“We don’t shy away from declaring that Islam is ready to rule the world”

Read the article - he's their Pat Robertson - wild-eyed, crazy, with dreams of rapture, or the Shi'ite equivalent. And, he's filled with nuclear ambition. Quite a sobering thought.

Hopefully, you are so scared at this point that you will see the wisdom of a heavy handed response to this sort of threat:

Here's an idea. Let's ignore him. Let's pull our troops out of the Middle East and allow Iraq to immediately fall under the control of Al Qaeda and other Islamo-fascist groups. Let's show Muslims around the world that we do not have the moral strength to stand up to Islamic despots. Let's take all of that money we've been spending trying to liberate Iraq and spend it on making life all comfy for Katrina deadbeats and on our hideous and beyond-salvaging government school system. While we're at it, let's engage in a year of self-flagellation over the treatment of Islamic prisoners and detainees. Let's work hard to strip the president of any executive powers he may have to fight Islamic terrorism. And while we're accomplishing all of these worthy goals, let's sit back and see just how much oomph Ahmadinejad can put into his dream of world domination.

Oh ... and one more thing. While we're at it, let's make sure we never identify the religion of Islam as the violent entity that it most assuredly is. Wouldn't want to offend someone, would we?

He's got a great point... we need to go off the deep end... the threat is too scary.

We must continue the war in Iraq - if we do not continue to fuel the insurgency with our presence and our gift of living targets, then it may win. If it wins, then the hope for an Iraq governed by pro-Iranian Shi'ites who share Ahmadinejad's ideologies is doomed.

We must give no thought to allowing Iraqis control over the money for reconstruction. That would be suicide.

We musn't trouble ourselves with the morality or decency of our own actions. If we do not become like them, we can never beat them.

We must not take care of our own people who have lost their homes in a natural disaster... that will make them deadbeats, and the Islamists will have won.

God forbid we follow Israel's lead, and lob a couple of patriots off a submarine when we see an active nuclear weapons program begin in Iran. That would only set them back a decade or two. We need total victory. That means having troops in Iraq, poised for a ground invasion.

Thanks, Neal Boortz, for clearing that up. My problem was that I was trying to think about the issues, instead of just getting real scared and doing whatever the Executive branch of the government said. You're right - we need the Executive to have more power... as it stands, all they can do is start wars, direct intelligence operations, and ignore the law. George Bush needs more than that... to protect our scared selves.

I'm so grateful to Neal for getting me back into a state of hysteria, that I read his next item, too:

Saddam Hussein was training Islamic terrorists before we removed him from power.

According to Stephen Hayes of The Weekly Standard, new documents captured from Iraq and newly-translated have shown that Saddam Hussein was, indeed, training Iraqi terrorists in Iraq, thousands of them. The training took place at training camps inside Iraq in the four years immediately preceding the invasion.

Now, don't look for any coverage of this revelation in the mainstream press. You have to go to The Weekly Standard website to get this information. Why? Because the news if favorable to Bush and supports his decision to get rid of Saddam Hussein. That makes the news simply unfit to print. So, you want more information? Good for you! Here's your link!

Actually, I have another theory that would explain why the mainstream media hasn't published this information - the White House hasn't fed it to them yet. Following the link, we find that there are (according to Weekly Standard) a large number of documents related to Iraq's pre-war relationship with Islamic terrorists that have yet to be "exploited." There is (according to the WS) a movement to translate them and make them public, for the press and hungry public to devour. Telling is this quote from Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita:

The main worry, says DiRita, is that the mainstream press might cherry-pick documents and mischaracterize their meaning. "There is always the concern that people would be chasing a lot of information good or bad, and when the Times or the Post splashes a headline about some sensational-sounding document that would seem to 'prove' that sanctions were working, or that Saddam was just a misunderstood patriot, or some other nonsense, we'd spend a lot of time chasing around after it."

That's certainly a legitimate concern, and I salute the Pentagon for taking it into due consideration... But I say, hell - that's what we have Fox News for... while the Washington Post is cherry-picking the documents that downplay the pre-war threat from Iraq, Brit Hume can show us all the documents that (even though no-one was aware of it before the war) show why it was absolutely the smartest thing we've ever done to invade Iraq... after all Fox News is the most watched cable news network, right? ... unless there is no "there" there.

Personally, I really would like to know what's in all of those documents... I'm not really quite willing to take the Weekly Standard's word for it... but it would be interesting to actually know something from the inside about what Saddam was up to during the time that George Bush was studiously avoiding finding out.

That's it for now... have a blessed Wednesday.