i wish Bush would have been able to keep him at the UN.

that could have been the start of a good legacy for Bush.

The 'Stache RULES!

Kick that commie sycophant's ass around the corner and back.

Give 'em hell, John...

"your brain is empty" pretty much says it all!

Bolton is such a Lizard

His brain is certainly empty, yes.

We need more Boltons, we get more Pelosis.

One of the more controversial "figgahs".

Tear him a new one, Bolton!

Bolton for President!

Fred! / 'Stache in '08

"i see your a grave digger as well"

LOL! best line of the entire clip. the Reporter shuts it down fast after that.

OT: Jihadi burns building...
El-Masri Detained on Arson Suspicion

The 43-year-old Lebanese-German -- who claims to have been kidnapped by American agents at the end of 2003 and flown to a prison in Afghanistan for torture as part of the extraordinary renditions program -- is suspected of having ignited a blaze early Thursday morning that ultimately did €500,000 ($678,000) in damages. According to police, the door of a wholesale market in Neu-Ulm was broken and a fire was set just inside. El-Masri was picked up not far away.

Koskidz blame Bush: CIA Torture Victim Becomes Arsonist

His case is a classic example how the policy of rendition and torture the Bush administration so entdusiastically persuit, failed.

I can't hear the audio, just a loud hissing. Anyone else have that problem?

Too late to add Bolton to the Republican candidates list?

Bolton is great!

OT

Holocaust hero faces belated celebrity

WARSAW, Poland - The pilgrims keep coming, seeking out the fragile 97-year-old woman in her tiny nursing home room filled with pictures and flowers.

The attention tires Irena Sendler sometimes. She never sought credit for smuggling 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto anyway. Not for risking execution to save other people's children, or holding out under torture by the Nazis, or enduring decades as a nonperson under the communist regime that followed.

She once dismissed her wartime deeds as merely "the justification of my existence on this Earth, and not a title to glory."

#16 Old_maid
I can't hear the audio, just a loud hissing.

That's just the air being let out out of the reporter's Smugness Balloon.

For those that want to a put a face to the arrogant voice:

John Humphrys

He's a grade A arsehole. Though I can't think of anyone at the BBC who isn't.

Bolton for President.

fuck it...

Bolton for Prime Minister

Especially liked the reference Bolton made to the similarities of George Soros and the BBC interviewer flunkie. Of course, his "superior breeding" made him a better sort compared to Bolton. At least in the BBC's own mind.
Bolton has such a memory vault of facts that the BBC idiot had to keep changing the question. Just to dodge the answers.

The snotty BBC reporter denies any political affiliation then asks of Bolton this leading question, "Would you agree the great neo-con adventure is over?"

"Superior Brits."

Spot on.

I've travelled the world a bit and met Brits (and other Europeans) who have a false sense of moral and intellectual superiority over the "stupid" Americans.

I could never do what J. Bolton does. Talk to these arrogant, pompous, delusional twits without throwing up at the end of the day.

/Of course, I don't mean all Brits and Europeans. Just the twits.

I think I'm developing a severe man-crush on Bolton.

I enjoyed that so much. John Bolton is a brilliant, very skilled man. We need him back in public office pronto.

Bolton does a great job of handling this interview. I think people get into trouble when they are being interviewed by an obviously hostile person and try to ignore it. Bolton faces him head-on just as soon as the interview starts to go sour, and doesn't turn away.

As soon as this BBC lefty steps in it and says the US "destroyed everything that had existed previously in IRAQ", Bolton calls him on it, and proceeds to make it obvious that he is (almost self-admittedly) an empty-headed left winger.

OH I wish I could hear this! I love John Bolton ... I was crushed to see him go. Maybe one of the other blogs will pick it up later?

Absof'nlutely brilliant!What a self-rightous prick that BBC reporter is! I agree with the above, BOLTON '08, '12 and beyond. I just hope the Repub candidate has the spine to put him into the administation SOMEWHERE if not on the main ticket.

It is never an interview when they are "interviewing" conservatives.

It is always a debate.

Never, "Tell me about your policy," but "How can you possibly believe that way?"

Bolton / VDH '08

That was better than the Mufti Muzzler.

Puffed-up British boob.

How long does the interview run?

"I am neither left nor right nor middle."

"So your brain is completely empty."

Classic.

And could someone tell me what the hell IS the the Great Neo-Con Adventure?

Sounds like a ride at Six Flags.

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I like Bolton's style, no-nonsense and call it like it is.

The BBC reporter was correct in one aspect: British reporters do ask questions like that. It doesn't matter what part of the political spectrum the person resides on, the do the in your face 'hardtalk' style while maintaing that posh measured accent. American reporting is different.

HOWEVER, the reporter's line of questioning rapidly started to uncover his anti-Americanism and hostility. Still using the 2003 pre-invasion talking points, screaming 'quagmire' in so many words, and hinting a bit of joy at the end of the 'neo-con adventure'.

I commend Bolton for sticking it to this guy and saying what needs to be said:

1. Iraq was a good thing, despite the fact that post-Saddam Iraq is a very ugly place (I still think breaking the country up into three states is the best idea) but that brings me to..

2. Iran needs regime change. Why? They are a large part of the problem in Iraq and are developing nuclear weapons that not just threaten America and its allies interests and security, but the region (if not the world) as a whole

I will usually suffer any reporter who will play "devil's advocacte" in an interview, but this guy was obviously a looney.

Good on John Bolton.

This guy should be advising Presidents on how to conduct interviews or be one himself.

Bolton resigned and all we got left with is that lousy Rice.

Man, now there are too many good Republicans to count. I want to somehow work Rudy, Mitt, Fred, Duncan Hunter, Tancredo, Bolton, and VDH all in to a 2009 administration.

#12 Just_A_Grunt

Here's a bumper sticker for the campaign...

#37 Lizard Master: Thanks. I can't upgrade, though, I'm at work ... the IT folk would have a cow! (Supposed to be working...) and at home I only connect at 37kpbs so I can't really listen there, either.

Hopefully there'll be a transcript at some point.

...the Luddite Lizard

Bolton should be SecState. Of course he'd have to burn down the building to get all the rats out.

Fear the 'Stache!

"Yes you're a superior Brit"
Awesome-he really is magnificent. Congress did this nation a great disservice by not giving him the nod. It really is shameful and bad for our country that he is no longer at the UN.

Oh. My. God. I am in love. That was brilliant. I almost gagged when the interviewer mentioned Soros. So did Bolton! Tell him to shave the friggin' mustache already and enter the race. Freaking brilliant.

Hmm...President Bolton..I like the sound of that.

WOW. That was so - I am speechless.

My sides ache from laughing. I banged my desk! My cat is looking at me funny.

If you didn't actually listen to the whole thing yet, go do so now.

BRILLIANT, and wickedly funny. I wish I had one tenth of Ambassador Bolton's debating ability. One hundreth.

"I am neither left nor right nor middle."

Funny, I often hear that very same comment... always from my most Left-wing friends.

Hmmm.

The House and the Senate passed the Immigration bill.

It amazes me how quick people like 'the stache' are on their feet with where all the bodies are buried.

VDH and Bolton arent running for anything.

Rudy has shown he is a good law and order type, but has little other conservative values that I can see. I havent studied him closely yet.

A lot of hype about Fred, but its my understanding that he voted against tort reform and in favor of CFR. Those are big red flags.

Wasnt Mitt in favor of a single payer healthcare system in Mass? That would be a huge red flag.

I dont know the other guys yet.

I just laughed at "the great neo-con adventure." The question itself, wording, delivery, fabricated vernacular was as hostile as it gets.

How could this prick actually say he is not "left?"

Bolton akbar! ululu! is optional :)

Re: Soros... "Are you kidding?"

Too funny!

Also Iran "won't be chatted out" of nukes.

So undiplomatic, in a good way.

My ticket: Hunter/Bolton.

Remember the old Monty Python skit, "The Upper Class Twit of the Year" competition?

John Humphrys is the BBC Leftist Twit of the Year.

Jesus, what an a-hole (the interviewer).

The voice of reason (John Bolton) against popular wisdom. Give me reason anyday.

Yet another confirmation of what a level-headed, clear-thinking and straight-talking guy Bolton is. No that we needed any but boy does the left, to which more than half the western world regrettably belongs, regardless of what they call themselves need it.

Pity someone like him doesn't run the UN. But then why would someone like him want to chair a dictator's club ...

RUDY/BOLTON 08

and find a job for joe l. too

No wonder we fought a war to get away from these fucking people.

mos'stache

#59

mustache.

mustache

I actually said "wow" , sitting here in the office listening to that clip, when the interviewer used Soros as an example.

All I could think was "Wow, so this is the mind of someone that looks at George Soros and thinks he's a good man.".

At that point, all I could think was "you're going to to look terrible in history's eyes...".

Write this all down, don't forget a thing; this is history that's going to be talked about for centuries to come. These guys are going to scurry for cover later, don't forget their words.

THAT is the kind of thing the Bush Admin. should have been doing from day 1. Satnd up to them. Do not apologoize for being a conservative.

Is the "neo-con adventure" over?

A better question would be, "is the British adventure overwith?".

Suggestion for new rotating title:

"So your brain is completly empty"

#54 How could this prick actually say he is not "left?"

Answer: at best, he's intellectually bankrupt; more likely, he's just a liar.

Oh yeah, a liar and a fool.

Notice how touchy left-wingers are getting about being called left-wingers.

Fucking left-wingers.

#67,

I was thinking the same thing.

The next repub. administration needs to find a place for this truth-talker.

Speech writer comes to mind, although that's far beneath him.

