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Senators Question Posting of Iraqi Nuclear Papers

It sure took them long enough. The papers have been posted for over six months. And a review had already been started. This sounds like a bit of grandstanding on the part of Reid, Levin, Biden and Rockefeller.

Four Democratic senators demanded yesterday that the Bush administration explain its decision to post documents from Saddam Hussein's covert nuclear program on a now-shuttered federal Web site.

The lawmakers told President Bush's director of national intelligence, John D. Negroponte, that it was "shocking that sensitive documents directly related to the design of a nuclear weapon were made public by the executive branch."

Yes indeed, it's shocking - shocking that the administration would post evidence that shows that these lawmakers were wrong all along. It's shocking - shocking that the proof has been sitting there for months.

The documents, mostly in Arabic, had been posted since March on a Web site administered by the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency and called the Operation Iraqi Freedom Document Portal.

Administration officials say the site was a repository for millions of pages that the U.S. government found in Iraq in the past 15 years.

Source: Senators Question Posting of Iraqi Nuclear Papers - washingtonpost.com

Harry Reid has been pushing the no WMD's line at the administration for years now. The Democratic party still has posts up on it's website that push the "Bush Lied" mantra. U.N. Weapons Inspectors have been saying that Iraq had no credible WMD programs for a couple of years now.

Meanwhile, the proof that Saddam had active WMD programs was sitting on the web for the last six months quietly waiting for someone to notice. On Friday the New York Times posted an article, and complained about the nuclear documents. In the same article we learned that U.N. Weapons inspectors were "alarmed" that documents describing nerve agents like tabun and sarin was posted on the site.

Can somebody please explain to me why all the alarm and outrage? Everybody knows Saddam didn't have WMD's! The Democrats have told us so for three years. The U.N. has told us so for three years. The New York Times has told us so for three years. Those documents can't be real can they?

Of course they can. And now, it's time for U.N. Chemical Weapons inspectors, Harry Reid, Carl Levin, Joe Biden, John D. Rockefeller IV, The New York Times and the radical left to eat a little crow. Of course they don't like the taste, so they're shocked, yes shocked that the proof of their own mendacity turns up in public view.

Bush Lied - People Died (No, He Didn't).

Did Liberals Lie About Weapons of Mass Destruction?

As the war in Iraq becomes increasingly unpopular with Americans, Democrats in collusion with the liberal mainstream media, continue to politicize the war by blatantly distorting the facts.

You know, little facts like before the 2000 election most of them were raising the alarm about Saddam and his WMD programs? After we went into Iraq, the mantra of the left became "Bush Lied - People Died". A popular bumper sticker here on the left coast reminds us that when Clinton lied, nobody died (although an aspirin factory might have blown up).

The dictionary (dictionary .com) defines the word Lie thus:

lie1  /laɪ/ [lahy] noun, verb, lied, ly‧ing.

–noun

1.
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.

Somehow I think that characterizes the statements made by the left about the motivations for the war a lot more than it does those of our President. I think the key point is the bit about "deliberate intent to deceive". Either the liberal leadership was lying before 2000, or they've been lying ever since we went to war in Iraq. Basil's got quotes.

Steve Harrigan gets waterboarded on Fox

We've heard a lot about waterboarding from a lot of people. The technique has been described to us over and over again, but nothing really brings it home quite like video. Steve Harrigan volunteered to see what it was like.

Hot Air has the video. Pretty instructive.

This seems pretty tame compared to my own preconceived notions of what torture is, which is based on having toured a few places and seeing medieval instruments of torture. It also seems pretty effective.

Amendment 2 Researcher a Fraud?

A couple of weeks ago we were all hearing about how important stem cell research was to people with various diseases, until we were distracted from real issues by John Kerry... Gateway Pundit found this for us all.

An investigation is looking into the reliability of life science research conducted by a team led by the University of Missouri-Columbia's recognized expert in reproductive biology, the Columbia Tribune reported.
The team was led by R. Michael Roberts. Rob Hall, research integrity officer for the university, confirmed the inquiry into findings reported in Science magazine in February. The magazine issued an alert last week advising scientists that the research "may not be reliable."
The only other alert issued in Science was related to the work of South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang, (Woo claimed to have cloned the first human embryos and to have extracted stem cells from them)who later admitted he fabricated research into embryonic stem cell research and cloning.

I wonder what Michael J. Fox would have to say about the fact that one of the biggest supporters of Amendment 2 in Missouri may be wanting to milk money from the people of Missouri through fraudulent research?

Swan in Love

Swan in Love

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She’s big, she’s blond, she’s heavy-duty plastic. What’s not to love?

A swan who fell in love with a swan-shaped paddle boat has been moved to a zoo with his plastic lover.

Biologists in Muenster, north-western Germany, say the rare Black Australian Swan has been showing all the typical signs of love for its species, circling its plastic lover, staring endlessly at it and making crooning noises.

The swan now refuses to fly south for winter without his mate.

I wonder if "Black Peter" as the swan is called watches Sesame Street on PBS? This was just too cool to ignore.

Dear John and Nancy,

The Bullwinkle Blog has a lovely musical message for John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi. I couldn't agree more.

Hit the Road Jack!

Thank God and Greyhound You're Gone. 

Trackbacks Implemented

I didn't do much blogging this evening. I was busy implementing and testing trackbacks. At the bottom of each post there will be a link with the text "Trackback URL". If you right click and copy the link you can paste it into your pingback software to send me a trackback ping. Trackbacks will be listed at the bottom of each post.

I've also implemented the RDF discovery mechanism for the trackback ping. If your posting software can perform the automated discovery you shouldn't even need to copy the link, at least if you're on the page where you view individual posts.

I'm still using the Haloscan service for comments, and it looks like I will for a while yet. I'm going to work on the category filter, archives and post navigation before I come back to working on comments.