No Runny Eggs

(H/T – Michelle)

It seems MSNBC is taking web users’ input into what questions they should ask the DhimmiRAT candidates for President in South Carolina. I highly doubt they’ll take mine:

Just who do you consider an enemy of America, the radical Islamists that attacked Americans numerous times over the course of the last 24 years and have as their ultimate stated goal the destruction of America both as it currently stands and as you wish it to be, or Republicans? Please expand on your answer.

If the ‘Rats were truthful, they would answer the latter. If they had any shame, they would hang their heads as the realization of what the Islamokazis want hits them like, oh, a million or so tons of flaming concrete and steel.

(H/T – JammieWearingFool)

The Spectator‘s Melanie Phillips has the tale of Dave Gaubatz, who spent some time in Nasariyah, Iraq looking for Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. Let’s start right in the meat of the story:

Between March and July 2003, he says, he was taken to four sites in southern Iraq "” two within Nasariyah, one 20 miles south and one near Basra "” which, he was told by numerous Iraqi sources, contained biological and chemical weapons, material for a nuclear programme and UN-proscribed missiles. He was, he says, in no doubt whatever that this was true.

This was, in the first place, because of the massive size of these sites and the extreme lengths to which the Iraqis had gone to conceal them. Three of them were bunkers buried 20 to 30 feet beneath the Euphrates. They had been constructed through building dams which were removed after the huge subterranean vaults had been excavated so that these were concealed beneath the river bed. The bunker walls were made of reinforced concrete five feet thick.

"˜There was no doubt, with so much effort having gone into hiding these constructions, that something very important was buried there’, says Mr Gaubatz. By speaking to a wide range of Iraqis, some of whom risked their lives by talking to him and whose accounts were provided in ignorance of each other, he built up a picture of the nuclear, chemical and biological materials they said were buried underground.

"˜They explained in detail why WMDs were in these areas and asked the US to remove them,’ says Mr Gaubatz. "˜Much of this material had been buried in the concrete bunkers and in the sewage pipe system. There were also missile imprints in the area and signs of chemical activity "” gas masks, decontamination kits, atropine needles. The Iraqis and my team had no doubt at all that WMDs were hidden there.’

There was yet another significant piece of circumstantial corroboration. The medical records of Mr Gaubatz and his team showed that at these sites they had been exposed to high levels of radiation.

Mr Gaubatz verbally told the Iraq Study Group (ISG) of his findings, and asked them to come with heavy equipment to breach the concrete of the bunkers and uncover their sealed contents. But to his consternation, the ISG told him they didn’t have the manpower or equipment to do it and that it would be "˜unsafe’ to try.

"˜The problem was that the ISG were concentrating their efforts in looking for WMD in northern Iraq and this was in the south,’ says Mr Gaubatz. "˜They were just swept up by reports of WMD in so many different locations. But we told them that if they
didn’t excavate these sites, others would….

Needless to say, before the CIA finally showed up in 2005 (after the ISG “conveniently” lost all 60 of Gaubatz’s written reports), somebody else showed up to cart off the contents of these weapons, specifically the Syrians and Russians. Gaubatz tried to get the news out, but he was frustrated. I’ll let Phillips continue:

Mr Gaubatz’s claims remain largely unpublicised. Last year, the New York Times dismissed him as one of a group of WMD diehard obsessives. The New York Sun produced a more balanced report, but after that the coverage died. According to Mr Gaubatz, the reason is a concerted effort by the US intelligence and political world to stifle such an explosive revelation of their own lethal incompetence.

After he and an Iraqi colleague spoke at last month’s Florida meeting of the Intelligence Summit, an annual conference of the intelligence world, they were interviewed for two hours by a US TV show "” only for the interview to be junked after the FBI repeatedly rang Mr Gaubatz and his colleague to say they would stop the interview from being broadcast….

So we know that it’s the policy of the federal government to disavow any knowledge of these 4 bunkers. The Democrats in Congress have been asked to investigate by John Loftus, the organizer of the Intelligence Summit, but they’re not touching this with a 10-foot pole. Why? I’ll leave you with the money quote from Phillips:

The Republicans won’t touch this because it would reveal the incompetence of the Bush administration in failing to neutralise the danger of Iraqi WMD. The Democrats won’t touch it because it would show President Bush was right to invade Iraq in the first place. It is an axis of embarrassment.

Courtesy RedState, a message to Queen SanFranNan and Dingy Harry Reid from our troops in Iraq:

Bravo Zulu, guys.

Dutifully “borrowed” from Kate

Revisions/extensions (10:05 am 4/2/2007, with a timestamp update) – Dingy Harry and Russ el-Slimeroad aren’t waiting to introduce their certain-and-swift-defeat bill. Also, I’m pissed enough to unhide the rest of the original.

Revisions/extensions part 2 (5:56 pm 4/2/2007) – Curt at Flopping Aces skewers Reid and Feingold far better than I did below, bringing back the Dingy One’s recent and not-so-recent words to haunt him, as well as el-Slimeroad’s fresh admiration for the last time we retreated and defeated, despite what that lead to. Again, if you didn’t blogroll Flopping Aces, I recommend it after you read that.

