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• B–1 Strikes Suspected Saddam Location in 12 Minutes

• SARS ‘Spread by cockroaches’

• Bad Language Betrays Bogus Catholic Priest on Sardinia

• John Kerry Breaks Pledge to Refrain from Critizing Bush During War

• Endangered Javan Bovine Cloned

• Hartford, Conn. Youths Beat Retarded Man to Death

• Death of Hartford, Conn. Retarded Man Recorded on Video

• Picture of Basra Residents Beating a Suspected Fedayeen

• Children Jailed for Refusing to Join Saddam Youth Freed

• Bloody American Uniforms Found in Baghdad Prison

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'This Is the Big One'

A U.S. B-1 bomber that aimed to kill Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad dropped four satellite-guided bombs only 12 minutes after receiving orders that "this is the big one," the plane's weapons officer said on Tuesday.

'Spread by cockroaches'...

Experts have a new theory on how the Sars illness raced through an entire apartment block in Hong Kong.

They believe that cockroaches may have carried the infection from flat to flat.

Bogus priest given away by swearing...

If he had been abusing adolescent boys it would have taken a lot longer for him to be caught.

A bogus priest has been jailed after he was exposed by a genuine priest who became suspicious of his swearing and blaspheming.

Claudio Goglio, 36, was jailed for a year and fined £400 after a court heard he held Sunday Mass, funerals, baptisms and weddings.

Goglio, who worked in Sardinia for six months undetected, was convicted of fraud after a court in Olbia heard he had helped himself to money raised in collections.

Republicans say Kerry broke vow not to attack Bush...

Lying is now de rigeur for Democratic candidates.

If Kerry suffers politically for his ill considered remark about “regime change” instead of “change of administration” our politics may become more rational.

It is important to remember that Kerry is a co-founder of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and demonstrated for the Vietnamese Communist victory.

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, who said both Iraq and the United States "need a regime change," broke his vow not to politically attack President Bush while the country is at war, Republican officials charged yesterday.

At the same time, New York City's former Democratic mayor, Ed Koch, warned Mr. Kerry that he "is going to end up on the garbage heap" for what he said.

Mr. Kerry publicly promised last month that he would not make any campaign charges against Mr. Bush once the shooting starts if his words could be seen sending the wrong signal to U.S. troops who are fighting and dying in Iraq.

"I remember being one of those guys and reading news reports from home. If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert," Mr. Kerry said in a statement that appeared in the Boston Globe on March 11.

Scientists create clone of endangered species...

The clone -- a cattlelike creature known as a Javan banteng, native to Asian jungles -- was grown from a single skin cell taken from a captive banteng before it died in 1980. The cell was one of several that had remained frozen in a vial at the San Diego Zoo until last year, when they were thawed as part of an experimental effort to make cloned banteng embryos.

Teens beat mentally retarded man to death with soda bottles...

The picture of the victim in this article shows that he was black. The article suggests that the perpetrators were residents of the neighborhood, which could indicate that they were black as well.

In a teenage culture that sometimes puts a premium on taunting the weak and infirm, Jermaine Lee, Joseph Bonner and his 13-year-old brother, Ronald Adams, stood out for their cruel indifference to others, friends of the Hartford teenagers said Monday.

"They have a lot of troubles. They get in a lot of fights. They're not real good kids," said 16-year-old Louinel Sterling, a friend of the three Hartford teens charged with savagely beating a mentally retarded man Saturday. The man later died.

VIDEO RECORDS LETHAL ATTACK...

What began as several teenagers tormenting a mentally retarded man in the lobby of his Hartford apartment building Saturday afternoon escalated into an attack that left him dead, according to two men who viewed a videotape of the incident.

REVENGE ATTACK: Suspected Fedayeen is beaten by Basra residents...

Has AP picture

Jailed Iraqi children run free...

"The children had been imprisoned because they had not joined the youth branch of the Baath party," he alleged. "Some of these kids had been in there for five years."

