75% OF AMERICANS BELIEVE BINLADEN IS PLANNING AN ATTACK

CNN:

As the five-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks approaches, nearly three-fourths of those responding to a CNN poll said they believe Osama bin Laden is planning another significant attack against the United States.

Seventy-four percent of the 1,033 adult Americans polled said they believe an attack is being planned, according to the poll conducted by Opinion Research Corporation on behalf of CNN.

Sure, but what kind of attack should we next expect!? See below.

CNN: FORMER CIA OFFICIAL CLAIMS BINLADEN GOT FATWA FOR NUKING 10 MILLION AMERICANS

CNN/Amanpour:

Michael Scheuer, who once headed the CIA's bin Laden unit, says bin Laden has been given permission by a young cleric in Saudi Arabia authorizing al Qaeda to "use nuclear weapons against the United States ... capping the casualties at 10 million."

"He's had an approval, a religious approval for 10 million deaths?" I asked him.

"Yes," Scheuer responded.

He first made this charge here; 11/14/03 (on CBS). IS THIS SO LONG AGO WE SHOULD IGNORE IT, NOW?!?! Maybe, but maybe NOT: ALL of Binladen's major jihadoterror attacks have always been planned YEARS ahead of time. The time may be fast approaching...

I take this charge with a grain of salt: Scheuer was the incompetent head of the Binladen desk at the CIA during the time we failed to get him when we could've, and he's an anti-Semitic piece of crap who like Sheehan and Chomsky argues we went to war against Saddam because Israel/the Likud wanted us to, while at the same time he argues that we are controlled by the House of Saud.

NEVERTHELESS: the fact that Saddam wanted nukes (which he could have given to al Qaeda), and that Iran is trying to make nukes (which they can give to Hizballah), and that North Korea may have some to sell to... ANYONE, makes this charge one that must be paid attention too.

MORE ON CNN'S BINLADEN SPECIAL HERE.

WAR IS HELL - AND IT GETS MORE HELLISH THE CLOSER YOU GET TO THE END

The last V2 bomb hit the UK on 3/28/45 - just two months before the war ended.
The Nazies didn't surrender until... they surrendered.

Kamikaze attacks - Japan's most effective weapon - didn't begin until 10/44 - three years into the war. The closer we got to victory the more kamikazes they sent after us; most were sent in the last three months of the war.

And remember, the Japanese didn't surrender until we nuked them twice.

We should expect no less from our current enemies.

IN MY PRAYERS: The Fox News Team and Gilad Shalit Eldad, Regev, Ehud Goldwasser

I pray for the safe release of the Fox News team, and of the three Israeli soldiers, too. And I pray for our troops and the troops of the IDF and our allies. (More on the Fox News team HERE.)

MSM LIES WORKING: NYTIMES/REUTERS: "51% SEE NO LINK BETWEEN IRAQ AND GWOT"

NYTIMES/"REUTERS":

Americans increasingly see the war in Iraq as distinct from the fight against terrorism, and nearly half believe President Bush has focused too much on Iraq to the exclusion of other threats, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. The finding that 51 percent of those surveyed see no link between the war in Iraq and the broader antiterror effort was a jump of 10 percentage points since June.

Here's a link to a post of mine from Friday 8/18 which conclusively proved that the Iraq War was always and remains and integral part of the GWOT.

BUSH: HE'S NOT "DOWN AND OUT" IN DC!

HE'S UP IN THE POLLS, AND AND "UP" IN PERSON; (HINDERAKER, excerpt):

I had the opportunity this afternoon to be part of a relatively small group who heard President Bush talk, extemporaneously, for around forty minutes. It was an absolutely riveting experience. It was the best I've ever seen him. Not only that; it may have been the best I've ever seen any politician.

(Maybe this will reverse Power Line's recent slide into defeatism!? I HOPE SO!)

THE TRUE FACE OF THE ENEMY - part 5

VIDEO. Via CUANAS.

THE SPEECH BUSH SHOULD DELIVER

WITH A TEXAS ACCENT IT WOULD BE EVEN BETTER. Heh.(AUDIO - NSFWimps. Here's the YOU TUBE link!)

THE LIBERAL JUDGE WHO DECIDED THE NSA CASE FAILED TO DISCLOSE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST

When the ACLU shopped for a judge, they shopped a little too close to home; JUDICIAL WATCH/via GATEWAY PUNDIT:

Judicial Watch discovered the potential conflict of interest after reviewing Judge Diggs Taylor’s financial disclosure statements, available on Judicial Watch’s Internet Site, www.judicialwatch.org.

