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Malkin: Outrage About Qana ‘Manufactured,’ ‘If It’s Not Qana, It’s Something Else…It’s Beauty Pageants’»

Last night on The O’Reilly Factor, Michelle Malkin said anger in the Arab world about the tragedy at Qana — where at least 56 innocent civilians, including 37 children, were killed — was “manufactured.” Malkin called it “the jihad du jour” that “members of the religion of perpetual outrage are always ginning up.” She added, “If it’s not Qana, it’s something else. … It’s Gitmo, Abu Ghraib. It’s beauty pageants.” Watch it:

Malkin on O'Reilly

Transcript:

O’REILLY: Then why — why doesn’t the rest of the world accept your analysis?

MALKIN: Because they are intoxicated. They are clouded by this moral equivalence that has set in over the world for the past several decades. And I think it behooves us to fight against that, to claw against that.

Because the manufactured outrage that Qana is not really about the deaths at Qana; it is something about much larger. It is about the jihad du jour that these — that members of the religion of perpetual outrage are always ginning up. I mean, if it’s not Qana, it’s something else.

O’REILLY: No, I got it. I got it. I got it.

MALKIN: It’s Gitmo, Abu Ghraib. It’s beauty pageants.




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273 Responses to “Malkin: Outrage About Qana ‘Manufactured,’ ‘If It’s Not Qana, It’s Something Else…It’s Beauty Pageants’”

  1. Jesus Christ God of WAR Says:

    ReichWingNuts still making up their own reality? They are completely out of step with the rest of the planet on Qana.

    Here’s what the BBC recently reported [ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5232434.stm ]

    …”The Israeli military seems to consider anyone left in the area a combatant who is fair game for attack,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch.

    “Such consistent failure to distinguish combatants and civilians is a war crime.” …


  2. exley Says:

    Malkin hits it out of the ballpark again. She is absolutely right.


  3. dlet Says:

    First Rush now this thing. I just hope mAnn wasn’t on any show. Come on TP..have a heart.


  4. And You Thought REAGAN Was Stupid. Says:

    How’d she hit the nail on the head on this one? Beauty pageants is my #1 issue in this campaign. I can’t wait to hear Feingold defend his position on that one!


  5. Armando Gomez Says:

    “If it’s not Qana, it’s something else. … It’s Gitmo, Abu Ghraib. It’s beauty pageants.” This is what O’Reilly’s Michelle Malkin said and rightly so ‘cause–it isn’t her ass that’s on the line, the bombing line. And neither is anyone at FOXNew’s.


  6. Jesus Christ God of WAR Says:

    Propaganda, anyone? Rethuglicans see the world in only one dimension, or so it seems. This is sick! Beauty pageants? Really now.

    [ http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0801-02.htm ]

    The Israeli military has said it bombed the building in which several people had taken shelter, more than half of them children, because the Army had faced rocket fire from Qana. The Israeli military has said that Hezbollah was therefore responsible for the deaths.

    “There were no Hezbollah rockets fired from here,” 32-year-old Ali Abdel told IPS. “Anyone in this village will tell you this, because it is the truth.” …

    “They bombed it, and afterwards I heard the screams of women, children, and a few men — they were crying for help. But then one minute after the first bomb, another bomb struck, and after this there was nothing but silence, and the sound of more bombs around the village.” …

    How does anyone “manufacture” this?


  7. Jay Randal Says:

    Someone please pull that Bush loving/Israel apologist Malkin off the TV > she needs to be put in a mental institution with Ann Coulter > lol.


  8. nym@alias.net Says:

    who’ld have thought that torture and murder would have found apologist and evengicals.

    evil knows no bounds, i guess.

    just disgusting …


  9. Freedm Hater Says:

    Too many terrorists complain about baby entrails caked with dust. They are just going to grow up to be full-grown brown people anyways.


  10. Zwack Says:

    If Malkin “hit it out of the ballpark” again then she must have been playing American Football…

    Why would there be outrage about…

    Qana - Innocent civilians killed
    Guantanamo - Innocent civilians jailed (If they weren’t innocent then why have some of them been released?)
    Abu Ghraib - People being tortured against the Geneva Conventions

    I just can’t understand why decent human beings could be outraged by any of these things.

    Z.


  11. Jebus loves me Says:

    So, everyone is supposed to watch the pictures of dead babies and just take it in stride. I couldn’t even sleep after seeing some of those pictures.

    I mean look at the outrage at the Mel Gibson comments. Why is that OK, but it’s not OK to be outraged at the death 30 innocent children.


  12. blogenfreude Says:

    who’ld have thought that torture and murder would have found apologist and evengicals.

    Read Agitprop’s takedown of J-Pod if you want to see more hatemongering.


  13. Southwest Bob Says:

    Malkin’s continued presence on faux news speaks to her value as an insightful political observer. Guess the latest bush/cheney line is now to really down play dying as an insignificant event in someone’s life.


  14. bb Says:

    Does she even feel bad for what happened?—-She is Pure Evil!! Thats all I can say.


  15. zmark Says:

    Ah, the culture of life….I guess they would only have compassion if those kids were in a persistant vegetative state.


  16. dlet Says:

    They are clouded by this moral equivalence that has set in over the world for the past several decades. And I think it behooves us to fight against that, to claw against that.

    So she wants to have a War on Morality. So when did morals become the enemy ad why are they bad to have. Does she want us to become like the animals that have no regard for human life? Does she want us to become terrorists? And right on cue Exley jumps in “I’m all for wanton killing”.


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  18. Jebus loves me Says:

    Also, I keep wondering why babbling idiots like Malkin, O’Reily, Rush, Savage, Hannity, and others are still on Radio and TV.

    The sad truth is that their audience believes what they say.


  19. AnAmerican Says:

    Malkins not evil, she’s an idiot.

    Big difference.


  20. the fly-man Says:

    Exely, she’s right, for a failed avenue of thinking. Yes she’s consistent, but, as Brian Coughlan said in the previous post ” If you can’t grasp the perspective of the other “side”, you need look no further than your own understandable and human bloodlust after 9/11. Do you think you are the only human to ever feel this way? Now, make the loss not simply a fellow citizen, or a work colleague, but a sibling, a lover, a parent, a child or a baby. Do you see?” This is it exactly, the Administration and it’s supporters have this my way or the highway mentality and it just isn’t working. You cannot project logic on an illogical situation. They just need to ignore their own reality. Just by saying It’s the thing to do that’s right” totally ignores any differences that might be used as an approach to solving the problem in a non violent way. Their stuck with an ugly position that THEY put themselves in. Carnage and wreckage just makes it worse so now they’re trying to retroactively get support from the people whose opinion they ignored in the first place.