U.S. Marines raiding an Iraqi military prison in Baghdad found bloodstained uniforms belonging to at least two American prisoners-of-war, officers here said Tuesday.

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 OpinionJournal.com

• Punishing “Old Europe” With Trade Restrictions Could Hurt Americans

• With Nazi-Inspired Ba’athism on Wane, Moderate Shi’itism Offers Hope

• “Anti-war” “Artists” Trash Goya

• John Kerry “Regime Change” Controversy Continues

• Iraqis Express Joy of Liberation

• American Lt. Colonel Cleans Up in Saddam’s Private Bathroom

• San Franciscans More Rational Than Demonstrations Show

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We like a French joke as much as the next guy. And it's amusing to see French's mustard (invented by New Yorker Robert T. French in 1904) hurry out a release saying that the "only thing French about French's mustard is the name!" French hotel conglomerate Accor even rushed to remove its French flags in front of its U.S.-based Sofitels.

But in today's global economy a boycott against a "French" or "German" company can easily be a blow against American workers. Our politicians are figuring this out, albeit slowly. A number of House Members recently sent a letter to the Pentagon demanding that the U.S. Marines end a contract with the French-owned catering firm Sodexho Alliance. But then Representative Chris Van Hollen pointed out that Sodexho's U.S. unit was based in his home state of Maryland, has 110,000 American employees (in all 50 states) and pays $646 million in U.S. taxes.

In South Carolina, the state House also passed a resolution calling for a boycott of French goods. The bill died when lawmakers realized that French tire-maker Michelin had $2 billion in investment and 6,000 workers in South Carolina alone.

The strategic victory requires the tactical victory over the Saddam regime.

I hadn’t heard this before, but it makes sense. Once wonders if Ba’athists participated in the German-sponsored revolt against British rule in Baghdad in 1941.

What's more, a frightful number of Arabs--as many as a few thousand--from all over the Middle East heeded Saddam Hussein's call and headed to Iraq to fight the coalition. Many of these Arabs joined the paramilitary forces now attacking (to little effect) allied forces. This is the same pool of radical militants from which al Qaeda draws for its recruits. The more of them who come to Iraq, the more end up dead.

But these are only tactical victories against terrorism. The U.S. needs a strategic victory--a change in the culture of the region that fosters terrorism. Proponents of Iraq's liberation hope that a free Iraq will become the foundation of a political, social and religious reformation of the Middle East.

Now there is evidence that the ideology of the Baath Party is unraveling. Baathism dates back to the 1930s, when a group of Arab students in (where else?) Paris started a political party to emulate the National Socialists in Germany. Saddam led a Nazi-like regime that used mass killings, torture and extreme repression to enforce a cult of personality. Like Stalin, he became extremely paranoid of a coup attempt, and he also fostered military ambitions outside of his borders.

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… because Shiism, with its heart in Najaf, was a force for moderation in Iraq before Saddam killed his way to power--and in the Islamic world generally before the Iranian revolution. …

Goya's "Disasters" prints are some of the most important works of art ever made, and among the most revered. They were the first depictions of the wanton brutality of armed conflict, particularly as it relates to civilian populations. Thus, though drawn in the mid-19th century, they seem to foreshadow much of the modern era's approach to armed conflict.

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FrontPageMag.com

• Sixties Black Radicals Join Pro-Terrorist Muslims

• “Anti-war” Left Believes That “Reasoned argument is a tool of white males and thus has no value.”

