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Thank God - for now, anyway:

A group of Chinese Muslims set to be freed into the U.S. this week from Guantanamo Bay found their freedom stymied yet again after a simple government plea: What’s a couple more weeks or so in jail after nearly seven years?

That in essence was the Bush Administration’s argument to a federal appeals court in a nineteen-page emergency request that maintained there would be only “minimal harms” if the detainees were to stay at Guantanamo a while longer.

Late Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed, halting the seventeen men’s release for at least another week to give the government more time to make arguments in the case.

The appeals court set a deadline of next Thursday for additional filings, when it will be left up to the judges to decide how quickly to act — and in whose favor.

Note the orientation of this USA Today report - all about the "stymied freedom" of the Islamist terrorist illegal combatants and the "harms" that would be dealt to them by keeping them locked up in Gitmo where the belong for only an additional couple of weeks.  Gee, if you didn't know better, you'd get the idea that "the nation's newspaper" is in the same insane, treasonous dhimmi tank with Judge Urbina.  Is it any wonder that this was phrased as an "emergency appeal"?

Ensign Ed compiles a good summation:

Our armed forces capture seventeen Uighers in terrorist training camps far from home in Afghanistan.  They have received training in al-Qaeda tactics — exactly the kind of people we want to keep out of our country while AQ wages war on the West.  We’d like to get them out of Gitmo after having derived what intelligence we can from them, but no one seems terribly interested in taking al-Qaeda terrorists into their countr, either.  The Chinese want them, but we’re afraid the terrorists will be mistreated by Beijing, which is suppressing a Uigher insurgency at the moment.

What solution does our brilliant judiciary reach?  Let them live in the nation’s capital, the very place al-Qaeda trains its recruits to destroy!  What a great idea!

I'd ask why we should give a frog's fat leg what the ChiComms end up doing to these animals, but then I know the response I'd get, and I'm hypertensive enough as it is.

And just think: Barack Hoover Obama will have at least four years to make the federal judiciary more like Judge Urbina.  Unless the Islamists, whether al Qaeda or the Iranian mullahgarchy, manage to shatter our country first sufficiently that judges will no longer be relevant.

Does irony get any bitterer than that?

What's next from our Imperial Judicial overlords?  A decree that we have to house released jihadis in our own homes?:

A federal judge today ordered that seventeen Chinese Muslims held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison be released into the United States by Friday, agreeing with the detainees’ attorneys that the Constitution bars holding the men indefinitely without cause. …

Justice Department lawyer John O’Quinn asked Urbina to stay the order for a week, giving the government time to evaluate its options and file an appeal. Urbina rejected that request and ordered the Uighurs to appear in his courtroom for a hearing on Friday. He said he would then release them into the custody of seventeen Uighur families living in the Washington area.

O’Quinn said the legal ramifications from the order are complex and that he wants time to consult with officials from the Department of Homeland Security. Under existing U.S. law, immigration authorities may be forced to take the Uighurs into custody shortly after they arrive in the United States, O’Quinn said. The Justice Department alleges they have ties to a group that has been designated a terrorist organization by the government.

Urbina chastised O’Quinn for suggesting that the government might take the Uighurs into custody for a second time.

Well of COURSE he did.  Hey, I know, maybe Mr. O'Quinn could offer to put them up at the Pentagon instead!  Or maybe at the White House - yeah, that's the ticket!  They can take turns trying to assassinate President and Mrs. Bush from the Lincoln bedroom, to which Judge Urbina will deny the Secret Service access.  Maybe that'll compensate them for their unconscionable six years at Gitmo for the inconsequential infraction of fighting on the side of al Qaeda and the Taliban against U.S. forces during Operation Enduring Freedom.

The War Against Islamic Fundamentalism will be effectively lost on November 4th, officially lost next January 20th, and lost for every American to see when that big Iranian nuclear flash goes off three hundred miles above Kansas, or maybe just in an Ameican city near you if we're lucky.  Judicial pronouncements like those of Judge Urbina serve as a depressing reminder that we were beaten long before We, The People, voted to defeat ourselves.

