Democrats dare not to speak of Islamic Jihad

An excellent report documenting the Democrat cowards who have gone soft and refuse to mention the Muslim enemy by its name. Excerpted from Investors Business Daily via JihadWatch:

If the New Hampshire debates settled anything, it's which party has the stomach to take on radical Islam. The Democrats couldn't even identify the enemy. Not once. Really.

We scanned the transcripts of Saturday's debates hosted by ABC News and tallied up the references to Islamic terrorism. The rhetorical divide between Democrats and Republicans on that score alone — ignoring the yawning gaps in policy — is stunning.

None of the four Democrat presidential candidates — despite running for an office that demands they lead the ongoing global war against Islamic extremists — could bring himself or herself to define the enemy we face as Islamic.

Their combined references to "Islam" or "Islamic" totaled zero — even though moderator Charles Gibson prompted them with a question about "Islamic radicals" threatening the U.S. with nuclear terrorism.

But Democrats refused to go there. Out of respect for their constituency, there was a complete blackout regarding Islamic jihad.

Instead, Hillary Clinton defined the enemy generically as "stateless terrorists," while Barack Hussein Obama complained about the "politics of fear" that he thinks accurately defining the enemy has created.

Republicans, on the other hand, called the enemy by its proper name.

The candidates referred to terrorists and terrorism as "Islamic," while also citing radical "Islam" as the problem, no less than 22 times. For example:

• Rudy Giuliani argued the U.S. must stay "on offense against Islamic terrorism."

• Mike Huckabee said the source of the threat we face is from the "radical Islamic faith." "This is an Islamic problem," he said. "This is a jihadist problem. This is an Islamofascism problem."

Huckabee elaborated: "They are prompted by the fact that they must establish a worldwide caliphate that has nothing to do with us other than we live and breathe, and their intention is to destroy us."

• John McCain warned that "the transcendent challenge of the 21st century is radical Islamic extremists."

• Mitt Romney said the "philosophy of radical jihadism says, 'We want to kill.' "

• Fred Thompson asserted, "We are in a global war with radical Islam. They declared war on us a long, long time ago. We took note, really, for the first time on Sept. 11, 2001."

Hillary takes cash from terror suspects

The post-menopausal menace is up to her usual dirty tricks. From WND:

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has taken thousands of dollars in cash donations from Islamists under federal investigation for terror-financing, money laundering and tax fraud, WND has learned.

The Democrat senator over the past seven months has received $1,000 from M. Yaqub Mirza and another $500 from M. Omar Ashraf, federal campaign records show. Federal agents raided the Virginia homes and offices of the Muslim donors after 9/11 for ties to terrorism.

Others tied to the still-active probe also have contributed money to Clinton, including one Muslim man who after 9/11 complained the U.S. government should focus on changing its Mideast policies instead of killing Osama bin Laden and other Islamic terrorists.

Mirza, who also has given to other candidates, including Republicans, is said to act on behalf of Saudi millionaire Yassin al-Qadi, who the U.S. Treasury Department in October 2001 blacklisted as an al-Qaida financier.

Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST)

The Law of the Sea Treaty, which goes by the wonderful acronym LOST, operates under the assumption that any minerals in the ocean floor constitute the "common heritage" of all mankind -- and therefore cannot be the property of any one individual, company, or nation.

This treaty is an affront to American national sovereignty. It would give the United Nations authority over much of the world's oceans, including the power to regulate and tax deep-sea mining, and redistribute the proceeds to Third World governments. Moreover, its "hortatory language" provisions are a loaded weapon that activist trial lawyers could easily wield to force the U.S. to adopt laws that the American people's elected representatives otherwise would not.

