Why Syria Matters

American intelligence officials are now saying that al-Qaeda was responsible for recent bombings in Syria designed to further incite regime opponents. They also claim that al-Qaeda is not new to the insurgency but has been part of the uprising since the beginning.

The vengeful part of me thinks this is excellent since Bashar Assad is now fighting violent insurgents in his own backyard after assisting insurgents battling the US in Iraq. Another part says that this could be the spark that truly sets the Middle East ablaze.

A year ago, we watched as Tunisia and Egypt overthrew despotic regimes with Libya doing the same--with NATO help--later in the year. We've also watched as the vacuum created by the downfall of the dictators has been filled by hard line Islamist's with a goal of changing these states into Muslim-only nations with Sharia being the law of the land. Al-Qaeda stands to benefit from these new regimes more than any other group. Zawahiri needs state sponsorship to continue his jihad and now he may just have it in northern Africa thanks to the disarray brought on by the uprisings.

But back to Syria. If the insurgency in Syria is successful and Assad is ousted, does anyone really believe that a moderate will take over? Does the Obama administration as a whole and Hillary Clinton in particular really expect that a new Syria will become a democracy and elect a secular leader? No, al-Qaeda will push for some group in the mold of the Muslim Brotherhood to ascend and asset them in doing so. Essentially we'd see a caliphate from Morocco to Pakistan (except Shiite-led Iran) led by like-minded Muslims who wish ill-will to the US and our allies.

And what about Israel? Can Israel idly sit by while Syria and Egypt continue down the road to becoming a Pakistan clone? Of course they can't and if Syria falls, it will not be long until Jordan and Lebanon do as well. Yes, Assad is a thug and a despot but he's also managed to keep Syria stable after his vile father died and went to hell. But he's a thug and despot that we know and he's predictable. The same when Mubarak led Egypt, we knew a thugocracy was better than theocracy. Israel will have to protect itself and no one with any understanding of the history of the region can honestly say that these new regimes will be peaceful towards their only non-Muslim neighbor. The conflagration that will arise is scary as hell to consider. A massed Islamic army would be very disconcerting to Israel and once the fighting starts, the US will be forced to aid Israel while China and Russia will reap huge benefits from double-dealing and arms deals.

Am I saying we should prop up Assad? No f-ing way. What I am saying is that we should learn from what happened in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia and not be so quick to fan any flames against Boy Assad because that fire could burn us and our allies just as easily.

Exit questions: How are the Sunni al-Qaeda able to stir up so much trouble in Syria, which is a proxy of Shiite Iran? Has Iran lost that much clout in the Muslim world?

Ground Zero Imam on Tape Saying Things That Will Not Lead to Nice "Dialogue"

Pam Geller has got the dude by the balls and man, she's a friggin' pitbull:



Quoth the imam:

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: "We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al Qaida has on its hands of innocent non Muslims. You may remember that the US-led sanctions against Iraq led to the death of over half a million Iraqi children. This has been documented by the United Nations. And when Madeleine Albright, who has become a friend of mine over the last couple of years, when she was Secretary of State and was asked whether this was worth it, said it was worth it.

Why am I not surprised to see Madeline Aldull turn up? But I digress. I'll just say that Mr. Rauf is not surprising me at all because this is the shit that al-Jazeera has been spouting for decades. It's the old "America deserved it and brought it on itself" bullshit we've been hearing from jihadi apologists and liberals (but I'm redundant) for ten years. I mean, what's next, is he going to say that Bush knew and fat ass Mikey Moore portrayed facts in Fahrenheit 911? Uh, yeah:

How many of you have seen the documentary: Fahrenheit 911? The vast majority - at least half here. Do you remember the scene of the Iraqi woman whose house was bombed and she was just screaming, "What have they done." Now, I don't know, you don't know Arabic but in Arabic it was extremely powerful. Her house was gone. Her husband, I think, was killed. What wrong did he do? I found myself weeping when I watched that scene and I imagined myself if I were a 15-year old nephew of this deceased man, what would I have felt?