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  22. Evil Spaniard Says:

    Because the manufactured outrage that Qana is not really about the deaths at Qana; it is something about much larger. It is about the jihad du jour that these — that members of the religion of perpetual outrage are always ginning up. I mean, if it’s not Qana, it’s something else.

    Humorous? Let’s try some empathy trick… let’s substitute the facts with persons and events known to the readers…

    Because the manufactured outrage that Twin Towers are not really about the deaths at Twin Towers; it is something about much larger. It is about the Global War du jour that these — that members of the religion of perpetual outrage are always ginning up. I mean, if it’s not Twin Towers, it’s something else.

    Sound outrageous now for the neocons reading this? I bet.


  23. exley Says:

    Malkin forgot to mention editorial cartoons depicting Mohammad….That is, of course, yet another excuse Islamic fundamentalists give for their perpetration of violence and terrorism….As Malkin correctly points out, those folks have a whole bag full of excuses to commit terrorism.


  24. Krazny Says:

    Good read about the so-called culture of life from a guest blogger on rude pundit second post down. a bit long, but dead on.


  25. RG Says:

    I hate to say it, but she’s 100% right!


  26. Unholy Moses Says:

    Wow … just … um … yeah.

    When you think about it, though, the reasoning behind Malkin’s and Rush’s and others on the right’s cold bloodedness is necessary for their world view. They see ALL Muslims — children included — as less then human. They have to because, for them, the enemy is all 1.5 BILLION followers of Islam. To try and distinguish between the innocent and guilty would require too much intellectual analysis.

    It’s the same reasoning that, quite frankly, was required to justify carpet bombing cities in WWII or the destruction of entire villages during Vietnam.

    It also has to do with the human psyche — only true psychopaths can kill another person. When you make them less than human, you’re not killing a person, but something subhuman.

    Not saying it’s right. Just sayin’ …


  27. Krazny Says:

    Exley, you have missed the point, Qana is not about giving excuses for violence. It is about the Isreali military destroying a building with civilians in it, including women and children. I realize you don’t want to see anything but the black and white, us vs them, good vs evil, but at some point you need to grow up, and see the shades of gray.


  28. Badger Boy Says:

    Its amazing that these people call themselves Christians, hardly
    the example of the teachings of Christ. Conservative means without
    compassion, drunk on the lust for power and domination, hateful
    and unchristian-like. They reveal in the fact of the end of days,
    but what they do not realize that it is their end. If they were truely
    christians they would not be violating the ten commandents so
    blatently, either way they will suffer at their own hands.


  29. Brian Coughlan Says:

    Islamic fundamentalists give for their perpetration of violence and terrorism….As Malkin correctly points out, those folks have a whole bag full of excuses to commit terrorism.

    Comment by exley — August 1, 2006 @ 12:26 pm

    There is no excuse for terrorism, but there are plenty of causes. Just like there are no excuse for dying of pneumonia, but plenty of causes. Sensible people discuss the causes.

    If I warn my children not to go skating in the nude, does that make me pro-pneumonia:-)

    When you kill peoples children, this has the effect of converting them and their relatives into terrorists who want to kill you. If this is what you are after of course, well then it makes total sense.


  30. TripMaster Monkey Says:

    but at some point you need to grow up, and see the shades of gray.

    While that is certainly true, Krazny, I have to say that things are looking pretty damned black and white to me at the moment. Israel targets civilians, Red Cross ambulances, and U.N. observation posts with total impunity…that’s nothing but state-sponsored terrorism…and shamefully, the U.S. is the biggest and most ardent sponsor.


  31. exley Says:

    #22, Fly-Man, “You cannot project logic on an illogical situation.” I couldn’t agree with you more…And what is more illogical than people who fly hijacked civilian airliners into office buildings, killing thousands in a matter of moments? What is more illogical than a person walking into an Israeli pizza parlor and deliberately targeting and murdering innocent, men women and children? Such actions are the very definition of illogic….And it is equally illogical to argue that people who carry out such acts can be dealt with in a “non-violent” way…Israel has been been trying to negotiate with these people for decades and what has it gotten them? They have withdrawn from the Sinai. They have withdrawn from Gaza. And the result for Israel? Neither peace nor security. Like you, I sincerely wish that the fundamentalist Islamic world would let go of their hatred of Jews and allow Israel and the United States to live in peace. In that way, they too could could in peace and security. But to date they have been unable to do so, and, instead have chosen to deliberately attack and murder thousands of American and Israeli civilians. To leave such atrocities unaddressed would only invite more such attacks. And that is unaccepatble.


  32. Krazny Says:

    Monkey,

    there is enough hatred and fear on both sides. We are at a point, were no one remembers the original cause, everyone reacts to current events. The Isreali’s don’t want missles falling into their cities, and I don’t blame them. Hezbollah will not disarm, and wants to destroy Isreal completely. The ones caught in the middle are the lebenose civilians.


  33. Brian Coughlan Says:

    To leave such atrocities unaddressed would only invite more such attacks. And that is unaccepatble.

    Comment by exley — August 1, 2006 @ 12:38 pm

    This is fatalistic and dangerous nonsense … which leads to either perpetual war or eventually genocide.

    Despite several decades of terrorism, the British never bombed Dublin City or our airports, blockaded Dublin port, or took any action that killed hundreds of Southern Irish civilians indiscriminatley, and make no mistake, these options were on the table.

    Certainly they made some blunders, and did some dreadful things, but in the main and luckily for all involved, cooler heads prevailed.

    Israel would have been much wiser to work carefully with the Lebanese government to eliminate the problem that way, as the British did with Ireland. What does Britian have next door now? A prosperous and confident friendly economy with whom they share a common internal customs border, as well as regular and enthusiastic co-operation on many issues within the EU.

    Israel could do far worse than to follow that model, they have been trying collective punishment for 50 years, and you certainly couldn’t claim that it’s working. Time to look to conflicts were there has been widespread resolution, and try a different approach.


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  35. Redleg Says:

    exely,
    I guess the kidnapping of 2 Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah was just an excuse for Israel to INVADE Lebanon.


  36. madashell Says:

    Israel has been been trying to negotiate with these people for decades and what has it gotten them?