My sides ache from laughing. I banged my desk! My cat is looking at me funny.

I know. I was pounding my desk and have an equally annoyed cat. I'm having a genuinely crap day and that clip certainly perked me up.

I love how, slowly, as the interview goes along, the interviewer's mask begins to slip. Course, he's the BBC and it was already attached poorly. But, still, it was funny hearing it slide.

#42 Ward Cleaver

Man, now there are too many good Republicans to count. I want to somehow work Rudy, Mitt, Fred, Duncan Hunter, Tancredo, Bolton, and VDH all in to a 2009 administration.

No one person on that list has all of the qualities or stances on issues that I like by themselves, but if you could roll all of them into one. . .
The Law and Order stance of Rudy, the organizational skills of Mitt, the media savvy of Fred!, the understanding of the military of Hunter, the strong border positon of Tancredo, and the bluntness and straight forward style of Bolton, well then you would have a candidate.
And a real Ronald Reagan II (well except Ronnie was a little weak on the immigration issue also)

/Of course, I don't mean all Brits and Europeans. Just the twits.

thanks, Hot Rod Kid ;)

You're right, not all of us fall into that category, but a regrettably large number do. Far more than in the US for example. Europeans are far too naval gazing, even those that are anti-muslim think that the muslim problem ends at their national border. One day my compatriots will rudely wake up to the fact that it doesn't.

You notice how every political discussion with a lefty inevitably mentions Bush or Iraq.

This interview was supposed to be about Blair's successor Gordon Brown (..."texture like sun").

George Soros speaks for mainstream middle America.

/BBC.

Excellent! Hearing the truth boldly delivered is powerful stuff. Are there more out there like John Bolton? If so, shove them out front. It is the only salvation for this country. Americans will respond to straight forward talk. Mr. Bolton's delivery of his message roughs the feathers of the PC crowd. I say, bring it!

#53 dll2000

And please - when thinking about Fred! - don't forget that, as a lobbyist, he wrote the S&L deregulation bill.

It's his fault, and he is, in my opinion, more covered in S&L pocket lint than even John McCain.

All I can say about Fred Thompson is that I'd love to see him run, if only to watch my Male do a complete 180 from his usual style and defend a man who was a lawyer, a lobbyist, a 1.5 term senator, and an actor.

As a comedy turn, it's pretty darn good.

The man should be Secretary of State. Or possibly president. It is both rare and refreshing to see a conservative figure interviewed by the press and refuse to cotton to the snide, pompous digs.

#69 rop?lol 5/17/2007 11:47:47 am PDT

Suggestion for new rotating title:

"So your brain is completly empty"

Youre right, that was a good one xD. Of course the interviewer didn't realise that here for once, he really was speaking truth to power lol. Once again, their humour is unintentional. Lmao.

There is an attachment to Lennon's "Imagine" by the left.

Imagine a government where everyone is like John Bolton...

#44 Old_Maid

I'm connected at only 50kbps, so you should be able to get it, albeit words-cut-off-haltingly.

One of my favorites by Bolton: "...just as in the United States the State Department doesn't follow the President's policies."

Amen, Mr. Bolton!

Thanks, Charles. That made my day.

73 arizona9

Oh, yeah. An then he trots out the old "devil's advocate" saw. As if.

38 Walahi

Exactly. The interviewer tried to cover himself by claiming something that is true, that there is a British school of interviewing of sorts that works like that. However, the phrasing of his questions and the tone of his voice clearly gave away his profoundly anti-American bias.

I'd also like to comment that one of the things I like the most about Bolton is not just what he says, but the way he conducts himself. He's calm, he does not interrupt the other person, lets them speak then rebuts them with ease and civility, while simultaneously making it clear that the other is a moron.

"We destroyed the the institutions in Iraq"

WTF?

Bolton shredded this scumbag...

You have to love how they ignore everything that ever happened before GWB.

...and Wolfowitz... Where did that come from, just straight neocon / banking / the J-word rhetoric?

Seriously, pro-Soros, anti-Wolfie, not a Leftie?

Oh yeah, this guy is a liar and a fool (never one of my beloved, monty-pythonesque Twits).

Great mustaches in history

Mustache

Mustache

Bad Mustache

Bad Mustache

and

Bad Mustache (you know its there)

#54 astronmer 20

He's a BBC reporter/broadcaster - they are not like ordinary people, they are beings of pure reason - and as such are completely beyond reproach.

Just because they ask questions like - "Isn't it time you stinking American neocons left the world which has learned to hate you so much alone?" doesn't mean one can draw nasty conclusions about political bias.

Wow! Bolton jerked the lefty's head off and instead of handing it to him on a plate, he stuck it up his butt!

The BBC "interviewer" did not ask any unloaded questions, but mainly made outrageous statements. What questions he did ask, at the end of each rant, were entirely loaded questions and to answer them required Bolton to agree with a false premise, which of course Bolton refused to do.

What a jerk that BBC ranter was, who disgraced the journalistic profession by putting on display his extreme bias.

Guffaw!

I swear that voice is the same one you hear doing commentary on the British open. "And Angus McHaggis shanks his drive into the bunker...Oh, tis a shame. This year's British Open has more subplots than a Charles Dickens novel..."

What a great interview Bolton! Nothing I love to hear more than a pompous ass get his comeuppance on his own broadcast. Bolton might as well called him an empty headed moron. It wouldn't have chapped that Brit's ass anymore.

Kudos to John Bolton for masterfully dealing with this BBC left-wing ranter posing as an interviewer.

My Favorite Mustache

That jerkoff interviewer and the BBC at large are contributers to the demise of Britain.

They can take their high/mighty, nasal aristo-speak to hell with them.

#59 savage_nation 5/17/2007 11:44:42 am PDT

What's the significance of the term 'stache'?

The answer to that question should be self evident from these. LOL

Ugliest Mustache...

I suppose if a leftist thinks that all power should reside with the government, and a rightist thinks that all the power should reside with the people, or as much can possibly be and still have a functioning government to protect individual rights, and a middle person thinks it should be about half-and-half, I suppose it is possible that a person doesn't agree with any of those options.

Perhaps an anarchist or maybe he just thinks all the power should reside with him.

Thank you for this Charles, and you too Mr. Bolton.

I loved the section where the interviewer said he was neither left-wing or right-wing or any-wing. Nice try, but Mr. Bolton is not the only one on to you people.

Bolton hit a significant and critical issue when he noted the pernicious tendancy of the bureaucracy in State (and certainly, the Foreign office) to simply not take action when directed to do so by the system in which they work.

Late to the thread.

Where in the hell are more men/women like this committed to holding this (currently) fragile Republic together? Much good on ya, Mr. Bolton. Godspeed.

If we have any sort of job running the State department that is permanent, we need Bolton in that position. The dude kicks major butt.

C

Bolton rules.

The dems should be ashamed for not letting him serve. THere was NO valid reason for them to keep him down. I laughed when pelosi promised to lead the nation in a new direction "in partnership, not in partisanship."

yeah right, explain Bolton then, witch.

Why isn't this man still the ambassador to the UN? The guy is just brilliant...damn those Dems.

John Humphrys is the BBCs top interviewer. He is generally combative but with John Bolton he definitely came of worst. It was good to see the BBCs top man get a working over. Unfortunately, the interview was short, so there was no time for Bolton to really get stuck in.

As one commentator put it, this is the kind of thing the Bush administration should have been doing from the start, instead of apologising for this and that. That only encouraged the admins enemies. Bolton in this interview gave no hint of any apology, even though the questions were posed in a manner that would normally have elicited an apology.

What struck me was that John Bolton was reading John Humphrys mind, and was anticipating the questions long before they were posed.

Excellent stuff.

In passing, John Humphrys has done some excellent interviews of imams etc, and has given them a tough time.

Super eloquent smackdown on a collectivist, limeytwit.

"Gravedigger." Ha ha hahahahahaha!

Bolton '08

"You're a Superior Brit aren't you."

I can not spare this man. He fights!

Is anyone else having problems with the site?

We must be linked somewhere big.

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Bolton for President!

Bolton's got nothin' on this guy, 'stache wise.

101 myself

Not only did this interviewer claim to be of no political persuasion, he actually believes this. I've said it before, and I'll say it again- these msm people really, truly believe they are unbiased, to the point where they are completely blind to the fact that they actually aren't unbiased at all. Talk about myth-building.

Please, please, please...

Is there a transcript. I can't get the thingy to work! Arrgh!

The format of that audio changed and I was able to listen to it straight through and I'm on dial-up.

Thank you, Charles.

We need more men like Bolton. Lots more.

102 Colin Nelson

Have you ever watched "Yes Minister" or "Yes Prime Minister"?, first aired in the eighties. This BBC series is so near the truth, that even Margaret Thatcher used to watch it, just to get a handle on how the civil service would try to stymie her policy directives.

His talents were wasted at the UN.

The UN is meaningless other than to waste money and provide patronage jobs for the new aristocracy of the world. Also, it is useful to help make life hellish for Israeli's.

112 dll2000

Is anyone else having problems with the site?

Funny- I was just going to ask that. Pages are loading slower than a Ron Paul backer's ability to get it.

Off Topics

Chaplain suspended, charged for handing out tracts that say terrorists are following teachings of Islam, and that Allah is not God.

Inert Mortar found at LAX.

But the best for last, the incredibly horrible torture of the unscented deodorant and the under inflated sporting equipment!

he was physically as well as mentally tortured there by having to read a newsletter full of 'crap,' being forced to use unscented deodorant and shampoo and having to play sports with a ball that would not bounce.

