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Iraq War Watch: Michael Berg Blames Bush not al-Zarqawi for Son’s Death
Graphic courtesy of Expose the Left
Reuters: Father of beheaded man blames Bush, not ZarqawiMichael 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.
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Representative William Jefferson Watch: Congressional Black Caucus Says Jefferson Deserves a “Presumption of Innocence”
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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Iraq War Watch: Representative Pete Stark Calls Zarqawi Killing a “STUNT”
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.
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Cox & Forkum: Message From Above
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.
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California Election 2006 Watch: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger May Endorse Some Democrats – Well, Maybe?
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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Illegal Immigration Watch: California Anti-illegal Immigration Billboards Go Up on Freeways
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 Watch: Steyn Wins 2006 Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism
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!
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Rudy Giuliani Watch: America’s Mayor Leading in Gallup 2008 Presidential Poll
The Gallup Poll: Clinton, Giuliani Top 2008 Presidential Nomination Polls
A new Gallup Poll finds Hillary Clinton with a wide lead over other 2008 Democratic presidential nomination hopefuls among Democrats nationwide, while Rudy Giuliani has a slight lead over John McCain on the Republican side among rank-and-file Republicans. Most Americans apparently have not given much thought to the 2008 election yet — nearly half do not provide a name when asked separately whom they would most like to see elected president. Clinton is mentioned most often in response to this open-ended question.
Support for Potential 2008 Republican Presidential Nominees, Among Republicans and Republican-Leaning Independents Who Are Registered to Vote
2006 Jun 1-4 Republicans/Republican
leanersRepublicans only
(no leaners)%
%
Rudy Giuliani 29
27
John McCain 24
25
Newt Gingrich 8
7
Mitt Romney 6
6
Bill Frist 6
7
George Allen 5
6
Sam Brownback 2
2
Mike Huckabee 2
2
George Pataki 1
2
Remember Flap’s Handicap: GOP Ticket: Giuliani – Allen
But, is Rudy running?
Stay tuned………
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Iran Nuclear Watch Briefing : June 8, 2006
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, waves to the crowd during a public gathering in his visit to the city of Qazvin, 90 miles (150 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 8, 2006. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that Iran was ready to discuss ‘mutual concerns’ over its controversial nuclear program but claimed that the West gave in to Iran. Ahmadinejad did not say whether Iran accepts a Western package of incentives aimed at enticing Iran to suspend uranium enrichment to open the way for negotiations with the United States and Europe.
ASSociated Press: Ahmadinejad: Iran to talk, U.S. gave inÂ
Iran’s president said Thursday his regime is ready for talks over its nuclear capabilities, but he sent mixed signals on how much is open for negotiation and suggested Tehran has the upper hand in its showdown with the West.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeated Iran’s position that uranium enrichment is an untouchable national right, a clear jab at the West two days after Iran received a package of economic and technological incentives to suspend the program.
But he also offered some signs of flexibility without specifically mentioning the proposal. In a speech at an industrial city, he said Iran would hold dialogue on “mutual concerns” with foreign powers — including the United States — if they took place “free from threats.”
Ahmadinejad portrayed Iran as having forced Washington and its allies to accept the Islamic regime’s “greatness and dignity” and increasingly bend to its will.
The shifting messages are seen as part of Iranian posturing before possible talks, which could include the United States after a nearly 27-year diplomatic freeze. Western nations, led by the U.S., worry Iran’s uranium enrichment technology could become the backbone for a nuclear arms program. Iran insists it only seeks electricity-producing reactors.
“The nation will never hold negotiations about its definite rights with anybody, but we are for talks about mutual concerns to resolve misunderstandings in the international arena,” Ahmadinejad told thousands of people in Qazvin, about 60 miles northwest of Tehran.
Posturing by Ahmadinejad to the Western Media.
AFP: Reported plan to allow Iran uranium enrichment ‘hypothetical’: USThe United States refused to confirm or deny reports that it and European powers had offered
Iran the possibility of uranium enrichment on its territory, dismissing them as “hypothetical and theoretical.”The State Department and White House reiterated that Iran must suspend all uranium enrichment on its soil as a condition for Washington’s participation in negotiations with the Islamic republic.
“The precondition of suspending uranium enrichment-related and reprocessing activities — that is still an absolute condition,” said President George W. Bush’s spokesman, Tony Snow.
“That condition would have to hold throughout any negotiating term,” said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
“Beyond that, I am not going to speculate. Beyond that, we are truly into the realm of the hypothetical and theoretical,” he said.
According to diplomatic sources in Vienna and Tehran, the powers’ offer to Iran would eventually allow uranium enrichment on its territory, but only after the approval of the international community.
Iran must as a pre-condition to negotiations on the Big 6 incentive package MUST halt all uranium enrichment.
Will they agree?
Doubtful
But, Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs will dance around the issue as they try to find a way out of the diplomatic trap set for them by Condoleezza Rice.
Enriched uranium is seen in this April 11, 2006 file photo. Iran began a fresh phase of uranium enrichment this week just as world powers presented it with incentives to halt nuclear fuel work, according to a U.N. nuclear watchdog agency report obtained by Reuters on Thursday.