Y'know, it has been kinda nice to be too busy to keep up with all of the blogs and writers I usually read every day. Not reading about the Democrats' looniness is good for the soul. However, my home page is NRO, so every time I have to get online to find a medical term or a doctor's address, it's there. Today, I read about the Gitmo decision and I am sick at heart. How can this be? How can we now treat terrorists who want to destroy us the same as we treat our own citizens? What twisted logic brings this about? Peter Wehner writes on NRO:

But if one is going to invent Constitutional rights out of thin air, it’s worth asking: What moral universe do Justices Kennedy, Breyer, Ginsburg, Stephens, and Souter inhabit when they are willing to manufacture constitutional rights for unlawful enemy combatants who want to slit the throats and watch innocent Americans bleed and die while at the same time uphold manufactured constitutional rights that allow people to abort innocent unborn children?

What has happened to these Justices? It's one thing to be liberal, it's quite another to actively participate in your country's demise. It seems that the Left is hell-bent to do just that.

This morning we bring you good news and bad news.  Which would you like first?

Just kidding - you're not getting that choice:

Evidence of al-Qaida’s problems in Iraq is weighty and convincing. It has been badly hit by the fightback from the American-backed Sunni “Sons of Iraq” and the US troop “surge”. Western intelligence agencies estimate that the number of foreign fighters is down to single figures each month. The border with Syria is now harder to cross.

Iraq-watchers point, too, to financial strain caused by the arrests of al-Qaida sympathisers in Saudi Arabia, mafia-like disputes over alcohol licences and difficulties recruiting the right calibre of people. Last month, a sympathetic website carried a study showing a 94% decline in operations over a year. The Islamic State of Iraq claimed 334 operations in November 2006 but just 25 a year later. Attacks dropped from 292 in May 2007 to 16 by mid-May this year.

Dia Rashwan, an Egyptian expert on radical Islamists, says recent al-Qaida propaganda footage from Iraq is old and cannot mask the crisis it is facing. “They have not got new things to say about Iraq though they are trying to give the impression that they are still alive. The material isn’t convincing.” Nigel Inkster, former deputy head of MI6, now at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, agrees: “Al-Qaida is starting to prepare their people for strategic failure in Iraq.”

Al-Qaida is also perceived as being “on the back foot” because of attacks by Muslim clerics on its takfiri ideology and revulsion at the killing of innocent Muslims. Participants in Zawahiri’s recent “open dialogue” on Islamist websites compared al-Qaida’s performance unfavourably with the successes of Hamas in Palestine and Hizbullah in Lebanon.

Challenges to the use of violence by Sayid Imam al-Sharif, founder of the Egyptian Jihad group, have rattled his old colleague Zawahiri, says Rashwan. Influential Saudi clerics have helped undercut al-Qaida’s theological arguments. How far such rarified debates affect radicalised Muslim youth in Bradford or Madrid is a different question.

What's the key difference between the U.S. in Iraq and Israel in Gaza and Lebanon?  The regime of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, confronted with the opportunity to eradicate both Hamas and Hezbollah two years ago after both Iranian proxies helpfully provided the provocation by kidnapping several IDF soldiers, lost its nerve and let the "international community" intervene and impose a ceasefire that handed the Jewish state's enemies a qualified military victory and a gargantuan propaganda/morale triumph.  For the first time since Israel was reborn as a nation in 1948, external Muslim enemies had attacked her and fought her to a standstill.  Not because the Hezbos and Hamastanis were better soldiers or had superior weapons or tactics, but because Israel's political leadership, fearing a "world opinion" that will NEVER favor them whatever the circumstances, was afraid to fight.

President Bush, faced with a similar situation in Iraq six months later, a near-unanimous domestic and international demand for U.S. retreat, and a confident Iran-al Qaeda axis believing their conquest of Iraq was only a matter of time, tacked directly into that ferocious defeatist gale with the appointment of General David Petraeus and the implementation of the "Surge" strategy instead.

Today Israel is looking down the barrel of another war with a much better armed and trained Hezbollah, which now all but rules Lebanon, while a few hundred miles to the east, al Qaeda has been massacred, the mullahs have lost Sadr and the Madri Army, and democratic Iraq has stabilized.  Or, distilled further, Ehud Olmert was afraid to win, and so lost; George W. Bush chose to win, and did - a fact so incontrovertible that not even European leftist publications are bothering to deny it any longer.

