Kristol Looks for "Scapegoat" In Iraq War, Wants More U.S. Troops in Iraq

Bob Novak says that Bill Kristol, in calling for Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld to go, is looking for a "scapegoat" to blame for a war that he, Kristol, helped engineer.

On Meet the Press, Novak noted that Kristol is among the "neoconservatives" who "are the people who have been yelling for this war, saying it was going to be a--many of them said it was going to be a cakewalk." Novak added,  "I don't think Rumsfeld was ever a neoconservative.  I think he was cautious about going into the war, finally as a secretary of defense did the president's bidding, and he's going to be the scapegoat for the whole thing."

On FreeRepublic, many agree. One said, "My vote would be to support Rumsfeld, so he can finish the job that we started. I think some of these neoconservative 'critics', though, are covering their behinds by blaming problems on him, when they were the source of the false predictions." Another said, "I will say that I am getting tired of hearing from certain neoconservative 'commentators' in bow ties, who act like 'experts' in military affairs when they have never set foot inside the Pentagon or worn a military uniform. And Kristol (along with Tom Friedman of the NY Times) are right at the top of that list." Another adds, "And Bill Kristol is what? A yacketty-yacking wuss whose idea of a battle is answering a cross word from Mara Liasson? Give me a break!"

James Pinkerton points out that the difference between Kristol and Rumsfeld is that Kristol wants more American troops in Iraq, while Rumsfeld wants Iraqis to take on more of the battle. Kristol said on Fox, "I don't think it's very intelligent for the American secretary of defense to say, in Baghdad, that the Iraqi people need to do more."

What?

Slate Publishes Falsehood about Dead Gadhafi Daughter

I wrote too soon. Slate now has a story repeating the falsehood about Gadhafi's non-existent 4-year-old daughter. (For the full story, see below).

The story claims, "Near the gates of the compound was its real attraction: the ravaged hulk of Qaddafi's two-story family home, against which President Reagan ordered a bomb strike in 1986. The strike killed Qaddafi's 4-year-old daughter, and the house has remained a shrine for him since. Outside the door, there's a gold-painted statue of a clenched fist raised in the air, closed around a crumpled F-16 bomber, on which is written, 'USA.'"

The Slate story is by Vivienne Walt. The bio says, "Vivienne Walt was in Libya on assignment for Time magazine, for which she writes extensively. Based in Paris, she has written also for the Washington Post, the New York Times, and others, from Iraq, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe."

Will anybody ever correct this? 

NYTimes Bites on Gadhafi "Dead Daughter" Ploy

Do you notice the December 14 New York Times story about Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's 4 year-old daughter, killed in the 1986 U.S. bombing raid on Libya? Craig Smith reported, in a story on Gadhafi's son, that he was "just 14 in 1986 when American bombs destroyed his home and killed his 4-year-old sister. Despite that harsh experience he has emerged in the past few years as the new, Western-friendly face of this former pariah state."

The trouble is that Gadhafi never had a 4-year-old daughter and his son never had a 4-year-old sister.

USA Today's Barbara Slavin, who was in Libya at the time, set the record straight. "His adopted daughter was not killed," she said. "An infant girl was killed. I actually saw her body. She was adopted posthumously by Gadhafi. She was not related to Gadhafi."

USA Today has even gotten the story wrong. There was never any evidence that Gadhafi had a daughter.  A photo of his family before the bombing showed that he only had sons.  But the claim about the "death" of his adopted daughter was advanced after the bombing to generate sympathy for Gadhafi.  Foreign affairs reporter Barbara Slavin of USA Today was in Libya at the time, and she set the record straight.  She recently told us, "His adopted daughter was not killed.  An infant girl was killed.  I actually saw her body.  She was adopted posthumously by Gadhafi.  She was not related to Gadhafi."  Yet we found a story from January 25th of this year, posted on the USA Today website, that referred to the 1986 attack, which "killed 37 people, including Gadhafi's adopted daughter…"  One of the amazing things about this story is that the age of Gadhafi's daughter keeps changing.  She has been described as 18 months old or 3-years-old.  We found a story by Roland Flamini of UPI that referred to her being seven-years-old.