    Regardless of how one sees it, the end result is, as Israeli observers themselves have commented, a barbarization, moral decline or debasement, of Israeli society. How could it be otherwise, what with a Zionist ideology that, from its origin, treated the Palestinians with cruelty, disdain, violence, and loathing, traits common to all colonial-settler societies. And with the state since 1948 having so thoroughly indoctrinated Israeli society, through wars and manipulation of existential fears, occupation and relentlessly violent oppression. And with a racist educational system-which portrays the “Arabs” as inferior, lazy, fatalistic, dirty, easily inflammable, violent, bloodthirsty-and socialization of superiority and separation and alienation of Jews from non-Jews, in cities and neighborhoods, on Jewish owned lands and public domains.

    The pathological nature of this indoctrination is illustrated by the cold-blooded October 2004 murder of the 13-year schoolgirl, Iman al-Hams, by a “Captain R,” who was subsequently acquitted and promoted. After shooting her twice in the head, he walked away then turned around and emptied the entire magazine of his automatic rifle, 17 bullets, into her to “confirm the kill.” The captain, on tape, “clarifies” why he killed Iman: “This is commander. Anything that’s mobile, that moves in the [security] zone, even if it’s a three-year-old, needs to be killed.” (See Chris McGreal, Guardian, Nov. 16, 2005) Journalists and human rights organizations have documented countless cases of Israelis killing children, even for sports and game. Notice, here, the captain’s language: “Anything that’s mobile.needs to be killed.” Not anyone who is mobile. Palestinian children are like animals, like anything moving, they, it, need(s) to be killed.

    Captain R turns out to be a Druze, a powerful telling of the sick success of Israeli socialization and indoctrination. This Druze, historically the marginal outsider in mainstream Islamic society, internalized Israel’s ethnic/racial pecking order-its colonially inherited psychopathology in which the indigenous become animals-therefore violently displacing his inferiority, as Mizrahi Jews do, onto the Palestinians. Dehumanizing, hating and killing Palestinians is the ultimate, disturbed act of belonging and loyalty to a society accustomed to its influential members referring to Palestinians as beasts, two-legged animals, cockroaches and worms, unaware of their own degradation and dehumanization in the process.

    Israeli Power


  37. exley Says:

    Krazny, Actually I don’t believe it is I who is seeing everything in black and white, but rather those here who automatically and without evidence (indeed, despite the evidence) claim that Israel deliberately and intentionally targeted and attacked these civilians or ignore the fact that Hezbollah had been firing rockets from this location amd, for all intents and purposes, “invited” this attack by placing military hardware and weapons in the midst of this civilian center, in direct contravention to the rules of war….The deaths at Qana are a tragedy. But responsibility lies with Hezbollah. Not Israel.


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  39. madashell Says:

    I WILL SAY IT AGAIN - ISRAEL CREATED HEZBOLLAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


  40. Zippy the Other Pinhead Says:

    Jeez-laweez!

    What the HECK does James Carville see in that venom-spitting woman?????

    Comment by MrBlueSky — August 1, 2006 @ 12:25 pm

    MBS: Carville is married to Mary Matalin, not Michelle Malkin. They share a wrong-minded brain, of course, but at least Matalin is not usually venomous and slobbering with hatred unlike Malkin.


  41. Krazny Says:

    Exley,

    check my post #35 concerning my thoughts on the conflict in the middle east. I don’t automatically condem Isreal, and I don’t support Hezbollah.


  42. Redleg Says:

    Exley,
    Just curious but how many armed Hezbollah troops were found dead in Qana near where the civilians were killed?

    Why is it that the news reports show the civilian dead of bombing but I have yet to see the armed Hezbollah dead?


  43. Tobey Tall Says:

    Not half as bad as Harretz news item

    IDF says it may not be responsible for Qana deaths

    Also the denials of the beach bombings and killing UK peace keeper
    seems as they have an American PR team


  44. Willy Says:

    Collateral damage (killing of innocent civilians) appears to be perfectly okay to right wingnuts. Maybe someday when collateral damage affects some of their families, they’ll learn that it’s not so good. Only sociopaths think killing of innocents is to be ignored. It’s NEVER acceptable.


  45. Evil Spaniard Says:

    #47 Quick, a credible excuse for Israel! Hmmm… Well, the AK-47 and Katiushas of the dead were moved to Syria… no, no, make it Iran!


  46. Jebus loves me Says:

    You know I seem to remember another woman of Asian descent who broadcasted propoganda in the 60’s and 70’s

    I think her name was Hanoi Hannah


  47. Gregor Samsa Says:

    The deaths at Qana are a tragedy. But responsibility lies with Hezbollah. Not Israel.
    Comment by exley — August 1, 2006 @ 12:45 pm

    And with that, you just disagreed with M Malkin in that Qana is “a beauty pageant”. it is not. It is a tragedy.

    We can argue over who is responsible now, but I think we can agree that calling the outcry over Qana a “beauty pageant” is beyond the pale.


  48. TripMaster Monkey Says:

    Krazny,
    We are at a point, were no one remembers the original cause

    You mean this cause?

    I remember it quite well…although thanks to the heroic efforts of teh good people over at Fox News, everyone else seems to have been suckered by the lie that these soldiers were captured in Israel.

    The Isreali’s don’t want missles falling into their cities, and I don’t blame them.

    If they really didn’t want missiles falling into their cities, they wouldn’t have provoked this conflict by sending soldiers across the border, and subsequently excacerbated it beyond all reason by executing airstrikes on U.N. observation posts, Red Cross ambulances, and hapless Lebanese civilians in response to the ‘kidnapping’ (weasel word…the soldiers were captured) of two Israeli soldiers.

    But of course, a few Katushka rockets falling on Israel is a small price to pay for an excuse to totally decimate Lebanon.

    Hezbollah will not disarm, and wants to destroy Isreal completely.

    At this point, I really can’t blame them. Hezbollah’s ranks are swelling with the survivors of Israeli attacks on civilians, ensuring a continued rationale for the pogram.


  49. Evil Spaniard Says:

    #51 She looks a lot like Imelda Marcos. Wonder if she has too a wardrobe with thousands of shoes and undies…


  50. katy Says:

    Malkins not evil, she’s an idiot. Big difference.
    Comment by AnAmerican — August 1, 2006 @ 12:24 pm

    ok… she’s an evil idiot…


  51. eve Says:

    She would have also been right in there defending slavery had she been around then. How dare those slaves complain about no self-determination. They get food, they get shelter, all their needs are taken care of for them. What do they want? They just want to complain.

