That's right, hate me

A common refrain we here from opponents to the war on terror is something like, "Well, now look what you've done, France and Germany and a bunch of other countries don't like us anymore."
 
My response; so what?!
 
Well, in this piece, Dennis Prager puts that basic feeling in a much more eloquent way, along with his point by point reasoning behind this feeling.
 
It all comes down to this; I want to be hated by the terrorists.  If France and Germany (the countries that tried to stand in the way of doing battle against Saddam, who was his own agent of terror) want to hate me as well, then so be it.

I knew Michael Moore was dangerous, but damn....

I, as most of you probably have as well, heard that the terrorist organization Hezbollah offered it's support to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, but in this fantastic post, the Powerline guys highlight to what extent Moore and the terrorists think alike, and not in a distant made up way (like Moore's film), but rather uses actual quotes from Moore and the Hezbollah leader to make the point.

To be honest, I had no idea Moore was this far gone, but then I haven't seen his movie yet, either (which is why you don't see any analysis of it here). The reaches made in order to make almost everything a conspiratorial plot is simply mind-boggling.

Nothing to see here....

Except, well, 1.8 tons of radioactive material that was in Iraq!

What's Fahrenheit 9/11's response to this?

To those who say it won't - rather, can't - work

If I told you that the world's largest Muslim country was holding free elections for it's president right now, what would you think?

Well, this story would seem to indicate that all those nay sayers, using what I consider a quasi-racist argument that "Maybe Muslims aren't ready for democracy," are absolutely wrong.

Look at the facts behind Indonesia's history; a dictator took over the country soon after it's inception and ran it for 30 years with the expected corruption and human rights abuses in tow. After 30 years the dictator was ousted and now, six years later, the people are voting for their president directly.

Hmmm, sounds a little familiar, doesn't it? No, it's not like Iraq at all...after all, presidential elections for Iraq will occur less than two years after it's dictator was overthrown.....

Happy Birthday America

This is how my young daughter currently celebrates Independence Day, and it seems a very simple, yet wonderful, way of doing so.

You have got to be kidding me

My disbelief while reading this story is not directed so much at those Iraqis professing their admiration of Saddam (though they are missing quite a few boats on this one), but is much more directed at the way this piece is presented. Of course there are some Iraqis that want Saddam back; for those favored few in Hussein's Iraq, life was really good. The fact that Reuters felt it necessary to go out of their way to find these Iraqis and make them the focal point of a story which can only be trying to hurt the effort in Iraq is remarkable to me.

Once you have a taste of freedom....

This is what freedom is all about, as the people of Hong Kong know full well. It must be realized that many of the citizens of Hong Kong have relatives that live in mainland China and know the differences that exist between the democratic island and communist mainland.

I fear that Hong Kong will be turned into another Taiwan by the Chinese, considered a rogue "property" of China, and another headache that will have to be addressed at some time. At this point, I'm not sure how we could stop that from happening for, as Tiananmen Square showed us, the Chinese government has no problem crushing, through force, those dissenting from the government's view.

What we can do, however, is support the movement to keep Hong Kong a democracy in all diplomatic and financial ways.