More terror raids in the UK overnight.
The Washington Post had been reading the blogosphere, they’d have figured this out months ago. And now, there are finally questions being asked about the conduct of Plame prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald, You don’t say?
The CBC gets letters!
An NDP MP goes AWOL on Jack Layton.
A reminder – check out the new National Newswatch aggregator as a source for breaking news items.
Add your own in the comments.
And don’t forget the Kate-O-Shop contest! There are several entries in already.
Right Girl worries:
When will the political-correctness police be paying her website a visit to collect evidence?
Who is next? …-
Right Girl:
“They have already come for Ezra. How long before they come for me?
An Edmonton man convicted of promoting hatred through his website has been sentenced to 16 months in jail.” …-
First Comment:
If they do “come for you”, RightGirl, I think we all know what’ll happen. You’ll back down, just like you always do, and issue some incoherent statement pleading misunderstanding (e.g., “peaceful Muslims aren’t actually Muslims even if they think they are”). Then, after a while, you’ll bounce right back with a statement like “Islam is not a legitimate religion, but a politically motivated death cult.” It’s amusing that you would compare yourself to the raving bigot in that Globe & Mail story. I hope you enjoyed that brief moment of clarity. …-
http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2006/09/they_have_alrea.html
For all those who pooh-pooh Right Girl’s statement:
Take heed/warning; The Enemy is within Canada.
When a Montreal Jewish school is attacked, I am attacked.
As for me and my house, we stand with the Jews. …-
CBC | Masked man with firebomb attacks Montreal Jewish school
Surveillance video recovered by Montreal police shows a masked man throwing a firebomb at the door of an orthodox Jewish school in an attack early Saturday. (via jack’s news watch)
Iberia, re:
“And perhaps you should answer this question first: Is it morally correct to kill someone whom you only think may possibly want to kill you?”
Yes.
Better that than waiting until they actually are killing you and yours.
If the British and French had attacked Germany when they broke the treaty of Versaille, 50 to 60 million lives could have been saved.
But, I guess they followed the morally correct path.
Iberia, your just another useful idiot for the “I hate the West crowd.”
You do realize that if your smug thoughts turn out to be wrong, You and your ilk will be the first ones they kill.
Don’t you see that it’s often better to err on the side of protecting of your own country and families, than to err on the side of the enemy?
No, you probably don’t.
lberia: I am not hysteric. You are proposing that we try to talk our way out of the issue, which is what the world has been doing for months and months with no progress whatsoever. All the talk produced was threats from Iran…the only thing that more talk will produce is fodder for newspapers and an increase in global warming.
And yes, if someone is threatening my life and continues to do so after warning him repeatedly, I believe it is morally correct to kill him first before he kills me. This is the way the script goes: “Stop or I’ll shoot! Stop or I’ll shoot! Stop or I’ll shoot! BANG!”
Your statement that no one is going to attack the west with nukes because they would be nuked themselves and asserting that they wouldn’t want to pay the price…is absurd. The middle east is full of suicide bombers who are willing to sacrifice themselves for their religious cause. What makes you think that Iranian leaders wouldn’t sacrifice their people for their religious cause?
The Russians didn’t practice suicide bombing and MAD worked. The Koreans haven’t practiced suicide bombings and MAD may end up working. The Japanese DID practice suicide missions and they were nuked. The muslims ARE practicing suicide bombings and…
So again I say, you are trying to wish this problem away, when action is required to resolve it.
Iberia tells me……Show me where I wrote “don’t do anything.”
Come on Iberia, I was summing up the practical effects of your solutions. Don’t do anything that will actually work.
You think -I- have a reading comprehension problem. Whooo!
Third paragraph
“Not, of course, the unleashing of full-scale thermonuclear war on the Persian people, but a limited and tactital use of nuclear weapons to destroy Iran’s military facilities and its potential nuclear arsenal.”
Hmmm. Right back at cha.
It must be great to form opinions from ignoring information, stunted, inept thinking and to propose “morally proper solutions” that get MORE people killed in the long run.
