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Dictator enablers have taken a strong and principled stand against nuking Berkeley and I support them. We should continue applying diplomatic pressure on Berkeley in hopes of convincing them to enter the ranks of the responsible, and failing that we should send Berkeleyites to Iraq to work as human shields; there are some job openings now that Brits and the Canucks are coming home.

I live downwind of Berkeley, you see.

Bush Protesters Are Taking to Information Superhighway:

Organizers of the “virtual march on Washington” said that Senate offices and the White House were deluged with more than 1 million calls and faxes.

“We are getting slammed by the virtual marchers,” said an aide to Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.), who supports President Bush in the use of force, if necessary, to disarm the government of Saddam Hussein, with or without U.N. approval.

Many callers to the Capitol were greeted by a recorded message saying “all circuits are busy.”

This kind of rude behavior generally causes a backlash from the over-worked staffers who have to spend the entire day talking to protesters, which in this case is darn good.

Byron York unravels the funding for protest group Not in Our Name and finds terrorist professor Sami Al-Arian holding the purse strings:

FOR its fund raising, the Not In Our Name Project is allied with another foundation, this one called the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization. Founded by several New Left leaders in 1967 to “advance the struggles of oppressed people for justice and self-determination,” IFCO was originally created to serve as the fundraising arm of a variety of activist organizations that lacked the resources to raise money for themselves.

In recent years, IFCO served as fiscal sponsor for an organization called the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom (their partnership ended when the coalition formed its own tax-exempt foundation). Founded in 1997 as a reaction to the 1996 Anti-Terrorism Act, the coalition says its function is to oppose the use of secret evidence in terrorism prosecutions.

Until recently, the group’s president was Sami Al-Arian, a University of South Florida computer-science professor who has been suspended for alleged ties to terrorism. (He is still a member of the coalition’s board.)

Is Not in Our Name Anti-war, or anti-America?

Link from Michael Totten.

Genocidal tyrant Robert Mugabe had a great time yucking it up with Jacques Chirac:

Mugabe ‘at home’ during French summit — The Washington Times

“He put his foot down on principles,” Mr. Mugabe added, saying the world needed more leaders of great stature such as Mr. Chirac.

“That is the kind of leader we regard as very important for this stage … in the international community,” he noted.

Chirac’s looking like somebody who never met a genocide he didn’t like.

Have you ever wondered what it would look like if Mr. T was to produce the blog produced by the leader of the Mr. T Experience? Of course you have, but wonder no more and go see the pudding: The T’inator does Blogs of War.

The Blogs of War has the latest quote of the week, from Christopher Hitchens: “I am always impressed by sweet people who are evidence-proof.”

What a man.

PeterPribik.2y.net has some well-brought-up comments on the special edition of The Sun prepared for France.

Craig links the Frisco Chronicle story in the number at Saturday’s Anti-Bush rally:

CraigSchamp.org: Counting Leftists

The crowd measured 65,000 malcontents, not 200,000, as reported earlier. Not everyone’s happy with the facts, though.

65,000 people represents a whopping one percent of the 6.5 million living in the Frisco Bay Area. Granted that this part of the country is most likely the hottest hotbed of opposition to the Bush Administration, what does it say that only 1 percent feel strongly enough to come to a warm-weather protest? Not much.

Protesters are demanding a recount, of course, on the basis that many of them are named “Chad”, and they should have been counted multiple times. Al Gore agrees, and has instructed lawyers to prepare motions overturning laws of physics.

The LA Times ran an unusually harsh editorial on the city council’s decision to spend hours considering an anti-Iraq resolution while a gang war rages across the city:

Council: Fix Local ‘War’

The Los Angeles City Council deadlocked Tuesday on a proclamation opposing war in Iraq without United Nations backing. Meanwhile, the “war” here at home claimed another casualty. A 17-year-old girl shooting hoops at a city park in South Los Angeles caught a bullet in the head when three people in a gold Chevrolet fired at another car. She’s in critical condition. The council takes up Iraq again today.

It’s all about priorities, isn’t it? The first being the primacy of looking good over doing good.

UPDATE: Lonewacko reports that the idiots finally got their way and voted to give Iraq the finger.

The massive protests against Iraqi liberation are having a good efffect. The Wasington Post reports that they’ve jazzed-up Saddam so much that he no longer feels he has to even pretend to cooperate with the inspections, and this new recalcitrance should make the final resolution easier to obtain:

Iraqi defiance on rise, say U.N. officials / Inspectors sense less cooperation in past few days

Baghdad — President Saddam Hussein’s government, apparently emboldened by anti- war sentiment at the Security Council and in worldwide street protests, has not followed through on its promises of increased cooperation with the U.N. arms inspectors in Iraq, the inspectors say.

Thanks to the hippies who made this possible.