10.11.06
Posted in Politics, 2006 Races, Democrats, National Security at 1:08 pm by JB
Not much of a McCain fan either, but it’s nice to see a little offense instead of all this self-flagellation.
Republican Sen. John McCain on Tuesday accused former President Clinton, the husband of his potential 2008 White House rival, of failing to act in the 1990s to stop North Korea from developing nuclear weapons.
“I would remind Senator (Hillary) Clinton and other Democrats critical of the Bush administration’s policies that the framework agreement her husband’s administration negotiated was a failure,” McCain said at a news conference after a campaign appearance for Republican Senate candidate Mike Bouchard.
“The Koreans received millions and millions in energy assistance. They’ve diverted millions of dollars of food assistance to their military,” he said.
Democrats have argued President Clinton presented his successor with a framework for dealing with North Korea and the Republican fumbled the opportunity. In October 2000, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made a groundbreaking visit to Pyongyang to explore a missile deal with Chairman Kim Jong Il. There was even talk of a visit by President Clinton.
Ahhhhhhh YES ! Another “framework” that was left for the incoming administration. Again, what also seems lost at every turn (like Rose Law Firm billing records) is that they (may have) passed along a few pages of a plan, but more importantly they passed along THE DAMN PROBLEM ! This international security kick-the-can routine is silly and childish, and the American electorate know it. Dem’s can’t be trusted with security.
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09.11.06
Posted in Politics, Democrats, National Security at 2:13 pm by JB
Sen. Rockefeller has weighed in on security matters:
“The absolute cynical manipulation, deliberately cynical manipulation, to shape American public opinion and 69 percent of the people, at that time, it worked, they said ‘we want to go to war,’” Rockefeller told CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. “Including me. The difference is after I began to learn about some of that intelligence I went down to the Senate floor and I said ‘my vote was wrong.’”
Rockefeller went a step further. He says the world would be better off today if the United States had never invaded Iraq — even if it means Saddam Hussein would still be running Iraq.
After he learned about it ? He was chairman/ranking member of the Intelligence Committee !!! And Saddam still in power ?
This is why Democrats just can’t be trusted on national security- save for Joe Leiberman, but we all know what’s happening to him.
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09.08.06
Posted in Politics, National Security at 10:43 pm by JB
Who’s doing it ? Police ? No. Airport Security ? No. The FBI ? Not at all… Reporters ? Yes.
The Muslim owner of the Dar-us-Salaam store on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn was polite, but he didn’t want to talk.
At the Firdous cosmetics shop next door, a bearded young Moroccan was equally wary, when asked how things had changed for the city’s Muslims since the September 11 terror attacks.
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09.05.06
Posted in Politics, Unhinged, War on Terrorism, National Security at 1:01 pm by JB
It just hit me. All this brou-ha-ha about privacy isn’t about privacy at all. It’s about secrecy.
Rome City Schools is switching to a scanning system that lets students use their fingerprints to access their accounts. In the past, students had to punch in their pin numbers.
“The finger’s better because all you’ve got to do is put your finger in, and you don’t have to do the number and get mixed up,” said Adrianna Harris, a second grader at Anna K. Davie Elementary School.
The new system speeds lunch lines, said city administrators. It’s being phased in to Rome High School, Rome Middle School and all the city’s elementary schools. The city hopes to have the system in use next month system-wide.
Some parents are uneasy with having their children’s fingerprints scanned, and wonder about how well the information is secured.
“It may be perfectly secure, but my daughter is a minor and I understand that supposedly the kids have the option to not have their prints scanned, but that’s not being articulated to my daughter,” said Hal Storey, who’s daughter is a 10th grader at Rome High.
This guy, if-God forbid- his daughter were abducted, would be screaming bloody murder to have her found. If the police could subpoena her fingerprints from the school, that may actually help in the investigation. It really has nothing to do with privacy. It has to do with this ridiculous paranoia that the government wants to watch your every move.
If you aren’t doing anything wrong, it shouldn’t bother you that there are agencies that want to protect you at all cost.
You idiots who read Orwell’s 1984 and saw it as a prediction need to go back and read it again. It is clearly a satirical take on the almost reflexive response you minions of appeasement and capitulation have. There are repressive regimes, but you don’t live in one, and neither do I. And you same clowns who want to claim the US is some neo-con “police state” are the ones wearing the Che t-shirts and think Castro and Chavez are just peachy.
