Monday, May 17, 2004

WHAT'S GOING ON WITH SYRIA

First ... let me ask you this question.  If we discovered that Syria was not only hiding some of Saddam's chemical and biological weapons, but was producing some of its own, what would we do about it?  What should we do about it?  The Bush doctrine is, or was, no country that cozies up to terrorists will be permitted to develop or to possess weapons of mass destruction.  Good doctrine?  Damned right it's a good doctrine.  It's a bold commitment such as that that will possibly save us from the horror of a chemical, biological or nuclear attack in one of our major cities.  That doctrine, though, has been weakened.  Severely weakened.  It has been weakened by the constant partisan hammering of the Democrats who are far more dedicated to the cause of winning the White House in November than they are fighting terrorism.

Let's go back a few weeks.  Remember that huge explosion in Korea?  At first we heard that thousands were killed.  That number was eventually reduced to hundreds.  The explosion, however, was huge.  North Korean authorities are trying to float a story that it was fertilizer.  Are you buying that?  Now we learn that there were technicians from Syria on that train .. and that these technicians were accompanying some unidentified equipment.  The damage from the explosion was greatest in that portion of the train carrying the equipment from Syria. Reports in Japanese newspapers say that North Korean military personnel arrived soon after the explosion and removed materials, but only from the Syrian portion of the train.  The soldiers doing this work were wearing protective suits.

Who were the Syrian technicians? They were from the Syrian agency viewed as the center of Syria's WMD program.

This event should be setting off all types of alarms.  Why Syrian techs in North Korea?  What were they carrying on that train?  Why did it explode?  What's with the protective suits?  Is Syria helping North Korea build some ugly weapons?  Or is it the other way around? 

I honestly believe that our ability to protect this country from an attack by Islamic terrorists using weapons that will kill tens of thousands has been severely restricted by the irrational hatred of George Bush that is manifested in Democratic Party election politics.  Things are a bit rough right now in Iraq.  How much better might things be going if Iraqis knew that the entire American political community, both left and right, Republicans and Democrats, was united behind an absolute determination to stay there until Iraq became a safe, secure, free nation with a popularly elected government.   The Iraqi people have been looking for a signal of that determination ... and they see powerful politicians like Ted Kennedy invoking the name of Vietnam.  America surrendered and lost in Vietnam .. and the world knows it.  Iraqis know it.  When Ted Kennedy and his Democratic sycophants say "Vietnam" Iraqis hear "America will abandon us again."  How many Americans have died because of Kennedy's partisanship?  How many Iraqis have withheld support and information because they feel they will be left to deal with the consequences when America bails out? 

And just what do the Syrians and North Koreans have up their sleeves?  Do we still have the national nerve to find out?

BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the ruling that ended segregation in government schools.  Much hoopla last week about the anniversary of Brown vs. The Board of Education.  The Board of Education featured in this Supreme Court ruling was in Topeka, Kansas. 

Danger .. Pandering Alert!  President Bush will go to Topeka today to make a speech.  News programs will run special features, as will the newspapers across the country who have not already done so.

We're going to hear today that though government schools are desegregated, we are still a long way from equal opportunity.  We're going to hear about unequal funding, unequal facilities, and poor teachers being concentrated in minority schools.  You're going to hear that poverty is holding blacks back in our government schools, even though achievement levels were much higher in the past when poverty rates were higher.  Believe me, the excuses for black underachievement in government schools will be flowing today ... big time.

But ... here's one thing you won't hear.  Nothing, absolutely nothing, about the anti-achievement mentality that permeates primary and secondary education.  This is the one taboo subject that must be addressed before the problem of black underachievement in government schools will be solved.  Why won't someone step forward today and raise this issue in the midst of all the pandering?

FINALLY...IRAQIS WANTING TO TAKE BACK THEIR COUNTRY

This is the kind of thing you are unlikely to hear on the evening news or see on the front page of The New York Times.  After all the mainstream American media doesn't print good news from Iraq.  It's just a policy they have.  That news will help Bush, not hurt him.  Why publish it unless the story is already so big you have to? 

