ARE WE GOING TO LET THIS MOQTADA AL SADR JERK GET AWAY WITH IT?

In the end, Moqtada al-Sadr turns out to be a coward.  All of that nonsense about "fighting until my last drop of blood is spilled" went away as soon as this Islamic goon saw guns at the gates.  Now al-Sadr is talking truce, talking cease fire; and the good guys are going to fall for it.

He's promising to disarm his militia, is he? He's promising to remove his militia from that holy mosque in Najaf?  And we're going to believe him? 

The Iraqis are calling the shots on this one, and in the final analysis it will be the Iraqis who will suffer the consequences of giving al-Sadr another chance to save his skin.  This man should have taken a bullet in the head months ago, but he keeps pulling the same stunt time after time. 

Al Sadr's game plan is simple.

1. Whip some of your Islamic buddies in to a frenzy and give them guns.
2. Send your goons out to kill Americans and infidels
3. Make bold statements about fighting to the last drop of blood
4. Watch for infidels with guns to actually show up at your front door.
5. When the infidels with guns show up start screaming for a cease fire.
6. Bask in the increased support you have received from your Islamic goon friends.
7. When the infidels leave gather your new Islamic buds around and whip them into a frenzy.
8. Give them guns.
9. Go to step 2.

This Islamic terrorist is directly responsible for the deaths of Americans.  A well-placed sniper should take care of matters. 

COME ON NOW ... YOU REALLY SUPPORT THIS GUY?

My sympathies to my liberal Democratic Kerry-voting listeners.  You must be scratching your heads this morning over some of The Poodle's latest blatherings. 

A few days ago President Bush announced a major redeployment of American troops overseas. Bush said that troops would be withdrawn from both Europe and South Korea.  Kerry, of course, being the expert that he is on defense matters and fighting in actual wars and carrying actual guns and all that, had to oppose the President's plans.  So The Poodle steps in front of a VFW convention yesterday and delivers this line:

 "Why are we withdrawing (he actually said 'withdrawring') unilaterally 12,000 troops from the Korean peninsula at the very time that we are negotiating with North Korea, a country that really has nuclear weapons.  This is clearly the wrong signal to send at the wrong time."  John Kerry, August 18, 2004

Well .. that would have been just fine, if it hadn't been for pesky things such as memories.  Just 17 days earlier Kerry had something completely different to say about troop redeployment:

"I will have significant, enormous reductions in the level of troops ...In the Korean peninsula perhaps, in Europe perhaps." John Kerry, August 1, 2004

Man ... don't you just hate it when that happens?

And how many times did Kerry remind the VFW convention of his service in Vietnam?  Sorry, we lost count.

MEDIA STILL SPINNING ABU GHRAIB

Well how about this...it's our old friend Abu Ghraib back in the headlines, and just in time for the fall presidential election.  A new Army report exonerates high-ranking Pentagon officials and senior U.S. military commanders from any knowledge or complicity in the Abu Ghraib prison "abuse" scandal.  This must come as a great disappointment to Al Gore, who is certain that George Bush was directly responsible.  So will the media be reporting all of the good news?

Of course not.  The headlines today read that additional military personnel are implicated in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.  Nothing is said about the clearing of the other high-ranking military personnel, whose names were dragged through the mud awhile back.  It seems the Army report found improper conduct amongst some of the military interrogators at the prison, and so now that negative angle is the top story.

The report could be made public as early as tomorrow.  Brace yourself for another Abu Ghraib-a-thon. Again, folks, it's the template.  The story is perceived as hurting Bush ... therefore it is going to get hammered yet again ... all except for that part which says that high-ranking military personnel weren't involved.

KERRY ATTACKS MOVEON.ORG AD

Yet another flip-flop on the part of the Poodle.  This time it involves the lie-filled Moveon.org ad that bashes President Bush over his supposedly "AWOL" service from the Texas Air National Guard.  The ad is a lie, the charges made in the ad are lies, and anyone not educated in a government school and who hasn't slept with Barbra Streisand knows it.  The real motivation behind the ad is the left's retaliation for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. 

So The Souffle has condemned the Moveon.org ad, even as Democrats linked to his campaign were pushing the same allegations.  The Bush campaign accused Kerry of hypocrisy, and rightly so.  Consider this: It was Terry McAuliffe that trotted out the "AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard" comment.  Are we supposed to believe that the Democratic nominee for president is contradicting his own national party chairman?  I think not.

It's interesting to watch the left bash George Bush over his military service, while in 1992 the same people told us that it didn't matter when it came to Bill Clinton.  So which is it?  The answer is the positions change with the political winds.  Just who are the people that are out there bashing President Bush and repeating the Moveon.org TV ad's nonsense charges?  None other than Kerry sycophant Weasley Clark, who accused Bush of using his family's influence to get out of going to Vietnam.  So while his boss condemns the ad, his minions fan out into the media to repeat the lies contained in it.

