The Persian Gulf Version of Taiwan

Interesting entry from MEMRI

Tension has recently developed between Iran and the Gulf states, particularly Bahrain, in the wake of an op-ed by the editor of the Iranian daily Kayhan, Hossein Shariatmadari, who is an associate of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The op-ed, which depicted the Gulf regimes as "not legitimate" and claimed that Bahrain is an inseparable part of Iran and should be returned to it, provoked angry reactions in the Gulf.

Makes ya wonder why the United States hasn't done anything...yet.

Recaps Of The Day...8/2/07

Drain The Swamp

Two establishments, wrought by the Carter Administration, need to be shut down for waste and abuse...The Education Department and the Energy Department. Part of the "Beltway Bloat" also needs to be shut down...the Endowment for The Arts (whatever that "is")

But funding them adds up; they are part of the Beltway Bloat. They are an offense, as well, to the Constitution and the founders who wrote it.

When the federal government was shut down in 1996, "nonessential" federal workers were told to stay home. It sounds like a joke, but the fact the government employs nonessential workers is clear evidence that it has grown too big.

Katrinafying Minnesota's Disaster

Bodies hadn't even been pulled out of the river in the Minneapolis bridge collapse before President Bush was being blamed. But sticking it to Bush is infantile. Civic priorities are what need re-examination.

Conventional wisdom among Bush-haters has it that "Bush's" war on terror is pulling funds from necessary national infrastructure projects and letting the country fall apart. Democratic demagogues used this to good end in the Hurricane Katrina disaster that hit New Orleans, and then echoed it with the devastating tornado that flattened 99% of Greensburg, Kan., this past May.

Amazing? Read on.

The Reuters' Woopsie

For the sake of a scoop, the Reuters wire service placed 21 innocent Korean hostages held by the Taliban in dire peril. It's time the establishment media paid real penalties for their misdeeds.

Frustration of The Legislative Body

Whatever the case, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., was unusually frank when he told reporters that despite his best efforts, the Senate would pass the ethics and lobbying reform bill Thursday.

The problem, he explained, was that his Senate colleagues have "reproductive organs the size of BBs that won't allow them to do the right thing."

The uselessness of The Vaunted United Nations

The blood of innocent Christian missionaries spills on Afghan sands. The world watches and yawns.

The United Nations offers nothing more than a formal expression of "concern." Where is the global uproar over the human rights abuses unfolding before our eyes?

The King of Mobilization

He befuddled Democrats and the journalistic establishment because he was an up-to-date throwback. The large audience he won on the right marked the return in the U.S. of openly partisan mass media, a 19th-century phenomenon that had all but disappeared in the late 20th century.

Limbaugh is not primarily about information, though he freely uses even those bits that come his way courtesy of dreaded "liberal" media sources. His goal is mobilization, and he has been extremely good at it.

The Big Boy News Groups Spar

MSLSD Plays the Race Card and Gets Slapped Down

A Demented Waste of Human Flesh Was Caught Growing Babies

The Great Socialist Migration To Canada...Please Hurry

Liberal Media Pukes Hurting Liberal Puke Politicians

Pelosi Flexes...Be Careful With The Seams In The Face, Nancy

Distractions.

In the light of the atrociously pathetic approval rating of the Vaunted Democratic "Majority" Led CONgress, BOTH Houses, at an all time low of 3%, who cares what they think? Certainly NOT the "majority" of Americans.

Whose fault is that? "We The People"? GWB? The GWOT? Fear? Interest rates? Fuel costs? The economy? The "message"?

Just wondering. My take? The majority of Americans are sick and tired about hearing from our political leaders that this country sucks and is the worse nation in the known universe. Nothing can be further from the truth. MILLIONS flock here ILLEGALLY and risk it all to get here. MILLIONS more LEGALLY apply to get here. Why? If this country sucks so bad, why all the LEGAL and ILLEGAL immigration?

Bush Derangement Syndrome means more to the Leftinistra than the security of this nation.

Bush Derangement Syndrome means more to the Leftinistra than the men and women in Uniform fighting for our very existence.

Bush Derangement Syndrome means more to the Leftinistra than the Patriots of years of yore.

Bush Derangement Syndrome means more to the Leftinistra than protecting innocent babies being slaughtered in this nation by the MILLIONS.

