The persecution of Lt. Ilario Pantano continues ...

Witness says accused Marine ordered Iraqis to stop

An eyewitness to the killing of two Iraqis by Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano says in a sworn statement that the officer, who has been charged with murder, twice ordered the insurgents to stop in Arabic before opening fire, according to documents obtained by The Washington Times.

Lt. Pantano had told investigators that he fired at the Iraqis after they walked toward him and refused to stop, according to the documents. His platoon had stopped the Iraqis as they left a house where insurgents were making bombs.

"While I took my security post, I heard Lt. Pantano yell stop [in Arabic] directed towards the two Iraqi men searching the vehicle. He yelled stop. Lt. Pantano yelled stop, and then, I heard shots fired," said the eyewitness, a Navy corpsman in Lt. Pantano's platoon, in a sworn statement.
"I quickly turned towards the vehicle, Lt. Pantano's position, and witnessed the men attempting to flee away from the vehicle away from where Lt. Pantano was standing."
The sworn statements provided the first inside look at a case that has drawn national attention because of Lt. Pantano's stellar record and the nature of the enemy that he faced in Iraq. Lt. Pantano has made no public comment since Feb. 1, when the Marine Corps charged him with two counts of premeditated murder. If convicted at a court-martial, he faces the death penalty.
The case has stirred strong emotions within the Corps. Some Marines complain that Lt. Pantano is being unfairly prosecuted for decisions that he made while operating in a hostile neighborhood where coalition forces regularly have come under attack.

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Some background on this hero:

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He had served as a marine in the Persian Gulf war of 1991; he left the corps to attend New York University when he was 21. Later he was an energy trader for Goldman Sachs, he delivered food to homeless shelters, and he helped a friend promote his new restaurant.

But after watching the World Trade Center come crashing down on Sept. 11, 2001, taking the lives of several friends, his life took another turn.

He moved to Battery Park City a few months afterward and passed ground zero daily. He told friends that the sight pained his heart.

James Rafferty, who has known Lieutenant Pantano for 11 years, said he believed that the terror attack prompted Lieutenant Pantano's decision to re-enlist in the Marines.

"I think for Ilario it kind of brought him to the realization that he is a marine and there are things that need to be done so that stuff like this doesn't happen again," Mr. Rafferty said. "It would be hard to sit back and not be a part of that."

He added, "I think he felt like his brothers are going to fight for our freedom, and if he still can, then he will."

After re-enlisting, Lieutenant Pantano went to Iraq with the Second Marine Division, landing in March 2004. He fought in the battle of Falluja last spring.

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So, Ward Churchill and Michael Moore continue to peddle their treason -- in the guise of "education" and "entertainment", respectively -- yet Marine higher-ups are willing to sacrifice an American hero to the bedwetting pantywaists of the American Left.

We live in a Bizzaro World when a great American is hung out to dry so that a passel of self-loathing namby-pambies-- who live in dread that the Jihadists (who would gleefully raze the very bathhouses the limp-wrists attend their orgies at) are not being given the same "due process" as home grown rapists and cop killers -- won't get their flowered panties in a wad.

If Western Civilization dies, it will be a suicide.

GDP up 4.4% in 2004

Q4 GDP Revised Up on Stronger Exports

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economic momentum at the end of 2004 was significantly stronger than previously thought, according to a government report on Friday revising up fourth-quarter output to reflect stronger exports and investment.

The Commerce Department (news - web sites) said gross domestic product, the gauge of total goods and services production within U.S. borders, grew at a revised 3.8 percent annual rate in the final three months of last year instead of 3.1 percent reported a month ago.

That was only slightly below the third quarter's 4 percent pace and left the economy poised for a healthy start to 2005.

Nearly half the fourth-quarter revision stemmed from a stronger trade performance, reflecting more robust exports than previously thought.

Statistics Canada corrected a $1.4 billion error in underestimating U.S. exports to Canada during November, and later data also showed the U.S. trade deficit for December narrowed more than had been anticipated.

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Can we finally stop the whining about how bad the economy is? We've been in full expansion mode since the second round of tax cuts in mid-2003. Thank you W and thank you advocates of growth-oriented (read: Supply Side) tax cuts.

