Posted on 08/11/2006 9:29:08 AM PDT by presidio9
STRANGE and unfamiliar sound emanated from Hollywood yesterday - total silence. It now looks as if the 9/11 attacks were just meant to be a tepid dress rehearsal for the big show. The atrocities that were narrowly averted yesterday - planes bound for our shores, to be blown up in midair by men who hate - prove one thing beyond doubt:
If we care to watch our children grow up, get old enough to retire to Florida, or simply live to see another dawn, we must be vigilant. We cannot relax.
The bullet we dodged whizzed by frighteningly close. That the thousands, perhaps more, that were targeted for death are alive today is testament to the success of governments in Britain and the United States. The ones so viciously maligned by the lefty set who, if allowed to dictate policy, would destroy this nation in a matter of hours.
So it was stunning not to hear the nasal voice of Barbra Streisand, slamming the president in a time of war. Just this past January, Babs was in her usual form in her incoherent blog. She wrote:
"Is this the America we have been fighting for? The Bush administration has failed once more in their [sic] mission to make American safer.
"There is an increasing anti-American sentiment in the Middle East."
John Murtha of Pennsylvania, the House's chief voice of enemy-appeasement - he's called for an unconditional cease-fire in Lebanon and said U.S. Marines "killed innocent civilians in cold blood" in Haditha - was also not in a talkative mood.
Nor was Susan Sarandon, who declared, at a peace rally in Washington after the war in Iraq commenced, that "terrorism cannot be fought with violence."
Damn, Susan. How would you fight it?
We have been reminded in
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Boycott movies.
i don't know. Oliver Stone's been pretty noisy (and rich) lately. Now that he's done the world trade center, he is contemplating doing the "real" version.
Probably sorry the 8/16 plot was foiled so he couldn't do a feel good version of that.
Yes, they do. Can you imagine a Muslim terrorist getting on a plane and spying Barbra Streisand as another passenger. He would probably think "Boy, oh Boy - I'm going to get 172 virgins for this!" These days I'm so not understanding liberal Jews.
Well old Sarah Bernhardt has already said they are never taking her MAC makeup away (news for you dear, your makeup is a loss already)
And another ... ping.
Frankly, I think this was all a plot to promote Oliver Stone's new movie . . .
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Oh goody! Let's urge that Hollywood have a Rachel Corrie Pancake Breakfast for all the human shields.
" .... all of this could have been averted if Bush & Company hadn't taken us to war in Afghanistan and Iraq"
you left out "after Bush & Co. stole the 2000 election."
The Hollywood leftards may be silent, but some newspapers' editoral staffs don't know when to sit down and STFU:
http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/wb/wb/xp-77687
Law Enforcement Wins a Round Against Terror
Thousands live today thanks to British policing. Americans should be thankful and recognize the broader lessons for fighting terrorists.
On Thursday, British authorities announced they had arrested 24 people allegedly plotting to detonate explosives on flights from London to America. Whenever law enforcement wins against terrorists, it is cause to cheer, but Americans should not ignore the truths that this success reinforces.
Unlike recent arrests in the United States that featured small cabals fantasizing around a kitchen table, the British arrests appear to be the real deal. Officials say conspirators were within days of smuggling liquid explosive aboard multiple planes.
The death count would easily have reached the thousands, including many Americans.
Fortunately, Scotland Yard was on the ball. It identified and investigated the threat. Then police arrested the suspects.
President Bush responded to events across the Atlantic by falling back on simplistic rhetoric: "This nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation."
The arrests had nothing to do with war. No military troops met on a battlefield. British police and other law enforcement cooperated with intelligence agencies to prevent a terrorist attack.
What Bush calls a "war" is so only in the sense that the "war on drugs" is one too. It is a metaphor for a fight against a perceived enemy that is not a typical armed state. Real war is something else.
That does not stop the Bush administration from demanding literal interpretation. The nomenclature grants cover for its unprecedented executive power grab.
It needs such cover even more after the British cracked a terrorism case without detaining prisoners indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay, condoning torture and otherwise eviscerating the rule of law.
The arrests also undermine the argument that the United States invaded Iraq to fight terrorists over there instead of here. Terrorists fight alongside insurgents in Iraq and continue to threaten the West.
Those who portray Iraq as the linchpin of the fight against terrorism willfully frame a misbegotten invasion as something it is not.
The world remains a dangerous place, but this week, the British demonstrated that staving off terrorists is not a hopeless cause. A rational strategy brings to bear the forces of law enforcement that have long stood as a bulwark against chaos.
Misdirection and propaganda have no place in that fight.
NOt sure. Her name just popped into my head as a moonbat. Maybe I am thinking of some other nitwit.
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