• Iran Nuclear Watch

    Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad – Israel is a “Regime Based on EVIL”

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves as he arrives to pay respect at the Heroes Cemetery, where Indonesian soldiers are buried Thursday, May 11, 2006, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Iran’s president accused Western powers of double standards in their campaign against his country’s nuclear program, and said he was ready to negotiate with any country to resolve the dispute, but said that any threats against his country would make talks difficult.

    Iran Leader Calls Israel an ‘Evil’ Regime

    Iran’s president on Thursday called Israel’s government a “regime based on evil,” but also said he was ready to negotiate with the United States and other countries over his country’s nuclear program.

    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has previously said Israel should be wiped off the map, also told a cheering crowd of students in Indonesia’s capital that the Jewish state “cannot continue and one day will vanish.”

    Students in the crowd held up posters saying “Iran in our Hearts,” and “Nuclear for Peace.”

    “We do not need to be dependent on others,” he said, adding international isolation would serve only to “motivate” the country’s nuclear scientists.

    More bloviations from Iran.

    Did Ahmadinejad get his “playbook” from Adolph Hitler?

    Similarities?

    You betcha and……..

    The appeasers/engagers had better beware.

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    Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad – Worry Over Nuclear Program “A BIG LIE”

    Iran Nuclear Watch: “Ahmadinejad Isn’t Bluffing”

    Iran Nuclear Watch: The Letter from Ahmadinejad to Bush

    Iran Nuclear Watch: UNSC Foreign Ministers Fail to Agree on Iran Resolution


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  • Methamphetamine

    Methaphetamine Watch: Meth Has Become a “GLOBAL THREAT”

    A US Sheriff holds two examples of methamphetamine taken on a bust. The profoundly addictive synthetic drug methamphetamine has become a “global threat”, topping cocaine and heroine use combined, US authorities said.

    AFP: Crystal meth climbs to top of narcotics threats: US authorities

    The profoundly addictive synthetic drug methamphetamine has become a “global threat”, topping cocaine and heroine use combined, US authorities said.

    Methamphetamine trafficking and the movement of its precursor chemicals are an increasing global threat,” US Drug Enforcement Administration chief Karen Tandy told representatives from 76 countries in Montreal this week for the 24th International Drug Enforcement Conference (IDEC).

    “More than 26 million people worldwide use amphetamines — largely methamphetamines — which is more than the worldwide users of heroine and cocaine combined,” she told the international police gathering.

    Karen Tandy, administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, makes her opening address at the start of the International Drug Enforcement Conference in Montreal Tuesday, May 9, 2006.

    Flap is glad to see the federal government, especially the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) finally getting tough on the global nature of methamphetamine.

    After the passage of the Patriot Act and the Combat Methamphetamine Act of 2005 and the restrictions on domestic precursor chemicals (namely pseudoepehedrine) for methamphetamine manufacture, it is now important to go after the precursor chemicals manufacturers abroad.

    The Oregonian newspaper in their Unnecessary Epidemic Series has some great peices on the international nature of methamphetamine:

    Global board sounds alarm over meth

    World wakes up to meth

    The Mexican Connection

    Mexico’s math problem

    Senator asks Fox to intercede

    Charts: Imports | Top 10 Importers | Production surges

    Suppliers switch strategies

    Mexico cuts cold-drug imports

    House lawmakers demand international meth summit

    Tandy noted that a massive meth lab in Indonesia with exports linked to Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore and the United States was seized in November.

    Criminal organizations are exporting the narcotic from North America to Japan, she said.

    Meanwhile, raw chemical ingredients used to make methamphetamines have been shipped from India and China to South Africa, then to South and Central America or through Egypt, she added.

    According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the global market for all narcotics has reached 322 billion dollars per year.

    The Attorney General’s Office of alberto Gonzales is taking an increasing aggressive stand against methamphetamine.

    Stay tuned……..

    Graphic courtesy of the Oregonian.