For those of us in Blue States (NY in our case) the picture isn't so rosy, but we can blame our if-it-moves-tax-it-if-it-keeps-moving-regulate-it-in-thrall-to-the-public-employee-unions state politicos for that.

NY's in a socialist state of mind!

Survey says: Tax the rich Americans

Survey says: Tax the rich Americans

By The Citizen staff report
A recent poll conducted by five New York legislators showed their constituents would support higher taxes on the wealthiest population to help pay for education.

Voters in all five districts strongly supported a new surcharge on incomes above $150,000, if the revenue was dedicated to providing additional aid to public schools.

The poll, which was presented Monday at the state legislative budget hearing on education funding, surveyed voter opinion in the districts of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Owen Johnson (R-Babylon), Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chairman Herman "Denny" Farrell (D-Manhattan), the Senate Education Committee Chairman Stephen Saland (R-Poughkeepsie), Assembly Education Committee Chairman Steven Sanders (D-Manhattan) and Assemblyman Chris Ortloff (R-Plattsburgh).

More than 60 percent of the voters in the five districts said if the governor vetoed a new surcharge, they would support a legislative override.
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First, someone needs to teach The Citizen about federalism: the headline should properly read "Survey says: Tax the rich New York Staters".

That aside, is it any wonder no one wants to start a business here?! Mario Cuomo lives! (and NY State dies a little more!)

Moonbats repelled at IPE (UK)

Kyoto protest beaten back by inflamed petrol traders

WHEN 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) yesterday they had planned the operation in great detail.

What they were not prepared for was the post-prandial aggression of oil traders who kicked and punched them back on to the pavement.

"We bit off more than we could chew. They were just Cockney barrow boy spivs. Total thugs," one protester said, rubbing his bruised skull. "I’ve never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view."

Another said: "I took on a Texan Swat team at Esso last year and they were angels compared with this lot." Behind him, on the balcony of the pub opposite the IPE, a bleary-eyed trader, pint in hand, yelled: "Sod off, Swampy."

Greenpeace had hoped to paralyse oil trading at the exchange in the City near Tower Bridge on the day that the Kyoto Protocol came into force. "The Kyoto Protocol has modest aims to improve the climate and we need huge aims," a spokesman said.

Protesters conceded that mounting the operation after lunch may not have been the best plan. "The violence was instant," Jon Beresford, 39, an electrical engineer from Nottingham, said.

"They grabbed us and started kicking and punching. Then when we were on the floor they tried to push huge filing cabinets on top of us to crush us." When a trader left the building shortly before 2pm, using a security swipe card, a protester dropped some coins on the floor and, as he bent down to pick them up, put his boot in the door to keep it open.

Two minutes later, three Greenpeace vans pulled up and another 30 protesters leapt out and were let in by the others.

They made their way to the trading floor, blowing whistles and sounding fog horns, encountering little resistance from security guards. Rape alarms were tied to helium balloons to float to the ceiling and create noise out of reach. The IPE conducts "open outcry" trading where deals are shouted across the pit. By making so much noise, the protesters hoped to paralyse trading.

But they were set upon by traders, most of whom were under the age of 25. "They were kicking and punching men and women indiscriminately," a photographer said. "It was really ugly, but Greenpeace did not fight back."

Mr Beresford said: "They followed the guys into the lobby and kept kicking and punching them there. They literally kicked them on to the pavement."

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Not much else we can say but: Yeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssss!

This happens whenever Moonbats come up against contributing members (growing pot and excreting b.o. does not count) of society.

We note that "three Greenpeace vans" were used to facilitate this trespass.

Vans? Were they water-powered?

We doubt it.

Major Loon Dean rushes to make ass of self

foot-in-mouth disease--already

Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele and former Oklahoma Congressman J.C. Watts have issued a statement calling for Howard Dean to apologize over remarks he made while addressing the Democratic Black Caucus last Friday.

First, the offending statement: "You Think The Republican National Committee Could Get This Many People Of Color In A Single Room? Only If They Had The Hotel Staff In Here."

From the Steele/Watts release:

We are simply outraged over recent racially insensitive remarks made by Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Howard Dean. In his comments to the Democratic Black Caucus, Dean equates African-Americans who support Republicans to 'hired help.' This kind of backward thinking reminds us of a horrible time in history when blacks were only seen as servants.

