Quick Takes

Opinion Journal's "Best of the Web Today" has so many great links and stories. Here's a couple from Tuesday's edition:

Hillary Clinton's Flip Flop:

"Nonviolent offenders should not be serving hard time in our prisons. They need to be diverted from our prison system."--Sen. Hillary Clinton, Democratic debate, June 28

[Re Scooter Libby:]"Today's decision is yet another example that this Administration simply considers itself above the law. . . . This commutation sends the clear signal that in this Administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice."--Sen. Hillary Clinton, press release, July 2

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Doing 'Our Propaganda Work For Us'

Yesterday the Daily Mail, a London tabloid, had a fascinating piece by Hassan Butt, a former Muslim fanatic:

"When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network--a series of British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology--I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy.

By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair's bombs" line did our propaganda work for us. More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.

As if on cue, the same day's New York Times included this, in a follow-up piece on the weekend's busted terror plots in Britain:

In the past, some Muslim leaders have said Britain's military actions in Islamic countries, notably Iraq and Afghanistan, has made it vulnerable to attack from disaffected members of its own Muslim minority of around 1.6 million. But [Prime Minister Gordon] Brown seemed focused more on blaming Al Qaeda.

The Daily Express, another London tabloid, reports meanwhile that Brown "has banned ministers from using the word 'Muslim' in connection with the terrorism crisis." While they're at it, they should try not to think of an elephant.

Islamists Vs. Eskimoes

Greenlanders, who are citizens of Denmark by birth are being stoned and assaulted by Arabs in Denmark. One wonders if the supporters of Ron Paul are "listening to our enemies" as they laugh at them openly and then go on to do what Islamists do best, demand conversion to Islam, submission or death from Greenlanders who have no connection to U.S. foreign policy or Israel.

And from ABC News: Why the London Bombs Failed.
Apparently the cell phones designed to trigger the bombs worked just fine. According to this news source the cell phones took repeated calls designed to trigger the explosions but a syringe which was part of the mechanism failed.

‘Those who cure you will kill you’ or "The Devil Went Down to Jordan"

Widely reported is the news that an Anglican priest, Canon Andrew White, got this cryptic warning from an Al Queda leader whom he was introduced to in a religious conference in Jordan. Cannon White was very upset by the meeting “I met the Devil that day.”

At the time he did not connect what the man said with the attempted bombings in London.

That same warning hinted at attacks in the United States. And today, news that Muslim doctors in the United States may have been planning attacks in Jacksonville, Florida.

Al Gore's son busted for drugs in hybrid car

It's a sad story that former Vice President Al Gore's son was arrested speeding on a California freeway at 100 mph and apparently high on drugs. Obviously, the 24 year old man has a problem. It's a shame that his father is apparently too busy lecturing the rest of us on how we should live then attending to the clear and repeated cries for help from a member of his family.

Finally, Responding to the Clinton's joint attack on the pardon of Scooter Libby:

White House Criticizes Clintons

Jul 5, 2007
By TERENCE HUNT
AP White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Thursday made fun of former President Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for criticizing President Bush's decision to erase the prison sentence of former aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
"I don't know what Arkansan is for chutzpah, but this is a gigantic case of it," presidential spokesman Tony Snow said.

Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has scheduled hearings on Bush's commutation of Libby's 2 1/2-year sentence.

"Well, fine, knock himself out," Snow said of Conyers. "I mean, perfectly happy. And while he's at it, why doesn't he look at January 20th, 2001?"

In the closing hours of his presidency, Clinton pardoned 140 people, including fugitive financier Marc Rich.

The former president tried to draw a distinction between the pardons he granted, and Bush's decision to commute Libby's 30-month sentence in the CIA leak case.

"I think there are guidelines for what happens when somebody is convicted," Clinton told a radio interviewer Tuesday. "You've got to understand, this is consistent with their philosophy; they believe that they should be able to do what they want to do, and that the law is a minor obstacle."

Sen. Clinton, seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, said the Libby decision "was clearly an effort to protect the White House. ... There isn't any doubt now, what we know is that Libby was carrying out the implicit or explicit wishes of the vice president, or maybe the president as well, in the further effort to stifle dissent."

What is it with these Clintons that they accuse other people of being above the law when that is clearly what motivated them in the pardons that were passed around like expensive (bought and paid for) candy at the end of the Clinton Administration?

And does Bill Clinton really want to remind voters of his pardon of Mark Rich, which violated Justice Department guidelines and procedures he now cites as required?

How stupid do the Clinton's think their base voters are? Oh... never mind!