Sunday, October 30, 2005

We're Being Conditioned by the Oil Industry: Here's How

We are being conditioned to accept higher gas prices at the pump.

Here's how it works:

There's a disruption in the oil industry and they say that there isn't enough supply to meet demand (a lie). Prices jump from $2.12 a gallon up to $3.10 a gallon. The public groans about high prices, and the prices begin to drop, starting with a 25 cent drop the day after it hits $3.10 a gallon. It finally settles around $2.25 a gallon and the public breathes a sigh of relief. After all, $2.25 is better than $3.10 a gallon.

Then there's another disruption (yep. Uh huh.). Prices jump to $3.49 a gallon and the public is moaning in distress again. Then the prices begin to drop again, this time settling at $2.45 a gallon. The public lets out another collective sigh of relief. After all, $2.45 is better than $3.49 a gallon.

Then there's a fire at a refinery in Texas (my story) and prices jump to $4.12 a gallon. Consumers are furious and dreading looking at the signs at the gas stations to see what the daily damage is. Then the prices drop again and finally settle at $2.65 a gallon. The public sighs in relief again. After all...you get the picture.

So our collective sighs of relief at "low" gas prices came at $2.25, $2.45, and $2.65.

This is the oil companies hoodwinking the American public into believing that they're getting a break in their gas prices, when the base price actually increases.

It's all a fraud!

The proof is in the oil companies reporting record profits last week!

That's your money swirling down the commode into the vaults of the oil barons. Face it, we're someone else's psychology subject.

Oil Companies Post Record Profits: Oil Barons Keep Screwing the Public

Various oil companies are reporting record oil profits in the third quarter of 2005.

This, in spite of "hundreds" of oil platforms "destroyed" by the hurricanes along the Gulf Coast in the third quarter.

This, in spite of refineries being "damaged" or "destroyed" by the same hurricanes in the third quarter.

This, in spite of "increased cost of production" in the third quarter.

This, in spite of the cost of a barrel of oil in the third quarter, supposedly imposed by OPEC.

Someone needs to go to jail. This is gouging!

Thursday, October 27, 2005

End of a Political Disaster: Miers Withdraws from Supreme Court Consideration

Harriet Miers has withdrawn her name from consideration for the Supreme Court vacancy. It's the best possible end to this disaster of a nomination.

Now is not the time for an unknown variable to be introduced into the Supreme Court mix.

There needs to be a conservative choice who will read the Constitution as it is and not legislate from the bench. Too much is at stake for a huge gamble on a person who has no experience as a judge.

This is President Bush's fault, not the nominee's. What on earth was he thinking?

Hopefully Miers will return to Bush's side as his counsel, where her proven record as an attorney will best be put to good use.

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

U.S. Should Back Off From Syria Until ALL Facts Are Made Clear

Before the United States goes storming off to the United Nations Security Council to demand that the Security Council punish Syria for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, every detail of the U.N. report that condemned Syria should be closely examined and confirmed by other nations.

There is no reason for any nation to embark on a military adventure against Syria until that happens (and there is overwhelming reason to do so.) Lebanon has been wronged here, not the U.S. or or any Western nation.

Point: Syria IS a sponser of state terrorism despite it's saying that it isn't. The Syrian government is no friend or ally of ours.

If the anti-terrorism alliance hopes to make a huge case against state-sponsored terrorism, it has to do this right! Syria screwed up bad, but speculation and conjecture on the part of the German prosecutor is not enough to bring a case against Syria.

And it's not enough to start a war over either.

Monday, October 24, 2005

Dean Shouldn't Throw Stones in the Glass House: His Own Record Makes Him a Hypocrite

Howard Dean recently denounced the Bush White House as being the most secretive Administration in recent history. (He's right about that, but the pot appears to be calling the kettle black!)

Calling the Republican leadership the "Ayotollahs of the right-wing", the Dean screamer forgot to mention that he hasn't quite gotten around to being honest about a particular campaign issue that was quietly buried after his campaign fell apart.

If memory serves, Dean refused to answer questions in the campaign about his failure to deal with thirty-three safety and security violations at Vermont's only nuclear reactor during his tenure as governor of Vermont.

He came under heavy criticism from other Democrats for his "no-comment" replies when asked about it during the campaign.


Care to serve up some more hypocrisy, Dr. Dean?

Politicians should either come clean or shut up.