And please don't miss his racism, rabid anti-Americanism and all-around hatred of freedom...my Lord, he's the next liberal savior now that Obama has tanked in record time.

Go read all of Pam's post. I've not linked to her often because she sometimes goes to extremes in my opinion but damn, she nailed the imam on this one and I'd imagine that those opposed will climb to three quarters in a week or so.

Exit question: What's the over under on Obama calling Bloomberg and/or the imam (who's jetting around the world on our nickel) and telling them to pull the damn plug before the Dems lose 100 seats in November?

Obama's Seinfeld Moment

You may recall the epic Seinfeld episode where a woman thought Jerry and George were gay prompting them to utter "we're not gay--not that there's anything wrong with that".

Obama now finds himself in that situation as 20% of Americans believe he's a Muslim. That can only expand as he foolishly waded into the Ground Zero mosque issue when he didn't need to. He hasn't changed perceptions by not attending church either as his earlier worship place was led by Reverend Wright and also hurt him politically.

Now the White House is falling all over themselves to ensure the country that our president is a God-fearing Christian by God. He loves the baby Jesus and everything about him. He is led in his decisions by his relationship with the Lord don't ya know? He makes a Southern Baptist look like a pagan with his devoutness.

Oh Lord, please let me not hear anymore of this:

"President Obama is a committed Christian, and his faith is an important part of his daily life," Deputy White House Communications Director Jen Psaki told CNN. "He prays every day, he seeks a small circle of Christian pastors to give him spiritual advice and counseling, he even receives a daily devotional that he uses each morning. The President's Christian faith is a part of who he is, but not a part of what the public or the media is focused on everyday."

Translation:

"He's not a Muslim (not that there's anything wrong with that) and is a hard-core Christian. He doesn't even own a Koran and if he did, it was never looked at. There's no secret mosque in the Oval Office and he really isn't a big fan of those Muslims but has to keep up appearances. In short, he's not a Muslim (not that there's anything wrong with that). He makes Jerry Falwell look like a friggin' wiccan."

Jeez dude, get a backbone. Be a man and say that while your father was a Muslim, you chose not to be. Quit the charade that you're a devout Christian, you sound worse than Bill Clinton. I'm a die-hard Conservatarian and will gladly admit that I go to church for weddings and funerals for the most part.

How bad are things on the Ground Zero mosque with Obama? DEMOCRATS are wishing Bush would come to the rescue.

Gutless NYT Hack Slams the Bravest Woman Alive

Nicholas Kristof has always been a solipsistic little prick. His writing always trended to the grandiose and was aimed at elitist's who would tell their friends in Manhattan what a genius he is. That pretty much describes the entire staff of the opinion section in the Times but I digress. The fact that the Wall Street Journal is destroying the Times and pretty much no one actually pays attention to the op-ed section except for laughs is beside the point.

Most times he's one of those guys real thinking people ignore except in that rare instance he actually writes something intelligent but this time he needs to be focused on like a laser. This time he went after a woman who exhibits more guts on a daily basis than the douchebag Kristof has in his entire petty existence.

The beautiful and brave Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been marked for death for leaving Islam and was directly named as the next target when radical Islamist savages murdered film producer Theo van Gogh. She suffered through genital mutilation at age five and escaped an arranged marriage set up by her own father. She's had to live in fear everyday while the impish Kristof was eating at Elaine's and bravely impugning Bush twice a week. The most danger he's faced was getting in front of fellow columnist Frank Rich at the Christmas party buffet.

Andrew Roberts takes down the dickhead in what is the must-read of the day.

Here's a Pamela Geller post from a few years ago that describes just how much liberals can't come to grips with Ali.

