News Alert! Israel Plans to Bomb Iran?

U.S. officials state that military exercises conducted by Israel earlier this month appear to be directed at Iran, and that it seems likely that Israel plans to launch bombs against nuclear facilities in Iran.

If this indeed is the plan, then good for them. Such a move is long overdue. With the squeamishness of the West in dealing directly with the danger a nuclear Iran poses to the entire world, then perhaps Israel can do what we have not had the courage to do.

The key will be keeping the Bush administration, particularly Secretary Rice, out of the picture. With Bush now focused on his 'legacy' and with Rice making ridiculous assertions about dividing Jerusalem, we can be assured they will do all in their power to pressure Israel not to conduct the bombing.

But Israel needs to stick to its guns. History shows that when we turn the Israelis loose, they get the job done when it comes to their own security as a nation.

Thus, I say to Israel, let the bombs fly.

Here is more on the story:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/20/america/20iran.php

Getting to the Real George W. Bush

We have seen signs of it all along, but until now we never actually believed that President George W. Bush is no friend of gun owners...at least not in blatant terms.

But now we know.

The Administration has thrown its support behind D.C.'s case in D.C. vs. Heller at the Supreme Court. Despite White House rhetoric, this means that in actuality the Bush Administration supports D.C.'s ban on handguns and handgun sales.

Those who have been watching George W. Bush closely for the past seven years are not really surprised at this blatant attack on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. After all, this is the Administration that suspended Habeas Corpus, spied on average U.S. citizens, and launched an assault on free speech in airports and other public places in the aftermath of 9/11.

Not only that, but the Justice Department under Mr. Bush has taken the position that the Second Amendment is a 'collective right' rather than an individual right.

The collective right balderdash was implemented as official Justice Department policy under former Attorney-General Alberto Gonzalez following a period of time under John Ashcroft's watch that the Department was avidly pro-Second Amendment as an individual right.

Bush has also totally turned his head to many other travesties of justice, such as the illegal and possible criminal prosecution and imprisonment of two innocent Border Patrol agents, Ramos and Compean, in order to appease the Mexican government.

In order to get elected Mr. Bush had to appeal to GOP conservatives, and in fact, he rewarded them with support the first few years of his Presidency. However, observers note there has been a gradual retreat from these positions to those that closely mirror that of the elitist, moderate GOP establishment as embodied in his father, Bush the Elder.

Here are a few examples--he supported banning incandescent light bulbs as passed by Congress, he supports establishing a Palestinian State in spite of the fact that Muslims control 99% of the land in the region already, he has hinted at dividing up the ancient Jewish city of Jerusalem and giving half of it to Muslims, he tried to push through an 'immigration reform' bill that would have granted amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, he has refused to enforce federal law on illegal immigration, he has launched an assault on national sovereignty by pushing a North American Union plan which would unite the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and he has turned a deaf ear to the cries of those who have been attacked and brought to ruin by a rogue agency of the U.S. government--the BATFE (ATF).

In the last two years of his Presidency, Bush has only gotten worse with these liberal-leaning policy initiatives. It is as if he had to become a lame duck in order for us to get to the real George W. Bush.

But even so, those with eyes to see and ears to hear have seen this coming for a long time. The big surprise, however, is just how flippantly the President has totally forgotten those who placed him in office.

If Your Tax Refund is Late, You Can't Blame Bush

In a brazen display of outright deception along with the concomitant barefaced lies, Fuhrer Pelosi and wisp Harry Reid have attempt to absolve themselves of any blame if tax refunds are late in 2008.

The two ring-tailed baboons of Congress went on the offensive to blame Bush for any delay, long before the season for tax refunds begins in earnest.

Their reason is not far to find.

Congress failed to pass an extremely important change in the tax code before the deadline that would mean refunds could be sent on time.

The Democratic controlled Congress had months to work on an AMT relief measure that will effect 23 million Americans. Yet it only passed the relief legislation on Wednesday of last week.

The AMT, or the Alternative Minimum Tax, gradually eats the middle class alive during tax season. The Bush Administration and the IRS have been warning Congress for months that a fix was needed in the form of legislation that would relieve families hit by the AMT.

Yet Congress dragged its feet and only got around to passing the measure on Wednesday, well-passed the eleventh hour.

But Buffoons Reid and Pelosi did not want Congress to 'look bad.' And thus, they sent out a letter to the Bush White House urging him to make sure that families 'receive their refund in a timely manner.'

ROFL! A timely manner? What clowns. Is this some sort of joke? The very ones who did not act in 'a timely manner' now want Bush to act in 'a timely manner?'

Unfortunately this is no joke but more of the same clown show antics of a Congress that is run by imbeciles.

Read the full story here:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200712/POL20071221b.html

Valerie Plame Back in the News

Valerie Plame, the CIA operative who claims she was 'outed' by Bush Administration officials in retaliation against her husband, Joe Wilson, is back in the news. This time she claims her 'covert' work involved gathering information on Iran's nuclear program.

Immediately both the mainstream media and the Left are placed in a precarious situation by the claim.

Supposedly Iran had no such program. Conventional wisdom, as relayed by the mouthpieces of the mainstream media, always cast doubt on the suggestion that Iran was working on a nuclear weapons program.

One can safely assume that the reason for such well-placed doubt was the suspicion that Bush Administration officials were using such claims as justification for attacking Iran. Thus, any slight hint that Iran either had nukes or was intending to develop such weapons had to be dismissed.

