MORE GITMO UPROAR

Here we go again.  Fresh off Newsweek's fairy tale about a Koran being flushed down the toilet, Time magazine is reporting about the goings-on inside the Islamic terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  It's causing quite the uproar.  So what's it all about?

Evidently they're reporting the details of a logbook tracing the treatment of a prisoner who was supposed to take part in the 9/11 attacks. Somebody named Mohammed al-Qahtani.  Again, this is somebody who was supposed to be one of the 9/11 hijackers.   Many in Congress are up in arms over the treatment outlined in the report.  So why do they have their panties in a knot?

The 84-page logbook, which the Pentagon says was never supposed to have been made public, details interrogations over a 3 month period.  In order to make this Islamic terrorist talk, a number of tactics were used, including:

• Daily interviews that sometimes began at 4 a.m. and continued until midnight.  Long day.  Poor baby.  Should of thought about that before you attacked America.
• He was asked to bark like a dog. Oh, the humanity!
• He was shown pictures of the 9/11 attacks.  How could we be so cruel?
• He was asked to write letters of apology to the families of 9/11 victims.  Write? He can write?
• Refusal of bathroom breaks, resulting in al-Qahtani peeing his pants.  Wahh.
• Interrogators woke this character up with Christina Aguilera music at midnight to start the questioning.  A little harsh, but it could be worse. He could have been shown Paris Hilton's sex video, but that should only be a last resort.
• A female interrogator violated his personal space!  Oh my God, not that!
• Other assorted methods included standing for prolonged periods, isolation for up to 30 days, removal of clothing, forced shaving of facial hair and hanging pictures of half-naked women around his neck.  Awww.

This is a terrorist who was going to be one of the hijackers....whose sole purpose in life is to kill Americans.  He is part of Al-Qaeda.  He  has information on future attacks and we need him to talk.  There is nothing contained in the Time report that will cause this prisoner any permanent damage.  Furthermore, the interrogations of al-Qahtani yielded information about Al-Qaeda.  So it worked.

We are engaged in a war on terror for the survival of the United States.  American lives are at stake and all the media and the left can do is carp about how uncomfortable we make a few Islamic terrorists at a prison camp.

You do understand why there is so much news about Guantanamo, don't you?  Since the liberation of Iraq no story has done more to embarrass the United States and to bring us down in the eyes of the world than the story of so-called abuse at Abu Ghraib.  Since Abu Ghraib there have been free elections in Iraq and
a new government has been established.  Despite the best efforts of Syrian-trained and supported insurgents, freedom and democracy are gaining strength in Iraq.  The United States simply cannot be allowed to take credit for this incredible achievement.  So, since there was so much success with the Abu Ghraib story, why not gin up another prison abuse scandal?  What better place than Guantanamo? 

Hey .. whatever works .. and this is working.

LICENSE TO REPRODUCE

Here in this country we require a license to drive a car, sell real estate, go fishing and get married.  Yet, for some reason, nothing is required of potential parents who will undertake the dramatic responsibility of raising a child.  There was some tragic news over the weekend that proves some people should never be allowed to reproduce.

The story begins with some dim bulb out in San Francisco named Maureen Faibish.  This woman had two pit bulls.  Understand that pit bulls are violent animals -- not to be trusted.  So naturally, this idiot decided she had to have two pit bulls in her house.  But oh, she was worried about her 12-year-old son being attacked by one of the dogs.  So she shut her son, Nicholas, in the basement and propped a shovel on the door.  Again, she locked the 12-year-old in the basement.  Not the dog.  Twisted? You bet.  It gets worse.

The 12-year-old got out of the basement, and was attacked and killed by one of the pit bull dogs. The boy was found in a bedroom covered in blood, with a major head injury.  And what was the response of the mother?  Her exact quote: "I put him down there, with a shovel on the door.  And I told him: 'Stay down there until I come back.' Typical Nicky, he wouldn't listen to me."  That's right, she blamed her dead son.

No charges have been filed...but they should be.  How about negligent homicide?

Basic rule:  STUPID PEOPLE SHOULDN'T BREED

LIVE 8 AND THE U.S.

There is a big rock concert being planned in London and other cities for just before the G8 economic conference meets in Scotland from July 6-8.  As you may know, the G8 is the group of the eight most industrialized nations, this includes, of course, the United States.  This concert is being organized by Bob Geldof...the same dude who set up the Live Aid concert to benefit Africa back in the 80's.  So who is this one benefiting?

Well, actually, nobody.  This concert is just to "raise awareness" and "highlight the ongoing problem of global poverty and debt."  By "global debt" they mean African debt.  Sounds like a party.  But check out this quote from David Gilmour of the band Pink Floyd who will be playing at one of the concerts:

"Like most people, I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world.  It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations."

Say what?  The great and exalted  David Gilmour thinks that it's "crazy" that the United States government doesn't seize more wealth from Americans who worked for and earned it so that this wealth can be handed over to "starving nations?"  I wonder if Gilmour has ever uttered one word in opposition to the antics of that maniac Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe?  Probably not.  At any rate, isn't it nice that this character can tell  us how much of our gross national product we're supposed to give away?  Spoken like a true anti-American socialist.  Apparently the United States, which is the most generous nation on Earth, is supposed to give billions more because some aging rock star says so.  As far as the left is concerned, if one person in the world is starving, it is because the stingy, evil Americans allowed it to happen.