Comedy Central: Channel of Pussies

As I've mentioned myriad times, South Park pushes the envelope in ways TV has never seen. Comedy Central has mostly had Trey Parker and Matt Stone's backs when faced with withering criticism. Those days are over as they've acted like good dhimmi's as directed by the Koran:

Comedy Central bleeped out all references to the Prophet Muhammad in Wednesday night's episode of the animated show "South Park."

The episode was a continuation of last week's episode which depicted the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit.

A radical Muslim website threatened the show's creators following that episode.

Comedy Central confirmed to FoxNews.com that it had censored the show, and that the episode was not available on its website.

In addition to bleeping the words "Prophet Muhammad," the show also covered the character with a large block labeled "Censored."

Read the whole article as they went so far as to bleep the ending, which was a conversation between Stan, Jesus Christ and Santa Claus discussing intimidation an fear.The irony is so thick you need to brush it away from your face to paraphrase James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams.

Hot Air has much more as does the pithy Glenn Reynolds.

Update: The beautiful and brave Aayan Hirsi-Ali makes her feelings known as eloquently as ever on Anderson Cooper's show:

Trey Parker and Matt Stone Targeted for Offending Muslims

Seriously? Anyone who has watched fifteen seconds of South Park knows that Parker and Stone thrive on offending people. No one is safe from Kyle, Cartman, Butters, Stan and once upon a time; Kenny (before that unfortunate evening at TGIFridays).

Here's the gist; Parker and Stone wrote an episode whereby Mohammed has a serious superpower:

What is Muhammad's super power? No one can criticize him.

Something celebrities would die -- or kill -- for.

But they weren't making fun of Muhammad. They were making fun of Muslims like Zach who are the only group of religious zealots who threaten violence every time they are offended.

Which makes this whole thing perfectly ironic.

Here's a snippet (backward for some reason) and the entire episode can be watched here:



Some idiot "artist" puts a picture of Jesus in a jar of piss and no death threats or fatwas are issued. Stone and Parker show Bhudda snorting coke in the episode above and know that Bhuddist's aren't going to run amok and behead people.

The greatest right we as people have is the right to freedom of speech and expression. Stone and Parker have taken that to an extreme but they must be supported or we will end up with laws like those in Canada and Britain that restrict that right under penalty of law.

As an aside; there's a reason people like I are called South Park Republicans; we abhor any restriction on free speech and freedom of thought. While South Park pushes the envelope in every episode, I support their ability to do so. Plus, the show is just frickin hilarious.

Religion of Peace (TM) Continues to Show Why

You can judge a culture by how they raise their young and help the old. With that in mind, what do these tell us?














Story here. Via Tim Blair.

Sunday Evening News & Notes

The Eagles won in a nice come-from-behind victory. Lost Avant and D. Jackson for who knows how long.

Here's what's new:

-Obama can't blame the screw-up of the party crashers on Bush even though he'd love to. No, he'll let the USSS take the blame.

-The Swiss are a bunch of jingoistic, racist Islamophobes for trying to retain what is left of Swiss culture. Good for them taking a stand to protect what remains of a great nation.

-4 police officers are targeted and killed in an incident in Washington state. My prayers to their families.

-Tiger Woods has always been a man I admired. He never listened to the Sharpton's of the world who dearly wanted him to speak out on race issues. He has been one of the three best athletes I've had the pleasure of watching. I have always felt that athletes should be left alone off the field unless they choose to be in the spotlight--something Woods' has not done.
Update: Woods responds on his blog.

That said; he has to get out in front of this and quick. I think he's protecting his wife but talk to the police, dude.

-Sarah Palin is still packing them in and the majority are women.

-Vote early and vote often!

Update: Why are Jews Liberals? It's a question I've asked myself numerous times over the last two decades.

Change With No Hope: Obama Bails On Israel

For more than 60-years the government of the United States has had a special relationship with Israel that was considered strategic, cultural and technological. That may now be coming to an end.

Obama's speech yesterday to the worlds Muslims was in effect a major change in US Middle East policy. By engaging the Muslim and Arab world, Obama will have to change our relationship with Israel and he effectively did so yesterday.