Reuters: US waits for Iran’s formal response to nuclear offer
The United States does not consider comments on Thursday by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be Iran’s formal response to a major power offer of talks and incentives on the nuclear issue, a U.S. official said.
Asking not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the diplomacy, he also told Reuters the comments by Iran’s president gave no sign that Tehran is prepared to suspend uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities, the central condition of the major power offer.
The United States “will withhold any reaction until we hear the formal response through Solana,” the official said, referring to European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who presented the major powers offer to Iran on Tuesday.
Asked whether the Bush administration viewed Ahmadinejad’s comments on Thursday to be positive, the official replied: “They have a couple of times now talked about an interest in negotiations but still have not made a commitment to the conditions for negotiations.”
“The ball is still in Iran’s court,” he added.
Ahmadinejad said Thursday threats would not work in any talks to solve a dispute over the country’s nuclear program but said Iran was ready to clear up misunderstandings with the world.
He said Iran was not willing to abandon its nuclear “rights” — usually shorthand in Iran for uranium enrichment — but some analysts said his speech reflected a greater readiness in Tehran to hold talks over the country’s atomic ambitions.
Iran and Ahmadinejad MUST surrender their uranium enrichment program as a pre-condition to going forward with Big 6 negotiations. Has Iran committed to the process?
NOPE
Iran’s Astan Qods Razavi museum chief holds a sample of enriched uranium in April 2006. Iran is continuing uranium enrichment as well as building new production lines for the centrifuge machines that carry out the sensitive nuclear work, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said in a report obtained by AFP.
Reuters: Iran begins fresh atom enrichment despite powers’ offer
Iran began a fresh phase of uranium enrichment this week just as world powers presented it with incentives to halt nuclear fuel work, according to a U.N. nuclear watchdog agency report obtained by Reuters on Thursday.
The report, emailed to the 35 states on theInternational Atomic Energy Agency’s governing board ahead of a meeting starting on Monday, also said Iran was pressing ahead with installing more cascades of centrifuge enrichment machines.
Authored by IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei, the report said Iran resumed feeding “UF6” uranium gas into its pilot 164-centrifuge cascade in Natanz on Tuesday after a pause of several weeks to do test runs of the machines without UF6.
Is this Iran’s final answer on the Big 6 proposal?
Probably.
Iran will NOT stop their uranium enrichment program.
Why?
Because their overt nuclear program is only a portion of Iranian uranium enrichment. They have a clandestine military program to manufacture enriched uranium for weapons production. Would this be discovered if IAEA inspectors returned to Iran to verify/enforce the Big 6 negotiations?
You betcha and then Iran would be in for some heavy UNSC sanctions that even Russia/China would be hard pressed to veto.
A Western intelligence source told Reuters hours before the IAEA report that Iran stopped feeding gas into its pilot cascade later in April because of technical glitches, but then resolved them, allowing an enrichment resumption this week.
“This underlines the fact that the temporary halt was technical in nature. It’s a continuation of Iranian policy to profit from all worlds — dialogue to gain time while continuing to strive for an atomic bomb,” the source said.
The report confirmed diplomatic leaks that new traces of highly enriched uranium, the key fissile ingredient in atomic bombs, had turned up on equipment from the ex-military Lavizan-Shian site, razed by Iran in 2004 before inspectors could examine it.
IAEA inspectors earlier this year took swabs from vacuum pumps used at Lavizan. Vacuum pumps have “dual” civilian or military uses but are needed when enriching uranium with a cascade of connected centrifuges.
Iran has said such traces, detected earlier at some other sites in Iran, originated on equipment imported from Pakistan, which has nuclear arms, and did not come from Iranian activity.
ElBaradei’s report said Tehran was still stonewalling a three-year-old IAEA probe into military links with nuclear fuel work, echoing a string of earlier reports.
Iran’s President Ahmadinejad is heading to Shanghai next week for a meeting with China’s Hu Jintao on their nuclear program.
Ahmadinejad will play with the western media cycle until then but everyone knows what Iran’s final answer will be.
Tick Tick Tick
A general view of Iran’s uranium enrichment complex in Natanz
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Iraq War Watch: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Killed in Air Raid
A U.S. soldier at a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, takes down an older image, to display the latest image purporting to show the body of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida-linked militant who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings in Iraq, who was killed Wednesday in a U.S. airstrike, Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced Thursday, June 8, 2006.
ASSociated Press: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed in air raid
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most-wanted terrorist in Iraq who waged a bloody campaign of beheadings and suicide bombings, was killed when U.S. warplanes dropped 500-pound bombs on his isolated safehouse, officials said Thursday. His death was a long-sought victory in the war in Iraq.
Al-Zarqawi and several aides, including spiritual adviser Sheik Abdul Rahman, were killed Wednesday evening in a remote area 30 miles from Baghdad in the volatile province of Diyala, just east of the provincial capital of Baqouba, officials said.
“Al-Zarqawi was eliminated,” Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said.
Well done! This is HUGE and POSITIVE.
A SEVERE blow to Al-Qaeda.
This is probably the turning point in the Iraq War.
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An Iraqi soldier flashes a victory sign as he celebrates the death of Al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad June 8, 2006.
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