I think most of you are un-serious kooks.
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09.03.06
Posted in Politics, National Security at 9:08 am by JB
Aren’t we glad that the government restructured to establish the Department of Homeland Security ?
Citing unexpected reliability problems, the Transportation Security Administration [a division of DHS] is suspending installation of the only airport checkpoint device that automatically screens passengers for hidden explosives.
The rollout of the devices, trace-detection portals, nicknamed puffers because they blow air while searching for residue from explosives, had already been far behind schedule. Now the transportation agency is assessing whether to modify the puffers, upgrade them or wait until better devices are available.
I’m convinced the TSA does as much as possible to eventually do as little as possible….. works incredibly hard to avoid working much at all. JUST INSTALL THE DAMN THINGS !
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09.02.06
Posted in Politics, War on Terrorism, National Security at 11:34 am by JB
The North Koreans are upset that we don’t want them blowing up the world. (emphasis mine)
North Korea Saturday called a U.S. missile defense test a threat and vowed to strengthen its defense measures in response.
North Korea’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland released a statement saying the U.S. test, which was conducted Friday over the Pacific Ocean, “was aimed at attacking us and intercepting our missiles,” the BBC reported Saturday.
What does that even mean. Missile defense is just that- DEFENSE. How these sawed-off SOB’s can think in such a ridiculous way is scary enough.
And what exactly is the “Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland” ? We are still officially at war with these people. I say we abrubt their weapons programs with a squadron or two of F-18’s.
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Posted in Politics, War on Terrorism, National Security, Iranian Menace at 11:32 am by JB
Ms. Bruce (the only lesbian the Left despises) gives a brief, but poignant history lesson RE: how European appeasement with Iran doesn’t have good historical basis.
This entire debacle with Iran has enlightened us to one thing. Now we know how and why Hitler had a relatively easy time of it. For him it was a world that really couldn’t have know what he had in store for them. Oh, wait a minute, actually they should have known because Hitler made it all very clear in “Mein Kampf.” Churchill, having read Hitler’s blueprint for the future, was then the world’s Cassandra, warning of things to come. And yet Churchill’s world didn’t take it very seriously at all, either. “Negotiations,” or “incentives,” or “treaties,” were the buzzwords then as they are now.
Now, we have 21st century fascists, and a man who has verbally stated his intentions of genocide and world war and yet Europe and Russia (ironically those who have lost the most to marauding fascists) still move to appease. And now they can’t claim they don’t know, or had no idea, or no reason to take the savage fascists in our midst seriously.
Something we already know, but never hurts to hear it again.
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Posted in Politics, War on Terrorism, National Security at 12:14 am by JB
So…. let me see if I’ve got this straight.
Despite mounting U.S. pressure for sanctions against Iran, the European Union said Friday it is too early to punish Tehran for its failure to halt uranium enrichment by the U.N. Security Council’s deadline.
When exactly is the right time ? AFTER a suitcase bomb goes off in Paris or Berlin ? After a nuke-tipped rocket is launched at Tel Aviv ?
In all fairness, the Brits, French, and (maybe) Germans know that this is a threat to them. It’s the other pitiful little nations (Finland ?! We give a damn what Finland thinks ?!) that are the pansy fence-sitters.
“This is not the time or place” for sanctions, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, said after a meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers. “For the EU, diplomacy remains the No. 1 way forward.”
The EU as a whole has been a moderate voice on the Iran issue. However, Britain and France support tough action, while Germany is also believed to back that stance.
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08.31.06
Posted in Politics, Terrorists, War on Terrorism, National Security at 2:17 pm by JB
Mr. Gingrich voices what most of us feel (or should).
Ex-U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that the thought of California Rep. Nancy Pelosi becoming the next leader of the House and being third in line to the presidency is frightening.
“The prospect of her bringing San Francisco values and a whole attitude on foreign policy that is, I think, an attitude of weakness and appeasement and surrender, I think, would be a disaster for the country,” the outspoken Republican said.
We all know that. This is the kind of ridiculous tripe I am really getting tired of.
To suggest that “any Democrat is for appeasement is ridiculous” and “shows how desperate the Republicans are,” Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said. “We know we have a dangerous world out there,” he said, but “fear-mongering is not helpful to the situation.”
