Posted on 12/15/2006 8:01:29 AM PST by MNJohnnie
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Victor Davis Hanson: Talking to Iran is a mistake for strategic, moral reasons jewishworldreview.com ^ | December 14, 2006 | Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 12/14/2006 12:58:43 PM CST by Tolik
One of the many bizarre recommendations in the recently released report from the bipartisan Iraq Study Group is the call to talk with Iran. A formal dialogue with the present Iranian leadership is, for a number of reasons, as misguided as it is amoral.
Our guides in these scary times of facing aggressive dictatorships still should be Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, not the British prime minister Stanley Baldwin and Joe Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Britain, who leading up to 1939 thought good could come out of talking with the Nazis.
First, the Iranian leadership goes beyond the usual boilerplate anti-Israel, anti-Semitic claptrap of the region. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has serially denied the Holocaust while promising the absolute destruction of Israel. Various mullahs have characterized Israel as a "one-bomb state," implying a single Iranian nuclear bomb could destroy it. The vicious hatred is so institutionalized in Iran's state-run media that a science-fiction TV series there depicts the evil alien queen as Jewish.
Why should we give stature to and empower a theocracy that apes the hatred of the Third Reich? .....
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Judge Upholds Detainee Rights Terror Law Yahoo News ^ | 14-Dec-06 | MATT APUZZO
Posted on 12/14/2006 6:43:35 AM CST by Jay777
A federal judge upheld the Bush administration's new terrorism law Wednesday, agreeing that Guantanamo Bay detainees do not have the right to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. courts.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge James Robertson is the first to address the new Military Commissions Act and is a legal victory for the Bush administration at a time when it has been fending off criticism of the law from Democrats and libertarians.
Robertson rejected a legal challenge by Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden whose case prompted the Supreme Court to strike down the Bush administration's policy on detainees last year.
Following Hamdan's victory, Bush asked for and got a new law that established military commissions to try enemy combatants and stripped them of the right to seek their freedom in U.S. courts.
Hamdan's case was sent back before Robertson, a nominee of President Clinton who was a prominent civil rights advocate in private practice.
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Bush May Use Vetoes to Reclaim Republicans' Fiscal Reputation
Bush haters unite.
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Not yet! I'm listening to the podcast right now!
Yes, I'm not sure what's up with that.
I started getting Levin withdrawal the second I saw that last night was his last until the 27th...ugh
All of the talk show hosts seem to be taking next week off...
Are there that many substitutes out there?? Surely they won't all be playing "best ofs"...because I NEVER listen to old shows like that...ugh
Is Rush off next week?
Morning everybody. Today should be slow enough at work to get some posting in...And I PROMISE to stay away from the smokers thread today...what a waste of effort that was yesterday.
You're a smoking nazi? ;)
Work n' Lurk mode only.
Rice rejects overture to Iran, Syria
‘Compensation’ in any deal might be too high, she says
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday rejected a bipartisan panel's recommendation that the United States seek the help of Syria and Iran in Iraq, saying the "compensation" required by any deal might be too high. She argued that neither country should need incentives to foster stability in Iraq.
"If they have an interest in a stable Iraq, they will do it anyway," Rice said in a wide-ranging interview with Washington Post reporters and editors. She said she did not want to trade away Lebanese sovereignty to Syria or allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon as a price for peace in Iraq.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16213163/
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