A former Saddam-era general appointed by the United States to lead an Iraqi security force in Fallujah urged tribal elders and sheiks yesterday to support Coalition efforts to stabilize Iraq.  Retired Maj. Gen. Mohammed Abdul-Latif said "We can make them (the Americans) use their rifles against us or we can make them build our country, it's your choice.  They were brought here by the acts of one coward who was hunted out of a rat hole - Saddam - who disgraced us all.  As President Bush said (that's right, one of Saddam's generals quoting President Bush,)  they did not come here to occupy our land but to get rid of Saddam.  We can help them leave by helping them do their job, or we can make them stay ten years and more by keeping fighting."  Do you think The Poodle and the Democrats are listening?

Looks like the Iraqis are starting to get a taste of the unrest and fighting from foreign terrorists....and they don't like it.  This is a really good first lesson in self-rule...it's ultimately up to them to take their country back from Al-Qaeda and the insurgents.

Looks like they're starting to get the message.

CAR BOMB IN IRAQ KILLS PRESIDENT OF IRAQI GOVERNING COUNCIL

Iraqi Governing Council President Izzedine Salim was on his way to the area that houses Coalition headquarters in Baghdad when he was killed by a car bomb. The presidency of the council is a revolving position.  A senior military official says the bombing had all the hallmarks of a Zarqawi-like attack. That's the same Islamic monster that sawed off Nick Berg's head.  Make no mistake, this was probably an Al-Qaeda assassination.  The blast killed between 4 and 6 Iraqis and injured 8 - two of them U.S. soldiers.  It's time for us to stop nibbling around the edges and unleash some more shock and awe.  After all, it looks like some people aren't getting the message.

This is the war on terror. These psychopaths must be destroyed.  Failure is not an option.  Of course, The Poodle would immediately issue a warrant for Zarqawi's arrest and mail him a summons.  People that are upset with Bush over the prison photos are so far off the mark, it's frightening.

SELECTIVE OUTRAGE IN THE ARAB WORLD

All we have heard for the past several weeks in the media is about how the Abu Ghraib prison photos have caused outrage in the Arab world.  Then comes the Nick Berg beheading...and suddenly there isn't much outrage. Let's compare the two: some prisoners (who are there for a reason) are photographed in humiliating positions, and an innocent American's head is sawed off by Islamofascist terrorists.  Which should cause the greater outrage?  Why, if you ask the Arab world (and Ted Kennedy,) it's those darn pictures!

Finally, somebody has publicly called them out on it...and it's somebody nobody wants to mess with.  Secretary of State Colin Powell,  speaking on 'Meet the Press,' said he couldn't explain the lack of outrage over the Berg beheading.  "I wish I could explain that," he said.  "There ought to be outrage.  There is anger in the Arab world about some of our actions, but that is no excuse for any silence on the part of any Arab leader for this kind of murder.  I would have liked to have seen a much higher level of outrage throughout the world, and especially the Arab world, for this kind of action."  Powell also went on to say that international standards of treatment apply to all countries, not just the United States, but also "countries claiming to be civilized."  I can think of a few of those.

The media loves to paint Powell as some sort of moderate, anti-war type in the cabinet that frequently opposes the actions of the administration.  If you listen to the man himself, it just isn't there.

THE GOINGS-ON IN MASSACHUSETTS.

So now gay and lesbian couples can legally get married in Mass.  The media is certainly making a big deal about this right now.  Let's just leave it at this:  You let me know when what is going on in Massachusetts today has an affect on your life or your family.  You may find it morally offensive, but other than whatever mental anguish you permit this situation to cause you, let me know how else you're affected.

THE POODLE'S APPROVAL NUMBERS AREN'T THE ONLY THING THAT'S SAGGING

You're running for president of the United States,  and your daughter shows up at the Cannes film festival with a sheer black dress showing her pink-nosed puppies (note: don't click on this if you're afraid of boobies. also probably not safe for work. you have been sufficiently warned.) for all the world to see.  No ... it wasn't the one of the Bush daughters.  They were probably off somewhere getting a drink.  It was Alexandra Kerry.  The British Online Sun says that she showed at least two good reasons why Americans should vote for her father, the Souffle.  The trouble is, there actually are Americans who will base their votes on things such as this.

