Quote of the day

posted at 10:35 pm on August 1, 2008 by Allahpundit

STEWART: …When you talk to them, do you feel like, when he says the crazy things that he says–and he says crazy things–is he playing to his base? Is this just a politician? Because, wasn’t that the mistake we made with Saddam Hussein? His braggadocio, his all those things, were of necessity, because he has to play to this base. Are we misinterpreting their belligerence, and thinking it’s baiting us into a war, when it’s just a way to stay in power?

WILLIAMS: Well, that’s exactly what it is.

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Brian Williams = “Get Smart”
No worries, I was there for 24 hours and I have got the scoop.

d1carter on August 1, 2008 at 10:41 PM

And Liberals wonder why we wont trust them to keep us safe.

Oh that Hitler guy, don’t worry about him, he’s just playing to his base….Buffoon.

TheBigOldDog on August 1, 2008 at 10:45 PM

They try and make the Iranian President seem more like the Wizard from the Wizard of Oz. It’s all just smoke and mirrors folks, nothing to worry about here. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Until we have a nuclear explosion go off in America or Israel and discover that the Iranians were behind the whole thing. But that won’t happen once the Messiah takes office so don’t worry your little heads off about a crazy nuclear armed country in an unstable part of the world.

Thoughts?

jasoneverts on August 1, 2008 at 10:48 PM

Liberals must just assume everybody lies like they do. They must assume all politicians are like Liberal politicians who say whatever they think people want to hear in order to stay in power. They project that assumption onto people who mean everything they say and they find that incomprehensible.

TheBigOldDog on August 1, 2008 at 10:52 PM

Hitler? Stalin? They’re just playing their base.

amerpundit on August 1, 2008 at 10:54 PM

Any crazy kooky sites on his visit like teenage homos hanging from trees?
Bitter trees bare a strange fruit, blood on the leaves and blood at the roots…. (Billie Holliday)

Marcus on August 1, 2008 at 11:01 PM

Is anyone else having problems accessing Hot Air? I keep getting an Internet Explorer error message saying “Hot Air not available,” even though the page has already loaded.

rmgraha on August 1, 2008 at 11:05 PM

Yeah, for some reason I’m not going to take William’s word on it. I rather not be so dismissive.

terryannonline on August 1, 2008 at 11:05 PM

rmgraha on August 1, 2008 at 11:05 PM

It’s the ad server not responding. Happens all the time. Safe to ignore but it will cause pages to hang for a minute or two some times….

TheBigOldDog on August 1, 2008 at 11:07 PM

You enter that country and you see what sanctions do. You see that the city streets remind you of a cross between Havana and Baghdad. Kind of a used-to-be Eastern Bloc nation that hasn’t had a cent invested in years. Where we’re staying in what used to be a Hilton until the revolution, and it has just gone to hell. Walls of the hotel are scraped and it’s dirty and awful –

Sure, Brian, the super-male-primadona, it’s all our fault, the fault of the “sanctions”. Sent your extra millions to those poor. Do something about it.

Entelechy on August 1, 2008 at 11:08 PM

Yeah, can access with Safari but not IE7.

brtex on August 1, 2008 at 11:09 PM

Yes, and his base wants him to follow through. They WANT him to do what he says he’s going to do; e.g. wipe Israel off the map.

So he is going to have to do what his base wants, or else he loses power.

And that’s why they’re a genuine threat. Real difficult to understand, isn’t it?

Riposte on August 1, 2008 at 11:10 PM

Well I’m sure the Israelis will feel much better now that this foreign policy genius has vetted the Iranian leadership.

elduende on August 1, 2008 at 11:13 PM

Yeah, Saddam was all bark and no bite. Just ask the Kurds.

Jim Treacher on August 1, 2008 at 11:17 PM

Please MSM never again ask why your credibility has gone out the window. It’s because you let people like Brian Williams become managing editor of a television news program.

terryannonline on August 1, 2008 at 11:17 PM

Yeah, can access with Safari but not IE7.