Democrats wonder why they are losing electoral ground among African-Americans and other minorities. They need to look no further than the comments of their newly elected leader.

We are demanding that Howard Dean apologize for his racially, insensitive and intolerable remarks.

And the MSM yawns.

Mr. Buzzcut to audience at NY City's Bellevue Hospital:

I haven't seen this many Moonbats in one place since the Democrat National Convention!

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Global Test, Part XXV *hic*

UN inspectors 'spent their days drinking'

UN inspectors in Iraq spent their working hours drinking vodka while ignoring a shadowy nocturnal fleet believed to be smuggling goods for Saddam Hussein, a former senior inspector told the US Senate yesterday.

In a move that provoked fury from officials of the Swiss firm Cotecna, an Australian former inspector detailed a picture of incompetence, indifference and drunkeness among the men acting as the frontline for UN sanctions.

Arthur Ventham, a former Australian army officer and customs officer, joined the operation in 2002 and worked at various sites in Iraq and neighbouring states.

He said that at Iskendurun in eastern Turkey, some officials had refused to work.

When he asked one of his bosses why, he was told: "They were friends or relatives of potential clients, and are only in the mission so the company could secure future contracts in Nigeria, Comoros and another African country.

"When I said that this was unfair on everyone else, I was told that it was general practice in Cotecna."

Other inspectors had spent most of the day in hotel rooms while others drank beer and talked to the local people.

Inspectors were supposed to check lorries to make sure the UN sanctions regime was being enforced.

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Hey -- at least they weren't out raping ...

Just for Moonbats, from Popular Mechanics

9/11: Debunking The Myths

From the moment the first airplane crashed into the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, the world has asked one simple and compelling question: How could it happen?

Three and a half years later, not everyone is convinced we know the truth. Go to Google.com, type in the search phrase "World Trade Center conspiracy" and you'll get links to an estimated 628,000 Web sites. More than 3000 books on 9/11 have been published; many of them reject the official consensus that hijackers associated with Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda flew passenger planes into U.S. landmarks.

Healthy skepticism, it seems, has curdled into paranoia. Wild conspiracy tales are peddled daily on the Internet, talk radio and in other media. Blurry photos, quotes taken out of context and sketchy eyewitness accounts have inspired a slew of elaborate theories: The Pentagon was struck by a missile; the World Trade Center was razed by demolition-style bombs; Flight 93 was shot down by a mysterious white jet. As outlandish as these claims may sound, they are increasingly accepted abroad and among extremists here in the United States.

To investigate 16 of the most prevalent claims made by conspiracy theorists, POPULAR MECHANICS assembled a team of nine researchers and reporters who, together with PM editors, consulted more than 70 professionals in fields that form the core content of this magazine, including aviation, engineering and the military.

In the end, we were able to debunk each of these assertions with hard evidence and a healthy dose of common sense. We learned that a few theories are based on something as innocent as a reporting error on that chaotic day. Others are the byproducts of cynical imaginations that aim to inject suspicion and animosity into public debate. Only by confronting such poisonous claims with irrefutable facts can we understand what really happened on a day that is forever seared into world history.--THE EDITORS

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Well, you still have your "The Iraqi election was a sham 'cause we installed our puppet" lunacy ... Oops! I'm told Allawi's party finished third. Hmmm. Chin up! There's always the old "war for oil" canard to fall back on (just ignore the current oil price) ...

Greenspan: Private SS accounts a "good thing"

Greenspan Urges Caution on Social Security

[all emphasis ours]

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve (news - web sites) Chairman Alan Greenspan (news - web sites) on Wednesday urged a go-slow approach on personal Social Security accounts, saying that while he embraces the idea central to President Bush's proposed overhaul, he is concerned about stability in financial markets.

"If you are going to move to private accounts, which I approve of, you have to do it in a cautious, gradual way," [The Ponderosa: 4% is pretty gradual. We'd prefer the whole wad. ] Greenspan said in response to intense questioning from both Republicans and Democrats in an appearance before the Senate Banking Committee.

"I think it's a good thing to do over the longer run," he said because something must be done to fix the system.

