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Tip, Kate: don't carry fluids on flights now...

I saw Bush looking very weary this morning. He has had the weight of the world on his shoulders with no help in sight. Half of his citizens are against him, half his neighbors, a good fraction of the world's population, seemingly.

I wonder if he isn't wanting to say screw it! Why am I putting myself, my troops, and my alies through this for a bunch of selfish ingrates and worse.

Buck up George, don't let them get at you. It's not as bad as the media would have us believe.

Ugh, more Falun Gong propoganda from the Epoch Times.

Next up, communist truths from Pravda.

I've settled on the term "Islamic extremists."

It identifies origin without making any blanket statement about an entire religion.

And it recognizes the difference between extremist and fundamentalist.

Bush's "Islamic fascists" was good though!

Unconventional, non-specific, counter-secular immoderates?

Oops!

I use "Islamist" rather than "Islamic."

JJM: "I use "Islamist" rather than "Islamic.""

Like some use "Zionist" rather than "Jew".

If you see the movie "Obsession" you'll realise the correct term is Islamo-fascist. What is really interesting about this movie is that it highlights the direct links between the secular fascism of the Nazis with the religious variety of islam.

It’s not just Bush looking tired, Britain has the same problem, Tony Blair is a pretty lonely guy too. The majority of Britons have internalized the world views that they hear on their airwaves everyday from the BBC, al- Reuters, The Guardian, The Independent et al.
Melanie Phillips' book title "Londonistan" says it all.

Harper is fresh, but already I think he has become greyer since taking office. I send an encouraging note about once a month to the CPC site.

You have to be a bit nuts to even want to do these jobs. Many still don’t want to admit it but Bush/Blair are our wartime leaders – like Churchill and Roosevelt were. This war against – whatever you want to call it – Islamofascism, Terrorism, Jihadism – will go on for decades and we’ve just started out on it. Should it have started in Iraq or in Londonistan? That will become a moot point. We have to win everywhere and the potential enemy is 100’s of millions strong and is global. We’ve never fought a war like this. We can't just leave like in Vietnam. The enemy potentially lives on our street, it's homegrown.

Canadians are incredibly naive in their Bush/Blair bashing. McGuinty can’t even handle Caledonia. The head of the OPP resigned. We’re and old democracy born in 1867 and we still can’t enforce our laws – yet I hear all kinds of advice on how to fight global warfare from the same people who I’ve noticed have trouble organizing routine things like a move from one house to another.

Thank God for PMSH our wartime PM.
I hope he can keep us united as a country and keep us strong.

I tried to register with the Chicago Tribune, which requires a 5-digit zip code, so that I could read about the Hezbollah/Dearborn, Michigan connection.

'Anyone figure out how to register without a zip code? Registration won't accept 5 digits of our postal code or no zip or postal code.

...Up a creek...

90210
google search michigan zip code
enough

Or if you're old enough to have sat through countless episodes of Let's Make A Deal, like I did, your brain is indelibly stamped with the fact that many of the items showcased by Carol Merril were from the Spiegel catalogue, the mailing address of which was Chicago, 60601.

I always use 60601 whenever a zip is required.

Bush knows he's running out of time to deal with the likes of Iran & Syria, and clean up Iraq, before he leaves office. Two years from now he'll effectively be a lame duck. The risk of leaving Iran in particular to the next administration, God forbid it be Democratic, is too high to contemplate, and if the Democrats gain either the House or Senate in November, it'll be full-speed ahead with sham impeachment proceedings, stonewalling, partisan grandstanding, and generally making life hell for Bush. Who knows how much longer Blair will be around, and Bush doesn't have any other stanch allies on the international scene with the clout to get things done.

Who wouldn't be looking pretty haggard contemplating all that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQA-R2CSItU
lookie what I found
a slideshow of the Toronto terror suspects sung, with new lyrics, to the tune of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
it seems to also encompass the London subway terror attack

A few comments -

I find it puzzling how the left self-defines themselves and expects others to accept these self definitions. The left is now consistently referring to itself as 'Progressive'. Wierd and illogical. That's an evaluative term which must be used in comparison to another group (we are progressive and they are not..). But this evaluation doesn't stand up to scrutiny, for the attributes of 'we are progressive in doing THIS; and they are regressive in doing THAT' is both never carried out - and is entirely a subjective conclusions. There is nothing progressive about the left.