It’s reportedly a Sitemeter glitch on each site/page that carries the program.

SteveMG on August 1, 2008 at 11:20 PM

Yeah, it was just like Saddam. Gassing the Kurds, stacking uranium, throwing people into giant wood chippers, letting his sons rape and assault anyone they wanted in the city, extracting medieval Islamic justice at a moment’s notice.

He was just a big ol sweetheart, just like Dinner Jacket. They want to be friends, especially with Israel. They loooooove Israel.

Um…one moment please…

We apologize for the confusion. We just got lost in “Brian Williams can’t figure out that he’s a tool being wined and dined by a dictator in hopes of creating a positive image of his country” land for a minute or two. Now that our heads are cleared of our asses, we’ll continue with REALITY.

MadisonConservative on August 1, 2008 at 11:25 PM

Good news: He really is playing to his base.

MB4 on August 1, 2008 at 11:28 PM

Peace in our time.

jgapinoy on August 1, 2008 at 11:29 PM

Bad news: His base is Allah, Mohammad and the Twelfth Imam, and he is playing for real chips.

MB4 on August 1, 2008 at 11:31 PM

Note to all who suddenly cannot access this site using IE7, with the following error:

“Internet Explorer cannot open the internet site…”

I have just discovered, after having this problem with my own site, that this problem is being caused by Sitemeter’s Javascript code. Sitemeter is a free web traffic monitoring tool that requires the embedding of a small block of code, including a Javascript source file, on the page whose traffic you wish to monitor. It seems Sitemeter made a change to their code that has resulted in this problem.

For the techies: this error is often the result of code in a child element that attempts to alter the contents of its parent element. Apparently, IE7 does not allow such a DOM manipulation.

I have notified our intrepid hosts about this issue.

-phil

phile on August 1, 2008 at 11:37 PM

MyIslamicSpace:

Hi there fellow Islamic bloggers. My name is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and I am the great and fearless President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and soon to be the defacto President of Iraq too!

I was was born one of seven children to a humble blacksmith and when I was a child growing up I worked on a farm to earn extra money for my poor father and I got to know a lot of the farm animals very well. I was a real nature boy back then. I was a real animal lover. My favorites were the goats of course. I still have such fond memories of my boyhood.

Later I excelled as a student, earning my master’s degree and a Ph.D in civil engineering. I have only three wifes, but as the leader of such a great Islamic country and soon to be the dominate power in the Middle East I feel that it is time for me to take my fourthwife. If any nice Islamic ladies are reading this you should email me some time soon. You must be between the ages of 12 and 28 years old. If you are under 12 that would be alright too but you must have a note from a male relative of course.

In addition to my important duties as the Great President of the Islamic Republic of Iran I am now working on my post graduate science project, which when completed in a very few years, I will test on Evil Israel and the Great Satin America. My base will give he many HIGH FIVES for that!!!

Who I would like to meet … …
In addition to my fourth wife, and remember if you are under 12 years old, you must have a note from a male relative, I would like to meet other dedicated members of the Great Religion of Slaughter Peace, Islam of course. We can all get together after work and spend time reading inspiring passages from the Koran and comparing notes on our mutual love of farm animals. We can also go over a list of priority test sites for my developing science project. It will be a blast!

MB4 on August 1, 2008 at 11:39 PM

What part of totalitarian dictatorship does Stewart not understand? There is no “base” as it is understood in democracies. See MB4′s comments above. He gets it.

RushBaby on August 1, 2008 at 11:42 PM

Let’s take a run down memory lane and see how many times Bryan Williams was right about Hussain, Kim, Putin…….never mind those crickets in the background………………

GarandFan on August 1, 2008 at 11:42 PM

You have no clout
You better not try
You better watch out, I’m telling you why.
Twelfth Imam is coming to town

A-Bomb is on list
I’ll use more than twice
Good Muslims who die
Will go to paradise
Twelfth Imam is coming to town

He knows if you’re a Christian
He knows if you’re a Jew
He knows if you’re an in-fi-del
He’s told me what to do

So….You have no clout
You better not try, I’m telling you why.
Twelfth Imam is coming to town
Twelfth Imam is coming to town

Aleph on August 1, 2008 at 11:47 PM

Is anyone else having problems accessing Hot Air? I keep getting an Internet Explorer error message saying “Hot Air not available,” even though the page has already loaded.

rmgraha on August 1, 2008 at 11:05 PM

Same here, v 7.0…13. Have never seen this condition, ever.