Are they getting desperate?  Do the Swift Boat veterans really scare them that much?

MILITARY RECORDS SEEM TO BACK POODLE

Finally, we seem to have a little fact-checking by the media going on with regard to The Poodle's military service in Vietnam.  At issue is whether or not The Poodle came under any enemy fire during a mission on March 13, 1969.  John Kerry won a Bronze Star for his actions that day.  One of the Swift Vets, Larry Thurlow, who commanded another swift boat alongside The Poodle, has said that Kerry did not come under any fire, and that the Bronze Star was another one of Kerry's sham medals.

The Washington Post finally decided to check out some of the Swiftee's claims about Kerry, and they ordered up portions of Thurlow's military records under The Freedom of Information act.  Those records indicate that yes, all of the swift boats came under fire that day and indeed, Thurlow himself won a Bronze Star.  Fine.  Recollections fade, people are frequently wrong about what they remember, and it looks like Kerry is right on this one. But wait!  Thurlow was interviewed last night and steadfastly maintains that there was no enemy fire.  How does he explain the entry in his military records?  Only by saying that he is not the author of the write-up about that particular action, and that the person who did write it up may have relied upon Kerry's version. Do we have a standoff here?    

Here's the larger question.  The media will now use this single instance of contradicting something the Swift Boat Vets said to discredit the entire television ad, the book and everything else.  Is the media now going to investigate all of the other claims in the book, and report which ones are right?  Of course not. They're only going to report what benefits the campaign of John Kerry, and ignore the rest.

It's all part of the template...stories that are bad for Bush are front-page news.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Iowa Senator (Democrat, of course) Tom Harkin calls Dick Cheney a coward for not serving in Vietnam.  Harkin didn't service in Vietnam either .. but he said he did.  That gives him a good moral platform from which to judge Cheney.

Media Matters is a website that is keeping a close watch on everything I say.  This is a good thing.  I can trace no less than three new radio affiliates from the publicity I'm getting from Media Matters.  Here's their latest.  Don't do anything to discourage them though.  They're helping me.

I'll be in New York for the Republican convention.  Ted Rall says that I'm not going to have a very good time there.  You do remember Ted Rall, don't you?  He's the one who wrote that our troops deserved to die in Iraq.  This is the face of the left.

You want to punish some people for their actions in the hurricane ravaged areas of Florida?  Take these guys and lock them up for a decade or so.

Now it looks like one of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has a bit of a credibility problem.  Larry Thurlow, however, is sticking with his story. Y'all call me when you sort this thing out.

The media loves to suck up to The Poodle...and there are plenty of examples.  Ann Coulter takes a look at the media bias, and also the Kerry's inconsistent recollections of his Vietnam service.

Here's the second excerpt from 'Unfit for Command,' courtesy of The Washington Times.  This is a good one...it talks about The Poodle making home movies of himself to take back home and use when he ran for office.

Here's a preview of things to come for The Poodle, should he be elected president:  that insane nutjob Helen Thomas is now bashing him too.

The Libertarian party will field a record number of candidates this year....in Oregon.  Hey, you gotta start somewhere.

Bad news for the Democrats: a poll released yesterday says voters are concerned about national security.  Voters trust George W. Bush to keep them safe, not The Poodle.

The Inspector General is recommending that a U.S. General be punished for calling terrorists "Satan."  Naturally, the terrorists at the Council on American Islamic Relations are pleased with the ruling.

Laura Bush, when asked whether the press was fair and impartial in its coverage of her husband, laughed heartily.  Now there's a first lady that gets it.

Black Americans would do better to listen to Alan Keyes than other supposed "civil rights leaders."  Thomas Sowell explains why Republicans have always done so poorly with black folks, and how they can turn it around.

John Edwards is right: there are two Americas.  The Bush-haters, and the rest of us...Larry Elder explains the real reasons why those on the left hate the president so much.

The State of Florida seems intent on robbing its children of a decent future by banishing them to government schools forever.  Cal Thomas explains.

Why won't New Jersey Governor James McGreevey leave office now?  This op-ed piece attempts to explain why.

You'd better rush right on over to this site to pick up a pimp or ho Halloween costume for your child before they run out. Whatever happened to dressing up as a fireman, a ballerina or a monster?

Don't forget, dogs need spiffy duds too.

If John Gotti was your grandfather do you think you'd sass him? [QuickTime Movie]

First there was the Rejection Hotline. Now there's Papernapkin.net.

Minutes before dying, a Belgian teenager identified her stepmother as her killer in a text message sent to her father.

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