Hey, Iberia, at least you’re not “hoping” for millions to die. They’ll end up dead anyways, but technically, your hands will be clean.
The perfect pacifist.
Iberia,
you said (about Iran risking getting nuked if they throw one)
“What makes you so sure that you are prepared to have millions of (their own) people die?”
Because their leaders say so.
RAFSANJANI SAYS MUSLIMS SHOULD USE NUCLEAR WEAPON AGAINST ISRAEL (Iran press service 2001)
TEHRAN 14 Dec. (IPS) One of Iran’s most influential ruling cleric called Friday on the Muslim states to use nuclear weapon against Israel, assuring them that while such an attack would annihilate Israel, it would cost them “damages only”.
“If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in possession, the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate because application of an atomic bomb would not leave any thing in Israel but the same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world”, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani told the crowd at the traditional Friday prayers in Tehran.
Did you forget that Iraq had attacked Kuwait. How about the Kurds? Baghdad threatened military action against Kuwait and Saudi Arabia if they continued to allow their airbases to be used to enforce the southern no fly-zone over Iraq. And how about the $25000 sponsership of international terrorism Iraq payed suicide bombers to kill people in another country?
Would you rather the women of Afganistan still be under the jackboot of the Taliban?
Would you rather we had to worry about Iran AND Iraq right now?
We may never stop the Sunni and Shia from going after each other, but hopefully we can stop them from coming after us.
And by the way Iberia, the difference between your armchair and mine?
Mine has easy and ample access to reality so I can actually make good decisions.
Your armchair has that serious Bubble Trouble.
You should spend more time at Little Green Footballs. It’s a good place to gauge how serious your Bubble Trouble is.
Hassle,
One more person who sees that some preventive action is called for.
If someone is building a huge cannon aimed at your house, it is better to deconstruct that cannon rather than hope that debate will take it apart.
If delays allow the weapon to be made ready, then debate is pointless as Iran only has to pull the trigger.
Iran reserves of natural gas are abundant and could produce all the electric power required for decades to come.
Nuclear is not required for power, what is it required for? = TG
Look, if Iran really wanted nuclear weapons, don’t you think that they could buy them from N. Korea or perhaps the Russian mafia? Isn’t it better to ramp up reaction to this then plunge down the road of no return?
In any case, the results of nuking Iran pre-emptively will make the current “War on Terror” look like a play date in the sand box. Just wait till large numbers of Muslims start strapping bombs to their chests and running around N. America.
Hey, stop thinking the worst and enjoy the long weekend.
TG: As I had indicated to lberia initially, his is one way to look at the situation. And no, I don’t revel in the thought of bombing the hell out of Iran…I find it to be repulsive. In fact, I find war of any kind to be repulsive and putrid and horrifying.
But I recognize that, at times, there are things worth fighting and dying for. This is the point, I guess, that pacifists seem to miss. Granted, some people think that MANY things are worth fighting and dying for (or maybe at least fighting for), so the pacifist view must be acknowledged and the urge to fight restrained as much as possible.
When it comes to Iran, they continually threaten and they are being continually warned. Their threat is of thermonuclear war to effect a genocide…the warning should be of some equivalent magnitude of destruction to get their attention. And just as any parent knows, you MUST be willing to carry through on your warnings or the kids will walk all over you.
As usual, my words are somewhat cryptic. To be clear, I think precision conventional bombing of Iranian concentrator parts of their nuke plant is called for.
Up to this point they engage in proxy wars where little people in Lebanon and Israel pay the price and Iran feels no pain.
Iran is not likely to consider alternate ideas if they feel no **squeeze**. = TG
For anyone who may consider buying a hybrid or EV car.
There is a short piece including words from Toyota City that will give you valued insight
when thinking about Hybrid versus purebred.
ht tp /BendGovernment.blogspot.com
Be informed. Avoid the costs of converting your hybrid. = TG
TG: No, your comments weren’t too cryptic. I understood. I was just clarifying MY position, lest lberia try to paint me as some war-crazed madman. I’m just a regular madman.
Yeah, me too. Just a moderate warmonger. = TG