Ed On Everything

We Remember Isaias Rivera

2006-09-10T20:55:00.000-07:00

We remember Isaias Rivera. As I read through the many other tributes to Isaias it is clear that he was a loved and respected man. Here is a note left on a Semptember 11th Victims web site by a friend of his.

"He was a faithful christian, husband and father. I miss all the good times we had when our families went on vacation together and the times we spoke and share the word of God, but I know one day we will meet again in heaven."

Our thoughts and prayers are with Isaias' family.

We will always remember.

Single Malt Conservatives Blog Launched

2006-08-29T11:25:00.000-07:00

My buddy Toothpick Johnny and I have decided to consolidate our two blogs Ed on Everything and Toothpick Johnny Presents. Together we'll be giving the barking moonbats, the foil hat brigades, and the general idiocy in the world a real run for the money.

On a daily basis we'll be serving up fried moonbat wrapped in a foil pouch. All while drinking fine single malt scotches.

You can find the Single Malt Conservatives here at:
http://singlemaltconservatives.blogspot.com/

Fauxtography For Couric Promo Photos

2006-08-29T09:30:00.000-07:00

Looks like the Fauxtography people fired from Reuters are now working over at CBS News in their promo department. Take a look at these two pictures. The one on the left was released earlier this year. The one on the right is a modified version of the left photo from the September issue of Watch magazine which is owned by CBS.

Here's the original article from TV Newser.

Tags: CBS, CBS Evening News, Dan Rather, Fauxtography, Katie Couric

Kerry Still Crying About 2004

2006-08-29T07:18:00.000-07:00

John Kerry, desperate for media spotlight, is raising allegations of election improprieties by the Ohio state official in charge of elections for that state.

"He used the power of his state office to try to intimidate Ohioans and suppress the Democratic vote," - Email Sent by Kerry to Democratic Donors

When is John Kerry going to give it up and realize that he lost? The American people voted. They saw you, and they saw President Bush. And they chose President Bush. You lost. Time to go home and eat some more ketchup.

Tags: Bush, Democrat, Howard Dean, John Kerry, Moonbats, Netroots, Politics, Republican, Senate, United States

Couric Gets Bush for First Interview

2006-08-29T07:10:00.000-07:00

Well, Couric may keep her ratings up for one extra day now that she has landed an interview with President Bush. Couric will be interviewing the President for a CBS primetime special "Five Years Later - How Safe Are We?"

Excerpts from the interview will be aired on Katies first night as the new CBS Evening News Anchor. It'll be interesting to see what kind of "hard hitting" questions she comes up with for the President.

Tags: Al Qaeda, Bush, CBS, CBS Evening News, Dan Rather, Katie Couric, Middle East, Terrorism, United States, War

Saddam Made to Watch South Park Movie

2006-08-29T06:44:00.000-07:00

Apparently former Iraqi Dictator, Saddam Hussein has been made to watch the movie "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" repeatedly while being held in prison.

"The deposed leader on trial in Iraq was featured in the movie spin-off as the lover of the devil. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut featured Hussein and Satan attempting to take over the world together." - Yahoo! News Article

I have to admit, I've never seen the movie. But this picture says it all. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Tags: Iraq, Middle East, Saddam Hussein, South Park, Terrorism, United States, War

"Imadamnutjob" of Iran Challenges Bush to Debate

2006-08-29T06:18:00.000-07:00

President "Imadamnutjob" of Iran challenged President Bush to a public debate about world affairs and how to resolve them today.

I'm curious as to how you debate with someone who still doesn't believe the Holocaust happend, and his answer to everything is either "death to Israel" or "death to America"? This same question needs to be asked in the negotiations with this short terrorist as well about the Iranian nuclear program.

Here's the link to the original Reuters article.

Tags: Ahmadinejad, Bush, Hezbollah, Iran, Lebanon, Middle East, Terrorism, United Nations, United States, War

Bad Day for the Moonbats

2006-08-28T17:04:00.000-07:00

Richard Armitage, former number 2 at the State Department, has now been revealed as the first person to reveal the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame. This has created a really bad day for the moonbats.

The entire premise of the moonbats' gripe about the supposed Plame leak is that it was a systematic campaign to attack Plame's husband, Joe Wilson (who criticized the administration's intel on Saddam Hussein's attempts to gain atomic weapons technology), and to put Plame herself in danger as a supposedly covert employee of the CIA.

This takes away the motive for the above argument since the US State Department (including Colin Powell and Richard Armitage) was in a political rivalry with the White House ever since the Iraq war. It would have been in the State Department's best political interests to allow Wilson to continue criticizing the White House. There is no reason for Armitage to intentionally leak Plame to the press.

So now the Plame leak investigation can no longer be used against the White House without ignoring the facts. Oh wait, I am talking about barking moonbats here. The facts don't matter in their world.

Tags: Armitage, Bush, CIA, DailyKos, Democrat, Iraq, Libby, Michael Moore, Moonbats, Plame, Politics, Republican, Rove, United States, War

Did Reuters Do It Again?

2006-08-28T07:25:00.000-07:00

JawaReport has got some interesting points in regards to the Reuters news truck that was supposedly hit by an Israel missile in Gaza. Looking at this picture it certainly didn't take a direct hit from a missile.

I'm not a military expert, but I do study some aspects of military weapons. The hole in that roof was not created by a missile hit. But it could have been hit by shrapnel from a missile. If it was shrapnel then the missile either:

Exploded above the vehicle throwing shrapnel down on to the vehicle. However, there would most likely be more damage than that one hole.
Exploded a fair distance away from the vehicle throwing shrapnel up in an arc and happened to hit a vehicle that was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Tags: Fauxtography, Hamas, Hezbollah, IDF, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Qana, Reuters, Terrorism, War

Dems Trying to Distance Themselves From Northeast

2006-08-28T07:15:00.000-07:00

Biden just can't seem to keep from stepping it can he? When asked about his chances of winning the Southern states in the 2008 Democratic Primary he said this:

"Better than anybody else...You don't know my state, My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state has the eighth-largest black population in the country. My state is anything from a Northeast liberal state." - AP Article via Yahoo! News

It looks like Democrats are starting to realize that the whole country isn't made up of nothing but Massachusetts and California liberals. And now they're running like crazy tripping over each other to appeal to the "Red States" found mostly in the South (known as fly over country to the Northeast coast democrats).

But here's the problem they have now. They've got the Netroots Mafia threatening to politically assassinate any democrat who doesn't subscribe to their views. I'm actually starting to feel sorry for these guys. They have to choose between trying to get elected by moving to the center and trying to keep from being booted out of their party Lamont style by moving to the left.

This is going to be interesting this fall and in 2008.

Tags: DailyKos, Democrat, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Joe Biden, Joe Lieberman, Lamont, Michael Moore, Moonbats, Netroots, Politics, Republican, Senate, United States

Couric Doomed For Failure

2006-08-28T06:29:00.000-07:00

I saw over on Drudge Report that Walter Cronkite, one of the best known names in broadcast journalism, is going to be "crowning" Katie Couric as the queen of CBS News. The text of the Drudge Report story is below. The story says that there are going to be a huge number of well known people on Couric's first night which is scheduled for Tuesday next week (September 5th).

If you have to have this much hype over a new news anchor then there is a huge problem with the anchor. Brian Williams and Charlie Gibson didn't get any kind of fanfare for their installment into the anchor chair. They simply showed up and sat in the chair. News anchors are not celebrities. They never have been. But with Katie Couric it has been almost like picking the next American Idol.

My prediction is that there will be a couple of spikes in ratings. One of them will be next Tuesday because everyone will want to see what the hype was all about. But after all sycophantic stupidity in the broadcast journalism arena is over the ratings will once again bottom out. I would be willing to bet even that the ratings sink below the lowest ratings during Dan Rather's Memogate.

Drudge Report Article:

Walter Cronkite will introduce Katic Couric on the new CBS EVENING NEWS next week, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Cronkite is just one of many superstars, and broadcast legends, that will help the former TODAY host splash onto the nightly news scene.
"It's going to be a who's who of Americana," a top CBS source said on Sunday.
Cronkite will do the introduction of Couric on opening night only, the source said.
CBS brass dismiss the suggestion that adding Cronkite is an attention-grabbing stunt.
"This is a bold statement of continuity and 'trust,' a commitment to the quality of the CBS EVENING NEWS," a top insider explained.
But there are signs mainline print media are prepared to pounce on the all-star nature of Couric's rollout.
VARIETY editor Peter Bart in a column on Monday warned: "I realize media companies need to overhype everything, whether it's a new 'Pirates' movie or another faux 'American Idol'... but all this may be doing a disservice both to Couric's credibility and to network news... Will Couric actually tell us what's happening in the world or will she preside over a sort of mini-'Today' show, complete with its well-worn couch?"
Kurt Andersen in NEW YORK will applaud the coming Era Of Couric:
"Making Couric the anchor and de facto face of CBS NEWS is a very smart, potentially even visionary choice... the real brilliance is that she's the first network anchor to have a quick, smart, mischievous sense of humor as a major part of her personal persona," Andersen explains.
"If it's possible to rejuvenate TV news, Couric is among the last best hopes."

Tags: Bush, CBS, CBS Evening News, Dan Rather, Katie Couric, Politics

A Tale of Two HurricanesKatrina And Rita

2006-08-27T18:58:00.000-07:00

This evening I was watching the ABC Evening News and they spent almost the entire half hour talking about Hurricane Katrina and the approaching one year anniversary. The first two segments were spent talking about what progress (or lack there of) there has been in the recovery of the areas impacted by that deadly hurricane. There is no denying that Hurricane Katrina was one of the biggest (if not the biggest) disaster in geographic, economic, and societal scope that this country has ever seen.

ABC News chose to spend half of there thirty minutes (minus commercials for cholesterol and heart burn pharmaceuticals) complaining about what little the federal government (aka: Bush Administration) has done. They did a huge break down of everything that President Bush said he would do, and what has been done so far. Among those things that were promised and not delivered until very recently was assistance for rebuilding homes. The implication was that it is the federal government's responsibility to rebuild those homes.

One hurricane that many people forget about is Hurricane Rita which hit only a couple of weeks after Katrina in South East Texas. An area that opened its doors to Katrina evacuees. Hurricane Rita reached category 5 before crashing into the Gulf Coast. Though it diminished in strength quickly upon landfall it caused extensive damage. I know this because I lived through it. I was in South East Texas as Rita passed over head. And I was in South East Texas to help cleanup the aftermath.

We didn't wait around for government aid. In fact we had local government telling us to stay out of the area for at least two weeks. The people of our community didn't listen because we know that if you rely on the government for things of importance you are setting yourself up for failure. We didn't wait for our FEMA checks, we didn't wait for our SBA loans, or for the Army Corps of Engineers. We got in there, we picked up what tools we had left, and we got to work. We repaired our own homes. We cleared our own debris. And we did it ourselves.

That, laddies and gentlemen, is the American spirit. We don't wait around for someone else to do something for us. We get in there and do it ourselves. And if someone helps, we thank them and work along with them. We don't say "it's about damn time you got here." We say "thank you for helping me".

So instead of whining about how the federal government has messed something up (a trait that has plagued the federal government through any administration), mourn what happened a year ago, mourn those that died. But above all, do something about it.

Tags: Bush, Democrat, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, New Orleans, Republican, United States

Survivor: Middle East

2006-08-27T14:11:00.000-07:00

The next Survivor season after Survivor: Segregation Island.