Fear-mongering….. is there not a legitimate threat ? Democrats ARE for appeasement. Negotiate, ameliorate, abdicate… (Most) Democrats don’t care about security. They care about regaining power. Fear-mongering isn’t happening, unless you are talking about the nut-cases who are terrified the country is gonna fall to pieces if the NSA listens to 10 seconds of your phone call to Pakistan.
There is a real threat, and the Democrats don’t take it seriously. There are millions of people determined to kill me and other Americans. THAT IS REAL.
And we’re gonna hear hours and hours of Democratic blather about “politicizing the war : politicizing security”. Is there another issue more important ? Of course it’s politics.
All your WalMart unions and universal health care don’t mean dick if some nut from Saudi Arabia kills you and everyone around you.
Ockam’s Razor (many other spellings)- the simple answer is usually the best answer. They want to kill us. We don’t want to die. Rather that dance around for decades like we have been, how about we protect ourselves, and kill them first.
UPDATE: Just another note on this… I’m getting tired of hearing “our soldiers are getting killed”. Every loss of life is a tragedy, but this is a damn war, and these men and women didn’t sign up to sell cars, for the love of God. The military isn’t a college scholarship program. When men and women sign up for the military they realize (or should) that they are putting their lives on the line for their country. That is their entire purpose. I wish we never lost any in combat, but we do, and that is their job. If you want to go to college, vote Republican so we can fix the schools and you can get an academic scholarship. If you join the military thinking it’s a college scholarship program, you should go smack your teachers. That’s not how military service works.
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Posted in Politics, Unhinged, War on Terrorism, National Security at 7:10 am by JB
Richardson R. Lynn. What can you say about someone who is so completely clueless. Have a few tastes from this juicy op-ed.
If I knew a terrorist, I would ask how much Osama bin Laden Inc. counts on the massive, unnecessary expense and damage America inflicts on itself by overreacting to the threat of terror.
The foolishness of color-coded alerts and X-raying the shoes of all airplane passengers is well-known. The huge expense and bureaucracy of the Transportation Security Administration is a monument to our miscalculation of risk. And so on. But, as a lawyer, I’m more interested in the thinking of government officials who should know better.
If I knew a terrorist I would…. ummm…. report them to the authorities, or kill them myself if I knew they were going to do grave harm. But I know, he’s leading with a little hyper-bowl. (and yes, I know it’s actually hyperbole, but hyper-bowl is funnier… it also brings to mind a Saturday afternoon in a place in Iowa or someplace that has a lot of nylon shirts with names on them, rolling balls and falling pins, and an all-you-can-consume crystal meth bar…. hyper-bowl)
The only kind of legal system that could “prevent things from happening” requires a highly intrusive program of government surveillance of all communications (e-mail, letters and phone calls) and financial transactions of private citizens, incentives for people to spy on neighbors or family members, and lifting all restraints on interrogation and investigation of suspects.
I’ve said before, and I’ll say again- I don’t give a rat’s ass if the government checks my library records, or listens to my international calls. I AIN’T GONNA KILL ANYONE. This is, at most, a trivial intrusion into my civil liberties that don’t effect me in the least. I like my privacy, but my privacy is worth bupkus if in over-protecting it someone has the opportunity to kill me.
Terrorists will exploit whatever vestiges of a free society remain to plot and implement violence.
Wow, that actually makes sense, but- as is always the case with these nuts- there is a caveat.
Like almost all crimes, the plot to suicide-bomb planes between London and the United States was discovered through a combination of a tip, randomness and routine police work. The overseas reach of the Homeland Security-approved legal system would be limited, unless every nation joins us in those preventive measures and executes them as aggressively as we wish.
I find it quite bothersome that such a major threat that was diverted in a very stealth-like way can be waved off with such nonchelance. “It was just a tip and random, no big deal.” I seriously doubt the MI-5 and the good people at CIA and NSA would take it as just another day at the desk.
This is the best line….
It is entirely rational to accept some level of terrorism, crime or disorder rather than live in a police state that claims to guarantee perfect safety.
What friggin police state ? There is no such thing as perfect safety, you nimrod, but there is such a thing as reasonable safety. And the government checking my library records if they think I am a terrorist is not a damn police state.
And this clown is dean of a law school. Doesn’t surprise me. At some point we’re gonna get hit again, and these moral-relativists are gonna have to face some music…. I’d be happier if Dean R. R. Lynn was in Ames, IA, cranked up on meth, participating in a hyper-bowl.
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