[governsleastgovernsbest]

GMA/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.

[massgopguy]

Richard Clarke, a Clinton holdover, coined the phrase; "Boogie to Baghdad", where he advised the Bush Administration that Osamam Bin Laden would leave Afghanistan and move operations to Iraq.

[edcoil]

Clarke is, as always 100 percent wrong. Only in America can someone so useless - get additional airtime.

Just what was his job before 9-11 -- forget - better not, it was his job to protect us and failed along with everyone he worked with, for and around.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

As much as it's a good that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is now getting gang raped by eunuchs with sharp daggers in hell, it's probably a dead on assessment that violence won't taper off. It's a nice kill but Clark is most likely right regardless of how much of a jerk he is.

[YaYa123]

Richard Clarke, Michael Berg, any other kooks the MSM can dredge up? Their purpose is to say what the MSM anchors and reporters don't want to say, but believe.

If CBS had a news channel, I'm sure they'd have Dan Rather on this morning to hand-wring the "slaying" of Zawaqawi.

[finnman69]

also

Interesting but not expected how the MSM is in overdrive to put on those willing to dwonplay or outright attack the news.

[beyond the sea]

Richard Clarke on GMA: With Zarqawi Dead, Iraq No Safer, War's End No Closer

Let's just face it and speak clearly and accurately.

Richard Clarke is a real dick.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The DemonicRats has lost a part of their Alliance:

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There is a book,:

Unholy Alliance : Radical Islam and the American Left (Hardcover)

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And a review:

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Communism is dead. Long live Islam!, September 30, 2004

Reviewer:

Kevin Beckman (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

It sounds absurd: why would Leftists make common cause with a religion that is diametrically opposed to everything the Left stands for? David Horowitz explains that it is really quite logical given the Left's first principle: America is evil and anything or anyone opposed to America is good.

Part I of the book is a brief history of 9/11 through the end of major combat operations in Iraq, and the Left's behavior during this time. Horowitz includes the reaction of Katha Pollitt of The Nation magazine: "The flag stands for vengeance, and jingoism, and war." Anthropology Professor Nicholas De Genova of Columbia University said he hoped for "a million Mogadishus." His colleagues objected, not to the despicable sentiment, but because of the bad publicity it brought their "teach-in." Our tax dollars at work!

Part II is the heart of the book: a history of the American and international Left. Horowitz calls them Neo-Communists or Neocoms. The Neocoms of old believed in the Soviet Union the way religious people believe in God. Those who spied for the USSR didn't see themselves as traitors to their country, but rather loyalists to humanity and an ideal of America that's never existed. When the Soviet Union fell, a few of them stopped for some introspection but most pressed on as if nothing happened. Communist historian Eric Hobsbawm put it nicely: "Without the Revolution, my life and my work are meaningless."

Now that they no longer have to defend an indefensible regime, modern Neocoms are simply nihilists. They know what they oppose but they have no plans for the aftermath of the revolution which they still believe will happen. They don't know what they want, but they know what they hate: the United States, capitalism personified.

So why are they allying with radical Islam? Horowitz says that the Neocoms still believe in Marx's dictum that "religion is the opiate of the masses." Once private property is abolished, the need for religion will vanish, and Islamic radicals will stop being Islamic and radical. The only thing standing in the way is the United States.

Sound insane? It is. They are. I highly recommend this book. Horowitz makes the insanity understandable.