Politics and Culture

I don't post Dennis Prager shows often even though I listen almost every day, but this one is essential. Timmerman alleges that: Chris Dodd supports Castro, there were WMD in Iraq including Uranium and chemical weapons, the state department actively worked against Bush, Plame and Wilson were huge liars, and Paul Bremer helped start the Iraqi insurgency.

Listen to Dennis Prager interviewing Kenneth Timmerman.

Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender by Kenneth R. Timmerman

This is Osama bin Laden reporting from the Wisconsin Dairy festival...

Islamist site says new Bin Laden message soon

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden will address the people of Europe in a message to be posted on the Internet "soon", an Islamist Web site said on Monday.

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Iraq to offer US long-term presence

November 27, 2007 - 7:54AM

Iraq's government is prepared to offer the US a long-term troop presence in Iraq and preferential treatment for American investments in return for an American guarantee of long-term security including defence against internal coups.

The proposal, described to The Associated Press by two senior officials familiar with the issue, is one of the first indications that the United States and Iraq are beginning to explore what their relationship might look like, once the US significantly draws down its troop presence.

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Even more good news for Maliki
By Sami Moubayed

DAMASCUS - On Sunday, the Iraqi Parliament debated a draft bill granting permission to 14,000 former Ba'athists, all being from the Sunni community, to rejoin government jobs and the armed forces. All of them had been fired in 2003 in a ill-advised process called de-Ba'athification, engineered by US proconsul L Paul Bremer and the United States' number one man in Iraq at the time, Ahmad Chalabi.

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Now that we've flushed God knows how much of the 3 billion dollars Californians approved for stem cell research down the toilet like so many discarded embryos, will those who voted for the measure have the decency to ask that the rest be spent on something more useful?

NR commentary here.

I found this on American Digest. He has the words there. It's interesting to remember a time when the struggle between Communism and freedom was real, the outcome uncertain, and the proposed solutions divergent.

Shiites reject Bill to allow return of Baathists

Agencies
Published: November 26, 2007, 00:33

Baghdad: A long-awaited Bill to allow members of Saddam Hussain's Sunni Baath party to return to public life in Iraq was tabled in parliament yesterday but immediately rejected by jeering hardline Shiites.

Washington regards the bill as vital to stuttering reconciliation efforts in Iraq and it has made its adoption one of 18 benchmarks by which the progress of Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki's Shiite-led government can be measured.

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