac is at it again. Like his alter-ego de Villepin, and his current FM Barnier, Chirac can't seem to open his mouth without uttering some self-aggrandizing - and France-aggrandizing anti-American inanity.

Where does this come from?

It comes from French cocooning. Chirac epitomizes it. Paris itself symbolizes it.

Remember: Chirac was the longtime Mayor of Paris - it's where he built his Arafatesque fiefdom on corruption of unparalleled depth.

Paris. A city of unbelievable beauty: grand boulevards, gorgeous parcs, chic cafes, beautiful bridges across the sensuous Seine, elegant chateaus et maisons, hills, trees, museums - yes, Paris simply and unarguably the most beautiful city in the world.

And cloistered in his Elysee Palace - after having dwelled for a time in the stately Hotel Matignon (as PM, and worked for years in the Hotel de Ville collecting bribes and kickbacks ) - sits Chirac: master of this great city which symbolizes a great nation - or so he thinks.

How else could he think!? To be master of the nation which has poured so much of its wealth over the CENTURIES into this city of cities is SEEMINGLY to be master of... all that is masterful. Certainly the nation that built and has maintained Paris - the most beautiful city in the world - must be the best nation in the world, "NON?!"

NO.

Paris is merely a "spectactular mausoleum" of a nation whose greatness ended in the 19th century . In fact, nearly every single great and wondrous and beautiful thing about Paris is from the 19th century - most of that from a period of time most French hold in low regard: the Second Empire. What else is great is from before the First Republic, and before WW1. France and French culture and Paris have done almost nothing of great import or great beauty since then.

All France has produced since then has been existentialism, post-modernism, and Gaullism - all hollow failures (excepting Camus - who like Orwell saw beyond the jargon of his age). This is reflected in Paris, as well: The ugliest buildings in Paris are all post WW1. The 20th century was not a good one for France, or Paris - and the 21st does not bode well, either.

Meanwhile, Chirac - Suha, de Villepin, and all the other corrupt and amoral saprophytes - sit in their excruciatingly beautiful cocoon-like Paris and delude themselves that they and their City of Light are still relevant and important on the world stage. Merde! Paris is merely a great and huge adult theme-park, a tourist trap with charm.

Too bad so many tourists go there every year; it only encourages them...

THE ROAD TO RAMALLAH BEGINS IN BAGHDAD - and it goes through Damascus and Tehran

A two-state solution is predicated on there being a second state. As of now there is only one - Israel. Bush's bold pro-Palestinian State Policy was predicated on the Palestinian's first attaining a transparent democratic self-rule in the territories. This has not happened yet.

Arafat's death has made many in the media qvell with wishful-thinking: his passing will allow the Palestinians to attain a transparent and democratic self-rule and thereby give Peace a Second Chance. FAT CHANCE; (or slim chance, take your pick!).

Arafat's death will not change Hamas or Hizballah or the PFLP or IJ or Tanzim into two-staters; they are and will remain one-staters: people who believe in the destruction of Israel (and who will use genocidal terror to accomplish that) and in replacing it with a novel Islamic state called Palestine.

The ONLY way to change that dynamic - to neutralize the genocidal terroristic one-staters - is to get Syria and Iran to cease any and all support for them. The only way to accomplish this is to put EXTREME PRESSURE on Syria and Iran.
Our success in Iraq is an absolutely necessary precondition for accomplishing this. Once we are successful in Iraq - and the January elections there (and in "Palestine" are a HUGE step in that direction) - we MUST issue ULTIMATUMS to Syria and Iran:

(1) to Syria we immediately demand an immediate and complete withdrawal of all forces from Lebanon and a suspension for any and all support to any and all Palestinian and/or pan-Arabist terrorist organizations. Or we shall attack and demolish their military and their economy; there should be NO OFFER OF INSTALLING A POST-ASSAD DEMOCRACY OR FOR RECONSTUCTION. As a carrot, we can offer them aid if THEY hold elections and transform themselves into a transparent democracy.

(2) We tell Iran that they must suspend any and all support for any and all Palestinian and/or pan-Arabist terrorist organizations or we will destroy their military (including their Navy) and their economy - including ALL THEIR OIL ASSETS. There should be no carrot offered.

Because the threat we would be making against Syria and Iran involves NO RECONSTRUCTION, the attacks against Syria and Iran could be done by sustained, intense aerial bombardment, and would involve NO TROOPS ON THE GROUND.