Using Firefox for now.

Entelechy on August 1, 2008 at 11:52 PM

Providing the Zionist nonbelievers with support against Muslims, whether they are Hezbollah who fight for the sake of Allah or ordinary Palestinians, is forbidden by Islamic Shariah law. It is a major act of disbelief and he who commits this is considered a dissident of Islam, because it falls within the framework of supporting disbelievers over Muslims.

The great dream of Islam will come true. Muslims dream to see flags that read: “There is no god but Allah” fluttering in the wind on the Temple Mount and Haram al-Sharif, Allah willing.

Aleph on August 1, 2008 at 11:52 PM

IE fix reported at end of long thread top of home page/left column– I am not endorsing/trying it as I haven’t been an IE user in quite some time.

I do endorse teh Firefox!

RushBaby on August 1, 2008 at 11:59 PM

I’m happy that the people with no responsibility can tell us all to go back to sleep. Needless to say, they will be the first to cry foul when the worst happens. Any way you cut it: Bush’s fault!

Entelechy on August 1, 2008 at 11:52 PM

Me too…

VolMagic on August 2, 2008 at 12:06 AM

Brian Williams is just helping his candidate play to his base.

Obama has already said Iran is just a “Tiny” threat,Brian is just backing him up.

Obama doesn’t understand Iran
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2008/05/obama-doesnt-understand-iran.html

Last night in Oregon, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama described Iran in a way that would have been comical were the topic not so deadly serious. In a nutshell, he described Iran as being “not a serious threat.”

I think Mr. super smart MSM man should read this from the Israeli’s who actually “know” the threat that faces them since the missiles and threats of annihilation are concentrated at….. them.


Column One: Ahmadinejad’s overlooked message

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411504466&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST
Sep. 28, 2007

During his visit to New York this week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked every basic assumption upon which Western civilization is predicated. Ahmadinejad offered up his attacks while extolling his vision of Islamic global domination.

Apparently Williams has signed on to Obama’s “Winnie the Pooh and tigger too” foreign policy.

Baxter Greene on August 2, 2008 at 12:08 AM

Liberalism is a DNA issue.

Deficient Nucleic Acid syndrome…Holmes.

Speakup on August 2, 2008 at 12:08 AM

And I love how the “perfect analogy” of how weak Saddam was is that one of his sinks wasn’t made out of gold.

The shallow thinkers will lap that one up. Just like they believe that the U.S.S.R., despite a huge nuke arsenal, was not a threat. I mean…. how do these people function on a day to day basis?

VolMagic on August 2, 2008 at 12:13 AM

phile on August 1, 2008 at 11:37 PM

Battle on, Happy Warrior.

VolMagic on August 2, 2008 at 12:15 AM

Yeah, Saddam was all bark and no bite. Just ask the Kurds.
Jim Treacher on August 1, 2008 at 11:17 PM

And Liberals wonder why we wont trust them to keep us safe.
Oh that Hitler guy, don’t worry about him, he’s just playing to his base….Buffoon.
TheBigOldDog on August 1, 2008 at 10:45 PM

Why you can’t trust the Democrats on, well, anything.

“Saddam Hussein was a pain in the neck and a bad person, but the fact is there are a lot of pains in the neck and bad people in this world.”

wise_man on August 2, 2008 at 12:23 AM

Liberalism is a DNA issue.

Deficient Nucleic Acid syndrome…Holmes.

Speakup on August 2, 2008 at 12:08 AM

I vehemently disagree with this characterization.

This is Demonization Road, and it leads to Purge City with a stopover in Hatred Village.

