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• New York Times Reports Iraq Destroyed Just Before Operation to Depose Saddam

• Who Is in Charge of Iraq’s Oil Ministry?

• Kerry Neglects Soldier’s Funeral for Fundraising

• Bush to Schmooze With “Anti-War” Types at White House Yale Reunion

• Oliver Stone Calls Bush a “Flake”

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NYT: Iraq may have destroyed weapons just days before war...

If Saddam had destroyed the weapons he could have avoided the operation to depose him by announcing it.

If true this is another strike against Syria.

WITH THE 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION, south of Baghdad, Iraq, April 20 — A scientist who claims to have worked in Iraq's chemical weapons program for more than a decade has told an American military team that Iraq destroyed chemical weapons and biological warfare equipment only days before the war began, members of the team said.

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The scientist also told American weapons experts that Iraq had secretly sent unconventional weapons and technology to Syria, starting in the mid-1990's, and that more recently Iraq was cooperating with Al Qaeda, the military officials said.

Confusion over who is in charge of Iraq's oil...

KERRY MISSES MASS. SOLDIER'S FUNERAL FOR FUNDRAISERS

This article describes John Kerry as “a decorated Vietnam War veteran,” but doesn’t say that he opposed the war after he left the service.

Kerry, a decorated Vietnam War veteran who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, was in Arizona on Tuesday -- fundraising and campaigning -- the very hour Boule was being buried, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.

This is hardly the time to be rubbing elbows with the disloyal “anti-war” types; business as usual isn’t going to win the war on terrorism.

Although Mr. Bush has been warming in recent years to the alma mater he derided as an incubator of intellectual snobbery when he was governor of Texas, the May 29 picnic dinner to be held on the South Lawn is a milestone in his rapprochement.

This time Mr. Bush is the host, not just the commencement speaker, as he was in New Haven in 2001. This time Mr. Bush is opening up his house to as many as 1,200 people, which may be a record number for an early-rising, teetotaling president who has vowed never to hold the huge parties that the Clintons did.

And this time, Mr. Bush is embracing members of the heavily anti-Vietnam War class of 1968, a group whose politics he was never comfortable with, and whose members include those who vehemently disagree with him on the war in Iraq.

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One objector who is coming is the Rev. Randall Fredrikson, the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Hudson, Wis. Mr. Fredrikson, who opposed the war in Iraq and once served on the staff of former Senator George McGovern, said he was going largely for personal reasons, to accompany the widow of a classmate and to see old friends.

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That cost follows one precedent set by the Clintons. They each charged similar amounts for their college reunions at the White House — Bill Clinton for the 25th reunion of his Georgetown class in 1993 and Hillary Rodham Clinton for the 30th reunion of her Wellesley class in 1999.

Stone knocks Bush, calls president 'flake'...

When one student asked why Stone wanted to fight in the Vietnam War, the director said he had been "another person" at the time, one influenced by misguided war fervor. He compared the fervor over Vietnam to the present war on terrorism.

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 OpinionJournal.com

• Bush’s Religion Bothers the Religious Left

• Dems Losing Grip On Reality, So What Else Is New?

• The Telegraph: German Intelligence Service Courted Saddam’s Secret Police

• Secret Operation to Help North Korean Scientists Defect

• New York Times Grossly Inflates Augusta National Controversy

• Khmer Rouge Supporter Named Dean of Columbia University Journalism School

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Holy Cow, Mr. Bush is caught in the cross fire of a religious civil war. These are the voices of liberal Protestantism, which once again finds itself out of step with the pews. The pope has the same problem, of course, in declaring the war "a crime against humanity." In March the Pew Research Center found that 62% of both Catholics and mainline Protestants backed the war, compared with 44% of non-believers and 77% of evangelicals.

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Ardent religions are growing, while liberal ones are declining. The leading study, "Religious Congregations and Membership: 2000" by the Glenmary Research Center, found that the Mormon church grew 19.3% in the 1990s. Also gaining were evangelical churches; the Christian Churches and Churches of Christ up 18.6%, and the Assemblies of God, up 18.5%. The Roman Catholic Church, no doubt helped by burgeoning Hispanics, grew 16.2%. Meanwhile, the Presbyterian Church USA shrank 11.6%. Trailing the list was the United Church of Christ, which has rewritten its hymnal to eliminate masculine pronouns and other politically incorrect language. Over the decade it lost 14.8% of its membership.