Tags: Hamas, Hezbollah, IDF, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Survivor, Terrorism, United Nations, War

Fox News Journalists Released

2006-08-27T10:11:00.000-07:00

Fox News journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig have been released by the terrorist group Holy Jihad Brigades after being held hostage for almost two weeks. This release came shortly after a video was released by the terrorist group showing Centanni and Wiig reading a statement of conversion to Islam.

It was later revealed by Centanni that this statement was done at gunpoint.

"We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint," Centanni told FOX News. "Don't get me wrong here. I have the highest respect for Islam, and I learned a lot of good things about it, but it was something we felt we had to do because they had the guns, and we didn't know what the hell was going on." - FoxNews.com Article

Whatever your views of Islam and whether or not it is a religion of peace are irrelavant. The fact is this is what these terrorist groups want. To convert the entire world to Islam by any means necessary. It is a convert or die policy. Convert to the ideals of the Taliban. Live the life of pre-2001 Afgahnistan, or die. This is what we are up against folks.

During the Cold War there were two comflicting viewpoints in America as to how to deal with the Communist Union. One side said "better Red than Dead". The other said "better Dead than Red". Now we face a new set of conflicting views. "Better Taliban than Dead" or "better Dead than Taliban".

Tags: Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Terrorism, United States, War

Video: All Your Fakes Are Belong to US

2006-08-25T12:42:00.000-07:00

Here is a great video from the Jawa Report that is spoofing the old "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" video by adding a Fauxtography theme staring the Green Helmet Guy.

Tags: Fauxtography, Hamas, Hezbollah, IDF, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, Qana, Reuters, Terrorism, United Nations, War

Terrorists Fund Trip for Democratic Congressman

2006-08-25T07:28:00.000-07:00

To hell with the Abramof scandal. Here's one that is far worse than. Illinois congressman Danny Davis and an aide took a trip to Sri Lanka last year that was paid for by the Tamil Tigers. The Tamil Tigers are a group officially classified by the US Government as a terrorist organization.

The Tamil Tigers use suicide bombers and child soldiers. Talk about your culture of corruption! Abramof was lobbying on behalf of Native American groups, these guys are lobbying so they can continue killing innocent civilians!

So what of it Palosi? Still think it's the Republican party that's corrupt? Word of advice, check your own house first. You might find worse problems there.

Here's the link to the full article.

Tags: Bill Clinton, DailyKos, Democrat, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Moonbats, Politics, Republican, Senate, Terrorism, War

DailyKos Compare Iraq Civilian Deaths to Pro-Life Stance

2006-08-25T06:28:00.000-07:00

Saw this little statement over at the DailyKos website. They compare the death of Iraqi children as a result of the war in Iraq to the use of embryonic stem cells in medical research. They just don't get it.

Here's the problem with this comparison guys. The death of civilians in Iraq is not intentional (though that does not make the death any less tragic or more comforting to their loved ones). But what you're advocating with the embryonic stem cell research is to intentionally destroy the embryo (which is considered by many to be taking a life). There is never a benefit great enough to permit the intentional sacrificing of a life.

Tags: Bush, DailyKos, Democrat, Iraq, Middle East, Moonbats, Politics, Republican, Stem Cells, Terrorism, War

Boy Scouts Save Infant

2006-08-23T12:22:00.000-07:00

Saw this story over on Drudge Report and thought I would make it my first post after returning from some personal business. As an Eagle Scout it always makes me proud when I hear stories like this. Boy Scouts continue to be one of the few remaining organizations in the world motivated to do true good.

"Boy Scouts' deed saves girl from drowningWed Aug 23 2006 08:49:32 ET
Some Omaha Boy Scouts are credited with a very good deed: rescuing a little girl from drowning.
At Two Rivers State Recreation Area on Saturday afternoon, 18-month-old Stephanie Pacheco slipped away from her mother and began floating face-down in the Platte River, said Duane Arp, a conservation officer with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.
The OMAHA WORLD-HERALD reports: About five members of St. Cecilia's Troop 100 were swimming nearby during a camping trip to earn merit badges. Christian Nanson, 11, spotted the girl in the water and yelled to fellow Scout John Fitzgerald, 9, said assistant Scoutmaster Matt Fitzgerald. Matt and John Fitzgerald are father and son.
The two boys ran to the girl and grabbed her out of the water. "She was probably literally minutes away from a tragedy," Arp said.
Once ashore, the girl began vomiting water but started breathing. Douglas County Sheriff's Deputy David Brock said the girl was treated for hypothermia and was in intermediate care at Children's Hospital. A hospital spokeswoman declined to release Stephanie's condition Sunday afternoon.
Arp said the girl had been swimming with a group of family members but had chased after some dogs playing in the water about 3:30 p.m.
Matt Fitzgerald said all the boys in the troop remained calm during the rescue and they all helped. The two boys pulled the girl out of the water, while other Scouts located a cell phone to call for help and directed rescue."

Great job guys!

Tags: Boy Scouts

It's Bush's Fault!

2006-08-15T08:54:00.000-07:00

A really good political cartoon by Henry Payne (via Yahoo! News) that really shows the moonbat left in the Democratic Party.

Tags: Bush, Cindy Shehan, DailyKos, Democrat, Howard Dean, Iraq, Lamont, Michael Moore, Middle East, Moonbats, Politics, Republican, Senate, Terrorism, United States, War

Lieberman Ahead of Lamont in Polls Now

2006-08-13T09:07:00.000-07:00

Rasmussen is reporting that Joseph Lieberman (46%) now has a good lead over Ned Lamont (41%). I think this is pretty good evidence of two things that proove the DailyKos crowd wrong on two things about the Democratic primary in Connecticut.

1. It was not "people-powered" politics. People-powered politics suggests that the people as a whole voted for Lamont or against Lieberman. When polled, the people of Connecticut are saying 46 to 41 that they want Lieberman.
2. Ned Lamont is not in agreement with the bulk of the American people as DailyKos et. al. continuously says.

Here are what the facts really are in the above topics:
1. This was "foil-powered" politics that gave Lamont the Democratic nomination. It was the left wing moonbats in the self described "netroots" movement that voted for Lamont.
2. If you look at the poll you have a total of 52% against Lamont (after combining Lieberman's support with the Republican candidate). And the same applies to the DailyKos crowd. 52% of Connecticut do not see the issues the way DailyKos et. al. do. 52% of Connecticut sees the War on Terrorism and the war in Iraq differently from how Michael Moore, Cindy Shehan, and DailyKos see these issues.

Wake up moonbats. You're going to loose.

Tags: Cindy Shehan, DailyKos, Democrat, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Iraq, Joe Lieberman, Lamont, Michael Moore, Middle East, Moonbats, Politics, Republican, Senate, Terrorism, United States, War

My Snark Against The Leftists

2006-08-11T06:07:00.000-07:00

OK folks, I'm about to go into full snark mode here. So fair warning. The leftists from groups like DailyKos, Democratic Underground, and many in the US House and Senate came pretty damn close to preventing the capture of the terrorists in London. Now, I'm not going to argue they were specifically trying to help terrorists. I don't believe, no matter how twisted their minds are, they want to help terrorists kill people.

But take a look at what was used to prevent what would have been a disaster that would make September 11th look like nothing.

Wiretaps were used after British authorities received a tip. (Washington Post article via MSNBC.com)
Tracking of money transfers from Pakistan to the suspects in London. (MSNBC.com article)

These are two things that leftists would have wanted to shut down. Think back to the objections made by the left when it was learned that US intelligence agencies were listening to international phone calls and paying attention to money transfers. All the leftists were yelling at the top of their lungs trying to say how the evil Bush administration was just trying to infringe on Americans' rights and that is why the Republicans should be voted out of office.

These events prove how effective these legal programs are. These events prove how serious and real the war on terrorism is! This is not some setup in response to the Lieberman loss in Connecticut as the moonbats are barking right now. This is not to save the Republican majority in November either. So unwrap the foil from your heads and wake up to reality for once in your lives. There was, and possibly still is, a real and undeniable threat to human life out there. There is a real and undeniable group of people out there who want to kill people simply for the sake of killing people.

So to all you moonbats out there. Wake up, grow up, or get out of the way for the adults in the world. All your endless flash presentations and YouTube movies where you pose as self described experts trying desperately to prove that Bush is the source of all evil in the world is an absolute waste of time and energy. And I say that not because I think that Bush is the greatest man in the world. I say it because you people show a total lack of rationality in everything you do. When confronted with facts your only counter argument is Rove is too good at covering up the facts. Did you ever stop to think that maybe there aren't any facts to be uncovered? Did you ever stop to think that there are more facts against your argument than there are in support of it? Did you ever stop and think that maybe the reason you dogmatically pursue these conspiracy theories while playing the X-Files theme song in the background is simply because you are more devoted to your political party (whether its the Democrats or any of the countless non-GOP parties) than you are to the country?

I have a challenge for you moonbats. You claim to be the thinking people of the country (and of the world in some cases). Put your money where your mouth is and separate your hatred of Bush and those associated with him. Get out of your Fox Mulder mindset. And take a serious look at the facts that exist. And don't just look at the evidence that condemns Bush et. al. Look at the evidence that condemns terrorists. Look at the evidence that condemns the leftists. Look at the arguments that support what Bush does. Look at the arguments that support what the leftists are doing. And I mean really look at it, without the foil hats. For once think with your own brains and not the latest story worthy of a Hollywood thriller. This isn't a Hollywood thriller. This is the real world. Welcome to it.

And when in doubt just remember Occam's razor.

"entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity."

In short, sometimes the simplest answer is the right one.

Tags: Bush, DailyKos, Democrat, Heathrow, Howard Dean, Iran, Iraq, Joe Lieberman, Lamont, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, Republican, Reuters, Senate, Terrorism, United States, War

VIDEO:Hezbollah Uses Bodies as Props in a Movie

2006-08-10T13:07:00.000-07:00

To claim that Hezbollah cares about Lebanese civilians or any civilians is to continue to live with your head up Nasrallah's ass. Here is what we have in total:

Stationing of rockets from within residential areas of Lebanon.
Storing weapons within masques.
And now their PR office has officers out using the bodies of dead children to create the photo-op!

That is all the civilians of Lebanon (or any other nationality) are to Hezbollah. Civilians are nothing but props for their photo-ops. And when the civilians are dead then all the better as this video shows. It shows our favorite Green Helmet man shooting and reshooting a video clip of the dead body of boy being loaded into the back of a van. The boy is loaded once into the van for the first take, and then unloaded, and then loaded again for the second take. And in between the two takes Green Helmet makes sure that the "extras" in the scene don't get in the way of the camera and that the body of this young boy is in the perfect position for the camera.

This is the most despicable thing I have ever seen in the world. But where is the outrage against Hezbollah and other groups for employing such tactics for the camera? Where is the worldwide outcry against Hezbollah for treating the body of this child with such disrespect? Several months ago there was huge outcry for American soldiers having cremated the bodies of several dead terrorists. And the outcry was huge across the globe. But this man treats the body of an innocent child the way Hollywood directors treat the placement of a table in a movie scene.

Tags: Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Qana, Reuters, Terrorism, United Nations, United States, War

Where is Reuters When You Need Them?

2006-08-09T16:37:00.000-07:00

Why couldn't Reuters photoshop this picture for us?

Tags: Bill Clinton, Democrat, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Reuters, Senate, United States

BREAKING:Iranians Among Hezbo Dead

2006-08-09T16:26:00.000-07:00

Acording to Israel forces currently in southern Lebanon members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard have been found among dead Hezbollah fighters.

So here are the Iranian connections:

Iranian made Zilzal missiles fired at an Israeli warship.
Iranian made unmanned drone shot down.
Nasrallah hiding out in the Iranian embassy in Lebanon.
Now we have Iranian soldiers clearly fighting along side Hezbollah fighters.