... he also had his baby pictures taken from him, that cleaners left marks on his cell walls and that detainees have no DVD players or other entertainment.

OT: This the moonbats will like. NOT. "Why There Is No Insurgency in Iraq"

Interview with Stephen D. Biddle. ...Since Sept. 11, 2001, he has specialized in the War on Terror. Most recently, he advised US President George W. Bush on the situation in Iraq and flew to Baghdad to meet with General David Petraeus in the search for a workable solution for Iraq...

Link / In English / May 17, 2007

JOHN BOLTON 2008!

if only..

123 buzzsawmonkey

HUZZAH! HUZZAH!

IDF INFANTRY MOVING IN! ...bout time!

#124 Silhouette

From your last link:

And he complained that he was only given cheap unscented soap and shampoo, and that in the recreation room there is "no weight lifting machine, no toilet, no sink, ho hoops, and even balls them self have little air in them; they hardly bounce."

"They know my weaknesses — what drive me crazy and what doesn't," he said.

This one should get its own thread. LOL!

I think its amazing how excited you get about a straight talking and combative person.

Goes to show how little of it we've had on our side of the isle (out of public officials). We are starving for a Bolton type.

Guess were tired of eating sh*t sandwiches.

Bolton for Regional Governor of the U.S. Protectorate of England. :)

OT just a little: Lovely..just lovely...our immigration policies stun me in this time of war. Oh, that is right, we aren't at war. Oh wait..we are at war! I'm so confused!

I'm watching McCain smile as this crazy immigration bill heads to the Prez.

I'm so damn pissed at my GOP. )-:

Puts me in mind of one of my favorite movies, A Fish Called Wanda:

"Oh, you English think you're so superior, don't you? Well you know what you'd be with out us, the old U.S.A. to back you up? I'll tell you - the smallest fucking province in the Russian Empire, that's what! If it weren't for us, you'd all be speaking German now, singing 'Deutschland, Deutschland, uber alles'!"

1) Playing a sport with a ball that doesn't bounce is either lawn bowling, cricket, or squash. I contend that we have yet another reason why superior Brits' heads are empty

2) The interview was great. Bolton is quick, unflappable, and articulate. Unfortunately he is also apolitical, which makes him come off as arrogant and abrasive. However, his grasp of the facts, and his ability to answer at the drop of a hat to loaded questions in a way that leaves no room for rebuttal is wonderful. I am sure he left the interview writing off the host, as he should have. The Brits, I am sure, hated the interview. Americans, though, should have had their eyes opened if the did not already.

3) If this shows nothing else, it demonstrates why GWB is going to be a historical enigma. Right on the issues, unable to communicate effectively or persuasively, unlike his predecessor, who was the equivalent of the village idiot, but could have sold ice to penguins. That is exactly why the nomination is open for Fred Thompson to snatch away, IMHO.

4) Bolton is a national treasure. We should just recognize that and set him loose. Unfortunately that won't happen for another couple of years, which is time and talent wasted, IMHO.

So, this guy, he says' that he was just playing "Devils Advocate"

By asking lefty/anti-American/moonbat questions?

Kind of proves who's side the devil is on, don't it?

It's official - the Republicans in the Senate have caved in on immigration.

The amnesty is here.

This man needs his own radio or tv show.

I've often thought this guy looks a lot like John Bolton.

2.7 trillion $ Amnesty bill...lovely

OT-

Maybe it's just me, but 1700 bombs sounds like a lot of dern bombs, I don't care how small they are.

Three Thai workers were arrested today for illegally possessing 1700 small bombs and a large quantity of fertiliser, police said.

I can't find anything more than these three paragraphs. Perhaps the company had a genuine need for the explosives (demolition?), and just went over their approved limit.

But maybe not. I'm interested to know more.

It is a beautiful thing when Bolton or Hitchens go head to head with one of these left wing hacks masquerading as a journalist...

133 Dustoff-507 5/17/2007 12:41:20 pm PDT

I'm watching McCain smile as this crazy immigration bill heads to the Prez.

He's such a manipulative politician. I sat back and listened to the tripe he spewed in this last debate. His whole answer on the torture aspect...he was so smug and snobby that HIS legislation will FIX our torture problem...

I have only one shred of respect for him for his service in our country but that is IT! He's not too far off from murtha, he just is a little more snakey about it.

Where's tfk?

Wow. How can that guy (interviewer) say he is not a leftist? Every single question was aimed at how everything is the US's fault!

Loved it when he said "Typical British Snob"...or something to that effect. Apologies to any British Lizards out there, but this interview is the poster child for snobbish Brits...

#125 PatFromGermany

From your link,

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Are you saying that there is no anti-occupation struggle in Iraq?

Biddle: Yes. The American occupation is widely resented. On the other hand, for many years, the only people who were shooting occupiers were Sunnis, and the only places they were doing it were in mixed and Sunni sections of Iraq. In the Kurdish north and the Shiite south no-one was shooting occupiers. The Sunnis were shooting occupiers not because they are occupiers but because the Americans were enabling what they fear to be Shiite oppression.

Interesting stuff, thanks!

Danes returning artifacts to Afghanistan and sending more troops.

KABUL (AFP) - Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen handed his Afghan counterpart a small, ancient replica of a lion, saying it was the first of 4,000 Afghan treasures his government would return.

Danish border police had a few years ago confiscated a hoard of Afghan artefacts that the government wanted to bring back to the country, Rasmussen told reporters at a media briefing with President Hamid Karzai.

Afghanistan has lost most of its ancient heritage through its decades of war in which looting and smuggling was rampant.

About 1,300 ethnographic and archaeological objects were returned in March from a museum in Switzerland.

Koskidz cry "Censorship!"...
Daily Kos: Quote IOF, you are peace maker; Quote Palestinian, you are a terrorist

Yesterday, which marked the celebration of the Nakba, Daily Kos blew the last bridge it had with the Palestinian voices. Midday GMT, the news started coming. They first banned Umkahlil, later on they banned me, and last but not least, they banned Anna Baltzer. Why? Nobody knows. No reason is given. ...

I really feel sorrow for leaving because I will miss the peaceful voices of the silent pro-Palestine majority at Daily Kos. However, I’m glad that I made more friends than enemies while there, no matter what happens. Just keep in mind that if you want to be seen as a peacemaker, stop applauding the war criminals and supporting the IOF terrorists. On the other hand, watch your back if you quote any Palestinian. You will be tagged as a terrorist.

Good bye “Zionist Occupied” Daily Kos!

Koskidz want the return of the torrist supporters: Restoring The Palestinian Voice To Daily Kos

Bolton, you magnificent bastard, you!

Never change. Keep sticking it to douchebags like this interviewer. I'm surprised the BBC guy didn't ask him if he was a fan of Karl Marx, for chrissakes. I mean, jeez.

#124 silhouette

he was physically as well as mentally tortured there by having to read a newsletter full of 'crap,' being forced to use unscented deodorant and shampoo and having to play sports with a ball that would not bounce.

... he also had his baby pictures taken from him, that cleaners left marks on his cell walls and that detainees have no DVD players or other entertainment.

Aww...the poor wittle muswim tewwowist...so sad.

#143 Highrise

I have only one shred of respect for him for his service in our country but that is IT!

This passes and his goose is cooked for the PREZ.

If Bush does sign this bill, that's it. I'm done will the GOP.

#125 PatFromGermany

This interview/article makes perfect sense.

3 years ago one of my relatives who was stationed in Iraq (this person went through doors and helped round-up the "insurgents") sent me e-mails and described to me what was going on over there. I thought at that time, "Iraq is in a civl war." And I had expressed that opinion.

Today, I'm more convinced. The Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis don't want peace, they want to win.

Melanie Phillips: Bolton v the BBC
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Update on Possible Alien from Central America that could Visit Cuba, then hit Bahamas or Florida!

Canadian develops a full hurricane from this

Yurpian also develops this, but drives it towards Nicaragua and Honduras

Of course, this has nothing to do with the tropical disturbance that tries to develop, but runs out of time, sucked up by the East Coast trough, and its tropical heat and moisture thrown over the shallow layer of clammy Canadian air, for a rainy and windy weekend in Eastern NY and New England!

#141 myself

Hmmm.

Three men are arrested today an hour or so north of Bangkok with 1700 "small bombs."

In another story, a "small bomb" went off in Bangkok recently, near the palace, therefore police are stepping up security

They would also install CCTV cameras at 1,700 points, he said.

re #153

May 17, 2007
Bolton v the BBC

For afficionados (if that’s the right word — maybe sado-masochists would be more appropriate) of the closed mindset of BBC Radio Four’s Today programme, this morning’s exchange (0840) between its Grand Inquisitor John Humphrys and the former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton was an absolute peach. Bolton was on because of his remarks discussed here about Iran and the alleged disloyalty of British Foreign Office officials in countermanding British government policy over Iraq. The exchange started coolly enough, so much so that for a while I thought Humphrys was for once going to conduct an interview about US foreign policy without betraying his own views.

But then things took a sharp turn for the worse when his incredulity at what Bolton was saying — which, because it was based on truth, rationality, sense of proportion and intellectual honesty clearly struck Humphrys as utterly preposterous – prompted him to claim that America had ‘destroyed everything’ in Iraq. Bolton told him sharply that this was totally untrue, that various Iraqi ministries had remained functioning, and that although undoubtedly America had made grievous mistakes in Iraq, that fact did not invalidate toppling Saddam in the first place. It was that point — that logically unanswerable point —which Humphrys just couldn’t get his head round.