    What a disgusting excuse for a commentator.


  52. the fly-man Says:

    Exely, at some point the argument of who threw the rock first has to stop. Our complicit attention to just Israel’s needs ignores the other side completely. Yes there were 6 million Jews exterminated during WWII but we can’t ignore the fact that the Palestinians were basically thrown out and have since been oppressed beyond for wanting something they believe just like the Israeli’s do, that they have a God given right to obtain. Our unwavering Militaristic, financial and tacit support for Israel has made us more vulnerable to the growth of resentment that has festered into our own country. Guerilla warfare by fractioned groups of radical extremists is not a something we can just bomb. If it is we have failed miserably. Sorta like Iraq.


  53. katy Says:

    I guess the kidnapping of 2 Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah was just an excuse for Israel to INVADE Lebanon.
    Comment by Redleg — August 1, 2006 @ 12:43 pm

    pretty much, yes…


  54. observer Says:

    You american should understand the most why Islamic radicals react this way, I mean your government sent troops to Iraq in the so called “war against terror” after the tragic event of 9/11, while arabs are living tragedies day-in and day-out and the only thing they can do is to face the most sophisticated war machines with stones, yet some are trying to deny them this right !!


  55. smart money Says:

    the soldiers that were CAPTURED==who other than israel has soldiers KIDNAPPED, by the way–were most likely in southern lebanon since israel army has been sneaking over into s. lebanon for YEARS.

    so redleg and katy, YES it was a pretext for the murder of lebanese civilians. period.


  56. Darin Says:

    People are quickly getting fed up with these shrill harpies with no conscience. Her “beliefs” are all about money, selling books, and gaining attention. The truth is, people like Malkin don’t stand for anything really other than making as much $ off other people pain as they can. Pretty sickening if you ask me and any other sane person.


  57. Brian Coughlan Says:

    At this point, I really can’t blame them. Hezbollah’s ranks are swelling with the survivors of Israeli attacks on civilians, ensuring a continued rationale for the pogram.

    Comment by TripMaster Monkey — August 1, 2006 @ 12:53 pm

    Therein lies the problem. The cycle of violence spins up again. A generation of children in Lebanon condemned to grow up in poverty and destitution. All it takes is one intelligent, bright but bitter kid to place the blame where it belongs and BOOM, 15 years hence another bunch of American innocents get “whats coming to them”.

    Maybe this time they’ll learn that supporting Israel is going to cost them?

    Sound pointless and yet likely? Then it’s time to stop.


  58. Paul Pastrano Says:

    Malkin is an entertainer, albeit a perverse one. She knows what she’s doing, she just wants to make sure she gets paid for it.


  59. bvk123 Says:

    We need to keep a “robust sense of reality.”
    -Bertrand Russell


  60. GSD Says:

    When are we going to start arresting Phillipino-Americans and tossing them into Guantanimo? I am sure that Michelle will gladly go into an internment camp because she has America’s interests at heart.

    The Phillipino spy network hasn’t been given enough airtime and I am worried that Michelle might be a fifth columnist.

    http://cicentre.com/ Documents/ DOC_Aragoncillo_Aquino.html

    -GSD


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  62. Jay Randal Says:

    Malkin is like “Tokyo Rose” the Japanese lady who spewed hatred of Americans during WWII!


  63. bones Says:

    Simple comparisons work well to illustrate “complicated” issues. If Mexico bombed Ms Malkin’s house in retaliation for criminal Americans who allowed illegal aliens to die in a shipping container in the desert, she’d be singing a much different tune.


  64. DrSinker Says:

    Sigh. More vaudeville from the far-right. Coulter really does not need an even more shrill companion piece.


  65. mike Says:

    #47
    The reason you don’t see any Hezbollah soldiers dead is because they fire their rockets from civilian locations the high tail it out of there like the cowards they are. By the way does any one know where I can go and buy an official Hezbollah uniform? Oh wait, they don’t have one because when the s*it gets thick, they want to fade into the civilian population. Plus when they do get sent to allah, they are assumed to be ……that’s right, CIVILIANS! And why is there such outrage for those civilians, where has the worlds outrage been for all the Israeli civilians that have been targeted for 50 years by these scumbags? On buses and in pizza parlors, where was all your indignation then? Th ebottom line is this, if Hezbollah laid down their weapons and walked away right now, would this be over? Now if the Israelli army laid down their weapons what would happen then? And that IS VERY black and white.


  66. Retired Republican Soldier Says:

    I wonder what the “Arab Street” reaction would be if one of the Hezbollah rockets had hit say a Jewish nursery, school, or playground and had caused the death of say 150 children? Would the “Arab mob” cry, wail, and attack the Hezbollah offices over the death of so many young? Stop attempting to put some moral equivalence on the two sides. Hezbollah is firing indiscriminately into Israel with not a care who is on the receiving end of their rockets, where as the Israelis are at least being selective at which building they destroy. BTW where are the charges from Human Rights Watch against Hezbollah? They are firing unguided rockets filled with Anti-personnel pellets (designed to main/kill, uh TERRORIZE) into population centers.


  67. observer Says:

    For 50 years Israel has been killing civilians in Palestine calling them cockroaches, so they had to make Israel taste the same medicine. Who is to say that certain people’s lives are more preicous than others?!!!


  68. smart money Says:

    if Hezbollah laid down their weapons and walked away right now, would this be over?

    NO, because isreal has been planning this genocide for years

    More than a year ago, a senior Israeli army officer began giving PowerPoint presentations, on an off-the-record basis, to U.S. and other diplomats, journalists and think tanks, setting out the plan for the current operation in revealing detail. Under the ground rules of the briefings, the officer could not be identified.

    In his talks, the officer described a three-week campaign: The first week concentrated on destroying Hezbollah’s heavier long-range missiles, bombing its command-and-control centers, and disrupting transportation and communication arteries. In the second week, the focus shifted to attacks on individual sites of rocket launchers or weapons stores. In the third week, ground forces in large numbers would be introduced, but only in order to knock out targets discovered during reconnaissance missions as the campaign unfolded. There was no plan, according to this scenario, to reoccupy southern Lebanon on a long-term basis..

    Now if the Israelli army laid down their weapons what would happen then

    they are blood-thirsty genocidal maniacs, so, don’t hold your breath on israel ever laying down their arms.