And still Iran denies helping Hezbollah through anything other than "moral support".

Tags: Hamas, Hezbollah, IDF, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Terrorism, War

Imbalance of Peace Activists

2006-08-09T15:26:00.000-07:00

Peace activists are almost always one sided in their attack of violence against civilians. The Internation Solidarity Movement (ISM) is going to be going to Lebanon to act as human shields against the Israeli forces trying to take out Hezbollah targets.

The imbalance of the ISM is evident in that they are not signing up to be human shields on the Israeli side of the border. Once again the "peace at all costs" crowd is showing the hypocrisy in favor of any terrorist group.

Tags: Hamas, Hezbollah, IDF, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Terrorism, United Nations, War

More Fun with Photoshop

2006-08-09T14:56:00.000-07:00

Here's an interesting photo from the New York Times. Take a close look at the man in the lower right hand corner of the photo. In particular look around the edges of his head.

Little Green Footballs spotted this irregularity, and the more I look at it the more questions come up in my mind. Here's a zoom in to that gentleman:

There are three things that I see. The first two are the same as what LGF spotted, the white material around his head and very different clothing from what the other men are wearing in the crowd. You can't see all the clothing, but what little can be seen is very similar to what the women in the crowd are wearing.

The third thing that I spotted that I don't think others have noticed is the light reflection on the forehead and the left cheek. The suggests that the primary light source is to the "man's" left. But when you look at the reflection of light on the other people the primary light source appears to be coming from the people's right. I'm not a huge expert of photoshopping, but I've worked with that software enough to know that there is something very wrong with that man's face compared to everything else in the scene.

Tags: Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Qana, Reuters, Terrorism, War

Is a Foil Hat Electable?

2006-08-09T11:00:00.000-07:00

The Lieberman/Lamont primary proved one thing. That the Foil Hat Rebellion is in full force in the DNC. This was not a contest of Joe Lieberman against Ned Lamont. It was a contest between the DNC establishment and the Foil Hat types like DailyKos, Democratic Underground, George Soros, et. al.

So the Foil Hat candidates like Ned Lamont can win the Democratic primaries. And the probably will continue to win the Democratic Primaries. My question is are these Foil Hat candidates electable in a real election that involves more than just the Democrats? Can the Foil Hat candidates, with what are considered far left views, win in a general election with Republican voting and fence sitters?

I don't think that they can. I think if the DNC continues to move to the left, and continue to add new layers of tin foil to their hats, then they will loose in the general elections. It is proven by political history. Not once has a candidate that has moved further to the left or further to the right won a general election. It simply doesn't work. The far left Ned Lamonts and the far right Pat Buchanans are the minority in this country. They don't decide the results of general elections (thankfully).

Tags: Bill Clinton, Bush, DailyKos, Democrat, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Joe Lieberman, Lamont, McCain, Politics, Republican, Senate, United States, War

An Observation From a Conservative

2006-08-09T06:26:00.000-07:00

I'm sure this title will gain a lot of vitriol from the DailyKos moonbat types, but what the hell I feel like starting something this morning. I want to offer my observations as a conservative of the Lieberman/Lamont primary up in Connecticut.

I have two main observations. The first is what does Lamont stand for other than pulling the troops out of Iraq? Senators can't order the troops out of Iraq, they can only stop funding the war effort. But what about the policies that a Senator does have authority to set? I haven't heard anything on how he thinks we should handle gas prices, immigration, national security, the War on Terror beyond Iraq, disaster preparedness. I've heard nothing on any of these major issues. The only sound bite I've heard has been "I want to invest in America again". OK...that's great. What do you mean by that Lamont? That's like a presidential candidate saying "put me in office because I'll help your children". OK...that's great. What about your opponent, is he just going to kick my children? No, of course not! So give me some substance. I think you would be hard pressed not to find a senator in Washington that wouldn't say "I want to invest in America again".

The second point is that this election for the DailyKos folks et. al. seems to have been more of an election against a man who's general domestic policies are of Democratic party. What I mean by that is this election does not seem to have been about choosing a better candidate for their party in November, instead it was about a candidate that wasn't Lieberman. You could have put Mickey Mouse up there as long as he said he was against the war. This wasn't about whether Lieberman or Lamont was the best candidate for Senate, instead it was about getting rid of a high profile Democrat who disagreed with the DailyKos types on the war. Just take a look at some of the headlines from both the MSM and the Foil Hat Media:

Yahoo! News - Lieberman loses battle over war
Slate Magazine - Lieberman loses-and then promises to win
Democratic Underground - Revenge of Irate Moderates "The rebellion against Mr. Lieberman was actually an uprising by that rare phenomenon, irate moderates."

DailyKos actually didn't have any headlines one way or the other, but their primary post was Winners/Losers bullet list. I will give them credit on this one, the first winner listed was Lamont. However where they mess up after that is calling all these other folks winners:

People-powered politics (translation: the Foil Hat Rebellion on the DNC)
"ctkeith (screen name), who was the crazy guy telling anyone who would listen that Lieberman was vulnerable."

And then the folks they list as losers:

The Democratic Leadership Council
"Every Connecticut newspaper which endorsed Lieberman."
"Chris Dodd. Lieberman's staunchest defender can still redeem himself if he brokers Lieberman's exit from the race."
"The DC beltway consultancies."

So even though DailyKos didn't have any headlines of "Lieberman Loses", the content of their primary post on this election says it all. This was the Foil Hat Rebellion in the Democratic Party, and they were more concerned about taking out their targets than they were about the aftermath of the rebellion. Their targets are simple, the DNC establishment and its sympathisers, and anyone who has ever agreed with Bush on anything (especially the war). And the only way to escape the second group is to throw yourself on the mercy of the Foil Hat Rebellion leaders at DailyKos et. al.

I believe we are going to witness a full paradigm shift in the Democratic party from a party that puts the America first in its priorities, to a party that puts hating the GOP and Bush first.

Tags: Bill Clinton, Bush, DailyKos, Democrat, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Lamont, Leiberman, Politics, Republican, Senate, United States, War

The Sad Thing About Lieberman's Accusation

2006-08-08T12:58:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, Senator Joe Lieberman's campaign website went down. The claim on the page that was up was technical difficulties. Today the Senator's campaign claimed that someone hacked the website here on the eve of the highly publicized primary election.

But here's the really sad part about this whole event. Does anyone out there really doubt that his accusation of an overzealous Lamont supporter could in fact be the case? Does anyone doubt that one of the foilhat brigade could actually have done this? No they don't.

I'm not a Lieberman supporter or a Lamont supporter. I could care less about which person wins the Democratic primary. But here is what I do care about. As major as this primary is to the moonbats of the left such as DailyKos what happens in this race could become the blueprints for the full elections this November and for the elections to come after that. Will the DailyKos crowd now consider hacking an opponent's website a legitimate act? Will the Huffington Post crowd consider photoshopping blackface onto an opponent a legitimate act?

I worry for our political system folks. This is what the extremist, barking moonbats are doing to the politics of our country. Absolute hate of the other side simply for the sake of their single issue.

Tags: Bill Clinton, Bush, DailyKos, Democrat, Howard Dean, Lamont, Leiberman, Politics, Republican, Senate, United States

The Press is a Lame Duck

2006-08-08T06:49:00.000-07:00

One of the things I hear all the time from a lot of the MSM types is that the press is the fourth branch of government in the US. They elevate themselves to the level of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. Branches which actually are established by the articles of the US Constitution. Branches which have a delicate balance of power between the three.

As a student of the US Constitution and the law I find the concept of a fourth branch of government absolutely absurd. And it makes it all the worse that this fourth branch is supposed to be the press. The actual structure of the government is established by the US Constitution. This structure is specifically defined and restricted by the US Constitution. But there is nothing in the Constitution which restricts the press. However, the Constitution says nothing about restriction of the press. Instead it says "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press". So to support the idea of a "Press Branch" you must support the idea of an unrestricted branch of government. A branch that does not have to respect anybody's rights, that simply does whatever the hell it wants with zero repercussions.

It is a complete absence of restriction and repercussions that the press wants. They want to tell us what they think we should consider priorities. And they don't want to be questioned in the process.

This desire has taken them from reporters of facts to power hungry individuals with their own agenda. Which agenda that is is irrelevant. Almost everyone recognizes that there is a general bias in favor of liberalism in the media, but a news producer could just as easily be biased in favor of conservatism. But the fact is there is an agenda. And we have seen it now in two major events that are too major to ignore as an isolated incident. First we saw it when Dan Rather wanted so much to give a black eye to President Bush during an election year that he neglected to verify falsified documents.

Now we see the Reuters News Service wanting so much to get pictures of the destruction in Lebanon that the horrible American backed, Israelis are doing that they will hire anyone as a photographer without verifying who they are hiring. All they do is drool over the carnage that their freelance photographers email to their editors and say "oh that's great work! All those dead bodies and thick, black smoke! That'll scare the hell out of people and show how disproportionate the American backed Israelis are!" Once again the press is so blinded by their desire to prove how horrible the Americans (and more specifically Bush) are that they don't stop to think that they might be wrong.

This is the hazard that politicians run into when on the campaign trail. They get a tip that their opponent is cheating on his wife they run with it. It doesn't matter if the information is coming from a questionable source. They just see the potential to turn public opinion against their opponent. Here, the press sees the Bush Administration and those that support Bush as their political enemy. But just like that politician that spreads what winds up to be a false accusation, their credibility has been flushed down the drain along with the questionable tipster. And there is no way for the press to recover their credibility at this point.

So I will offer my own journalistic report on the status of the "Press Branch". They have now become a lame duck. And their challenger, the Blogosphere, is quickly gaining in the polls. Reuters, CNN, CBS, and so many others are loosing credibility in the public's eye. But the Blogosphere is consistently gaining ground on the incumbent. More and more people are citing blogs like Little Green Footballs, the Pajama's Media, and even the left leaning Daily Kos. There appears no way for the MSM to keep it's seat in the Press Branch.

Tags: Bush, Democrat, Hezbollah, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, Qana, Republican, Reuters, Terrorism, United States, War

Cartoon Roundup:August 7th, 2006

2006-08-07T07:48:00.000-07:00

Robert Ariail via Yahoo! News

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Qana, Terrorism, War

Reuter Gate Video

2006-08-07T07:11:00.000-07:00

This is an excellent video basically summarizing the list of indictments against the Reuters News Service and at least one of its photographers.

I applaud Reuters for doing what's called a "photo kill" on the first image involving increased smoke. But my question is will they ever consider doing a full investigation into other photos performed by this photographer (Hajj)? I seriously doubt that they will, nor do I think they will consider reforming their editing practices. They got their own shock and awe with their doctored photos and it made for some great press (up until the photoshopping was descovered). So where is the reason for them to reform anything? It doesn't exist.

There should be no doubt remaining that there is just as much bias against Israel in western media as there is in outlets like Al-Manar and Al-Jazeera.

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, Qana, Reuters, Terrorism, War

BREAKING:US and France Agree!

2006-08-05T07:39:00.000-07:00

The US and France agreeing on something is big news all its own. But what is even bigger news is that they have agreed on how to bring an end to the fighting in Lebanon.

"UNITED NATIONS - The United States and France reached agreement Saturday on a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at ending the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said.
The full, 15-nation Security Council was expected to meet later in the day to discuss it, and it was likely to be adopted in the next couple of days, Bolton said."
- AP News Article via Yahoo! News

Tags: Bush, France, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, Terrorism, United Nations, United States, War

Great Video:Brothers in Arms

2006-08-05T07:14:00.000-07:00

Found this great video browing around last night. It's a tribute to the men and women of the IDF and the work they do defending Israeli citizens.