Yes, there have been strained moments but when we needed an ally in the region, we had one who would take care of the dirty work we needed done. Whether it be taking out the Iraqi nuke facility at Osirak or the Syrian atomic facility, the Israeli's acted with professionalism and incurred the wrath of the hand-wringing world for our strategic interests as much as their own.

The Israeli public is apoplectic and the Obama administration has placed Netanyahu in an awkward position at home. By courting the Arabs, Obama has effectively shunned the Israeli's and their quest for security. His actions will only embolden Ahmadinejad and Assad while also giving rise to a renewed fundamentalism in Egypt and Jordan.

The Arab world has never supported us and won't now. They'll speak in platitudes and soundbites that will look good in print but will continue to do what they've always done; work against our interests for their own self-preservation. Name one reliable ally we've had in the Mideast. Saudi Arabia was nice to us when they needed our protection but would just as likely push for $200 per barrel oil and make us grovel then help us in any real way. I guess we could count Kuwait but their proximity to Iran and Saudi Arabia would ensure major instability should they be too vociferous in backing our aims.

So we find ourselves at the dawn of a new era, an era that sees us disengaging with an old, reliable ally and engaging with those who bred and, in fact, encouraged through state media attacks on our interests at home and abroad.

The Obama Speech in Cairo

Reactions run the gamut on the speech and I guess it depends what each individual was expecting.

My thoughts are that it was a well-crafted speech although a bit too long. The audience didn't not grasp the applause lines except when it was either Obama quoting the Koran, praising Islam or bashing Israel, which is about what I expected.

All in all however, the speech projected weakness. Arabs as a whole and Muslims in particular respect one thing and that is strength. If one is powerful he deserves respect and if not he doesn't. It goes back to their tribal roots and has never left them. Obama came off as weak and he is the leader of the US so we did as well. At least he didn't bow to King Abdullah again and really make us look pathetic.

I think he had some fine points to make but didn't have the guts to say the words "terrorism" or "terrorist" and shied away from talking about the 9/11 attacks. He also neglected to note that Iraq is now a growing democracy--the first in the Mideast and, in fact, belittled the effort. Plus, he's going to sell out Israel regardless of his words.

Reactions around the blogosphere range from "awful" to "surprisingly good" to disappointment.

Other reactions here, text of the speech here.

I'm hoping this is the last of the America Sucks tour. It's akin to The Who doing their seventeenth annual farewell tour.

Obama: America a Muslim Nation

That's news to me. But in Obamanation, everyday brings news you never thought you'd hear in this once-great land of former opportunity.

First we read that the Israeli Knesset is worried the long US relationship with that country has reached a nadir and now we have this striking statement by BHO:

HAHN, Germany — As President Obama prepared to leave Washington to fly to the Middle East, he conducted several television and radio interviews at the White House to frame the goals for a five-day trip, including the highly-anticipated speech Thursday at Cairo University in Egypt.

In an interview with Laura Haim on Canal Plus, a French television station, Mr. Obama noted that the United States also could be considered as “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”...

While our founders decided more than two centuries ago that we, as a nation, have no state religion, we have always been considered a Judeo-Christian culture. Now, less than four months into his term, Obama has relabeled us.

Maybe we can live up to his words and implement sharia law--I vote we start in San Francisco--like they have in Saudi Arabia and parts of Pakistan. You know, lopping off arms for theft, stoning women who have been raped for they committed "adultery" and knocking stone walls onto suspected homosexuals. That sounds like the America I want.

Muslims make up a very small part of our nation and have been welcomed and treated as Americans but we are far from a "Muslim country". That said, while we have embraced them, they consider themselves Muslims first and Americans second and there in lies the rub. Add to that the fact that many are openly at war with America.

As an aside, I know that not all Muslims are terrorists and we shouldn't label them as such but the left in this country is painting all Christians with the same brush as the abortionist-murdering Roeder, which is the same thing.