  69. jimb Says:

    #23 Exley
    Malkin forgot to mention editorial cartoons depicting Mohammad….That is, of course, yet another excuse Islamic fundamentalists give for their perpetration of violence and terrorism….As Malkin correctly points out, those folks have a whole bag full of excuses to commit terrorism.

    Seeing your infant child crushed or dismembered by an Israeli bomb with the full support of the U.S.: just another lame excuse for becoming a terrorist.


  70. S.D. Says:

    At least she didn’t say “Boo-Freaking-Hoo”…


  71. DrSinker Says:

    Wow - there appears to be lots of editing by the TP police on this thread. What’s the deal?


  72. Evil Spaniard Says:

    #65 The reason you don’t see any Hezbollah soldiers dead is because they fire their rockets from civilian locations the high tail it out of there like the cowards they are.

    Comment by mike — August 1, 2006 @ 1:22 pm

    That’s like the phantom dozens of trailers full of WMD who moved from Iraq to Syria inadvertedly to the spy planes, satellites, spys, Rangers and Navy seals who were spying Iraq before and after the start of the Iraq war?


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  74. bones Says:

    #65 and 66 - you can see this is a children’s arguement played by adults with dangerous weapons. Mom, he hit me first. Mom she won’t stop hitting me, and so on forever. The right, moral, ethical thing to do when your kids are beating the crap out of each other is not to encourage the bigger kid to kill the “little” sister but to step in regardless of who is right or wrong and stop them, immediately. Then you actually sit down and work VERY hard to make sure it doesn’t happen again. You note Chimpy has done NOTHING in the last FIVE years to “work hard” to stop this cycle of violence. So he has proven he is incompetant to handle this.


  75. smart money Says:

    dr sinker,

    this happens from time-to-time here. i think they are afraid of someone like media matters or fox or cnn mentioning malkin’s crazy words and how the blogs are dealing with it, and, if there is significant anti-israel killing civilian stuff on the thread, it wouldn’t make some people happy.

    some people get permanently banned for saying too much non-pc liberal speak.


  76. jimb Says:

    #54 madashell
    Lebanon Ceasefire Calls Mount as World Protests at Israeli Raid

    Oh c’mon. You know the world has always had a liberal bias.

    And they hate us because of our freedom, too.


  77. smart money Says:

    vance,

    face it. when has anyone ever been criticized for saying something vehemently pro-israel? never

    when has anyone ever been criticized for saying something vehemently anti-israel? always

    it is just the way it has always been–counterexamples are welcome,by the way–and the way it will always be.


  78. Antagonist Says:

    Where’s the outrage over the innocent Israeli’s who have been killed? There’s none! Ever! That’s the point! Everyone wants to villianize Israel, while sympathizing with the terrorists who are responsible for endangering the innocents lives lost in Qana.


  79. observer Says:

    Antagonist

    You have this complex that is called “The whole world hates us”, I wonder why!!


  80. Evil Spaniard Says:

    What is very sad is that Janet Jackson is censored and fined for showing a nipple with a piercing who hids it almost completely, and this “person” can spew his racism and hate freely without hesitation, and making big bucks with its books and TV punditry…

    We hate your country for your freedoms? I don’t want this type of “freedom”. It’s not freedom. It’s indoctrination.


  81. bones Says:

    #79 That’s not true. Americans have been pro-Israel for a long time. That’s why the US is being vilified, because we support them.


  82. madashell Says:

    americans have been reduced to peace wanting people being turned into terrorists, where guns and violence are an everyday happening, but people are more outraged by seeing a woman nurse her baby…where up is down, black is white, lies are truth, war is peace.



  83. madashell Says:

    Everyone wants to villianize Israel

    not really, they are doing that well all by themselves.


  84. smart money Says:

    flyman, thanks.

    That is why the massacre at Qana occurred. The Israelis had bombed Qana 80 times. They were destroying all of its buildings. Therefore, of course, they destroyed the building where dozens of children and families were hiding. This tactic is both collective punishment and ethnic cleansing all at once. It is not only a matter, as the Israelis claim, of hitting Hizbullah rocket launchers. They are destroying all of the buildings.


  85. katy Says:

    Malkin is like “Tokyo Rose” the Japanese lady who spewed hatred of Americans during WWII!
    Comment by Jay Randal — August 1, 2006 @ 1:15 pm

    jay - do your homework… get the story right…


  86. jimb Says:

    #81
    We hate your country for your freedoms? I don’t want this type of “freedom”. It’s not freedom. It’s indoctrination.

    It was sarcasm.


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  88. madashell Says:

    89. I’ll take the latter.


  89. katy Says:

    ah ha ha… good call, cyra!
    either, or… both?


  90. jimb Says:

    Somebody referred to Malkin and Coulter as “banshees” and then someone else called them “harpies”.

    I can’t decide which word I like better. They both describe them perfectly.


  91. Brian Coughlan Says:

    Terrorism can not be defeated militarily. It never has been, and it never will be. It is a utopian, blood soaked fools paradise to think otherwise.

    So ask yourself the question, are you prepared to see millions of people killed, perhaps tens of thousands of American troops, global economic collapse due to the inevitable energy crisis that this will bring on? Are you independently wealthy? Do you own your own home? Are you able to heat your home without electricity? Do you have a short daily commute?

    If your answer to any of the above is NO, then you need this thing to stop, right now.


  92. Evil Spaniard Says:

    #88 I know, jimb, I wasn’t attacking you, I was attacking the ones who think that MM is a credible pundit… my apologies to you if expressed myself badly.


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  94. Jay Randal Says:

    katy > Tokyo Rose was the Japanese mouthpiece who spewed hatred of American soldiers on the radio during WWII!


  95. Alphonse Says:

    #79: Where’s the outrage over the innocent Israeli’s who have been killed? There’s none! Ever! That’s the point! Everyone wants to villianize Israel, while sympathizing with the terrorists who are responsible for endangering the innocents lives lost in Qana.

    This is an incredibly stupid comment. To condemn Israel’s attacks on Lebanese civilians is not to “sympathize with terrorists.” I suspect everyone on this site would condemn Hezbollah’s actions. What’s frightening is that there are some who wouldn’t condemn Israel’s under any circumstances, no matter how many civilians they killed or how much Lebanese infrastructure they destroyed.


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  97. Cyra Brown Says:

    #97-Alphonse- Well said!


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  100. TerrytheTurtle Says:

    #33 I think your analogy is sound. And Brian, the IRA even had a rich financial sponsor overseas to count on - the United States, a significant segment of its population and tacit approval from its government.


