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Reuters: Father of beheaded man blames Bush, not Zarqawi

Michael Berg, whose son Nick was beheaded in Iraq in 2004, said on Thursday he felt no sense of relief at the killing of the al Qaeda leader in Iraq and blamed President Bush for his son’s death.

Asked what would give him satisfaction, Berg, an anti-war activist and candidate for U.S. Congress, said, “The end of the war and getting rid of George Bush.”

“I don’t think that Zarqawi is himself responsible for the killings of hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq,” Berg said in a combative television interview with the U.S. Fox News network. “I think George Bush is.

“George Bush is the one that invaded this country, George Bush is the one that destabilized it so that Zarqawi could get in, so that Zarqawi had a need to get in, to defend his region of the country from American invaders.”

The man is deranged from the loss of his son.

Sad…….and pathetic……….

Expose The left has Michael Berg Defends al-Zarqawi, Hangs Up On Gibby (AUDIO)

Michelle Malkin has MORE MICHAEL BERG MOONBATTERY

Related: Brian Maloney and Sister Toldjah survey the rest of the talk radio scene.

Flap as a father feels for Michael Berg for the loss of his son but he is WRONG.

Michael should direct his anger at Al Qaeda and the other terrorists.

Congressman William Jefferson D-La., speaks at the swearing in ceremony for Mayor Ray Nagin at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans on Thursday June 1, 2006.

ASSociated Press: Black Caucus opposes Jefferson treatment

A drive by the Democratic leadership to strip embattled Rep. William Jefferson of his committee post triggered a backlash Thursday as the Congressional Black Caucus opposed the move and said the Louisiana lawmaker deserves a “presumption of innocence.”

The caucus chairman, Rep. Melvin Watt of North Carolina, told reporters that some black voters might ask why action was sought against “a black member of Congress” when there was neither precedent nor rule for it.

Jefferson has not been indicted and has denied all wrongdoing in connection with a federal bribery investigation that has netted two convictions. He has rebuffed repeated calls from Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and others to step aside until any involvement is clarified.

Watt spoke after a Democratic leadership group voted to strip Jefferson of his committee post, at least temporarily. The entire rank and file was then summoned to debate the issue but postponed a vote until next week.

A vote by the full House would be required to force Jefferson to step aside.

“I can guarantee” he will not voluntarily step aside, said Melanie Roussell, Jefferson’s spokeswoman.

This is such BULL.

This idiota was taped by the FBI and when his house was searched the Feds found $90,000 in the freezer.

Who is kidding whom?

The maneuvering came as part of a determined attempt by Pelosi, D-Calif., to ease Jefferson from his position. “I feel he should step aside,” the minority leader told reporters. She declined further comment, but spokeswoman Jennifer Crider said any charge that race was involved was “absolutely untrue. This is about upholding the highest ethical standard for every member of the Democratic caucus.”

Democrats intend to campaign against Republicans this fall by accusing them of presiding over a “culture of corruption.” Jefferson’s continued presence on the committee presumably would allow Republicans to blur the issue in the midterm elections.

Several officials said Watt had spoken up at the meeting of the rank and file to invoke a rule that provides for a five-day delay.

Emerging from the session, he distributed a statement that said the Congressional Black Caucus perhaps has a “unique appreciation of our nation’s constitutional guarantee of the presumption of innocence.”

The statement added the group “therefore opposes suggestions that some have made to force Rep. Jefferson to resign from Congress or to remove him involuntarily from his position on the Ways and Means Committee in the absence of precedents that have been historically applied and will be consistently applied in the future.”

Speaking for himself, Watt was more pointed.

He said the leadership was open to a charge that it was acting out of political expedience. “It’s about to blow up in their face,” he added.

Referring to black voters, who are among the most loyal Democrats in the electorate, he added, “You’ve got a whole base of people out there who believe that the Democratic Party takes them for granted already.”

If action is taken only against someone who “is a black member of Congress, then our community will legitimately ask what in the world are you doing?”

Oh, the RACE CARD.

Good Good Good

And to what “culture of corruption” might Representative William Jefferson belong?

The House should vote to expel this member. Why is the Speaker waiting?

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Representative Pete Stark

The Washington Times: Democrats call Zarqawi killing a stunt

Some Democrats, breaking ranks from their leadership, today said the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi in Iraq was a stunt to divert attention from an unpopular and hopeless war.

“This is just to cover Bush’s [rear] so he doesn’t have to answer” for Iraqi civilians being killed by the U.S. military and his own sagging poll numbers, said Rep. Pete Stark, California Democrat. “Iraq is still a mess — get out.”

Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio Democrat, said Zarqawi was a small part of “a growing anti-American insurgency” and that it’s time to get out.

“We’re there for all the wrong reasons,” Mr. Kucinich said.

There are always TURDS in the punch bowl and Stark and Kucinich resemble them well.

LEFT MORONIC POS is more like it.

Republicans called Zarqawi’s death a positive step and thanked Iraqi citizens for standing up to a threat against their nascent Democracy.

“I am more optimistic than ever that a free and stable Iraq can be achieved,” said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee.

Michelle Malkin has ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

#2 most wanted terrorist Jamal Abu Samhadana: Killed by Israeli airstrike today

Bam. Plus: 17 other raids.

Will the Dems call them “stunts,” too?
Contact info for Rep. Stark:

WASHINGTON, DC
239 Cannon Building
Washington, DC 20515
202-225-5065
202-226-3805 (fax)

FREMONT
39300 Civic Center Dr.
Suite 220
Fremont, CA 94538
510-494-1388
510-494-5852 (fax)

E-mail: PETEMAIL@HR.HOUSE.GOV

Update: Readers having trouble with that e-mail address. Try this on…

petemail@stark.house.gov

Tell this anti-American POS what you think.