I see also at 'catnip' that people like Ti-Guy, a visitor to right blogs, self-defines the left as moderate, as never engaged in name-calling or abusive attacks, as distinctly 'civilized' in comparison to the right. I disagree; both sides are composed of human beings and both sides engage in trolling, name-calling and abusive attacks. There's a deeper difference - and it's simply that the left privileges the group and rejects the individual - and the right, is vice versa. The left politically embraces big centralized top down governance; the right - the opposite.

Can either side then add a qualitative, judgmental adjective - such as the left adds to itself, namely 'progressive'? No.

I think Spiegel was 60609.

Immigration "Death Wish"

http://hallsofmacadamia.blogspot.com/2006/08/death-wish-for-terrorist-attack.html

Harris said the problem of homegrown terrorists also stems from flawed immigration policies, since Canada is building "colonies of isolation" with the extensive penetration of certain ethnic groups.

Thanks, enough, MM, and Jonesy: But how do you get around registering your Canadian address, which won't match the zip--or do you just make up a Chicago address? I'm new to all of this--thus my moniker nkotb--and really find it irksome that I might have to lie to register to read an article. At this point, unless someone takes pity on those of us who are Web-challenged and cuts and pastes the article into comments, I'll have to pass...

'Safe trip, Kate.

I'll call them Islamic fascists. My reasons for this are because their ideology is both Islamic and fascist.

It's Islamic because it justifies its agenda within the mandate of the Koran, which is world domination of Islam and death or servitude to any and all who reject Islam.

It's fascist because this mandate rests within a fictional 'fantasia' description of reality. This fictional reality assumes an a priori Purity of Islam and Islamic peoples, who are mandated by a metaphysical Force (Allah) to conquer the world. The notion of an a priori Will to Power to express an innate Purity - is fascist.

Notice that both ideologies; that of the religious and that of the essence, are fictional rather than factual accounts of reality. You can't argue with someone who is living within a fictional world, for they reject reality, they reject facts and prefer their fictions.

That's what makes them dangerous - those two fictions which assert their religion and mandate as dominant - and the fictional nature of this agenda.

Fictional reality is a purely emotional reality. There's no possibility of reason. This is something that the left doesn't understand. They are insisting that the 'terrorists' are merely angry people, rational people who are angry at what the West has done to the ME.

The left is ignoring that the Islamic militant has ravaged the West in the feudal period, because of that agenda of domination - and the West doesn't mutter and simmer, now, over the centuries, insisting on 'retribution for what you did to my village in Spain in 1200 AD'.

The left is utterly ignoring the current Islamic wars in Somalia and the Sudan. Not a word from them about Muslims killing people - for tribal domination.

And, the left utterly ignores that the root cause of this modern Islamic fascism is an unevolved, regressive religious ideology, which is used as a front, a cover, for a basic dysfunctional economic-political mode of tribalism.

Islamic fascism is not due to the West. Its causes are firmly rooted in Islam and in the ME refusal to modernize and empower its people; its refusal to move out of the restrictive rule of tribalism.

Jonesy,

I think you're right. So much for the "indelible" part.

I don't need to add a comment to this, just read it.

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2006/08/on_the_virtues_.html#more

new kid,

I admire the fact you don't want to lie just to get information.

Seems that others here that place themselves on a throne of righteousness have no problem being deceitful.

Check out Urban Refugee's shipping dilemma - he's got a pretty good tongue in cheek commentary @ http://www.urbanrefugee.ca/content/498

I have come across a couple of cool video slideshows at youtube, with connections to the Toronto Terror Plot
a guy singing off-key Beatles songs with his own lyrics
not too bad...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQA-R2CSItU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb_k3v5joIY

New Kid – where it says state – just go to the bottom and put in non-usa

After reading a link to a T.O. Star story; "Hellbrew" cheap and simple to make, from Bourque. I am reminded of the Tim Hortons' incident this spring and the fact that the media and politicians are so careful not to label and downplay recent demonstrations.

ET, I think “progressive” is just code for equal. The left needs to feel morally superior and they do that by treating all cultures as equal. That’s what multi-culti is all about – Marxism by stealth so they can redistribute wealth equally. The type of people that are attracted to this ideology are so self-loathing that they can’t bare to think there is someone higher up on the ladder than they are (higher morally or economically). It’s fictional to think all cultures are equal. They aren’t. Nor are all athletes equal. Nothing is equal, but the progressives can’t tolerate that reality.

