Does the Left Know Who The Enemy Is?

“Does anyone wonder where the Tom Hayden-Jane Fonda SDS radicals went? The ones who chanted “Hey, hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today?” and cheered on the Communists in Vietnam, and went into the streets to demand America’s withdrawal from Vietnam and became suddenly silent when our troops were pulled and the Communists proceeded to slaughter two-and-a half million Cambodians and Vietnamese? Well today they are the heart and soul of the Democratic Party, calling for a capitulation in the war in Iraq and referring to George Bush as Hitler, or perhaps merely suggesting that his mentality is fascist, while insisting and that America’s war in Iraq is a mask for conquest and imperial goals.

These aging New Lefties are also busy digging graves for the Jews in the Middle East by pretending that the genocidal Muslims in the Palestinian territories are really victims and that they only express genocidal desires because they’re frustrated and reduced to desperation by American and Israeli power. The lefties I’m referring to are grouped around magazines like the Nation and the American Prospect and websites like Daily Kos and Common Dreams; their organizations are among the netroots and Democratic Party caucuses like the “Campaign for America’s Future,” which are mandatory stations on the road to the White House for the current crop of Democratic presidential candidates.”

Jenny Hatch

GUILTY

“We will probably never know if [José] Padilla was a would-be terrorist,” declared the New York Times in a March editorial. Five months on, the Times might consider issuing a retraction. In a ruling that powerfully bolsters the Bush administration’s prosecution of the war on terror, Padilla was yesterday convicted on terrorism-conspiracy charges in a Miami criminal trial.”

Jenny Hatch

Carl Rove is movin’ on. Happy Trails!

Rosett Report

“The UN loves to get prizes. Maybe someone should set up an annual award for the UN program that best lends itself to graft, kickbacks and catering to tyrants. In honor of that mother of all UN relief programs, it could be called the Oil-for-Food Award — a program which today yielded four guilty pleas in the New York Southern District. These were from Texas oilman David Chalmers, two companies he ran under the name of Bayoil, and a Bulgarian associate of Chalmers, who was resident in Texas, Ludmil Dionissiev.

There’s plenty more to say, especially with the trial of an alleged co-conspirator, oilman Oscar Wyatt, scheduled to begin next month. But let’s start by noting that the U.S. — except for the horrendous folly of hosting UN headquarters at Turtle Bay — was one of the minor players among the scores of UN member states in which the UN’s Oil-for-Food program became a vehicle for Saddam’s dirty deals. And in the U.S. alone, Oil-for-Food investigations by the Southern District have by now led to:

8 guilty pleas
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2 guilty verdicts
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2 agreements and forfeiture judgments
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9 pending cases”
Jenny Hatch