Good News Bad News
Shocking News! The hostage Brits had their fingers crossed when they “confessed.” They now choose to lie and say they were well inside Iraq all along. They claim the good and benevolent treatment bestowed upon them by the Islamic Republic of Iran included being “blindfolded, bound and threatened.” Ungrateful Crusader dogs!
That kind of news isn’t going to play well in Persia.
And it will be astonishing news if the leftie press deems it torture.
That’d be news: Hey Ajad, how about a little of that Easter/Mo’s birthday cheer over here!
News of another gift from Iran. Can someone get the big-print version to Tony Blair?
Next news, please. Bush admin determines Brit-release does not suggest Iranian sea-change. So what you gonna do about it?
Good news. The Brits were spying on Iran. More news like this. Next time don’t let them take you.
Dawn over Basra, as Tony Blair gets the news that Iran may be killing Brits. Two of them were women. Remember what Ahmadinejad said? Don’t send women on dangerous missions. Ahmadinejad’s your daddy, Tony. There’s a “sober and ugly reality.” What you gonna do about it?
News from Gall. Newspaper of surrender has concerns about Brits’ surrender.
Multilateralist news. It doesn’t work.
I’m so bummed, I’m thinking about (not) packing it in.
News of another release pending. So what’s the deal here?
Leftie news roundup. If it bleeds, it ledes!
Great news! you can grovel ”without ceding any control.” By being a stylish Dhimmi, Pelosi wears the pants in the Middle East. Uh … OK! Draping the contents of the linen closet over her head no doubt makes her a forceful voice for women’s rights where it counts! And speaking of respect, what’s with the WSJ dissing the wannabe presidency? Don’t they know know Pelosi occupies the false-but-true Oval Office?
Bad news for Pelosi: Guess who’s still president.
Troop support news. He said he was against supporting troops before he said there was never any suggestion he was against it. Harry Reid vs. vets at the VA. Quick vid at Gateway.
Not getting the news. Congress wants them out by March ‘08. Pentagon already drawing up plans through ‘09.
I wouldn’t exactly call this news. But some people are having a hard time adjusting the rabbit ears to receive it.
Impeachment news. Even Murtha doesn’t think that’s going to happen.
News Hour: Jim Lehrer doesn’t want to belabor the point, but to belabor the point, that unsupport for troops doesn’t bother the troops, does it?
JIM: “I don’t want to stay on this, you know, forever here, but I’m trying to get at the central point, is that, what is happening, both in the House and the Senate and elsewhere, is it hurting your effort? Is it hurting the effort of U.S. troops, as has been charged by the president and others, yes or no? That’s what I’m trying to get at.
GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS: And what I’ve been trying to get at, Jim, is to go around this minefield rather than stumbling into it, frankly.
Money quote from Petraeus: “It’s a pretty good time to be in Baghdad as opposed to Washington.” Blasted general goes on to detail progress.
Omar rounds up Iraqi news.
Hey, since when is a civil war good news in Iraq? Didn’t these people get the memo?
Maybe its because al Qaeda continues to murder Iraqis. You know, a little Muslim outrage over that would be news.
Old news. More discussion of what was known pre-2003. Not much discussion of unknown knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns pre-2003. Also lacking, projections of knowability and unknowability beyond 2003.
Epic news! The colossus is toppling! Get out of the way! The colossus looks sad in this picture!
You’d think it would be bigger news when an anti-war general says stay the course.
Blood for oil news. Our blood, their oil. Hey, I thought Chimpy Mchitlerburton was all over that!
It was big news when McCain went for a stroll in Baghdad. That couldn’t be allowed to stand. Reporters were forced to go strolling safely to prove how unsafe it was! Reuters, oddly finds merchants who agreed with McCain. Come on, team, let’s read those playbooks!
CNN’s non-heckling snark Michael Ware becomes the news. Bigger backstory: With murderous terrorists is Ware you’ll find him.
It’s exciting to find news that suits our views. Too bad false does not always mean not true, just like the lefties like to say!
Inconvenient news alert! Ancient Jewish city found under Palestinian suburb! Dig deeper, maybe they’ll find some Canaanites. The more things change, the more they stay the same in that place.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:38 pm Comments (21) on Friday, April 6, 2007
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April 6th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
You left out the big news of the week, Jules:
Bush negotiates with Iran for hostages, just like Carter:
“The quid pro quos were not terribly subtle. An Iranian “diplomat” who had been held for two months in Iraq is suddenly released. Equally suddenly, Iran is granted access to the five Iranian “consular officials” — Revolutionary Guards who had been training Shiite militias to kill Americans and others — whom the United States had arrested in Irbil in January. There may have been other concessions we will never hear about. But the salient point is that American action is what got this unstuck.”
– Charles Krauthammer
April 6th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
The statement by the sailors does little to excuse their behavior. In it they claim that fighting or running would have had “consequences” and “strategic impact”, where evidently ignominious surrender would not. Had they resisted, they say, some of their number might have died–and who am I, or anyone, to say different? With respect, however, isn’t that part of their job? What they did, I can say, shows them and their nation in a very poor light–and nothing could make me sadder than to say that.
Bloodthirsty Liberal
http://bloodthirstyliberal.com
April 6th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Bush and Blair sold out. With us or against us? It’s a load of crap. Iran got exactly what it wanted. Confirmation that a) their hostility will not be countered and b)the EU and UK will not fight despite the act of war committed against them. i would call that a succesful test balloon.
April 6th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Having read their statement, I can’t say the British tars have convinced me of the wisdom of their course of action. They claimed to have wanted to avoid “consequences” with “strategic impact”. As if ignominious surrender did not?