Europe Sells Out to Islam

A NewYork Times column urges Bush to accommodate Europe, even though, by the columnist's own admission, Europe is now offering membership "to a Turkish government headed by a devout Muslim, Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan, who was jailed just five years ago for publicly reciting a poem containing the lines, 'The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets, and the faithful are our warriors.'"

CNN noted that, "Recip Tayyip Erdogan, a former mayor of Istanbul, was convicted in 1998 for reciting a pro-Islamic poem which authorities said incited religious hatred. The 50-year-old poem, which is taught in many Turkish schools, compares the minarets of mosques to bayonets."

A BBC commentator,  William Horsley, says Turkey's admission to the EU "will mark an epoch-making change, a merger of Christian Europe with the major Muslim power on its doorstrp." Erdogan warns the EU not to behave as a "Christian club."   Except that Europe isn't Christian anymore.

Horsley says that, "Turkish membership in the EU now offers Europe a grand bargain. It could strengthen Europe's defences against Islamic terrorism, disprove the theory of a 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the West, and add weight to the EU's aspirations to be a global power."

Court TV Anchor Was Just Joking

Newswithviews.com reports Gavin Newsom, Mayor San Francisco, has been named "Person of the Year" by Planet Out Magazine for approving homosexual marriages.  He is married to Court TV anchor, Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom, who herself was a big hit in October when she filled in for her husband at the last minute at a homosexual rights dinner in San Francisco.

According to SFGate.com:

"Mrs. Newsom, who lives in New York and is a regular on Court TV, offered the 1,100 guests at the Empire State Pride Agenda fundraiser some unusual observations about the couple's sex life:

“I know that many of you wanted to see my husband and some of you had questions out there,” she said.

“Is he hot? Yeah. Is he hung? Yeah.”

“Is he?” she said as she waved her hand, apparently to suggest bisexual. “Not unless you can give a better [at this point she mimicked eating a banana] than me.”

Later Guilfoyle Newsom said this was just a playful response to questions that her husband is a closet homosexual

Moyes Goes Off the Cliff in Final PBS Show

In an email for Bill Moyers' final PBS program on Friday night, it was said that the former Democratic Party official "looks inside the right-wing media machine that the conservative NEW YORK TIMES columnist David Brooks called a 'dazzlingly efficient ideology delivery system.'"  The Moyers program "examines how a vast
echo chamber that is admittedly partisan and powerfully successful delivers information - and misinformation - with more regard for propaganda than fact."

This is another example of how the liberal media distort the facts. The Brooks article appeared in The Weekly Standard and his quote was a description of how liberals view conservative-oriented media. Here's the full quote:

"Wherever Democrats look, they sense their powerlessness. Even when they look to the media, they feel that conservatives have the upper hand. Conservatives think this is ludicrous. We may have Rush and Fox, conservatives say, but you have ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times. But liberals are sincere. They despair that a consortium of conservative think tanks, talk radio hosts, and Fox News--Hillary's vast right-wing conspiracy--has cohered to form a dazzlingly efficient ideology delivery system that swamps liberal efforts to get their ideas out." (emphasis added).

Notice the phrase "they despair." This is how Brooks described a liberal belief about the influence of those outlets. Much of his article was an attempt to understand how liberals and Democrats view political events. Brooks' only mistake was in neglecting to add PBS to the mix of the liberal outlets. And that includes Bill Moyers, leaving his perch on PBS with one final massive distortion.

About time: The Post Questions FBI Handling of Post 9/11 Anthrax Attacks

Finally the Washington Post has editorialized about the failure to find the anthrax killer. The paper says, "The fact that those responsible for wreaking so much havoc on the country have never been caught is in itself a worrisome statement about the effectiveness of federal law enforcement. The anthrax attack, remorseless and unsolved, is still a standard against which defense of the homeland should be measured."

So who's responsible for this failure? Well, in addition to the FBI, perhaps the Post itself. Citing the fact that the strain of anthrax used in the post 9/11 attacks was Ames, which is used in U.S. military labs, the paper pointed a finger at a current or former U.S. Government scientist.  Post repoprter Marilyn Thompson wrote a book about the case, suggesting there was evidence against former scientist Steven Hatfill.. But it turns out that controls on Ames were loose and the strain was shipped around the world. Plus, as we noted, "Thompson's own book, The Killer Strain, [reveals that] that one and possibly two of the 9/11 hijackers were exposed to anthrax. The anthrax letters included praise for Allah."

