The BBC world service website recently released the results of their 2004 presidential poll. Of the sixteen linguistic ethnical groups surveyed, Persians were overwhelmingly the most supportive of President Bush. In fact, over fifty two percent of Iranians preferred Republican George W. Bush to challenger John Kerry who'd received a minuscule forty two percent of the vote. Thus, surprisingly, unlike in the United States where the presidential race was relegated to a couple of percentage points, in Iran - President Bush won by a landslide.
Numerous other sources of plausible acclaim have confirmed these results. Renowned intellectuals, as well as award-winning journalists have written pieces on this critical issue. For instance, Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times who spent an entire week in the country recently wrote, "Finally, I've found a pro-American country.
Everywhere I've gone in Iran, with one exception, people have been exceptionally friendly and fulsome in their praise for the United States, and often for President George W. Bush as well." Thomas Friedman another Pulitzer Prize winner and ardent critic of the war in Iraq wrote "young Iranians are loving anything their government hates, such as Mr. Bush, and hating anything their government loves. Iran . . . is the ultimate red state."...
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Via Powerline/Dailypundit: Didn't Chrissy Matthews also say that O'Neill or minions went over to the USSR and told them ignore Ronnie??? Remember the old conservative charge that many of the Democrats here in America were playing footsie with the Soviets? Some Republicans even said the Russians viewed the Democrats as their favorite party. Now bombshell revelations prove these accusations beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Peter Schweizer, a Hoover Institution research fellow, has just written a new book, "Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism." This book may well force historians to revise the history of the Cold War. Schweizer, after scouring once-classified KGB, East German Stasi and Soviet Communist Party files, discovered incontrovertible evidence that the Soviets not only played footsie with high-ranking Democrats, they also worked behind the scenes to influence American elections. In "Reagan's War," Schweizer shows how the Democrats worked with Moscow to try to undermine Reagan before and after he became president....
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Jimmuh -the most useful idiot of them all.
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Key word, Rex....idiot. Can't stand the putz myself but would still have a hard time believing that he was an actual commie spy without the evidence. They probably thought he was too incompetent to be one.
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Bombshell? The article seems to be 2-1/2 years old. Where's the New York Times when you need them? Better to give coverage to Scheuer!
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Carter was a f***ing traitor more interested in his own power than the good of his country. When he dies (none too soon as far as I'm concerned) the non-response from the American people will be telling. Oh, and you know the MSM will avoid all coverage of this book. I'd like to throw it in Jimmy's and his schill Mathew's face.
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If this is true Jimmuh should be ostracized and exiled. It makes Nixon's shenanigans with the burgulars look like a halloween prank. R.N. was stupid to cover up for his friends whan he found out, not treasonous.
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The main Democrat undermining sitting American presidents was Ted Kennedy who met with and propagandized for the Soviet Union's Pres. Leonid Breznev and the KGB as has been documented in Soviet Archives. Kennedy also undermined Pres. Jimmy Carter in the Iran hostage crisis. Kennedy's subversion goes back to when he colluded with John Kerry during Kerry's VVAW (which he helped found) anti-Vietnam War, pro-Communist activities after he left Vietnam and while still a naval officer. There are several sourced postings on pelicanpost.blogspot about Kennedy's and Kerry's subversion along with a picture of the two back then with John Kerry in uniform. So, the story of Democrats' collusion with Communists is not a myth. -Jacqueline
(2005-02-16) -- The U.S. Navy on Saturday will commission its newest nuclear-powered attack submarine, the Jimmy Carter, with many new features, including multiple-warhead Nerf missiles.
President Carter, who brought peace to the middle east, vigorously defended America's right to give away the Panama Canal and, in 1994, convinced North Korea to abandon talking about its nuclear weapons, said he's honored to have his name on "one of the most powerful peacemaking devices on earth."
Jimmy Carter is the first of the American Seahare-class subs, featuring a high-tech sonar system which alerts enemy forces to its presence and a safety device on the Nerf missiles which allows firing only after an enemy missile impact.
"This new generation of nuclear submarines is designed to use trust in our enemies as our first line of defense," said an unnamed Navy spokesman.