This morning, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 17-4 to send the Law of the Sea Treaty to the Senate floor for ratification. The result was expected — though still disappointing — so now the real fight begins. The vote count was as follows:

Yes votes

Joseph Biden (D-Del.)
Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.)
John Kerry (D-Mass.)
Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.)
Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)
Barack Obama (D-Ill.)
Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)
Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.)
Robert Casey (D-Pa.)
Jim Webb (D-Va.)
Richard Lugar (R-Ind.)
Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.)
Bob Corker (R-Tenn.)
John Sununu (R-N.H.)
George Voinovich (R-OH)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)

No votes

Norm Coleman (R-Minn.)
Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.)
David Vitter (R-La.)
Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)

CEI Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell said:

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote in favor of ratifying the Law of the Sea Treaty is disappointing, but grassroots opposition is still building against the treaty. The strong statements against LOST in recent days by Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, and Mike Huckabee are an indication that their campaigns have already felt this movement against the treaty. The opposition of the Senate’s Republican leadership is another good indication. If Majority Leader Harry Reid brings LOST to the floor for a vote, it is going to be a real fight.

For more on LOST, see CEI's Law of the Sea Treaty resource page.

Hillary Clinton is a cunning, disreputable, and disrespectful shrew

The post-menopausal menace, who wants to be president, shows her lack of respect for the Office of Presidency of the United States. From AP:

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Sunday blasted Hillary Rodham Clinton for talking about what she would do on the diplomatic front between her possible election and inauguration.

Clinton has told crowds she would send "distinguished Americans of both political parties to travel around the world on my behalf with a very simple message to the governments and the people alike: The era of cowboy diplomacy is over."

Giuliani, pointing to a story in Sunday's Des Moines Register about her statements, said such comments hurt the United States and undermine the balance of President Bush's term, which ends Jan. 20, 2009.

"I think that it's important that we conduct this debate in a way that we don't interfere with the ability of the country to function in a proper way, between the now and (the election)," Giuliani said at the start of a town hall-style meeting in Peterborough.

Campaigning with his wife, Judith, the former New York mayor said Clinton should retract the statements and respect Bush's responsibility.

Anger and rage is the essence of the Moveon.org political group

The libtards at MoveOn.org are getting their panties in a bunch again. Now they're going after Giuliani because he righteously went after the detestable Hillary Clinton for assailing Iraq war commander Gen. David Petraeus' character. Then again, why should anyone be suprised at what anarchists and tatoo-ed slackers do, anyway?

George Soros funded MoveOn.org that created the ad which directly compared George W. Bush to Hitler and the U.S.'s policies with the Third Reich. George Soros loves to fund leftwing causes and groups. He supported the now convicted lawyer, Lynn Stewart, who aided Muslim terrorists. He also created the Open Society Policy Center, an organization that would obstruct U.S. law enforcement from prosecuting the "War on Extremism" and that would also direct illegal aliens into America's medical systems.

Somebody needs to give these leftwing rats some muzzles, but we live in America, and we can't muzzle the Hate-America crowd, although it would certainly be an event that I would enjoy witnessing, so we will always have to deal with the fundamentally diseased Democrat party. But there's a reason that the Democrat party, now almost completely composed of libtards, nihilists, feminists, and plenty of stupid Jews who keep forgetting that Roosevelt turned back hundreds of Jews escaping from the Holocaust to their certain death, is often referred to as the party of victims: angry feminists, angry blacks, and angry homosexuals are their coalition.

Moveon.org, like the Democrat party, is comprised of socialists, anarchists, nihilists, and sycophants who would never let the facts get in the way of an opportunity to bash Republicans or conservative thinkers. Thank God, for the rest of us, adults are still in charge of this country. Here's hoping that the little pukes at MoveOn.org will follow the lead, remove their nose rings and grow up one day.

Most of us don't reflexively blame our country for all that is wrong in the world, like the little brats at MoveOn.org do. How those lowlifes have been able to fly under the radar of behavior that years ago would have riled Americans, is mystifying. The only thing that reassures me about misanthropes like George Soros and the MoveOn.org community, is my belief in that what goes around comes around. It's just a matter of time before MoveOn.org will implode, or that George Soros will also.

In the meantime, I'll still be voting for Rudolph Giuliani, the man whom I personally witnessed clean up New York City of the slime trail left behind by the Democrat mayor, David Dinkins, and who valiantly led with strength and leadership this city in, through, and beyond the Muslim terror attacks of 9-11-01.