Criticize all you like, but don’t head down this road.

RushBaby on August 2, 2008 at 12:26 AM

If anyone doesn’t clearly understand that Iran is determined to attack and destroy Israel, they need their head examined.

Yeah, Saddam was all bark and no bite. Just ask the Kurds.

Jim Treacher on August 1, 2008 at 11:17 PM

Exactly.

I do endorse teh Firefox!

RushBaby on August 1, 2008 at 11:59 PM

Firefox 3 + AdBlock Plus
The fastest browsing around.

malan89 on August 2, 2008 at 12:37 AM

I have notified our intrepid hosts about this issue.

-phil

phile on August 1, 2008 at 11:37 PM

I wonder if it’s more widespread. We’ve got two blogger sites where I co-contribute. Neither use sitemeter.com. One will open the other crashes. The one that crashes is an older blogger version, the newer blogger version seems to be fine.

Texas Gal on August 2, 2008 at 12:43 AM

Is anyone else having problems accessing Hot Air? I keep getting an Internet Explorer error message saying “Hot Air not available,” even though the page has already loaded.

rmgraha on August 1, 2008 at 11:05 PM

Same here, v 7.0…13. Have never seen this condition, ever.

Using Firefox for now.

Entelechy on August 1, 2008 at 11:52 P

Dittos…………

Seven Percent Solution on August 2, 2008 at 12:43 AM

Texas Gal on August 2, 2008 at 12:43 AM

Well cancel that I just checked the template and the older blogger version has sitemeter.com embedded the new version doesn’t.

Texas Gal on August 2, 2008 at 12:47 AM

I am urging all armed Zionist forces who are working against the Islamic Holy Forces to surrender their weapons immediately.

Otherwise, we will hold them responsible for their actions. Any attempt to fight the Islamic Holy forces of Allah is pointless. We are committed to putting all of Palestine under our jurisdiction.

You cannot have weapons and act against the Islamic Holy Warriors. Any group that tries to fight the Islamic Holy Warriors will be destroyed. The Islamic Holy Warriors will overcome the Zionist infidels and their Hotair stooges.

Aleph on August 2, 2008 at 12:50 AM

Bad news: His base is Allah, Mohammad and the Twelfth Imam, and he is playing for real chips.

MB4 on August 1, 2008 at 11:31 PM

DEAD ON!

Williams shows pretty much what we can expect from liberals when it comes to dealing with mad dictators or extremist.

They will talk and spin and ignore all the genocide and death that comes when extremist like Ahmadinejad/Mullahs are trying to fulfill their quest for power(3 million dead in Vietnam/Cambodia after we left,Stalin and Mao do in millions,Rwanda,Saddam killing hundreds of thousands with WMD’s and torture/rape/murder,Dafur is being dealt with through the UN/EU while the genocide continues…Kerry’s global test)
Then yell and scream if they found out we poured water over
the poor little sensitive terrorist head or didn’t give them their prayer rug soon enough after their lemon chicken and rice three course meal.

To the liberal,it’s talk and blame America for their problems,then appeasement.

Williams mirrors Obama’s wishy washy “why can’t we be friends” attitude toward the idiot who will probably kill millions in his quest to appease the coming of the twelfth (or thirteenth) Imam.

Barack Obama, Neocon
posted at 7:46 am on May 17, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/17/barack-obama-neocon/

First, listen to how far Barack Obama has actually moved his foreign policy approach regarding Iran. Last summer, especially during the YouTube debate, Obama railed against the Bush administration policy, with “failed” being about the kindest term he could muster. Now, however, he has adopted the Bush policy towards Iran in toto. No talks with Iran until they end their nuclear-weapons programs, progressively tougher sanctions until they comply with international non-proliferation regulations and UN Security Council resolutions — that is exactly what the Bush administration has done since 2003.
What prompted this turn towards neocon policy? Obama can’t shake the consequences of his answer during that July debate and the promise of unconditional direct presidential-level talks with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the first year of his presidency. Even our allies, even those who thought Bush to be too hard line on Iran, don’t see what this would accomplish, other than boosting the prestige of Ahmadinejad and the mullahcracy’s hard-liners and further entrenching them in Iran. As John McCain put it yesterday, what exactly will Obama negotiate with Ahmadinejad? The destruction of Israel’s “stinking corpse”, or their grievances about the falsity of the Holocaust?