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The Scopes Monkey trial of 1925, the great defeat of the fundamentalists, has in particular come in for reassessment. Noting for example that the ACLU advertised for a plaintiff, a 2002 PBS documentary let the people of Dayton, Tenn. say that they were not the dolts depicted by the news dispatches of H. L. Mencken and the 1960 movie "Inherit the Wind." And in his new Mencken biography "The Skeptic," Terry Teachout points to the unlovely side of the philosophy animating his account: A disdain of democracy, for example, in favor of credo of Social Darwinism, applying survival of the fittest to human communities, and its corollary of eugenics, shortly later discredited by the Third Reich.

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FrontPageMag.com

• San Francisco “Anti-war” Type Refuses to Admit He Was Wrong About Iraq

• Failure of Leftist Prediction and Saddam’s “School of the Cruel”

• ‘There Are No Palestinians’

• Slick’s Golf Game Caused Air Strike on Saddam to be Scrubbed

• Bill Moyers Uses Foundation Money, PBS to Promote Leftist Causes

• Politically Correct Segregation on Campus

• UC Berkeley Attacking Academic Freedom

• Uday Used Iron Maiden on Underperforming Soccer Players

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Being a Leftist means never having to admit you’re wrong.

The training program for “Saddam’s Lion Cubs,” with its brutality and cruelty to animals resembles the Khmer Rouge “School of the Cruel” training in John M. Delvecchio’s outstanding novel of the Cambodian Genocide, For the Sake of All Living Things.

Most, if not all, of these predictions were, not surprisingly, made by the supporters and spokesmen of the peace movement, which, as in the days of the Vietnam war protest, had attracted to its ranks all those who, for whatever reason, have been consumed by a profound and reflexively hostile predisposition toward American society and U.S. foreign policy. I am not suggesting that only such people flocked to the peace protest movement, but they certainly shaped it tone and character. The peace protest movement opened its ranks to all those who had other agendas and grievances: haters of Israel, Islamic extremists, hard-left extremists of different stripes, anti-globalists. At each and every major peace demonstrations the banners and slogans carried and chanted reflected these agendas and attitudes.

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… it was a regime that beheaded women in public and created military training camps for children in a program called "Saddam's Lion Cubs". …

Think of all the Arab countries as a football field, and Israel as a pack of matches sitting in the middle of it. And now these same folks swear that if Israel gives them half of that pack of matches, everyone will be pals.

One wonders if Slick was playing golf with Kenneth Lay, with whom he golfed “regularly.”

One also wonders if Patterson has the occasion when Slick let himself become separated from the “football” in this book.

Ex-President Bill Clinton kept a squadron of F-117 stealth fighter-bombers and B-52s waiting to launch a critical 1996 airstrike on Iraq while he finished watching a golf tournament - dithering so long that U.S. pilots lost the cover of darkness and the mission had to be scrubbed.

That's the explosive charge leveled in a brand new book by Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, a key Clinton military aide from 1996 through 1998 whose primary mission was to carry the president's copy of America's nuclear launch codes.

"We dispatched eight F-117 stealth fighter-bombers capable of carrying 2,000-pound bombs into the region and sent B-52s to Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean, in preparation for action," reveals Lt. Col. Patterson in his bombshell security scandal tell-all, Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security.

For veteran PBS correspondent Bill Moyers, it seems that merely reporting the news and commenting on it will never be enough. While his employers at the taxpayer-funded Public Broadcasting System look the other way, Moyers continues to use his position as the president of the multi-million dollar Florence and John Schumann Foundation to fund leftist groups that have made headlines around the nation. This time, the tax-exempt foundations he oversees are helping anti-war protest groups organize, advertise and get their message out.

In December, the Florence Fund, a subsidiary of the Florence and John Schumann Foundation run by Moyers’ son John Moyers, teamed up with the Win Without War coalition to run a full-page ad in the New York Times opposite the editorial page. The Dec. 15 anti-war ad entitled “Artists Say Win Without War” was signed by over 100 Hollywood artists including Martin Sheen, Jeananne Garafalo, Mike Farrell and Susan Sarandon and made headlines across the nation. But Moyers and company didn’t stop there.

Ms. Peck apparently isn’t aware of disproportionate black crime or the belief that antisocial behavior is an authentic expression of black culture. It would be fairer to say that antisocial behavior is segregation-validating behavior.

The workshop, one of a series hosted by Stop Hate on Campus (SHOC), a student-fee funded group on the Boulder campus, was titled the Internalized Racism Workshop. It "was not designed for White people," we were told. Instead, my friend and I could go to a workshop being held concurrently for individuals of our own skin color. When I told the workshop organizer that we had attended that workshop the day before, he was apologetic, but reiterated that we were not welcome to stay for this one.

