Why isn’t this bigger news?

A quick scan of Iraq The Model shows that not only is Operation Forward Together having success (attacks down 19%), but first seven and now ten “militant groups” have accepted Prime Minister Maliki’s offer of amnesty. (Which is not, BTW, extended to killers). Maliki stated clearly

The amnesty doesn’t include those who have killed Iraqis or even coalition forces because those soldiers came to Iraq under international agreements to help Iraq

And the Samarra bombers have been arrested.

The title of this post is, of course, a rhetorical question.

Why We Watch Algore

John Stossel has finally identified why all the fascination with Algore’s doom and gloom.

“They are much more skeptical, but the alarmists always get the news. I`ve covered this over the years. Killer bees were going to get us, SARS, anthrax, mad cow disease, saccharin, Nutrasweet, scares one after the other. Cell phones are going to give you brain cancer. Everyone was convinced about that. We just like to be scared. It`s why we go to horror movies and now we believe Al Gore and global warming.”

The outrage of Hamdan

Mark Levin lays into the activists Supremes for their usurpation of presidential power.

Little else need be said.

Swiftboating Murtha

The unindicted co-conspirator has a Navy SEAL on his case at murthalied.com.

Hat tip, Blackfive.

Take the test

Here’s a citizenship test. I scored 95%, missing only the question about INS forms. Which gripes me, because my wife went through that process.

See how you do. And no peeking at the constitution!

Stopping the Leaks

Andrew McCarthy is way out front on all of this stuff. He has now squelched any desire I had to prosecute newspapers like the New York Times.

But, as he points out, reporters are another matter.

He’s right on the big point: The goal must be to stop the leaks.

Jail’s Too Good for ‘Em

Indications are, over on Michelle Malkin’s blog, that I’m not the only person wondering why the traitors at the NYT and LAT aren’t under arrest, along with every traitor in the CIA and State Department (and wherever else) who sourced the leaks.

As one correspondent writes, “If this isn’t treason, what is?”

And wait till you see the names of people on the Left who urged the Times to spike the story. Hint: One of them rhymes with Bertha.

Breathaking arrogance

Let’s see if the enemy camp at the Times deigns publish this letter to the editor from John Snow.

You have defended your decision to compromise this program by asserting that “terror financiers know” our methods for tracking their funds and have already moved to other methods to send money. The fact that your editors believe themselves to be qualified to assess how terrorists are moving money betrays a breathtaking arrogance and a deep misunderstanding of this program and how it works. While terrorists are relying more heavily than before on cumbersome methods to move money, such as cash couriers, we have continued to see them using the formal financial system, which has made this particular program incredibly valuable.

How About A Nice, Big Glass Of…

Michelle Malkin has some great blabbermouth posters up on her site. And my favorite is in this batch.

They’re just more important than you are

Andy McCarthy blows the fog away from the NYT’s position and makes it clear why they choose treason.

The Times prattles on about what it claims is a dearth of checks and balances, but what are the checks and balances on Bill Keller? Can it be that our security hinges on whether the editor of an antiwar, for-profit journal thinks some defense measure might be interesting?

I know that this blog is only read by a handful. So far, at least. And yet I hope that nobody reading Buttle’s World is giving a penny of subscription money to the New York Times or the Los Angelese Times.

We have to draw the line somewhere.

And tell a friend.

UPDATE:

The Editors at NRO have a good idea of what else to do to the Times: Yank their White House press pass.

Name Space

And now, as they say, for something completely different. If you have a surname which might have been common in England, take a look at the Surname Profiler.

The War Against The War

Andy McCarthy correctly identifies the enemy today on NRO.

For the second time in seven months, the Times has exposed classified information about a program aimed at protecting the American people against a repeat of the September 11 attacks. On this occasion, it has company in the effort: The Los Angeles Times runs a similar, sensational story. Together, the newspapers disclose the fact that the United States has covertly developed a capability to monitor the nerve center of the international financial network in order to track the movement of funds between terrorists and their facilitators.