The Guardian piece does fret about al Qaeda opening up "new" fronts in Algeria, Yemen, and Somalia, none of which, as Ensign Ed details, are truly new.

But that brings us to today's bad news.  If al Qaeda is going to make a major move somewhere else, there are two likely candidates - Pakistan, and the United States of America:

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.

The justices handed the Bush administration its third setback at the high court since 2004 over its treatment of prisoners who are being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The vote was 5-4, with the court’s liberal justices in the majority.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said, “The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.” …

In dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts criticized his colleagues for striking down what he called “the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants.”

Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas also dissented.

Well, that's it, then.  After nibbling around the edges for almost seven years, the American Left, via its media, congressional, and finally its judicial strongholds, has finally turned the policy clock all the way back to September 10, 2001.  There is now nothing left of the steps taken in the immediate aftermath of the September 11th attacks to defend our country from this enemy and its insidious mode of warfare.

Let's tally it up: the ability to extract intelligence from captured jihadis in a war where the extraction of intelligence is maximally critical to the saving of American civilian lives was sacrificed on the alter of imaginary "torture" objections.  The ability to disrupt the financing of terrorist networks (the SWIFT program) was exposed and nullified by the New York Times.  The ability of the NSA to monitor jihadi communications worldwide was first exposed by the Times, then subjected to FISA oversight, and now is forbidden altogether, and has been for nearly six months.  And now the Supreme Court, by the usual 5-4 liberal majority, has decreed that the War Against Islamic Fundamentalism is no longer a war, but is a conventional, civilian "law enforcement" matter once more.

And here I thought it was going to be President Hussein who turned all those Gitmo bloodmisters loose to rejoin the Global Jihad against us.  Turns out it'll be President Bush.  The rapturous, ecstatic orgasms of the fever swamps at such delectible irony must be seismic this morning.

If they wanted irony, they should have had the Supremes wait to issue this ruling until September 11th.  Maybe they figured that if they did, nobody would remember why that would be so ironic.

Here's another irony: by deciding that "the Constitution applies worldwide rather than just to the US and its residents," Justice Kennedy's majority has issued what is literally an act of judicial imperialism in the most liberal sense imaginable: he has imposed NOT American power, NOT American rule, NOT American law on the entire planet, but only its civil liberties protections.  Just as congressional Dems have successfully ruled that U.S. intelligence cannot monitor ANY enemy communications ANYWHERE on the globe if, at some point, they flow through so much as a single American communications hub or server, now five robed oligarchs have decreed that all an enemy has to do to literally get away with mass murder on American soil is not wear a uniform and wage war from amongst our civilian population, then hide behind the very freedoms they are trying to destroy, get sprung by another dhimmized American judge, and continue the jihad.

The fact that we've never, in 232 years of national history, lavished captured enemy prisoners in time of war with full constitutional rights, or treated illegal combatants as legitimate POWs, or that the Geneva Convention defines illegal combatants with precisely the criteria that describe Islamic terrorists?  Non-functional.  Obsolete.  Superceded.

Olympus has spoken.  The American people are now officially on death row.  The only question is when and where the next mass attack in the homeland comes.  We can only hope and pray that our men and women in uniform (who are now going to have to rotate home to testify in civilian criminal trials, and who will presumeably have to read each captured jihadi his Miranda rights, and who will, in practice, be more likely to kill them in battle than capture them, cutting us off from a primary avenue of vital intelligence gathering) have bought us more time to come to our voting senses than the SCOTUS has gifted to bin Laden & Co. to get back on their feet and exploit the "get out of jail free" card they've been so foolishly handed.

UPDATE: Mark Levin provides a Jeremiac lament:

It has been the objective of the left-wing bar to fight aspects of this war in our courtrooms, where it knew it would have a decent chance at victory. So complete is the Court's disregard for the Constitution and even its own precedent now that anything is possible. And what was once considered inconceivable is now compelled by the Constitution, or so five justices have ruled. I fear for my country. I really do. And AP, among others, reports this story as a defeat for "the Bush Administration." Really? I see it as a defeat for the nation.