The Leftinistra, ie, Boxers, Murthas, Reids, Pelosis and their ilk, Republican, Democrat, Independent alike are not American Patriots by ANY stretch of the imagination. Not in regards to the United States Constitution,anyway. They may be patriots but to whom and to what?

When they spend more time catering and pandering to those that what us ALL dead (Republican, Democrat, Independent, Christian, Jew, Catholic alike), their patriotism WILL be challenged and exposed.

It is time for Civil Disobedience. It IS our Constitutional Right to be so and to do so and to act so.

Our political Leadership has failed this country and it IS time for a change.

Recall CONgress. Impeach them all. Gonzales? DO YOUR DAMN JOB!!

JB Williams on Backbone v Testosterone

This is really too "funny". I have read a plethora of the fall-out pieces over Barack's flagrant ass-idiocy over his spanking by Czarina. The moonbats are chanting away and granting accolades to a man that is repeating what GWB has been saying but the Leftinistra have repeatedly denied that which Barack has, in a snit of anger over Hillary's chastisement, proclaimed to be true, but of which his party has vehemently denied.

Can you spell Round Robin?

Go figure. JB Williams explains in much detail below.

Read on. And in case someone asks or as a troll has demanded to know, JB Williams has given his permission to me to reprint and publish his work...naturally accompannied with the proper etiquette.

Don’t Confuse Backbone with Testosterone

One will keep you alive - the other will get you killed!

Written by JB Williams

Eager to knock the former First Victim from her assumed-to-be partisan nomination, presidential candidate Barack Been Hussein Obama leaped to the tip of the weakest branch on the wilting tree of Democrat leadership today.

Reacting to widespread criticisms of his gross inexperience, child-like naiveté and pure ignorance regarding international diplomacy with third world thugs, presidential wannabe Barrack Obama made perhaps his boldest, albeit ill-advised, maneuver by attempting to grab the War on Terror mantle for his party, which otherwise seems to not notice that such a thing actually exists.

"I understand that President Musharraf has his own challenges," Obama said. "But let me make this clear. There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al Qaeda leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will."

Now he and former First Victim Hillary Clinton are in a rhetorical showdown over who is willing to nuke those folks eager to nuke us first if they get the chance.

Who would have thought we would ever hear a Democrat presidential candidate calling for the US military invasion of a sovereign nation which not only did not attack us on 9/11, but has worked pretty hard to play ally to America ever since? When Bush announced “You are either with us or against us” days after 9/11, Musharraf listened. It’s Democrats who have chosen the wrong side in the war ever since, including Obama and Clinton.

This inside-the-party chest pounding can’t make the spineless retreat and defeat core of today’s Democrat Party happy at all. So why the sudden bluster? War-mongering talk like this just won’t play well in the Code Pinko base of today’s Democrat Party. Is this a demonstration of belated backbone or just another empty example of political testosterone gone wild? I’ll give you the facts and you decide…

We begin by properly dissecting his statement.

“There are terrorists holed up in those mountains” – According to his party, these folks are “freedom fighters” resisting American global domination? Since when did any Democrat think they were “terrorists”?

“who murdered 3,000 Americans” – Doesn’t he mean, 3000 capitalist pigs seeking daily profit for personal greed?

“They are plotting to strike again.” – Fear-mongering, pure fear-mongering! We have no evidence of any credible threat, say Pelosi and Reid!

“It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al Qaeda leadership meeting in 2005.” – Wait a minute… Obama is focused only upon a chance to get Bin Laden AFTER 9/11 in 2005?

1993

January 25: Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fires an AK-47 assault rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, killing two and injuring three others, see FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.

February 26: World Trade Center bombing kills six and injures over 1000 people, by coalition of five groups: Jamaat Al-Fuqra'/Gamaat Islamiya/Hamas/Islamic Jihad/National Islamic Front,^[84] see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Ramzi Yousef.

June: Failed New York City landmark bomb plot, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists

1994

March 1: In the Brooklyn Bridge Shooting, Rashid Baz kills a Hasidic seminary student and wounds four on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City in response to the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.^[87]

1995

March 8: Terrorists in Karachi, Pakistan, armed with automatic rifles, murdered two American consulate employees and wounded a third as they traveled in the consulate shuttle bus.