But because our democratic/capitalist culture is politically and economically dominant throughout the globe, therefore “progressives” like Mike Wallace need to help Iranian thugs feel equal to Bush/Blair. Mike says the little Iranian Armadillo is “attractive and smart” -even though Armadillo says he wants to annihilate Israel. Israel is much more successful than Iran is even though Iran sits on oil. Iran is inferior to Israel in every way. We all know that. So progressive Mike is trying to level the playing field to make Armadillo feel equal.

That’s a totally dysfunctional way to view the world. Sensible people know that, sensible people will prevail. They aren’t going to buy what a cynical old man like Mike tells them - are they?

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That tourist that was stabbed and killed in Jerusalem? Seems he was an Italian "activist" [or insert your own description here]

Via Ynet News:

Angelo Frammartino, a 24 year-old student from Italy who arrived in Israel as a human rights organization activist, was stabbed to death Thursday by an Arab knifeman.

"He believed in what he did and was always ready to help others," a friend described him.

The website of Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera reported that Frammartino was working for the setting up of a children's supper camp for Palestinians in Jerusalem's Old City, and was supposed to return to Italy on Friday.

The youth was stabbed in the back while walking with four friends in the Sultan Suleiman street in the capital, near the Prahim Gate.

The attacker left the knife at the scene of the crime and fled. Police set up checkpoints in the area and arrested three suspects for suspected involvement.

It is believed that the attack was a nationalistically motivated terror attack, and not an attempted robbery.

Resuscitation attempts by Magen David Adom paramedics who arrived on the scene could not save him, and Frammartino was declared dead due to loss of blood.

Frammartino, a resident of Monta Rotondo, arrived in Israel at the start of the month with an Italian organization, ARCI, working to advance human rights in the world.

He planned for the experience for a year and was chosen with another youth from his city to take part in the project.

Frammartino was a law student. "He was very interested in politics and in the issues of society, like his father," said Monta Rotondo's Mayor, Anonino Lopi. "Something so beautiful ended in such a tragic way," he added.

The mayor expressed his condolescenes on behalf of the whole city.

In a letter sent a few months ago to a local newspaper, Angelo expressed his world view: "We must recognize that in a situation with no violence is a luxury in many parts of the world, but we are not seeking to prevent legitimate self defense operations. [emphasis Matt's] I never dreamt of condemning the resistance, the blood of the Vietnamese, the blood of nations under colonial occupation, or the blood of Palestinian youths from the first intifada," he said.

Angelo's neighbor said his parents were worried by their son's request to go on a 'different holiday,' but were proud of it and did not oppose. They set out on holiday, leaving their eldest daughter, Francesca, at home. She was alone when the news from Jerusalem came.

"My parents are on holiday. When they return, the house will never be the same as before," said a neighbor who burst out in tears. "He was a golden guy. He dealt with politics but he wasn't an extremist. He was just a pacifist, the poor guy."

How are you liking those legitimate self defense operations now, Angelo?

Mark Steyn's "we are all infidels" seems rather appropriate here.

The 7 Fronts Of the War On Terror

By Youssef Ibrahim
August 11, 2006

New York Sun

ET,

Bravo. Nice disection of it all.....

EUreferendum blog: Revenge: How sweet it is. Must see the "exclusive" photo/faux/graph ...-

Meanwhile, we have also learnt that, after reading her own organisation's statement of news values, Kathleen Carroll, senior vice president and executive editor for Associated Press, had decided to carry out her own personal investigation into the media conduct at Qana on 30 July. Again, we have acquired an exclusive photograph from the Reuters news agency, showing Mz Carroll re-staging events at the scene. ...-

bush was never 'presidential'.

he is a frat boy whut got lucky.

he is a doorknob (oh how apt THAT slang term) that needs to be twisted by the oil boys to get at the connections daddy has with cia, white house, saudis, etc.

a stuttering parrot relying on a script given him by the powers-that-be.

how 'presidential' is THAT?

Other reasons why G.W.B. may look a little haggard these days -

"... if the rhetoric of the Bush revolution lives on, the revolution itself is over. The question is not whether the president and most of his team still hold to the basic tenets of the Bush doctrine -- they do -- but whether they can sustain it. They cannot. Although the administration does not like to admit it, U.S. foreign policy is already on a very different trajectory than it was in Bush's first term. The budgetary, political, and diplomatic realities that the first Bush team tried to ignore have begun to set in.

