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Yesterday was the 13th aniversary of the first WTC bombing in which 6 people died.  This is what was enscribed on the memorial in 1993: (HT Counterterrorism Blog )

On February 26, 1993, a bomb set by terrorists exploded
     below this site. This horrible act of violence killed innocent
     people, injured thousands, and made victims of us all.

Sadly, the memorial was destroyed on the 9/11 attack of the WTC. I believe a piece of the memorial was recovered. Here is a picture of the memorial:

With the UAE Port deal and some blogger’s responses, I read from the post by "Sigmund, Carl and Alfred," (here)  about how Bush’s 43 legacy will be seen:

George W, Bush did more
than speak of high ideals. George Bush proved that America was not self
serving or self absorbed. George Bush proved America and the American
ideals of freedom were adaptable to all.

Notwithstanding the
political climate and media bias, George Bush will be forever
remembered as the American president for whom democracy wasn’t just a
political system, but rather, it was and remains, an ideal. That is why
those who attack him are so frustrated at their failure to seriously
influence public opinion. They are attacking a man for whom ideals are
more important that ‘the system.’ We haven’t seen that kind of idealism
since FDR- who no doubt, would be passed over for the likes of Howard
Dean by crazed democrats.

Even if Iraq and Afghanistan both fail
as democracies, this time around, they will at some time, succeed in
the future- all because George Bush did the right thing for the right
reasons. He showed the Iraqis and the Afghanis that America believed in
them.

That will be the legacy of George W. Bush. The world will remember that America- not Mr Bush-  but America,
and what she stands for- and the coalition of the willing, believed
that highest of ideals are to be found even in the most oppressed of
men. There is nothing political partisans and the media can do to
change that.

Got to hand it to Sigmund, I love W because he believes in the Ideal of Freedom and Democracy and hasn’t sold out for Political means. I trust his decisions and he has always been right on. And I can’t understand why the left hates such a Man as President Bush! They let hate and temptation take over because they are not in power. Still, I thank God every day that W  is President. I shudder to think of AL GORE being president. Al Gore would not have gone to WTC and shout to the world we are going to get these terrorists who attacked us. Right on W! My NAVYFamily and I love YOU! And God Bless America!

Last night on Hannity and Combs Ret. General Tommy Franks said the Port of Dubai was secure enought fo rthe US NAVY ships. I argee that the UAE is one of our allies in the GWOT. I think this deal should go though. My knee remains un-jerked. (HT FOX News)

Officials counter that the U.S.-UAE alliance
goes far deeper than this port deal as part of ongoing reforms in the
intelligence services. DHS argued that the UAE gives U.S. and coalition
forces "unprecedented access" to its ports and territory, overflight
clearances and other logistical assistance. It also provides support
for U.S. Navy ships that dock in Jebel Ali and Fujairah, both in the
UAE and managed by DP World, and for the U.S. Air Force at Al Dhafra
Air Base in the UAE.

 
 

 

DHS
also submitted that the UAE has frozen accounts of suspected groups
linked to terrorists and has enacted aggressive anti-money laundering
and counter-terrorist financing laws. The country allows Customs and
Border Protection agents in its ports in Dubai, where they inspect
cargo departing for the United States.

 
 

 

Former
Central Command chief Tommy Franks told FOX News that not only is the
UAE a great ally in the War on Terror, but there are more American Navy
ships in Dubai’s port than any other in the world. He also said the
port is run in excellent fashion.

Ht from Ground State: A place were you can generate a "Progressive Truth" here:

I entered "Hugh Hewitt" and this is the generated message:

    Hugh Hewitt, you are a child-abusing
strict constructionist
because you do not have a subscription to The New Yorker magazine!

Here is my moneker "NavYWife" here:

    NavyWife, you are a cold-hearted
McCarthyist
because you doubt the fact that global warming is caused by American capitalism!

It’s true, I do doubt the fact that global warming is caused by American capitalism! (LOL)

Here’s Sean:

    Sean Hannity, you are a mean-spirited
entrepreneur
because you are not a minority!

And Karl Rove!

    Karl Rove, you are a war-mongering
oppressor
because you like Paul McCartney more than you like John Lennon!

And Lastly, my favorite is Rush’s:

Rush, you are an insensitive parasite
because you’ve been all over the world so you think you know more about
it than my Marxist prof who’s never been out of the state!

ROFL!

The  OC Register had a guest editorial by a CAIR’s Anaheim Shabiha Khan here:

Muslims strongly believe that
this controversy is not an issue of free speech, but rather is about
concerns over hate speech and incitement.

 

So what do Muslims
want? Muslims are asking that the West realize that mocking Islam or
insulting religious beliefs should not be accepted in society as it is
rightfully unacceptable to make anti-Semitic remarks.

 

We must
remind ourselves that the Holocaust did not start with gas chambers, it
started with hate speech – including cartoons that dehumanized the
Jewish people. Thankfully, the world is not at that same point with
Muslims; however we cannot just sit idly by and wait for such a tragedy
to happen.

 

No doubt there always will be people throughout the
world spewing anti-Semitism or Islamophobia. However, the majority of
the civilized world can at least recognize hate against any group of
people as unacceptable. The right to live in dignity without fear of
dehumanization is a human right as well.

The reaction in today’s letter’s to the editor chime in on how I understand it: (here).