So he then started spluttering — causing Bolton to make a remark about the extreme left-wing bias Humphrys was revealing by his questions. This was the one error Bolton made: he assumed that the visceral anti-war, anti-American bias he was correctly picking up from Humphrys’s ever-more self-revealing questions must be left-wing, whereas it is of course the default position of what passes for the British centre-ground. However, the fury provoked by Bolton’s remark led Humphrys progressively to reveal yet more deeply questionable assumptions — such as the fact that George Soros was attacking Bush and the war furnished the proof that such opposition was not left-wing and, by implication, principled and right. This caused Bolton to laugh out loud in amazement — as well he might — at how a mainstream broadcaster could have fallen for Soros’s anti-Bush, anti-west manipulation. Humphrys then suggested that Paul Wolfowitz had lost his job at the World Bank because he was ‘fatally flawed’ — which led Bolton, who by this time was audibly open-mouthed at the apparently unstoppable stream of false assumptions and prejudices with which every question was being loaded, to point out that a) Wolfowitz was not yet out and b) he was not fatally flawed.

As a demonstration of the astounding prejudices of the BBC mindset, the loaded nature of its questioning and the assumptions it makes about its interviewees, and the circular fact that by definition such a mindset makes it simply impossible for it to acknowledge even the possibility that it might have descended from the summit of Mount Objectivity into the gutter of twisted journalism, the spat could hardly be bettered. The BBC is now a totally closed thought system, and if John Bolton didn’t know that before, he certainly knows it now.

Neutral interviewer my arse, Humphrys may even be left of Dan Rather.

137 Ward Cleaver

I think I'll wait to judge it that way until I have a good look at it. Democracy is the art of compromise, after all.

It's amazing the interviewer can so blithely spit out a decidely anti-American talking point as calmly as if he was ordering a pint of bitter at the local pub.

Still, that he has an ax to grind is given away by his question about anyone who disagrees with Bush is automatically branded a leftist. Even as he makes the comment I can instantly hear the average Dem say "anyone who opposes the war is branded unpatriotic" or some other nonsense.

#128 akak "IDF INFANTRY MOVING IN! ...bout time!"

Link, please?

OT

When I log in, there's a checkbox that says Remember me. Checked or unchecked, it doesn't DO anything. Do I have to adopt a certain oral posture for it to have some effect? Whats up with that, anyway? What's it supposed to do?

#130 dll2000

They do get old after a while!

#71 Frog

Notice how touchy left-wingers are getting about being called left-wingers.

It's become taboo amongst their hordes; their tactic is to rely on the old trope "progressive" (progress toward a collectivist utopia).

I recall hearing a radio interview with anti-military goofwad Eugene Jarecki, regarding his anti-military film Why We Fight. The interviewer made some reference to Jarecki's "leftist perspective" or referred to him as politically Left in some way, and Jarecki went nuts trying to deny that he was coming from any such angle. His rhetoric was sky-high laughable.

this is rich

Berkley Accuses Comic of "Hate Speech" for Criticizing Islam...

151 Dustoff-507

mccain acts like he's a tough guy on terror. How am I suppose to believe his tripe on that too? This last debate should PROVE how often he *loved to reach to the other side of the aisle*. I swear he said that on almost every damn issue..and he wishes for me to believe he'd stand his ground on terror?

HAHHAHHAHHHA...can I call him a passive aggressive now?

I'm so disappointed today with this immigration bill...I'm heading to the pool here in an hour...I just don't even know what to do with my rage about this.

Of course I loudly said the same thing as you..done with the GOP..but when I calm down, I know deep down...dems are worse...and even saying that makes me cry..I have little comfort..believe you me, my friend.

Protect your 2nd amendment folks...this should really give you a mere glimpse into the future. And if nothing, I hope some of you see how it CAN come down to the President...to limit the 2nd amendment and chip away at it. I feel like I'm a broken record whenever I post this here..but it's just that I don't think people really realize...and they want to believe WORDS these politicians say..and not watch their ACTIONS...and some really act like they don't see that the president has the power he does to change the 2nd amendment...Just remember, he's last in line..and has the pen to veto a congress that is out of control, like the one we are seeing before our eyes.

URACHICHE, Venezuela — The squatters arrive before dawn with machetes and rifles, surround the well-ordered rows of sugar cane and threaten to kill anyone who interferes. Then they light a match to the crops and declare the land their own.

160

ynet

re #156

The BBC is now a totally closed thought system, and if John Bolton didn’t know that before, he certainly knows it now.

--- Melanie Phillips

#143 Highrise
I have only one shred of respect for him for his service in our country but that is IT! He's not too far off from murtha, he just is a little more snakey about it.

I've always viewed McCain as an opportunist and see his loyalties as wherever the wind blows.

He can spin his "consistency" any way he wants to. And WAY too many oft-repeated talking points.

#137 Ward Cleaver

Today, the Republicans were whores as they tried to placate and woo the Latino vote. They will find that the Latino vote is still going to go to the Democrats next election and people like us are going to stay home. Republicans should expect a beating next election.

And, please, don't anyone tell me that the stakes are too high for me not to vote next time around. I'm going to retire in 15-20 years and I expect to live off the government tit like everyone else.

(Yeah, you bet I'm pissed-off.)

#129 Mama Winger

You might want to avoid wathcing the sports highlights tonight.

The Cubs went into the bottom of the ninth beating the Mets 5 - 1.

They lost 6 - 5.

Ouch babe.

#163 WeaselZipper

Jonathan Wornick, who is on the ‘peace and justice commission’ adivisng Berkeley city council emailed his colleagues with the link, saying it was ‘an honest attempt to bring dialogue’.

Well, there's the problem.

#131 Ezekial 2517

I really like your nic:

Ezekiel 25:15-20

A Prophecy Against Philistia

15 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with malice in their hearts, and with ancient hostility sought to destroy Judah,
16 therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Kerethites and destroy those remaining along the coast.
17 I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my wrath. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I take vengeance on them.' "

:)

151 Dustoff GW Bush isn't the GOP. I'd argue he's been an unmitigated disaster for the GOP. He's wanted this amnesty for as long as he's been on the national stage...

Here's an article from 8/2/2001
[Link: www.vdare.com...]

All of a sudden, it looks like President Bush's plan for granting amnesty to 3 million illegal aliens from Mexico is about to come a bit of a cropper. Then again, just because the word "amnesty" has vanished from the administration's vocabulary doesn't mean the plan is not still on track. Americans who would like to keep the country their forefathers created and left them are well-advised to stay on guard.

Indeed, the administration may be pushing the amnesty proposal even further than it originally planned. The idea first popped up when Secretary of State Colin Powell and Attorney General John Ashcroft unbosomed their recommendation that some 3 million Mexicans in this country illegally be allowed to apply for permanent residency. That, call it what you will, is amnesty.

But it didn't go far enough for Mr. Bush's advisers in the Democratic Party. Immediately smelling the political rat in the Powell-Ashcroft-Bush plan, that the administration was trying to snatch the Hispanic vote out of the Democrats' basket, the Democrats simply outflanked the president. The president's plan, they announced, clearly discriminates against the millions of illegal aliens here from other countries besides Mexico. Why confine amnesty to aliens of one nation? Why not grant amnesty to every illegal alien in the country?

Well, why not indeed? By the weekend, that's exactly what the president was promising to consider. "We'll consider all folks here," he told the press when asked if his amnesty plan was being expanded to include immigrants from other countries.

But, you see, it's still not an amnesty, according to the president himself, who also told the press, "A word was creeping in the vernacular about this issue, called amnesty. I oppose blanket amnesty. The American people need to know that." (New York Times, July 27, 2001, "Bush Says Plan for Immigrants Could Expand")

Well, you bet your blankets they do. But they also need to know that whatever euphemism Mr. Bush and his spinmeisters coin for what they're planning, amnesty is what it will be—for 3 million Mexicans illegals originally discussed, for the 6 million Mexican illegals who are here, or for the 9 to 11 million total number of illegal aliens who are now believed to be here. The word "amnesty" was regularly used throughout the last several months of discussions with Mexico and in the press. Not until the administration stated floating it to Congress and the Republicans in the last couple of weeks—and watching it sink—did anyone stop using the word.

The current alternatives to the A-word include "guest-worker program," "regularization" and "earned adjustment."

#170 3 Wood

The Cubs went into the bottom of the ninth beating the Mets 5 - 1.

They lost 6 - 5.

I just saw it.

Un - poopin - believable.

#165 Mandy

I give Chavez two years before he's hanging outside a gas station, a la' Mussolini.

141 Silhouette

In the stories, a tract titled "Men of Peace?" says Islamic fundamentalists who commit terrorist acts are not "bad Muslims" but "very good Muslims" who act in accordance with their religion. Another tract, titled "Allah Has No Son," says Allah is not God, Muhammad was no prophet and the Koran is not the word of God. Allah is the Arabic word for God, and Muslims believe they worship the same God as Christians and Jews.

Can't see anything wrong with that. Hamza himself said in his defence, that Jihad was doing what allah commanded in the koran. However, so strong is the prescription that Islam is the religion of peace, and so vigorously has it taken hold in the public body, that even the prosecution refused to accept this, and contradicted the good sheikh on his understanding of the koran. God help us.

CHARLES - I shut off 'puter before I went to the doc's office today and when I came back I had to log in again (I didn't log out and I had checked the remember me box). Are we gonna have to Log In everytime we go off LGF or shut down computer?

#109 DP111:

"this is the kind of thing the Bush administration should have been doing from the start, instead of apologising for this and that"

Exactly! Communication has been Bush's downfall. He understands perfectly, but cannot communicate. There's no reason, other than lack of training, that Bush should end up being continually portrayed as a dummy.