The reversal of the Bush revolution is a good thing. By overreaching in Iraq, alienating important allies, and allowing the war on terrorism to overshadow all other national priorities, Bush has gotten the United States bogged down in an unsuccessful war, overstretched the military, and broken the domestic bank. Washington now lacks the reservoir of international legitimacy, resources, and domestic support necessary to pursue other key national interests."

From "The End of the Bush Revolution," by Philip H. Gordon, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2006. (Preview at www.foreignaffairs.org/20060701faessay85406/philip-h-gordon/the-end-of-the-bush-revolution.)

I wonder how long it will be before the islamists turn on their leftist supporters.

its quite common really, biting the hand that .... etc

and what will the leftists have to say about that as their noggins are lopped off?

but, but ..... we suPPPPPORTED you all those years !!!!!!

nomdenet: Thanks for the tech. help: 'much appreciated. For others who might want to read the article about the connection between Hezbollah and Dearborn, Michigan, from an August 3 article entitled "FBI monitors Detroit area for activity related to Hezbollah," here's the Web site address:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/michigan/chi-ap-mi-mideastfighting-m,1,4361465.story

"...We find any support for murderous terrorist organizations like al-Qaida or Hezbollah very disappointing, if not disturbing," [Eric] Straus [chief of the counterterrorism unit at the U.S. attorney's office in Detroit] said.

"But Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News of Dearborn and spokesman for the Council of Arab American Organizations, said he doesn't think federal pressure will shake support for Hezbollah.

"'Who should they chant for? George Bush, the one who's sending Israel bombs to kill their relatives, to kill more people?'" Siblani said. 'If they want to prosecute us, prosecute us. Let them get their buses, line them up and haul us out.'

"About 300,000 southeastern Michigan residents have roots in the Arab world, among them thousands with close relatives in Lebanon. About 72,000 Jews live in the area, mainly descendants of immigrants from Eastern Europe."

I'd say prosecute them, for sure.

And "who should they chant for?": If not George Bush then no one. They're U.S. citizens (just like the Montrealers who took to the streets under the Hezbollah flag are CANADIAN citizens), and should leave their ME politics in the ME. If they can't do that, they need to go back from where they came--and pronto.

If these Arab Americans can't get it through their heads that Hezbollah, as a proxy for Iran, is a deadly enemy of the U.S. and all Western countries, then they'd better get an attitude adjustment or take their deadly politics where it belongs: BACK TO THE MIDDLE EAST.

'Bye, bye...

nomdenet: Thanks for the tech. help: 'much appreciated.

In part, it says, "...We find any support for murderous terrorist organizations like al-Qaida or Hezbollah very disappointing, if not disturbing," [Eric] Straus [chief of the counterterrorism unit at the U.S. attorney's office in Detroit] said.

"But Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News of Dearborn and spokesman for the Council of Arab American Organizations, said he doesn't think federal pressure will shake support for Hezbollah.

"'Who should they chant for? George Bush, the one who's sending Israel bombs to kill their relatives, to kill more people?'" Siblani said. 'If they want to prosecute us, prosecute us. Let them get their buses, line them up and haul us out.'

"About 300,000 southeastern Michigan residents have roots in the Arab world, among them thousands with close relatives in Lebanon. About 72,000 Jews live in the area, mainly descendants of immigrants from Eastern Europe."

I'd say prosecute them, for sure.

And "who should they chant for?": If not George Bush then no one. They're U.S. citizens (just like the Montrealers who took to the streets under the Hezbollah flag are CANADIAN citizens), and should leave their ME politics in the ME. If they can't do that, they need to go back from where they came--and pronto.

If these Arab Americans can't get it through their heads that Hezbollah, as a proxy for Iran, is a deadly enemy of the U.S. and all Western countries, then they'd better get an attitude adjustment or take their deadly politics where it belongs: BACK TO THE MIDDLE EAST.

'Bye, bye...

nomdenet, you GOT IT RIGHT. In my opinion, a huge factor in this terrorist bullshit is jealousy. They hate our life style, they hate what we have, they hate our "non-culture" type of society, they hate our common sence, they hate, hate. They hate because they are jealous. Muslims in Austrailia raped girls on the beach because they hated the power beautiful women had over them. Their objective is to infiltrate our countries and destroy our way of life. We are an easy target because of our recent (last 40 years) extreem political correctness.

