All of the below were posted on www.defenddemocracy.org
METRICS: More than 4,000 al Qaeda terrorists have been killed in Iraq, according to the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq who gave the figure in an audiotape posted on the Internet last week.
"The blood has been spilled in Iraq of more than 4,000 foreigners who came to fight," said Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who succeeded Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as commander of the al-Qaeda franchise in Iraq.
Whatever you may think of the wisdom of having invaded Iraq in 2003, whatever you may think of the current strategy in Iraq (I believe it requires serious revision), consider this: If these al-Qaeda terrorists had not been killed in Iraq, where would they be today and what would they be doing?
CAIR-LESS: The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is attacking Rep. Thaddeus McCotter because he has called those slaughtering innocent Iraqi Muslims "jihadist-fascists."
"Representative McCotter should use his time on the House floor to foster dialogue and mutual understanding, not to introduce hot-button terms that will further damage our nation's image in the Islamic world," said Dawud Walid, the Michigan Executive Director of CAIR (the Council on American Islamic Relations).
Walid said President George W. Bush had stopped using the term "Islamic fascist" after Muslims in America and around the world had protested that it was ill-defined and counterproductive in persuading people in the global conflict against terror.
What would CAIR have us call blood-thirsty supremacists who claim to derive legitimacy from their religion? Perhaps: "Men of peace with IEDs and butcher knives"?
LEAVING LEBANON: While the media gave huge play to a recent pro-Hezbollah demonstration in Beirut, there was virtually no coverage of the tens of thousands of Lebanese Christians who rallied two days later.
At that event, anti-Syrian Christian leader Samir Geagea said that most Lebanese "feel that a major catastrophe [has] befallen them and made their present and future uncertain."
Indeed, thousands of Lebanese Christians are said to be packing up and leaving Lebanon because of their fear of Hezbollah.
Not that many years ago, Lebanon was a majority Christian country. Call it slow-motion ethnic cleaning.
2 comments:
commneting on one part: how do you know these are al-qaeda that were killed? Anyone who opposes us is a terrorist?
Maybe if we hadnt invaded Iraq, these people wouldnt have been galvanized to fight a foreign invader...
and maybe if my mom had wheels she'd be a wagon.
You're either with us or against us....unless you are Swiss
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