They also claimed that had they fought or run, some of their number might not have survived the conflict. Who among us can say otherwise? But we can say, with respect, that was part of their job. Ahmadinejad bluffed, and Britain folded. It gives me no pleasure to say that, if only because we just got an awful lot lonelier in the world.
Bloodthirsty Liberal
http://bloodthirstyliberal.com
April 6th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Come on Jules-no fair linking to a Joe Klein piece.
Hmmm-four NG brigades are going back to the desert in 08-09 and my reenlistment comes due in 2011, we’re supposed to do an NTC rotation in 2009, can I get my bonus tax-free?
April 6th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
CavMedic,
Where will you be when you get your bonus and what will be your annual salary?
April 6th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Corndog-I’m not sure you understand what I am trying to work out. If I am overseas in a combat zone somewhere, my reenlistment bonus ($15K for six years) is tax free, otherwise I lose about a third of that in taxes. It doesn’t have anything to do with my salary. But that will also depend on whether or not I get promoted between now and then-which I think might happen-and what pay raises we get out of Congress.
April 6th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
CavMedic,
I was going to show you how, if your annual salary was under a certain threshold, you could get the bonus at reduced tax rate if you were overseas, but I can see that you’ve got the situation sussed.
April 6th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Thanks anyway.
April 6th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Yeah, CavMedic, ain’t tax free status in a combat zone so easy? ;-P
April 6th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Jeff-Heh-it does take some of the sting off though. Last time I got my bonus and I got an extra $1K a month for the last six months I was in theatre due to being over my mobilization limit. Me and another guy were both in the same boat as far as that went and we called ourselves “the millionaires club”.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
The “negotiations” were over right after they were snatched. The Iranians got what they wanted during the abduction itself — 15 genuine Brit uniforms.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Well corndog I don’t know that Bush did anything of the kind, but if he did I am sure Nancy Pelosi will be proud. Tell me, if you are so big and bad why are an anonymouse troll who picks a handle for himself that is remniscent of rancid meat wrapped in greasey dough?
April 6th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
And I don’t think it is fair to say the Brits surrendered. After all the Iranians did not hold the Brits for more than 400 days like they did our people back in ‘79. And btw, those Marines back in 79 did not put up a fight against overhwelming odds either.
I suppose it is easy to sit back and say the Brits should have risked those young people’s lives and declared war on Iran rather than let the mad mullahs release them, but we are not the ones who would pay the price for that.
And they were released, I fail to see how that makes the Iranians look all that tough. After all if they were tough, why didn’t they hang onto them?
April 6th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Ancient Jewish city found under Palestinian suburb!
Are you sure that wasn’t arafat’s old digs?
This below Lebanon Daily Star via LGF
When a dilettante takes on Hizbullah
By Michael Young
Daily Star staff
Thursday, April 05, 2007
We can thank the US speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, for having informed Syrian President Bashar Assad, from Beirut, that “the road to solving Lebanon’s problems passes through Damascus.” Now, of course, all we need to do is remind Pelosi that the spirit and letter of successive United Nations Security Council resolutions, as well as Saudi and Egyptian efforts in recent weeks, have been destined to ensure precisely the opposite: that Syria end its meddling in Lebanese affairs.
Pelosi embarked on a fool’s errand to Damascus this week, and among the issues she said she would raise with Assad – when she wasn’t on the Lady Hester Stanhope tour in the capital of imprisoned dissidents Aref Dalila, Michel Kilo, and Anwar Bunni – is “the role of Syria in supporting Hamas and Hizbullah.” What the speaker doesn’t seem to have realized is that if Syria is made an obligatory passage in American efforts to address the Lebanese crisis, then Hizbullah will only gain. Once Assad is re-anointed gatekeeper in Lebanon, he will have no incentive to concede anything, least of all to dilettantes like Pelosi, on an organization that would be Syria’s enforcer in Beirut if it could re-impose its hegemony over its smaller neighbor.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=5&article_id=81211
April 6th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
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April 6th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Some things just don’t change… still as nauseating as ever here. I can’t help but wonder what tough guy Crittenden would do if captured by Iran? Probably the same damn things the Brits did.
April 6th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Dhimmicratic leadership — Take 4– Nancy Pelosi’s admirers– Pelosi was nuts to visit with Assad
Nancy Pelosi’s admirers Paul Mirengoff We have pointed out that Speaker Pelosi’s attempts at diplomacy in the Middle East haven’t received good reviews from the Israelis or, here at home, from even the Washington Post. However, according to WorldNet…
April 6th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Right-can’t even discuss whether or not the Brits comported themselves in the finest tradition of their service, not in Oprah’s America. I suppose it’s too much to expect Pamela to know who Nick Rowe or Humbert “Rocky” Versace were, but I suspect she knows who James Stockdale was (though I’ll wager perhaps not too much besides his failed V.P. bid).
In a few weeks Leading Seaman Turney will be making the talk show rounds, but Fabrizio Quattrocchi remains largely unremembered-except for among us “tough guys”.
April 7th, 2007 at 12:16 am
Jeff-Heh-it does take some of the sting off though.
How true, how true, CavMedic!
And I’ll wager that Pamela knows very litte before 2001……probably by choice.
April 7th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Terrye asks:
“Tell me, if you are so big and bad why are an anonymouse troll who picks a handle for himself that is remniscent of rancid meat wrapped in greasey dough?”
If you ever got a whiff of me, you wouldn’t have to ask. Actually, I didn’t pick the handle; the handle picked me. My great-great grandfather invented the corndog.