Bush's proposal would allow workers under age 55 to divert a chunk of their Social Security taxes into voluntary, private investment accounts.

Greenspan repeated his call to Congress to take action to shore up the massive entitlement programs of Social Security and Medicare. Those programs face huge financial strains with the looming retirement of 78 million baby boomers in 2008.

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Lessee ... Greenspan or Krugman? Greenspan ... or ... Krugman .... ? Hmmm ... Tough, TOUGH call!

The most important financial figure in the world thinks you're smart enough to plan for your own retirement. A pixilated little Moonbat thinks you aren't.

Funny stuff!

THK becomes TH

Teresa Heinz drops 'Kerry'

A campaign convenience is no more.
According to The Washington Times, Teresa Heinz, the erstwhile Teresa Heinz Kerry, has stopped using the last name of her husband, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, last year's Democrat presidential nominee.

Preceding its Women Who Make a Difference Awards dinner next month, the National Council for Research on Women is featuring "a conversation with Teresa Heinz," according to a release from the organization. The council failed to mention the final half of the Fox Chapel ketchup heiress' formerly elongated last name in several other references.

"I just checked and she no longer uses her (entire) last name; only during the (presidential) campaign did she use Kerry," campaign spokeswoman Tamara Rodriguez Reichberg said.

We suppose this means the Kerrys (er, make that Heinz and Kerry) will have to get their checks reprinted, but it's an expense they probably can afford.

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No word on whether John Kerry-Heinz will be dropping the "Heinz" ...

Yet Helen Thomas retains her WH credentials ...

Loose 'Gannon': White House Reporter Is Really James D. Guckert


One correspondent sympathetic to the White House's worldview ... dozens antagonistic ... and this is the guy they single out?!

Yup, liberal media bias is a myth ...

Odd, also, that they used Guckert's homosexual ties (no pun intended) to savage him ... We suppose the only good gay is a liberal gay ... which makes sense: these are the same "tolerant" folks to whom only "liberal" blacks are "good"blacks.

Huh ... wait a minute ... Kerry aided the Khmer Rouge?!

We were browsing a recent "Meet The Press" transcript when the following jumped out at us:

Meet The Press: Transcript for Jan. 30

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SEN. KERRY: We were right on the border, Tim. What I explained to people and I told this any number of times, did I go into Cambodia on a mission? Yes, I did go into Cambodia on a mission. Was it on that night? No, it was not on that night. But we were right on the Cambodian border that night. We were ambushed there, as a matter of fact. And that is a matter of record, and we went into the rec-- you know, it's part of the Navy records. It's been documented by the other guys who were on my boat. And Steve Gardner, frankly, doesn't know where we were. It wasn't his job, and, you know, he wasn't involved in that. But we did go five miles into Cambodia. It was on another day. I jumbled the two together, but we were five miles into Cambodia. We went up on a mission with CIA agents--I believe they were CIA agents--CIA Special Ops guys. I even have some photographs of it, and I can document it. And it has been documented.

MR. RUSSERT: You'll release those photographs?

SEN. KERRY: I think they were shown. I gave them to the campaign, but...

MR. RUSSERT: And you have a hat that the CIA agent gave you?

SEN. KERRY: I still have the hat that he gave me, and I hope the guy would come out of the woodwork and say, "I'm the guy who went up with John Kerry. We delivered weapons to the Khmer Rouge on the coastline of Cambodia."[emphasis ours] We went out of Ha Tien, which is right in Vietnam. We went north up into the border. And I have some photographs of that, and that's what we did. So, you know, the two were jumbled together, but we were on the Cambodian border on Christmas Eve, absolutely.

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For those of you too young (or drug-addled/guilt-ridden) to remember:

Wikipedia: Khmer Rouge

The Khmer Rouge (Khmer: Khmaey Krahom French: Khmers Rouges) (Also known as: Communist Paty of Kampuchea, CPK, Khmer Communist party, National Army of Democratic Kampuchea, PDK and by the official names Communist Party of Cambodia then later Party of Democratic Kampuchea) were a Communist organization which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. The Khmer Rouge is generally remembered for its rule in which an estimated 1.5 million people died. In terms of the number of people killed in relation to the total population, it was one of the most violent of the 20th century.