According to her 2003 and 2004 financial disclosure statements, Judge Diggs Taylor served as Secretary and Trustee for the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (CFSEM). She was reelected to this position in June 2005. The official CFSEM website states that the foundation made a “recent grant” of $45,000 over two years to the ACLU of Michigan, a plaintiff in the wiretapping case. Judge Diggs Taylor sided with the ACLU of Michigan in her recent decision.
...
(Judge Diggs Taylor is also the presiding judge in another case where she may have a conflict of interest. The Arab Community Center for Social and Economic Services (ACCESS) is a defendant in another case now before Judge Diggs Taylor’s court [Case No. 06-10968 (Mich. E.D.)]. In 2003, the CFSEM donated $180,000 to ACCESS.)

Like her first husband, Judge Diggs Taylor is morally challenged. (The judge's second husband wasn't a convicted liberal Democrat politician; he was merely a liberal Democrat hack politican.)

LEFTIST ELITISM AND PARANOIA VERSUS COMMONSENSE ANXIETY OVER JIHADOTERRORISM

ONE OF BETSY'S BEST PAGES. READ IT NOW. RTWT.

AFTER THREE YEARS OF NEGOTIATING WITH THE EU-3 AND THE IAEA, IRAN OFFERS TO REALLY REALLY FINALLY GET SERIOUS

BBC:

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, has said his country is ready to start "serious talks" with six world powers on Wednesday.

Er, um... what dioes that say about what they've been up to the last three years!? Talk about dishonest insincerity. Sheesh. They have essentially admitted that they've been cynically manipulating, stalling, and obfuscating for the last three years. As they've plowed ahead and gotten closer and closer to achieving the capability to make nukes.

And that idiot Javier Solana actually responded by saying:

the Iranian document was "extensive" and required "a detailed and careful analysis."

What a jerk. Nothing the Iranians submit is worth a the paper it's written on. In fact, I wouldn't wipe my ass with any treaty negotiated with Iran. They are obviously simply not trustworthy.

We need to get ready to issue an ultimatum - which means last chance, and I don't mean a French/UN version of last chance; I mean a real, full and final last chance - or else. And the "or else" is a massive, coordinated military assault that wipes out their nuke infrastructure, their limited refining capacity, their air force, their air strips, their navy, as many of their tanks and military barracks as possible, and their major highways. In short: neuter them.

Whatever happens next - as a result - is certainly going to be a whole heck of a lot bettere than what might happen in a war agaisnt iran after they get nukes. Or after they give one to Hizballah.

I sure hope Bush and Condi don't blink - as they just did with regard to the Hizballah-Israelis war. Now is time for being resolved.

THEN: THE ADVENT OF THE NAZI LUFTWAFFE - AND NOW: THE ADVENT OF IRANIAN NUKES

WE ARE FAST APPROACHING THE POINT OF NO RETURN WITH IRAN, AND IF WE BLINK, THEN THE RESULT COULD BE DISASTEROUS. Thomas Sowell:

What kind of people provide a market for videotaped beheadings of innocent hostages? What kind of people would throw an old man in a wheelchair off a cruise liner into the sea, simply because he was Jewish? What kind of people would fly planes into buildings to vent their hate at the cost of their own lives?

These are the kinds of people we are talking about getting nuclear weapons. And what of ourselves?

Do we understand that the world will never be the same after hate-filled fanatics gain the ability to wipe whole American cities off the face of the earth? Do we still imagine that they can be bought off, as Israel was urged to buy them off with "land for peace" -- a peace that has proved to be wholly illusory?

Even ruthless conquerors of the past, from Genghis Khan to Adolf Hitler, wanted some tangible gains for themselves or their nations -- land, wealth, dominion. What Middle East fanatics want is the destruction and humiliation of the west.

If the West had mustered the necessary courage to preemptively attack Hitler in 1938 for violating the treaty which ended WW1, then WW2 would have never occured. Millions and millions of people would have lived; millions and millions more spared the horrors and degradation of the war and of what followed.

In 1938, the costs in blood and gold for defanging and overthrowing Hitler would have been much much lower than the costs of WW2: Hitler's war machine was consideably weaker. After 1939 his Luftwaffe was up to speed and we were cornered: only Churhcill and the UK stood between civilization and barbarism.

We are faced with a similar opportunity now: we can preemptively attack Iran, destroy it's nuclear infrastructure, and overhrow the mullahs (maybe), or we can fight them later - AFTER they're nuclear-armed.

I think the costs for attacking them now are lower than the costs of war with them later.

THEN VERSUS NOW: IWO JIMA VERSUS IRAQ

I blogged on this last Friday - linking to a great video by HOT AIR. Today. Glenn links to Mickey; POINT:

"6,821 Americans ...died to conquer the eight square miles of Iwo Jima.

That's more than twice the number of Americans who've died in the entire Iraq War.

TIMES HAVE CHANGED: FDR fought WW2 with everything he had - inflicting and absorbin g huge losses, and the nation supported him and the war. Bush is fighting with one hand behind his back - against a monstrously evil enemy, and the Left/doves/Dems are calling him Hitler!