Bush has been caught in a media war far greater than a ground war. When Bush's time is up, we should be able to learn from our mistakes by electing someone with the debating skills of Bolton. Bolton would be my choice for 2008 (unless he's been divorced several times or has drug addict kids or is shacked up with his secretary or has done something really naughty in Mexico).

#171 Killgore

Jonathan Wornick . . . emailed his colleagues with the link, saying it was ‘an honest attempt to bring dialogue’.

Well, there's the problem.

Too true, as "bringing dialogue" is usually Leftspeak for "shut them the fuck up."

#163 weasel zipper

‘People should not be allowed to spew racist propaganda without others being able to respond,’

Aaargh! Another of these 'criticism of Islam = racism' fuckheads! And what the hell is he talking about by saying "without others being able to respond"? Isn't his comment in itself a response, albeit a thunderously stupid one?

175 Ward

He's an unmitigated disaster for that country. He's fucking around with the steel industry and now he's fucking around with the very thing that FEEDS people.

148 Killgore:

"Pro-Zionism Daily Kos"?

Now THAT is rich!

Direct link to the audio (RealPlayer format) here:

[Link: www.bbc.co.uk...]

I believe you have to skip past the first 10 minutes to hear the Bolton interview.

#176 DP111

Allah is the Arabic word for God, and Muslims believe they worship the same God as Christians and Jews.

Allah is the Arabic word for Ba'al, and the sons of destruction know damn well who they are worshipping.

#182 WrathofG-d
Daily Kos, now Zionist occupied!

Senator Jim DeMint:

“I hope we don't take a thousand page bill written in secret and try to ram it through the Senate in a few days. This is a very important issue for America and we need time to debate it.”
“But the little we do know about the bill is troubling. According to reports, the bill contains a new 'Z-visa' that allows those who entered our country illegally to stay here permanently without ever returning home. This rewards people who broke the law with permanent legal status, and puts them ahead of millions of law-abiding immigrants waiting to come to America. I don't care how you try to spin it, this is amnesty.”

via Michelle Malkin, who has an amusing poll on her site. I voted "hell no"

166

Thanks, looks like they're bringing up DAT's and arty, too! Woohoo!

We need a Manhattan project to clone John Bolton.

178 Digger Dan 5/17/2007 1:09:26 pm PDT

Exactly! Communication has been Bush's downfall. He understands perfectly, but cannot communicate. There's no reason, other than lack of training, that Bush should end up being continually portrayed as a dummy.

Bush has been caught in a media war far greater than a ground war. When Bush's time is up, we should be able to learn from our mistakes by electing someone with the debating skills of Bolton.

What you said here hits a major bingo with me. Whoever runs for the Republicans MUST be able to work the media...and recognize what is going on behind the scenes within the media.

Perception is everything...unfortunately.

184 mama LOL well, uh, shucks that was funny

Oh, and where does this Soros-lover see the "total destruction of American moral authority"? Even the French prefer America to the Islamofascists. Bolton should have called him on that as well, although he still did a great job.

Bush may hail the malignant immigration reform bill that came out today, but I assure you Republican voters do NOT hail it. To us, the derelict Republican Senators virtually killed the Republican Party (the new third world imports will vote for the Socialist Democrats every time), yet they do it anyway? Risk their own careers? Something SMELLS in the halls of Congress. I don't trust any of those bastards and there is definitely a story behind this story...one I fear is VERY bad for the future of American sovereignty.

Immigration Bill.

A. Everyone's forming opinions and screaming bloody murder and no one's even read the damn thing (it's 1000 pages).

B. It still needs to pass the House.

C. You'll never be able to deport 13 million people anyway.

/of course it'll never be perfect, but we need to do something, at least read it first before you throw a hissy fit

185 Killgore:

Do you happen to know the "quote" that got the complainer banned?

#186 funky chicken

I heard Tony Snow (thank God he's back) on Rush's show yesterday talking about this bill. From what he said, it sounded like those applying for legal status would have to pay the fine and go to the back of the line, and any infractions would mean deportations.

I haven't followed this closely, so I am not an authority - only repeating what Tony said.

Jeff Sessions! Still my hero...and Saxby Chambliss too. Yes, the other supposed republican senator from GA is slobbering all over himself to support this amnesty, and has been for a while.

WHY THE REPUBLICANS ARE STAMPEDING TO BACK THIS AMNESTY

The majority of Republican Senators last year voted against the S. 2611 amnesty that passed.

But at a noon meeting today with nearly all GOP Senators, Sen. Kyl outlined the amnesty agreement he had negotiated with Sen. Kennedy. Our sources say only about three Senators raised concerns. Most of the rest were saying things like, "If you think this is a good idea, John, I guess that should be good enough for us."

Pres. Bush and staff have been brilliant in moving Sen. McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Martinez (R-Fla.) into a more secondary role and persuading conservative leader Kyl to lead the negotiations. Kyl is able to lead many Senators to follow him who would otherwise not support an amnesty of any kind.

At the moment, the only Senators whom we feel relatively certain are opposing this new amnesty are Sen. DeMint (R-SC), Enzi (R-Wyo.), Crapo (R-Idaho), Vitter (R-La.), Allard (R-Colo.), Sessions (R-Ala.), Chambliss (R-Ga.), Grassley (R-Iowa)...

[Link: www.michellemalkin.com...]

#173 Funky Chicken

Yes I know that GW is not the GOP. But because he is the Prez, he has much control over it.
Remember him pushing to save/reelect Spector. What a stinking mistake that was for all our us. That guy is just like McCain.

You just watch out border control guys get flooded when he goes to sign it.
My party has just shot itself in the foot with a SHOTGUN...

I'm getting depressed by the linked stories.

Sigh.

I think I'll listen to Ambassador Bolton again to cheer myself up, dammit.

163 WeaselZipper Thanks for the link.

British stand-up has been accused of spreading ‘racist hate speech’ in California.
Pat Condell has faced a barrage of criticism after links to his anti-Muslim monologue on YouTube were circulated to commissioners in the city of Berkeley.

In the five-minute video, Condell condemns Islam as a religion of war and its prophet Mohammad as ‘some rambling ancient desert nomad with a psychological disorder’.

He attacks fundamentalist men as ‘primitive pigs whose only achievement in life is to be born with a penis is one hand and a Koran in the second’ and accuses women who wear veils of their own will of being ‘mentally ill’.

‘If God had intended for you to cover your face then in His wisdom He would have provided you with a flap of skin for the purpose,’ he said.

Jonathan Wornick, who is on the ‘peace and justice commission’ adivisng Berkeley city council emailed his colleagues with the link, saying it was ‘an honest attempt to bring dialogue’.

But his actions have caused a political storm. Commissioner Michael Sherman said Condell’s views were ‘stunning’ because of his ‘stereotyping and bigotry of the tone and the language’.
And commissioner Elliot Cohen called the tape ‘insulting, degenerating and racist’.

‘People should not be allowed to spew racist propaganda without others being able to respond,’ Cohen said. ‘It’s not about free speech - it’s hate speech.’

Michael Sherman and Elliot Cohen should listen to what Muslims are saying all the time, from one end of the Islamic world to the other, and even here in the UK. And they are not joking.

More power to Pat Condell.

195 mama Rush was all over that today. Snow gave the old "Snow job" to Limbaugh. Rush was pissed today.

Snow did the same thing to Laura Ingraham a couple of months ago over the jailed border patrol agents. She was really, really pissed and vented on her show.

America is often portrayed as an ignorant, unsophisticated sort of place, full of bible bashers and ruled to a dangerous extent by trashy television, superstition and religious bigotry, a place lacking in respect for evidence based knowledge. I know that is how it is portrayed because I have done my bit to paint that picture…
-BBC’s Wash DC correspondent Justin Webb

To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed…
-George Orwell, 1984

3 wood, mama winger...

Ahhh... I was in a meeting I come back and check the score and see my beloved New York Metropolitans win... Wow...

Sorry for your Cubbies... I do think they are a pretty tough team... Fix up that buillpen and they win 3 of 4.

Like the part about none of these so called "amnesty" provisions taking effect until the border is certified as secure.

/again, read it

"The Great Neo-Con Adventure", who writes this shit? Do they have an Emotion-Laden Meme generator somewhere?

I can't believe that guy invoked the Unholy Name of Soros as an example of anything worth invoking... LOL. Literally - Bolton laughed, and rightfully so. He might as well have asked about Noam Chomsky.

#193 Killen

/

of course it'll never be perfect, but we need to do something, at least read it first before you throw a hissy fit

Sorry buddy, but if Kenndy is all for it... WERE IN BAD BIG TROUBLE!

#194 WrathofG-d
He's the one who posted a neo-nazi video last month but they didn't ban him then, I think they're just cleaning house over there to get rid of some terror supporters and anti-Semites.

The only thing Bolton could have done better is when asked the about the "great neo-con adventure", would have been to say, "I'll answer that if you can correctly define the term 'neo-con'".

The term really has no meaning now other than as a general slur against the muscular use of power in defense of America or freedom. But I would have love to have heard this guys definition.

Other than that...Bolton '08!