Because of Bush's bold military actions against the Taliban and Saddam, Syria is now surrounded by nations which should be allies in this ultimatum: NATO's Turkey, Israel, and Occupied Iraq. And Iran is now surrounded by Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan. The barrel of the gun is against their heads - so-to-speak.

Naturally, these threats would NOT be issued with or after a UNSCR. These military actions would be undertaken WITHOUT seeking U.N. approval - as was Clinton's war against Milosevic.

Once Iran and Syria cease to support any and all Jihadoterrorism, the GWOT is more than half over. And a Palestinian state can slouch towards Bethlehem.

IRAN IS ALREADY CHEATING THE EU AND THE IAEA

UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal has weighed-in with a cold hard look at the EU/IAEA/Iran proposed Nuke Deal which Iran is ALREADY trying to wiggle-jiggle around in. The editorial is titled: "Appeasing Iran Europe seeks a deal even worse than Clinton's with North Korea." Their verdict? The same as mine: It's time for the bad cop to deal with the perp.

I posted a blog on the tentative IRAN/EU/IAEA deal earlier in the week.

I was skeptical any meaningful deal would be accomplished. My skepticism has ALREADY been proven to be well founded.

"REUTERS: "

Iran nuke freeze answer falls short says diplomat

Thu November 11, 2004 02:43 PM ET
By Louis Charbonneau and Paul Hughes

VIENNA/TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has failed to give a definitive answer to an EU demand it freeze sensitive nuclear activities or face referral to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions, a diplomat familiar with the talks says. [...] A Western diplomat close to the IAEA confirmed Iran had not delivered a letter, as it must, to announce the start date for the suspension and invite the UN agency to verify it. [...] But diplomats have said Iran was looking for the EU to sweeten the agreement by offering swift incentives, such as the immediate resumption of stalled trade talks, in return for agreeing to the enrichment freeze. "Iran wants something up front if it's going to suspend enrichment, not just promises. But the Europeans have refused," a diplomat said. Another sticking point in the talks concerns the preparation of uranium for the enrichment process. The EU wants all uranium conversion activities halted, while Tehran wants to continue with some conversion work.

This is a dealbreaker.

It is time for the bad cop to work over the suspect...

SUHA MAKES OUT LIKE A BANDIT

Suha Arafat played her cards well. In return for pulling the plug on Yasser - and handing over the secret accounts to the Palestinian National Authority - she will get $22 MILLION dollars A YEAR for the rest of her life. Thats a lot of money. More than the likes of Chirac and Mugabe will get when they retire. And more than she deserved.

But, it's only a small portion of the $4 BILLION estimated to have been stolen by Arafat - according to the Italian newspaper Corriere de la Sera. And according to Palestinian sources, payong her $22 MILLION a year was the only way for the Palestinian leaders to get their hands on the rest of the loot.

Now I know what Yasser saw in her.

The Religious Divide Explained

Glenn linked to a good article at TECHCENTRALSTAION by Fred Turner.

RTWT - even though it COMPLETELY misses the point.

Turner creates a false dichotomy: religious versus secular voter.

Many religious people - myself and Bush included - are both deeply religious and committed secularists.

The true opposition is religious voter versus atheistic voter.

UPDATE: CORRECTION AMPLIFICATION = THE REAL DIVIDE IS UNIVERSALIST VOTER VERSUS RELATIVIST VOTER. 


Here's why:

The fact is that democracy was founded by religious people, and this is because democracy is historically based on the first principal of Natural Law : that all humans are created equal and endowed by the Creator with inalienable rights. The State does not grant or define these rights; UNIVERSAL Human Rights exist a priori.

Most of atheists - and ALL of cultural relativists and moral relativists - are opponents to any notion of Universal Human Rights because they believe that Human Rights can only be defined culturally/relatively. 


Such a view provides no universal moral basis for democracy or democratic revolutions; such a view can ONLY explain revolutions as struggles between competing power bases. 


Which is exactly how Marxists, and moral relativists and cultural relativists explain history. And I would include most of the Left; the Left has become overwhelmingly redefined by its relativism. This fact has been true since at least post-WW2, when post-modernism took root in the Left.
This post-modernist Leftist creed cannot offer a way to universally abolish slavery or sexual inequality, or racism, or genocide EXCEPT if-and-when there is CONSENSUS from all the world's nations and cultures - which is precisely why these relativists value multilateralism and the UN so highly: it is the only place where international/cross-cultural consensus can be reached, and for relativists cross-cultural consensus is the only means to temporal universality. 