Tags: Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, IDF, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Qana, Terrorism, United Nations, United States, War

The Real Background of Arab Terrorism

2006-08-03T10:55:00.000-07:00

Every time I hear a Hezbollah/Hamas/Islamic Jihad apologists they all say basically the same thing. If Israel would just go back to the boarders established 30+ years ago everything would be fine and the terrorist groups would stop killing Israeli civilians. They keep on pointing to the wars between Israel and its Arab neighbors (Egypt, Syria, Iran, etc.) that occurred in the 1960's and 1970's. By this argument they are saying that all terrorist activities against Israel are because of these wars (and other Israeli activities) that occurred in the 60's and 70's.

Let's take a deeper look, let's go before the 60's and see what terrorism (if any) occurred back then.

Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Amin al-Husayni (1895 to 1974)

The Grand Mufti is essentially the top guy in the Islamic religion.
In 1933 al-Husayni sent a letter to Germany expressing his support of the rising Nazi ideology and its spread across the world especially in Palestine and "offered his services".
Later that year, al-Husayni's assistants approached the German Consul General Wolff seeking his help in establishing an Arab National Socialist (Nazi) Party in Palestine to stop Jewish immigrants to Palestine and to get rid of lawful Jewish residents in Palestine.
On 21 July 1937, Al-Husayni paid a visit to the new German Consul-General, Hans Döhle, in Palestine. He repeated his former support for Germany and "wanted to know to what extent the Third Reich was prepared to support the Arab movement against the Jews." He later sent an agent and personal representative to Berlin for discussions with Nazi leaders.
From August 1938, Husseini received financial and military assistance and supplies from Nazi Germany and fascist Italy.
November 28, 1941, al-Husayni asked Hitler for a public declaration that "recognized and sympathized with the Arab struggles for independence and liberation, and that it would support the elimination of a national Jewish homeland".
During WWII the Mufti assisted in Nazi radio propaganda in Germany.
Assisted in the formation of the Muslim Wafen SS units in the Balkans.
Adolf Eichmann`s deputy Dieter Wisliceny testified during his war crimes trial in 1946 that ... "The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and adviser of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan... He was one of Eichmann’s best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chambers of Auschwitz."
Among the sabotage al-Husayni organized was an attempted chemical warfare assault on the second largest and predominantly Jewish city in Palestine, Tel Aviv. Five parachutists were sent with a toxin to dump into the water system.

Now, here is the connection to modern Palestinians. This is the text of an interview with Yasser Arafat in the London-based Arabic language news paper Al Sharq al Awsat back in 2002.

Interviewer: I have heard voices from within the Palestinian Authority in the past few weeks, saying that the reforms are coordinated according to American whims...
Arafat: We are not Afghanistan. We are the mighty people. Were they able to replace our hero Hajj Amin al-Husseini?... There were a number of attempts to get rid of Hajj Amin, whom they considered an ally of the Nazis. But even so, he lived in Cairo, and participated in the 1948 war, and I was one of his troops."

Source: Mohammad Amin al-Husayni

Tags: Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Qana, Terrorism, United Nations, War

BREAKING:Hezbollah Fires Missile at Afula Area

2006-08-02T07:21:00.000-07:00

Haaretz.com is reporting on its breaking news ticker that Hezbollah has fired a Khaibar-1 missile at the Afula area. There are no reports yet as to any damage, or the absence of any damage. The Khaibar-1 missile is the same that was fired at the Afula area last week which was considered a significant escalation on Hezbollah's part since this is the furthest into Israel that Hezbollah had fired missiles.

I'll post updates here as soon as I find them.

Tags: Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Terrorism, War

IDF Captures Hezbollah Officers in Baalbek Raid

2006-08-02T06:32:00.000-07:00

Israel is claiming that they have captured several Hezbollah officials that were using an Iranian built hospital in Baalbek as a staff headquarters. This was a result of a daring commando raid sent in by way of helicopter transport combined with "unprecedented" (Lebanese witnesses) air coverage from the IAF.

The IDF also reported that at least 10 Hezbollah fighters were killed in the hours long gun fight.

The primary target of the raid was Muhammad Yazbek, a senior official in Hezbollah. However, he was not there at the time of the raid. However, IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz said in a briefing on Wednesday that IDF forces "weren't there to obtain something specific." The IDF also claimed that the commandos did not take any wounded during this operation.

Hezbollah's private mouthpiece, I mean propaganda outlet, I mean privately owned news station, Al-Manar is claiming that those killed and captured during the raid were all civilians. Yeah, we're just going to ignore the fact that this hospital was built by the Iranians for the sole purpose helping wounded Hezbollah fighters and that it would go right along with their history to turn things like hospitals and ambulances into headquarters and transports for their fighters.

Tags: Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Qana, Terrorism, War

Amazing Pic: Israeli Artillery

2006-08-02T06:16:00.000-07:00

Found this amazing photo by Reuters news service on Yahoo! News.

Normally if I saw a picture like this I would say that it was Photoshopped. With it being from a major news service such as Reuters, however, I applaud the photographer because that is not an easy picture to get.

Hopefully that shell is on its way to Nasrallah.

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Terrorism, War

BREAKING: Hezbollah Converts Hospital to Headquarters

2006-08-01T17:04:00.000-07:00

There are reports that Hezbollah has converted "the Dar al Hikmeh Hospital in the village into the headquarters for his staff" according to DebkaFile. This is the hospital that is currently being reported as being assaulted by IAF deep inside Lebanon near Baalbek.

Once again Hezbollah shows their abilities to use civilians and civilian structures as shields.

Here's the text of the full article:

"The Hizballah’s Beqaa commander Muhammad Yazbek is reported by DEBKAfile’s exclusive sources as having converted the Dar al Hikmeh Hospital in the village into the headquarters for his staff. Israel troops who made for this target are engaged in heavy clashes around the building.
Lebanese witnesses report an unprecedented number of Israeli warplanes over the Beqaa valley Tuesday night and aerial strikes against five Hizballah positions near Baalbek. From the Mediterranean, Israel naval artillery pounded Hizballah rocket sites on the Lebanese shore.
DEBKAfile’s senior military sources report Israel is going all out Tuesday night in an effort to finally overwhelm Hizballah on all fronts and generate conditions for the deployment of a multinational force in South Lebanon."
- DebkaFile article

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Qana, Terrorism, War

Security Council Tells Iran Stop Nuke Activities

2006-07-31T07:58:00.000-07:00

The UN Security Council voted 14-1 to call on Iran to "suspend all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, including research and development." The council has given Iran until August 31st to comply or the council would "consider adopting appropriate measures".

The biggest problem with UN appropriate measures is they amount to no more than a stern talking to.

Tags: Iran, Middle East, Terrorism, United Nations, United States, War

BREAKING: Israel Agrees to 48 hr Suspension

2006-07-30T14:37:00.000-07:00

FoxNews and YNetNews.com are reporting the Israel has agreed to a 48 hour suspension of strikes in Lebanon to allow for an investigation into the disaster in Qana. They have also agreed to a 24 hour window for residents in southern Lebanon to leave the area if they so choose.

Here is the text of the YNetNews.com article:

"Israel has agreed to suspend its aerial bombardment of southern Lebanon for 48 hours, starting immediately, to allow for an investigation into Sunday's bombing that killed 54 civilians, a US State Department official said on Monday."
"Israel will also coordinate with the United Nations to allow a 24-hour window for residents of southern Lebanon to leave the area if they wish, State Department spokesman Adam Ereli told a briefing in Jerusalem."
- YNetNews Article

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Qana, Terrorism, United Nations, United States, War

Inconsistencies in Qana Attack

2006-07-30T11:42:00.000-07:00

Just found this article on YNetNews.com interviewing Brigadier General Amir Eshel (head of the IAF). He pointed out several facts that create possible inconsistencies in the attack in Qana that lead to the death of more than 60 civilians.
So far the story has been that the building was attacked by the IAF, and that that attack lead to the collapse of the building while civilians were inside.

General Eshel says that the attack by the IAF occurred around midnight, but the building didn't collapse for another 8 hours. The general floats a couple of possibilities:
1. The collapse was the result of explosives being stored inside the building that detonated several hours later. (Detonation could be as a result of air strike, or as a result of Hezbollah wanting press coverage of an event that could be blamed on the Israelis. The part in parenthesis is my own theory, not the general's).
2. The IAF attack in the area around midnight damaged the building but didn't immediately cause the collapse. The building eventually succumbed to structural damage from the IAF attack 8 hours later.

In order to prove or disprove any of these theories several questions must be answered:
1. Did the IAF actually hit this building, or did it hit a target on the ground around the building?
2. Were explosives or other munitions being stored by Hezbollah in the building?
3. Was there an explosion at the time of the collapse of the building (8 hours after the IAF air strike)?
4. If there was an explosion at the time of the collapse of the building (8 hours after the IAF air strike), was it the result of explosives being stored inside the building?
5. If there were explosives stored inside the building, were the detonated as a result of the IAF air strike, or the result of a Hezbollah attempt to blame a tradgedy on the Israelis?

Tags: Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Qana, Terrorism, United Nations, War

VIDEO:Rocket Fire from Qana Building

2006-07-30T09:54:00.000-07:00

Found the video that was released by the IDF of rocket launches right next to a large building Qana that matches the description of the building hit by an IAF airstrike last night which resulted in the death of more than 50 civilians.

Here's the link to the FoxNews.com video.

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Qana, Terrorism, United Nations, War

Hezbollah Used Qana Building as Shield for Katyushas

2006-07-30T09:25:00.000-07:00

I'm watching video on FoxNews that was released by the IDF that shows rocket launches from the ground right next to a building that appears to be the building hit by an IAF raid that killed in excess of 50 Lebanese civilians.

There appear to be two launchers right behind a large building that matches the description of the building hit by the IAF last night. If this is the case it proves two things; 1) The IAF was not target the civilians, but the Hezbollah firing rockets from that location, and 2) Hezbollah terrorists are hiding behind Lebanese children while they try to kill Israeli children.

I'll try and find the video and post it here.

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Qana, Terrorism, War

Hillary and McCain Hold Drinking Contest

2006-07-28T17:12:00.000-07:00

There's a post on the Drudge Report talking about a New York Times article that is to be published Saturday that describes a vodka drinking party involving Senators McCain and Clinton while a part of an overseas delagation to Estonia.

"The after-dinner game went so well -- memories are a bit hazy on who drank how much. McCain later told people how unexpectedly fun he found Hillary to be."
- Drudge Report Article

Hmm...

Tags: Bill Clinton, Democrat, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, McCain, Politics, Republican, Senate

Palestinian Gunmen Using UN Ambulance for Cover

2006-07-28T10:51:00.000-07:00

Here is video of Palestinian terrorists using a clearly marked UN ambulance (complete with a blue flag) as cover while fighting IDF forces. The video starts out just showing a couple of ambulances and some gunmen walking around. Then you hear the sounds of gunfire. As the gunfire continues you see four or five men carrying AK-47 rifles pile into the back of the ambulance as it slowly backs away from where the gunfire apears to be coming from. None of these men apear to be injured in any way.

This video was found by Little Green Footballs back on May 11th, 2004.

Hat tip to Little Green Footballs.

So where are the outcries from the UN about this? What happened to the UN drivers of that ambulance? Were they doing the driving, or are they dead in a Hamas hideout somewhere? Where's the special UN investigation of this event?