IRAN ANNOUNCEMENT AT 3:30 PM, 8/22

Aug. 22, 2006 2:44 | Updated Aug. 22, 2006 13:12
Iranian response to UN package at 15:30
By NATHAN GUTTMAN AND JPOST STAFF

Iran will announce its response to the UN incentives package at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the Iranian News Agency said. The expected announcement comes nine days before the August 31 deadline.

WHY ANNOUNCE THE TIME? WHY 3:3OPM!? Is it just the time a presser, or is something more dramatic planned!?

LE FRENCH: LE SCUM

LOWRY AND CRITTENDEN DETAIL IT.

A Sarkozy victory is the only thing that can save France from remaining... well: French. They need to get Anglicized. If they don't do it soon they will become Islamicized.

More HERE.

SUGGESTION TO GOP: MAKE VOTER PHOTO ID AN ISSUE

I'd like to see every state check a voter's PHOTO ID before they vote.

Heck: if you have to show a photo ID to buy a beer, then why shouldn't you have to do it to vote!? Research proves that it increases turnout, and is non-discriminatory. And the public overwhelmingly supports it, especially soccer moms and independents - who are all about fighting fair.

But the best thing about the issue - from a purely partisan POV - is that the Dem politicians oppose voter photo ID; (more HERE).

I would argue that the Dem politicians oppose it because Voter ID laws would hamper their massive voter-fraud machines - (which they've been using for generations, and which they probably used in Wisconsin and PA to help Kerry, and which they were caught using in Missouri, and elsewhere in 2004).

I think this issue could be a great issue for the GOP - as good as any as far as uniting the base and attracting independents. The Dems are the party of appeasement abroad and voter fraud at home.

KARL ROVE AND KEN MEHLMAN: ARE YOU LISTENING!?

CONGO "REDEPLOYMENT" OF "PEACE-KEEPERS" PROVES THAT THE U.N. STANDS FOR "USELESS & NEEDLESS"

NYTIMES:

Battles between forces loyal to President Joseph Kabila and those of his main campaign rival raged for second day Monday, and U.N. peacekeepers safely evacuated foreign diplomats who had been trapped inside the challenger's besieged home when gunfire broke out.

U.N. spokesman Jean-Tobias Okala said the diplomats, including U.N. chief of mission William Swing, were being returned to the world body's offices in the capital, Kinshasa, after being evacuated from Bemba's compound by U.N. troops in armored personnel carriers.

YEAH: You read that right: the UN is FLEEING just as violence breaks out. And instead of keeping the peace, all the UN "peace-keepers are doing is assisting the cowards to flee. SHEESH: What the heck were they sent there to do, pimp?! Er um, yes.

8/22 UPDATE: Some 400 extra European Union troops are being flown into the Democratic Republic of Congo capital, Kinshasa, in a bid to quell raging gun battles. [Reliapundit: 400!? That's all!? OBVIOUSLY: they're not serius, but it's better than nothing!]

I think this proves - once again - that the UN is a freakin' joke. It should be abolished.

I mean, what's the friggin point of even passing UNSCR's like #1441 and #1559 and #1701 if there's either no will to actually enforce them, or if those who actually DO try to enforce them - like the USA vis a vis #1441 and Israel vis a vis #1559 - are met with widespread derision!?

Only post-modern Leftists like the UN and think it's important. WHY?! Because post modern Leftists do not believe that there are any universal/absolute/trascendent values; they believe that all values are culturally relative; they are moral relativists. And this is why post modern Leftists believe that the only basis for international intervention is if there's a unanimous cross-cultural/international consensus - and that's what they think the UN is for.

The problem is that such a consensus is almost always IMPOSSIBLE to achieve; hence Rwanda, Darfur, etc., etc., etc., and so forth. And lets add Congo and south Lebanon to the mix , too.

Conservatives believe in Natural Law, and in universal human rights. And we believe that international intervention to preserve peoples' human rights is a moral imperative: we should help all our brothers and sisters everywhere achieve their innate human rights, whenever and wherever we can, using the most effective means at our disposal.

Conservatives don't think universality is arrived at by consensus, nor that right and wrong can ever be determined by taking polls. What is right and wrong is true for all people everywhere - that's the essence of universality, and FDR and Eleanor - to old-time libs - and JFK believed in it lock, stock and barrel. That's why they were fearless fighters for universal human rights.

Moral relativism is, compared to universalism, a morally bankrupt philosophy. It is amoral at best - probably really even immoral.

And moral relativism has another side-effect: it's why post-modern Leftists are appeasers: Because they don't have any values worth dying for so they appease their threatening foes. This is why they so easily become a Fifth Column for the enemy.