Counterterrorism Blog sums up the national security implications of "Amnesty '07":

And those names of the applicant aliens...those aliens who, for whatever time period they have been “undocumented” (illegal) in the United States, wherein so very many have procured and utilized false and fraudulent identification documents often in false identities...suddenly the Government will accept as true whatever those applicant aliens tell the Government on those applications and in those interviews. An undocumented alien who procured and used false documents would lie? Well, not when applying for genuine status in the US...right? So, we can be absolutely certain of who all these newly legalized persons truly are, correct? Their statements will be truthful and their support documents not fraudulent and false, right? So, when the overburdened CIS personnel...to include those minimally trained contractors...quickly process all those applicant aliens, with the primary mission of reducing the huge case backlog, the American public can feel confident in the integrity of that process that no foreign criminal or terrorist will possibly slip through the system and be granted legal status...a “path to citizenship”...like so many others have during normal immigration times.

Add to the inevitable processing breakdowns will be the inevitable “me too” class action lawsuits. Large segments of excluded illegal alien populations will invariably obtain savvy legal counsel who will initiate Federal Court legal challenges to the law, claiming their clients should also be entitled to the benefits extended to others under the statute. This happened as a result of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, the other supposed one-time only legalization/amnesty, and those lawsuits lasted more than a decade resulting in many tens of thousands more illegal aliens ultimately being allowed to remain in the US. It will surely happen again.

The devil truly is in the details. Conveniently for the politicians on both sides of the aisle pushing for a feel good bill, they are ignoring real world details in all this. If what is being proposed on the Hill becomes law, contrary to what some political leaders claim, there will be significant security risks emanating from the process.

"Significant security risks emanating from the process" is probably understating the danger by an order of magnitude.

192 stuck the smell is coming from the White House, and has been since, well,

I can't say Clinton was any better than Bush here, so 1992?

I have zero idea if Bush 41 was any better, so hell, it could be 1988.

Thompson/Bolton '08

OT: Immigration fiasco

I may be wrong but I vaguely remember a poll on illegal immigration/amnesty and the vast majority of Americans were not in favor of that. Now tell me this, why are we being ignored? And this is not just a Republican issue many Democrats feels the same way. I'm just totally frustrated and royally ticked! Folks, we're witnessing our culture swirling down the drain.

203 killian So, who gets to "certify" that the border is "secure?"

Spare me...

Will it be "secured" with "high tech fencing" that doesn't actually have any real fence?

Since he was on the panel of a UK political show I adore him completely. He laughed at the audience's stupidity and said that you people can't be serious in saying that the UK and the US are not democracy.

I would say Bolton for President, but I'm from Central Europe.

#119 DP111

Saw both series and rented the dvds as well. Think I have a "Yes Minister' book somewhere too.

Having worked inside the system (defence) these brilliant shows were a must view.

The reality is however that both State and any other foreign office in the western democracies are chock a block full of liberals or left of centre brain deads who are absolutely shocked that anyone might disagree with anything that all the staff agree on.

Hence Bolton is out of his job at the UN.

Bolton needs to ditch the dumb looking glasses and get a real haircut, something that doesn't look like (the late) John Denver visited Donald Trump's stylist. Once he does that, once he becomes less of a target for outward appearance nit-picking, I say run him up the flagpole for pres in 2008. He's great!

America needs someone who can speak, and isn't afraid to boast of America's greatness in an otherwise hostile climate.

#200 funky

195 mama Rush was all over that today. Snow gave the old "Snow job" to Limbaugh. Rush was pissed today.

I didn't hear that. I'll have to read the transcript on Rush.com later on tonight. I think he usually posts his shows after 8 ET or so.

My blood pressure won't take listening to that twit.

Yeah right, they "do it differently" in the UK and he "only asks questions".

He asked leading questions that steered the conversation in a direction he hoped would cast aspersion on the US and Iraq. Typical Leftist dishonesty and Bolton slammed the piss-poor interviewer but good.

#212 funky chicken

Spare me...

Well, what do you want to do? You got a plan for deporting 13 million people? Maybe start by going door to door in L.A.?

/why don't you spare me, because that ain't never gonna happen

One thing that I heard about the bill that I liked is that welfare and other aid benefits would be cut off for those who could not show they were here legally.

#192 stuck in ca

No, no, no. They will know that the Republicans along with the Democrats helped them get legal and be grateful. Republicans always beat Democrats in the pandering game.
///

See you next amnesty in 20 years. We cant deport 40 million people ... blah, blah, blah

We just got sold out in a bi-partisan fashion so there's no price to pay for Democrats who will be promptly registering millions of new voters with promises of free stuff. Meanwhile, La Raza and Meecha go to work on the young'ns.

#204 Pawn of the Oppressor 5/17/2007 1:22:41 pm PDT

"The Great Neo-Con Adventure", who writes this shit? Do they have an Emotion-Laden Meme generator somewhere?

I think he means the "Non-Existent Neo-Con Adventure" perpetrated by "Non-Existing Neo-Cons".

Nope, nothing biased in the word "adventure".

219 killian I'm a build a real fence RIGHT NOW and then we can discuss the rest later gal.

Where in any of my posts on this issue over the last 5 years have you sensed I'm a "deport em all" advocate?

I am not.

Don't build that straw man in front of me, thanks.

The other thing I heard is that employers would have to verify legal status by use of a biometrics card (?), or risk losing their assets.

I'm not sure how I feel about that. (The biometrics bit, I mean. Not employer verification.)

Over at HuffPo they have their usual anti-Semetic article of the day

Israel Targets Hamas With Three Airstrikes

Along with the typical hate or Jews comes these astounding call out's by several posters:

I asked a question, yesterday, which remains unanswered:

Exactly how many missiles are supposed to be fired at Israel before they're allowed to strike back?
By: rand on May 17, 2007 at 01:00pm

and:

Israel, defending yourself is obviously not working. Try the American progressive liberal approach:

1. Blame yourselves and your country for the violence and hatred directed at you.
2. Petition your government to surrender.
3. Despise and hate the brave men and women of your military.
4. Form a coalition with your MSM outlets and the terrorists.
5. Be mad, stay pissed off and hate everyone with an opinion different than yours.
By: jdccc on May 17, 2007 at 01:01pm

Amazing that these were allowed at HuffPo.

My step-father owned a large company in Chicago - a household name. He always employed illegals because they worked hard and for crap wages. If this law had been in effect when he ran the show, things would have been different.

And rightly so. I always resented him doing that.

Killan...

We slam the border shut..
We make it hard to hire them.
They will leave on their own. I know not all, but we must follow our laws or it means nothing.

John Humphreys = Idiotarian of the Month? He could run for Idiotarian of the Year. As for Bolton's responses to this moron's questions, I just about busted a nut laughing.

Bolton for President! No nonsense. No $hitting around. Just pure business.

I sure do miss that man. Though now that he is no longer part of government he does not have to be so circumspect in his views. How about Bolton on the bottom half of a Rudy or Mitt ticket?

I have an idea:

Ambassador John Bolton for President

Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Attorney General.

193-

A. Everyone's forming opinions and screaming bloody murder and no one's even read the damn thing (it's 1000 pages).

The little we have heard is ALREADY unworkable and unfair. The rest of it can only go one way...downhill.

Yes, we have to do something...stop the bleeding first. Then enforce immigration laws and remove ALL incentives to stay here. If they don't leave on their own, they can live with the fear of deporation hanging over them. They ARE lawbreakers. Why is it our job to make that easier for them? We have people who come here LEGALLY. Amnesty doesn't improve anything, never has, never will.

#223 funky chicken

I'm a build a real fence RIGHT NOW and then we can discuss the rest later gal.

And that seems to be exactly the general plan here, secure the border first and then these other provisions kick in.

/at least wait until it passes the House and the two bills get reconciled

When I was 10 years old, my heroes were Johnny Bench, Steve Austin and Billy Kilmer.
When I was 19 years old, my heroes were Joe Strummer, Tom Waits and Robert Deniro.
By the time I was 30, I had become a Christian and was done with hero worship.
Now I'm in my early 40's and I have heroes again.
A big "I'm not worthy!" shout out to John Bolton, Victor Davis Hanson and Thomas Sowell!
(By the way, Billy Kilmer
is still my hero.)

From the John Bolton jukebox.

Ohhh, Ive got a lovely boot for a Limey...
A stupid Limey...
A snotty Limey...
Singin kick-im in the balls a penny a pitch!

This is what I just wrote to the White House:

"How disgusting. Our country has been sold out today. If you had guts, Mr. President, you would veto any bill giving this amnesty to lawbreakers.

"My husband came through the immigration process legally; later this summer he is eligible to and will proudly apply for citizenship. Why did we spend all of that money and time to do things legally? Because we both love this country and respect its laws & sovereignty.

"Wish I could say the same for you and your administration, the Congress, and all of the illegal aliens that you obviously esteem much more than American citizens.

"The actions of you all demonstrate no respect for the United States. How do we explain this utter disregard by our own government for our country and its laws to our children? The illegal aliens' lack of respect is more understandable.

"It devastates me to say that I now regret I ever voted for you."

Now watch . . . my husband's citizenchip application will be denied.

Oh well . . . I did as conscience dictated.

I have a question. My daughter went to college with a girl whose parents came here from Mexico illegally back in the early 80's. This girl was an infant then, and grew up in America. At the time my daughter knew her, she was a sophomore in college, paying her own way.

What would the procedure be for people like her? Would they have to be deported to a country where they never lived? Could they apply for citizenship? Would they be subject to a fine ?

203- Killian Bundy

Like the part about none of these so called "amnesty" provisions taking effect until the border is certified as secure.

And you believe that shit? These are the same people who have been looking the other way when it comes to law already! They are never going to secure the border because that does NOT fit their open border agenda. Please! This is a JOKE.

Tancredo Slams Senate Immigration Plan

U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo (R-CO) today criticized the Senate immigration plan penned by Sens. McCain (AZ) and Kennedy (MA) and President Bush.