HOW SIMILIAR is their (ISLAMIC FASCIST, MUSLIM, whatever) methods and jealousy to that of Trudeau like policies imposed on Canadians for the last 40 years ?? Lax imigration for groups like Somolian terrorists, tough on stable Ausies, UKers, ect. Infiltrate us. The criminals have more "rights" than the victims. The poor have a right to be jealous of the haves, level the playing field through crime. Breake down our society. Multiculturalism used to impose other cultures on Canadians and destroy Canada's culture. Caledonia shows the extent political correctness runs our country. Reward failure and tax sucess. Quebec was way behind the ROC 40 years ago, for whatever reason. Jealousy, have to level this. Not by doing better, but by infiltrating the civil service. The MSM goes along with it because chaos and bad news sells more papers. Smooth running countries are no fun for them.

Post above is missing some info, as it got stuck in the filter. 'Quote is from an article in the Chicago Tribune on August 3 about Hezbollah connections in Dearborn, Michigan. The FBI are monitoring the situation.

"Obesity rates poised to rise among Black Canadians"
rabble.ca/news_full_story.shtml?sh_itm=0493c3a5387563f82ed6e366d867837b&rXn=1&

"Men or Women: Which Is the More Generous Sex?"
www.aei.org/publications/pubID.24564/pub_detail.asp

"Streets are safer for women than men!"
gayandright.blogspot.com/2006/07/streets-are-safer-for-women-than-men.html

"The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. Israel fights Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south, but its most formidable enemy is history itself."
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/17/AR2006071701154.html?sub=new

US female soldiers treated "lower than dirt"
www.alternet.org/story/38942/

Ethnic Boondoggle Alert: " The Canada-Israel Industrial Research and Development Foundation (CIIRDF) was established in 1994 to promote collaborative R&D between firms in both countries. "
http://www.ciirdf.ca/index.php

America has officially jumped the shark:

"A draft Bush administration plan for special military courts seeks to expand the reach and authority of such "commissions" to include trials...Under the proposed procedures, defendants would lack rights to confront accusers, exclude hearsay accusations, or bar evidence obtained through rough or coercive interrogations. They would not be guaranteed a public or speedy trial and would lack the right to choose their military counsel, who in turn would not be guaranteed equal access to evidence held by prosecutors.

Detainees would also not be guaranteed the right to be present at their own trials, if their absence is deemed necessary to protect national security or individuals."
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101334.html

It's the game theory, stupid:

"Altruism is the practice of placing others before oneself. It is a traditional virtue in many cultures, and central to many religious traditions. In English, this idea was often described as the Golden rule of ethics. In Buddhism it is considered a fundamental property of human nature...Most, if not all of world's religions promote altruism as a very important moral value. Christianity and Buddhism place particular emphasis on altruistic morality, as noted above, but Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and many other religions also promote altruistic behavior. Altruism was central to the teachings of Jesus found in the Gospel."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism

It's the game theory, stupid. From Wiki:

"Altruism is the practice of placing others before oneself. It is a traditional virtue in many cultures, and central to many religious traditions. In English, this idea was often described as the Golden rule of ethics. In Buddhism it is considered a fundamental property of human nature...Most, if not all of world's religions promote altruism as a very important moral value. Christianity and Buddhism place particular emphasis on altruistic morality, as noted above, but Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and many other religions also promote altruistic behavior. Altruism was central to the teachings of Jesus found in the Gospel."

agitfact - because an anti-Bush writer makes certain claims doesn't mean that those claims have any truth.

I certainly reject all of these claims made by the writer.

I wonder - how would YOU deal with Islamic fascism? I myself can't think of any method other than the method of Bush- introduce democracy into die-hard tribal nations, which are the bedroot of this Islamic fascism.

Please - don't say that you'd 'negotiate', for one doesn't negotiate with fundamentalists who live in a fictional world of their own making.

No, don't try the 'Israel recognize Palestine. I completely agree that Israel ought to recognize a Palestinian state - and that it was a disaster to both imagine that Palestinians didn't exist and were 'just Jordanians'; and it was a disaster to occupy those lands - and settle them. Disastrous and morally and politically wrong.
Arafat also didn't want a Palestinian state.
And - none of the ME Arab states wanted a Palestinian state for it would be a democracy and they don't want democracy in the middle of their tribal authorities.

So - what would you suggest be done about Islamic fascism? Remember, both Islam and fascism are irrational ideologies; they aren't open to reason. Would you negotiate and discuss issues with someone who rejects rational discourse?