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It is interesting that safety is the justification used for a racially segregated workshop on a publicly funded university campus in 2003. Indeed, this was the same argument used by the segregationists of the 1950s and '60s. They believed America would be a safer place if the races were kept apart. We should all be grateful that the last forty years have proven them wrong. America is a better place because racial distinctions and discrimination have been—and continue to be—torn down.

Universities are supposed to be bastions of free thought; political correctness is changing that.

Saddam's twisted son used the device [an iron maiden] to torture national-team soccer players who he thought played poorly.

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Jewish World Review.com

• The Same ‘Useful Idiots’ Who Backed Communism Back the Terrorists

• San Francisco Based WorldLink Broadcasts Arab Propaganda

• Good Billary Joke

• David Limbaugh: The Dems Are Showing Their True Selves And It’s Not a Pretty Sight

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Unrepentant. Unapologetic. Unashamed. And as self-righteous as ever.

That's the way the critics of the war in Iraq are sounding this week.

If you were thinking that the people who see America as the focus of evil in the world were going to change their minds just because most of the people of Iraq are happy that the United States has toppled Saddam Hussein, you were dead wrong.

As JWR's Mona Charen has written in her new book Useful Idiots, the notion that America - and not the totalitarian Communists of the Soviet Union - was the root cause of suffering in the world drove much of the opposition to U.S. policy from the 1960s to the late '80s.

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JWR

WorldLink is based in San Francisco. Its lefty politics make PBS look like Fox News. But if you're interested in the big, crazy/mean/mad world beyond North America -- i.e., the 435 strategically crucial countries where U.S. troops are stationed -- WorldLink's mix of documentaries, international news, foreign feature films and world music is priceless.

Be forewarned, however. When WorldLink boasts it presents "viewpoints seldom covered in the U.S. media," it's not kidding. For instance, recently it has been proudly running "Palestine Is Still the Issue," a provocative documentary from Britain whose blatant anti-Israeli tilt assured that no mainstream American network would touch it.

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Bill and Hillary Clinton spent the weekend working furiously on their books. They're both past deadline. She was last overheard asking him if skirt-chaser was hyphenated and he was last overheard asking her if ice queen is one word or two.

Outstanding humor.

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JWR

… To get elected president, liberals have to mask their liberalism – especially now. …

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Remember, too, that Bill Clinton broke the mold. Democrats have no candidates with the acting skills to fool a large plurality of the people most of the time, with such canards as "This is the worst economy in 50 years."

… The War on Terror on all fronts – domestic, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere – has operated as an X-ray into the soul of the national Democratic Party, freezing them in their real image. It has brought the worst out in them – their true inclinations having been nakedly exposed for all to see. Try as they might – or as Al From would prefer – they will be hard-pressed to reverse their image in time for the election. As of now, they aren't even trying.

And their true image isn't very pretty. It's largely out of phase with the overwhelming majority of American voters. The visible face of liberalism has become bitter and nasty. They are irredeemably angry over Bush's election – having convinced themselves the U.S. Supreme Court stole the election when in fact it merely apprehended the Florida Supreme Court in the act of stealing it, then made them put it back. They need therapy over this – they just can't let it go.

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 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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• FBI Worried About Penetration by Chinese Double Agent

• Trained Raptors Used to Drive Pigeons Out of NYC Park

• Letters – “Demonstrators Are Wrong”

Among the accusations against Leung is one that she gave Chinese officials the name of an FBI agent who went to China in 1992 after investigating a critical nuclear espionage case in this country in the 1980s. …

In a park next to the stately New York Public Library, a hawk named Starbuck swoops down from a tree. Frightened pigeons scatter in all directions.

On this blustery morning, Starbuck is hard at work in a pilot program to drive a growing number of pigeons out of Bryant Park, where about 5,000 people spend their lunch hour each day.

• “Changes are made by votes.”
  George O. Jackson of North Little Rock writes to criticize the “anti-war” types. Sample quote: “Many protesters don’t understand that in a democracy, we make changes by our vote.”

• “Apology not acceptable.”
  Jimmie Trewitt of Ward writes to criticize legislators who get caught DWI during the General Assembly.

• “Unpatriotic journalism.”
  Louis Burgess of Little Rock writes to complain about Gene Lyons’ lack of patriotism.

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