  101. Cyra Brown Says:

    #98-madashell, I was thinking it too. She is the reason for that word to exist.


  102. Vance Says:

    #72….The right is allowed to give thier opinion to a mass audience and we even here are not.


  103. old man Says:

    whoa… as an old siouxsie sioux and the banshees fan, i take offense to have these flatulent douchebags called ‘banshees’.

    that is not the word. they do not deserve it.


  104. LCLiberal Says:

    It seems that the right is having some sort of contest where whoever comes up with the most outrageous thing to say about the Mideast crisis wins a prize. Maybe a stash of Limbaugh’s illicit drugs?

    http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog.php
    Election tampering lawsuit filed in the Busby/Bilbray CA - 50 race. Will GOP tricks get them in trouble?
    http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog.php


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  106. jimb Says:

    #94

    No problem. Just want to be clear.


  107. GSD Says:

    Ah actually the Third Reich would really dig the tactics undertaken by the Israeli’s. Total War, ethnic cleansing, great propaganda.

    History is replete with instances of the oppressed becoming the oppressor.

    -GSD


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  109. mike Says:

    #75
    You make a good point, however, we are not dealing with children throwing punches. But let’s go through your scenario. My children KNOW, that if one hits the other they will be punished, NOT TALKED TO. The one that gets hit knows that I will come down on the other one with both feet. And my punishment will be way worse than their hitting back could ever be. But in the world who is the Dad that can deal out the punishment? Should it be the UN? It should be, but they are worthless when it comes to being able to handle a unruly child, uh..country, uh…terrorist group, whatever. How many times did the UN tell Saddam, “you better stop or we will really punish you.” ?How many times could you tell your children to stop hitting each other, “or else” , but there is never an or else? They will learn pretty quickly that you are not going to do anything. So should we be the Dad and deal out the punishment? That’s when we get hit with ” America is trying to take over the world”, “Imperialist”, “Who do they think they are?” Plus, if we want to use kids as an example, these are not your kids. They are someone else’s kids. If you saw two kids fighting would you handle them the same as you would if it were you own kids fighting? Do your kids fight because one took the other one’s toy? Or do they fight because they have hated each other since the day they were born? Just throwing some more stuff out there, and I am still trying to fing that official Hezbollah uniform. No luck yet.


  110. Grand Moff Texan Says:

    So the right wheels out one of its tokens to say killing brown people is OK.

    I smell fear.
    .


  111. Grand Moff Texan Says:

    How many times did the UN tell Saddam, “you better stop or we will really punish you.” ?

    UN weapons inspectors destroyed his WMD arsenal.

    I’m sorry, you were saying?
    .


  112. DallasNE Says:

    Just what we need. Another Ann Coulter. Thanks Fox.


  113. Evil Spaniard Says:

    #111 I would prefer to be orphan than son of an abusive father. But whatever, beat your children as many as you want. But don’t act surprised when in a not so hypothetical future he raids the school with a M-16 and a couple grenades.


  114. observer Says:

    Hezbollah is a political party, hence they don’t have uniforms. Would you see a republican wearing some kind of a uniform down the street, I don’t think so- the same goes for the other parties.


  115. Brian Coughlan Says:

    But in the world who is the Dad that can deal out the punishment? Should it be the UN? It should be, but they are worthless when it comes to being able to handle a unruly child, uh..country, uh…terrorist group, whatever

    the UN is the sum of its parts. Plus 5 nations can veto any formulation, even if every other country on the planet is in favour. The UN system is so ludicrously hamstrung and undemocratic because thats the way the nation states, particularly the large ones like it.

    Imagine how little could be acheived in the US if every decision had to be ratified by a council of unelected state representatives, 5 of whom could individually veto any decision, with no comeback whatever? Imagine if those 5 states were New York, California, Utah, Ohio and Florida? Yeah, paralysis, which is exactly what you have globally.

    The UN needs radical reform, but be assured a democratic UN will not favour the US. How could it? The world is currently at odds with the US on almost every major issue of substance.

    The UN and the principal of global governance is not the problem, the nation states that comprise it are the problem.

    I want a world that respects the rule of law. The first problem of course, is that we have no genuine global law, and the second problem is, no means to enforce it. Both are certainly addressable.

    We rightly do not accept such a ludicrous state of affairs within our nation states, and we should be keen to change that same situation globally. Global governance, is the logical path for humans. Since the first tribal spat, we have aggregated into larger and larger groups. Whats one more iteration upward?

    The real utopian view is imaginging that 190+ independently armed gangs, some with weapons that can destroy the entire planet, will simply muddle along without another major bump like WWII. The next one might actually finish us off as a spieces. Really, it’s time to stop playing this extended game of russian roulette and arrange a democratic, interntional system that actually works.


  116. Anon1 Says:

    God! She’s such an idiot.


  117. Evil Spaniard Says:

    The argument of “terrorists hide between civilians and you can distinguish them from regulars citizens” falls apart when you kill 37 children in a single raid.


  118. observer Says:

    Well said #119


  119. Grand Moff Texan Says:

    The argument of “terrorists hide between civilians and you can distinguish them from regulars citizens” falls apart when you kill 37 children in a single raid.

    But, as you can see, the facts don’t matter. The frustrated genocidal freaks on the right will keep spouting the same urban myths. Note that the IDF account of what led to Qana has changed, but the right keeps repeating the same justification.

    But what do you expect from people so entirely stupid that they can’t tell a blastocyst from a human being? Republicans are the dead weight of our civilization.
    .


  120. Evil Spaniard Says:

    And, the argument of “the UN is so ineffective” falls appart too, because in this case, the only one country with a veto shielding Israel and stopping a resolution to call for a truce is the USA. The USA is directly making the UN ineffective. If you want the UN to act, stop menacing a veto.


  121. Antagonist Says:

    #97

    Your response shows how naive and femmonized you are. Of course no one wants war, but your comments are in step with the “peace at any price” crowd. Sometimes war is necessary, and people like you have no stomache for the realities of war. Cities were bombed in WWII. Innocenct civilians lost their lives. We defeated our enemies that way. Israel has shown considerable restraint, but how much can you do against an enemy who hides among innocents? What scares me is that some condemn Israel in every circumstance, and actually agree with the fanatics who call for their destruction.


  122. Kermit the Freedom Frog Says:

    #123 And they have accomplished what, exactly?