It's funny how some newsites refer to it as just the kennedy bill, conveniently dropping mccain's name off.

Tancredo concluded, “This amnesty plan will be a slap in the face to hard working Americans and those who have come here to work legally. I just hope Speaker Pelosi keeps her promise to bar amnesty legislation from the House floor.”

I just hope that the house of the cut and runners won't pass it either. I'm not holding my breath though.

237 Stuck-in-CA

I for one..DO NOT!

#219 killian bundy

Well, what do you want to do? You got a plan for deporting 13 million people? Maybe start by going door to door in L.A.?

We could damn sure deport every one who gets stopped for speeding, driving drunk, shoplifting, drunk and disorderly, possesion, dealing, working without a green card, fighting, etc. ad nauseum.

If we closed the borders that attrition would go a long way to addressing the problem

#232 Killen

Didn't we already give money for the fence?
I believe yes, and how manys miles are built?
Only two miles from what I've read.

sorry but I see nothing but a shell game going on.

209- funky chicken

192 stuck
the smell is coming from the White House, and has been since, well,

that does NOT explain why these Senators are risking their careers to go along with Bush. Bush is finished, he's a lame duck President. These guys have to RUN again. Yet they go against the voters? I'm telling you...it doesn't add up on the surface. Something is in play we have NO idea about...and they don't WANT us to know for good reason. Because it's worse than what we are already angry about.

#237 Stuck-in-CA

And you believe that shit? These are the same people who have been looking the other way when it comes to law already! They are never going to secure the border because that does NOT fit their open border agenda. Please! This is a JOKE.

Then what difference does this bill make anyway?

/I give up

#193 Killian

Immigration Bill.

A. Everyone's forming opinions and screaming bloody murder and no one's even read the damn thing (it's 1000 pages).

B. It still needs to pass the House.

C. You'll never be able to deport 13 million people anyway.

/of course it'll never be perfect, but we need to do something, at least read it first before you throw a hissy fit

Okay it puts all kinds of limitations on people here illegally if they want to get citizenship. Pay a fine, etc. Basically, your going to need to create a new govt. department just to handle this bill. Hello patronage and new Dem voters in Gov. union. It will eventually turn into amnesty when all the whining about how onerous it is starts.

Its a red herring. They dont want to enforce the border and this is just another head fake. We've seen it before. The second generation are all U.S. citizens and anchors in the U.S. and that's the real goal.

The only problem I have with amnesty is that we will be RIGHT BACK IN THIS SAME SITUATION IN 20 years, maybe less.

They say they will secure the border first? I want to know EXACTLY how they plan to do it...because if it is not solid, we will be back in the same situation again and forced to naturalize 40 million next time...

WE CANT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN. If the border is not sealed, this amnesty cannot go through.

Also, there is a provision that says that to get the Z-Visa, the illegal must pay a $5000 fine. WTF? Does anyone in their right mind think that anymore than 5% of illegals can afford that (probably less)

Plus how many cites have told their police to NOT report illegals.

I would like to know just how many "holes" are in this bill.

#240 abu

We could damn sure deport every one who gets stopped for speeding, driving drunk, shoplifting, drunk and disorderly, possesion, dealing, working without a green card, fighting, etc. ad nauseum

I think that is actually a part of this bill. Not sure.

man, I loved the part when Bolton laughs right in the Beeber's face
what a guy!

Anyone who wants amnesty for people whose first actions in coming here was to break the law ought to publicly advocate the burning of all passports and should himslef travel to a foreign country without benefit of said passport and then make untold demands on that country's social services etc. If anyone can come up with a term, analogous to chicken hawk, which fits such a person as I have just described, please post it.

Do these Senators really think that this is what the american people want?

If so, they are damn naive...

We don't want this, we don't want them out and border enforced... Period...

Now is the time for Senators who oppose this to leave the Republican party and form a new party...

I keep getting involuntarily logged out. Someone is trying to tell me something ...

Anyone find a list for these sell outs? I'm looking all over and can't find it.

I know for sure mccain voted for it since he helped put the bill together and some force out there doesn't want his name to be associated with it because on most of the bs I read today anyway...the bill was associated with kennedy..only a few sources said mccain too.

#193 Killian Bundy

Immigration Bill.

A. Everyone's forming opinions and screaming bloody murder and no one's even read the damn thing (it's 1000 pages).

B. It still needs to pass the House.

C. You'll never be able to deport 13 million people anyway.

/of course it'll never be perfect, but we need to do something, at least read it first before you throw a hissy fit

A. The problem is that most of the pols who will be voting for this bill have no idea what it says either!

B. Some hope here, still.

C. Yes, you can deport 13 million people by making most of them deport themselves:

1) Enforce the laws already on the books by fining and/or imprisoning the people who employ the illegal aliens in the first place. This is what is attracting them here. Only 1% of the illegals are actually working in agriculture. The rest of them are either crowding our prisons or are taking jobs away from our own working poor (e.g. the construction industry).

2) Deny all but genuine emergency services to illegals who are bankrupting our hospitals with all the "free" medical care they are receiving now.

3) Deny the welfare and education benefits the illegals are getting at taxpayer expense.

4) Remove the "anchor baby" loophole in the constitution.

5) The Matricula Consular Card is a sham ID that is not accepted by any Mexican financial institutions. Hold our own banking institutions to the same standards to prevent illegals from opening accounts and obtaining home loans. When the majority of them default on their loans, the US taxpayer will get stuck with the bill.

Do those five things and 90% of the illegals will go back to their homes in Mexico on their own. The rest can be rounded up and deported.

Giving amnesty to the illegals will produce the same result the amnesty of 1986: a tidal wave of more illegal immigration. Heck, the immigration service is still processing the amnesty applications from 1986!

A bottle of white Infidels

Killen

Please don't get us wrong, but like many here, were just tired of the BS when it comes to this bill and not inculding how much Kenndy likes it.
Be afraid, be very afraid!

232- Killian B

And that seems to be exactly the general plan here, secure the border first and then these other provisions kick in.

No offense, but please! They already passed a bill to build 750 miles of fence. They have built 2 miles. They aren't building any fence and they will NEVER secure the borders. The Chinese built a wall the DAY after the No.Koreans launched their missile test. If a nation wants to secure it's border, it does. Ergo...

This is precisely what the Dems want to win the White House back...

#219 Killian

We could start with enforcing the laws that already exist such as fining companies and businesses that hire illegals. Then triple the fines and give these greedy businessmen and corporations prison time. (OK, special legislation for farm workers.)

I don't buy that line "Well, they're already here..." Our parish priest tried to sell us that and I didn't buy it from him, either. I know what the illegal immigration enterprise did to fucking up wages and working conditions in the meat packing plants in Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. And I know what it's like to have your identity stolen from illegal immigrants.

This is all about the Republicans bending over for the Latino vote and the Democrats dream of Open Borders and the Worker's Paradise.

Hissy fit? I don't think so.

257 tfc3rid 5/17/2007 1:52:11 pm PDT

This is precisely what the Dems want to win the White House back...

Smart tactic.

#250tfc3rid

Do these Senators really think that this is what the american people want?

I really dont think they care. For every person that doesnt vote for them because of this, they are thinking about a huge new voting block of the newly legalized illegals.

But what these idiotic republicans do not grasp (unfathomably) is that 90% of this new Mexican/American/Amnesty crowd will vote Democrat...

Here's a transcription of the interview. There may be some mistakes because I can't do a final edit, but probably not too many (I hope)...

BBC: Tony Blair is in Washington, his last meeting today with President Bush as Prime Minister. It's been a close relationship, far too close for many people. How will Gordon Brown handle it? I'll be talking to one of the more controversial figures in Mr. Bush's administration over the years, John Bolton. Mr. Bush appointed Mr. Bolton to be his Ambassador to the United Nations, but the Senate refused to ratify him and he had to resign. I'll be talking to him about America's foreign policy in the final 18 months of the Bush Presidency, and about the Bush-Brown relationship.

Bolton: Whenever leaders change they have to establish a new personal and political relationship. Prime Minister Blair had an excellent relationship with Bill Clinton and many people thought he would not be able to establish something that close with George Bush, and yet he did. I think the real issue, uh, is whether the Brown government will continue a strong stand on the War on Terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere.

BBC: He may see the threat that Mr. Blair saw. He may also feel and certainly if he accepts a lot ot the advice he's getting, he may also feel that our approach to it, driven by the United States, has been profoundly mistaken.

Bolton: I think it's been a shared decision on things like Iraq in particular, and if he chooses to reverse Prime Minister Blair's policy, he's obviously free to do that. I think that would be a mistake.

BBC: But then you thought it was a mistake the fall of the British Ambassador, Mr. Greenzog to behave the way he did.

Bolton: Well, I thought that the approach to Security Council resolutions that the U.K. took before the overthrow of Saddam was incorrect. Yes, that's right.

BBC: Because?

Bolton: Because I don't think there was any need to go back to the Security Council. I think we had full authority to the extent of the Security Council matters from Iraq's continued breaches of Resolution 687, the so-called Cease Fire Resolution from 1991, and when the cease fire was broken obviously the original authorization to use force returns.

BBC: But you said in The Telegraph that ?Scaren Greenstock? worked to undermine Mr. Blair's American stance in the United Nations and you suggested that he did so with the support of the Foreign
Office.

Bolton: I haven't seen the interview in print, but I think there have been a number of occasions where the Foreign Office wasn't carrying through on what Prime Minister Blair's policies, just as often happens in the United States, the State Department is not loyal to the President's policy.

BBC: And you believe that that continues to be the case?