Tags: Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Terrorism, United Nations, War

UN Leaves Lebanon/Israel Boarder

2006-07-28T08:23:00.000-07:00

UN has now pulled its 50 unarmed observers from the Lebanon-Israel border (also known as the "Blue Line"). Who is Hezbollah going to use as a shield now?

Here's the original article from the Associated Press via Yahoo! News.

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Terrorism, United Nations, War

IDF Kills Hezbollah Missile Smuggler

2006-07-28T08:15:00.000-07:00

Just saw this good news on YNetNews.com.

"The IDF struck Thursday night a vehicle carrying Nur Shalhub, a Hizbullah senior commander responsible for the smuggling of strategic weapons, including long-range missiles, in the organization."
- YNetNews Article

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Terrorism, War

BREAKING:Hezbollah Escalates Conflict

2006-07-28T07:38:00.000-07:00

YNetNews.com is reporting that Hezbollah fired 5 "long-range" missiles that are equipped with more explosive power than Hezbollah's longest range Katyusha style rocket known as the Pajar. The missiles landed in open areas near Afula and in the area between Afula and Beit Shean. This is an area further from the Blue Line than Haifa.

Thankfully, no injuries were reported as a result of the attack.
Tags: Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Terrorism, War

Condi Rice: A Character for the History Books

2006-07-28T06:29:00.000-07:00

US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice attended the Asean Regional Forum yesterday. The tradition for this annual event is that each delegation from around the world performs some kind of act. Its pretty much an international armature hour being put on by people who spend most of their time with public relations advisers constantly reminding them what to say and when not say it. This is intended as a light hearted way to get everyone to relax and put aside many of the more serious aspects of the forum. For example, back in 2001 Rice's predecessor Collin Powell did a version of the Village People's "YMCA".

This year, with far more serious events going on in the world, Rice performed two Johannes Brahms piano pieces (a solo Intermezzo number two, and Brahms Sonata for violin and piano, opus 108, with a Malaysian guest soloist). The response from the crowd was absolutely amazing. Philippines Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo said "Oh, beautiful, beautiful. She’s a great pianist. She’s a concert pianist."

I believe its moments like this that will put Condi Rice down in the history books. If you look at historical figures from the west that are among the most respected you don't hear as much about their day to day lives in the office they hold. Mostly you hear about the kind of person they are. Winston Churchill for example is know more for his quick whit, poetically worded axioms, and what later were called Churchill cigars. Now, I don't know if Condi ranks as high as Churchill (as far as I'm concerned he is in a league that is almost impossible to gain membership of). But her ability to show uncommon intelligence and grace sets her apart from pretty much any figure in the world today (perhaps even her boss, President George W. Bush).

While the left is focusing on how "sexually powerful and threatening" Hillary Clinton's bust is, Condoleezaa Rice is showing her classy character by playing classical music for her international counterparts. She doesn't need some starry-eyed sculptor to stroke her ego. She knows who she is, and knows how to get the job done by showing the character of a classically educated, highly intelligent, and morally and ethically strong individual. It is her character in times like these that will go down in the history books. And she does it with the simple act of playing a magnificent musical piece.

Tags: Rice, Bush, United States, Lebanon, Israel, Middle East, Politics, Terrorism, United Nations, Hezbollah, Hillary Clinton

Screamin Dean's Idea of Diplomacy

2006-07-27T09:34:00.000-07:00

Howard "The Screamer" Dean, chairman of the Democratic Party called Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki an "anti-Semite" for failing to denounce Hezbollah for its attacks against Israel.

I agree that there is a problem with any country who does not denounce terrorist groups such as Hezbollah. But going as far as calling a head of state an anti-Semite isn't exactly my idea of diplomacy with allies. And don't forget that this is a guy who criticizes the Bush administration for using so-called "Cowboy Diplomacy" by going it alone (facts and reality aside) in Iraq. Specifically he believes that we have not worked well enough with our European allies (in short get the permission of the EU to do anything).

The EU can't even decide if Hezbollah is a terrorist group. Are you going to call them a bunch of anti-Semites Deanie boy?

Tags: Hezbollah, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, War, Howard Dean, Democrat, Politics

SITRAP: Middle East July 27th, 2006

2006-07-27T06:15:00.000-07:00

I woke up this morning and a whole lot has happened. So I figured this would be a good time for a quick situation report (SITRAP).

Here we go:

Israel Decides Not to Expand Offensive. This was decided by top Israeli cabnet members. "During a meeting of the security Cabinet, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the goals of Israel's 17-day offensive are being met." - AP News article
Ayman al-Zawahri, 2nd in charge of Al Qaeda, called for muslims worldwide to riseup in a holy war against Israel and join the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza until Islam reigns from "Spain to Iraq." - AP News article
Police on Thursday restricted entry to Jerusalem's Temple Mount to Palestinians under the age of 40 after it received information that a protest was scheduled to take place on its premises after Friday prayers. - Haaretz.com article
Israeli Chemical Plant Hit by Rocket. A Hezbollah rocket slammed into a chemical plant in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shemona. The extent of the damage and what chemicals were involved was not immediately known. - AP News article

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Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Middle East, War, Terrorism, Al Qaeda

UN Observer Post Used By Hezballah

2006-07-26T18:44:00.000-07:00

Found this one over at Little Green Footballs. It's an interview from CBC radio with Retired Canadian Major General Lewis Mackenzie. Mackenzie evidentally receive an email from one of the UN peacekeepers killed at the UN post that was bombed by the Israelis earlier today. According to the General, the peacekeeper was saying that Hezbollah was taking up position around the UN observation post in an attempt to use the post as a human shield.

"We received emails from him a few days ago, and he was describing the fact that he was taking fire within, in one case, three meters of his position for tactical necessity, not being targeted. Now that's veiled speech in the military. What he was telling us was Hezbollah soldiers were all over his position and the IDF were targeting them. And that's a favorite trick by people who don't have representation in the UN. They use the UN as shields knowing that they can't be punished for it."
- Canadian Major General (Ret.) Lewis Mackenzie Interview on CBC Radio

I wonder if this will be included in the UN investigation into this incident.

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Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, United Nations, Middle East, War, Terrorism

The Realities of War

2006-07-26T11:44:00.000-07:00

First let me say that I am fortunate enough to have never been in a war zone. So I cannot speak from personal experience as to what happens in a war. But I do know personally veterans of ever military branch who have served in every war since World War II. They have told me their personal experiences from the D-Day invasion of Normandy, to the various offensives in Vietnam, to Desert Shield, to the operations that have gone on since September 11th, 2001. And there is one thing that is true about every one of their stories. No matter how much planning is used, no matter how much preparation is done, no matter how good the minds of the planners of an operation sh** does and will happen.

Battle is the truest form of a life and death situation. And this is an axiom that applies to everyone in and around the battle whether they are combatant participants, non-combatant civilians, or "impartial" observers. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an ignorant buffoon living in a Walt Disney cartoon.

And here is another truth about battle that goes hand and hand with the above axiom. No matter how "smart" the weapon, how good the intelligence, or how good of a marksman wielding a weapon there will always be the chance of unintended damage. Just because a bullet, rocket, missile, or bomb is aimed at a target does not mean necessarily that it will always hit that target. The other side of that coin also says that just because a bullet, rocket, missile, or bomb hits something doesn't mean that it was aimed at that target. Weapons of war, just like any peaceful technology, is subject to the conditions that it is used under. Weather, damage to components, or competence of the user (whether it is poor training, disorientation in a battle zone, or panic from intense combat) all play a factor in the accuracy of a weapon.

Do these truths of war make the death of a child any less tragic or horrible? Never. Do these truths of war make it any easier to accept civilian casualties or the deaths of "impartial" observers? Never. But it is a fact. A fact that anyone who is involved in a war, directly or indirectly, has to understand. And if you cannot get it through your thick skull then you need to go sit back down in front of that TV and watch some more Disney cartoons. Because you obviously are not ready for the real world of war yet.

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Tags: Israel, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Middle East, War, Terrorism, United Nations, Iraq

Hezbollah Attacks UN, Where is the Peace Keeper of Rewanda?

2006-07-26T11:31:00.000-07:00

Little Green Footballs just posted about a UN press release that reveals that Hezbollah has fired from around four UN positions in Lebanon.

"It was also reported that Hezbollah fired from the vicinity of four UN positions at Alma ash Shab, Tibnin, Brashit, and At Tiri."
- UN Press Release via LGF (original UN press release, Adobe PDF)

There are also reports that a UN position of the Ghanaian battalion was also directly hit by a Hezbollah mortor round. The round did not explode, and there were no casualties or damage.

So where is the public outcry from the Peace Keeper of Rewanda, Kofi Annan about these actions by Hezbollah?

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Tags: Israel, Lebanon, United Nations, Middle East, Hezbollah, War, Terrorism

Peace Protester Heckels al-Maliki

2006-07-26T08:23:00.000-07:00

I'm watching Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki address the US Congress. While he was speaking a peace protester got up and started heckling him. It was hard to make out what she was saying but it sounded like she was yelling something along the lines of "listen to the Iraqi people".

I hate to tell you this lady, this man was elected by the Iraqi people.

Tags: United States, Iraq, Terrorism, War, Middle East

Comic Roundup: Middle East - July 26th, 2006

2006-07-26T05:55:00.000-07:00

Political Cartoons on the Middle East July 265th, 2006

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Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Middle East, War, Terrorism

Hezbollah Threatens Increase in Violence

2006-07-25T17:26:00.000-07:00

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah is now threatening to step up rocket attacks on Israeli civilians.

"Hizbullah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah says his group's fighters would begin rocket attacks deeper into Israel, south of Haifa"
- YNetNews.com Article about a broadcast by Nasrallah

So while Israel and the rest of the world is talking about cease-fire terms, Nasrallah and Hezbollah are talking about stepping up attacks.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Middle East, War, Terrorism

Justify Hezbollah

2006-07-25T11:37:00.000-07:00

I'm going to take the Hezbollah apologists head on here. I've been reading through all sorts of blogs on this issue, some pro-Hezbollah and some pro-Israeli. I understand (and agree with) the pro-Israeli side. But I still can't understand the pro-Hezbollah crowd.

So I'm going to pick of fight with the pro-Hezbollah side. I want you people to come here and justify to me Hezbollah's actions. Justify Hezbollah's continued existence after Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon. Justify Hezbollah's firing of thousands of Katyusha rockets into Israeli towns since December 2005. Justify the illegal action of taking hostages. Justify Hezbollah's continued militarization in southern Lebanon after UN Resolution 1559 which called for the disarmament of militias including Hezbollah.

So bring it on Hezbollah/terrorist apologists. Post here your justifications of what Hezbollah has done.

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Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Terrorism, Middle East, War

New Strikes in Beirut and South Lebanon

2006-07-25T11:21:00.000-07:00

The Israeli IDF is claiming that they hit 10 buildings in Beirut that were believed to have been housing Hezbollah personnel. The IDF has also further sealed off a Hezbollah "stronghold" in southern Lebanon.

The IDF has also elaborated on the future of the capaign in Lebanon:

"The intention is to deal with the Hezbollah infrastructure that is within reach," Col. Hemi Livni, who commands troops in the western sector of southern Lebanon, told Israel Army Radio. "That means in southern Lebanon, not going beyond that." - Associated Press Article via Yahoo! News

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Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Terrorism, Middle East, War

Israeli DM: Civilian Multinational Force to Lebanon

2006-07-25T09:14:00.000-07:00

Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, suggested today that a multinational civilian force should be brought into Lebanon to "rehabilitate"the country. This is primarily to "prevent the presence of Iranian money and forces that will try to enter this region and to penetrate the population."