Obama,his liberal advisors and their “Winnie the Pooh and Tigger too”foreign policy,are all over the place when it comes to what they are going to do to prevent Iran from trying to destroy Israel.
This shows they are more concerned about not pissing off their liberal base and still tacking their positions to reflect the polling on this issue instead of being concerned about doing what is going to solve the problem.
Hard,unpopular decisions would have to be made,something they are not going to do.
The UN is useless, China and Russia will never let anything serious happen to one of their cash cows.
They will surely open the door for Israel to have to take matters into their own hands,which could result in all out war in the region.

Obama and Williams should try spending more time listening to the people of Iran than the photo ops they pose for with the troops and the enemies of Freedom around the world.


An Open Letter to Barack Obama

Manda Zand-Ervin and her daughter Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi are Iranian-American human rights activists and co-founders of the Alliance of Iranian Women. Earlier today they posted the following open letter to Barack Obama at Pajamas Media.

May 24, 2008
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/05/open-letter-to-barack-obama.html#readfurther

Senator, since 1979 the Mullahs of Iran have killed upwards of one million Iranians, not to mention the nearly one million sacrificed to the 8-year-long Iran/Iraq war. And what the Iranian people have withstood in terms of outrageous human rights violations is shocking; public hangings, stoning, flogging, cutting off limbs, tongues and plucking out eyeballs are an everyday occurrence across Iran. All are meant to strike fear of the ruling Mullahs into people’s hearts.

Since you began talking about unconditionally dialoguing with the Islamic regime of Iran, you too have struck absolute fear in the hearts of the Iranian people, both inside and outside Iran. The few Iranian-Americans who support you are well-intentioned individuals who have been swept up in the excitement and fervor of your campaign. But we can wholeheartedly assure you that your comments have landslide opposition within the much greater Iranian heart both inside and outside Iran.


It would be a good idea for Williams and Obama to read
“The Gathering Storm” by Winston Churchill instead of “Winne the Pooh”.

Baxter Greene on August 2, 2008 at 12:55 AM

Just a small point. Hitler was talking to his base. Problem was – they had all the guns and planes and ships and …

OldEnglish on August 2, 2008 at 1:27 AM

Hotair.com is crashing IE, in case you were wondering.

Vincenzo on August 2, 2008 at 2:02 AM

Vincenzo on August 2, 2008 at 2:02 AM

Quite a few website were but I am back in now on IE. By the way, how much harder can Jon french Obambi here?

Dawnsblood on August 2, 2008 at 2:21 AM

Hotair.com is crashing IE, in case you were wondering.

Actually, it’s most likely Sitemeter causing it. If Hot Air uses it to track visitors, that is.

Tom Blogical on August 2, 2008 at 2:46 AM

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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- The Cat

MirCat on August 2, 2008 at 2:58 AM

Pay no attention to the man ayatollah behind the curtain.

jasoneverts on August 1, 2008 at 10:48 PM

Fixed.

MB007 on August 2, 2008 at 3:38 AM

Guys like this I call flatlanders. Most liberals are flatlanders. They think everything is just a game, just a blip on the map. They think everything will always go on just as it is now with no drastic changes only with the occassional incident. They have no sense of history. Guys like that don’t even remember that the clinton administraion wasn’t peaches and cream. That everything we are dealing with now could be predicted then and even before then. I’ve always had the feeling that the people on trial for war crimes after WWII that said they were only following orders were probably flatlanders. The great danger is that barry has all the signs of a flatlander and he may very well be the next president.

peacenprosperity on August 2, 2008 at 7:02 AM

IE’s now working fine, accessing hotair.com

Entelechy on August 2, 2008 at 7:17 AM

Saddam had no WMD either, just ignore the 500 tons of yellow cake the US just delivered to canada from Iraq. The Old Media (OM) tried.