When Murtha and Dean and Kerry and Lamont and Sheehan call for the "redeployment" of US troops out of Iraq, they want us to do what the UN is doing in the Congo: THEY WANT US TO CUT AND RUN.

WILL JIHADISTS ATTACK US ON 8/22?

8/22 - LIKE "9:111" (SEE BELOW) HAS GREAT SIGNIFICANCE TO JIHADISTS. WE MAY HAVE ONLY FOILED ONE OF A DOZEN PLOTS SCHEDULED FOR THIS DATE. WE WILL FIND OUT TOMORROW...

AND THIS SPEECH FROM AHMADINEJAD IS FREAKIN' SCARY; OBVIOUSLY, THIS GUY IS A FREAKIN' BIGTIME JIHADOTERRORIST, MORE DANGEROUS THAN NASRALLAH AND AS BAD AS BINLADEN. HE IS CERTAINLY PLANNING TO "FLEX HIS MUSCLES" AND GET US TO BOW DOWN TO HIM AS SOON AS HE CAN.

IF HE WERE NEUTRALIZED TOMORROW THE WORLD WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE.

Update: Here's Koran 8:22:

The worst creatures in the sight of GOD are the deaf and dumb, who do not understand.

Bottom-Line: I think that many jihadoterrorists are maniacs who ould certainly get an added "thrill" for executing a horrific attack on a date which might have great significance to his fellow maniacs. That's why Lewis's warning was sensible. Right or wrong.

KORAN 9:111: "They slay and are slain..."

I saw this on the Czech video over at LGF and found it at many websites:

Quran-9:111: Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Qur’an

I no longer think that it's a coincidence that the suicidal/genocidal attacks on the WETC anfd the Pentagon were scheduled for 9/11/01. It's a little more proof of the fact that, like it or not - because our enemies have made it so - we are truly in an epochal religious war that started over a thousand years ago.

CHALLENGE TO DOVES: IF YOU WANT THE CEASE-FIRE IN MIDDLE-EAST TO HOLD, THEN VOLUNTEER TO SERVE WITH UN "PEACE-KEEPERS"

From JAWA REPORT:

Shut Up And Serve, Chickendoves

Well, well, now the time is come for all good smelly hippies to come to the aid of their international community.

There were no signs of further clashes, but the flare-up underlined worries about the fragility of the cease-fire as the U.N. pleaded for nations to send troops to an international force in southern Lebanon that is to separate Israeli and Hezbollah fighters.

Why, we have a vital peacekeeping force able to serve in this dire time right here in America. Some of them are at "Camp Casey," some of them are marching in San Francisco, some of them are marching, well, wherever in the hell they march. ...

I call on Kos, and Atrios, and Jane Hamster, and Arianna Huffington, and Deb Frisch, and Noam Chomsky, etc. etc. ad nauseum, to exhort their bloodthirstyless hordes to do what's right in the name of Peace. Get your chicken asses over to southern Lebanon and do your duty for peace, justice, and the Leftist way. The United Nations needs you. NOW!

HEH! Which reminds me: why haven't anyone these doves, (who in the past have volunteered as human shields for Saddam and the Palestinians). volunteered to go to ANY UN Peace-keeping force ANYWHERE in the world?

Because they are not for peace, they are really on the other side. Doves are Leftists who are a Fifth Column for the enemy.

WE MUST NEVER GIVE IN - TO THE ENEMY OR TO THE DEFEATISTS, NAYSAYERS, AND WHINERS AT HOME

Another observer notes that Bush promised us a long war against the enemy in 2001, and argues that the current boomlet of pessimism is the result of propaganda by the Fifth Column of post-modern Leftists who have had the upper hand in the MSM, the academy, the bureaucracy for way too long.

This Fifth Column has carried the water for the enemy and made many on the Right come to feel that our counter-attack is futile.

This is exactly what the enemy wants: The enemy wants us to be terrorized by their attacks and to feel that our counter-attacks are futile. When they have achieved these two things they have won. To counter these feelings of fear and hopelessness we must defeat this Fifth Column.

READ IT NOW.

KOFI ANNAN: ANTI-SEMITE/PRO-JIHADIST

I define an anti-Semite as anyone who holds Jews and Israelis to a different standards than everyone else.

Kofi does this all the time; he regularly excuses crimes by jihadists and regularly derides Israel for trying to defend itself from jihadist attacks. GATEWAY has a compendium of linked instances which proves this beyond any reasonable doubt.

For his defense of Hizballah and attacks against Israel, AND for presiding over the Oil for Food Scandal, AND for presiding over the Peace Keeper sex-trade scandals in Africa, AND for allowing the Rwandan Genocide to occur on his watch (before he became UNSG and when he was in charge of all peace-keeping for the UN), I think one must consider Kofi to be one of the most corrupt, incompetent and evil world leaders in the last 50 years.