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My personal musings about anything that gets on my radar screen--heavily dominated by politics.

2007-04-10

Quick Hits

--Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered up the march as a show of strength not only to Washington but to Iraq's establishment Shiite ayatollahs as well.

Al-Sadr has pounded his anti-American theme in a series of written statements. The most recent came on Sunday, when he called on his Mahdi Army militia to redouble efforts to expel American forces and for the police and army to join the struggle against "your archenemy." . . .

says the brave man hiding in Iraq. You think it's just me that thinks NOT taking this guy out when we had the chance three years ago--even though he was hiding in a mosque--was one of the major blunders of this war?

--CBS Radio and MSNBC both said they were suspending Imus’ morning talk show for two weeks following his reference last week to members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos.”

What do you think? Undisciplined rantings of an old crank, or rare glimpse underneath the superiority complex of the Left?

--180,000 new jobs in March, 32,000 upward job revisions for the prior two months, and a 4.4% unemployment rate.

Just in case you get your news from the evening news, and hadn't heard it (for whatever reason) over the weekend.

--And, just for the record, I am very glad the British sailors and marines were released without permanent injury. And, my, what a BIG surprise it was to find out their "confessions" were under duress.

I wonder when the U.N. is going to bring the full weight of its rhetoric down on the regime in Teheran? I wonder, on its scale of atrocities, where what the Iranians did to the Brits falls compared to the 2700 calorie diet, pristine handling of Koran, arrows pointing to Mecca sort of treatment our prisoners at Gitmo receive?

And was it really anything resembling a surprise that a few days after ending another great hostage-taking adventure, and paying NO PRICE for it, that Teheran would claim to have made the next leap into the nuclear age? I think every time they're ready for whatever is next, the Iranians are going to do something to the West, just to see if we've grown a backbone before they do it.
Posted by: Michael / 4/10/2007 12:14:00 AM

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