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  • George W. Bush,  Jeb Bush,  Politics,  President 2008

    President 2008 Watch: Florida Governor Jeb Bush in 2008?

    Florida’s Governor Jeb Bush(L) shakes hands with his brother President George W. Bush, as they step off Marine One, at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida on 09 May 2006. President Bush praised his brother Jeb as an “excellent” leader who would make a “great president” of the United States, according to news accounts.

    ASSociated Press: A 3rd President Bush? First 2 All for It

    Could there be a third President Bush? The current chief said Wednesday that younger brother Jeb would make a great one, too, and has asked him about making a run. The first President Bush likes the idea as well.

    Jeb Bush, the Republican governor of Florida, has one asset that his presidential brother doesn’t right now — approval from most of his constituents. While George W. Bush’s approval ratings are in the low 30s, some 55 percent of Florida voters surveyed last month by Quinnipiac University said Jeb was doing a good job.

    The governor has repeatedly said he won’t be a candidate for president in 2008, but that doesn’t stop his family from encouraging him to go for it some day.

    “I would like to see Jeb run at some point in time, but I have no idea if that’s his intention or not,” the president said in an interview with Florida reporters, according to an account on the St. Petersburg Times Web site.

    He said his brother would make “a great president” and that he had “pushed him fairly hard about what he intends to do.”

    “I truly don’t think he knows,” Bush said.

    Jeb Bush, 53, will end his second term as governor in January. His brother George ends his second presidential term in January 2009. Neither can seek re-election because of term limits.

    Flap has met Jeb Bush. He is personable, bright and articulate.

    Look for him to be appointed to a Cabinet position after he leaves the Florida Governor’s mansion. If Rudy Giuliani pulls out of the 2008 Presidential race look for a Jeb Bush draft.

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  • Federal Judiciary,  Politics

    Federal Appeals Court Judge Michael Luttig Resigns to Accept Boeing Offer

    This undated photo provided by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals shows Judge J. Michael Luttig. Judge Luttig, one of the country’s most prominent conservative jurists and once considered a likely Supreme Court nominee, has resigned from the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., to become senior vice president and general counsel for the Boeing Co. in Chicago.

    Washington Post: J. Michael Luttig Resigns From Appeals Court

    Appeals court Judge J. Michael Luttig, a leading conservative jurist and a short-list Bush administration candidate for the Supreme Court, announced today that he is resigning from the bench to serve as senior vice president and general counsel of the Boeing Co.

    Judge Luttig’s resignation letter is here.

    Congratulations to Judge Luttig. The chances of his appointment to SCOTUS would have been speculative and this corporate position looks attractive both financially and professionally.

    And…..the Judge never has to face Slow Joe Biden again at a confirmation hearing…….

    Now, that is PRICELESS!

    Blogosphere:

    Michelle Malkin: JUDGE MICHAEL LUTTIG RESIGNS

    Hot Air: Bombshell: Luttig resigns from Fourth Circuit

    Stop The ACLU

    Wizbang

    protein wisdom

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  • Iran Nuclear Watch

    Iran Nuclear Watch: President Bush to President Ahamdinejad – “When Will You Get Rid of Your Nuclear Program?”

    President Bush speaks with the members of media after meeting with victims of identity theft, Wednesday, May 10, 2006, in the Roosevelt Room in the White House. At left is Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

    ASSociated Press: Bush: Iran Letter Doesn’t Answer Question

    President Bush says a lengthy letter from Iran’s leader doesn’t answer the question the world is asking, which is: “When will you get rid of your nuclear program?”

    The president made his first public comment on the letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a session with reporters from several Florida newspapers in Orlando.

    The president tells reporters that the U.S. and other nations are in agreement that Iran shouldn’t have a nuclear weapon or the capacity to make one. But he says the letter didn’t address that question.

    President Bush fires back at Ahmadinejad and challenges him to the central issue: Iran’s uranium enrichment program and the Mullah’s desire for a nuclear weapon.

    Flap is looking forward to Ahmadinejad’s response.