Bolton: I think in several respects, yes, I think that this is a real problem in both democratic theory and of institutional compliance with democratic mandates in Washington and in London.

BBC: You don't believe that Foreign Office professionals have a responsibility to advise their political masters?

Bolton: I think they can advise us if they want. I think the real responsibility is to follow orders when they're given clear orders, which they often do not do.

BBC: And you have evidence of that?

Bolton: Repeated experience for over 25 years in American foreign policy whee I've seen it in operation, including being told on a number of occasions by British staffers that their ambassadors were not following instructions from London.

BBC: Do you believe that that is continuing?

Bolton: Oh I don't think there's any question about it.

#147

I guarantee that all those artifacts are going to be destroyed, just like they destroyed those Buddhist statues. It is semi-official policy in Islamic countries to ignore and destroy the history and artifacts of jahiliyya ("pre-Islamic period of ignorance").

I'm for deporting Cubs fans.

243- Killian B

Then what difference does this bill make anyway?

It doesn't make any difference to the illegals who are HERE (since the govt will never deport them), but it will bring in even more. The whole thing is a bad joke.

245- mad scientist

Also, there is a provision that says that to get the Z-Visa, the illegal must pay a $5000 fine. WTF? Does anyone in their right mind think that anymore than 5% of illegals can afford that (probably less)

I'm sure somewhere in the fine print, we will learn that the taxpayers will be subsidizing THAT TOO.

Ok, this may seem quite Off-Topic, but it's actually UN-related.

New ‘War Czar’, Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, Advocated Troop Withdrawals
Transcript accompanying this Jan 2006 interview w/ Charlie Rose is incomplete, but here's a taste:

DOUGLAS LUTE: Whatever the political arguments, Charlie, there are at least two good operational reasons that we would like to see a smaller, lighter, less prominent U.S. force structure in Iraq. One is this perception of occupation that a large American force brings with it. Today, there are about 140,000 American troops on the ground in Iraq. We would like to bring that down and undercut the enemy propaganda that in fact we have designs on Iraqi resources or Iraqi bases and so forth, and that in fact we`re really just masquerading as an occupation force. So we want to undercut that perception.

Undercut the enemy propaganda. Excuse me? How is dancing to enemy propaganda a winning strategy? For us I mean.

I said UN-related...
Pentagon general to be 'war czar'

He is married to Jane Holl Lute, a former U.S. Army officer, who is now the assistant secretary-general for peacekeeping operations at the
United Nations

258 hot rod kid Yes, a man used to be able to support a family working in those plants. Not any more, unless that family is willing to live 30 to a 1500 square foot house "mexican style."

The same is happening to a lot of construction trades now.

The GOP politicians have to be getting something for committing political suicide here, but I just can't see what.

Bush has been pro-amnesty for years, and got elected twice to POTUS, so maybe the rest of these jokers think it won't cost them either.

I don't think they will have the great fortune to be running against Al Gore or John Querrie.

The Dems see that the Republican party is splintered (see how some of us are saying that we never will vote Republican again or vote incumbents out of office) will only give the Dems stronger control over Congress and will surely give them the White House...

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jane Holl Lute
Executive Director, Role of the America Military Power (RAMP), Association of the United States Army
June 6, 2000

Jane Holl Lute, Executive Vice President and COO, United Nations Foundation: Interdependence in the 21st Century

PND: The United Nations Foundation was established in 1997 with a gift of $1 billion over ten years from Ted Turner. In creating the foundation, Turner clearly was making a statement. What was it, and for whom was it intended?

JHL: I think people may underestimate the genuine impulse that drove Ted Turner to make his gift. As he said when he made it, he wanted to do something that was meaningful and reflective of his own values and priorities. And at some level, it was a statement about those values, and about himself, and about his belief that people of privilege and means should do what they can to help others. I also think it was, elegantly and simply, a statement to all of us, that to those whom much is given, much is expected — and certainly that much more can be done.

PND: Is Turner involved in the day-to-day activities of the foundation?

JHL: Well, he's chairman of the board and, as such, engages in the broad governance of the foundation.

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JANE HOLL LUTE OF UNITED STATES AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

Video: ASG Jane Holl Lute Talks About Women, UN Peacekeeping

Interview with Jane Holl Lute

Guest blogger: Jane Holl Lute | UN Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations

Not many people know this, but the United Nations’ peacekeeping force represents the world's second largest deployed military operational presence in the world.

Skeered yet?

very impressed...glad to see i'm not the only one who wants to disband the treacherous state dept. too bad we didn't get to hear much from him when he was in the spotlight. hope to hear much more from Bolton in the future!

btw is that Hitchens interviewing him?...rofl

#263 DD

I'm for deporting Cubs fans.

Without the Cubs how will you know when the Apocolypse is coming?

---continued---

BBC: And the effect of that is what?

Bolton: Well I think it's a pernicious effect on the U.S.-U.K. relationship and that's one reason why the dealings between the Prime Minister and the President are so important and why I think Prime Minister Blair did have a profound effect on President Bush's thinking in a number of respects.

BBC What should his thinking be on Iran?

Bolton: I think that we now have, after nearly four years of the EU3 effort to negotiate Iran out of its nuclear program, we now have conclusive proof that they're not going to be chatted out of it. They're determined to proceed, they've mastered many of the technical obstacles they had encountered previously, and they're moving towards complete domestic mastery over the nuclear fuel cycle. What that tells me is that only pressure will work, up to and including regime change if need be and, as a last resort, the use of force.

BBC: What sort of force?

Bolton: I think the force you could contemplate would be destroying one or more links in Iran's nuclear fuel facilities to prevent them from accomplishing what they need to do to get highly enriched uranium or plutonium that they could weaponize.

BBC: Haven't we learned anything from Iraq?

Bolton: I think that what we learned from Iraq is that we have overthrown one regime that was a threat to international peace and security, but I dno't think the unfortunate situation we see in Iraq today is an argument against the use of force, if need be, to overthrow an incumbent regime like Saddam's.

BBC: And do you believe that the Middle East is a safer place now than it was before Saddam Hussein was overthrown?

Bolton: I think that the foundations for a more secure place are there. You have to look at the circumstances, for example, after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. When we responed, on could say that the Pacific was a more dangerous place, but we were onto making it a far safer place.

BBC: And how many more people must die in Iraq before you begin to have any second thoughts about this?

Bolton: Well, I think that's a question largely for the Iraqis themselves.

BBC: So, we go into a country, we destroy everything that existed in that country...

Bolton (interrupting): Well that's just flatly wrong. That's just flatly wrong.

BBC: Which part is wrong?

Bolton: That we destroyed everything in the country. What we destroyed was the Baath Party dictatorship.

BBC: We destroyed all the institutions is the point I was making.

Bolton: They, they...C'mon now – the fact is that the ministries, The Ministry of Agriculture and others below the political leve,l continuted their work. The instrument that we destoryed, much as in the case of Communist parties around the world or Nazi or Fascist parties, was we destroyed the Baath Party. That's an entirely good thing.

BBC: We demobilized the army, we send home, we send home hundreds of thousands of soldiers with nothing better to do than go and shoot each other.

Bolton: The conduct of affarirs after Saddam leaves a lot to be desired. There's no doubt about that. But that does not go to the antecedant question about whether it was right to overthrow Saddam.

BBC: Really?

Bolton: Of course not.

BBC: You mean to say that the greatest power that the world has ever seen can march into a country and destroy the existing institutions and then say, “Look if it all goes wrong afterwards, don't blame us”?

Bolton: Of course that's, of course that's not what I said. Wqhat I said was we had overthrown Saddam
Hussein which was the right thing to do. I think, in retroscpect, what we should have done is turn more authority over to Iraqis earlier.

268 tfc3rid Limbaugh said today that if this makes it into law the GOP is finished for 2008. He said the base won't trust the bastards to do what we want anyway, so why go out to vote or donate to any candidates?

Jeff Sessions and Saxby Chambliss are still on the good list.

It seems Senator Kyl has chosen to jump off...and it makes zero sense to me why he would do it.

Without the Cubs how will you know when the Apocalypse is coming?

The Texas Rangers will win a playoff series.

---continued---

BBC: Isn't the political reality that because of Iraq, and because of the massive damage it has done to America's moral authority in the world, what you want to do in Iran, whether or not there's the support for it ultimately, cannot be done. It simply can't be done because America is now, in this sense at least, a busted flush.

Bolton: You're absolutely wrong. I don't think there's any sense of that in the United States which is the place that it really matters, and those people who hold...

BBC: Have you looked at President Bush's latest poll ratings?

Bolton: I'm talking about the country's view of its role in the world as a whole. And the people who express the point of view you just expressed I think were largely anti-American beforehand anyway.

BBC: People like George Soros?

Bolton: Are you kidding me? This is a man of the extreme left. I'm sure you would find a great deal in common with him, as would many others on the Continenet. But that is not anywhere close to the view of the majority of the American people -- whatever President Bush's current poll ratings.

BBC: Do you make the assumption then that because one asks questions, perfectly valid questions about the conduct of American policy, that one is on the extreme left?

Bolton: I can see it from the content of your questions and the perspective from which you're coming, and from the direction that your questions are taken. If you tell me that you're a conservative, I'd be happy to accept it.

BBC: I would tell you that I'm neither conservative nor left-wing nor right-wing nor middle-wing because...

Bolton: You have no views at all? Your brain is empty, you have no views at all (laughing)...

BBC: I have an awful lot of views, Ambassador, a view for every subject under the sun but I don't express them during the course of my interviews – I ask questions.

---hard to get exactly correct transcription here as they go back and forth quickly---

Bolton: Oh they're your questions