This is also why they have so often stood back and done nothing as genocide has been openly committed - they can't act if they can’t forge a consensus.

But true morality is NOT on based on polls; it is NOT relative; it is Universal; it holds that all homo sapiens are entitled to the same rights because we are literally and figuratively ONE FAMILY. 


And in this family we should not tolerate it when our relatives are systematically denied their innate Human Rights. It is our duty to help our brothers and sisters.

This concept was enshrined as part of the UN Charter when the UN adopted the Declaration of Universal Human Rights - at the time a liberal notion embraced by all of the West.

Since then, it has become regarded by the Left as a neo-con notion - an attempt by the West to culturally hegemonize the world. 


This shift occurred around the time that the Left realized that the working-class in the West would not lead the proletarian revolution (because of the enbourgeoisment - [their term] - of the working class - or so the Left claims), and that the revolution would be led by the Third World - especially the former colonies of the West.

This is why the Left (the hub of of atheistic, post-modernist, cultural morally relativist political ideology) aggrandizes any Third World dictator who opposes the USA or the West, and abhors only dictators who are pro-USA or pro-West. To the extent that OBL and Saddam and Zarqawi can be seen as anti-USA/anti-West, the Left embraces them. 


The actual extremely low living standards and lack of basic human rights and liberties that our brothers and sisters have in totalitarian regimes doesn't matter to the Left as long as the regime is anti-USA or anti-West - like North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Iran, Syria - etc...

The Left in the USA is no different in this regard than the Left in continental Europe, and this is why they have such great affinity. They're against Natural Law; Natural Law is antithetical to their core beliefs.

The UK has a deep tradition of Natural Law and this is why they are natural allies of the USA. Ditto Israel.

W should send BJ to Yasser's funeral

W should send BJ Clinton to be the emissary for the USA at Yasser's funeral in Cairo. After all, BJ met with Yasser more than any other foreign leader. Besides, sending an impeached president to attend a terrorist's state-sponsored funeral just seems fitting, doesn't it!? If BJ is unavailable, how about Teresa Heinz? If she can't sober up in time, how about Jimmy Carter? Or Howard Dean? Or Ramsey Clark? Then there's Tom Daschle, no!? NO, NO! I got it; I got it: Michael Moore!

*****UPDATE: Bush is sending Assitant Secretary of State William Burns. This choice sends two messages: First, that Bush correctly regards Arafat as a lowly figure whose funeral does not require sending anyone with a higher standing than an assistant. The second message is subliminal: the assistant's last name suggests what Arafat's eternal soul should suffer - and where. Click here for a complete list of the state dignitaries who will attend Yassir's funeral in Cairo.

"No; I just like the way it sounds!"

"ARAFAT IS DEAD! Good riddance."

"Excuse me, can you repeat that please?"

"I said ARAFAT IS DEAD; GOOD RIDDANCE!"

"Excuse me, would you mind repeating that again, slowly and very loudly, please?"

"AR-A-FAT IS DEAD! GOOD RID-DANCE!"

"Please say it again?"

"What... are you DEAF, or do you think I am a LIAR, or do you have Alzheimer's or something!?"

"No. I hear perfectly fine, I'm sure you're as honest as the day is long, and my mind - thank God - is as sharp as a pin!"

"Then why are you making me repeat it over and over again!?"

"I just like the way it sounds!"

Video link to my favorite '04 RNC speech: Zell Miller

I cried during a moment in Zell Miller's 1992 Madison Square Garden DNC speech, (when he nominated Clinton). The part when he told about how he was born in a little holler in northwest Georgia - a little town, a poor town, with no electricity or phones or running water. And one day, when he was still a little boy, and he was sitting on the porch of his family's home with his momma, she pointed down to the little dirt road that meandered through the bottom of the holler. And she said to him, "Zell, you see that road there? You can get ANYWHERE you want on that road!"

And she was right: in America you can get wherever you want. (Why just today, President Bush nominated Al Gonzales - the son of Mexican migrant workers - to be Attorney General of the United States of America! MAN: Is this a great country, or what!?)

Zell's 2004 speech - also delivered in NYC at Madison Square Garden - is even BETTER than the one in '92.

And it's worth another look. Click here, and watch Zell. I think you'll agree: He was GREAT! Thanks, Zell!