Justin Hart has a compilation of Churchill speeches, Andrew Sullivan has a round-up of bellicose Brits, the Instapundit has this UK blog aggregator (as well as 9 bazillion other links), and who can forget the Queen Mum during WWII?
WMD In Iraq ‘Missing’
I am too tired to research all of the ins and outs of this story, so approach it with the usual skepticism that is due, but this certainly seems troubling:
Equipment and material that could be used to make biological or chemical weapons have been removed from 109 Iraqi sites, UN weapons inspectors say.
In a new report to the UN Security Council, satellite imagery experts said biological sites were less affected.The report said the dual-use equipment could be used for legitimate but also “for prohibited purposes”.
However, it warned that experts had been unable to determine the destination of all the items removed.
The UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (Unmovic) has not returned to Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.
But it has continued to monitor the sites in Iraq that had been subject to inspection until then.
Again, read the whole thing, but buyer beware.
The Jews Knew, part Deux
In the aftermath of 9/11, there were few things more annoying and disgusting than the whole ‘Jews knew and didn’t come to work’ myth that was peddled ferociously in some circles:
With the announcement of the attacks at the World Trade Center in New York, the international media, particularly the Israeli one, hurried to take advantage of the incident and started mourning 4,000 Israelis who work at the two towers. Then suddenly, no one ever mentioned anything about those Israelis and later it became clear that they remarkably did not show up in their jobs the day the incident took place.
No one talked about any Israeli being killed or wounded in the attacks. Arab diplomatic sources revealed to the Jordanian al-Watan newspaper that those Israelis remained absent that day based on hints from the Israeli General Security apparatus, the Shabak, the fact which evoked unannounced suspicions on American officials who wanted to know how the Israeli government learned about the incident before it occurred, and the reasons why it refrained from informing the U.S authorities of the information it had.
It appears that the anti-Semites and the anti-Israeli forces quickly jumped into the fray after the tragic bombings in London:
Israel was not warned about possible terror attacks in London before at least six blasts ripped through the city, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said today.
A Foreign Ministry official had said earlier that British police warned the Israeli Embassy in London of possible terror attacks minutes before the first explosion.
Bush and Litmus Tests
Last night, I was listening to Tucker Carlson’s show as I drifted off to sleep, and before I actually fell asleep, I heard this exchage:
CARLSON: Luckily, you’ll be back tomorrow, Rachel Maddow. But e-mail it, if you know, because I don’t.
Next situation, the battle for Supreme Court. President Bush says there’s, quote,
California National Guard
The LA Times has a follow up on this story about he California National Guard that states that the authorities are launching an investigation into allegations of tracking civilians:
U.S. military authorities Wednesday began investigating whether a California National Guard unit was established to spy on U.S. citizens, as about 30 demonstrators outside Guard headquarters confronted officials backed by armed soldiers.
The federal inquiry into the country’s largest National Guard force involves the Army’s inspector general, the federal National Guard Bureau’s inspector general and the National Guard Bureau’s legal division.
The unit has raised concern among peace activists that the Guard is resorting to the type of civilian monitoring that characterized Vietnam War-era protests, when the military collected information on more than 100,000 Americans during the 1960s and ’70s.
Under scrutiny is a California National Guard unit with a tongue-twisting name
A Contrast
Via Andrew Sullivan, a contrast in styles that is rather telling. Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London:
“This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful; it is not aimed at presidents or prime ministers; it was aimed at ordinary working class Londoners, black and white, Muslim and Christians, Hindu and Jew, young and old, indiscriminate attempt at slaughter irrespective of any considerations, of age, of class, of religion, whatever, that isn’t an ideology, it isn’t even a perverted faith, it’s just indiscriminate attempt at mass murder, and we know what the objective is, they seek to divide London. They seek to turn Londoners against each other and Londoners will not be divided by this cowardly attack… I wish to speak through you directly, to those who came to London to claim lives, nothing you do, how many of us you kill will stop that flight to our cities where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another, whatever you do, how many you kill, you will fail.”
George Galloway (hero to the far left):
The loss of innocent lives, whether in this country or Iraq, is precisely the result of a world that has become a less safe and peaceful place in recent years.
We have worked without rest to remove the causes of such violence from our world. We argued, as did the Security Services in this country, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq would increase the threat of terrorist attack in Britain. Tragically Londoners have now paid the price of the government ignoring such warnings.
We urge the government to remove people in this country from harms way, as the Spanish government acted to remove its people from harm, by ending the occupation of Iraq and by turning its full attention to the development of a real solution to the wider conflicts in the Middle East. Only then will the innocents here and abroad be able to enjoy a life free of the threat of needless violence.
Ugh. Via Arthur Chrenkoff, Al Qaeda speaks:
What Hath God Wrote?
Via the godless heathens over at Uncorrelated, I see that those atheistic scientists are trying to insert their faithless beliefs into the clear Biblical record:
A new museum being built in Kentucky will have some of the classic staples of natural history museums