ABC News is has obtained a video of 300 Taliban suicide bombers at their “graduation ceremony”, as they prepare for attacks in the United States, Canada, The UK, and Germany.
Some intelligence experts are calling it “an aggressive and sophisticated propaganda campaign.”
Others are taking it very seriously.
I’m thinking that the terror alert color code is going to be changing to a warmer tone, soon.
Okay, I know what you’re thinking, this Niblets doesn’t look very much like the one hopping all over the Hostages site. That’s because I lifted that one from Google images. This is the real Niblets. I had tried to find a picture that at least resembled her, and that one came the closest. I didn’t have any pictures of Niblets because…well…. because she was a mean, little biter that nobody wanted to take a picture of, that’s all.
But now, her adventures in the wild seem to have made her more accepting of her situation, and she lets us pet her without nipping at our fingers. She still does the weird grunting thing, but she does seem greatly subdued. Maybe she’s glad to be back.
Then again, maybe not.
Katheryn Jean Lopez reports on a Bill Bennett interview of General Jack Keane, this morning in The Tank:
General Keane: Well, the morale is extraordinary … We have a democratic army in the field that’s very much aware that the United States people no longer support their efforts the way they did, in terms of the war itself. They know many of our congressional leaders do not support them. And yet the president asked them to increase the risk by escalating our forces and go on the offensive in a way that we have never been in the four years we have been in Iraq. They didn’t blink an eye, and they moved right out and have done that … This may be as idealistic a military force the nation has ever fielded short of the Revolution itself … They believe in what they’re doing; they know it’s tough out there and they know that time is short. And suddenly, some of the rhetoric that goes on back here they just shake their heads and go on.
Bennett: That we should be worthy of them is our goal—that’s what we’re trying to do at this end.
General Keane: It’s a humbling experience being around them. And, actually seeing them do it and then listening to how they talk about the American people and their desire to get this right for them brings you to tears cause knowing the rhetoric that’s taking place back here, to be quite frank about it.
I’m gonna be quite frank, too, and say that what Reid is doing here at home to undermine the efforts of our troops on the ground, is nothing short of traitorous.
He is an absolute disgrace.
I am so disgusted with politics right now.
It looks like the White House is considering clemency for Scooter Libby. From The Politico:
White House loyalists have begun arguing that clemency for I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby — either a pardon or a commuted sentence — would be a way for an embattled President Bush to reassert himself, particularly among conservatives.
Not because it would be the right thing to do?
Nice Deb 