Ann Coulter: 'Will of Allah' pre-empts Iraq invasion

TownHall.com ^ | Thursday, February 6, 2003 | by Ann Coulter

[Pyro7480]

There's one at the very top of the thread, but why not another?

Ann's new book comes out in June! Last time I checked, it was #22 on Amazon! Let's make it #1 before it comes out!

[Dec31,1999]

The Times' Man on the Street always seems to be standing on a street suspiciously close to Central Park West. For one year, I don't believe the Times has managed to interview a single person who supports war with Iraq in a nation ablaze with war fever.

Great stuff. I love it!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Tsk Tsk Tsk

[Mr. Mojo]

You hit the bullseye, amigo. I think it's because the space program has always been viewed as sacred here in the U.S. Certainly the lives of our astronauts are no more important than those of our military personnel. I think we blow it out of proportion because deaths of the former are such rare events, and they die exploring "the final frontier" ....which, as I noted, holds a sort of mystical significance for a lot of Americans. I'm just speculating, but I think that's the reason.

[Rainbow Rising]

It's now Day 17 and counting of the Times' refusal to mention Ritter's arrest.

Media bias? Naaaaah, ain't no such thing.

Great column! I love the way she dishes it out.

[TLBSHOW]

The full story is: Shuttle disintegrated during re-entry;

Ann Coulter

[Aric2000]

U da MAN!!!

Gotta have a picture of the most beautiful conservative to go with her excellently analyzed article.

I didn't lose any sleep over the space shuttle either.

There are risks in space travel, death and the loss of a billion dollar spacecraft are two of them.

They served their respective countries admirably, and we mourn their loss, but it is time to move on. Space is a dangerous place, that is just the risk you take.

We CANNOT stop taking those risks, we need to get to space and the other planets, ASAP. Maybe, just maybe, we won't get a bunch religious fanatics that are able to destroy all of us, if some of us are on the moon or Mars. Awfully hard to get to space when technology is against your religion and ignorance the noblest height.

[wjcsux]

Thanks! ;-)

[JohnHuang2]

My pleasure..hehehe

[He Rides A White Horse]

Maybe, just maybe, we won't get a bunch religious fanatics that are able to destroy all of us, if some of us are on the moon or Mars.

I don't think that's a barrier.

[hocndoc]

Will someone explain to me why there is no outrage that Allah might have caused the Columbia to explode, but Jerry Falwell was castigated for remarking that God might have removed His protection from the US on 9-11???????

[kms61]

She needs to gain some weight.

[Defiant]

How did I miss this story?

Sen. Kerry Finds Grandfather Was Jewish
A geneologist researched Sen. John Kerry's roots and found out information Kerry himself didn't know, including that his grandfather, who committed suicide in 1921, was born Jewish.

For years, the Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential hopeful sought the true story of his paternal grandfather, Frederick A. Kerry. He searched the Internet and asked cousins, but he was only able to learn fragments of the family's history.

Felix Gundacker, an Austrian genealogy specialist hired by The Boston Globe, located birth records located that show that Frederick A. Kerry was born Fritz Kohn, in 1873 in the town of Bennisch in what was then the Austrian empire, now part of the Czech Republic.

Gundacker said he is ``1,000 percent certain'' that Kerry was born to a Jewish family. The birth of a son to Benedikt Kohn, a ``master brewer,'' and his wife, Mathilde, was listed in church records on an addendum page listing Jewish families.

[He Rides A White Horse]

A geneologist researched

I may have missed this one..........was this research or an investigation?

[Tall_Texan]

Aren't our men and women in uniform--who are serving their country nobly and bravely--every bit as worthy of our honor and admiration as a handful of scientists?

True but the soldiers aren't pre-fitted with personalities and storylines. They're grunts. The astronauts are marketed beforehand. That makes their deaths more "personal".

Besides, if we had paused to have a Columbia-like memorial for every American soldier killed in WWII, we'd all be speaking German right now. From my own perspective, Columbia's sad fate was historic. I can't recall another time in all of civilization that we've been allowed to study the effects of human beings hurled to the earth from 200 miles up. Scientifically speaking, Columbia's remains will be studied for decades to come.

[Brad’s Gramma]

You two still over here lusting after that purty young thing?

[Tall_Texan]

She needs to gain some weight.

And, judging from the book cover, get some sun.

Great column, though.

[He Rides A White Horse]

I'm missing the importance as to what Kerry's grandparents ethnicity has to do with anything. Could you help me out here?

[sd-joe]

Great tag line. Had me thinking for a second.

[Terriergal]

If it didn't violate the "wall of separation," the Times likely would be exclaiming: "It was the will of Allah!"

Man, I love this woman!!!