1997

February 24: Ali Abu Kamal opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, United States, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine". His widow claimed he became suicidal after losing $300,000 in a business venture. In a 2007 interview with the New York Daily News his daughter said her mothers story was a cover crafted by the Palestinian Authority and that her father wanted to punish the United States for its support of Israel.^[90]

August 7: U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, killing 225 people and injuring more than 4,000, by al-Qaeda, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists

December 14: Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the United States–Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots

2000

The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks.

October 12: USS Cole bombing kills 17 US sailors and wounds 40 off the port coast of Aden, Yemen, by al-Qaeda, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, the Buffalo Six Lackawanna Cell.^[103]

Even Clinton friendly lamestream news outlets confirmed and reported,

“In its exhaustive report, the 9/11 Commission identified at least five separate times in 1998 and 1999 when operations were underway to get bin Laden. In only one case was there a decision to proceed.”ABC News

But Obama thinks it was some kind of “mistake” that our military, hot on his heels, failed to capture or kill Bin Laden before he slipped across the border into Pakistan? Who made the mistake? And if that was a “mistake”, what would he call the eight years of Clinton rule, a catastrophic calamity?

“If we have actionable intelligence”- Since we had twelve years of “actionable” intelligence against the Hussein regime in Iraq, which Obama fails to grasp even today, shouldn’t Obama define his idea of actionable intelligence?

“If President Musharraf won't act, we will." – What, - attack a sovereign nation that did not attack us? Without an exit strategy? You can’t be serious!

No sir… This news isn’t going to fly well over at Howard Dean headquarters at all. Those Code Pinko bloomers are in a wad for sure today. The retreat and defeat base of the DNC will be ringing up the moonbat phone to Jack Murtha, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid every hour on the hour, which surely can’t support a war-mongering doctrine like this, can they?

What happened to the “can’t we all just get along” doctrine of the Democrat Party? I thought Obama wanted to sit down with the world’s most brutal killers over tea and talk things out?

Does he mean what he say’s? Or is this just another circus style campaign stunt, a typical liberal testosterone induced saber rattling for the mindless voters behind the “can’t we just surrender” left?

What kind of message is Obama trying to send here and to whom is he trying to send it?

Well, what would you do in your ego driven quest for an office you are highly unqualified for, once someone pointed out just how unqualified you really are?

You would either shrink your ego back into reality and admit that they have a point - or come out firing bluster aimed at fooling the fools into thinking you’re something you have never been in your entire pathetic little life.

Don’t confuse backbone with politically driven testosterone. Terrorists know the difference even if you don’t and that will get you killed…

Tough talk should be reserved for people willing to take tough action, even when it is unpopular. Never swat a hornet’s nest unless you have a plan for the swarming hornets…

Obama clearly thinks that only his voters are listening. Nothing could be further from reality. And that’s what makes Obama and all Democrats dangerous today. All blow and no go!

Latest AQ Video Threat(s)

The Blotter has their video link here.

Blurb here:

A new al Qaeda propaganda ad, headlined "Wait for the Big Surprise" and featuring a digitally altered photograph of President George Bush and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf standing in front of a burning White House, was posted on the Internet today.

Past entries below:

New Al Qaeda Video Release Reported (from July 15th)

^{A March 2007 Al Sahab video production
advises mujahidin in Somalia
(US CENTCOM)}

A video clip featuring Osama bin Laden lauding martyrs for their work on behalf of the jihadist cause has surfaced on the Internet, according to news reports. The footage of bin Laden himself does not appear to be recent; a Washington organization called the SITE Intelligence Group identifies it as 2003 footage. The production itself, however, is new. It was put out by the Al Sahab media foundation, which produces Al Qaeda's media. Al Sahab has been putting out videos on a regular basis this year, most recently on July 4, 2007.

American Truth Warriors and Rita Staton

Tonight on American Truth Warriors is a return appearance from what was probably our hardest hitting show.

Rita Staton is here from Honk For Kids.

We will expose the last bastion of organized fascism in America-Child Protective Services (CPS). CPS routinely tramples on the civil rights of Americans and, to make matters worse, they don't protect children.

For example, did you know that a child is more than 4 times as likely to die when they are in the care of CPS? On Tonight's show we will name names. Crimes committed by CPS in New Jersey and Indiana. CPS won't respond. We invited them to. We dared them to. They won't.

What happens in America when absolute power collides with absolute incompetence? You get a National crisis, that's what. This show will anger you to the point of rage. We hope it angers you to the point of action.

