Truth, Lies and In Between

War is coming to Tucson

Lionel Waxman

You are not going to like what I have to say today. But it must be said, out loud. People are whispering about it now, but if we don’t face up to it, it will only get worse.

The violent incident in Cananea, Sonora, has hit the consciousness of Tucson squarely between the eyes. Northern Mexico is in a state of war. Who is fighting? That’s hard to say. Officially, it is the drug- and people-traffickers against each other and the government. But in Mexico, you can’t tell the players even with a program. You cannot assume the police or the Army are loyal to their commands. Many are working on their own.

In case you were out of town two weeks ago, about 50 armed men drove into Cananea and killed five policemen and two other residents. The men fled into the hills with police and soldiers in pursuit. In subsequent gunfights, 16 more were killed.

The U.S. State Department has issued a travel announcement saying narcotics-related “violence by criminal elements affects many parts of the country.”

That’s right, make them legal. That will solve everything.

“Deport the Criminals First” — Part One of an Ongoing Series

As regular readers know, I have repeatedly argued that our federal government should devote all its ICE agents (at least those not working on border enforcement) to the task of identifying and deporting those illegal aliens who commit crimes while in this country. In my view, it is outrageous that we would use a single ICE agent to arrest someone working hard for a living, while countless thousands of illegals sit in county jails and state prisons — their illegal immigrant status unknown, waiting to be released onto the streets once their sentences are completed.

Deport the Criminals First” — Part Two of an Ongoing Series: The Murder of Jenny Garcia

From Channel 8 news in Austin, Texas, January 27, 2004:

On Monday two girls found their older sister — a freshman at St. Edward’s University — stabbed to death inside the family’s Northwest Austin home. Detectives later connected a man to the capital murder after he placed a call to APD’s Homicide Tip Line.

Are you paying attention?

Putin says missile test was a reply to U.S. moves

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday was in response to U.S. steps that have upset the strategic balance, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

Putin also said the United States had initiated a new round of the arms race.

“Our American partners have left the ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) Treaty. We have warned them then that we will come out with a response to maintain the strategic balance in the world,” Putin told a news conference. “We conducted a test of a new strategic ballistic missile with multiple warheads, and of a new cruise missile, and will continue to improve our resources.”

“We are not the initiators of this new round of the arms race,” said Putin.

It seems that Russia is trying to get back to center stage. They lost their status after the Cold War ended, so they are now trying to push our buttons with the nuke issue and our missile defense shield. With Iran threatening to blow up Israel with a nuke as soon as they are capable, and Russia playing the saber rattling game, right along with North Korea, there is a definite need for a missile defense shield. More so now, than ever.

Let’s take a look:

North Korean Missiles:
Scud B, Scud C, Scud D, Frog-7, No Dong, Taepo Dong-1*, Taepo Dong-2*

* Missiles Not Deployed Yet

A U.S. intelligence assessment from December 2001 says that before 2015 the United States most likely will face ICBM threats from North Korea and Iran. In August 1998, North Korea attempted to launch a satellite into orbit using a three-stage Taepo Dong missile, but the missile failed in its final stage. As a result of negotiations, North Korea has voluntarily suspended testing long-range missiles until 2003. North Korean Missile types include: BSRBMs, MRBMs, SRBMs and ICBMs. (Missile Defense Advocacy)

North Korea didn’t suspend their testing for very long. In my experience, when ever North Korea says that they are going to suspend testing, it is due to their inability to perform said testing at the moment. Once they have the wherewithal to start up again, they do, as is demonstrated by their 2006 launch.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — North Korea test-fired a long-range missile and five shorter-range rockets early Wednesday, but the closely watched long-range test failed within a minute, U.S. officials said.

A connection:

From: The International Institute for Strategic Studies

North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Programme

North Korea’s missile exports to Iran began during the Iran–Iraq War when North Korea shipped Scud-B missiles (designated the Shahab-1 by Iran) and mobile launchers to Iran in 1987 for use against Iraq in the ‘War of the Cities’. In the early 1990s, North Korea provided Iran Scud-C missiles (designated the Shahab­2) and helped Iran to establish an indigenous missile production infrastructure, in exchange for money and oil. In 1993, North Korea negotiated with Iran for the sale of No-dong missiles, but the exports were delayed, perhaps because of warnings from Washington that No-dong transfers to Iran could derail negotiations for the Agreed Framework, which were taking place at the same time. In 1995 however, after the conclusion of the Agreed Framework, North Korea began exporting No­dong missiles to Iran and helped Iran develop its own version of the No-dong, which Tehran designated the Shahab-3. The North Korean sale of No-dong missiles to Iran prompted Washington to begin a series of negotiations with Pyongyang, seeking an agreement to end Nort, h Korean missile exports, but the two sides were never able to reach agreement on the amount and type of ‘compensation’ that North Korea would receive for ending missile-related exports. North Korea may have provided Taepo-dong technology to Iran, but this cannot be confirmed.

Iran Missiles

Fateh A-110, M-9 variant, M-11 variant, Scud B, Scud C, CSS-8, Shahab-3, Shahab-4*, Shahab-5*

* Missiles Not Deployed Yet

U.S. intelligence assessment from December 2001 says that “before 2015 the United States most likely will face ICBM threats from North Korea and Iran.” Iran has since tested its developing intermediate-range ballistic missile capable of traveling between 3,000-5,500 km. They also have MRBMs, SRBMs, and BSRBMs. (Missile Defense Advocacy)

With these two regimes in bed together against the US and other western countries, there is a serious threat of nuclear war. This isn’t the same as dealing with the old USSR, at least with them, mutually assured destruction didn’t appeal to them. With the Islamofascist state of Iran, it is a completely different story. They are a culture that reveres the martyr. Death to them is a way to heaven. Mutually assured destruction won’t work. However, if we can defeat their missiles and at the same time be able to strike them with nuclear missiles, that would likely ensure that they behave themselves.