"Inuit" or "Eskimo"--More PC Nonsense

Inuit--"the people" or "human"
Eskimo--"fish eater"

Ah, the old Political Correctness crowd is at it again.

Several letters protesting a recent "Mother Goose and Grimm" made it clear that the PC movement is alive and well and just as wrong as it was before. The letters appeared in the Lansing State Journal.

They made it clear that the authors thought "Inuit" was the accurate term for all northern Aborigine people.

This is incorrect.

There are dozens of northern tribes, and the Inuits are but one tribe.

It's an oversimplification, and it's insulting to non-Inuit people of the north. The political correctness crowd does this all the time and manages to ignore the wishes of the native population.

PC term constructs are discriminatory, inflammatory, arbitrary and flat-out wrong at times.

Condi Rice vs. Hillary Clinton in 2008: Time to Vote for a Third Candidate

A recent poll about a theoretical presidential race between Secretary of State Condaleeza Rice and Senator Hillary Clinton projected Senator Clinton as the front-runner.

Truth be told, I wouldn't vote for either of them.

Neither says what they mean; both are polar opposites with no middle ground between them (though Condi is honest about being right-of-center while Hillary professes to be moderate--even though she's liberal).

It's not an anti-woman thing; but if you get Hillary, you get Bill with her; if you get Condi, you get someone involved in deceiving the American people about Saddam's weapons. Enough scandal and deception from elected officials!

If they are the choices in 2008, I'm voting for a third-party candidate.

Sunday, October 23, 2005

Homeland Security and FEMA Should Be Partially Separated

If one lesson was learned from the Hurricane Katrina disaster, it is that part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) needs to be able to maneuver independently of the oversized Homeland Security Department.

The other part of FEMA should stay with DHS.

The way that it should be set up is when a natural disaster strikes, the independent arm of FEMA is in charge. If it's a 9/11-scale terrorist hit OR a military/law enforcement situation, then the FEMA arm under DHS is in charge.

Under this model, the independent arm of FEMA would have dealt with Katrina first; they would be there before, during and after the hurricane hit. If security was needed to restore law and order in New Orleans, then the DHS-FEMA would have gone in with federal troops and take charge of the situation until it stabilized. The independent arm would have then resumed control of the mission after that happened.

If this sounds complicated, it really isn't.

An independent arm would be quicker to respond than the DHS operation did for Katrina.

I'm not proposing two FEMAs: it would be the same agency, but part of it would be the quick response team and the other part would be the muscle team.

Above all, FEMA needs flexibility so that it can respond quickly to fast-changing situations.

Taking these steps will resolve many issues that appeared during the 2005 hurricane season.

Emerald Ash Borer Appears Unstoppable: Strategy to Eradicate Pest Utterly Fails

Michigan's ash trees are falling victim to a bug that is killing them and the state is desperately trying to slow the bugs down and save as many trees as possible. Their efforts have been in vain thus far.

In fact, the emerald ash borer is winning the fight; efforts to stop them have utterly failed.

The Michigan quarantine zones have failed. Firewood checkpoints failed. Public service announcements announcing the ban on transportation of firewood from one part of the state to another failed. A five-mile-long bridge failed to stop them. Cutting down swaths of trees to prevent their spread...failed.

The bugs advanced northward, crossed the Mackinaw Bridge and invaded the Upper Peninsula forests.

Now researchers are saying that all that they have been able to do is slow the bugs down. They are not even talking about eradicating the borer anymore.

Millions of trees in the Upper Midwest are at risk. It's high time for a new plan. Enough of this talk of the borer being unstoppable. They're unstoppable because researchers haven't done what they were supposed to do.

Saturday, October 22, 2005

Misunderstanding Followed by Malicious Intent: Fury Unleashed in Afghanistan Against U.S. Military

News broke of a U.S. military unit operating in Afghanistan who burned the bodies of two Taliban fighters and then "offended Muslim sensibilities" by taunting other Taliban fighters in the area by getting onto loudspeakers and calling them sissies.

Naturally, this has sparked outrage in Afghanistan.

Here's what really happened: the bodies were burned by a regular Army unit on orders from their commanding officer as the bodies were rotting away. It is very likely that this was a mistake as the officer in charge was unaware that burning Muslim bodies was a forbidden practice according to Muslim belief.