This sounds like an interesting idea and a definite change in policy on the part of Israel. In the past when Israel went into an area to put an end to a terrorist presence they used military force almost exclusively. Here Peretz wants to add a civilian component to prevent the civilian side of terrorism from take hold of a region.

Here's the full article.

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Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Hezbollah, War, Terrorism

Russia: Israel Has a Right to Security

2006-07-25T07:45:00.000-07:00

Spotted this line on the Haaretz.com news ticker.

"17:22 Russian President Vladimir Putin says Israel has the right to security (AP)"
- Haaretz.com News Ticker

Is Vladimir starting to realize he's being hypocritical by telling the Israelis they can't fight Hezbollah while he fights Chechen terrorists?

Update: Found an article about this on YNetNews.com here. Here's an excerpt of what Putin said:

"You are aware of our position, which is that not a single issue, however complicated it is, should be resolved through terrorist measures"
- YNetNews.com Article.

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Tags: Israel, Lebanon, , Middle East, War, Hezbollah, War, Terrorism, Russia

SITRAP: Middle East 2006.07.25

2006-07-25T07:06:00.000-07:00

Time for another SITRAP folks. Obviously alot has gone on since the last one a couple of days ago.

US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice has now met with the Lebanese Prime Minister, Israeli Prime Minister, and the Palestinian President.
All sides are pressing for a cease-fire. However, there is still a disconnect on the terms of that cease fire among the three parties.
An IDF General has claimed that as many as 30 Hezbollah fighters have been killed in the last 24 hours.
More than 2,200 Katyusha rockets have been fired by Hezbollah on Israeli cities.
An increasing number of countries are pledging humanitarian aid (mostly in the form of money) to the Lebanese.
The major governmental parties of the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict (Israelis, Lebanese, Palestinians, the Americans, and others) will be meeting in Rome to hammer out a cease fire.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, United States, Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Terrorism, War, Middle East

Excellent Video by Michelle Malkin

2006-07-25T06:52:00.000-07:00

Michelle Malkin did an excellent video that answers the question as to why Hezbollah is a threat the US. People like Pat Buchanan have been criticizing the Bush Administration for doing anything to help Israel in its conflict with Hezbollah asking 'what has Hezbollah done to us?'

Here's the video:

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, United States, Middle East, Terrorism, War

UN Gets Something Right

2006-07-25T06:21:00.000-07:00

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. UN Humanitarian Chief, Jan Egeland blames Hezbollah for Lebanese civilian deaths.

"Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending ... among women and children...I heard they were proud because they lost very few fighters and that it was the civilians bearing the brunt of this. I don't think anyone should be proud of having many more children and women dead than armed men."
- Associate Press Article via Yahoo! News

Its a miracle that the UN openly criticizes a terrorist group for hiding among civilians.

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Tags: Israel, Lebanon, United Nations, Hezbollah, Middle East, War, Terrorism

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2006-07-24T14:02:00.000-07:00

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Nasrallah:I Told Lebanese Leaders We Would Abduct IDF Soldiers

2006-07-24T13:29:00.000-07:00

Here's an interview with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah that was aired on Al-Jazeera TV today. He claims that he actually told certain Lebanese political leaders that he would abduct Israeli soldiers and was not in any way discouraged.

He also claims that Hezbollah always puts "Lebanese national interests above any other interests". Somehow I doubt the civilians in Lebanon would agree with that in regards to the taking of IDF hostages.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Middle East, Terrorism, War

Peace Activist Turned Realist

2006-07-24T12:34:00.000-07:00

Here is an excellent opinion peice from the YNetNews.com by Yoram Kaniuk. Kaniuk starts out by admitting that in the past he has always gone to peace rallies with his "eyes closed" simply because he was against the occupations of places like Gaza and Lebanon. But in this article he asks the important question that sepperates a "peace at all costs" person from a peaceful realist. That question is what do you do when the other side wants nothing less than your total destruction?
"The fact that Israel does not approve of calls for its annihilation and its unwillingness to have rockets hit Ashkelon, Sderot, Nahariya and Haifa? Is there a city in the world that sit idly by as it is hit by rockets, looking for excuses to understand the enemy and, in essence, to support it?"
- Yoram Kaniuk
He also takes some good shots at Noam Chomsky calling him "the Left's spiritual leader".

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Gaza, Hezbollah, Hamas, Middle East, War, Terrorism

Rice visits Lebanon

2006-07-24T06:39:00.000-07:00

Rice just made a surprise visit to Beirut, Lebanon to meet with the Lebanese Prime Minister and tour some of the destruction in the area.

Here's the full Reuters article via Yahoo! News.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Middle East, United States, War, Terrorism

John Kerry: "I Could Have Been Somebody"

2006-07-24T06:13:00.000-07:00

From the "I'm Still Relevant" File: John Kerry on Saturday made the claim that everything that is going on Israel wouldn't have happened if people would have just voted for him. Kerry, get over yourself. You lost. You are not the president. And it was not because the election was stolen from you by George Bush/Dick Cheney/Karl Rove/Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. It was because the American people wanted better.

Oh, and by the way, he served in Vietnam.

I don't care how close the margin was. A loss is a loss is a loss. Get over yourself and quit crying in your beer over it. Go back to your ketchup wife in Massachusetts.

"If I was president, this wouldn't have happened"
- John Kerry in Detnews.com article

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, John Kerry, Bush, War, Terrorism, Middle East, Hezbollah

Great Video For the Men and Women of the IDF

2006-07-23T19:16:00.000-07:00

Saw a great video montage over the Vital Perspective blog. It includes some really moving images from the current conflict in the Middle East and images from the history of that region. At the end it also includes some cold hard facts about Hezbollah's history that many in the peace at all costs crowd choose to ignore.

They chose a great song to make this video to. I've never heard the song before, so I'm afraid I don't know the title. But part of the chorus line is "you've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything." Anyone who's ever found themselves in a situation involving a combat of ideologies knows exactly what that line means.

Here's the video. Spread this to everyone.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Middle East, War, Terrorism, IDF

Hezbollahs Filthy Methods

2006-07-23T18:54:00.000-07:00

Here is an interesting opinion piece from The Ouwet Front which is a blog containing the "personal views and opinions of Lebanese Forces members."

For the past 11 days, we have seen Israel bomb all sorts of targets and I am sure most of us were wondering why would Israel bomb a certain factory or a construction yard or a truck..
If we can for a moment turn off all the local and international channels who have nothing to do but show little dead children and dismembered bodies that touch the viewer to a certain degree that it would blind them, and think about the reasons behind those hits.
From a military point of view, you have a fully equipped army, ranked in the top 5 armies in the world fighting against a guerrilla militia with absolutely no info on its fighters, weapons and locations.
Even though the Israeli army is way superior in terms of weapons, technology and size than Hezbollah, its war must be a very cautious and tactical one since its fighting a guerilla militia.
We have seen Israel for example hitting a tissue factory in a small village in the south. The reason for that would be Hezbollah move around with a missile in a truck, park near a factory and fire a rocket then flee. The origin of the rocket being the factory, Israelis respond by hitting it.
A witness to a similar action went on TV and urged Hezbollah fighters to stop coming into his village to shoot rockets and then run away since the village is being destroyed.
Same for the truck that was carrying civilians and that became very suspicious when it was not allowed to enter the UN offices.
Fighting a guerrilla is very hard and knowing that they could shoot from anywhere, we should expect attacks on unusual places.
Innocent people are dying this is true, but I believe the way Hezbollah is operating and its filthy methods in infiltrating villages and using them as launch positions is causing all those casualties.
Of course Israelis have hit bridges recklessly during the day killing innocent civilians trying to cross the bridge, but its war and you always have victims.
On the other hand, the party thats hitting civilians randomly and threatening innocent lives is Hezbollah who is launching rockets with no sense of direction whatsoever. I have seen rockets land on balconies, small cafes, walls… anything but military targets.
Finally, I heard that Hezbollah has accepted that the government negotiate on the prisoners fate today, therefore I hope that they realized they haven’t achieved anything except self destruction politically and militarily and most of all the destruction of Lebanon and putting it in economical ruin for the next 5 years.
Regards,

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, War, Terrorism, Middle East

Arabs Press Syria to End Hezbollah Support

2006-07-23T18:41:00.000-07:00

It appears that Hezbollah's support from the Arab world (at least among the leadership) is eroding. The Egyptians and the Saudi Arabians are now pressuring Syria and voicing condemnation of Hezbollah.

This creates a unique situation when the two most prominent Arab nations are not shouting their support against Israel. The potential problem that I see though is Iran deciding to ignore Egypt and Saudi Arabia and try to shift Arabian power to their country.
"Mideast diplomats were pressing Syria to stop backing Hezbollah."
- Associated Press Article, via Yahoo! News
Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Middle East, War, Terrorism

What a Katyusha Rocket Does

2006-07-23T14:53:00.000-07:00

Little Green Footballs posted these pictures showing the results of a Katyusha explosion on a car as well as the shrapnel that is thrown when it explodes. That looks almost exactly like what multiple (as in a thousand) gunshots would do to that car. I don't know if anyone was in that car. But imagine if someone was. Still call what the Israelis are doing "disproportionate"? Still think that attacks preceeded by warnings that target Hezbollah rocketeers is "disproportionate" to the indiscriminate firing of Katyushas on civilians?

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Middle East, War, Terrorism

Update: Bush/Saudi Arabian Meeting

2006-07-23T13:21:00.000-07:00

Just saw on Fox News the results of the meeting. Essentially the Saudis are asking President Bush to do something to slow the Israelis campaign in Lebananon while at the same time try to eliminate the threat of Hezbollah.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, United States, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, Middle East, War

Sleeper Hizbullah Cells Overseas Have Rreawakened'

2006-07-23T13:03:00.000-07:00

Found this over at the Jerusalem Post. They're reporting that Israel Security Intelgence has learned that overseas sleeper-cells have been reactivated with the possiblity of striking Jewish and Iraqi interests.

Tags: Israel, Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq, Terrorism, War, Middle East, United States

Bush Meeting Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister

2006-07-23T11:50:00.000-07:00

Just saw on Fox News that Bush just flew back to Washington D.C. from his Crawford, TX ranch. His about to meet with the Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister. The Saudis have been strangely quiet during the last few weeks. They seem to be on the side against terrorism at the royal level, but they fear alot of the extremists in their own country who frequently support Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaeda, and the like.

Sitting down and talking with the U.S. President is probably not going to be received well among Saudi citizens. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Saudi Arabia, United States, Bush, War, Terrorism, Middle East

SITRAP: Middle East

2006-07-23T09:53:00.000-07:00

I'm going to start a new type of post called the SITRAP. This is a term which I believe has its roots in the military. Its basically short for "situation report" or "situation wrap-up".

So here's the SITRAP on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict:

Peretz: Hezbollah fired 2,200 rockets at Israel; half of them hit towns (Haaretz) as of 13:30 Israeli time Sunday.
Rocket attacks continue all across Israel with what appears to be an emphasis on the port city of Haifa.
The IAF continues to attack Hezbollah targets (rocket launchers, etc.), major roads in and out of the country, and targets in Beirut, Lebanon.
The IDF now has control of Maroun al-Ras in south Lebanon.
U.S. consul says American evacuation from Lebanon nearly complete (AP) as of 14:00 Israeli time Sunday.
Lebanese Foreign Minister has reported that the IDF soldies being held hostage by Hezbollah are in good physical condition.
Syria has said they would join the fight against Israel if IDF gets too close to Syrian border, while at the same time offers a willingness to enter into talk to draw down the situation.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her way to the Middle East to work with powers in the region. These powers do not include Syria, because as Rice says Syria knows what it needs to do.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, United States, Hezbollah, Terrorism, War, Middle East

Peace Activist BullS***

2006-07-23T07:59:00.000-07:00

Ok, I'm getting really fed up with these peace at all costs types. I was looking through Technorati posts on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict and found this quote of the day from someone else's blog (I'm not going to even link to the idiot's blog, because I don't EoE to be related in any manor to this site). Here's the quote:
"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other."
- Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner (1986.)