Well, Obama seems comfortable now being labeled the first Muslim president after chastizing anyone who even muttered anything about his now-proud Muslim roots so maybe he's just expressing a hope.

Tuesday Night News & Notes

It's been a busy day but everything is sunny for the economy if you just ask Ben Bernanke.

Here's what's going on in the solar system:

-Strong arm tactics more akin to the Corleones than the government of the US. Life in Obamanation continues unabated but a great deal poorer.

-Remember when liberals used to complain we weren't doing enough about Darfur? I've not heard Darfur mentioned in about 106 days or so.

-Don't you love it when those who still believe global warming is man-made try to rationalize away clear concise facts rebutting global warming staring them in the face?

-More great moments in socialized medicine.

-The Obama administration will not release the pix of Air Force One scaring the bejesus out of New Yorkers and Bloomberg unloads on him for it. He will release incendiary pictures of "torture" at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo that will inflame Muslim nations, however.

Friday Morning News & Notes

TGIF

-Ari Fleischer ups the ante and says he'd be more than willing to testify on water boarding. I'm starting to really hope the Dems chase the "torture" issue and they do get Cheney and others on the stand. The American people will get the real facts and the House and Senate will look more inane than ever.

-Remember when W called himself The Decided and was always so sure of himself? Remember that people got on his case because he wasn't nuanced enough and was always so sure in his position? He was ridiculed. Obama makes Bush seem wishy-washy by comparison.

-ABC outs the men who developed the water boarding strategy. Our intelligence-gathering capabilities take another hit thanks to the media.

-Gates says it's too late on Iran and nukes regardless of what we do. Thank you IAEA and the UN for protecting the world.

-The media have greatly over-hyped the swine flu. I'm not surprised but it has caused almost as much panic as the photo op last week in NYC by Obama's plane.

-Pakistani singer murdered in honor killing in Taliban-controlled region.

Tuesday Night News and Notes

Here's what's new in the world while we await word from on high from The One who's due to speak to a joint session of Congress in a little under 2 1/2 hours.

-"it appears that Islamic theocracy promotes rather than represses social decay."

-New head of Homeland Security ignores the 600-pound gorilla in the room.

-World Affairs and Strategic Interest. Terri hits one out of the park.

-Treacher knows exactly what Obama will say this evening.

-Irony of ironies; a NASA satellite launched to study "climate change" failed to make orbit and crashed into the water near Antarctica and it probably melted some ice while doing so. Millions of our tax dollars are now a stage for the latest penguin production of Happy Feet.

-DICK Durbin tells Roland Burris it's time to go and don't let the door hit you in the ass. Can DICK go with him, please.

NOW Actually Notes "Honor Killing"

Generally when the left-wing National Organization for Women (NOW) speaks out on an issue, it's one that will cast Conservatives and/or Republicans in a bad light. Whenever it's a democrat such as Bill Clinton, the myriad media hacks who smeared and degraded Sarah Palin or the various stonings, rapes and hangings of women in Muslim nations, they suddenly clam up.

Not today as I guess the beheading of a woman by her well-known Muslim husband was just too horrifying and close to home. But of course, she tempers it:

The gruesome death of Orchard Park resident Aasiya Zubair Hassan — who was found decapitated — and the arrest of her estranged husband are drawing widespread attention, as speculation roils about the role that the couple’s religion may have played.

...“This was apparently a terroristic version of honor killing, a murder rooted in cultural notions about women’s subordination to men,” said Marcia Pappas, New York State president of the National Organization for Women.

She decried the scant national media attention paid to the story, which broke the same day as the commuter plane crash that killed 50 people in Clarence.

While domestic violence affects all cultures, Muslim women find it harder to break the silence about it because of a stigma, she said.

While many cultures suffer domestic violence and it's generally against women, no other culture I've read about uses ritual beheading as often as the Religion of Peace (TM). I can't think of another culture where a woman was decapitated by her husband because she asked for a divorce but then i could have missed it.