• New Book Shows Link Between “Moral Relativism” and Socialist Hypocrisy

• PETA Uses Animal “Concerns” to Oppose War

• “Freedom of the Press” Palestinian Style

• Intelligence Successes Led to Rapid Victory Over Saddam

• Victor Davis Hanson on Post–Saddam Foreign Policy

• Oakland Protestors Tried to Interfere With Military Shipments

• Islamo-Fascist Sympathizers Oppose Appointment of Daniel Pipes

• U.S. Planning War Crimes Trials in Iraq

• Marine Raid Smashes Iraqi Terror School

• U.S. Success in Iraq Tones Down Russian Rhetoric

• 2 Journalists Killed in Friendly Fire Incident

• Stalinist Repression Shown in New Castro Crackdown

• Jewish Protestors Beaten by Muslim Youths in Paris

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The Tip of a Dangerous Iceberg
By David Horowitz
The threat of militant Islam on American campuses. More>

… Although I was a founder of an organization called the “Vietnam Solidarity Campaign,” I never fooled myself that the Communist state that would result from an American defeat would be a “rice roots democracy,” the way Tom Hayden and other leaders of the “New Left” movement proclaimed.

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Fortunately, the Panthers disintegrated in the early Seventies, dragged down by their criminal activities, internecine battles and the sordid brutality of their leaders, Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver. Before he died, Cleaver told a Sixty Minutes audience, “If people had listened to Huey Newton and me in the Sixties, there would have been a holocaust in this country.” Many radicals, among them Cleaver’s most prominent promoter – Los Angles Times columnist Robert Scheer -- looked forward to that holocaust and actively encouraged it. The Panthers were the “noble savages” of liberal compassion, symbols of the injustice that America was said to be inflicting on American blacks.

… We are finally reaping the rewards of postmodernism. Thirty years of radical relativism propagated by my addled and destructive generation in the universities, seemingly unchallenged by parents or university regents adds up to this: People believe that there is no objective truth. Truth has become something to be invented, rather than pursued. Reasoned argument is a tool of white males and thus has no value. If you feel it, only then can it be true. War feels bad, therefore in every case is bad, and any argument against it will do. Make it up. Exaggerate. Blow conspiracy theories hard. It doesn't matter.

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… All the things that we think are true, say the people we pay to teach our treasured youth, are merely the constructs of dominant groups, the creations of the powerful. Last weekend, at an anti-war teach-in, Columbia anthropology professor Nicholas De Genova told 3,000 students and faculty, "Peace is subversive, because peace anticipates a very different world than the one in which we live -- a world where the U.S. would have no place." De Genova continued: "the only true heroe military. I personally would like to see a million Mogadishus. If we really [believe] that this war is criminal ... then we have to believe in the victory of the Iraqi people and the defeat of the U.S. war machine." …

So what is the difference between Nicholas De Genova, or say, Michael Moore or Martin Sheen's hate-filled, militant, purpose-filled, bourgeois-baiting language and that of Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein? It's merely a matter of degree, since its purpose is fundamentally undemocratic.

The Death of Right and Wrong
By Tammy Bruce
For today's leftist elites, nothing is right or wrong - except the concept of right and wrong. More>

Outstanding quotes using Leftist principles:

• Murdering your children isn’t murder if you’re a woman; it’s post-partum depression.

• Sex addiction, compulsion and promiscuity aren’t problems if you’re gay; they’re part of an "alternate lifestyle."

• Murdering a police office isn’t murder if you’re black; it’s a "heroic" act.

• Vandalizing, degrading or mocking the symbols of a religion is only a hate crime if the object is Islam or Judaism. If the target is Christianity, it’s "art."

• Murdering 3,000 American civilians isn’t terrorism if the murderers are Muslims; it’s the Freedom Fighter’s heroic last act against an oppressor.

   

I have been fascinated watching the meltdown of today’s Leftists as they lose their collective mind over the war to liberate the Iraqi people. I was wondering how long it would take for the left to publicly expose their betrayal of principles they have touted for so long. This war is made, through and through, of the stuff the caring, compassionate, "I’m-For-The-Underdog" Superhero for the Victimized and Disenfranchised Left wing of American politics has always claimed as their realm. Finally, through their own actions, the lie of the morally superior Left has been exposed.