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No wonder he was so eager to surrender Southeast Asia to the commies ...

Dan Rather and Mary Mapes could not be reached for comment. Keep digging at that Bush ANG story!

BTW, great follow-up, Timmy ...

Apparently, being a Moonbat in good standing means never having to say: "I'm sorry for having aided a genocidal regime".

Virtual Moonbat -- indistinguishable from the real thing!

Kudos to Sean at THE GLEESON BLOGLOMERATE

We understand the next version will emit an eye-tearing stench and offer choice of, among others, Che Guevara, Michael Moore, Jim McDermott, Paul Krugman and Ward Churchill skins !

CPUSA loves Krugman

Lies and Theft -- the Attack on Social Security

There's nothing special about this anti-free market Social Security reform broadside from the Communist Party USA ... till you get to here:

Section 2 -- The real crisis
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These facts are simple, clear, and well-established. Paul Krugman in the NYT[2.1](emphasis ours) and Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research[2.2], are only two of the many excellent sources. And of course, Vic Perlo exposed the whole fraud a decade ago when the libertarian right dreamed up the idea of a social security crisis.

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We're sure that "Professor" Krugman's chest is less sunken than usual with pride!

Europe, RIP

French demonstrate to keep 35-hour work week

Hundreds of thousands of French people took part in demonstrations across the country to protest against government plans to reform the 35-hour work week.

Organized by an alliance of trade-unions and backed by the opposition Socialist party (PS), more than half a million people took part in marches in 100 towns and cities -- with 90,000 joining the largest demonstration in Paris. Police put the overall figure at slightly more than 250,000.

The protests came as a bill to enable private sector employees to opt for longer hours makes its way through parliament. The bill is expected to pass its first reading in the National Assembly on Monday.

The key social change of the last Socialist administration, the mandatory 35-hour week has been attacked by President Jacques Chirac's centre-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) for putting up the cost of labour and helping create the country's stubbornly high unemployment.

However the left accuses the government of trying to turn back the clock, and jeopardising social progress via an ideological obsession with labour market flexibility.

Polls showed that nearly 70 percent of the public support or have sympathy with the protests, which come after three days of strikes in the public sector late last month.

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France suffers from an unemployment rate of around 10 percent -- almost double that of Britain -- and Raffarin recently promised to bring it down to nine percent, a drop of some 250,000 job-seekers, in a year.

The changes would not effectthe public sector which employs nearly one in four French workers. (emphasis ours)
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Ladies and gents, we give you Old -- and decrepit -- Europe.

Who the hell wants to be allies with these people, let alone emulate their emasculated, infantile existence?

De Tocqueville's "immense and tutelary power" has lulled the nations of Old Europe into a state of perpetual childhood.

We feel much more in common with the brave Iraqis who are trying to build a free and prosperous nation than we do with these guileless poltroons.

A-hole v. A-hole

Bin Laden's film maker sues Michael Moore

A FORMER close associate of Osama Bin Laden is to sue the film-maker Michael Moore for using his footage of the Al-Qaeda chief in the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.

Essam Deraz, an Egyptian, spent almost four years in Afghanistan filming Bin Laden at training camps and fighting, gaining unprecedented access to the terrorist leader.

He was the only person to film Bin Laden during the late 1980s and has the only footage of the Saudi exile in battle in Afghanistan.

Deraz has started legal action in Egypt and America to seek compensation for use of his footage in Fahrenheit 9/11, the biggest-grossing documentary in cinema history.

Deraz claims he had not signed a distribution agreement with Moore or anyone else. “I was the only cameraman with the Arabs. All of those shots of Bin Laden talking in the cave, talking into his walkie-talkie, they were all my work.

"I was there from 1986-89 and was in contact with Bin Laden on many occasions. I saw him in Peshawar in Pakistan and in Jalalabad in Afghanistan. The film clips in Fahrenheit 9/11 — five of them — were mostly shot in March and April 1989.

"I was wounded twice and on one of those occasions Bin Laden arranged for me to be taken to hospital in his vehicle. These are the only film clips ever taken that show Bin Laden on the battlefield."