According to reports, a psychological warfare unit was also operating in the area and saw an opportunity to get other Taliban fighters out into the open and so positioned the bodies so that they were pointed to the east toward Mecca. They got onto loudspeakers and announced what they had done and then called the other Taliban a bunch of women and cowards.

The original Army unit made a terrible mistake; the second unit compounded the mistake by doing what it was there to do; it antagonized the Taliban using all means at it's disposal to goad the Taliban into breaking cover and attacking the superior U.S. military force that was awaiting them.

There is a war going on, ladies and gents, and while defiling the dead is a horrific practice, the psy-op men did their job that they were over there for. They shouldn't have messed with the bodies, but the damage had already been done.

Now the Army has to make an example out of all of them to quell anger in the Muslim world.

It's a very unfortunate situation.

Hockey Coach Who Ordered His Team to Fight Under Police Investigation

The hockey coach previously mentioned in my last post is being investigated by the Michigan State Police after a player's mom filed a formal complaint.

This is good.

Other eyewitnesses tried to downplay the story, saying only one or two players were bloodied. In the end, it doesn't matter how many kids were hurt; the coach violated the law by doing what he did and that doesn't lessen the crime.

Parents who stood by and excused the conduct should be ashamed of themselves; they've lost their perspective as parents, choosing their sons' fledgling hockey careers over their responsibilities as parents to protect their children.

Life happens, and unexpected things happen, but to actively be a part of the problem instead of the solution is not acceptable behavior. These parents should be held accountable for what they have done.

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Hockey Coach and Parents Should Be Brought Up on Child Endangerment Charges

Lansing-area residents were stunned to learn that a local coach had been suspended for encouraging his team of under-18 hockey players to drop their helmets and gloves and to fight one another on the ice during practices.

These fights resulted in numerous injuries to the boys, some of whom were bloodied, had concussions and ended up with a generally bad feeling about the game, their friends and themselves. Best friends were forced to fight each other as the coach egged them on.

The coach and parents of those who chose their sons' hockey careers over the safety and well-being of their kids should be charged under Michigan law for child endangerment and any other charge that will stick.

This is sickening.

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Liberals Usurp "Moderate" Label--Moderates are Not Moderates Anymore

This has been brewing for quite some time.

A moderate is no longer a moderate. It's a liberal who is afraid to call himself a liberal and has taken up the "moderate" label to try to persuade mainstream America that he/she shares their centerpoint view (when they clearly don't).

They are anything but in the center of the political spectrum. They are afraid to point out that they are left of center and are sometimes WAY left.

When someone talks about taking a moderate approach to something, they're really talking about a liberal approach.

The moderate label used to describe the center has been usurped (hijacked) by the left.

To disentangle themselves, those who are closer to the center have to point that out to anyone who will listen. Simply using another term to describe the center won't work as the liberals, always looking for new cloaks to hide their liberal-ness behind, will hijack the new term too.

Don't use "moderate" to describe the center. It's no longer accurate.

Monday, October 17, 2005

Drink Not With Thine Enemies

The title of this post was taken from a Klingon warrior code (of Star Trek fame).

In this case, enemies include collaborators.

Al-Jazeera is launching it's English-edition news channel in 2006. As reported in the media, a United States Marine who served in Iraq as a press officer during the 2003 invasion of Iraq resigned from the Marines and decided to take his argument with Washington up to the international level.

He did so by joining Al-Jazeera.

They do tabloid news and have no compunction about lying to inflame the Muslim world. Their is among the most rabid anti-U.S. voices coming from the Middle East.

Their reason for doing so is obvious: they are the official press agency of al-Qaeda. By extension, that would make our renegade Marine the press secretary of al-Qaeda.

Yes, it's a free country and he can do as he will.

But this leads one to wonder if he's thinking about his friends who are still in Iraq while he's badmouthing them on Al-Jazeera, the official press agency of al-Qaeda, our mortal enemies.

We don't need resident Tokyo Roses in the U.S. He ought to do the honorable thing and back out of working for the enemy.

Rove: What Will Change if He Resigns?

President Bush's so-called "Brain" has testified under oath and without immunity from prosecution, leading many to think that Bush's closest advisor will be indicted for revealing the name of a CIA operative.

In reality, what will change if Rove resigns or is indicted?

The answer: absolutely nothing.

It would be business as usual. Rove would be replaced with someone from the same mold.

