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Archive for April, 2006
Both stories from Australia.
Tim Blair recounts a story of workers using chainsaws against protesters who had chained themselves to a “killing area” at a meat plant. The workers just wanted to get back to work and the protesters were in the way.
Next time those protesters might want to bring along a chainsaw eating crocodile to help their anti meat cause!
Hit this link for more links. (ht Instapundit)
I watched the Zarqawi video and thought the guy looked tired and worn out and was basically there to put the screws to people he thought should be supporting him more. In other words it looked like an “act of desparation”. CNN agrees.
In the meantime, great news! al Sistani has called for an end to the militias. They may have had a reason at the beginning but they also seem to be the cause of a lot of frontier like “justice” that doesn’t work in a real country.
Awesome.
UPDATE: One more good story. The Jawa Report found this report of an Iraqi kidnap victim rescued yesterday. All I can say is this must happen all the time, otherwise, wouldn’t it be front page news? LOL
The New Zealand Herald today put the President of the US and George Clooney in the headline story entitled:
Bush raises pressure on Darfur killings, Clooney joins protesters
Now lets see here.
Bush: WASHINGTON – US President George W Bush announced new sanctions against people suspected of aiding genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region as critical peace talks in Nigeria near a deadline.
Clooney: Clooney urged the public to attend rallies across the United States this Sunday to pressure Khartoum to stop what Washington says amounts to genocide in Darfur.
Clooney:As more Americans become aware of the unfolding tragedy, a coalition of 160 religious, human rights and political groups planned a major rally in Washington DC on Sunday to demand that Bush press for a stronger multinational force to end the violence and protect the people of Darfur.
Speakers included Nobel Peace Prise winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, Washington’s Roman Catholic Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, Illinois Democratic senator Barak Obama and actor George Clooney, who visited Darfur last week.
Bush: US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick said the first priority was to provide humanitarian relief to those who were suffering in Darfur and improve security by sending in a more robust UN peacekeeping mission with a strong mandate.
Which do you think will work? Rallies? Or aid and a mission?
Do you remember Mr. Clooney and how he feels about Iraq? Yet he wants something done (you know, like a rally) about Sudan now. What a clown.
David Ignatius has a column today called “Misreading the Enemy” that is basically about how radical Islam acts like gang members who have to “save face”. No dissing allowed. His subheading is “what we don’t grasp about Militant Islam”.
But his whole column basically shows me that we grasp it completely. No new news here.
On Iran: We didn’t get, that they didn’t mean it. Yes we did. Which is why we don’t bother to negotiate terms with them. Europe does. We don’t. The UN does. We don’t.
On Iraq: We supposedly don’t get that al-Qaeda doesn’t negotiate. I think we get that. We’re there to kill them. We will “stand down” as the Iraqi’s “stand up”. We know full well that eventually they’ll be able to protect themselves well enough to handle Zarqawi. We don’t expect to kill every terrorist. Just enough to give them a chance.
On the govt. in Iraq: He thinks we don’t know they aren’t into compromise. And yet, guess who’s compromising.
His premise is that we don’t realize that radical Islam just wants to be respected. What he’s missing is that by treating radical Islamists as grownups who CAN negotiate, who CAN work against terrorists, who CAN democratically run themselves without a dictator they are not being ‘dissed’. In this manner they will grow up into how they are treated and then they WILL be respected by the world. Iraq is the example. And Bush’s plan will work.
On WH press briefings. I just like Mr. Fleischer and of course he has a great perspective.
Before 24-hour cable news and the Internet, reporters at the briefings asked tough questions and generally received straight answers. Because the quantity of coverage was limited and the quality was driven by the next day’s newspapers and the 6:30 evening news, with major figures such as Walter Cronkite delivering it, press secretaries didn’t have to worry that their every word or thought would instantly be reported live on the North Lawn of the White House.
Recent events and speeches are showing that al-Qaeda seems to have a problem with the UN. Or maybe it’s just that the UN is a lot easier target than the US and yet it’s initials are close enough….?
OPFOR has the story.
Has a new post. From Israel. (see the postscript. He’s working on getting to Iran.)
Speaking of Israel…Captain Ed looks at Israeli response to Hamas. Point: Israel.
The BBC has the breaking news about the Iraqi VP’s sister being gunned down. She was head of the women’s affair department for her party. Tareq al-Hashemi had a brother killed April 13th.
Continued attacks indicate that there is clearly a campaign against Sunni politicians trying to take part in the government, our correspondent adds.
A spokesman for the main Sunni coalition, the Iraqi Accord Front, said Sunni politicians would not back down.
The good news is
Newly-appointed Prime Minister Nouri Maliki visited Najaf to meet Iraq’s senior Shia cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
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I believe that’s the first time that al-Sistani has agreed to meet with a politician. He has the respect of a lot of people, so if he’s on board – it’s huge.
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