Video Killed The Radio Star

"Butcher of Washington, you are not only defeated and a liar, but also a failure. You are a curse on your own nation and you have brought and will bring them only catastrophes and tragedies...the whole world has discovered the extent of America's lies and failures and the extent of its savagery in fighting Islam and Muslims...I tell you that Bush and his gang are shedding your blood and wasting your money in frustrated adventures..."

Soros? Chomsky? Pinter? Sheehan? Dean? Daily Kos? MoveOn.org? Code Pink? Nope, these excerpts are from a videotape released by a man named Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second in command; I will leave you to divine any similarities between the excerpt above and the statements routinely uttered by the people and organizations I listed.

Some quick observations on this latest videotape. First, notice his self-righteous indignation over the fact that what he describes as "innocents" were killed in the Pakistan strike; this coming from the man who helps lead a death cult that glories in the killing of civilians.

Notice his direct address of the American and British people and his encouragement of them to blame Bush and Blair for the deaths of soldiers in Iraq. Zawahiri understands thoroughly how important the American and British people's resolve is in this fight, and he is trying to undermine it.

Finally, he takes comfort in the fact that the U.S. appears to be moving out of Iraq and Afghanistan and points to that as a clear sign that al-Qaeda is winning the war (I wonder if Congressman Murtha has watched the newest videotape?)

There are some other interesting things about this videotape, and I encourage you to read the entire article and draw your own conclusions of its importance.

--Josh

Google Supports Gulags

Google is now officially helping a communist regime maintain control and actively persecute its dissidents. The regime is, of course, China's, and apparently Google has no problem in prostituting itself to totalitarianism in order to gain access to billions of Chinese consumers. One facet of Google's complicity is their agreement to censor search results (note the Google hack's characterization of the decision as "excruciating"...right). Compare the fruits of their labor:

Google image search-Tiananmen
Google image search in China-Tiananmen
(From Little Green Footballs)

Let's hope there's a severe backlash against Google for this disgusting behavior, although I doubt it.

--Josh

Just Like Solzhenitsyn

Yahoo! News AP photo (via Little Green Footballs) that describes Osama bin Laden as an "exiled Saudi dissent." I guess the good people at Yahoo! don't know how to spell "pathological mass murderer." Pathetic.

--Josh

Totalitarianism On The March

A brief recap of how radical muslims have been engaging the world recently: Palestinian children handing out candy in celebration at the news of Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's crippling stroke, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad publicly hoping for Sharon's death, a mother of three suicide bombers explaining how proud she is of them (she is also running for a political position under the Hamas party), the beheading of a high school teacher in Afghanistan, and at least 136 (mostly civilian) deaths in Iraq due to suicide bombings and roadside bombs.

This, of course, doesn't even begin to capture the daily horrors muslim hard-liners perpetrate against women, "infidels" and other minorities as a matter of routine in fundamentalist communities and countries. All of this is the work of our enemies with whom we are at war; this is the type of hate-filled ideology that these people want to impose upon the entire world, not just their corner of it. It would behoove those in power to remember that, and resolve themselves to persecute the war on terror fervently and without half-measures.

--Josh