If one believes the Rove rhetoric coming from the Democrats, his replacement could be twice as dangerous to Democrats as Rove has been.

Are they sure they want Rove to disappear?

Sunday, October 16, 2005

Who's Using the Religious Litmus Test More (and Violating Federal Law?)

The answer is that Congress is doing it more, but the President isn't helping things along either.

Consider: during the John Roberts confirmation process, some liberal Senators openly attacked Roberts' Catholic faith, saying that his religion's views on abortion would not allow them to vote for him as a Justice in the Supreme Court.

President Bush and his advisors brought up religion on the Harriet Miers nomination last week, which again stirred the anti-religious in Congress, the media and in the general public.

This again galvanized the right, which does not like it when the left criticizes the religious beliefs of people. This may have been what President Bush intended all along, but still, he shouldn't be egging the other side on.

From Article VI of the Constitution: "...but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."

In addition to religion not being required for a federal office or job, this can also be meant to mean that religion cannot be used to stop a religious person from holding federal office.

Perhaps Congress should have Article VI read out to them before the confirmation process begins.

Friday, October 14, 2005

Another Elian Gonzales-style Case Inevitable: Prepare for the Worst

Most American adults remember the fiasco of the Elian Gonzales case in Florida and the stunning pictures of the boy being forcibly removed from the home of his Florida relatives.

Ready for Round II?

News broke this morning of a six-year-old Cuban boy who drowned during some kind of smuggling operation that was intended to get him and his compatriots into Miami.

He was the only one to die in a speedboat that overturned as it ran from a U.S. Coast Guard cutter that had ordered it to stand-to.

This story calls to mind the memories of the Gonzales case and a reminder that Cuban children are arriving in the U.S. almost daily.

It is now only a matter of time before a child arrives in the U.S. in the custody of a custodial or non-custodial parent; something happens to the parent and Cuban exiles take the child in. Then the other parent, still in Cuba, and still a diehard Castro supporter, demands the child's return. And then we're off to the races. The clock has been running since the day that the Elian drama began.

Before long, the press gets wind of what's going on and shortly thereafter we will have Cuban exiles taking to the streets trying to stop law enforcement people from taking the child. And all of us are thinking: "Oh, no. Not again."

Is America ready to have it's heart broken again?

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Note to the Liberal Press: Don't Criticize Miers' Religious Beliefs

The media's latest target is the religious beliefs of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers.

The media would be well-advised to leave this topic alone.

If they're looking for a bone to pick, they should look elsewhere. The unsilent majority will not tolerate criticism of a person's belief in God from people who try to ban God out of existence.

They're stuck on stupid again.

UN Bombs Smurf Village in New UNICEF Ad

This is no joke.

UNICEF has put together a new cartoon video ad to raise public awareness of the plight of child soldiers in the African nations of Burundi, Congo and Sudan. It's raising howls of protest and hoots of approval wherever it is seen.

It features a scene of happiness in the Smurf village with the Smurfs singing their theme song and dancing, then bombs whistling through the air and exploding, killing Smurfette, leaving several other Smurf bodies scattered on the ground, and the village itself on fire. The last scene is of a wounded, burned and scared Baby Smurf screaming his head off.

Then the tagline: "Don't let war destroy the children's world" followed by a request for a UNICEF donation.

Whoever thought of that ad is a diabolical genius! It sure got my attention.

Unfortunately, some news stories are telling of children seeing the ads and being absolutely terrified by the images. The UN isn't showing it in the West before 9pm local time to avoid the possibility of a child seeing it during their 4pm cartoons.

UNICEF will run the ads through April.

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Press Reporting on the Contents of a Bush-Miers...BIRTHDAY CARD??!

The press is REALLY grasping at straws, trying to make political hay on this one.

A story broke today that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers wrote to then-Governor Bush in a birthday card that he was the "greatest governor ever" and in a memo that was sent later that she hoped that Bush's daughters recognized what "...cool parents they had."

So what?

Out of the THOUSANDS of documents released by the Texas state archives, this was the best that the press could come up with?

Say what you will about Miers being unqualified for the Supreme Court, or of Bush's friends being in high office, but this is the biggest non-story to hit the news since the U.N. bathroom memo.

They wasted space printing this in the newspapers?

Why is the Media Still Railing Against New York Officials for Their Added Subway Security?

