Victor Davis Hanson made me chuckle with Eurospeak Sorting out the teenage sass

Remember that we are your critical partners in the war against terrorism! Appreciate our unheralded work that goes unnoticed amid the loud bombs and tanks of you rowdy Americans — BUT Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization and cannot be labeled as such (and Hamas isn't either and needs our financial support).

Sign Kyoto! Start acting like good global citizens! BUT quit suggesting we had a hand in the Rwanda mess, the Balkans mess, the Oil-for-Food Mess, the Saddam-reactor mess, the Hezbollah/Hamas mess, the Arafat mess.The rest.

By way of Democratic Peace

For those who question the American led attack on Saddam Hussein’s control of Iraq, I wish I could take them on a tour of the 53 confirmed mass graves (270 reported) of Hussein’s victims that have been uncovered since Iraq’s people were freed. Young and old; men, woman, children, babies; crippled and infirm; all in one mass grave after another, totaling hundreds of thousands. Iraqi Sites Guide - The Mass Graves.

This just in from Steven Plaut! While the world watches Lebanon demanding an end to the Syrian Occupation, not everybody seems to be thrilled with it.

Noam Chomksy, the MIT inventor of now-discredited theories of linguistics, is determined to defend and perpetuate Syrian colonialization of Lebanon, no matter how many Lebanese lives it costs.

His reason? He insists Syrian occupation of Lebanon is necessary as a way to prevent those evil Israelis from doing horrid deeds in Lebanon, like attempting to protect its citizens from terrorist attacks launched out of Lebanon. Yes, the same academic apologist for the Khmer Rouge, who defended the communist regime in Cambodia to the last throughout the years of the genocide it carried out, prefers to have Lebanon under Asad's jackboot, especially if it prevents the Lebanese from engaging in their notorious fondness for capitalism and entrepreneurship, which Chomsky wants wiped out and replaced with Stalinism, and if it also deters Israel from striking terrorist bases.

Uhm humm.By way of Elder of Ziyon an article on the Times online about Hadassa Ben-Itto and her new book The Lie That Wouldn’t Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.The anti-Jewish lie that refuses to die.

WHEN HADASSA BEN-ITTO told her colleagues she was giving up her career as one of Israel’s most senior judges to expose the deadliest forgery of the 20th century, they thought she was crazy. The forgery — perhaps more accurately a plagiarism — was The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and it had been used to justify the murders of millions of Jews in Russia and Nazi Germany. But, they said, it was nonsense. It was a fairy story. Surely, no one believed this rubbish any more . . . did they?

That was in 1991. Ben-Itto subsequently embarked, at the age of 64, on an odyssey that took her thousands of miles from home and more than 100 years back in time to pre-revolutionary Russia and a Europe in anti-Semitic ferment. And, by the time she had completed her epic journey, no one thought she was crazy any more.More..

Re previous post and the women of Iraq: Thanks to those of you who commented. A further elaboration as to why there isn't really hope for their daughters. To quote Diana West

Equal rights before the law do not exist under Islamic law. One citizen, one vote does not exist under Islamic law. Freedom of worship does not exist under Islamic law. Minorities -- that is, non-Muslims -- enjoy rights and protections at the pleasure of the Muslim community that are ever-subject to the capriciousness of a rights-canceling fatwa. Indeed, Islamic law is not the basis of a religion, as the Judeo-Christian world understands religion, but is rather the basis of a controlling ideology that is nothing short of totalitarian.

. Those daughters will not have the chance to modify, change, ammend the laws. You obey otherwise would lead to accusations of apostasy which is punishable by death. Once you're in you're in. There is no speaking up, speaking out as we have seen with the murder of Theo Van Gogh. You is no room for questioning, reform, ammendments. There is no liberty and justice for all. Honor killings (looks like the EU is finally waking up to the fact that they are happening) are OK. I divorce you said three times is all that's needed. He gets the sons and daughters of puberty age or older. You get raped? Too bad! You die! He will get a few lashes or a couple weeks of jail time, does not matter if he was your brother/father/uncle silly woman you were obviously doing something to cause it. Obviously there are many views and opinons on this and we can't really know what the Iraqi women are thinking unless we're one. Normally I don't link to anti "occupation" websites but in this case, it is a view point. From the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq on Islamic/Sharia law.

Women in Iraq have not struggled to get rid of the Baath regime (one of the most dreadful regimes humanity has ever known) only to be jailed in their homes, will-less, deprived of basic rights, threatened with death if they express an opinion or exercise their rights.

This is what has happened to Iraqi women since the recent war. Since the US occupation began, the political Islamists (both Sunni and Shia) have been unleashed to work “freely” and launch a new attack on the rights of women in Iraq. It is an attack which sustains and deepens the violations of women’s rights in Iraq which the fascist Baath regime was engaged in for more than three decades and came to a point where women were beheaded in public places in front of their children and families.

These Islamic movements have made wearing the hijab compulsory for women at the point of a gun, violating a woman's basic right to choose what she wears. Many of the Baath regime's laws are still in place. Polygamy and pleasure marriage (which is an organized form of prostitution and allows white slave traffic) is widespread practice.

Thousands of women have been killed. Millions are confined to their homes and prevented from attending schools, work or going about their daily lives and doing things like walking, shopping and going out to enjoy some recreational places.

There are an unprecedented number of so-called honor killings. The Iraqi Interim Government has turned a blind eye to these crimes. Shocking though it may sound, Killing women is not a crime in “liberated” Iraq.

The forces which created the current unbearable situation for women for last two years are the same forces which are backed by the US and given enormous resources and influence to write new laws and to decide the rights of women in the coming "parliament".

These forces will be the forces which will institutionalise sexual discrimination against women under the name of implementing “Islamic Sharia” law. They will dedicate their courts and institutions to oppressing women and will treat us as inferior citizens.

More: Why Sharia must be opposed.. On Mother Jones Women and Sharia. I wonder if the veto will even be considered.

On a happier knittier note, I did get a happy-gram-submission-accepted note :)
Woo SnB domani!