These cartoons initially appeared
in a Danish, non-Muslim newspaper - they weren’t air-dropped over
Mecca. Virtually no one would know they had existed if radical Muslim
leaders hadn’t used them, months later, to inflame their excitable
followers. The only "hate" generated by these cartoons has come from
radical Muslims who seek to intimidate the West through fear.

CAIR failed to say that the Radical Danish Imam traveled around to inflame the Muslim world with fake cartoons. (HT James D. Hudnall ). The Danish cartoons were not as bad as what the fake ones were. In fact, the fake ones were just badly done Photoshop pictures.

If there’s one thing blogs are great for, it’s spreading information
freely. But once again, it makes it sound like the blame rests on the
heads of these Danish cartoonists, when the truth is, these cartoons
failed to anger Muslims until The Islamic Society of Denmark added
three false cartoons into the mix. In fact, two of the three aren’t
even cartoons, but obvious photocopies of bad photoshop jobs.

So I propose we never fail to mention the three false cartoons
when discussing this subject and quit making it sound like it’s all the
fault of the 12 Danish cartoonists. If anyone deserves the blame for
this mess, it’s the Islamic Society of Denmark. They’re the ones who toured the Middle East with these drawings, with the claim that the west was mocking their prophet.

It takes  some of those  first responders to comment on Al Gore’s comments in Jedda last week (from CNS news) here.

In
a statement, the National Association of Chiefs of Police accused Gore
of having "crossed the line of diplomatic decency by denigrating his
own country within the Islamic world."

It said if he had evidence of "terrible abuses" he should put it before the Department of Justice or Congress.

The
body also called the comments "shrill," "loathsome" and "ugly," and
said they should be condemned by Republicans, Democrats and
Independents alike.

"What possesses a former vice president of
the U.S. to travel to the birthplace of Islamist terrorism and denounce
his country?" asked the website Investors.com in an editorial.

"Unhinged
by the 2000 electoral debacle, he has forgotten the meaning of ‘loyal
opposition,’" it concluded. "Now his only entitlement is disgrace."

I enjoy reading Victor Hansen’s articles (here) . Reading history teaches us about our past and it does relate to our current crisis. History does repeat itself…..

But deja vu pertains not just to us
but our enemies as well. Like the Nazi romance of an exalted ancient
Volk, the Islamists hearken back to a mythical purity, free of
decadence brought on by Western liberalism.

Similarly, they
feed off victimization–not just recent defeats, but centuries-old
bitterness at the rise of the West. Their version of the
stab-in-the-back Versailles Treaty is always the creation of Israel.

Just as Hitler concocted incidents such as the burning of the Reichstag
to create outrage, Islamist leaders incite frenzy in their followers
over a supposed flushed Koran at Guantanamo and inflammatory cartoons.

Anti-Semitism, of course, is the mother’s milk of fascism. It is
always, they say, a small group of Jews–whether shadowy Cabinet
advisers and international bankers of the 1930s or the manipulative
neoconservatives and Israeli leadership of the present–who alone stir
up the trouble.

The point of the comparison is not to suggest
that history simply repeats itself, but to learn why intelligent people
delude themselves into embracing naive policies. After the removal of
the Taliban and Hussein, the furious reply of the radical Islamist
world was to censor Western newspapers, along with Iran’s accelerated
efforts to get the bomb.

Gregory apologizes (HT Hugh Hewitt  here.) 

This is nonsense. If you believe an accidental shooting by Vice
President Al Gore would not be met with the same press scrutiny, I
think you are not being honest with yourself. Have you Googled
transcripts from the Clinton administration at the height of the
Lewinsky scandal? The pursuit of information at the White House is
often tense. We push hard for it. Maybe you think we pushed too hard in
this case. Maybe you think there was no grave harm in waiting to learn
the facts of this incident for a few days.

While the DC press core was moaning and groaning on VP Cheney’s shooting accident the former VP Al Gore talks at Jeddia and trashes America. Real good job Mr. Gregory. You really showed your best side–YOUR REAR END!

Actor Richard Dreyfuss spoke out about Impeaching President Bush today at the National Press Club in Wash. DC today. I just love it when he rips into Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly….

The
actor saved his harshest tone for those who accuse critics of the
government and its officials of having a more serious motive.

"Watch
me lose my sense of humor if people accuse me of treason," Dreyfuss
said before mocking two of the Fox News Channel’s most popular hosts.
"’That’s not very O’Reilly of you, Mister Smarty-Pants,’ or ‘What would
Sean Hannity have to say about that, Mister
Too-Complex-for-Your-Own-Good?’" See Video

However,
"none of this happened because of any conspiracy," he stated. "This
happened because we have not paid attention to the new rules of the
electronic media."

To restore true American values, the actor
called for children to be taught "the tools of debate and dissent," as
well as a return to the principle of civility, which he called "the
oxygen that democracies require else they become poisoned and die, as
this democracy will."

The problem with Mr. Dreyfuss is he will not go on the air and debate directlly with either Sean Hannity or Bill O’Really. He is too chicken to do it. And he wants true American Values to be restored. I just laugh in his face.

One of Our looney lefties at the Huffington Post , Alec Baldwin (here ) thinks Mr. Cheney is a terrorist:

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent
citizens here at home indiscriminately. Who ever thought Harry
Whittington would be the answer to America’s prayers. Finally, someone
who might get that lying, thieving Cheney into a courtroom to answer
some direct questions.

I don’t think Mr. Whittington is going to sue the VP anytime soon. Today Mr. Whittignton praised the VP in his press statement. Alec, why didn’t you move out of the country when Bush won  like you said you would? Creep.