7PM EST

Tonight on Blog Talk Radio (link)

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US CENTCOM Press Releases

STATEMENT FROM MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE-IRAQ CONDEMNING BAGHDAD CAR-BOMB ATTACKS Posted: 02 Aug 2007 06:09 AM CDT STATEMENT FROM MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE-IRAQ CONDEMNING BAGHDAD CAR-BOMB ATTACKS

MASS CASUALTY EXERCISE REVEALS WEAKNESS, IDENTIFIES STRENGTHS Posted: 01 Aug 2007 03:43 PM CDT MASS CASUALTY EXERCISE REVEALS WEAKNESS, IDENTIFIES STRENGTHS

COALITION FORCES DETAIN 27 SUSPECTS, KILL THREE TERRORISTS Posted: 01 Aug 2007 03:41 PM CDT COALITION FORCES DETAIN 27 SUSPECTS, KILL THREE TERRORISTS

IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, U.S. SPECIAL FORCES BATTLE TERRORISTS NEAR DOURA Posted: 01 Aug 2007 03:39 PM CDT IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, U.S. SPECIAL FORCES BATTLE TERRORISTS NEAR DOURA

LOCAL TIP LEADS TO CACHE DISCOVERY Posted: 01 Aug 2007 03:38 PM CDT LOCAL TIP LEADS TO CACHE DISCOVERY

AIR FORCE PREDATOR UAV CRASHES ON BASE IN IRAQ Posted: 01 Aug 2007 02:29 PM CDT AIR FORCE PREDATOR UAV CRASHES ON BASE IN IRAQ

UPDATING MAILING LISTS Posted: 01 Aug 2007 02:28 PM CDT UPDATING MAILING LISTS

AL-QAIDA IN IRAQ TERRORISTS MURDER CITIZENS Posted: 01 Aug 2007 11:38 AM CDT AL-QAIDA IN IRAQ TERRORISTS MURDER CITIZENS

Tragedy In Minnesota

Rumors...7 > 9 dead. 20+missing. 60+ at hospitals. 50+ vehicles in the drink...that they can see. Not ruling out terrorism but highly unlikely. Let's hope so.

The Fatal Facts of Islamic Jihad

Here are the fatal facts nobody wants to acknowledge; I will do it because I don't give a damn who I piss off:

1. Islam is permanent war.
2. Islam is terrorism.
3. Islam is genocide.
   
4. Permanent war, terrorism and genocide will continue so long as one Muslim is left alive on the face of the earth.
5. Peace process = surrender.
6. Restraint = weakness.
7. Good will gestures = appeasement.
8. Concessions = appeasement
9. Peace talks = surrender.
10. Land for peace = societal suicide.
11. Peace is obtained through victory.
12. Victory is the extinction of Islam.

#4 is a bit of a reach for me but the rest? Absolutely.

A Day In History

1990: Iraq invaded Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich emirate.

And the moonbats think that war was over. It is JUST NOW coming to a close.

Morons.

2000: Republicans nominated Texas Gov. George W. Bush for president and Dick Cheney for vice president at the party's convention in Philadelphia.

And he proceeded to beat democrats...TWICE!!

Hamas Is Up To Their Same Stunts

Hamas Leader Khaled Mash'al Praises Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi for His Support of Suicide Operations and States: Holocaust Exaggerated, Being Used to Extort Germany, and Zionist Holocaust Against Arabs Much Worse

[Kill All Jews!!]

Nice folks these terrorist thugs and Jimmy likes them.

The video is here!

Nearly Two-Year Old Breaking News?

Uh, Newsmax? Where ya been?

Rep. Tancredo: Threaten Muslim Holy Sites to Deter Terror

More and more people feel this way, naturally and, rightfully so. Turn the city into a smoking hole with the ashes, sand and mortar spread to the four winds and the stratosphere.

Which War Is It?

Barak Obama at the Wilson Center

It is time to turn the page. When I am President, we will wage the war that has to be won, with a comprehensive strategy with five elements: getting out of Iraq and on to the right battlefield in Afghanistan and Pakistan; developing the capabilities and partnerships we need to take out the terrorists and the world's most deadly weapons; engaging the world to dry up support for terror and extremism; restoring our values; and securing a more resilient homeland.

The first step must be getting off the wrong battlefield in Iraq, and taking the fight to the terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

He might as well said, "I am a moron troll and I thrive on repeating lies for long enough and often enough so that the evolutionary process of the average American's attention span will accept them as truth."