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Giuliani: Palestinian statehood will have to be earned, creating another terror state not in US interests

Giuliani for President, folks. He led us unfailingly in the aftermath of 9-11 and showed us, with his uncowering leadership, that we CAN survive after terror and we CAN fight terror and that we should fight terror and that we are righteous to fight terror. That's who I want to be my president. Not some Muslim named Barak Hussein Obama, and not some woman who has the ethics and hardness of a man, like Hillary Rotten Clinton. From JPost:

US Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said he opposes creation of a Palestinian state at this time and would take a tough stand with Iran, including destroying its nuclear infrastructure "should all else fail."

Outlining his foreign policy views in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, Giuliani said "too much emphasis" has been placed on brokering negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians - an apparent swipe at President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who have been pushing both sides for final status negotiations despite Hamas's takeover of Gaza in June.

In addition, US allies in the region such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan have been pressing the US to take a more active role in bringing about a settlement.

"It is not in the interest of the United States, at a time when it is being threatened by Islamist terrorists, to assist the creation of another state that will support terrorism," the former New York City mayor said.

"Palestinian statehood will have to be earned through sustained good governance, a clear commitment to fighting terrorism, and a willingness to live in peace with Israel," Giuliani said. "America's commitment to Israel's security is a permanent feature of our foreign policy."

Giuliani said in the article that he would not rule out negotiating with Iran, but such negotiations should proceed from "a position of strength."

"The theocrats ruling Iran need to understand that we can wield the stick as well as the carrot, by undermining popular support for their regime, damaging the Iranian economy, weakening Iran's military, and, should all else fail, destroying its nuclear infrastructure," Giuliani said.

Bush recently warned Iran of "consequences" if Iran is determined to be assisting the flow of explosive devices into Iraq.

Giuliani Vows to Stop Illegal Immigrants

From MyWayNews:

Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani vowed Tuesday to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States by closely tracking visitors to the country and beefing up border security.

"We can end illegal immigration. I promise you, we can end illegal immigration," the former New York mayor said at a community center - the first of the day's two stops in this early voting state.

Giuliani said he would require a uniform identification card for foreign workers and students and create a central database to track the legal status of visitors to the country. He told the crowd of more than 300 that 12 million immigrants have entered the country illegally.

"That's a lot of people to walk over your border without being identified," he said.

Giuliani wants a tamperproof ID card that includes fingerprinting for everyone entering the country and a central database to track when they leave.

Giuliani Stacks Campaign Staff With a Who's Who Of Mideast Hawks

From The Forward:

As the roster of Republican presidential hopefuls grapples with the seeming implosion of one-time front-runner John McCain's candidacy, Rudolph Giuliani is taking steps to claim his place as the field's leading hawk. The former New York City mayor announced last week that he had assembled a team of foreign policy advisers featuring several prominent neoconservatives, including one of the movement's founders, Norman Podhoretz. In addition to being an unwavering supporter of the war against Iraq, Podhoretz, a former editor of Commentary magazine, has grabbed headlines in recent months as one of most vocal proponents of American military action against Iran.

The eight-member advisory panel also includes several figures with experience in Israeli affairs. Giuliani's chief foreign policy adviser, Charles Hill, served as a top aide to Secretary of State George Shultz in the Reagan administration and once served as political counselor to the American Embassy in Tel Aviv. The team also includes Martin Kramer, who is an expert on Islam at Harvard University and a fellow with both the pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Jerusalem-based Shalem Center.

These selections show Giuliani is "very serious about his approach to ensuring the security and safety of Israel," said Ben Chouake, head of the pro-Israel political action committee Norpac.

The July 10 announcement of Giuliani's foreign policy team comes amid a period of uncertainty for the Republican presidential field. In recent weeks, Arizona Senator John McCain has seen an exodus of staff in the wake of disappointing second-quarter fundraising, while the buzz surrounding a near-certain bid by former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson continues to build.

Both McCain and Giuliani have turned to Republican heavy-hitters for foreign policy advice. While McCain does not have an official team, he has said publicly that he consults with Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft, Robert Kagan, George Schultz, Lawrence Eagleburger, William Kristol and Robert Zoellick.