  123. Tammy Says:

    The truth of the matter is the explosion at Qana is highly suspicious. Hezbollah and similar groups have no qualms about hiding under the skirts of women and children to carry out their nefarious aims. There’s a good possibility that the explosion at Qana was either an accidental explosion of Hezbollah armaments stored there or even that Hezbollah themselves blew it up to gain sympathy for their cause.
    The fact that most so-called Progressives would not even give Israel the benefit of the doubt on this issue shows they have cozzied up with the enemy far too long to be reasonable.
    Conservatives have a right to be suspicious, especially after the so-called Jenin massacure, which turned out to be a staged, phony massacure.


  124. TerrytheTurtle Says:

    #117 and Brian, we have the complaints about the UN and its inability to do anything be used as a rod for its back - as if the very hamstringing of the UN by the major powers has nothing to do with its inefficacy.


  125. Antagonist Says:

    #116

    Hezbollah is a political party, hence they don’t have uniforms. Would you see a republican wearing some kind of a uniform down the street, I don’t think so- the same goes for the other parties.

    Comment by observer — August 1, 2006 @ 2:21 pm

    Do you see Republicans or Democrats launching rockets into Canada or Mexico?


  126. katy Says:

    what is a femmon? how do get to be “femmonized”?
    where can i find it? obviously we need more femmons!


  127. SDR Says:

    one word - WOW! Re: the censorship on this forum.


  128. observer Says:

    Tammy your comment shows how much you are not up to date with the news of this unjustified war


  129. Antagonist Says:

    #119

    You”d have us believe that those childeren were targeted? Get your facts straight.


  130. observer Says:

    Antagonist
    I don’t see Canada or Mexico launching rockets into the US!!


  131. Amaro Says:

    Malkin is keen at exposing what she calls “left-wing cheerleaders for Hezbollah”. My, should the time come when she focus on mass murder cheer leaders? That exercise should surely be flattering for her, it’s in the self portrait genre…


  132. Grand Moff Texan Says:

    Your response shows how naive and femmonized you are.

    Wow, that’s beyond stupid right there. You are now spam. FOAD.
    .


  133. old man Says:

    #129

    three guesses why?


  134. Grand Moff Texan Says:

    The truth of the matter is the explosion at Qana is highly suspicious.

    No, “truth” would involve fact. All you’ve given is someone else’s opinion.

    I guess you’re not smart enough to come up with your own.
    .


  135. jimb Says:

    #123 Antagonist
    Sometimes war is necessary, and people like you have no stomache for the realities of war.

    People like you would have no stomach for it if it happened to somone you cared about, like yourself. People like us don’t need it to hit right in our own backyard before we start to care about it. That’s called empathy. It’s a little something that’s been much of the reason for our species not having become extinct, yet.


  136. Grand Moff Texan Says:

    Do you see Republicans or Democrats launching rockets into Canada or Mexico?
    Comment by Antagonist

    Keep going, you’ve almost found a country called “I-R-A-Q”.
    .


  137. Antagonist Says:

    #121

    But what do you expect from people so entirely stupid that they can’t tell a blastocyst from a human being? Republicans are the dead weight of our civilization.
    .

    Comment by Grand Moff Texan — August 1, 2006 @ 2:26 pm

    The moment an egg is fertalized in a human being—it is human life. Making some kind of distinction here is only an attempt to assuage oneself from guilt. Those who say otherwise are the “entirely stupid.”


  138. Grand Moff Texan Says:

    Sometimes war is necessary, and people like you have no stomache for the realities of war.

    Funny, that’s what Supreme Court Justice Uncle Thomas said about Justice Stevens. Stevens is a navy vet of WWII, decorated even. Uncle Thomas is just another chicken-hawk like you.

    This isn’t a movie, lightweight.
    .


  139. Antagonist Says:

    #124

    We are not conversing in German are we?


  140. Brian Coughlan Says:

    Sometimes war is necessary, and people like you have no stomache for the realities of war. Cities were bombed in WWII. Innocenct civilians lost their lives.

    You say this with such callous disregard!!! Yes. I have no stomach for the realities of war, 20 million in WWI, 50 million in WWII and 25 million+ in the last 60 years.

    War is almost never genuinely required, most especially not when we (the West/Israel) have an overwhelming monopoly on military violence.

    War should be criminalised and those who advocate it should be prosecuted, as we prosecute those who deny the holocaust. International structures should be negotiated and agreed to facilitate this. Or are you waiting for another 50 million to die?


  141. Antagonist Says:

    #128

    The i is right next to o—easy mistake. I’ll be sure to pounce on one of your typo’s next time


  142. Gregor Samsa Says:

    You”d have us believe that those childeren were targeted? Get your facts straight.
    Comment by Antagonist — August 1, 2006 @ 2:33 pm

    They didn’t specifically target the children, they just didn’t care. Israel’s armed forces were/are bombing all the buildings in Qana. That is an indiscrimate attack on civilian population. It is collective punishment, and a war crime.

    We are past arguing who started it, or even if Hezbollah is to blame.

    Israel became the only culprit from the moment they started blowing up civilian infrastructure.


  143. Grand Moff Texan Says:

    The moment an egg is fertalized [sic] in a human being—it is human life.

    See what I mean about dead weight?

    At a single stage of blastocyst development, about 50% spontaneously abort. So, if life begins at conception, heaven is full of human caviar.

    Learn some science, you drooling superstitious freak. The anti-abortion movement made up that crap about life beginning at conception in the 1800’s, and soon they’ll make up something else. And when they do, I’ll laugh at that ignorant crap, too.

    Take the bone out of your nose and try again.
    .


  144. Evil Spaniard Says:

    #123

    Your response shows how naive and femmonized you are.

    I’m not Alphonse, but I fell free to answer, because I agree with a lot he types. First, how killing children makes you a macho man? Second, WTH is femmonized? Macho speak for “thoughtful”?

    Of course no one wants war,

    You want war.

    but your comments are in step with the “peace at any price” crowd.

    Nope. I’m very aware that peace comes with a price. But you’re not seeking peace. You are the one who doesn’t know how to reach his objectives without war. You’re the one who doesn’t want to pay the price.

    Sometimes war is necessary, and people like you have no stomache for the realities of war.

    Define necessary. And, you don’t tried a peaceful solution, how can you know that war is the only answer?

    And, you don’t know for what I have stomach (without e)

    Cities were bombed in WWII. Innocenct civilians lost their lives. We defeated our enemies that way.