If David Gilmour and all of his rock star buddies really want to help the people of Africa, how about they get their overpaid rock star asses onto their private jets and go sling bags of grain down in Zimbabwe?

OPERATION BABY LIFT

I saw a report this morning on CNN about some Vietnamese orphans making a return trip to their homeland.  They were part of "Operation Babylift" in 1975 -- when thousands of Vietnamese orphans were flown to new families in the United States.

I saw the pictures of these now-Vietnamese-American adults boarding a flight to Vietnam and it took me back.  Now I don't know if my experience was a part of Operation Babylift or not ... but it happened in 1975 so it seems to fit.

My wife and I were returning to Georgia from a vacation trip to Hawaii.  The first leg of our flight was from Honolulu to San Francisco.  While we were waiting to board we noticed a bit of a commotion in the boarding area.  I walked over to see what was going on and saw a group of travelers ohhing and ahhing over a group of babies; perhaps 20 or 30 Vietnamese babies.  They were going to be on our flight to San Francisco.  After we boarded an announcement was made.  They were looking for volunteers.  Every one of these babies was going to have to be held by an adult during takeoff and landing.  I raised my hand and soon found a Vietnamese infant -- about six months old -- in my lap. 

Well, as it turned out, I held that baby all the way to San Francisco.  I fed it, changed its diaper and held it while it slept.  When we taxied up to the gate in San Francisco social workers came on board to collect the babies.  They were to be delivered to their new adoptive parents waiting in the lobby.  "No way," I said.  " I carried this baby all the way across the Pacific and I'm going to carry it off this airplane and hand it to it's new parents."  The social worker checked the baby's bracelet ID and led me off the airplane to a young couple.  I handed the baby to its new mother ... and walked away.  Yes .. there were tears in my eyes.

So, I saw this bit this morning on CNN an wondered if child -- now adult -- that I brought into this country is part of that group flying back to Vietnam to see the country of their birth.  I've wondered often about that baby.  I can't even remember whether it was a girl or boy.  I didn't get a name, and I don't know the identity of that young couple who took the baby from my arms.  When Donna and I got back home we wrote a check to the relief agency that handled the adoptions, and that was our last contact. 

UH OH ... IT'S ON NOW

Drudge broke with a story last evening about author Ed Klein and his book The Truth About Hillary.  Now bear in mind that Ed Klein cannot be tagged by Hillary or her posse as being part of any right wing conspiracy.  He's a former Newsweek editor and was once the editor in chief of the New York Times Magazine.  Not what you would call conservative credentials.

So ... what's all the fuss?  It seems that Klein wrote that Chelsea Clinton was conceived by rape.  Drudge reports that while in Bermuda in 1979 Clinton said to an unnamed source "I'm going back to my cottage to rape my wife."  The source says that the next morning the Clinton's cabin was a war zone, with smashed furniture and the rest of it.  Later Bill told that source that Chelsea was conceived that very night. 

Possible?  Would Bill Clinton ever rape anyone, let alone his wife?  Who knows?  Maybe we should ask Juanita Broaddrick.  Remember ... always check stories like this against what you already know, or feel to be true.

Hillary is understandably outraged.  On the one hand she's threatening a libel suit -- which is warranted.  On the other hand she's said to be claiming that this is the right wing attack machine at work.  Par for the course.  One thing for sure ... it will sell a lot of books.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

I'm not sure this is really redneck, but we'll throw it in anyway. Now, if that'd been a beer rather than a tumbler it would've fit better. See the entire Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Prisoner abuse at Gitmo.  Real or a media exaggeration?  Is it possible that some opponents of the liberation of Iraq just decided to see if they could create another Abu Ghraib in Guantanamo? Two excellent columns from Peter Bronson and Mark Steyn.

I'm not the only one ignored when the invites to deliver commencement speeches go out.  Check out this from Stephen Feher.

The New York Times recently ended its streak of 32 straight days of having Abu Ghraib on the front page.

Did you know that material used to make WMD has been removed from 109 sites in Iraq?  That's right...weapons of mass destruction.  Jack Kelly reports.

Dick Cheney opened up on Howard Dean in an interview to air on Fox News tonight:  "I've never been able to understand his appeal. Maybe his mother loved him, but I've never met anybody who does. He's never won anything, as best I can tell."  Cheney also says we're not closing Gitmo.  Good.

Finance ministers from some countries in the G8 want to impose a tax on airline tickets to pay for...what else...aid to Africa.  Oh, and global warming too.  Does it ever end?

Poor Sean Penn....he was in Iran as a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle, but his video camera was confiscated.

Just where does the Bush administration stand on illegal immigration?  Robert Novak goes inside the White House and reports on the strategy.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has a plan to secure the border with Mexico.  What is it?  Find out here.

Mark Steyn calls out the hypocrisy of the left who's worried more about fictional Koran desecration than they are Mosques being torn down.

The media has gone into overdrive to shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  The Media Research Center reports on their efforts.

In part 3 of his excellent series on "Liberals and Class," Thomas Sowell examines the notion of a "dead-end job."  Fascinating, required reading.

Morning Sickness: Aka Pygmy men soothe children by offering them their nipples.

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