Barak Obama has disappointed me with that speech. He has shown ITS true colors and his entrenched and infectious BDS and power-grab attempt has shown that he is merely another damn moron.

UPDATE!!! Apparently, as I surmised as I read the two articles on this subject, Barack has taken a shot at both feet, knees and a direct hit to his nimble and apparently tiny mind. What a meat head.

Jimmy Z at A Newt One opined thusly...

Although leftwing media are reporting it as 'tough talk,' the truth of the matter is that in Obama's desperation to be 'tough,' he's coming off as a naive and immature child in the adult world of politics. We are not surprised, and we are pleased to see his implosion so quickly.

Uncle Jimbo at Black Five states;

In a monumentally lame attempt to prove his tough guy cred Barack Obama trots out his cunning plan to invade a sovereign nation in defiance of it's leader, who is more or less an ally.

And then he adds...

Nice pander Cakeboy

Reuters calls it all Tough Talk because Hillary got his goat...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama said on Wednesday the United States must be willing to strike al Qaeda targets inside Pakistan, adopting a tough tone after a chief rival accused him of naiveté in foreign policy.

The Benton Crier calls Barack out on the mat as follows:

And while Bush has embraced Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf as a valued ally in the war on terror, Obama said he would take a harder line. He said Musharraf must do more to shut down terrorist operations along the Afghan border or risk a U.S. military attack against the foreign fighters and the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military aid.

Isn't that reminiscent of the Japanese-American relationship before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor? Just curious.

Yep. Barack has shot his wad. He is finished.

David Warren wants to know if we have permission to win the War In Iraq.

Phillip Carter has the "Oh My God Victory?" disease.

Quin Hillyer has a GREAT article about how the Republicans need to stop complaining and attacking each other but he misses a very important issue and he needs to take the blinders off. Can you spot the issue he missed?

Jim VandeHei attempts to explain why GWB is in no mood to yield.

Ralph Peters said:

Long before the fall of Baghdad, The New York Times was as dogmatically pessimistic about the Bush administration's efforts as it was gushingly supportive of Joseph Stalin in the 1930s. It even promoted the least-qualified op-ed writer in North America as its point man for its attacks on our military: Frank Rich, whose experience was with ballet slippers, not combat boots.

Michelle Malkin wrote:

Over the past few days, the bloodthirsty jihadists have demanded that South Korea immediately withdraw troops from the Middle East, pay ransom and trade the civilian missionaries for imprisoned Taliban fighters. The Taliban leaders have made good on threats to kill the kidnapped Christians while Afghan officials plead fecklessly that their monstrous behavior is "un-Islamic."

Arriana Huff-&-Puff "the plane was going there anyway" moonbat said:

The constant sprinkling of pixie dust is meant to render Petraeus' coming September report unassailable -- the political equivalent of basketball advice from John Wooden or a sex assessment by Jenna Jameson.

For months now, I've been trying to blow some of that pixie dust off Petraeus so that, come September, his vaunted report will be seen for what it inevitably will be: one more stall tactic designed to deny reality and delay the inevitable.

Michael Hirsh the Dingaling Lockstep Follower of the Blind wrote:

This hypocrisy is lost on no one. As I wrote in this column more than a year ago, containment is probably the only approach left in the Mideast. “You may be hearing a lot more of it as the Bush administration hunkers down for its final two years. Containment of Iraq’s low-level civil war, which shows every sign of persisting for years despite the new government inaugurated this week.

A Newt One published:

The toll is falling in the most dangerous provinces, not just in the Baghdad 'surge' zone. US troop fatalities in Iraq have plummeted from near-historic highs just two months ago. The number of deaths attributed to improvised explosive devices is down by more than half. The decrease is an apparent sign that, by at least one indicator, the surge of American forces is doing something it set out to do: tamp down the violence. Violence is down in the four most dangerous provinces.

Atlas Shrugs is telling it like it is in that CBS is misleading the American People about the dangers of Islam.