(H/T – Owen) Also, there is a salty-language warning here because I am right pissed off. If you want the “clean” version, head on over to No Runny Eggs – TownHall and don’t click the “more” link.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has signed on to Russ el-Slimeroad’s (Moonbat-Al Qaeda) defeat-by-next-April plan, which features a mandatory 120-day start on retreat and no more funds for the Iraq front after 3/31/2008. Reid promises that the el-Slimeroad certain-defeat plan will be voted on by the Senate when (hopefully not “if”) the weaker forthcoming conference plan is vetoed.

A few things:

– El-Slimeroad said, “Congress can’t afford to be characterized as backing down at this point…. If he vetoes it, he’s basically challenging us to accept his will.” Isn’t your desires for dhimmitude and an emasculated Presidency what you and the DhimmiRATs are trying to cram down the President’s and our throats, Russ?

– If a pork-laden, mealy-mouthed “soft” defeat date could only get through the Senate by a single vote, what makes Dingy Harry and el-Slimeroad think that a hard-and-fast certain-defeat will get through? Hey dumbshits, the first rule of compromise is that you start with what you want and go down to what you will accept, not the other way around.

– If the goal is merely the handover of Iraq to either al Qaeda or Iran, why start small and ratchet up when there is no arguable victory in small ball? I think the goal is to find 16 RepubicRATs willing to do what no ‘Rat did in 1999. Impeachment, as we found out, is more a political exercise than a legal or even a Constitutional one, and Senators are more likely to vote for a conviction on a trumped-up charge of defying Congress than for breaking an actual law. Considering that Quislings Cut-and-Hagel and Gor(d)on Smith have embraced retreat-and-defeat, and Cut-and-Hagel recently brought forth the “I” word in glowing terms, they’re at least 1/8th there. I wonder if Hiliary Rotten Von Der Schlikmeister and Barak Bin Obama realize that they’re nowhere on the Presidential succession list, and that the power of incumbency, even one ill-gotten, is nigh impossible to overcome.

Well, FUCK you, el-Slimeroad, FUCK you Dingy Harry, FUCK you SanFranNan, and FUCK you DhimmiRATs.

FReeper eyespysomething, acting on Chuck Cut-and-Hagel’s warning about a possible impeachment of President Bush, created this beaut of a pic and unveiled it on a Free Republic thread on Cut-and-Hagel’s betrayal vis-a-vis the troops in Iraq.

Cut-and-Hagel was the pivotal vote in a 50-48 defeat of an attempt to strip a hard 180-day start to the retreat and a suggested May 2008 defeat from the Senate’s pork-laden version of the Iraq war supplemental. With Mitch McConnell’s high-stakes call to not filibuster this to death and depend on a veto and an inability to override, the next steps are the supplental’s passage and reconciliation with the House’s pork-laden hard-and-later (September 2008) retreat-and-defeat effort. It is high stakes because McConnell’s betting that the ‘Rats don’t want an immediate retreat-and-defeat.

(H/T – Michelle Malkin)

Little Green Footballs found some disgusting pictures from a pro-jihadi rally in…wait for it…

wait for it…

Portland, Oregon.

Michelle says, “Yes, question their patriotism”. I say, “What patriotism?” At least it gives me an excuse to bring out the best flaming protest pic ever…

Since I can’t say it nearly as well as Scott Malensek (guest-blogging at Flopping Aces), I’ll simply give you a very brief Cliff’s Notes version and send you over there for the well-researched and lengthy read (do note I’ve disabled comments/pings for this post; if I get requests, I’ll consider opening them up here).

He notes that almost nobody on Capitol Hill has read one report or heard one briefing on Iraq; this despite repeated public requests from the Congresscritters for those reports and briefings. One particularily-embarrassing episode:

This week, after having been unanimously appointed by Congress, America’s commander in Iraq, General Petraeus took a break from his duties to make a public statement for the first time since taking command. Prior to his press conference, the general (who submits reports to the President every single day) offered to take time for a teleconference with the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority leader (both Democrats). They declined. Instead, they chose to meet with leaders from anti-war groups like Moveon.org and others (some of which are actually socialist groups like ANSWER). After meeting with the anti-war lobby instead of the General that Congress appointed to lead operations in Iraq, Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid held their own press conference and unveiled their latest attempt at ending the war in Iraq by any means other than success. They did not consult with the commanders in Iraq, the experts.

Then, he outlines how the wealthy use essentially-unlimited PACs (the only limit is that a PAC can donate $5,000 to a Congresscritter candidate, twice as much as an individual, and contributions of under $200 to a PAC doesn’t have to be reported at all) to funnel literally millions of dollars into politics.

If you do nothing else this weekend, go read the whole thing.

With a lot more details and updates over at Hot Air…

Iraqi police got into a firefight with a bunch of Al Qaeda in Iraq members on the road between Fallujah and Samarrah, killed a top aide in that organization and, depending on who you believe, wounded and/or captured one Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, the successor to the very deceased Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

‘Tis nice to know that the ‘Rats in the House still have the Algore sense of timing, with their retreat-and-defeat proposal (“unencumbered” by those “pesky” Republicans who wanted to put a support-the-troops amendment in) coming up for a vote tomorrow.

The reason I ask is the presumptive Democratic front-runner, Hillary Rodham Clinton, has shown neither leadership nor conviction on Iraq. Today’s OpinionJournal featured article outlines her move from her husband’s position that Hussein needed to be ousted to Retreat and Defeat. To answer their question, that is precisely the stalwart drift she would bring to the Oval Orifice.