More sectarian violence in Iraq

This is what happens when you invade a Country based on bad information. This is also what happens when you let the proverbial “Genie out of the bottle.”

BAGHDAD — Insurgents unleashed a fierce string of bombings against Iraq’s Shiites on Thursday, attacking pilgrims marching through the desert and neighborhoods in Baghdad in an attempt to stir sectarian violence amid a political crisis that has brought the government to a halt.

At least 60 people died in the attacks and at least 138 wounded, security officials said, in the second devastating and apparently coordinated attack in Iraq in less than a month.

No group claimed responsibility for the attacks but they appeared similar to ones conducted by Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni insurgent group that has tried to plunge the country back to the brink of civil war by pitting the country’s sectarian groups against each other.— Attacks on Shiites in Iraq Kill More Than 50 – NYTimes.com

I don’t claim to be an expert in this department, but I see us going back there within a year or so.

 

No, Ron Paul will not elected President

Need a few reasons? Here’s twelve good reasons.

However, Panic is setting in in Iowa.

Ed Morrissey says for good reason too:

How likely would it be that a publisher made a million dollars in revenues from his enterprise, managed to employ his family at the business, and yet never bothered to look at its product?  Zero, even if one buys the argument that Paul allowed other people to ghost-write the newsletter under his own name and in the first person without ever reviewing their output to make sure that it didn’t contradict his own political stands.  And even if people are prepared to swallow all of that, the fact remains that Paul made millions as a publisher peddling vile, racist tracts and insane conspiracy theories, which any Democratic opponent would produce in toto during a general election, even disregarding Team Obama’s predilection for oppo research.

It’s not just the top job that’s at risk, either.  With a man like Paul and his newsletter baggage on a national ticket, how would that help Republicans win Senate and House races around the country?  It’s no wonder that some in the Iowa GOP have begun to “panic,” and it’s probably not limited to Iowa, either.

Not only this, but go have a look at one blogger’s site, after she dared to speak out against Paul. Also, look here at more of it. 

Now , honestly, do Ron Paul’s followers and supporters really honestly believe that this is helping their dear leader’s changes of being elected President? Now, I will let it be known; I do not support Wilsonian foreign policy and I happen to agree with Ron Paul’s stance on domestic issues —- however, I find this sort of behavior to be deplorable. I mean, to go onto a Jewish woman’s website and act like that? My God.  Surprised smile

I also do not support Ron Paul’s style of foreign policy disengagement either. Some call it Isolationism; I think it is worse than that, it is disengagement from the world and we cannot afford that, at all.  “Peace through strength” is what I believe in, it worked for Ronald Reagan and it worked for me.  Anything more than this, is not Conservative and anything less is irresponsible.

This is why I do not support the man; because his supporters are just flat out batty insane. The sick part is, Ron Paul will not condemn them, nor will he ask them to stop with the craziness and the poll stuffing and fraud. It is sick and it makes the political process in America, to the rest of the world, look like a silly carnival show.

So, yeah, Ron Paul won’t be President and for very good reasons too.

Video: The True Face of Islam

I guess I am supposed to be shocked by this video. But, I am not. I have never bought the lie of “Moderate” Islam. Americanized Islam maybe, which is peaceful; because American Muslims know what will happen to them, if they start trying to start their stupidity here.

However, the true middle eastern Islam is right here on full display: (H/T to Pamela Geller)

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This, by the way is Sheik Ahmad Abu Quddum from so-called moderate Jordanian Tahrir party; who is obviously arguing with people who thinks he is crazier than a psycho ward on Saturday night! 

If that’s moderate, I would hate like hell to see radical! Surprised smile

Farewell to a intellectual great

I am coming out of my self-imposed hiatus to bid farewell to someone whom I disagreed with greatly.  I am referring to the passing of the avowed atheist Christopher Hitchens.  Admittedly, I disagreed very highly with his denial of living God; However, I admired his stance on Muslims and their desire to overthrow of American and western values.  Not only this; the man was absolutely an intellectual giant.  Something that is much lacking in the Conservative and even Christian circles of this day and age of dumb-downed society.    
I believe the man should be respected in this sphere of existence for his refusing to back down from his political and personal philosophies.  His rejection of the existence of a higher power is one that will be remembered and admired by some.  It seems so unfair, that someone of that intellectual caliber would be taken down in such a horrible way.  I will not, unlike someone on the Christian right, use this as a terrible opportunity to slander the man to advance a Religious agenda.  There are some, that would partake in such high school style of idiocy and I will simply use the words of the risen Saviour of the World, Jesus Christ; “They have their reward.”
I wish nothing but the very best to the Hitchens family, especially to his Brother; who must be going through hell right now.
Rest in peace Hitch; you genius bastard you.
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