Now a multitude of reports confirming earlier stories of Saddams other chemical and Bio WMD being transported to Syria started popping this week.

But yeah, he was playing to his base.

And Ahmawhackjob is making cough syrup with all those centrifuges.

dogsoldier on August 2, 2008 at 7:24 AM

You realize briefly you’re in this courtyard where the CIA would have given thousands of dollars just to see up-close.

What makes you think they havent seen it Brian? We do have satellites you know.

It’s never; we have very little human intelligence in Iran.

We dont have much of it here either, especially among the media.

abcurtis on August 2, 2008 at 8:14 AM

Yeah, can access with Safari but not IE7.

brtex on August 1, 2008 at 11:09 PM

I’m not having any problems with Firefox either.

abcurtis on August 2, 2008 at 8:17 AM

In the 1980′s Reagan got skewered by the liberals, seen by most as being off his rocker when he called the USSR an “evil empire.”

But, pretty much unknown to just about everyone in the West, in the US especially, Russians themselves…in their conversations with each other…and conversations with a small number of foreigners they encountered…started referring to the USSR jokingly as “the Evil Empire.”

Meanwhile, Reagan kept getting skewered by the press, and a lot of us who were on the front lines had to contend with “you really don’t believe this evil empire cr*ap, do you?” by colleagues over at State, or even a few family members, on a daily basis.

It became a lighthearted “code word” among the Russians indicating whether or not they were aparatchiki or chernozhopa, or if they were actually intelligent and thinking people who saw past the posters of Lenin and did not believe the Communist Party garbage.

Talking to defectors and emigres, a number of us found more and more that that Reagan “Evil Empire” thing was being received by Russians and the Baltic nationalities and Ukrainians to a huge degree as a good thing, a sign of hope, a sign that the West, and the United States in particular, cared about “them”. No small thing when you’re locked up in a nation controlled by the KGB and all sorts of internal controls, and thought police, sending anyone who dissented to a psych ward or to the gulag. One could lose their job and be forced into hard or soft exile for merely having a western magazine or something American in their posession [unless you were a member of the Party elite.]

One cannot imagine how something simple like “evil empire” can get under the skin and in to the hearts of somebody who is being oppressed unless you’ve been there, seen it up close, dealt with it directly.

That lengthy intro said…

As for Iran…Iran had (hopefully still has) a very large literate educated class..really large, compared to the rest of the region…and almost all of them have some sort of connection to the United States (family members who immigrated, parent’s contact with Americans before the fall of the Shah, pirated CD’s and DVD’s) and when they hear an American President say “The mullahs must go!” it gets a reaction, a good reaction, among a huge segment in Iran. Gives them hope.

When they hear an American politician like an Obama say little Ahmadinejad is not such a threat, or that we must “talk” to him with no preconditions, it, too, has a direct effect on a lot of Iranians. A bad effect. Gets them to believe that the US is buying this garbage coming from Ahmadinejad. It eats away at hope. When they hear or watch American pundits thanks to illicit sat dishes and the internet, of course, and see that people of influence in America are buying Ahmadinejad’s rap hook, line and sinker, it doesn’t do them a lot of good in the morale department.

Never underestimate the power of a simple word or phrase smuggled in to an oppressed nation. That simple musical Morse code “V” [that first bar from Beethoven's Fifth] was used all across Nazi occupied Europe by the oppressed to indicate if they were good guys or bad guys..and it had a serious positive effect on hope.

Today, dealing with Iran…and talk to Iraqis and their attitudes a couple years ago compared to today when all they heard was we have to get out, that Iraq is a failure, that we should just let them kill each other off….a huge portion of the Iraqi population stayed home, hid out, praying and hoping that somehow, someway, things would get better or at least calm down enough to live…and they remembered that last time, after the Gulf War, when Ameica said here we come and the cavalry was just over the horizon…and thousands and thousands of iraqis were slaughterd by Saddam for the tiniest hint of being pro-US or anti-Saddam.