The media has been doing a bang-up job of reporting everything that went wrong with the recent subway terror alert in New York City.

It's already been established that the alert was based on dubious information supplied to the New York political leadership by the federal government.

Whose fault is that? New York's or Washington's?

New York officials have the right to protect the public from potential terrorist threats and their response was right on. They would have been crazy to ignore signs that their subway system may have been targeted by Ansar al-Islam or al-Qaeda itself.

Instead of reporting the facts, the media seems obsessed with pointing out that the alert never should have been called and that Mayor Bloomberg should have treated the information given to him with a grain of salt. And here we go again with unidentified sources.

The terms "law enforcement sources" and "government sources" and "sources close to the investigation" appear again and again throughout the stories posted on CNN, on MSNBC, and on CBS (not as bad as the first two).

ABC went in the opposite direction, saying that the threat was NOT a hoax (according to "sources involved in the investigation"). Further, ABC reported what other news organizations were saying with their unnamed sources.

Fox News came right out and said that the sources were unnamed and also said that the Mayor of New York was uncertain about reports that the threat was a hoax. Further, they included a disclosure that they were owned by News Corp., which also owns the New York Post and other companies that were reporting the story.

ABC's and Fox's stories report more hard facts than the others (which are laced with opinions and unnamed sources).

Is it time for more Rathergate? Some of these stories read like works of fiction, and not hard news.

Saturday, October 08, 2005

New York City's Precautions Against Subway Terrorism Was Right On

New York City's reaction to the possibility of terrorist action against the New York subway system was exactly correct and should not be second-guessed by anyone.

Remember, the only American city to have buildings leveled by al-Qaeda action has been New York. They have every reason in the world to react exactly as they did in calling out additional police officers, stepping up searches of passenger backpacks and strollers.

In the end, the only thing that matters is that the public remains vigilant and the government at the ready to stop terrorist threats. If that means searching people's stuff for explosives, then so be it.

Ansar al-Islam terrorists who are allied to al-Qaeda were reported to be preparing to attack the subway system on Sunday. Homeland Security believed the reports were dubious, but did the correct thing and informed New York officials of the potential threat.

It's better to react to a false report than to allow a 9/11-scale or Madrid or London-style subway attack to occur when all the warning signs were there.

We've been there once before; dare we go there again?

Friday, October 07, 2005

Will the FIRST First Responders in Louisiana Stand Up?

FEMA has been the focus of much anger and criticism since Hurricane Katrina severely damaged New Orleans. It's former director came under intense pressure, was relieved of his command in New Orleans and then resigned a few days later.

In Congressional testimony, former FEMA director Michael Brown called Louisiana's leadership before, during and after Katrina "dysfunctional." Congress and the press jumped all over him for saying that and accused him of attempting to shift blame away from FEMA.

Hold the phone.

Enter Hurricane Rita.

Texas, unlike Louisiana a month earlier, did precisely what it was supposed to. The mayors of Houston, Beaumont, Lake Charles and Port Arthur enforced mandatory evacuation orders DAYS ahead of time and used all available resources, including those offered by the governor and FEMA.

The governor of Texas took to the airwaves and clearly communicated to the public the threat that Hurricane Rita posed to communities along Rita's projected track. He declared states of emergency early and requested federal help. And he COMMUNICATED with the mayors AND with President Bush, unlike his Louisiana collegue.

In Louisiana a month earlier, the President declared a state of emergency ahead of the storm and freed up millions of federal dollars to assist Louisiana. Governor Bianco didn't move on it until after the hurricane hit and New Orleans was underwater.

FEMA is designed to support local and state officials in their efforts to bring relief to those whose lives are in danger. The model worked in Texas; it failed in Louisiana because the elected government in Louisiana and in New Orleans collapsed for three critical days.

People in New Orleans were asking "Where's FEMA? Where's FEMA?" They should have been asking "Where's Mayor Nagin? Where's the Governor?" Nagin left hundreds of buses sitting in their parking lots (which subsequently flooded) that could have been used to get more people OUT of the city and OUT of the path of the hurricane. Who the hell cares where the buses would have gone? That's not the point. That's a distraction from Mayor Nagin's shameful handling of the crisis.

And it should be pointed out that he sacked the only man (his police chief) in his administration who DID HIS JOB in keeping his shattered police command working.