Flap knows you will be glad you did.

Cox & Forkum: Message From Above

From CBS News: Iraq Terror Chief Killed In Airstrike.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most-wanted terrorist in Iraq with a $25 million bounty on his head, was killed when U.S. warplanes dropped 500-pound bombs on his isolated safehouse northeast of Baghdad, coalition officials said Thursday.U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell showed a picture Abu Musab al-Zarqawi with his eyes closed and spots of blood behind him after he was killed by an air strike. Caldwell also showed a video of the attack in which he said F-16 fighter jets dropped two 500 pound bombs on the site. …

His fighters led a wave of kidnappings of foreigners, killing at least a dozen, including Arab diplomats and three Americans. Al-Zarqawi is believed to have wielded the knife in the beheadings of two of the Americans, Nicholas Berg and Eugene Armstrong, and earned himself the title of “the slaughtering sheik” among his supporters.

From FoxNews: Zarqawi Was Mastermind Behind Iraq’s Bloodiest Attacks.

The string of kidnappings of Westerners by his followers terrorized foreign workers in Iraq, forcing them to limit movements and take up costly security precautions.Among the other hostage slayings claimed by Al Qaeda in Iraq were American Jack Hensley, British engineer Kenneth Bigley, Kim Sun-il of South Korea and Shosei Koda of Japan, whose decapitated body was found dumped and wrapped in an American flag.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger waves as he campaigns at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in Antioch, Calif., Thursday, June 8, 2006. Schwarzenegger is campaigning in several California cities after he won the Republican nomination for governor on Tuesday.

The Sacramento Bee: Schwarzenegger may endorse some Democrats

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday there is a possibility that he might endorse Democratic candidates in other statewide political races.

“If I like someone, absolutely,” the Republican governor said in response to a reporter’s question inside the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall at a campaign even in the Delta town near the banks of the San Joaquin River. “Let’s see. But right now, I’m just thinking about moving the state forward.”

But, upon further reflection……..

Schwarzenegger’s campaign manager, Steve Schmidt, said in an interview later, however, that the governor has endorsed all of the down-ticket Republican candidates – Tom McClintock for lieutenant governor, Chuck Poochigian for attorney general, Bruce McPherson for secretary of state, Tony Strickland for controller, Claude Parrish for treasurer and Steve Poizner for insurance commissioner.

The campaign left open the possibility that Schwarzenegger might endorse U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein in her re-election bid against Republidcan challenger Richard Mountjoy.

“Like most Californians, he thinks Dianne Feinstein is a great senator,” Schmidt said of the governor.

And Schwarzenegger kicks his Republican base in the groin again.

Wait until Angelides and the public employee unions start running those negative ads against Arnold and then Schwarzenegger may need his GOP base.

The Governator makes it very hard for a conservative to vote for him.

Stay tuned…..

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San Gabriel Valley Tribune: Billboard a sign of growing dispute

The state’s first billboard in a nationwide campaign to end illegal immigrants’ “invasion” of the United States went up Wednesday near the Foothill (210) and San Gabriel River (605) freeways.

It is the first of two “Stop The Invasion: Save Our Border” signs in California, paid for by Grassfire.org, a conservative group with 1 million members that says it is not racist, but opposes illegal immigration.

The second billboard is expected to be unveiled today in San Diego, a half-mile from the Mexican border, organizers said.

With House and Senate deliberations on immigration beginning this month, Grassfire.org President Steve Elliott said the billboards will send a strong message to Congress.

“Sixty \ to 100 million immigrants are expected in the next 20 years. We consider that an invasion,” Elliott said. “We have brought this upon ourselves by not enforcing our laws, by not securing our borders and we have created an incentive to come here illegally.”

And do you really think Leftie California Senators Boxer and Feinstein really give a CRAP?

But, this type of pressure is good on California GOP Congressman to prevent an illegal alien amnesty bill to emerge from the House-Senate conference committee.

Grassfire.org’s website is here.

Remember NOT ONE DIME NOR ONE VOTE. …….until our borders are secure.

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Mark Steyn at the Claremont Institute Dinner, December 5, 2005

Powerline: Congratulations, Mark Steyn

New York Post: BREINDEL HONORS FOR DUO

Two journalists whose writings do not try to march in lockstep with the mainstream media last night were presented with the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism.

Mark Steyn, a syndicated columnist whose work – on topics ranging from politics to diplomacy to popular culture – appears in National Review, The New Criterion and The Atlantic Monthly, among many other publications, won the eighth annual award, and a check for $20,000, following a reception at the New-York Historical Society.

And Matt Mireles, a junior at Columbia University and contributor to the Daily Spectator, took home the first annual award for excellence in college journalism, which includes a $10,000 check and a summer internship at the Fox News Channel.

This award honors The Post’s late editorial-page editor, who died in 1998 at age 42. It is bestowed by the Eric Breindel Memorial Foundation and endowed by News Corp., The Post’s parent company.

Each year, the prize recognizes the work of a columnist, editorialist or writer whose work best reflects love of this country and its democratic institutions. Steyn, though a native of Canada, clearly reflects these virtues, as a reading of one of his prize-winning columns, “Be Glad the Flag Is Worth Burning,” demonstrates: “One of the big lessons of these last four years is that many, many beneficiaries of Western civilization loathe that civilization,” he wrote, “and the media are generally inclined to blur the extent of that loathing.”

Congrats, Mark!