The FBI, however, "dismisses this evidence because they were developing a questionable profile and theory about an angry or disgruntled white man that did it. They developed this theory with the help of left-wing activist Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, under pressure from Senator Tom Daschle, one of the liberal Democrats who received an anthrax letter."

The Post should pursue the al Qaeda theory. Ross Getman, an attorney who has written extensively on evidence implicating al Qaeda in the anthrax attacks, points to Dr. Ayman Zawahiri, director of al Qaeda's biological weapons program and head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), as an obvious "person of interest" in the case. Read more here.

How Tax Dollars Flow to Soros in Ukraine

Rep. Ron Paul has drawn attention to U.S. tax dollars flowing into Ukraine through George Soros. He points to how the US government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), granted millions of dollars to the Poland-America-Ukraine Cooperation Initiative (PAUCI), which is administered by the US-based Freedom House. You can read about PAUCI here.

In a statement to the House International Relations Committee, he added:

"Consider the Ukrainian NGO International Centre for Policy Studies. It is an organization funded by the US Government through PAUCI, but on its website you will find that the front page in the English section features a prominent orange ribbon, the symbol of Yushchenko’s party and movement. Reading further on, we discover that this NGO was founded by George Soros’s Open Society Institute. And further on we can see that Viktor Yushchenko himself sits on the advisory board!

"And this NGO is not the only one the US government funds that is openly supportive of Viktor Yushchenko. The Western Ukraine Regional Training Center, as another example, features a prominent USAID logo on one side of its website’s front page and an orange ribbon of the candidate Yushchenko’s party and movement on the other. By their proximity, the message to Ukrainian readers is clear: the US government supports Yushchenko."

You can find the International Centre for Policy Studies here. You can read that, "ICPS was established in 1994 upon the initiative of the Open Society Institute."  One of the board members is Stewart Paperin of Soros' OSI.

Following the Soros interest in drug legalization, sold under the guide of "harm reduction," one "expert" at ICPS, Adriy Bega, handles  "Drug Abuse Harm Reduction Policy." This is listed under "Society Transformation."

Why Does Anderson Cooper of CNN Have a Job?

Who is Anderson Cooper and why does he have a show on CNN? Now I know. He's the son of a famous personality, heiress Glorida Vanderbilt, who says in her new memoir, "I find sex endlessly interesting." In the book, It Seemed Important at the Time, the socialite "looks back on her affairs and marriages with the rich and famous," says Good Housekeeping. Anderson calls the book "terrific."

A Houston homosexual online publication says that Cooper responded, “It’s not a red herring. That’s simply not true. It’s not true. You know we pay taxes,” while while referring to gay families during an interview with Rev. Jerry  Falwell. It says, "Cooper once joked about being gay at a GLAAD Media Awards dinner but has never otherwise publicly acknowledged it (“Anderson Cooper 360,” Nov. 30)" GLAAD is the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

His bio reveals hat he received a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Journalism for his 20/20 Downtown report [when he was at ABC] on gay high school athlete Corey Johnson.

The bio also discloses that he "studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi."

The new head of CNN has been quoted as saying he wants his anchors to show more passion.

Military Corruption? Go Here.

You want a military corruption story? Go to www.militarycorruption.com. "A longtime aide and close confidant of the late Gen. Omar N. Bradley is seeking a Department of Defense IG (Inspector General) investigation of the top leadership at the Army’s Carlisle Barracks in Pennsylvania. Charles Honeycutt of Desert Hot Springs, Calif., tells MilitaryCorruption.com in an exclusive, copyrighted interview, that he is 'shocked and dismayed' that a valuable, limited-edition .45 caliber pistol, given him by the late general’s widow, is missing from the Bradley home in nearby Rancho Mirage."

The editor-in-chief of the website is GLENN MACDONALD, MAJ USAR (RET), VIETNAM VETERAN.

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