The Conservative Moose and Squirrel said back on June 12th that "...in one of the great uprisings of modern politics, Middle America rose up and body-slammed the national establishment." (in reference to Shamnesty)

Forest Opine, back from a 2-week hiatus rants:

Something is going on with Michael Moore and CNN. I’m too lazy to dig into anything about lefty vs. lefty-er like this so I have no idea what’s going on at all, but here’s a piece of advice to Mrs. Moore: if CNN is criticizing you for your accuracy in filming a movie about health care from a leftist point of view, you’ve gone too far. You are at least a garden variety Stalinist.

Maggie's Notebook charges the populace to pay close attention to Queen Moonbat SoH.

Sister Toldjah has this little diddy:

Many Democrats have anticipated that, at best, Petraeus and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker would present a mixed analysis of the success of the current troop surge strategy, given continued violence in Baghdad. But of late there have been signs that the commander of U.S. forces might be preparing something more generally positive. Clyburn said that would be “a real big problem for us.”

That is REALLY sad that a political party would be more concerned over their political aspirations than to be rejoicing with the men and women fighting for THEIR security and that VICTORY is at hand.

JB Williams reminds the world:

If you harbor terrorists, you are a terrorist. If you assist with the arming and or training of terrorists, you are a terrorist. If you provide logistical or financial support for terror activities, you are a terrorist...

Ed Morrissey over at CQ comments on CAIR: Free Speech Vs Prior Restraint

This seems to be the main strategy of CAIR -- to sue people into silence. Let's not forget that CAIR also supported the Flying Imams and their efforts to sue the people who complained about their suspicious behavior to airline and security personnel here at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Now they want to threaten legal action against their critics in order to intimidate them.

Right In A Left World reminds us of the Separation of Mosque and State

UPDATE: Schools and Universities are installing foot baths to accomodate Muslims students who religious beliefs dictate they wash their feet prior to saying their prayers 5 times a day. Not remaining silent, the ACLU of Michigan says, "Indeed, if the university refused to allow Muslim students to wash their feet in the sink without there being a viable alternative, we would have concerns about whether the university was unconstitutionally interfering with students' right to practice their religion."

Miss Beth cannot resist giving us visuals we can relate to in regards to the reactions to an imminent victory in a war...an American War, by the way.

Mighty Mouse Speedy Fingers over at Wake Up America fills us in how a Presidential Aspirant plans on invading a country with nuclear capabilities and life-long associations with terrorist groups bent on the destruction at all costs of the Western Nations.

Before I even start on how naive this sounds, lets recap Pakistan's Nuclear capabilities for a second:

Please do.

Have you actually clicked around and read every piece?

So, which "war" do we fight and are we going to win or lose it?

ATTENTION People of Illinois!

NOW HEAR THIS! NOW HEAR THIS!! ATTENTION TO ORDERS! PLEASE STAND BY FOR A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT!! NOW IS YOUR CHANCE FOR A "NEW CHANGE IN DIRECTION".

A challenger has arisen out of the primordial ooze of Moonbat Fraud Durbin.

Hello, my name is Steve Sauerberg and I am the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. I can no longer stand back and watch the lack of foresight, the poor judgment, and the mismanagement in the United States Senate without taking action. My decision to run for the U.S. Senate involved many difficult decisions such as leaving my medical practice, my staff and my wonderful patients. I have never been a candidate for public office and will offer new energy, fresh ideas and true passion for our nation. My opponent, Democrat Dick Durbin, offers you three things as well: extremism, liberalism and divisiveness.

New Energy - After more than 25 years of successful medical practice, I offer you the same commitment and dedicated service I have provided to my patients. While I have been building a successful medical practice and working with families, my opponent, Senator Dick Durbin, has been on the government payroll for the last 37 years. Quite simply, he is a part of the problem in Washington D.C. For example, on March 23, 2007, Durbin voted in favor of what Americans for Tax Reform called, "the largest tax increase in American history." Durbin was wrong.

New Optimism - Even though our elected officials, including Dick Durbin, have not fixed our many problems, such as immigration, social security, healthcare and more, this does not mean they cannot be fixed. September 11, 2001, with all its tragedies, was also an inspiring wake-up call as we all watched our First Responders and so many other volunteers come together to help those in need. Both the tragedy and the victory of that encourage me to step up and fight to improve our quality of life.

Unfortunately, Durbin has been on the wrong side of the issues too many times. Durbin voted against The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program that is working so well for seniors. He voted against building a fence on the U.S.-Mexican border. He stood on the floor of the U.S. Senate and compared our troops to Nazis. Incredibly, he has stated that he knew the intelligence on Iraq was faulty, but he chose to conceal this vital information. Again, Durbin's positions do not represent those of the people of our state. The people of Illinois deserve better, and I can provide you with vision, honesty and leadership.