President Carter has invited leaders from North Korea and Iran to the commissioning ceremony, during which former First Lady Rosalyn Carter, in a time-honored Navy tradition, will give the first order to "man our ship, bring her to life then park her over there by the dock!"
"Run silent, run deep, run away!"
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Ok, so naming a Seawolf class sub after Jimmy Carter is pretty ScrappleFacey. But let's knock of the Jimmy Carter/attack sub jokes because this one is really an intelligence vessel....uhhh... nevermind.
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# 4 was me. I don't know where the Glereper came from. Also, I bet they have plenty of boiled peanuts on board.
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IMOA has found the Captain's log of the USS Jimmy Carter:
...being all that separates us from the sea.
I could never admit to the crew the fear I have, though. Sure, they all joke about how our submarine was hacked together by a group of volunteers on a weekend and how, with our nuclear power, we won't have to wait in gas lines, but most are too young to really remember the unending horror that was the Carter presidency. Still, the crew all seems vaguely at unease, as if they're in a... well... malaise.
It's not like being named after that man is the mark of death, but...
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...the wound stings, but it's only superficial. I have no idea how many rabbits are hiding aboard this vessel, how they got here, and why they are attacking everyone in site. The crew is spooked. They're all taking it as a bad omen, just like how Ensign Chavez nearly choked to death on a peanut. Still, we...
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Sadly, however, the core recommendations of the panel's report, concerning the use of armed force, rest upon wishful thinking rather than empirical evidence. The report evinces a view of a world governed by objective, universal morality rather than by competition for power and shifting national interests. It treats substantive problems as language problems, suggesting that a new vocabulary will eliminate underlying differences. Historical context is either missing or incorrect. The report, in short, exhibits all the familiar shortcomings of old-style Platonic idealism, ignoring the real-world incentives and disincentives to which states actually respond.
Much more at the link.
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Wow. It beats me why these folks are so goddam useless...
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The doctrine of jihad articulates the duty of Muslims to expand the Muslim umma, "to bring as many people under its rule as possible. The ultimate aim is to bring the whole earth under the sway of Islam" (3). "The most important function of the doctrine of jihad is that it mobilizes and motivates Muslims to take part in wars against unbelievers, as it is considered to be the fulfillment of a religious duty. This motivation is strongly fed by the idea that those who are killed on the battlefield, called martyrs . . . , will go directly to Paradise" (5).
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Dollars for dimes says that I am the only poster here who has ever read the entire Bukhari Hadith, and much of al-Tabari. Note the following link:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/
There is resistance to learning the true nature of the Muslim enemy, because there is a fear that knowledge might break the pathological deference to the "Islam is peace" Pollyannas. Ask spin-gulpers like the sk8r boys .com or 2b to state their wretched, wasted life-mottos and you will get: ignorance is bliss.
I love fools like you, walking into a blog-in-process - several years old - actually believing everyone here was just sitting on their hands waiting for Your Highness to arrive.
Obviously, you don't know anything about me, but don't let me interrupt you. You're making yourself the biggest laughingstock to come along in quite awhile. Go for it.
I'm sure the laughter among the regulars is fairly robust, characterizing me as a Pollyanna regards the Islamists, so I don't want you to leave too quickly - end of day banning would be fine.
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Most posters here haven't read Main Kampf either.
The question about Islam is not "what it is?": we know what it is through observing Moslems in action for 1400 years. It isn't even "what to do about it?". The question is "how".
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Ummm .... ITYS, you might want to go through the archives to find out what .com's actual, live, experience in the heart of the Muslim world is, before you try dissing him with an academic link.
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IToldYouSo, you are officially a pretention f&&kwit. Most people at RB are here to learn something and share insights. To my continous surprise, f**kwits don't last here. Too many smart informed people who like to ridicule morons. In anticipation, goodbye, it wasn't a blast.
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Remember the old conservative charge that many of the Democrats here in America were playing footsie with the Soviets? Some Republicans even said the Russians viewed the Democrats as their favorite party. Now bombshell revelations prove these accusations beyond a shadow of a doubt. 
