Links of Interest for the day
CNN’s ‘Exclusive:’ Nic Robertson’s Forum for Hezbollah Propagandist
he Hezbollah “press officer,” Hussein Nabulsi, even directed CNN’s camera: “Just look. Shoot. Look at this building. Is it a military base? Is it a military base, or just civilians living in this building?” A few moments later, Nabulsi instructed CNN to videotape him as he ran up to a pile of rubble: “Shoot me. Shoot. This is here where they said Sheikh Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, is living. This is wrong!”
Robertson seemed to endorse Hezbollah’s claims: “As we run past the rubble, we see much that points to civilian life, no evidence apparent of military equipment.” …
Military sources say warplanes attack structures in which Hizbullah stores its money; among targets hit were four el-Mal (Money house) buildings in Bint Jbeil, Nabatiyeh, Baalbek and Tyre area
Senate immigration bill ‘far worse’ than in ‘86
The latest immigration bill approved by the Senate is “far, far worse” than the 1986 immigration bill that granted amnesty to 2.7 million illegal aliens and created the magnet for the millions more who have come here since, a House panel was told at a hearing yesterday.
Every time I go down to the Mexican border, I’m struck by a down and dirty realization: This beautiful land looks like a dump.
Recently I was at a waist-high border vehicle barrier in a valley northeast of Tecate, Baja California. As far as the eye could see, strewn past barbed wire or collecting knee-deep in culverts, were water bottles, food wrappers, used paper products such as toilet paper and maxi pads, even felt shoe covers designed to obscure tracks.
From California to Texas, illegal immigrants and drug runners leave such calling cards on their trek north.
“This was a beautiful refuge 10 years ago,” Mitch Ellis, manager of Arizona’s Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, says. “Just stunning.” Now, he says, it looks like a “war zone.”
U.N. Drama Unfolds, Times Runs Wire Copy
The story had everything: secret agents, political intrigue, personal betrayal and cash. Lots and lots of cash.
Yet, for all that, a remarkable trial that ended last week in a Manhattan courtroom”a proceeding that implicated figures in the highest echelons of international politics”was barely mentioned in the major American press. If it weren’t for the journalistic wing of the conservative movement, outlets like the National Review Online and The New York Sun, it might not have been covered at all.
Quotes I Found Interesting:
“Americans in Iraq have found 500 sarin- and mustard-gas-filled artillery shells, live botulinum toxin, cyanide salt, and nearly two tons of uranium… Without threatening intelligence contacts and techniques, the ever-bashful Bush administration owes it to American taxpayers and our Coalition allies to unveil everything it safely can about what we really have found in Iraq.” “Deroy Murdock
“Everything our leaders do must be judged by whether it helps or hurts us in defeating terrorists and their state sponsors.” “Newt Gingrich
“The world is a dangerous place to live”not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” “Albert Einstein
July 19, 2006 - 01:20 PM on July 19th, 2006
Deroy Murdoch has a point but don’t tell San Fran
As for Nic Robertson’s CNN exclusive. What he doesn’t get is that they hide their weapons AMONG the civilian population and the civilians think it’s cool and feel like one of the gang I suppose. Then when women and children get killed they cry out to the world how the big bad Israel hurt them. What Nic should be doing is a story on the women and children of the civilian population that in the last year alone has been killed by these thugs.
I had an interesting conversation with a lib yesterday. He’s jewish and worried about Israel being bombed with the WMD Saddam hid in Syria. Dumbstruck I looked at him and assured him that he himself had told me a couple of years ago Saddam didn’t have WMD. If you could have seen the look on his face.:lol:
July 19, 2006 - 03:09 PM on July 19th, 2006
Nice point made to him Bon Bon…the sad thing is, he should be worried……:sad:
July 19, 2006 - 09:15 PM on July 19th, 2006
And CNN is the best propeganda besides the New York Times that HEZBOLA can count on:mad:
July 20, 2006 - 03:09 AM on July 20th, 2006
“I had an interesting conversation with a lib yesterday. He’s jewish and worried about Israel being bombed with the WMD Saddam hid in Syria. Dumbstruck I looked at him and assured him that he himself had told me a couple of years ago Saddam didn’t have WMD. If you could have seen the look on his face.
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Too funny, but true! I have had libs tell me, in the same discussion, “Where’s the WMD?” then assert that Klinton’s missiles strikes “destroyed them”.
Today I was downtown and saw 3 or 4 geeky looking protesters holding up signs trying to attract attention. Their signs said “Stop Israeli Aggression Against the Palestinians” and “Stop Israeli Targeting of Civilians”. When neither is the case. What a load of whackjobs. I drove past slowly and gave them a look that demonstrated my disgust. F’ing imbeciles!
July 20, 2006 - 03:10 AM on July 20th, 2006
‘”Shoot me. Shoot. This is here where they said Sheikh Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, is living. This is wrong!—
Woulda been funny if someone had actually shot him.