'France worried by Iran-Israel tension'

Glad to see a European who understands the way international relations really works outside of martinis and cocktails.

'France worried by Iran-Israel tension' | Jerusalem Post: "French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in an interview published Wednesday that there is a danger of war erupting over Iran's nuclear program if 'the Israelis consider their security is truly threatened.' [French President Nicolas...] French President Nicolas Sarkozy flanked by French Justice Minister Rachida [file]. Photo: AP [file] In the interview with Le Nouvel Observateur magazine, Sarkozy said France was more worried about tensions between Iran and Israel than between Iran and the United States. 'I have never been for war,' Sarkozy was quoted as saying. 'The problem for us is not so much the risk that the Americans could launch a military intervention, but that the Israelis consider their security is truly threatened."

British PM plays up Afghan gain to divert attention from debacle in S. Iraq

DEBKAfile - DEBKAfile Reports: British PM plays up Afghan gain to divert attention from debacle in S. Iraq: "After four days of heavy fighting, Afghan National army and international forces covered by US and British marines entered the outskirts of the strategic town of Musa Qala in northern Helmand, south of Kabul, Monday, Dec. 10. This was the moment that British premier Gordon Brown decided to head for Helmand and Kabul from southern Iraq, after his announcement there that “The war in Iraq is over.” He said that all British troops will be home by the spring of 2008, and the UK will hand Basra province over to Iraqi control in the next two weeks, leaving the last 2,500 British troops in place...
In southern Iraq, 1,430 miles West of Helmand Province, the British army’s situation is less happy.

US strategists and officers remark that Brown's announcement of a drawdown of British forces - because, he said, the Iraq war is over - was a backhanded admission that they had been defeated in their effort to secure southern Iraq against Shiite militias."

Baby tax needed to save planet, claims expert | NEWS.com.au

Here is a real nut! This sounds like a good way to punish the poor and downtrodden of the world. If this happens, not that I think it will, then only the rich and elites will have babies. Will this guy sterilize himself and his kids to pave the way and give us a good example to follow?

Baby tax needed to save planet, claims expert | NEWS.com.au: "A WEST Australian medical expert wants families to pay a $5000-plus 'baby levy' at birth and an annual carbon tax of up to $800 a child. Writing in today's Medical Journal of Australia, Associate Professor Barry Walters said every couple with more than two children should be taxed to pay for enough trees to offset the carbon emissions generated over each child's lifetime. Professor Walters, clinical associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of Western Australia and the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, called for condoms and 'greenhouse-friendly' services such as sterilisation procedures to earn carbon credits."

Harvard Libs Fault Iran NIE

HA! The Left and Right intellectuals both agree that this NIE was bull. So, why do the Far Left and Media still quote it as gospel? Are they that desperate to find something that President Bush lied about? If so, they really need to get a life! Well, they do anyway, but this helps prove it.

Harvard Libs Fault Iran NIE - Say Anything: "When intelligent people on both the Left and the Right can agree that something doesn’t make much sense, its probably time for a serious second look. Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law professor, constitutional scholar, and a liberal’s liberal, doesn’t think much of the latest NIE on Iran. And that’s putting it mildly. Dershowitz writes:
The recent national intelligence estimate that concluded that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 is just about the stupidest intelligence assessment I have ever read. It falls hook, line and sinker for a transparent bait and switch tactic employed not only by Iran, but by several other nuclear powers in the past. The tactic is obvious and well-known to all intelligence officials with an IQ above room temperature. It goes like this:"

Iraqis begin to emerge from the dark

I am glad that the Iraqi people can now enjoy an almost normal life. Those fanatics are dying away, literally. It is time for healing to begin.

Iraq was a festering sore, the US put on a bandage that was not applied properly and the infection got worse. Now the wound is healing. The Surge of 'antibiotics' stabilized the situation so that the sore is healing properly. There are still some of the virus floating around, but if the bandage and the medicine continue to work, then the virus should not be able to rebound and damage the healing body of Iraq. If the medicine is stopped too soon then the virus might be able to kill this weak young country.

Democrats, the Party of the People, want this young country to die. Republicans, the Party of the Republic, want Iraq to flourish and provide a stable base for the other Middle Eastern countries. Moderates want the world to be safe and at quiet - not that it ever has been, but we can all dream.