Film of the Arab mujaheddin fighting against the Russians in Afghanistan is rare because they did not take part in many large-scale engagements. The fighting around Jalalabad, shortly before the Russians withdrew, is one of the few occasions where Arab fighters were involved in large numbers.

Deraz, who worked for the BBC in the 1970s and lived in London, said he had no sympathy with Al-Qaeda, which had not yet come into existence when the footage was shot.

At the time it was Egyptian policy to support the uprising by Afghans against the Soviet forces that had invaded the country. Following his return to Egypt, he wrote a number of books about the anti-Soviet jihad and made three films.

He said: "Now I find that Mr Moore’s film is being distributed in America and in other countries and I have received nothing."

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You CANNOT make this stuff up ... fricking hilarious ...! Of course, Lefties don't respect property rights in general, let alone intellectual property rights. Moore would prob'ly be the first one running to a lawyer were someone to sample a few frames of his dreck ...

Wonder which fellow hates America Moore?

Moonbat to head DNC?!

Dean Now Sole Candidate for DNC Chairman

Tim Roemer, the only remaining opponent of Howard Dean (news - web sites) in the race to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee (news - web sites), said Monday he's bowing out of the race — but he offered a warning to Democrats.

Dean, the former presidential candidate and governor of Vermont, is expected to win the DNC chairmanship at the election Feb. 12.

Roemer, a former congressman from Indiana and a member of the Sept. 11 commission, said Democrats must be more inclusive in their outreach to fast-growing parts of the country.

"I got into this race five weeks ago to talk about the devastating loss we experienced in November," Roemer said in an interview. "It was not about 60,000 votes in Ohio. It was about losing 97 of the 100 fastest growing counties in the country. If that's a trend in business or politics you're in trouble."

Republicans are in the strongest position they've been in since the early 20th century, Roemer said.

Roemer, who said top Democrats in Congress encouraged him to enter the chairman's race, said he wants to strengthen Democrats' position on national security.

"If there's one reason Senator Kerry lost the presidential race, it was because he failed to make the American people feel safer," Roemer said, adding that he also wanted to encourage talk within the party about developing a stronger position on values.

Roemer said he hoped to make the party more inclusive, especially on the issue of abortion. He opposes abortion except in cases of rape, incest and the health of the mother.

His opposition to abortion rights sparked early opposition in the race from abortion choice advocates.

Aides to Dean, the only candidate standing from the original seven-man field, said he continues to make calls to DNC members to assure his choice as chairman.

Dean has said he will focus his efforts as chairman more on building the party at the local, state and national level, raising money and winning elections, while elected officials will be more responsible for policy positions.

"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for, but I admire their discipline and their organization."
Future (we hope) DNC Chairman Howard Dean

Puuhllllleeeeze ...NOMINATE this man ...!

We are on record as acknowledging that Dean is not a born Moonbat. As governor of Vermont, he was actually fairly moderate.

Only when he saw the opportunity to hitch his wagon to the Loony Left did Dean become ... um ... loony.

This, in our estimation, makes him even worse than your garden variety red diaper doper baby Moonbat. Babs Boxer can't help her lack of smarts ... Dean can.

By all means, make this man, rather than a responsible adult, your party chairman.

We look forward to many decades in the majority.

Hero assailed for asserting the obvious

Marine General Counseled Over Comments

A Marine Corps general with battle awards is being counseled to watch his words more carefully after publicly observing that "it's fun to shoot some people."

Lt. Gen. James Mattis, a career infantry officer now in charge of developing ways to better train and equip Marines, also made fun of the manhood of Afghans during comments Tuesday while speaking at a forum in San Diego.

On Thursday, Gen. Mike Hagee, the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, issued a statement of regret about Mattis' remarks, saying they reflected "the unfortunate and harsh realities of war."

According to an audio recording, Mattis had said, "Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot. ... It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right upfront with you, I like brawling."

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Lessee ... make a mendacious movie portraying "your" country as an immoral predator ... blubber treasonous statements in a besotted haze to the Senate -- you're a hero to Moonbats everywhere.

Acknowledge that the enemy is subhuman and their elimination is a treat and you earn the scorn of the limp-wrists ...

Clearly, some in this nation believe we should lose the War on Jihadistan.

SOTU

Check back Thursday for our reactions ...