Via LGF.

Tuesday Night News and Notes

What's up? Here's what's a happenin'

Rick Moran asks "Wasn't Bush belittled for taking time off during the war?". Yes, I believe he was but he's not, you know, The One.

Yeah, the real money experts seem to be overcome with excitement about the porkulus bill. The market tanked again and is at 7552.60 as we speak.

Woman uses wedgie to subdue car thief. Is there anything a wedgie can't do?

The evils of Islamic political ideology.

The longest ear hair in the world. Yeah, ear hair.

Working at the place depicted in the pic at right tomorrow.

Monday Evening News and notes

It's cold...correction, damn cold in the Northeast. Stay inside, drink a nice adult beverage and peruse these links.

Ace finds this gem: The Iraqi murder rate is lower than it was under Saddam and a whole lot lower than it is in the good old US of A.

The scepticism about global warming is increasing every day.

Human Events names Gov. Sarah Palin Conservative of the Year and deservedly so.

China and India feel the sting. US spending decrease hitting them hard.

Via my Father-in-Law (who should start a blog): Shariah Law, the bailout and AIG.

The MSM always crows that they are better than bloggers because they have checks and balances plus excellent editors. Apparently the NY Times laid those folks off.

Update: Bush confidante Ed Gillespie spells out the facts about the Bush years.

Fort Dix Terrorists Guilty

A home grown cell of Eastern European jihadi's was found guilty of conspiring to attack troops at Fort Dix in central New Jersey:

The defendants were acquitted of attempted murder charges but face life in prison.

The jury spent six days deliberating.

Six men were arrested on May 7, 2007, in New Jersey, as two of them were meeting a confidential government witness "to purchase three AK-47 automatic machine guns and four semi-automatic M-16s to be used in an attack they had been planning from at least January 2006," according to a criminal complaint.

The sixth defendant, Agron Abdullahu, pleaded guilty in October to a reduced charge of providing firearms to illegal aliens and received a sentence of 20 months in prison and three years of supervised release.

Abdullahu told the court in October that, from January 2006 to May 2007, he and Turkish-born Serdar Tatar provided firearms to brothers Dritan Duka, Shain Duka and Eljvir "Elvis" Duka.

The Duka brothers, born in the former Yugoslavia, were in the United States illegally.

It was an interesting case from the start and a hard one to prove but the government presented a compelling timeline and convinced the jury that these men did indeed intend to attack our soldiers.

Islamic men planned to use our openness against us and attack in a style that seems eerily like the attacks in Mumbai. The tactic is most-likely the wave of the future for terror attacks as even the most mentally inept jihadi saw what ten terrorist scumbags did in that city armed only with explosives, automatic weapons and some amphetamines.

This is one more example of just how well the Bush administration has prosecuted the War on Terror. It's a combination of military prowess, legal actions and just plain luck but we've not been attacked on our soil since 9/11 and Bush deserves praise for that.

Obama's Show Vs. Substance

Obama is always about show: fake seals, speeches in Berlin, the whole convention thing at Invesco with fake Greek temple facade and now a new one:

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s aides say he is considering making a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic capital during his first 100 days in office.

So where should he do it? The list of Islamic world capitals is long, and includes the obvious —Riyadh, Kuwait City, Islamabad — and the not-so-obvious — Male (the Maldives), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Some wise-guys have even suggested Dearborn, Mich., as a possibility.

I guess the first question one should ask is why, why is he even contemplating this? Forget the security implications but consider what his aim will be. Will he hold to show terrorist elements that he is a friend of Muslims? Is he showing that he won't be the ally of Israel that every President has been since 1948 save Jimmy Carter? What.

It's a show and one that may have dire consequences. By appearing in front of a large Islamic crowd, he'll be intimating that he supports Muslims and by extension Arab views. The one view they all share is that Israel is the enemy and they will take his speech--regardless of what he says--as proof that he's a supporter of them and their position, you can guarantee that. But he'll then go to Tel Aviv and speak and Muslims will feel let down and will be even more apt to dislike the US. US Presidents speak and the world listens, especially in the Arab world where they are taken seriously more than anywhere else.