People caving in to the oppressors, the radical-chic types, the useful idiots, really hurts.

So when people in Iran hear that we are going to talk to Ahmadinejad with no pre-conditions, or that once again we are going to let Ahmadinejad continue his 12th Iman inspired nuke program, or that his rattling and railing about nukin’ the US isn’t anything to worry about, or that Iran is a little country that poses no threat at all to the US or the West, well, it makes it more and more difficult for Iranians to foster any sort of hope of getting out from under the heel of Ahmadinejad and the mullahs. It also makes it damn difficult for any sort of covert support and covert action within Iran to take root as well. Why risk building an underground, arming a resistance, why risk your life or that of your family, when the US (or anyone in the West) their only real source of hope doesn’t really care about them anyway?

Just thought I’d toss that out there…

coldwarrior on August 2, 2008 at 8:25 AM

coldwarrior on August 2, 2008 at 8:25 AM

If only that could be printed!

OldEnglish on August 2, 2008 at 8:49 AM

Hitler? Stalin? [Hussein] They’re just playing their base.

amerpundit on August 1, 2008 at 10:54 PM

News liberals are a special kind of stupid.

Jaibones on August 2, 2008 at 8:53 AM

OldEnglish on August 2, 2008 at 8:49 AM –

Print it!

Gail Sheehy, no arch-Conservative by any means, in her 1990 biography on Gorbachev ["The Man Who Changed the World"] goes in to a bit of detail on the “Evil Empire” effect on Soviet citizens. I talked to a lot of Soviets in the 80′s and a lot of former Soviets in the ’90′s and got the same insight.

Have talked to Iraqis recently here in the US and my son is still in internet contact with a number of young Iraqis he befriended during his tour in Fallujah and Ramadi and the Iraqi “hope” thing, the basis for the Awakening, is valid.

As for Iran…still meet up with Iranian emigre friends, a few going back to the early 1980′s, who validate the current Iranian “hope” thing as well. Will not go into any detail as to anything covert regarding Iran because, well, it’s covert…and should stay that way.

coldwarrior on August 2, 2008 at 9:05 AM

coldwarrior on August 2, 2008 at 9:05 AM

Thanks for both the permission and the update. I know they say that hope springs eternal, I just like it when it gets one in the basket occasionally.

OldEnglish on August 2, 2008 at 9:17 AM

You may wish to go over it and correct spelling and gramatical errors. I wrote that on the fly this morning. Have dyslexic fingers and little eye hand coordination anymore.

coldwarrior on August 2, 2008 at 9:22 AM

coldwarrior on August 2, 2008 at 9:22 AM

I know the feeling. They say things improve with age – but they are wrong on fingers, and eyes, and legs, and …

OldEnglish on August 2, 2008 at 9:35 AM

Just thought I’d toss that out there…

coldwarrior on August 2, 2008 at 8:25 AM

Excellent post,
Appeasement has done nothing but get a lot of people killed.

and they remembered that last time, after the Gulf War, when Ameica said here we come and the cavalry was just over the horizon…and thousands and thousands of iraqis were slaughterd by Saddam for the tiniest hint of being pro-US or anti-Saddam.

People caving in to the oppressors, the radical-chic types, the useful idiots, really hurts.

UN sponsored or not,I thought leaving the Iraqi people hanging and allowing Saddam to stay in power was a huge mistake in the first gulf war.

We (correction…the men and women in uniform)have paid dearly for that mistake because it took a lot of treasure and blood to get them to trust us this time,and the yelling
of “retreat” by the democratic party made this situation even worse.

Commitment Motivates Iraqis, Not Threats of Withdrawal
Amy Proctor
http://amyproctor.squarespace.com/blog/trackback/1745641
http://amyproctor.squarespace.com/blog/2008/4/8/commitment-motivates-iraqis-not-threats-of-withdrawal.html

Maj. Gen. (MG) Rick Lynch, Commander of Multi-National Division-Center last week:

MG Lynch: What we have found is, the local population as a result of seeing the patrol base come forward and two questions. The first question is, “Are you staying?” and when the local population is convinced that we’re going to stay, the next question is, “How can we help?”

