Sadly, No!

Who can explain the difference between this quote:

“You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggression against civilians, for crimes they did not commit and offenses in which they did not partake… This argument contradicts your continuous repetition that America is the land of freedom, and its leaders in this world. Therefore, the American people are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will; a choice which stems from their agreement to its policies.”

–Osama bin Laden, “Letter to America”

And this one:

“I am not buying into the innocent civilians meme. If by ignorance, complicity, neglect or helplessness the Lebanese wouldn’t throw Hezbollah out and establish a strong government, then they must pay the price for the sins of Hizbollah.”

–Atlas Pam, “The Innocent Civilian Meme,” via Iron Fist LGF Watch

I think they’re equally evil, but bin Laden’s rant is slightly more coherent.

Gavin and I were interviewed by T-Rex over at Firedoglake regarding last week’s hilarious S,N!/Patterico smackdown.

Hey Gavin! We’re total stars! Look at me, hanging out with celebrities like Sifu Tweety!*

&#161Ay caramba! With this newfound fame, I’ll be able to buy a whole wardrobe of these shorts!

*That really is me’n’Tweety, btw. Well, not the heads, but the rest of us.

After reading this story, I don’t know whether to cry, weep, or sob (via DeLong):

Faced with almost daily reports of sectarian carnage in Iraq, congressional Republicans are shifting their message on the war from speaking optimistically of progress to acknowledging the difficulty of the mission and pointing up mistakes in planning and execution.

Here, guys, let me boil it down for you:

Mistake #1: We shouldn’t have invaded.

Mistake #2: Once we did invade, we had no plan.

Easy, no? Here, I’ll illustrate it for you with posters of Kevin Costner films:

The poster on the left represents the conception of the Iraq war.

The poster on the right represents its execution. As you can see, both are unquestionably disasters.

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The latest from our favorite Dolce & Gabbana shriekbot:

The Press secretary of the Embassy of Israel called to cancel my trip to Israel. They recommend that I not go to Israel. Apparently they have canceled all my interviews and war coverage. Ugh.

Coming in her next video: Pamela accuses Israel of anti-Semitism while dancing to ‘I Touch Myself’ by Divinyls.

(April 26, 2005)
Syri4 says: tihs sux i quit
1sr43l says: cool cya
Syri4 has left the game

 

(July 12, 2006)
H3zb0ll4h says: hehe i got yuor doods

(July 12, 2006)
1sr43l says: W00T! i got lebanon haha1!11111 suxXxor

Here’s Tony Snow:

“The President is not going to get on the slippery slope of taking something that is living and making it dead for the purpose of research.”

“Hooway!”
“Hooway for Pwesident Bush!”

Uh, bunnies, I think he was talking about blastocysts, not animals.

“But he said no mowe swippery swope!”
“Oh, the administwation is mewely pandewing to its cwazy voting base again.”

Ever so, bun-bun. Ever so.

Eliminationist bridge-and-tunnel cleavage on a Thursday afternoon!

It’s an onslaught of media, and we have to hit the biggest criminals first — the Peace Conspirators. You know who the Peace Conspirators are? [singing] “All we are saying, is let’s kill the Jews.”

All we are saying, is those aren’t real boobs.

[Hanx to Bass-O-Matic]

Thursday, July 20, 2006
Sock Puppets Unite!
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 10:32 AM

They ought to form a guild.

Ace and Patterico on the latest from the left.

I don’t like looking up IP addresses, but you know, it’s sometimes interesting what you can find when you do.

Oh well, back to my knitting. Let me know if anyone posts on this Glenn-Greenwald-uses-sock-puppets meme again, eh?

[knit one, purl two; knit one, purl two…]

When Hugh Hewitt defends the Bush administration, he reminds me of some deranged ex-teenybopper who still has a crush on the guys from 98° long after everyone else has concluded they suck. I imagine he spends hours on end bumbling around anti-Bush AOL chatrooms posting messages like, “NUH-UH! U ONLY H8 BUSH B/C U R IGNORENT! G-DUBS + RUMMY ARE STILL TEH HOTTEST 4-EVA!”

Above: The guys whom Hugh would be stalking
if he didn’t have George W. Bush.

Anyway, Hugh’s latest piece is the ultimate example of his uniquely creepy man-crush on the POTUS. In it, he takes apostate Bushists like Andrew Sullivan and George Will to task for abandoning the Presidential Codpiece in his time of great need. Let’s check it out:

What happened? Why did they go 180?

Some pretend that lousy tactical choices motivate their dismay, but fantasies of better tactics can’t obscure the fact that the strategic ends of the war haven’t changed: The overthrow of Islamist totalitarian regimes and the denial to Islamist terrorists of WMD.

As we all know, the best way to deny terrorists access to WMD is by invading a country that had no WMD, all the while allowing two other nasty regimes to develop WMD of their own.

Hugh, you’re a genius!

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I ordered: “Yeah, lemme get a fruit cocktail; I ain’t too hungry.” Dorothy laughed.

Shorter Michael Medved: Polling data suggest that the majority of Americans do not hold an extremist position on illegal immigration.

Shorter Tony Blankley: If we intend to win this present clash between (urrrrph) civilizations, we must streamline the process with which the government disseminates important information through the media.

Shorter Paul Weyrich: It’s too bad we have to wait all the way until 2008 to find out who the next president will be.

Shorter Jacob Sullum: As a libertarian, I believe the executive branch should follow the law or encourage Congress to pass new ones — which it would ostensibly be obliged to obey, of course.

Shorter John Stossel: There are no practical reasons for not marrying your own cousin. Well, except for one.

Shorter Jonah Goldberg: Only an anti-Semite would dispute that Hezbollah has hidden themselves inside the living bodies of Lebanese civilians.

Shorter William F. Buckley: Re: The Middle East: Hellafino.

Shorter Maggie Gallagher: If you squint, snowflakes are just as cute as babies who’ve been born.

Shorter Brent Bozell III: Katie Couric has no business criticizing Tom DeLay, since she launders money for her charity. Or something like that. (Perhaps a media investigation would clear things up.)

Shorter Linda Chavez: Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb Iran. Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb Iran.

Shorter Charles Krauthammer: Does Israel have the stones to learn from our mistakes in Iraq by repeating them?

Shorter Walter Williams: Radical environmentalists are responsible for our having vast oil reserves; but now that gasoline is so expensive, we just should open the floodgates and mortgage a future most of us won’t live to see.

Shorter James J. Kilpatrick: Whose nickel is it? It’s a thorny legal issue, all right. I’ll need to refer to the case of Finders v. Keepers.

Shorter Terence Jeffrey: Anti-drilling environmentalists are essentially like the Taliban. But don’t take my word for it – ask this Democrat.

Shorter Michelle Malkin: The war on terrorism is virtually indistinguishable from the war on immigration.

Shorter Ben Shapiro: Although the international community says no to Israel, they really mean yes.

Shorter John McCaslin: Have you read today’s newspaper?

Shorter Kathleen Parker: Liberals are hypocrites for objecting to the president’s use of a carefully chosen expletive, which is just the sort of language that will win this war on terrorism.