It's a can't-win situation that will only inflame the region, especially if Israel strikes Iran in the next month or so going after every site that may hold nukes. Imagine if Obama is slated to speak in Cairo on March 15th and Israel hits in January before the inauguration (as predicted by one who has some insight), anything short of the complete condemnation of Israel will never fly, especially since Hamas is just over the border and is an Iranian proxy.

This is a bad idea and one conceived to assuage Obama's ego. This is no longer the campaign with people screaming his name and other inane slogans that reminded one of the post-sanity Pink addressing the crowd. No, this is the real world where Presidents of the US have to be rational and have to think past the stilted mindset of what he is now considering.

Mumbai Jews Tortured, Liberals Silent

As expected, the Islamo-fascists who targeted the few Jews in Mumbai tortured them mercilessly:

Asked what was different about the victims of the incident, another doctor said: "It was very strange. I have seen so many dead bodies in my life, and was yet traumatised. A bomb blast victim's body might have been torn apart and could be a very disturbing sight. But the bodies of the victims in this attack bore such signs about the kind of violence of urban warfare that I am still unable to put my thoughts to words," he said.

Asked specifically if he was talking of torture marks, he said: "It was apparent that most of the dead were tortured. What shocked me were the telltale signs showing clearly how the hostages were executed in cold blood," one doctor said.

The other doctor, who had also conducted the post-mortem of the victims, said: "Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It was clear that they were killed on the 26th itself. It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details even in my head again," he said.

Corroborating the doctors' claims about torture was the information that the Intelligence Bureau had about the terror plan. "During his interrogation, Ajmal Kamal said they were specifically asked to target the foreigners, especially the Israelis," an IB source said.

It is also said that the Israeli hostages were killed on the first day as keeping them hostage for too long would have focused too much international attention. "They also might have feared the chances of Israeli security agencies taking over the operations at the Nariman House," he reasoned.

Emphasis mine.

The political left in this country wails about waterboarding, which may cause momentary terror but is not fatal and does not leave a physical scar. They scream that Bush supports torture at every opportunity they get but when faced with the proof of real torture, unthinkable torture, they are silent. What could the Muslim terrorists have done that was so brutal as to make a doctor not want to speak or think of it?

Look who commented on this article at Technorati. Glenn Reynolds posted on it so it got wide exposure but still liberals say nothing. This was a hate crime--targeted at a specific group of people--that should be a natural for liberals to discuss. Instead, they have thrown their lot in with Muslims and will never, ever say anything that would make Bush look right in the Global War on Terror. Double that for Israeli's. Add in their blatant anti-Semitism or, at best hatred of Israel and you have the vile ingredients of their collective silence.

Two young people who wished nothing more than to practice their religion were slaughtered after unspeakable torture and liberals say nothing. I guess the Obama search for the next Secretary of Agriculture is of greater import.

These people make me utterly sick; people were tortured in ways that were unthinkable and they say nothing. They slaughtered them because of who they are and nothing more. Who knows, they may even have supported right of return or evacuating to the '67 borders. They were tortured and murdered and we hear nothing from those who claim to care. Pathetic.

Other thoughts here and here.

H/T: Jawas.

Addendum: To be very clear, I feel for all the victims but it is abundantly clear that they targeted and used the most barbaric methods of torture imaginable specifically for the Jews.

Update: more here.

Update: Accuse America of torture and the libs are all over it. Here's the Technorati feed. Just as I intimated above, if it's torture against a man like Zarqawi, the libs are all over it. Torture and murder of innocent Jews, not so much.

Update: It's always funny to watch libs try to justify the senseless killing of absolute innocents, isn't it. I like the way they twist themselves like pretzels to get the Muslims off the hook.