I like this type of leadership when it comes to the enemies of Freedom around the world:

Incredible! George S Patton’s New Speech-Iraq & modern world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WynLgJFBxSs

Baxter Greene on August 2, 2008 at 9:39 AM

So you’re putting that nuclear bomb on that airplane, huh? No problem. Appease right on up to your demise. Way to go liberals!

Travis1 on August 2, 2008 at 9:51 AM

“I’m happy that the people with no responsibility can tell us all to go back to sleep.”

Exactly, this clown has a $5,000 suit, a $600 haircut, a $200 tie and NO responsiblity for anything.

Brian Williams should be restricted to the cartoon network. There is no reason to listen to a word uttered by him.

NoDonkey on August 2, 2008 at 11:08 AM

Until we have a nuclear explosion go off in America or Israel and discover that the Iranians were behind the whole thing.
jasoneverts on August 1, 2008 at 10:48 PM

Somehow the lefties will spin that as Americas fault too.

docdave on August 2, 2008 at 12:59 PM

Brian Williams actually said on TV that there were no one Iranian officials watching or listening in on them, no handlers, they could talk to anyone, and made it seem as though there was complete freedom to say and do anything. When I heard that, I changed the channel and told my wife they were reading from the Dem taking points. Unbelievable!

luckybogey on August 2, 2008 at 1:08 PM

Liberals:

We’ll send Iran a really nasty letter…and wait until they actually nuke us…because we all hate the Bush Doctrine of preemption…and then we’ll……..Oh!…wait!!!

landlines on August 2, 2008 at 1:41 PM

Brian Williams should be restricted to the cartoon network. There is no reason to listen to a word uttered by him.

NoDonkey on August 2, 2008 at 11:08 AM

I thought he was trying to break into comedy. It seems all the comedians these days are going into politics (and are not funny anymore), so it would make sense that the news people are switching over too…!

4shoes on August 2, 2008 at 2:19 PM

If a man says he wants to kill me, I take him at his word.

Since Vietnam, our enemies have known that their most useful tool is our MSM.

Brian Williams is one such tool.

Rod on August 2, 2008 at 3:31 PM

When you talk to them, do you feel like, when he says the crazy things that he says–and he says crazy things–is he playing to his base? Is this just a politician? Because, wasn’t that the mistake we made with Saddam Hussein? His braggadocio, his all those things, were of necessity, because he has to play to this base. Are we misinterpreting their belligerence, and thinking it’s baiting us into a war, when it’s just a way to stay in power?

Wait… isn’t this a discription of Williams’ “Night with the King” with Obama during his “We are the World” Tour?

CynicalOptimist on August 2, 2008 at 4:46 PM

People like Williams do not want evil to be defeated, simply because if evil were defeated, it could could only be by people he opposes politicallyy. So Williams is content to allow evil to prosper.

What he hasn’t thought through is that this makes Williams himself evil. Throughout history, people like him have a lot more blood on their hands than those who confront evil will ever have, and the blood on their hands is that of innocents, not tyrants.

drunyan8315 on August 2, 2008 at 6:52 PM

Ummm, aren’t the Iranians at large a little bit disappointed with their thug in chief? I don’t really know if he is ‘playing to his base.’

What a tool.

Grafted on August 2, 2008 at 8:51 PM

The only base their “thug in chief” has to play to are the Mullahs and the Majlis. Williams, being so educated and astute and erudite should have known that. Simply proves what a vacuous sort Williams is.

coldwarrior on August 2, 2008 at 9:01 PM

Well,that was comforting, to know where
the liberals stand,and with Republicans
running the show on the War On Terror,
I know where America stands!

And its not with Democrats!

canopfor on August 2, 2008 at 9:07 PM