Well, remember, Mark - for liberals, America is only "their" nation when they get to rule it.  Otherwise, they see it as their enemy, which goes a long way in explaining this suicidal ruling and the Left's - and, doubtless, al Qaeda's - raucous celebration of it.

UPDATE: Hugh Hewitt has tons and tons and tons more.  Though I've gotta differ with him on one point: where's the bona fide indication that Senator McCain would appoint federal judges and SCOTUS Justices that would have dissented against this spectacularly unconstitutional, not to mention literally lethal, usurpation of Legislative and Executive power when he's done everything in his power for years to block such appointments in the Senate and holds a Homeland Security stance that is far more in tune with the five-justice lib majority?

UPDATE II: The blistering dissents of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Scalia.

Hugh warned us about this plot to sneak Kyoto in the regulatory back door; now it's too late:

The Interior Department is listing the polar bear as a threatened species because of declining Arctic sea ice.

That would be the Bush Interior Department.  You know, those gleefully wicked destroyers of Gaia's preciously divine realm.

Just to reiterate the practical effects of this ecological police state - which will have nothing whatsodamnever do to with f'ing polar bears:

[Now that] the polar bear is listed as a "threatened" species, every federal action - the grant of a permit, the award of a grant - that leads even indirectly to the emission of greenhouse gases will come under at least the theoretical review of the United States Fish & Wildlife Service pursuant to Section 7 of the ESA...in fact it is as likely to delay or destroy economic activity in any part of the lower forty-eight as it is in Alaska.

And just to reiterate the "science" of the underlying pretext for this blatant regulatory power-grab:

NASA’s not even sure yet that it’s global warming that’s causing the ice caps to melt; in fact, it’s Canada that’s best positioned to address the needs of the bears since they host two-thirds of the global population. Are the Canadians freaked out about the bears’ endangerment? No: They haven’t even listed the species as threatened, and according to this fact site about polar bears, Canadian hunters actually believe the population’s increasing. Some biologists think that’s untrue, that the bears are simply moving inland as the ice melts. Other biologists disagree, claiming that there are more bears today than there were thirty-five years ago.

It's all bullbleep, folks.  Polar bear extinction, melting ice caps, global warming - all bullbleep.  The....planet....is....cooling, not "warming," and that's being driven by the sun, not "Earth's greatest threat".

Nevertheless, the pagan commie-pinkos get to impose their religion on the rest of us, unlike those phantom "Christianists" of their feverishly bigoted imaginations.  And with the economy already being talked down by the triumphalist Left, with the Bush tax cuts destined to be allowed to expire, with Rodbama banging the drums for jacking capgains tax rates back up and imposing new energy taxes in the midst of an energy price upward spiral, well, what could be a better coup de grace for a Second Great Depression than using f'ing polar bears as justification for greenstremist Gestapo lawsuits that'll litigate us back to the Stone Age?

True to form, Double-H has outlined a plan of counterattack against Operation Polar Bear.  Maybe it'll be undertaken, maybe it won't - but if (God willing) it is, what hope is there that the damage can be remotely contained?

Once again, here's what we're up against:

The [Endanger Species] Act operates simply. Once an animal is listed, it becomes a felony to harm or harass it without the permission of the feds.  Harm or harassment has been defined to include destruction or impairment of the habitat the species actually occupies....

Because the polar bear has been listed as threatened due to alleged deterioration of its ice habitat, and because the alleged loss of the ice habitat has occurred because of global warming caused at least in part by the emission of greenhouse gases, environmental activists will argue that all emissions of greenhouse gases that flow as a consequence of the grant of a federal permit of any sort are now subject to review under the ESA and, crucially, that those permits cannot be issued unless and until the United States Fish & Wildlife Service reviews and approves of the requested permit under Section 7 of the ESA, a process which takes at a minimum months and which can cost millions of dollars even if it is successful. [emphases added]

That's a reach almost to ubiquity.  This is orders of magnitude beyond "You can't build your Burger King because a Delhi Sands flower-loving fly that has never been seen and is above ground only a few days a year might be near-by"; this is more like, "You can't build a house anywhere because you might go outside in your back yard and break wind, releasing methane that will contribute infinitisemally to the melting of the polar ice caps and, thus, the destruction of the polar bear's natural habitat."  The next step, I suppose, will be, "You are being put to death because you might break wind, releasing methane into the atmosphere that will float north, help melt the polar ice caps, and destroy the polar bear's natural habitat."