On its face, the condemnation by the Left Elite of a war which represents the classical liberal principle of freeing and empowering people, ending violence and tyranny, seems inexplicable. But it’s not - as I explain in my new book The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left’s Assault on Our Culture and Values (Crown Forum, April 22, 2003); today’s supposed protectors of individual liberty are no longer able to act on principle or on doing the right thing because, for them, there is no right thing. The scourge of moral relativism rules the day for the Leftist elite and commands the rejection of the most basic notions of right and wrong, good and evil.

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That’s why the war to liberate Iraq, and the reasoning behind it, is such a threat to the left: specifically because it highlights a moral standard of decency, a standard which is universal and cuts across religious and political grounds. It reminds Americans and everyone else of the value of acting on what’s right and just. And judgment! That, of all actions, is the greatest sin in the bacchanalian world of the Left. In their moral void, anything which exemplifies virtue and values must be condemned. This is why, even at the expense of the lives of innocent people in Iraq and the frames of minds of our soldiers, they so selfishly condemn and still work to stop the liberation of Iraq.

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The folks at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals aren't so much animal lovers as people haters.

PETA top dog Ingrid Newkirk made news recently when she sent a letter to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat complaining about a Jan. 26 bombing in which terrorists blew up a donkey in an attempt to bomb people in Jerusalem. (Newkirk was complaining about the donkey being blown to bits -- not the intended murder of civilians packed in a nearby bus.)

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Don't believe it. PETA opposes "the military use of animals for any reason, " as spokeswoman Stephanie Boyles told the Orlando Sentinel. Saving soldiers' lives isn't a good reason for risking a pigeon's life.

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PETA has shown more feeling for the welfare of a pigeon than a 19-year-old soldier. That's not humane, it's hate.

"Television loves emotions and cares less about facts. The Palestinians don't care about losing people, and the Israelis can't fight that," said one senior international news organization representative.

Peters speculates that Saddam’s archives will uncover much that has been unknown about the states who have broken the UN sanctions and have otherwise supported Saddam.

You’d think that interfering with military shipments in wartime would be a crime.

The demonstrators carried signs including “Shut down the war makers.”

They were trying to block access to the terminal of American President Lines, a cargo carrier that has contracts with the Defense Department to ship supplies to U.S. forces overseas.

“Some people were blocking port property, and the port authorities asked us to move them off,” said Deputy Police Chief Patrick Haw. “Police moved aggressively against crowds because some people threw rocks and big iron bolts at officers.”

Daniel Pipes is one of the world’s foremost Middle Eastern studies scholars. His Web site is at www.danielpipes.org

President Bush has named controversial Middle East commentator Daniel Pipes to the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace to the dismay of a major American Muslim organization, which described Pipes on Monday as a "Muslim-basher" with bigoted views.

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, said it asked Bush to withdraw the nomination and the institute to reject it because Pipes was an "inappropriate choice."

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The Washington Post quoted Pipes as saying: "For reasons of its own, CAIR has been trying for years to place me in the category of those who consider Islam the enemy, which is not where I belong. My position is that militant Islam is the problem, and moderate Islam is the solution."

The United States plans to conduct trials of Iraqis alleged to have committed war crimes against American forces and could possibly include President Saddam Hussein and his sons, U.S. officials said on Monday.

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Pierre-Richard Prosper, U.S. ambassador for war crime issues, said possible punishments for those convicted range from incarceration to the death penalty.

Central Command said the 3rd Battalion of the 7th Marines, backed by F-18 fighter jets, steamrolled into a giant complex at Salman Pak, southeast of Baghdad. Among the things they found was the shell of a passenger jet - believed to be used as practice for hijackings.

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The notorious facility near the Tigris River is where Iraq has, for years, been conducting special training courses on how to hijack airliners for various terrorist organizations. They train on an old Boeing 707 jet located on an airstrip, according to U.S. officials.

Over the two days, as U.S. troops reached the outskirts of Baghdad, the Kremlin has significantly toned down anti-U.S. rhetoric over the war in Iraq, taking a more pragmatic position to long-term ties with the United States.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has used every opportunity to stress that disagreements over the Iraq crisis would not be allowed to jeopardize Russia's relationship with the United States.

