TOBY PETZOLD

David Wright with ABC News was saying earlier that Obama’s policy is to not deal with Hamas because they’re not heads of state, but a terrorist group. Hmm. A very tough line to take, one would think.

But then it is also Obama’s position that, as President, he would meet with the leadership of Iran and Syria and presumably other terrorist-sponsoring states without preconditions?

Does the man who wishes to lead these 57 United States not understand that Hamas is a tool of Iran and that Iran is the actual problem?

The Democrats aren’t buying this crap about the President not knowing until just recently that the NIE on Iran’s nuclear weapons program says that it was stopped in 2003. They believe he must have known about it no later than this past summer.

In an October 17 news conference, Bush said that “If you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.”

And four days later, Vice President Dick Cheney told a Washington think tank that Iran would face “serious consequences” from the international community if it continued to enrich uranium.

You’ll notice that neither man’s remark really has anything at all to do with the NIE’s findings. It is, in fact, our purpose to keep Iran from getting the Bomb and destroying Israel. You can be sure that’s Israel’s purpose. And, bless their hearts, the Israelis’ standard of proof on this particular issue remains somewhat higher than our own. They’re just not as goddamned certain as Joe Biden is, but what are you going to do?

We don’t want World War III. Therefore, we will see to it that there are serious consequences if the Iranians don’t stop enriching uranium for their so-called civilian energy sector. They are doing that, regardless of how high the “confidence” is that they’ve stopped it with respect to weapons. 

The President and Mr. Cheney misspoke? Not to this, they didn’t.

At the bottom of these controversies over our intelligence assessments of Iran lies a single fact: none of them matters. Right or wrong, yes or no, the inevitability of conflict with Iran was begun when the nauseating Jimmy Carter allowed them to humiliate us in 1979. That debt has never been paid. It is right that we should plant our foot in Iran —like some colossal Alexander of infidel proportions.

The Dinnerjacket and his fellow revolutionaries will surely live long enough to see their movement come to be reviled and discarded by their own children and grandchildren. Then a fine market will Persia make!

If you’re thinking about the war to come, be sure to read this very interesting analysis of what’s happening in Syria and Iran right now. Jack Wheeler writes about the Israelis’ air strikes on Syria just a few weeks ago:

Since then, it’s panic-squared in Tehran.  The mullahs are freaking out in fear.  Why?  Because of the silence in Syria. On September 6, Israeli Air Force F-15 and F-16s conducted a devastating attack on targets deep inside Syria near the city of Dayr az-Zawr.  Israel’s military censors have muzzled the Israeli media, enforcing an extraordinary silence about the identity of the targets.  Massive speculation in the world press has followed, such as Brett Stephens’ Osirak II? in yesterday’s (9/18) Wall St. Journal. Stephens and most everyone else have missed the real story.  It is not Israel’s silence that ’speaks volumes’ as he claims, but Syria’s.

Read the whole thing.

(Thanks to Glenn Reynolds.)

That wretched fuck Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to visit Ground Zero?

They’ll never permit such an obscenity, of course, but were they so thoughtless, I’d certainly hope that some patriotic American would make him a witness.

Right there where the end of Islam as we know it was begun.

Insh’allah.

It’s almost beyond belief, but there’s a report going around that

Dozens of Syrian military officers and Iranian engineers were killed about two months ago in an a chemical weapons accident, Jane’s Magazine reported Monday, revealing new details on the incident which took place in a secret weapons facility.

According to the report by the British magazine, the explosion occurred early in the morning on July 26, in a factory in the city of Halab, as the officers were attempting to mount a chemical warhead with mustard gas on a Scud-C missile.

A fire which started in the missile’s engine led to an explosion near a storage location of chemical substances. The blast spread lethal chemical agents, including mustard gas, VX gas and sarin nerve gas, which are considered extremely toxic and are banned for use according to international treaties.

If true, it will be necessary in the very near future for Nancy Pelosi’s friend to see his capital reduced to rubble.

It’s over, Assad. Know that, if this report is confirmed, it’s over for you. 

There’s a report in the Telegraph about some recent Israeli tourists venturing into Syria:

A US official has confirmed that Israeli warplanes carried out an air strike “deep inside” Syria, escalating tensions between the two countries.

The target of the strike last Thursday remained unclear but Israeli media reported that a shipment of Iranian arms crossing Syria for use by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon was attacked.

And these Democratic assholes in the Senate are fretting about what we might do to poor old Iran? But there really isn’t any choice. The Israelis know this, but idiots like Bernie Sanders? He turns his back on necessity.