Or perhaps the step after next.  The greenshirts are already pushing for harm to habitat that could be occupied in the future being criminalized under the ESA.  And they know precisely where to go: the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the most Marxian appellate stop in the country.  Even if businesses, industries, and trade associations were to counter-blitz the courts as Hugh suggests (since no relief can be expected from the Donk Congress), what chance would they have in such a hostile venue?

And how likely is it that they'd even make the attempt?:

Incredibly, not one of the industries likely to be impacted by the listing intervened in the court proceeding that imposed a deadline on Secretary Kempthorne. Not one.

C'mon, ladies and gents.  Much as I want to see Commodore Hewitt's strategy employed, it is sheer fantasy.  The reason why is because we haven't reached rock-bottom yet.  The Right is beaten, reeling, divided, and demoralized.  We don't even have a candidate in the presidential race, and are doomed to decimation at the congressional level this fall.  It's a state of debility far worse than what we faced after the 1992 debacle because we've had so much farther to fall, and because we haven't been the victims of opposition deception.  Democrats didn't retake Congress in 2006 by pretending to be conservatives, "blue dogs" or no "blue dogs"; they did so by being their loud, obnoxious, seditious, neoBolshevik selves; by yelling and screaming and whining and bitching and moaning and agitating until the voters finally gave them their power back, even if just to shut them up.  Neither is Rodbama on course to retake the White House in November on a platform of triangulation and "New Democrat-ism".  Far to the contrary, Hillary and Ba-ROCK are elbowing each other to be the biggest tax-raiser, business-destroyer, healthcare-rationer, war-quitter, and all-around Stalinist on the ballot, and both are leading the so-called "Republican" candidate in hypothetical polling matchups.

America got snookered sixteen years ago.  Now it is turning - HARD - to the Left.  The catastrophic consequences of that lamentable mistake will have to land with both feet before any "counterattack" can even be mounted, much less have any chance of succeeding.  Assuming such, or even any political opposition to the New Order, will even be tolerated.

But we - or at least, I - have seen this fate coming for years.  What most appalls me is that such a ruling could be allowed to come out of a Republican - and at intermittant times, even a conservative - Administration.

And spare me the "They were under a court order" fiddle-faddle.  As President Lincoln said of the infamous Dred Scott decision, "Justice Taney has issued his ruling; now let him enforce it."  Quite simply, the Bush Interior Department should have flatly refused to list the polar bear as a "threatened species".  Period.  What did they have to lose, seeing as how any of its three Democrat successors would do it next year anyway?  Indeed, what did they have to gain by putting Dubya's fingerprints on such an economically ruinous policy betrayal?

Particularly when, as you ought to have expected, it's still not good enough for the other side:

''They're trying to make this a threatened listing in name only with no change in today's impacts and that's not going to fly,'' said Jamie Rappaport Clark of Defenders of Wildlife and a former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director.

Members of Congress also were skeptical.

The Bush Administration ''is forcing the polar bear to sink or swim,'' said Representative Edward Markey, D-MA, chairman of a House committee on global warming.

Senator John Kerry, D-MA, called it ''a lifeline for our last remaining polar bears'' but said the bear's survival won't be assured without limits on oil development in the same Arctic waters where the bears are found.

Despite the new listing, the announcement underscores the need to approve climate legislation that would limit the release of greenhouse gases and avert the future effects on climate change, said Senator Barbara Boxer, D-CA, chairwoman of the Environment Committee.

We're already approaching the $4 per gallon mark at the pump even without this polar bear nonsense, and the Dems want even more limits on energy exploration.  Kind of like how healthcare costs continue to spiral upward and their solution is to complete the government takeover of the medical sector, and federal spending continues to skyrocket and their solution is ever higher taxes.  But don't call them socialists!

Do call them winners, though.  Because in their twelve years in the political wilderness they never buckled, never compromised, and never quit.  It is we, conservatives, the Right, that couldn't handle prosperity, that didn't tear down the entire liberal welfare regulatory behemoth and restore the federal government to its proper, constitutionally mandated size, structure, and function - or at least make a good faith attempt.  It is we who have forgotten why we engaged and defeated the Left in 1994 and 2000 and 2002 and 2004, forgotten the lessons of the Clinton era, and now blunder around blindly in utter disarray, which is the only contextual explanation for why the Bush Administration is making such a massive regulatory downpayment on the DisLoyalists' behalf.