    This was done pre-UN. And was a war crime. And it is today, yet. And, comparissions to the WWII here doesn’t stick. Lebanon isn’t Germany, Japan or even Russia in military terms. If you want comparissions, Israel is acting like the Germans. Remember, the doctrine of 10 civilians for 1 german soldier was a nazi one.

    Israel has shown considerable restraint,

    Don’t make me laugh. This assertions falls by itself.

    but how much can you do against an enemy who hides among innocents?

    Ever heard of commando attacks? Police action? Curfews? Roadblocks? diplomacy with the Lebanon government?

    Anywhow, shelling or bombing a house in a city from a plane flying at mach-1 isn’t the ideal way to limit civilian casualties and, again, is a war crime.

    What scares me is that some condemn Israel in every circumstance,

    Because, in every circumstance from many years ago, they are the aggressors, and the victims, civilians. Answer this: who has the bigger army, Israel or Lebanon?

    and actually agree with the fanatics who call for their destruction.

    Comment by Antagonist — August 1, 2006 @ 2:26 pm

    No, I don’t agree with Hezbollah in killing civilians. But look at the civilian death tally. Israel has killed far more than Hezbollah. I don’t call for the destruction of Israel, but for peace. And Israel has started the major operations of this war.


  145. Antagonist Says:

    #132

    If they did, our political parties would not be launching rockets in return. Anything to make your point stick huh?


  146. bones Says:

    The truth is there is no longer any justification for war. EVery war ends with a negotiated settlement. We negotiated Peace with Germany, Japan, North Korea, Libya, England, Spain, almost any country you can think of. Every Federal Prosecuter negotiates a reduced sentence because at the conclusion of the trial, that’s where the judge/jury is going to end up anyway. The intelligent thing to do is find the actual statesmen who can negotiate the peace BEFORE the war breaks out.


  147. Antagonist Says:

    #134

    Your response shows how naive and femmonized you are.

    Wow, that’s beyond stupid right there. You are now spam. FOAD.
    .

    Comment by Grand Moff Texan — August 1, 2006 @ 2:36 pm

    Code for—I can’t muster an argument.


  148. Kermit the Freedom Frog Says:

    #141 So if Israel had not hit Lebanon so hard, we would be speaking German?

    Well, I’m convinced. Let’s all go to war.


  149. observer Says:

    Antagonist

    Yes of course they will use diplomacy while their rockets finishes all of your infrastructure.


  150. Antagonist Says:

    #136

    The truth of the matter is the explosion at Qana is highly suspicious.

    No, “truth” would involve fact. All you’ve given is someone else’s opinion.

    I guess you’re not smart enough to come up with your own.
    .

    Comment by Grand Moff Texan — August 1, 2006 @ 2:37 pm

    In your mind there can be only one explanation—Israel is barbaric! Sorry, but reasonable people believe better of them than that.


  151. Evil Spaniard Says:

    #145 At a single stage of blastocyst development, about 50% spontaneously abort. So, if life begins at conception, heaven is full of human caviar.

    Comment by Grand Moff Texan — August 1, 2006 @ 2:43 pm

    Gosh, that was hylarious.


  152. bones Says:

    I love the we’re not speaking German are we? So if bombing innocent civilians keeps our country “safe”, you’re all for it. Great, genocide for your Cadillac. Beautiful.


  153. Antagonist Says:

    #142

    …War should be criminalised and those who advocate it should be prosecuted, as we prosecute those who deny the holocaust. International structures should be negotiated and agreed to facilitate this. Or are you waiting for another 50 million to die?

    Comment by Brian Coughlan — August 1, 2006 @ 2:41 pm

    That will never happen on Earth. You may as well get used to reality instead.


  154. Brian Coughlan Says:

    …War should be criminalised and those who advocate it should be prosecuted, as we prosecute those who deny the holocaust. International structures should be negotiated and agreed to facilitate this. Or are you waiting for another 50 million to die?

    Comment by Brian Coughlan — August 1, 2006 @ 2:41 pm

    That will never happen on Earth. You may as well get used to reality instead.

    Comment by Antagonist — August 1, 2006 @ 2:51 pm

    You sound so pleased … why?


  155. jimb Says:

    #141
    We are not conversing in German are we?

    Comment by Antagonist — August 1, 2006 @ 2:39 pm

    Non sequitur. And a trite one at that.


  156. bones Says:

    No if we are to grow and survive on this planet you have to change reality. Every political group will soon have nuclear weapons or biologic weapons, no one can stop them. It has become too easy to obtain. When you piss off Greenpeace or PETA in the future, their militant wing may give you a glowing surprise. We have to change.


  157. katy Says:

    jay? did you look it up yet? …for others, f.y.i.:

    Tokyo Rose was a name given by Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II to any of several English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda.
    The name is usually associated, erroneously, with Iva Toguri D’Aquino (born Ikuko Toguri, July 4, 1916, Los Angeles, California), a United States citizen visiting relatives in Japan at the start of the war. In 1949, perjured testimony led to D’Aquino being convicted of treason by the United States government. She was released after six years and later pardoned by U.S. President Gerald Ford, who also restored her citizenship.

    it’s a good story… lots more if you google it…


  158. Evil Spaniard Says:

    #152

    In your mind there can be only one explanation—Israel is barbaric!

    Hey, we agree!

    Sorry, but reasonable people believe better of them than that.

    Comment by Antagonist — August 1, 2006 @ 2:49 pm

    Oh, we no longer agree :(


  159. Grand Moff Texan Says:

    Code for—I can’t muster an argument.

    Comment by Antagonist

    Yes, that’s what I was pointing out. Someone who can’t even spell feminized (nor explain what it has to do with framing an opinion) just disqualified himself with his own stupidity.

    Sad that I have to explain everything to you, you weak little thing.
    .


  160. Brian Coughlan Says:

    It has become too easy to obtain. When you piss off Greenpeace or PETA in the future, their militant wing may give you a glowing surprise. We have to change.

    Comment by bones — August 1, 2006 @ 2:55 pm

    Jesus!!! Grim. I hadn’t thought of THAT. Thanks for the additional compelling argument …. food for thought.


  161. TerrytheTurtle Says:

    #161 why does the use of a condescending and mysoginist statement qualify as an argument?


  162. Brian Coughlan Says:

    In your mind there can be only one explanation—Israel is barbaric!

    What else do you call people who bomb innocent people, blow up children in job lots?

    Israel because of it’s history has monopolized victimhood to such a sickening degree, that it is “politically incorrect” to point out their crimes, because that is considered “anti-semitic”. I do not want to kill Israel