I am an Anglican Christian (Church of England, or traditional Episcopalian, depending on what country you're reading from). This quote is by far the most arrogant statement I have ever heard! This is the same crowd that will tell you that if we just "sit and talk" we'll solve every problem in the world. This is total BS. This is the same crowd that preaches constant tolerance as long as you agree with them.

Peace is not our gift to each other. Mankind is sinful by nature. Almost every religion in the world will tell you that. Mankind cannot reach peace on it's own. I don't care how many UN special envoys, human rights groups, mediators, and Judge Judys you get in the debate. Real peace is not of mankind. And therefore cannot be given by mankind.

Stop your arrogance/ignorance of the human race.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, War, Terrorism, Middle East

Hezbollah Willing to Talk

2006-07-23T07:19:00.000-07:00

Well, this could be an interesting development. Acording to the Jeruselam Post toHizbullah agreed to allow the Lebanese government to begin negotiations regarding kidnapped IDF soldiers, according to speaker of the Lebanese Parliament Nabih Berri on Sunday afternoon.

The question is whether or not this is just Hezbollah looking for a way to make the same request of Israel releasing all the terrorist prisoners. If that's the case then no negotiation will happen.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Middle East, War, Terrorism

Turning Point

2006-07-22T22:50:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen, as I write this post it is a little before nine in the morning over in Israel. The Palestinian Authority is desperate for a letup in the siege in Gaza. Israel has amassed a huge number of IDF forces at the border. Syria has said they are open to talks with the US to defuse the situation in Lebanon. And Hezbollah does what they do best, death and destruction.

Within a matter of hours, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be starting a round of meetings intended to bring an eventual and positive end to the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

What happens within the next 48 hours will decide the fate of this conflict. Will we truly have an all out world war? Or will we have a gradual slowdown of hostilities allowing Israel to live in security from Hezbollah, and Lebanon in peace and freedom?

Pay attention to what happens.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, United States, Hezbollah, Terrorism, War, Middle East

On Body Counts in War

2006-07-22T12:03:00.000-07:00

Ever since the Vietnam War the key thing that media reports is the body count of a conflict. No care about the objective. No care about what the results are. And even more important, no care about what those individuals meant to their loved ones.

This has been especially true with United States' War on Terrorism since September 11th, 2001. Even with that event itself everyone was immediately talking about how many died in the attack. They were so worried that the exact count of dead bodies that they hardly ever asked "why". Sure, occasionally people would get close to asking that question but it was usually in the context of what did Americans do to cause this.

In reporting the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the media always reports x number dead civilians and x number dead US soldiers. And then as the American dead in Iraq approached 1,000 and then 2,000 all the media did was say "a milestone has been reached". White House Press Secretary, Tony Snow was criticized a few weeks ago when he said 2,000 was just a number. I say Snow was right on with that comment. 2,000 is just a number. It is almost as if the numbers are more important than the people dieing.

The same seems to be going on with the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict. The United Nations, the French, the Russians, and so many others keep pointing to the 300+ dead Lebanese being so different from the 30+ dead Israelis. It's a constant drumbeat of "the poor Lebanese, they've lost more than 300 civilians." But there has hardly been anything about the poor Israelis who've lost more than 30 civilians. And when asked about it they point to this 1 to 10 ratio and say that its only the Lebanese who are suffering.

Are you telling me that the only way that someone's death is a tragedy is if they die along side more people than someone else? Do the families of the 30 dead mourn any less than the families of the 300 dead? Do the injured among the 30 dead suffer any less than the injured among the 300 dead? No, they don't! This is why using body counts in war is the worst idea ever of modern news. It turns those who die in small groups into a less of a tragedy than those who die in large groups. And in the case of the war in Iraq, it turns the first person who died in combat into less of a tragedy than the 2,000th person to die in combat.

People are individuals. Not a collection of numbers. They each have their own lives, their own families and friends, their own stories. Numbers are for politics, people are for real life. If you care about numbers go look at the tickers at Michael Moore's and MoveOn.org's websites. If you care about people go talk to the families of those who have been killed in Lebanon and Israel. To the media, and to everyone, I challenge you to talk about the Israeli civilian tragedies the same way you talk about the Lebanese civilian tragedies. Stop with the soundbites about who has suffered more. Stop with a simple listing of the numbers the same way you list how the stock markets did today. Talk about the results of the combat. Talk about all of the objectives. Talk about the people who were killed on both sides of the border.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, United States, Iraq, Hezbollah, Terrorism, War, United Nations, Middle East

Breaking: Palestinian Militants Agree to Stop Firing Rockets

2006-07-22T08:39:00.000-07:00

FoxNews is reporting just now that a Palestinian Authority has said that militants in Gaza have agreed to stop firing rockets on Israeli civlian targets if Israel backs off on attacks and incursions in Gaza.

So far the only thing I've been able to find on this is the Haaretz.com news ticker:

"18:32 Senior PA officials: Militants in Gaza agreed to stop firing rockets
at Israel (AP)"

Update: Here's a link to a Fox News article with more details about this development. The PA is the one saying that this offer exists, but the terrorist groups (Hamas, Al Aqsua Martyrs Brigade, and Islamic Jihad) are saying that they haven't agreed to any such offer.

Tags: Israel, Gaza, Palestine, War, Terrorism, Middle East

Syria on High Alert, Iranian Commander Controls Hezbollah

2006-07-22T08:15:00.000-07:00

Found this bit of information over at Debka File. Apparently Syria is now on high alert (can't say I blame them). They have pilots in cockpits on the runway as we speak. The interesting part is that this has been done in response to an Iranian move in Lebanon.

"Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander Brig.-Gen Yahya Rahim Safavi (picture) assumed command of the Lebanon war from Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah."
- Debka File Article
So it looks like Iran doesn't approve of Nasrallah's methods so far. If this is true, then the question is whether Iran thinks Hezbollah has been too strong or too weak. Given Iran's feelings towards the state of Israel I would say that Iran wants more to happen.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Syria, Iran, Terrorism, War, Middle East

Israeli Commander Says 100 Hezbollah Dead

2006-07-21T11:42:00.000-07:00

According to Israeli IDF commanders, around 100 Hezbollah fighters have been killed by Israeli operations over the last 9 days.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz really does a good job at summing up the Hezbollah tactics:

"This war is difficult and complex. The enemy has no restraints, moral or otherwise, and no responsibility for the country it is destroying. The 'protector of Lebanon' is destroying Lebanon."
- Haaretz.com article

He also says:

"Hizbullah does not publish its dead or damage and has lied to the media are indicative [of its condition]."

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Middle East, War, Terrorism

From the Ticker: Senior Hezbollah Officers Hit

2006-07-21T08:53:00.000-07:00

There's a report from Haaretz.com's news ticker reporting the below:

"18:23 Intelligence sources: We hit senior Hezbollah officials (Channel 10)"
- Haaretz.com News Ticker
Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Middle East, War, Terrorism

Embryonic Stem Cell Research: A Constitutional Issue

2006-07-21T06:53:00.000-07:00

This week President George W. Bush used the first veto of his presidency to veto a bill that would have provided federal government funding for stem cell research. This bill passed by an unusual bipartisan majority of more than 60 votes.

I support the president completely on his veto. But I'm going to define to you why I'm against embryonic stem cell research for moral and religious reasons. Everyone has heard the endless reasons that coincide heavily with the pro-life/anti-abortion crowd (that these embryos are human life and shouldn't be sacrificed for experiments). Instead I see it as a constitutional issue.

First, look at what the bill was going to do. It was going to use federal tax dollars to assist with the advancement of scientific research in the field of embryonic stem cells. This was done with the idea in mind that it could possible cure many of the world's worst diseases including many neurological diseases like Alzheimer's, paralysis, and many others. Curing these diseases is truly an admirable goal. I have family members who suffer from Alzheimer's and would love nothing less than to cure a disease that takes its toll not just on the person afflicted with it but also on their spouses. This bill would be using taxes that every American citizen pays for this program.

But embryonic stem cell research is considered by a great number of people out there to be a morally and ethically wrong process. It offends them at a level beyond any law. It offends them on religious and and moral grounds. So why should these people be forced to pay for something that they find completely immoral. Completely offensive. Completely wrong.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
- US Constitution, First Amendment, anti-establishment and free exercise clauses

The above is the exact quote of the First Amendment of the US Constitution. By forcing people who have a religious objection to embryonic stem cell research to pay for this process wouldn't we be violating their rights under this amendment? Wouldn't we be prohibiting the free exercise of religion in their lives? I have religious reasons for not supporting this research bill. If my money that I worked for and paid to the IRS each April 15th went to embryonic stem cell research I would be contributing to something that is religiously wrong for me. But it is the federal government forcing me to do it thus prohibiting me from following my religious beliefs.

So for constitutional reasons as basic as freedom of religion, embryonic stem cell research should not be funded by the federal government. Let the free market support it. It has done an amazing job so far and is expected to grow into a 10 billion dollar business within the next decade. And people who have no religious or moral objection will contribute to this industry, as is their right. And I will be able to freely exercise my religious beliefs, as is my right.

Tags: Stem Cell Research, Stem-Cell-Research, Politics, Bush, United States, ProLife, Abortion, Religion, ProChoice

Comics: Pat Oliphant on Hezbollah and Lebanon

2006-07-21T06:35:00.000-07:00

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Middle East, Terrorism, War

U Post Hit at Israel-Lebanon Border

2006-07-21T06:30:00.000-07:00

The UN post that was established to observe the "Blue Line" between Israel and Lebanon was hit during a cross-fire between Hezbollah forces and the Israeli military.

Israel claims that the post was hit by Hezbollah fire, however, the UN officials at the post claim it was an Israeli artillery shell.

There was severe damage to the post, however there are no injuries reported.

This post has been at the border for around a decade I believe, however has done nothing to stop Hezbollah rocket attacks from the vicinity.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, United Nations, Hezbollah, War, Terrorism, Middle East

Israel pull out of Mughazi camp in Gaza Strip

2006-07-20T18:44:00.000-07:00

Just saw this on the Haaretz.com news ticker.

"04:15 IDF troops pull out of Mughazi camp in Gaza Strip (AP)"
- Haaretz.com news ticker

Some interesting developments going on over there.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Middle East, War, Terrorism, Palestine, Gaza

Thousands of IDF troops operating in S. Lebanon

2006-07-20T16:23:00.000-07:00

Found this over at Haaretz.com.

"Thousands of Israeli troops are operating in south Lebanon where they are targetting Hezbollah positions. Among their activities, they are searching for tunnels dug by Hezbollah militants. According to the army, Hezbollah fighters have taken refuge inside these tunnels - often dug under homes in villages - along with their rockets, and that they occasionally emerge to fire one into Israel."
- Haaretz.com article

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Middle East, War, Terrorism

Nasrallah Still Alive

2006-07-20T15:22:00.000-07:00

Nasrallah crawled out to his private TV station, al-Mansar earlier to confirm that he was not killed. That's about the only information that can be counted as most likely true in the interview however.

Nasrallah claimed that none of the leadership of Hezbollah has been harmed, and that the Israeli estimate of destroying half of the Hezbollah infrastructure is far from true.