 Nine Lies About Global Warming

By Ray Evans.

This is a good read. Debunks a lot of the BS perpetrated by the loony left. 

The Nine Lies

1. Carbon dioxide is a pollutant.

2. The twentieth century has been the hottest in recorded history
and the decade 1990–2000 the hottest ever.

3. The evidence linking anthropogenic (man-made) carbon dioxide
emissions and current warming is decisive.

4. The scientific consensus is that anthropogenic CO2 emissions
have already caused significant global warming and must be
severely curtailed to prevent future climate catastrophe.

5. Anthropogenic emissions of CO2 and the global warming
caused thereby are responsible not only for higher temperatures
and more droughts than in the past, but also for more
blizzards, unseasonal snow, and freezing weather. They are
also responsible for increasing numbers of cyclones.

6. Because of anthropogenic emissions, the polar ice caps are
melting and sea levels are rising. The rising sea levels threaten
low lying island states in the Pacific and Indian Oceans with
complete inundation.

7. Unless anthropogenic emissions of CO2 are reduced by 50–
60 per cent of current levels by the year 2050, by 2100 our
descendants will have to endure global temperatures of between
1.4 to 5.8°C warmer than the present.

8. Tropical diseases such as malaria and dengue fever will spread
from the tropics to the temperate regions.

9. Shutting down coal-fired power stations and replacing them
with renewable energy sources such as windmills and solar
panels (or even nuclear power plants) will not cause unemployment
or economic deprivation.

There is an explanation for each of the lies.

This is a .pdf document.

This is from IBD

In this exclusive 10-part series, IBD takes a hard look at Jimmy Carter’s administration and compares it to that of George W. Bush, which Carter has called the worst ever.

Installments will cover the economy, foreign policy, human rights, dealing with dictators, fighting Communism and the Democratic leadership in general during times of war.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Six

Part Seven 

“Hello Media…you are killing us”

 Hello media, do you know you indirectly kill American soldiers every day? You inspire and report the enemy’s objective every day. You are the enemy’s greatest weapon. The enemy cannot beat us on the battlefield so all he does is try to wreak enough havoc and have you report it every day. With you and the enemy using each other, you continually break the will of the American public and American government.

We go out daily and bust and kill the enemy, uncover and destroy huge weapons caches and continue to establish infrastructure. So daily we put a whoopin on the enemy, but all the enemy has to do is turn on the TV and get re-inspired. He gets to see his daily roadside bomb, truck bomb, suicide bomber or mortar attack. He doesn’t see any accomplishments of the U.S. military (FOX, you’re not exempt, you suck also).

Let’s give you an example. A couple of days ago we conducted an air assault. We lifted troops into an area for an operation. The operation went well and our ground troops killed (insurgents) and took several prisoners, freed a few hostages and uncovered a weapons cache containing munitions and chemicals that were going to be used in improvised bombs.

The next morning I woke up and turned on AFN (Armed Forces Network) and
watched the nightly news (NBC). Nothing, none of that reported. But the daily car bomb report was reported, and the file footage was not even from the event. There was a car bomb in the Sadr City area and your news report showed old car bomb footage from another part of town from some other time.

So we really set the enemy back that night but all the enemy had to do was turn on the news and be reassured that the enemy’s agenda (objective) was still going to be fed to the American public.”We, the soldiers, keep breaking the back of the enemy. You, the media, keep rejuvenating the enemy.

How hard would it be to contact the PAO (public affairs officer) of the 1st CAV, 36th CAB, 25th ID or the Marines and ask what did you guys accomplish today – good and bad? How about some insurgent blooper videos? Now that would be something to show on the evening news.”Media, we know you hate the George Bush Administration, but report both sides, not just your one-sided agenda. You have got to realize how you are continually motivating every extremist, jihadist and terrorist to continue their resolve to kill American soldiers.

I am just tired of busting my butt over here and coming home every night and turning on the TV (Armed Forces Network) and hearing how we are failing miserably.

I’ll post their pics and quotes throughout the day.

MICHAEL CHERTOFF, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: “You know, Wolf, first, I understand there’s some people who expect anything other than capital punishment is an amnesty. The reality is the proposal here requires people who came in illegally who want to stay to pay a penalty. Like a fine. That’s a punishment. That’s not an amnesty. “

Mr. Chertoff is living in fantasy land. Your job is to protect America. You obviously can’t grasp the concept, therefor you should resign. Let someone that knows what it means to defend America take the job. If I were your boss, you would have been fired the day you uttered this crap.

Call this idiot and tell him how you feel.

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Immigration Thoughts

From David Frum:

As we have seen in both the Harriet Miers fight and the Dubai ports deal, this White House’s first instinct when faced with dissent in the ranks is to insult and abuse its strongest supporters. “Sexist”; “elitist”; “registered bigots” were some of the terms cast during the previous fights. Brace yourselves for much, much worse. This is no way to win friends and influence people. And triggering an internecine party conflict on the eve of a difficult and dangerous election is no way to re-elect a damaged incumbent party.

Sen. Brownback has a horrendous record on immigration. He is about two miles to the Left of most Democrats on this issue. Americans for Better Immigration gives him a overall grade of D. On reducing chain migration, he receives an F-; on reducing visa lotteries, F-; on reducing unnecessary visas, F-; and on reducing amnesties, F.

With politicians such as these and many more, who needs al Qaeda?