DRUG ADS

Are you as tired as I am of all of these ads for drugs in magazines and on television?  You do notice that very few of these ads even tell you what the drug is supposed to treat.  All they do is show stock footage of people looking and feeling great.  They're smiling, they're romping across green fields, they're climbing mountains ... and on each other, by the way.  Then the announcer just says "ask your doctor about Noasitol."  This, of course, causes people to walk into their doctors and say "Hey, doc!  What about noasitol!  Those people look soooooo happy!  I want some!  Many doctors, of course, are just happy to write out the prescription.   I particularly like the list of possible side affect and warnings.  For instance, there seems to be no drug on earth that is safe for a person taking MOI inhibitors ... whatever those are.  Why don't they just tag every one of these insipid ads with "Taking this drug could cause you to die!" 

And as if those TV drug ads weren't enough ..... get a load of this.

DRUGGING OUR CHILDREN

There's a new report out today showing that spending on psychiatric drugs for children have soared.  We have seen a recent 77% increase in spending on drugs to treat conditions such as the phony ADD nonsense and depression.  Now, listen to this one.  Spending on hyperactivity drugs have gone up fourfold on children four years old ... and younger!  This is a complete outrage .. and a vivid example of the wholesale failure of modern parenting.

READING ASSIGNMENTS 

You sure do hear a lot of people lately telling you a lot of things about what the Geneva Convention does and does not allow.  Trouble is, most of these people don't have a clue what they're talking about.  Here are some facts about the rules of war under the Geneva Convention.

Coming ... blocking cell phones as part of the anti-terrorism effort.

We sure spent a lot of time last week singing the praises of Brown v. Board of Education.  Thomas Sowell talks about some of the baneful consequences.  A truly gutsy column.

Jerry Springer is going to be a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.  Now isn't that just a perfect fit?

Have you been to the Air America website lately?  They have a nice little Internet store going on there.  Maybe you would look spiffy in an Air America thong!  They can't pay their employees ... but they can produce thong underwear. Remember, we went there first.

A report says Saddam Hussein has admitted to his interrogators that he fears being tortured by the new Iraqi government.  That should get him talking.

The Indianapolis Star is admitting it made a mistake in burying the Nick Berg story and instead running a story on the front page about the Abu Ghraib photos.  The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting you have one.

Secretary of State Colin Powell was on 'Meet the Press' yesterday, and chewed out a press aide for trying to cut the interview short. You can read about and hear all the excitement here.

The Poodle is an "out-of-touch, ultra liberal from Taxachusetts."  Who said it? Why none other than Georgia's Democratic Senator Zell Miller.

More slime....Ohio Democrats have chosen trash TV host Jerry Springer as one of their at-large delegates for the Democratic National Convention in Boston.

The true legacy of the the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision....from George Will.

The Abu Ghraib prison scandal is dead...the media just doesn't know it yet.  Mark Steyn says now is not the time for Bush to go soft.

Think Iraq is just George Bush's war?  Think again...according to David Gelernter, it's America's war despite what the Democrats are saying.

The Souffle keeps calling this a "jobless recovery," but as more and more jobs are created, he's having to switch gears.  Michael Barone reports.

Today, on the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission is having an important debate.  Robert Novak brings us up to speed.

The White House has called Nick Berg's murderers "enemies of freedom."  That's wrong, according to Diana West...how about Islamic terrorists?  There, that's better.

Ever wonder just who blew the whistle on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal?  You won't hear it from the media that much, but it was an Army Reservist.  Suzanne Fields tells us more.

Will the American people see the war on terror through to the ending?  Paul Greenberg says they will...thanks to the enemy showing its true colors.

Concerned about the trade deficit?  No worries...Larry Kudlow explains why.

The pictures from the Abu Ghraib prison are a public relations disaster...so what's the silver lining?  William F. Buckley tells us.

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