Political linkage

Mark Steyn writes in the Telegraph:

If you're so inclined, you can spend the week listening to long speeches by George Galloway and Harold Pinter. Or you can cut to the chase and get the message from Maulana Inyadullah. In late September 2001 Mr Inyadullah was holed up in Peshawar awaiting the call to arms against the Great Satan and offered this pithy soundbite to the Telegraph's David Blair:

"The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death."

That's it in a nutshell - or in a nut's hell. And, like Mr Inyadullah, if it's Pepsi or death, the fellows on the streets of London this week choose death - at least for the Iraqis. If it's a choice between letting some carbonated-beverage crony of Dick Cheney get a piece of the Nasariyah soft-drinks market or allowing Saddam to go on feeding his subjects feet-first into the industrial shredder for another decade or three, then the "peace" activists will take the lesser of two evils - ie, crank up the shredder. Better yet, end UN sanctions so Saddam can replace the older, less reliable shredders, the ones with too many bits of bone tissue jammed in the cogs.

Read the entire article here:
It's 'peace' psychosis in a nut's hell

An Iraqi who is enjoying his new freedom to say what he wants has some words for the world that allowed Saddam to terrorize the Iraqi people for three decades:
You owe us an apology

QandO goes through the so-called "resume" of George W. Bush that has been circulating recently, which claims to show how he's abysmally unqualified to be president, and takes it apart piece by piece:
Resume of George W. Bush

What's interesting about this piece is that he fully admits that he can't make a comprehensive rebuttal of all the points in the "resume." As he writes:

I will make no attempt to give a comprehensive rebuttal, for now, because I simply don't know every answer and don't have time to research all of them. I do know enough to deal with many, and you are welcome to fill in the blanks. If you know more, I will post it.....

If the situation was reversed, would the author make that concession? I don't know.

Another rebuttal of the "resume" can be found here (note: it's a pdf file so you'll need Acrobat Reader):
The Truth About "The Resume"

In both of the above documents, I'd like to draw your attention to the refutation of the meme that Bush "went AWOL" from the Texas Air National Guard.

And, finally (for now), the news that you're probably not hearing about on the major news stations and sites (except for Fox News, of course). The Weekly Standard reports that:

OSAMA BIN LADEN and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, logistical support for terrorist attacks, al Qaeda training camps and safe haven in Iraq, and Iraqi financial support for al Qaeda--perhaps even for Mohamed Atta--according to a top secret U.S. government memorandum obtained by THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

Read the entire article here:
Case Closed

I will admit that I'm not completely convinced of the accuracy of this report. It simply sounds too good to be true. I will reserve judgement on it until and unless I hear more.