Comments on: Video: Former ambassador Ed Peck defends Hezbollah

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Hezbollah and Qana

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Hezbollah and Qana — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:41:54 +0000

[...] Dingellbats Peck hearts Hezbollah Qana and Osama * Qana ‘96 UNIFIL Photos of Qana ‘96 [...]

By: Right Voices » » Carter’s little helpers

Right Voices » » Carter’s little helpers — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:25:45 +0000

[...] Now Peck is back. In an appearance on Fox News Channel, he absolutely denied that Hezbollah is a terror organization and compared their fighters to American soldiers in World War 2. He went on to say equate Hezbollah’s actions against Israel to Israel’s actions in Lebanon. He says acts of terrorism that Hezbollah commits are the same type of actions “others” commit but America doesn’t call those acts terrorism because they are committed by “friends.” When he was asked if Hezbollah was a terror group, he deflected the question by this cliché: “A terrorist organization is in the eye of the beholder” and he went on that [...]

By: RobCon

RobCon — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:22:33 +0000

What an idiot. Saddam must have loved this guy back in the day.

By: RD

RD — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:23:32 +0000

So: according to this yahoo, whether (1) wanton, intentional, and indiscriminate shelling of civilians for the sake of inflicting maximum casualties, (2) vowing to wipe a neighboring religio-ethnic group out of existence, and (3) putting siege to sovereign foreign territory in order to do it, qualifies as “terrorism” depends on whose “side” you’re on?

Not even the Islamists themselves deny that what they are waging is terror. Strange how this piece of Samsonite argues a point of view that’s not even held by his beneficiaries.

(Sure, Hezbollah thinks it’s justified terror, but…)

I’ll leave his gratuitous comments about American paratroopers alone because they speak for themselves…what a nozzle…

By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:07:55 +0000

What a Fool BelievesWe didn’t win WW2 by being cautious with the Japanese and Nazis. In fact that probably caused the war to start by tolerating and therefore encouraging a culture of suicide for the supreme state as honorable.

Unlike what that fool said about winning by negotiating with your enemy, Israel’s negotiations and withdrawls illustrate what the results of such foolishness is.

If we, Us, Britain, Australia, Israel and a few other truly free people are to win the war we must be prepared to do to the enemy what they threaten us with, total obliteration.

It should be their choice, if they want to attack civilians and create terror or harbor those that do, instead they themselves will have thousands burning Arab children and tens of thousands, perhaps millions of Arab caskets along with destruction beyond belief, perhaps even nuclear, brought upon them; or they can disarm and surrender to non violent politcal process.

I bet they make the right choice, but it may take such horrors being done to us before we feel compelled to win the war once and for all. It is immoral to suggest that we should sustain losses and negotiate to spare the enemy.

By: ScottyDog

ScottyDog — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:47:53 +0000

Unfortunately what this guy is saying is what our own State Department believes. Clinton, Jimmy Carter and all the foggy bottom people like Madeline Albright all believe the same thing but they do not come out and say it on TV interviews.

Why do you think we gave N Korea 4.5 billion..
Why do you think we give foreign aid to the Palestinians and other terrorists in the ME…
Why do you think the MSM is in lock step with this guy criticizing Israel for its response to the Hezbos and demanding a cease fire.

Moral Equivilency

By: RedBlueChristian » Blog Archive » THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

RedBlueChristian » Blog Archive » THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:10:50 +0000

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By: Dean's World

Dean's World — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:40:38 +0000

Condoleeza Rice hit piece…

Drudge links to this item that is just a classic Foggy Bottom, anonymous-sourced hit piece on the Secretary of State. It’s a little odd because it claims that……

By: StephC

StephC — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:41:13 +0000

All I can say is, "Wow." I cannot believe how stupid people can be. Hezbollah, et al, want to destroy us, too. This guy is one of those that thinks we are terrorists, and Bush is the biggest one. The more I hear and see people like this, the more scared I get thinking about them being in control of this country again.

By: reflexx

reflexx — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:14:38 +0000

I bet you this guy fills his car up at CITGO! If you don’t already know.. CITGO is owned by Petróleos de Venezuela S.A.(PDVSA).. ie.. HUGO CHAVEZ! If that isn’t infiltration I don’t know what is. Who’s checking those trucks???

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 06:16:02 +0000

I started laughing as soon as I saw that face. “Expose the Left” usually gets some great expressions-this one is tops!
If Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization, shouldn’t their charter say differently?