Further on in the report we read:

Another theory gaining ground yesterday was that Israel was deliberately attacking the Russian-made Pantsyr air defence system recently bought by Damascus. The sale includes provision for the Pantsyr system to be shipped on to Iran and it is possible the Israeli attack was co-ordinated with America to probe the effectiveness of the system. It is believed that Iran would use the Pantsyr system to defend its nuclear facilities.

Sounds good to me. Once again exposing the inferiority of Russian military technology in the Middle East while reminding the floor-kissers in Iran that they’ll get the same when the time is right? Rock on.

The Moon will save the human race—

Were loonies beaten off their path—

The unthrown stone remains in place—

Through orbitary aftermath.

A blast unguarded —global fire—

Here’s thirty pieces, you fucking liars—

Now go and reckon what you did

When you did nothing but blame the Yid.

I have never heard Roger L. Simon sound this pessimistic:

I tried Zen for a while, but I didn’t have the discipline. And being inside synagogues and churches doesn’t fill me with awe the way it does others (though I admire the architecture). Being inside a mosque, of course, fills me with the desire to watch my back. But if I were a believer, I’d be thanking God right now I wasn’t born in Gaza, because I think the Palestinians there are about ready to experience a Hell the likes of which even they have never dreamed about. Because Hamas, being basically a psychopathic organization, will be unable to control themselves if they win, especially since they will be the lackeys of their overlords in Tehran. This means they will overreach quickly. This time, I am relatively certain, the Israeli response will be swift and in no way measured, as it was in Lebanon. And no one will make much of an attempt to stop them because almost no one cares much for the Gazans anymore.

Always remember this: when the Car Swarm People were free to choose their own leaders and enjoy the first steps towards sovereignty, they elected a bunch of goddamned Nazis who are at this very moment destroying Gaza.

Oh, and note this well: consider what little attention this [civil war] is getting now and know how much more “interested” the world media will become once the perfidious Jews begin their inevitable response to the dangers now mounting against them. The hypocrisy already sickens me.

Here’s how the New York Times reports today’s developments in the case against the miserable anti-Semite Jimmy Carter (emphases mine):

ATLANTA, Jan. 11 — Fourteen of the city’s business and civic leaders resigned from the Carter Center’s advisory board on Thursday to protest former President Jimmy Carter’s recent criticisms of Israel and American Jewish political power.

Their joint letter of resignation denounced Mr. Carter’s best-selling book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” for its criticisms of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. The letter also took issue with comments Mr. Carter has made suggesting that Israel’s supporters in the United States are using their power to stifle debate on the issue.

“It seems you have turned to a world of advocacy, even malicious advocacy,” the letter said. “We can no longer endorse your strident and uncompromising position. This is not the Carter Center or the Jimmy Carter we came to respect and support.”

The 14 who resigned were members of the center’s board of councilors, a group of more than 200 local leaders who act as ambassadors and fund-raisers for the center but do not determine its policy or direct its operations.

Among the letter signers were Michael Coles, the chief executive of the Caribou Coffee Company; William B. Schwartz Jr., the ambassador to the Bahamas during Mr. Carter’s presidency; Liane Levetan, a former chief executive of DeKalb County, Ga.; and S. Stephen Selig III, who served as national finance chairman for the Carter-Mondale Presidential Committee.

Yeah, but just look at those names. What do you want they should do?

While waiting for a movie to start a few doors down this afternoon, I went into a Borders bookstore and straight over to a copy of Jimmy Carter’s latest pro-Palestinian excretions, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.

I was interested in looking over the chronology that comes at the beginning of the book because I had read that it is as manipulative and dishonest as the author himself.

You may be certain of that.

After a couple of minutes poring over those few pages, it was clear that Carter’s chronology is so rife with gaps and decontextualized “facts” as to be worse than worthless. After all, one cannot seriously compile a chronology of the history of the Middle East or of the relationship between Jews and Muslims or of any other similarly ancient and complex story in the space of fewer than a dozen generously-spaced pages —so why would one even attempt it?

Maybe it’s to fool the kind of shitforbrains partisans that would actually spend money on his garbage into thinking that the book they’re reading is actually a work of scholarship or historical explication.

It is not. It is a work of propaganda to be praised by and shared among the like-minded.

Jimmy Carter is a wretched anti-Semite. The only reason why he is not more widely regarded as such is because he enjoys the protections of the Leftist press in this country who routinely bury the cat turds of his wisdom lest they be more fully sniffed out by the American People.