The Governor of Louisiana was inept. She didn't want federal troops before the storm, didn't use the federal money to get more buses into New Orleans or other threatened cities, didn't communicate clearly and was at the top of the food chain down there.

The ACTUAL first responders failed: the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana. So before they go pointing fingers at FEMA further, they should get their own houses into order and DO THEIR JOBS!

FEMA failed because those two people failed first, and then FEMA's own major problems kicked into high gear.

The proof is in the pudding: FEMA failed in Louisiana, FEMA succeeded in Texas one month later. The experts are saying that's too soon for any changes to have taken effect. What was different?

Um....could it have something to do with a strong Texas governor and strong Mayors showing the very leadership that the Louisiana people failed to show? Could it have something to do with the Texas folks using FEMA as it was intended to be used? They did SOMETHING right.

Thursday, October 06, 2005

The New Face of Treason: Former Marine Corps Press Officer Joins Al-Jazeera

A former U.S. Marine has joined Al-Jazeera's English language news program.

What is this man doing, joining the enemy? It would be like a former Marine joining the Soviet Union's official news agency during the height of the Cold War. Only traitors would do something like that.

If he wants to understand the Muslim world better, perhaps he should study abroad instead of helping them disparage his fellow Marines and Americans in the media. Or perhaps he should become a Muslim.

His resignation from the Marines because of his disagreements with Washington only lends support to the argument that he is using Al-Jazeera to pick a bone with Washington.

And Al-Jazeera is only to happy to oblige him, so long as he agrees to spread enemy propaganda during a time of war.

North Korean Leader May Name Successor Soon

The Russian media is reporting that North Korea's Kim Jong-Il may name his successor in the near future.

The sooner the better.

Millions of North Koreans have starved to death under his watch while he continues to live in luxury.

The North Korean communists have a lot to answer for and hopefully when their scumbag-President leaves, he takes his entire cabal and all of his generals with him.

Good riddance!

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

NASA Theory on Shuttle Foam Failure is Full of Holes

NASA's new administrator suggested that the foam that came off the space shuttle Discovery two months ago was accidentally cut or crushed by engineers.

He also said that the foam could be damaged merely by someone leaning up against it.

If that's true, then it is going to be impossible to stop wind sheer from tearing foam off the shuttle as it's blasting off.

The g-forces from the lift-off far exceed the weight of a 200 pound scientist leaning up against the shuttle's foam.

This doesn't add up. The only conclusion that can be made is that NASA still doesn't know why the foam is coming off the shuttle during liftoff.

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Owners of Capsized Boat May Get $25 Fine

CNN is reporting that the operators of a boat carrying carrying 47 senior citizens (20 of whom drowned after the boat capsized) could get a $25 fine for not having enough crew members on board (the 74-year old captain was the only crewman present).

THAT IS OUTRAGEOUS!!

The fine should be huge! New York's laws are inadequate for a case like this.

Lawyer Nominated for Supreme Court--No Experience as a Judge?

People are holding their breath to see what will happen with President Bush's latest choice for the U.S. Supreme Court.

He has nominated his attorney, White House counsel Harriet Miers, to succeed Sandra Day O'Conner.

Is she qualified to be a justice of the Supreme Court without any experience as a judge?

Despite White House denials, this is very much a "stealth candidate" nomination. There's no paper trail for Congress to analyze, and much of her work for the President will be protected by Presidential privilige.

This candidacy is doomed.

He should have made a better choice; there are other potential nominees who have strong records of applying the law as written and don't pull the "living document" crap that activist judges are famous for when deciding Constitutional law.

It's doubtful that this candidacy will last very long.

Monday, October 03, 2005

New Abu Gharib Photographs are Enemy Propaganda

The entire world knows that certain American soldiers abused Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Gharib prison in Baghdad.

Dozens of photos were released the first time around. We all got the sense of how bad the abuse was. And we know the effect it had on the Muslim world as well as over here.

So why is a judge ordering that more photos be released?

Aiding the enemy in a time of war is illegal, and the military releasing more photos would do nothing more than incite the jihaddis and insurgents and inflame the Muslim world further. We should not be distributing enemy propaganda while our troops are still over there fighting to defend Iraqi democracy.

Some people obviously enjoy seeing sick photos of people sexually abusing other people and want more to satisfy their perversions. These idiots should go jump in a lake! And they should take their judge with 'em!

Enough, already!