So- what would you do to stop 9/11, to stop the London subway bombs, the Madrid bombs, the Indonesian bombs, the Islamic militia in Somalia, in the Sudan? What would you do to stop the assertions by the imams that all non-Islams should be killed? What would you do to deal with the plans, the plots, the actions - of bombing civilians? How would you react to their statements of: "we did it because we are angry, here in Toronto, Montreal, New York, London, Paris...for what you are doing in....'. That's how we deal with our anger; we bomb civilians in restaurants".

How would you deal with this?

Yoni says the IDF will march north to the Litani River and maybe beyond.

Death to hezbollah. ...-

Agitfact, how does he define winning or losing this war?
If I’m alive without selling my soul to Islamists and converting .. then I’m winning.

As to strategy/tactics … and the alternative is? Work on relationships with Europe that has disarmed?

Suck up to Vichy-France known to be collaborating with the enemy – oil for food – Total Petroleum, payment through French Banks?
And/or
Suck-up to Putin’s Backsliding Russia – which is also trading with the enemy

Or
Not “over-stretch the military” that got squeezed by the Clinton peace dividend? Gear- up and do what Michael Ladeen suggests - “faster please”

What are YOUR suggestions?

Just reading Michele Malkin dot com re:Annie Jacobsen and Flight 327 posted yest. She was a passenger on the June 2004 flight. Malkin writes: "Jacobsen wrote extensively of her experience on the plane, where a Syrian band acted strangely during take-off and landings--taking turns in the restroom with a McDonald's bag. Jacobsen surmised that the men were on a "dry run" practicing to build bombs on board the plane."

With this info, and other evidence of long-term investigations by our spy agencies; I'm wondering if the Tim's incident wasn't kept hush-hush in order to dig into the bigger picture?

ET,

And you also, who have the background knowledge and analytical ability to make important decisions, What is your plan regarding a precision strike to Iran nuclear targets before August 22nd?

We failed to smoke Hezbollah in 1983 when they killed 241 marines. Reagan gave the go - ahead, but Secretary Winberger stopped it.

Reagan eventually forgave his lifelong friend. I would have had him court martialled.! Oooops..gave my view away there.

So what would mature and responsible thinkers like you who are well suited to lead countries do, before August 22nd, and why?

= TG

Madmud Almondjeans* rantings about the importance of August 22nd must bring up the question of a pre-emtive strike.

A precision strike upon Iranian nuclear sites any time before August 22nd must be under review by Israel and the West.

The logic seems sound enough. The only question is whether Iran is provoking and expecting a strike, and I doubt that they are.

Would a pre-emptive strike from the West stop Iran from becoming the head of the whole Middle East and Muslim world in general by throwing their plan off course?

Curious question in a way. It could mean that the Persians would be the leaders and controllers of hundreds of millions of Muslims.

There are many Arab nations and leaders who do not want this to happen, not to mention the democratic free world. = TG

Fri Aug 11, 04:31:19 PM UTC

In case any one reading SDA doubts the anti-Israel bias in the news, read about the Associated Press Television News service:

"What this means is that while there are around 50 people producing news pictures for the whole world working in Camden at any time, there are a further 50 Arabic speaking staff producing finished stories exclusively for the Arab states of the gulf. This has a tremendous effect on the whole feel of the building as these two teams feed pictures and people back and forth and sit in adjacent work areas. The slant of the stories required by the Gulf States has a definite effect on which footage is used and discarded. This affects both the Gulf newsroom and the main global newsroom."

Only news footage edited to suit Gulf states biases is available for the rest of the world.
via LGF

Oh, oh.
Where is President Harper going?
Why, he is going to overfly Hans Island. Of course, the Prez has permission from Hans Graham, the great Dane from the Hans-On Party.

Nunavut is above the Arctic Circle, no?

Martin Frobisher, Henry Hudson, etc., will be part of the welcoming party when the Prez comes-a-calling.

Hail To The Chief. ...-

TG- right now - STOP - with the ad hominem sneers. They are out of order in a discussion. Grow up; Stop them; Stick to the issues and debate them in a mature fashion.

Now - with regard to a precision strike on Iran - why should we attack Iran? I don't understand why you are assuming that this is a decision that has already been made. By whom? And on what grounds?

What is your point about Reagan? I'm unclear why you have inserted it here and would appreciate some analysis.

your two points seem 'off the wall'. Please clarify why you've made them.