Category: Al Qaeda
By SusanUnPC on Jun 4, 2009 in Al Qaeda, Current Affairs, Gender Bias, Jihadists, Middle East, President Barack Obama, Sexism, Terrorism, Unitary Executive Powers/Signing Statements, Women and Children, Women's Suffrage | 150 Comments
When Peter Daou writes, I read. As many of you know, Peter Daou headed Hillary Clinton’s campaign Web site and her site’s blog operations. I always admired Peter’s attempts to post at Daily Kos (one of his countless tasks), where he was cruelly torn apart for supporting Hillary. But he kept on, hoping [...]
By Col Lawrence B Wilkerson on May 16, 2009 in 9/11, Al Qaeda, Bush administration, Bush/Cheney, Terrorism, Torture | 130 Comments
Bumped up from early Friday morning.
Editor: Reprinted in full with Col. Wilkerson’s and Steve Clemons’ express permission from The Washington Note.
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This is a guest post exclusive to The Washington Note by Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, who is former chief of staff of the Department of State during the term of Secretary of State [...]
By Steve Clemons on May 6, 2009 in 9/11, Al Qaeda, GWOT, Terrorism, Torture | 19 Comments
Joseph Margulies in the Los Angeles Times offers anyone who wants to defend the Bush administration’s embrace of torture a chilling retort.
His bottom line: the administration sold out the values Americans cherish most to torture not a kingpin in the al Qaeda network, but a clerk.
Margulies writes:
By SusanUnPC on Apr 22, 2009 in Al Qaeda, Counterterrorism, George Soros, Intelligence, MoveOn.org, Terrorism, Torture | 124 Comments
(bumped up from Wednesday morning)
George Soros, maybe? The problem in appeasing these activist groups is that there are profoundly serious intelligence-gathering and counterterrorism implications, and extraordinarily time- and energy-consuming legal tasks and confusing agency expectations behind what Obama is suddenly proposing that could suck all the oxygen out of his presidency and the [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 18, 2009 in Al Qaeda, John Batchelor, Larry Johnson, Piracy, Somalia, Terrorism | 0 Comments
SUNDAY PROGRAM CONCLUDED . BUMPED DOWN
Editor’s Note: DON’T MISS LARRY JOHNSON TONIGHT on the Batchelor show at 10:30 p.m. ET, via KFI 640 AM. Check out the full slate of guests and topics tonight. John Batchelor’s KFI show begins at 7:00 p.m., so tune in early. Here are the topics and fellow guests during [...]
By Philip Giraldi on Apr 13, 2009 in 9/11, Al Qaeda, Bill of Rights, CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, National Security, Obama's Broken Promises, Patriotism, President Barack Obama, Terrorism, Torture, U.S. Constitution, Unitary Executive Powers/Signing Statements | 102 Comments
(Susan’s April 13th Note: I AM PISSED OFF. This essay is bumped up because, dammit, I need to restore my FOCUS on the ELEPHANTS in the room! While it’s fascinating to debate the pirate crisis, it is foremost VITAL to focus on the dangerous stories such as Obama’s power-hungry expansion of executive authority, known in [...]
By Old Grumpy Guy on Feb 17, 2009 in 9/11, Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Jews, Jihadists, Terrorism | 179 Comments
Anyone (like Barack Obama) entertaining ideas of western democracies establishing friendly relations with the radicals of the Islamic world should watch this video.
While watching the inflammatory rhetoric of the speaker, remember that this is not a jahidist from Iran but a professor from Kuwait - a country with every reason to be grateful to [...]
By LisaB on Aug 20, 2008 in Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Current Affairs | 123 Comments
I spent some valuable time this morning reading Obama’s speech to the VFW (at realclearpolitics). Frankly, it was depressing. Why? After recognizing a few people and acknowledging current events (Georgia! 9/11! Russia! Iran!!), Obama starts his prepared remarks with this:
Yesterday, Senator McCain came before you. He is a man [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Aug 17, 2008 in Al Qaeda, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Nomination, Flip Flopping, Foreign Affairs, GLBT, Iraq, John McCain, Lobbyists | 344 Comments
There was a big event last night, one that has not received a lot of press yet. No, I am not talking about the Saddleback Forum in which McCain schooled Obush (see, that’s what happens when Obush doesn’t have Hillary to follow and say, “Uh, what SHE said, except, uh, ah, uh…(Incoherent ramblings which continue [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jul 13, 2008 in 4th Amendment, Al Qaeda, Andrew Sullivan, Barack Obama, Civil Liberties, Democrats, FISA, George Bush, National Security, Terrorism | 27 Comments
Our Congress has voted, and the President has signed into law, the “New and Improved” FISA, which will allow the government to spy on us with reckless abandon (I had a post on this, “Thanks Obama For Voting For FISA” yesterday). As soon as the President signed the bill into law, the ACLU filed a [...]