Considering that this was an interview done by a reporter from al-Mansar (a Hezbollah run TV station) there's no real way to confirm these claims. Do you really think he's going to say "yes, our rockets are almost gone and half my staff is dead"?

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Nasrallah, War, Middle East, Terrorism

Hezbollah Hiding Munitions in Mosque

2006-07-20T15:10:00.000-07:00

Israeli solid's reported finding munitions in a Masque in Maroun a-Ras. I believe that this is an illegal act (as in war crimes).
"Soldiers operating in Maroun a-Ras reported finding rocket launchers,
explosives and other weapons in a mosque there." - Jerusalem Post
Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, United Nations, Middle East, War, Terrorism

The Dumbest Idea Yet

2006-07-20T13:44:00.000-07:00

This has got to be the dumbest idea that I've heard yet.

"Hundreds of people are being killed over prisioners. Israel wants their prisioners freed and so does Palestine. Why not solve this situation while giving both sides an opportunity to save face. Basically, instead of giving back prisioners back to their countries, why not have the Americas hold the prisioners of both groups in excile in Hawaii. We can guard the prisioners in Hawaii but they will be house guarded and free from an actual prision. Neither Israel or Palestine will have to give into threats and both sides will have saved face."
- Ann Adams of http://waronisrael.com/

This isn't just about prisoners. It's about security for the state of Israel. Hezbollah has been operating unencombered in the southern region of Lebanon since the Cedar Revolution. They started launching rockets into Israel over the "Blue Line" back in December of 2005. Israel intends to put a stop to that as well as the security risk of Hezbollah kidnappings and many other terrorist activities that they have used since the 1970's.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Hezbollah, War, Terrorism

Israel To Let Humanitarian Aid into Lebanon

2006-07-20T11:16:00.001-07:00

Just saw this flash across the news ticker at Haaretz.com.

"20:53 PM Olmert allows humanitarian aid to flow into Lebanon (Haaretz)"

I'll try and find an article to post on this as quickly as I can.

Update, I found an article at YNetNews.com.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Middle East, War, Terrorism

Annan Criticizes Both Sides in Conflict

2006-07-20T10:46:00.000-07:00

What about the Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israeli cities that have been going on since December 2005? The only thing Annan did was tell the Lebanese Government (who had just finished the Cedar Revolution to drive Syria out of their country) to extend better control over their southern terratory. He didn't condemn Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. He didn't criticize Hezbollah for terrorist activities since the 1970's.

Coffee Grinder: Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah

2006-07-20T07:58:00.000-07:00

Here's every bit of information I could find on the terrorist organization Hezbollah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah.

This is far from a political organization, and Nasrallah is far from a political leader. To say so is to say that people like Charles Manson and Osama bin Laden are political leaders. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. Nasrallah is a terrorist. They are not interested in peace. They are interested in the destruction of anything that does not reflect their form of Islam. This includes the destruction of Israel, anything Jewish, and anything western.

So here's the Coffee Grinder for Nasrallah and Hezbollah.

In the aftermath of the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri (sometimes referred to as the Cedar Revolution or Lebanon's Cedar Spring), Nasrallah initiated several large demonstrations expressing support for the Syrian government.
In 1975, the civil war in Lebanon forced the 15 year old Nasrallah and his family to move to their ancestral home in the South Lebanese village of Al Bazuriyah. Here he joined the Amal Movement (Harakat Amal became one of the most important Shi'ite Muslim militias during the Lebanese Civil War).
After the Israeli invasion in 1982, Nasrallah joined Hezbollah to dedicate himself to the resistance of the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley.
Hezbollah was "inspired by the success of the Iranian Revolution"and was formed primarily to combat Israeli occupation following the 1982 Lebanon War.
After emerging during the civil war of the early 1980s as an Iranian-sponsored second resistance movement (besides Amal) for Lebanon's Shia community, Hezbollah focused on expelling Israeli and Western forces from Lebanon. It is the principal suspect[citation needed] in several notable attacks on United States, French and Italian Multinational forces, whose stated purpose was the stabilization of Lebanon.
The continued existence of Hezbollah's military wing after 1990 violates the Taif Agreement that ended the Lebanese civil war, which requires the "disbanding of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias" and requires the government to "deploy the Lebanese army in the border area adjacent to Israel."
On May 25, 2000, Israel withdrew from Lebanon to the UN-agreed Israeli border, and their pullout was certified by the UN as complete. Lebanon and Syria claim the Shebaa Farms, a 35 km² area, to be occupied Lebanese territory despite the UN ruling, and on that basis Hezbollah has continued to engage Israeli forces in that area.
Hezbollah says Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon proves that the Jewish state only understands the language of resistance. They defend their right to keep their weapons as a deterrent against Israeli attack, to liberate the disputed Shebaa Farms border area, which is occupied (according to Hezbollah) by Israel.
Hezbollah abducted three Israel Defense Forces soldiers during an October 2000 attack in Shebaa Farms, and sought to obtain the release of 14 Lebanese prisoners, some of whom had been held since 1978. On January 25, 2004, Hezbollah successfully negotiated an exchange of prisoners with Israel, through German mediators. The prisoner swap was carried out on January 29: 30 Lebanese and Arab prisoners, the remains of 60 Lebanese militants and civilians, 420 Palestinian prisoners, and maps showing Israeli mines in South Lebanon were exchanged for an Israeli businessman and army reserve colonel Elchanan Tenenbaum kidnapped in 2001 and the remains of the three Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers mentioned above, who were killed either during the Hezbollah operation, or in its immediate aftermath.
In 2001 Jordan arrested three Hezbollah members attempting to smuggle Katyusha rockets into the West Bank. Nasrallah responded that "it is a duty to send arms to Palestinians from any possible place."
On February 9, 2005 Palestinian Authority officials blamed Hezbollah of attempting to derail the recent truce between Israel and Palestine by offering increased funding and bonuses to the militant cells it operates in Israel for any attack they carry out.
On September 2, 2004, the UN Security Council adopted UN Security Council Resolution 1559, coauthored by France and the United States. Echoing the Taif Agreement, the resolution "calls upon all remaining foreign forces to withdraw from Lebanon" and "for the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias." Lebanon is currently in violation of Resolution 1559 over its refusal to disband the military wing of Hezbollah.
On October 7, 2004 the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan reported to the Security Council regarding the lack of compliance with Resolution 1559. Mr. Annan concluded his report by saying: "It is time, 14 years after the end of hostilities and four years after the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, for all parties concerned to set aside the remaining vestiges of the past. The withdrawal of foreign forces and the disbandment and disarmament of militias would, with finality, end that sad chapter of Lebanese history."
The Council has recognized the Blue Line (the border between Israel and Lebanon) as valid for purposes of confirming Israel’s withdrawal pursuant to resolution 425 (1978).
During 2002, 2003 and 2004, the Israeli Security Forces thwarted numerous suicide bombing attacks, some of which Israel claims were planned and funded by Hezbollah and were to have been carried out by Tanzim (Fatah's armed wing) activists.
On November 21, 2005 Hezbollah launched a heavy attack along the entire border with Israel which was intended to provide tactical cover for a squad of Hezbollah special forces attempting to abduct Israeli troops from the Israeli side of the village of Al-Ghajar.
On December 27, 2005 BM-21 Grad rockets fired from Hezbollah territory smashed into houses in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona wounding three people.
Hezbollah claims that it forbids its fighters entry into Iraq for any reason, and that no Hezbollah units or individual fighters have entered Iraq to support any Iraqi faction fighting the United States. However, on April 2, 2004, Muqtada al-Sadr announced his intention to form chapters of Hezbollah and Hamas in Iraq. He is not known to have consulted Hezbollah or Hamas before making this statement.
In 2004 the Dutch internal security agency AIVD, concluded: "Investigations have shown that Hezbollah’s militant wing, the Hezbollah External Security Organization, has been directly and indirectly involved in terrorist acts. It can also be concluded that Hezbollah’s political and terrorist wings are controlled by one coordinating council. This means that
there is indeed a link between these parts of the organization. The Netherlands has changed its policy and no longer makes a distinction between the political and terrorist Hezbollah branches. The Netherlands informed the relevant EU bodies of its findings."
Hezbollah supports the destruction of the state of Israel and co-operates with other militant Islamic organizations such as Hamas in order to promote this goal.
The conflict with Israel is viewed as a central concern. This is not only limited to the IDF presence in Lebanon. Rather, the complete destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of Islamic rule over Jerusalem is an expressed goal.
Hezbollah operates a satellite television station from Lebanon, Al-Manar TV ("the Lighthouse") as well as a radio station, al-Nour ("the light"). Qubth Ut Alla ("The Fist of God") is the monthly magazine of Hezbollah's paramilitary wing. It has been accused of promoting religious and racial hatred (against Jews).
The Hezbollah Central Internet Bureau in 2003 released a video game titled Special Force, intended to simulate Arab-Israeli conflicts from an Arab perspective.
Hezbollah has been labeled a terrorist organization by the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada, Israel and Australia.
In a non-binding resolution adopted by the European Parliament on 10 March 2005, the MEPs urged the EU Council to brand Hezbollah a terrorist organization. However, the Council has so far been reluctant to do so, as France, Spain, and Britain fear that such a move would further damage the prospects for Middle East peace talks.
The United Nations has called for the disbanding of Hezbollah's military wing in UN Security Council Resolution 1559.
Hezbollah has denounced some acts of terror, such as the September 11 attacks, GIA massacres in Algeria, Armed Islamic Group attacks on tourists in Egypt, and the murder of Nick Berg. However, it expresses support and sympathyfor the activities of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Islamist groups responsible for suicide attacks and armed resistance in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Much of this information comes from the following Wikipedia links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Nasrallah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Hezbollah, Middle East, War, Terrorism, United Nations

The Coffee Grinder

2006-07-20T07:43:00.000-07:00

I'm going to start a new section here at Ed on Everything. It's called the "Coffee Grinder".

Q: So, what is the Coffee Grinder?
A: I'm a huge coffee drinker. I drink all sorts of coffees and I make most of them myself (Starbucks is just too expensive). So I use on a regular basis a coffee grinder similar to what you see here. In the context of this blog the Coffee Grinder will be posts in which I pick something or someone that represents real stupidity and hypocricy and do tons and tons of research on that particular topic.

Q: Why use a coffee grinder?
A: Two answers, 1) it's my blog and I like coffee, 2) I wanted something unique that I thought would also entertain you readers. A really good coffee grinder will grind every single coffee bean to the same size of dust on. Not a single roasted bean survives. And on the other side of the grinder you get truely premium coffee grounds for a damn good cup of coffee. The same will happen here in the Coffee Grinder section. Everything about what is being talked about will be displayed. Information that you may have known, information that you may not have known. But it will all come out as uniformly sized dust by the end of the grinding.

So there you go, keep an eye out for my first grinding. It will probably be Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

Jordan Alerts Israel of Large Hamas Attack

2006-07-20T06:57:00.000-07:00

Debka File is reporting that Jordanian military intellegence relayed information of a large-scale attack that Hamas had recruited a bomb team in Jordan to be used in Israel. Potential targets include the southern port of Eilat, its Arava main road link to the north, the Dead Sea, or the Beit Shean Valley on the Jordan River.

This information resulted in the closure of the West Bank.

Tags: Israel, Hamas, Jordan, Hamas, West Bank, Terrorism, War, Middle East, Hezbollah

U.S. Marines Land in Lebanon for Evac of Americans

2006-07-20T06:44:00.000-07:00

Found this great AP photo on FoxNews.com.

That's the real image of American Armed Forces!

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, United States, War, Middle East, Bush