Has the treasonous MSM gone too far? By any rational measure, yes. Long ago. But will this finally create a backlash against today’s Fifth Column? Michelle Malkin certainly hopes so, and if the reactions of her readers are an indication the answer could be yes.

Don’t miss Michael Ledeen’s take on it, and Tony Snow telling Hellen Thomas to shut up either.

Two views of death

VDH sums it up nicely, as usual.

For Westerners, death ruins the precious good life; for the topsy-turvy Islamists, death salvages the bad life.

Then he asks some good questions. As usual.

How do you arrange a marriage, insist on a beheading for adultery, conduct a proper honor killing of your daughter, or calmly call Jews “pigs and apes” when the wider Westernizing world broadcast into your living room, car, and workplace thinks you are some groveling zombie? Can an Airbus or Compaq be constructed according to the principles of Sharia? How can you demand amoxicillin as your birthright, but hate the system of free thinking and rationalism that created it? Does the Islamist despise equally Chinese internet pornography; does he issue fatwas against South Korean video games; does he ostracize Latin American evangelical Protestants, or burn down Bollywood? In the short-term maybe; in the long-term it is not so easy.

And we’ll take our rifle back, thank you very much

BlackFive writes about the very satisfying recovery of a Marine sniper rifle from the “insurgents” (sic) who stole it two years ago from the 4-man sniper team they killed. Read Part I and Part II.

A true shot through the window killed an insurgent sniper. A Marine sniper from 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment shot him through the window at a distance near Habbaniyah, Iraq June 16. Sgt. Kevin Homestead, a 26-year-old squad leader for K Company, was spotting for the sniper section leader when he noticed the insurgent was videotaping a convoy with a scoped rifle by his side. Only after killing the shooter and the driver who was spotting, did they discover the M-40A1. The rifle was lost when it was taken from four Marines assigned to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment after they were killed nearly two years before in Ramadi.

Yes, we’re better than they are

A nice one-two punch for anybody who might fall for "moral equivalency" from Andy McCarthy and James Robbins.

It's not popular to recognize that there may be good guys and bad guys in a war. In this war there are.

Score one for the whirlybirds

ABC news has confirmed that Mansur Suleiman al-Mashhadani was killed on Friday by US forces in Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad.

Describing his killing, General Caldwell says US troops had attempted to stop the vehicle in which Sheikh Mansur was travelling with two others.

He says when they kept driving they decided to fire at them from a helicopter that had been backing up soldiers on the ground.

General Caldwell says coalition forces were "following and tracking him for sometime as the intent was to capture him".

"When that proved something that was not able to be achieved by forces involved in that operation, they went ahead and used air assets to engage and destroy that vehicle," he said.

I gather from that description that we're not talking about a polite shot to the engine block by a sharpshooter with a Barret .50.

The Forgotten Founder

Ever heard of John Witherspoon? I’m ashamed to say I hadn’t until I read this fascinating piece on the New Criterion site. He was certainly a key part of early American history, not least for being James Madison’s mentor. Just goes to show how having the wrong building burn down can plunge one into obscurity.

I like this bit of advice, certainly heeded by Madison:

“Ne’er do ye speak unless ye ha’ something to say, and when ye are done, be sure and leave off.”

Another One Bites The Dust

Captain’s Quarters has followups on CENTCOM’s announcement.Check the link for updates. Last I saw, it appears that not only is this high-value target dead, but we also have another in custody.

Hoo-ah.

UPDATE

Michael Ledeen has more.

Coalition forces in Iraq killed 15 terrorists and detained six other suspects and a senior terrorist leader during raids yesterday and today near Baqubah, military officials reported today.

He suspects it’ll get little MSM play, due to this closing paragraph:

Several women and children were present at the raid sites, officials said. None was harmed, and all were returned to their homes once the troops ensured the area was secure, they added.

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