By Sultan Knish on May 27, 2008 in Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Israel, Obamedia, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Samantha Power, Zbigniew Brzezinski | 115 Comments
BY SULTAN KNISH (photo left)
The part time occupation of the part time Jews in the major media outlets for the last week or so has been to tackle Obama’s Jewish problem head on, in the same way that major corporations tackle the public revelation their product is fatally toxic to babies– by shaking their heads, [...]
By Bud White on May 24, 2008 in Al Qaeda, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Clinton, Counterterrorism, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Israel, John F. Kennedy, Terrorism | 116 Comments
The post below was written by Mary Jo Kopechne, PhD, with assistance from Bud White:
Upon being discharged from the Navy, John F. Kennedy worked briefly for the Hearst newspapers covering the newly formed United Nations. He wrote to a friend from San Francisco:
When I think of all those gallant acts that I have seen…it would [...]
By NewHampster on May 19, 2008 in Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Muslim | 88 Comments
Barack Obama – Muslim apostate?
For Al Qaeda, the answer – and the implication – is clear.
By Shireen K. Burkifrom the May 19, 2008 edition of The Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0519/p09s02-coop.html
Stafford, Va. - Osama bin Laden must be chuckling in his safe house. After all, the 2008 campaign could very well give Al Qaeda the ultimate [...]
By Larry Johnson on Apr 23, 2008 in Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Current Affairs | 195 Comments
Face it. Obama is doing a 21st Century update on the Dukakis riff, with this important exception–the Democrats have not committed the equivalent of political suicide yet.
But as Susan notes below, the Republicans are not waiting for the convention to start hanging the albatross of Jeremiah “Goddamn the KKK of Amerikka” Wright around the [...]
By Alegre on Apr 5, 2008 in 9/11, Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Bush/Cheney, Hillary Clinton | 38 Comments
I’m married with children, and I’m a pro-choice, tree-huggin, Million Mom Marchin’, yellow-dog-Democrat :: my e-mail address is HillarysBloggers@yahoo.com
I was at my desk in Washington, D.C. the morning of 9/11 — watched the Pentagon burn from the rooftop of our building — labored over whether hubby and I should pack up the car and get [...]
By Taters on Mar 25, 2008 in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Foreign Affairs, Obama | 45 Comments
As of late, someone from Camp Rajneesh Obama - a surrogate of “he who may not be questioned” - has dredged up Monica’s blue dress drivel. I believe it’s safe to say that topic has been covered at length. However, if we’re going to talk about stains - let’s talk about Sen. Obama’s foreign policy [...]
By Fleaflicker on Mar 24, 2008 in 9/11, Al Qaeda, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Cults, Exelon, Hate Speech, Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. | 124 Comments
Sometimes things are so obvious that they pass us by without notice. Perhaps it is because they are so blatantly true that we choose not to acknowledge them. Or maybe it is that because they challenge our preheld conceptions so strongly that we choose to ignore their reality. Because otherwise we would feel bewildered, alone [...]
By dcmediagirl on Feb 18, 2008 in 9/11, Al Qaeda, Pakistan | 5 Comments
There’s a joke that made the rounds in Egypt in which Jimmy Carter, who’s up for reelection, calls Anwar Sadat to bellyache about his low poll numbers and his fear that he’ll lose to Ronald Reagan. Sadat says: “Don’t worry. I’ll send my finest election observers to help you.”
Upon the observers’ return, Sadat asks: “Well, [...]
By SusanUnPC on Feb 11, 2008 in 9/11, Al Qaeda, Education, FISA, Open Thread | 45 Comments
There they are — past, present, and suspended – MSNBC’s sexist pigs, er, journalists (which besmirches the proud tradition of real, objective journalists, so what should these characters be called?). And did you know it’s gotten so bad that Hillary Clinton says she gets more fair treatment from Fox News than from MSNBC? (I’ve [...]
By SusanUnPC on Sep 15, 2007 in Al Qaeda, Bush/Cheney, CIA, Counterterrorism, Iran, Saudi Arabia | 20 Comments
Imagine the climate adjustment required for that solitary Icelandic soldier stationed in Iraq. The member of the “Icelandic Crisis Response Unit” (Iceland doesn’t have a “formally constituted military”) is actually a media representative in Baghdad, but Bush used him to bolster his B.S. claim of a coalition of 36 countries in Iraq.
Thank you to everyone [...]
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