Oh, yes, and by the way, the Calfornia Supremes imposed sodomarriage on their state today.  And most of them were appointed by...."Republican" Governor Arnold Schwartzeneggar, who bears more than a passing political resemblance to....John Sith McCain.

Consider that another complimentary "bipartisan" downpayment.  The next step will be the banning of heterosexual marriage.  Because, as we all ought to know by now, there's no such thing as RINOs out-liberaling liberals.

I may as well segue full-bore into this topic since I'm halfway there already.  This polar bear surrender is but the baton that was handed off to Darth Queeg, who, as I alluded the other day, isn't exactly the second coming of Ronald Reagan, and is going out of his way to use global warming superstitution to prove it:

If Republicans are going to be stampeded by phony environmental alarms and propose terrible public policies in the name of these scams, what the hell do we need Democrats for?

America is so far gone in the global warming superstition that the Republican candidate for president (the REPUBLICAN!) is proposing a Soviet scheme to take decisions about energy use out of the private sector where they belong and turn them over to politicians and bureaucrats. If there's a quicker way to make America into a Third World nation, pray tell me what it is....

So how account for the execrable cap and trade policy McCain sprung on us from Portland, Oregon, Monday and which he says will save us from the dreaded carbon dioxide? (If you're asking: "Carbon dioxide -- isn't that what makes the flowers grow and what baby's breath is made of?" Answer: yes.) All a cap and trade system (government energy rationing) would bring about is a sharp decline in our standard of living in return for, well, nothing. Sources of energy to replace the carbon-based ones we rely on now just aren't here yet, and we don't know when they will be. 

Later, Larry Thornberry answers his own question:

For the Left's political agenda of taxes and regulation without end, you couldn't design a better scam than global warming. And a scam is all it is. As someone smart and famous once said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and dazzle the rest of them with statistics and charts." These folks just want as much control over the economy as they now exercise, to our sorrow, over the culture. And global warming is their ticket to ride.

Computer programming 101, gentles: IF x, THEN y.  IF the "climate change" hoax is the Left's ticket to a revival of the old Soviet Union right here in the formerly good ol' US of A, and IF John Sith McCain is the newly self-minted champion of crusading against "climate change," THEN he is a man of the Left, is leading a hostile takeover of the Republican Party BY the Left, and is removing any viable opposition to said one-party Marxist-Leninist state.

It is isn't just conservatives and the GOP that is truly endangered, my friends, but America as we have known it for the past 232 years.  Even if the polar bear WAS "threatened" - on which, to be bending-over-backwards charatible, the jury is still way out - better that critter die out than American prosperity and liberty.

A lamentation that is falling on stubbornly deaf ears.

Read it and shiver:

Al'Hamdillullah [Praise Allah]!

It's a great day in America for those who engage in sham marriages, immigration fraud, and spy on America on behalf of Hezbollah and other Islamic terrorist groups in America.

I hope you are as nauseated as I am that liberal Federal Judge Avern Cohn gave Hezbollah spy Nada Nadim Prouty a/k/a Nada Nadim Al-Aouar Deladurantaye Valley Prouty ZERO jail time and only fined her $750. This woman spied for Hezbollah, accessed records on the investigation of her brother-in-law, Hezbollah financier Talal Chahine, on his behalf, and gets zero jailtime, while Jonathan Pollard rots for life in prison for spying for an ally. A drunk driver does more time than this spy. Not a day in jail. For treason. Outrageous.

This is what closing Gitmo and giving these animals full Constitutional rights means.  Seeing as how the three Democrat presidential candidates (Rodham, Obama, and McCain) are all on this same page, the only question isn't if more 9/11's are coming, but when, where, and how many.

UPDATE: Hezbollahstan has now gone from de facto to de jure status.  Looks like the Hezbos are an a roll.  Can al Qaeda, Syria, and the mullahs be far behind?  How long before Ehud Olmert runs up the white flag (again)?