By: The Jawa Report

The Jawa Report — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:06:29 +0000

Yet Another Item on My Long List of Reasons to Hate Jimmy Carter…

Allahpundit at HotAir posts a video of Ed Peck, Jimmy Carter’s Ambassador to Iraq. This guy is a piece of work. Among other things, he says that Hizb’Allah is not a terrorist group and states that they’re much like Allied……

By: Comparing American WWII GIs To Terrorists at 4thelittleguy.com

Comparing American WWII GIs To Terrorists at 4thelittleguy.com — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:52:14 +0000

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By: Kralizec

Kralizec — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:35:24 +0000

[This doesn't appear to have gone through the first time, so I'm risking a double posting.]

“A terrorist organization is in the eye of the beholder.”

Very well, Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. Moreover, perceptual relativists are stupid f-cks. The beholder has spoken, so let none dispute.

“We’re opposed to [a ceasefire] because we want to give Israel a chance to kill as many people as they can.”

Let's just leave it at saying "kill," "many," and "people" are all in the eye of the beholder. Peck's given us a carte blanche, and I think we should make free use of it.

By: Kralizec

Kralizec — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:22:33 +0000

“A terrorist organization is in the eye of the beholder.”

Why should I refuse a gift like that? Hear me: Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. Moreover, perceptual relativists are stupid fucks. The beholder has spoken, so let none dispute.

“We’re opposed to [a ceasefire] because we want to give Israel a chance to kill as many people as they can.”

I’ll just say that “many,” “people,” and “kill” are in the eye of the beholder, and leave it at that. Behold the carte blanche this dickhead has unwittingly given me.

By: speed647

speed647 — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:21:39 +0000

Did the Earth pass through some sort of portal to the Bizzaro universe?

Apparently, and this loon musta forgot his protective tinfoil hat.

By: entagor

entagor — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:55:07 +0000

deputy director of the cabinet task force on terrorism under Ronald Reagan

Was this guy advising during the 1983 Marine Corps barracks bombing in Lebanon?

By: Coronagold

Coronagold — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:43:25 +0000

Ewww, crrrrrreepy!! I agree, excellent freezeframe pic. I think he sees all wars being worked out on psychiatrists’ couches.

By: mkstach

mkstach — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:01:37 +0000

I am watching Band of Brothers this week. I would not suggest that the ambassador repeat his remarks at a reunion of the 101st. We were able to talk with the Soviet Union during the Cold War because it was a nation-state. Hamas and Hezballah do not qualify. To paraphrase a line from the movies, “You can’t negotiate with them, you can’t reason with them. All you can do is destroy them.”

By: Ace of Spades HQ

Ace of Spades HQ — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:25:34 +0000

I Give You Cheesecake, And I Can Damn-Sure Take It Away Too…

Thanks to Sharkman, hat-tip to The Anchoress for the idea. And Speaking Of Jimmy Carter… One of Jimmy’s former ambassadors (the chief of the US mission to Iraq, oddly enough) is defending Hezbollah. Hezbollah. The terrorist organization. Quote: A…

By: Perchant

Perchant — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:13:13 +0000

This would have been the right guy to ask about this:

Data License Approved, Consignee, and Material Information
08/14/80 (20 each), Ministry of Health for College, Bacteria/
Fungi, not further identified
09/11/80 (45 each), University of Baghdad, Bacteria/Fungi/
Protozoa, Virus/Viroids (15 each), not further identified

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_cr/s092002.html

09/11/80 was the date that Saddam apparently got his first shipment of anthrax from the Carter administration. It was also the day Saddam declared holy war on Iran.

By: journeyscarab

journeyscarab — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:05:38 +0000

Did the Earth pass through some sort of portal to the Bizzaro universe?

By: protein wisdom

protein wisdom — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:00:44 +0000

Everything old is new again, 2…

Via Hot Air, "Former ambassador Ed Peck defends Hezbollah".

For the record. On the teevee, even.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Carter Administration. Or, as the Iranians are fond of saying, "the gift that j…

By: shooter

shooter — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:23:58 +0000

I saw this idiocy earlier today. The audience laughed AND asked him ” when are you going to understand” or “What does it take for you to get it?” Statements very similar to these were made on the show throughout his ‘appearance’.
Peck didnt even get the fact he was being laughed at.

I thought it was a parody at first, then realized this guy was serious. Braindead as Kofi.

By: CP

CP — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:20:44 +0000

How did I know when I saw the headline that this guy was a Carterite? Geez. The pacifist terrorists-are-freedom-fighters-too legacy lives on.