Note that there were American casualities.

MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Spanish journalist Julio Anguita Parrado was killed south of Baghdad Monday in an Iraqi missile attack while traveling with the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division, his Madrid newspaper, El Mundo, announced on its Web site.

The attack also killed two soldiers and one other journalist -- identified by El Mundo as German photographer Christian Liebig -- and wounded 15 soldiers, some seriously.

Anguita Parrado was the son of the former leader of Spain's Communist-led United Left coalition, Julio Anguita Gonzalez, whose party has been staunchly opposed to the war.

American Leftists admire Castro.

The communist dictatorship in Cuba has jailed opposition leader, Hector Palacios, for 25 years for "treason" and "subversion" in a crackdown against democratic reformers.

Gisela Delgado, the wife of Mr Palacios, disclosed the sentencing today. She described the trials as a "wave of repression".

We kicked the Nazis out of France in 1944, but the French continue to wave swastikas. Can you say “Vichy?”

PARIS — Street protests against American and British military action in Iraq have escalated into attacks by Muslim youths on Jewish demonstrators, sparking fears of a new wave of anti-Semitism across France.

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Officials fear that antiwar sentiment, supported by President Jacques Chirac, may be running out of control and could ignite widespread violence. Banners at recent demonstrations have shown the Star of David intertwined with a Nazi swastika, while protesters shouted: "Vive Chirac. Stop the Jews."

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The fears of increased anti-Semitism come only a month after French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin reportedly told a group of lawmakers that "the hawks in the U.S. administration are in the hands of [Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon."

Has chart produced by Stockholm International Peace Research showing that U.S. sales of arms to Iraq were less than those of Liya.

Horowitz, David. “David’s Blog: Kerry’s Delusion.” FrontPageMagazine.com. April 4, 2003.

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• Catholic Nuns Convicted for Interfering With National Defense

• Boston Globe Wins Pulitzer for Exposing Pedophile Priests

• Supreme Court Bans Cross Burning for Intimidation

• First Dissidents Sentenced in Newest Castro Crackdown

• OPEC to Meet to Try to Stop Price Crash

• New CEO to “Streamline” McDonalds

• Letters

• Nuns Ardeth Platte, 66, Jackie Hudson, 68, and Carol Gilbert, 55, were convicted for interfering with national defense for entering a missile site and defacing a silo.

More Roman Catholic contempt for American law as well as an expression of Religious Left sentiments.

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This should have been exposed years ago.

The Boston Globe won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for "courageous, comprehensive coverage" in its disclosures of sexual abuse by priests in the Roman Catholic Church.

The headline is misleading. The court ruled that states can criminalize cross-burning as a form of intimidation. It did NOT ban all cross-burning.

This ruling incorporates more political correctness into the law and will surely lead to more cases to try to outlaw the practice altogether. This could be interpreted as featherbedding for lawyers; a court decision that introduces more ambiguity into the law that can be adjudicated at significant cost.

The court voted 6-3 to uphold a 50-year-old Virginia law making it a crime to burn a cross as an act of intimidation. A lower court had ruled the law muzzled free speech.

Cuba courts sentencing dissidents
HAVANA — The first dissidents tried in a massive crackdown on Cuba’s opposition must serve between 15 and 25 years in prison after their convictions of collaborating with American diplomats to undermine the socialist state, family members said Monday. BY ANITA SNOW THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OPEC oil profits fund terrorism; American policy should be to let prices crash.

• “Keep guard up against crime.”
  Dottie Brock of Little Rock writes to express concern that the Little Rock city government will cut crime prevention instead of other “services.”

• “Zapped by bill deadline.”
  Frederick A. Pye of Conway writes to claim that the “pro-life” license bill was signed on the last day to introduce new legislation to prevent other political car tag legislation from being passed in this session.

• “Lottery, bingo needed.”
  Dennis M. Groom of Camden writes to support gambling instead of tax increases to finance more state government.

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