In recent months, Podhoretz has written and spoken out forcefully against the Iranian regime, and argued that ultimately, military confrontation will prove necessary.

"I believe," Podhoretz told the Israeli broadcasting authority May 21, "contrary to what many people assume, that [Bush] will [attack Iran] before he leaves office."

He added, "I think he agrees with the analysis that I offer that there is no alternative to military action."

The Giuliani campaign did not respond to an inquiry from the Forward about whether the former mayor believes that military action against Tehran is necessary.

Giuliani is hanging on as the leading candidate among Republicans nationwide, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released this week. He has the support of 21% to Fred Thompson's 19%. Another AP poll showed one of Giuliani's main Republican rivals, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, leading the Republican field in New Hampshire, with 27% of the vote to Giuliani's 20%.

As the socially moderate former mayor works to cement his bona fides as a foreign policy hawk, some of Giuliani's Republican opponents say his choice of advisers could provide more ballast than boost.

One Republican operative who is not yet committed to a candidate said he viewed Giuliani's advisers as "red-meat types" chosen to camouflage what he perceives as the former mayor's foreign policy vulnerabilities, including a lack of firsthand experience and the fact that he left the Iraq Study Group, a ten-person bipartisan panel appointed by Congress to assess the situation in Iraq. Giuliani resigned citing previous scheduling commitments, but later said he did not believe an active presidential candidate should take part in an apolitical panel.

"They are extraordinarily capable people — that's the upside," said Washington attorney Mark Lezell, who is backing Thompson. "The concern with that particular team is that they have been at the forefront of policies that have yet to succeed and could well qualify as political baggage."

While praising Giuliani's foreign advisers as a "very impressive" group whose service would be most welcome in the Thompson campaign, Lezell stressed that Thompson is focused not on a wholesale re-imagining of the Middle East, as the neoconservatives were, but on an approach to the region "designed with implementation in mind."

Romney too has indicated he plans to consider a variety of viewpoints.

"We need new thinking on foreign policy and an overarching strategy that can unite the United States and its allies — not around a particular political camp or foreign policy school, but around a shared understanding of how to meet a new generation of challenges," Romney wrote in an article that appears in the July/August issue of the journal Foreign Affairs. In 2005, Romney's policy director, former Minnesota representative Vin Weber, co-authored a bipartisan report on the Middle East with former secretary of state Madeleine Albright for the Council on Foreign Relations.

One Giuliani supporter said the mayor's choices were not going to translate into potential vulnerabilities. Jason Epstein, a policy consultant backing Giuliani, said he viewed the selections as very consistent with Giuliani's longstanding activism on foreign policy, and cautioned against lumping together all neoconservatives.

Epstein cited Martin Kramer's June address at the Prague Conference on Democracy and Security — in which Kramer disagreed with the administration' s push for democratization in the Middle East — as evidence of the diversity that exists even within the neoconservative camp.

"Even if you accept the premise that neoconservativism is not currently in vogue, many individual neoconservatives are still relevant," Epstein said.

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Giuliani Slams Bill Clinton on Terrorism

Under Clinton-Gore, two US embassies and the USS Cole were bombed. Clinton had three chances to get Osama bin Laden and refused to do so. Bill Clinton still must answer to the families of 9/11 and to the rest of us in the United States. From AP:

"Islamic terrorists killed more than 500 Americans before Sept. 11. Many people think the first attack on America was on Sept. 11, 2001. It was not. It was in 1993," said the former New York mayor.

Giuliani argued that Clinton treated the World Trade Center bombing as a criminal act instead of a terrorist attack, calling it "a big mistake" that emboldened other strikes on the Khobar Towers housing complex in Saudi Arabia, in Kenya and Tanzania and later on the USS Cole while docked in Yemen in 2000.

The United States government, then President Clinton, did not respond," Giuliani said. "(Osama) bin Laden declared war on us. We didn't hear it."

In hindsight, Giuliani said, maybe it's all clearer now, "but now is now, and there is no reason to go back into denial, and that is essentially what the Democratic candidates for president want to do: they want to go back, to put the country in reverse to the 1990s.