New Solutions - I have new ideas and solutions and will be sharing them with you over the next year and a half as I campaign for the United States Senate. They are fiscally sound solutions, not the same old "tax-and-spend" excesses of Dick Durbin, who, in 2006, was ranked the Most Liberal Member in the U.S. Senate by the highly respected National Journal magazine (March 3, 2007).

I invite you to read more throughout this website and join my team so that together we can build a better future. I appreciate your time and ask you to sign-up on our e-mail list so that I can continue to share with you my vision and plans for Illinois.

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US CENTCOM Press Releases

D-B AIRCRAFT HELP THWART INSURGENT SMALL ARMS ATTACK Posted: 01 Aug 2007 08:06 AM CDT D-B AIRCRAFT HELP THWART INSURGENT SMALL ARMS ATTACK

IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, U.S. SPECIAL FORCES DETAIN 13 AL QAEDA IN IRAQ SUSPECTED TERRORISTS IN EARLY-MORNING RAID Posted: 01 Aug 2007 06:37 AM CDT IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, U.S. SPECIAL FORCES DETAIN 13 AL QAEDA IN IRAQ SUSPECTED TERRORISTS IN EARLY-MORNING RAID

MND-B ATTACK AIRCRAFT CONDUCTS PRECAUTIONARY LANDING Posted: 01 Aug 2007 06:34 AM CDT MND-B ATTACK AIRCRAFT CONDUCTS PRECAUTIONARY LANDING

NINE SUSPECTED AL-QAEDA TERRORISTS DETAINED Posted: 01 Aug 2007 06:30 AM CDT NINE SUSPECTED AL-QAEDA TERRORISTS DETAINED

AIR FORCE PREDATOR UAV CRASHES ON BASE IN IRAQ Posted: 01 Aug 2007 06:28 AM CDT AIR FORCE PREDATOR UAV CRASHES ON BASE IN IRAQ

MND-B ATTACK AIRCRAFT ENGAGE ENEMY ROCKET LAUNCHERS Posted: 01 Aug 2007 06:14 AM CDT MND-B ATTACK AIRCRAFT ENGAGE ENEMY ROCKET LAUNCHERS

IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, U.S. SPECIAL FORCES DETAIN AL QAEDA CELL LEADER IN HUSAYBUH MULTI-NATIONAL CORPS Posted: 01 Aug 2007 06:10 AM CDT IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, U.S. SPECIAL FORCES DETAIN AL QAEDA CELL LEADER IN HUSAYBUH MULTI-NATIONAL CORPS

TASK FORCE HAMMERHEAD CONDUCTS 100TH AIR ASSAULT MISSION Posted: 01 Aug 2007 06:08 AM CDT TASK FORCE HAMMERHEAD CONDUCTS 100TH AIR ASSAULT MISSION

EIGHT TERRORISTS KILLED, 40 SUSPECTS DETAINED IN COALITION OPERATIONS Posted: 01 Aug 2007 06:00 AM CDT EIGHT TERRORISTS KILLED, 40 SUSPECTS DETAINED IN COALITION OPERATIONS

COALITION FORCES RECLAIM JAMEA'A DURING OPERATION: ROGUE THUNDER Posted: 31 Jul 2007 12:02 PM CDT COALITION FORCES RECLAIM JAMEA'A DURING OPERATION: ROGUE THUNDER Long Knife Brigade Enjoys Award Winning Communications.aspx Posted: 01 Aug 2007 06:41 AM CDT FORWARD OPERATING BASE MAREZ, Iraq— It’s not everyday that Soldiers get recognized for the outstanding work that they do and, even less often, do they get acknowledgment from the head of their branch. Denver Marines find common bond.aspx Posted: 01 Aug 2007 06:00 AM CDT NEAR KARMAH, Iraq -- Three Marines from Denver, Colo. find a common ground to build upon as they serve in a twelve-man infantry squad in Iraq. Chuck Norris, Mr. T keeps Dangam safe.aspx Posted: 01 Aug 2007 05:47 AM CDT KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team spent July 22-28 in Dangam district in Kunar province near the Pakistan border. The area is surrounded by lush farms that thrive from a stream flowing through the valley.