America Has Muslim Blood on Her Hands - Rauf

Imam Yusuf al-Qaradawi is a notorious America hater and vile Jew hater. Back in August, I broke the explosive exclusive audio of Ground Zero mosque Imam's radical remarks extolling the work of this genicidal maniac:

IMAM FEISAL ABDUL RAUF: I just came from a conference in Jordan, Amman where there were over 170 leading Muslim scholars from almost every part of the Muslim world, including some of the most important names like Sheikh Tantawi of Egypt, Sheikh Ali Gomaa, who is the Chief Mufti of Egypt, the Chief Mufti of Jordan, the Sheikh Al-Qaradawi, who is a very very well known Islamic jurist, highly regarded all over the Muslim world.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: "We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al Qaida has on its hands of innocent non Muslims. You may remember that the US-led sanctions against Iraq led to the death of over half a million Iraqi children. This has been documented by the United Nations. And when Madeleine Albright, who has become a friend of mine over the last couple of years, when she was Secretary of State and was asked whether this was worth it, said it was worth it.

You Might Consider Moving to India

India lacks "the food stamp program, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or anything else that does good for NON-SUPER RICH Crooks or the "middle class", or the poor, disabled, elderly AND children "COSTING TOO MUCH".
Reply:
Every day my friend left her Mumbai mansion to attend college. Sometimes, her driver had to stop at the front gate to remove the bodies of those who had come there to die. She was upset she might not get to school on time.
About 200 millions Indians have joined the modern economy. They live well by any standard. The other 1.2 billions are in dire straits.
America without safety nets would become a much crueler nation similar to India.

The Dark and Deceitful Strategy of Bill Kristol

Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com

McCain's statement is also the only one to mention current assaults on Jews. . . . So if Clinton's Passover message is liberal, and Obama's is multicultural, one might call McCain's Zionist.
Indeed. It's absolutely critical that we all heed Bill Kristol's warnings and continue to sacrifice for all his political objectives -- especially on Passover. That means, first and foremost, voting for John McCain so that he can continue to wage endless wars in the Middle East while others perish in pursuit of Glorious Kristolian Sacrifice. That is the real lesson of Passover, teaches our nation's towering, noble, courageous theologian and Freedom-warrior -- Bill Kristol.
-- Glenn Greenwald

Note: Most Israelis are aware of a few American Jews willing to fight to the last drop of Israeli blood. Bill Kristol is one of these. With considerable help from others, he has made 'Zionist' into a derogatory term.
As an American, he speaks with the protections of two oceans and massive aircraft formations.
We Israelis take a more humble position. We would much rather negotiate than to pick a fight. Always, there is a chance of losing a war.

America is Her Own Worst Enemy

Ho Chi Minh relied on a seeming paradox. More troops the westerners sent to Asia hastened their inevitable defeat. Muhammad Ali defined it for non-Muslims as the Rope-a-Dope.

Eventually, the superior force reverses its energies to destroy itself. Overseas, the US war toys have proven ineffective. The Americans have no idea what works against Asians, but they know full well how to suppress their countrymen.

Of course, Asians must raise moral objections to the massive killing projects so favored in the west. The carnage will nevertheless continue thus speeding the demise of the American experiment.

These themes and trends have been sixty years in the making. It is folly to believe the 2008 elections will change any of this.

I have but one suggestion. The Muslims have taken over the UN Human Rights Commission. They may be amenable to charging US officials with war crimes and murder.

Brit Think Tank not Optimistic about Iraq

The security situation in Iraq still remains "highly volatile" although the U.S. surge strategy has remarkably reduced the violence there, a leading British think tank said on Tuesday.

"Although the reinforced security effort in Iraq, the so-called 'surge', has dramatically reduced the violence towards both military and civilians, including in insurgent and terrorist attacks, criminality, intra-communal militia violence and sectarian strife remain commonplace, and still undermine political and economic initiatives," the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said in its annual report, Military Balance 2008, released on Tuesday.

Progress on the political front has been insubstantial, John Chipman, Director-General of the IISS, said at the release of the report.

"At cabinet level, the Maliki government remains fractured and largely ineffectual. Individual ministries resemble party or personal fiefdoms with cross-governmental coordination remaining sporadic at best," said Chipman.

"The U.S. policy of embedding Provisional Reconstruction teams with U.S. military units across Iraq is beginning to deliver dividends but their overall impact remains limited as they are so thinly dispersed," said he.

On the perspective of Iraq's situation, the implications of sustained counter-insurgency and stability operations in Iraq were now leading to concern among some U.S. commanders over their relevance to long-term security requirements and force developments, the IISS said.

In the medium term, the United States would desire to shift its forces into "tactical over watch," whereby control is handed over to Iraqi forces with the United States offering support, said the report.

If troops reductions could happen in 2008, it is estimated that President Bush's successor would inherit a situation whereby at least 100,000 troops were still stationed in Iraq, the IISS said.

"It is likely, however, that General Petraeus will recommend slowing the reduction of U.S. troops to hedge against reversals in the security situation," said Chipman.

"The next year will also see the U.S. and other governments negotiate bilateral security arrangements with the Government of Iraq which will define the nature and scope of their efforts to stabilize the country, develop security forces, and provide assistance with internal and external security," added Chipman.

Last month, Bush said that the United States was on track to complete the planned withdrawal of 20,000 troops from Iraq by mid-year, and further troops withdrawal would depend on the conditions on the ground.

Currently, there are some 160,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. And about 3,945 U.S. troops have died in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Source: Xinhua: People's Daily Online