Iraqis begin to emerge from the dark - Telegraph: "Three years after kidnappings, a car bomb and threats from religious extremists brought the curtain down, the theatre's players have at last deemed it safe to tread its dusty boards once again. Their play, which tells the story of those dreadful times, is just one of many signs that life in Baghdad may be finally returning to normal. 'For years we lived in danger, because the religious extremists disapproved of people dancing and performing on stage,' said the theatre's dance instructor Hannah Abdullah, 38, as she put a mixed troupe through their paces in the darkened auditorium. 'Three of our dancers were kidnapped for that reason, and we could only perform outside of the country. But now things are better. The play tells about all the car bombings and killings, and how the mothers of the dead wept many tears. But it finishes with the sun appearing and everybody forgetting about the civil war.'"

‘Lyrical Terrorist’ Spared Prison

This 'lady' is sick. And the people who claim that this is only because she is a Muslim are sick, too.

Britain: ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ Spared Prison - New York Times: "Samina Malik, a 23-year-old Heathrow airport worker who last month became the first Muslim woman to be convicted of a terrorism offense in Britain, was given a suspended nine-month prison sentence and 100 hours of community service. Ms. Malik, who called herself the “lyrical terrorist” in online forums because she thought it was “cool” and posted poems with titles like “How to Behead,” was convicted in the same London court of possessing records likely to be useful in terrorism, mostly jihadist manuals from the Web. Many among Britain’s 1.6 million Muslims said she should not have been prosecuted, describing her actions as foolish and offensive, but not criminal. Before the sentencing, Muhammad Abdul Bari, the head of the Muslim Council of Britain, the country’s largest Muslim organization, told The Times of London that “many young people download objectionable material from the Internet, but it seems that if you are a Muslim, then this could lead to terrorist charges, even if you have absolutely no intention to do harm to anyone else.”"

Afghan police:Taliban hangs teenager boy for so-called "spying"_English_Xinhua

The Religion of Peace. Ah. If only the whole world could be blessed with Islam so that we can all be at peace - like these kids.

Afghan police:Taliban hangs teenager boy for so-called "spying"_English_Xinhua: "A teenager boy was hanged by Taliban insurgents on Saturday morning in Sangin district of southern Afghan Helmand province for alleged 'spying' activities, local police said.
Helmand provincial police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal told Xinhua that the Taliban claiming the child was spying for the Afghan government and foreign troops had killed the innocent boy by hanging.
'Actually the poor boy has nothing to do with the government and foreign troops,' Andiwal said."

Nancy Pelosi Approved of Waterboarding

When she had nothing politically on the line, she approved, once she had to take a stand to help the terrorists, she took it instead.

Vote Democrat and see if we can save more terrorists for politics.

lgf: Nancy Pelosi Approved of Waterboarding: "In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA’s overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk. Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said. “The briefer was specifically asked if the methods were tough enough,” said a U.S. official who witnessed the exchange."

Imam's daughter in hiding after her conversion to Christianity sparked death threats | the Daily Mail

The Religion of Peace is afraid of people who leave it?

Why? What are they afraid of?

Imam's daughter in hiding after her conversion to Christianity sparked death threats | the Daily Mail: "The daughter of a British imam is living under police protection after receiving death threats from her father for converting to Christianity. The 31-year-old, whose father is the leader of a mosque in Lancashire, has moved house an astonishing 45 times after relatives pledged to hunt her down and kill her. The British-born university graduate, who uses the pseudonym Hannah for her own safety, said she renounced the Muslim faith to escape being forced into an arranged marriage when she was 16. She has been in hiding for more than a decade but called in police only a few months ago after receiving a text message from her brother. In it, he said he would not be held responsible for his actions if she failed to return to Islam."

Gunman Opens Fire Inside Colorado Christian Missionary Center

FOXNews.com - Two Dead, Two Wounded, After Gunman Opens Fire Inside Colorado Christian Missionary Center - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News: "The manhunt for a gunman who killed two people and wounded two others when he opened fire inside a Christian missionary training facility near Denver dragged on Sunday, as police appealed to the public for help catching a killer on the loose. The shooter entered a dormitory on the campus of Faith Bible Church, a Youth With a Mission training facility for Christian missionaries, in Arvada, Colo., a Denver suburb, at about 12:30 a.m. Sunday and shot four people, killing two of them, before fleeing on foot.
The gunman, described by witnesses as a white male in his twenties wearing a dark skull cap and jacket, who may also have had a beard and eye glasses, remained at large, Arvada Police spokeswoman Susan Medina told Fox News."