    Will it be another rambling 18 page letter ala Cindy Sheehan, Hugo Chavez and George Galloway?

    Probably….

    In the meantime, Conoleezza Rice is pursuing the diplomatic front and outlines two options for Iran.

    Meanwhile, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that a new proposal that European diplomats will soon present to Iran makes plain the international cost of going forward with disputed nuclear development.

    Rice acknowledged that any attempt to punish or coerce Iran through the United Nations Security Council is on hold while Britain, France and Germany renew diplomatic efforts to persuade Iran to back down.

    “Iran knows that there are two options that have been there all along. They can have a civilian nuclear program that is appropriate and that the international community can support, or they can face isolation,” Rice told reporters in Washington.

    Stay tuned for Iran’s response…..

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    Iran Nuclear Watch: “Ahmadinejad Isn’t Bluffing”

    Iran Nuclear Watch: The Letter from Ahmadinejad to Bush

    Iran Nuclear Watch: UNSC Foreign Ministers Fail to Agree on Iran Resolution


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  • Iran Nuclear Watch

    Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad – Worry Over Nuclear Program “A BIG LIE”

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks at a press conference after meetings with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the Presidential Palace Wednesday May 10, 2006 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Ahmadinejad said his country has cooperated with international agencies, saying Iran has allowed ‘2,000 man-hours’ of inspections by the IAEA and that program was ‘totally peaceful’, and suggested that concerns raised over nuclear proliferation were merely an excuse to pressure his country, calling them ‘a big lie.’

    ASSociated Press: Iran: Worry Over Nuke Program ‘A Big Lie’

    Iran’s president on Wednesday dismissed Western concerns over its nuclear program as “a big lie,” a day after key U.N. Security Council members agreed to present Tehran with a choice of incentives or sanctions in deciding whether to suspend uranium enrichment.

    Meanwhile, in a letter to Time magazine published on its Web site Wednesday, a representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei offered new possibilities toward solving the impasse with the United States and its allies on the issue.

    Hassan Rohani, Iran’s former top nuclear negotiator, said Tehran would consider ratifying an
    International Atomic Energy Agency protocol that provides for intrusive and snap inspections and would also address the question of preventing a pullout from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

    The current Iranian negotiator, Ali Larijani, said Tuesday that Tehran had no intention of withdrawing from the treaty and promised to cooperate if the U.N. atomic watchdog agency dealt with the issue of its nuclear program, rather than the Security Council.

    Iran ended all voluntary cooperation with the IAEA in February, including allowing snap inspections of its nuclear facilities.

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told reporters Wednesday in Indonesia’s capital that Iran will “absolutely not back out” of defending its right to pursue new technology, accusing the United States and other Western nations of monopolizing the nuclear technology market to secure profits while engaging in non-peaceful proliferation.

    “They pretend that they are concerned about the nature of the nuclear program of the Islamic republic of Iran,” he said after meeting with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. “This is a big lie.”

    “Today the people of Iran are not just defending their own rights, but also those of other nations,” he said. “They (the United States and other Western powers) want to prevent other countries from reaching the pinnacle of science and technology.”

    Well, it appears the United States will be following a low key, measured diplomatic approach to Iran.

    The more bloviations by Ahamdinejad, the more press so the United States and Israel will bide their time, accumulate assets and plan.

    After all the United States has a Missile Defense Agency and along with Israel are planning contingencies. 

    Of course, Ahmadinejad is lying, playing the “Godfather” of Islamic Gulf States, and has no intentions to stand down Iran’s uranium enrichment program. Is Iran far from obtaining weapons grade nuclear materials?

    Perhaps…..

    But, their is NO political will in the international community to do anything about it.  And Russia and China are making a financial success of their obstruction.
    However, as Flap has said over and over……when the “POINT OF NO RETURN” is imminent, the United States and Israel will take the appropriate military action.

    Stay tuned…….


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    Iran Nuclear Watch: The Letter from Ahmadinejad to Bush

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