For example, as recently as June, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed that Iran was absolutely no threat to the U.S. or the world, and that there was no credible evidence that Al Qaeda or any other terrorist group in Iran was sending insurgents into Iraq.

And this leads us to the following question. Where did the materials for Iran's nuclear program come from?

We know that loosely connected terrorist organizations and rogue nations have a vested interest in Iranian nukes.

The bottom line is that if what Plame is saying is true, then the preconceived notions concerning Iran on the part of the mainstream media and the Left have been totally wrong.

The other alternative is the possibility that Plame is making the whole thing up. While this alternative is highly unlikely, such a possibility raises the stakes in the charges made against Scooter Libby. If Plame is no more trustworthy a witness than to fabricate or exaggerate her work with the CIA, then how can she be believed when giving testimony concerning her supposed 'outing' by the Bush Administration?

Her credibility at that point goes out the window.

Yet we already know there is at least some credibility to Plame's claims. We know that Iran has been developing nuclear weapons, and we have a good idea who is helping them do it. But we knew this anyway, without any information provided by Plame.

The problem is we cannot know for sure if Plame is being totally candid concerning the role she played, if any, in the Iranian nuke intelligence gathering process. But we do know enough to totally debunk the Left's contention that Iran is no serious threat.

Johnny Sutton Lies to Congress on Border Patrol Agents

Washington, DC (TLS). On Tuesday of this week, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, the Bush crony from Texas who has the responsibility to prosecute cases involving the nation's southern border, gave testimony before a Senate subcommittee.

The subcommittee is investigating government wrongdoing in the handling of the Ramos-Compean case. Agents Ramos and Compean are the two Border Patrol Agents who were falsely accused, tried, convicted, and sent to prison for over a decade for shooting an illegal alien drug smuggler in the buttocks.

The Liberty Sphere has posted a series of op-eds on this case, showing ample evidence from multiple sources indicating that these two Agents are the victims of a Bush Administration smear-job in order to protect its precious relationship with the corrupt Mexican government.

We already know Administration officials in the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security lied to Congressional Republicans investigating this case. These particular officials even admitted to their lies.

And now the point-man himself, Johnny Sutton, also lies to Congress.

This time, however, those lies are going to a Senate subcommittee under the control of the Bush Administration's arch-enemies rather than the members of the President's own Party in the House.

This begs the question as to why the Bush Administration would lie and stonewall to a group of Republicans who at least have some loyalty to the President, knowing full well that the investigation would eventually wind up in the hands of totally hostile political enemies in the Senate.

Sutton's testimony before the subcommittee chaired by Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, was filled with misleading statements, deflections, half-truths, innuendo, and outright untruths. He left more questions unanswered than is acceptable.

Republican Senators who heard the testimony expressed deep frustration and a sense of incredulity over Sutton's obvious, overt non-answers and untruths.

And as for the Democrats, Senator Feinstein fired off a memo to President Bush stating that the two Border Patrol agents need to be freed from prison. Once she heard the unbelievable testimony of Sutton, the stage was set for a hostile confrontation with the President.

As we have done at least a dozen times over the past year, The Liberty Sphere calls on George W. Bush to bring himself to do the right thing and release from prison these innocent and falsely-accused men. We call for the outright dismissal of Johnny Sutton and anybody else in the Administration who lied to Congress about this case.

We also call for the President to take full responsibility for this debacle and travesty of justice at the hands of government officials, and then clean house.

Once again, unless Mr. Bush takes these steps now on his own, the nation is in for a coup at the hands of the Democrats in 2008, who will then proceed to clean house by throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Is this what you want, Mr. President?

The Liberty Sphere predicts that anything short of a full housecleaning by the President himself will result in more Republican casualties in 2008 than that which occurred in 1974 in the aftermath of the Nixon Watergate Scandal.

And at that point the President's legacy will be that he was worse than Nixon in nearly destroying the Republican Party.

Investor's' Business Daily has this stinging editorial and more information on the testimony of Johnny Sutton before Congress:
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=269651291491013

Keep a Suspicious Eye on China

Washington, DC (TLS). The news out of Washington today is that the Bush Administration is increasingly concerned about China's long-range missile capability. And well they should be.

For years China has been quietly but steadily building its military, munitions and weapons arsenals, including the capability of launching nuclear missiles that can hit the U.S. mainland.

While the Chinese have been busy building up their capability of waging nuclear war against America, we Americans have largely ignored such ominous clouds on the horizon in lieu of establishing corporate and business liaisons with the Communist giant, not only to pad our pockets but to supposedly weaken the totalitarian resolve of the Chinese by expanding capitalistic ventures within their borders.

The problem is that under the present unfair trade practices in the name of 'free trade,' the Chinese have made billions at the expense of Americans--billions that have then been used to continue expanding their military and nuclear capability.

In short, the Chinese have been using our willingness to engage in capitalistic ventures with them against us.

The result is that China is on the brink of becoming a true, bona fide super-power in every sense of the word, not just militarily but economically.

Thus far, the only thing keeping China from dominating the world stage as a super-power has been its lack of economic progress under the stifling effects of Communism. That has changed drastically. And they have done it by being willing to adopt a limited capitalistic economic model while steadfastly maintaining their Communist totalitarian philosophy.

Thus, Google can do business and flourish as a capitalistic venture in China, but they must keep the Chinese population in the dark about certain strains of political thought that could incite the citizenry to an uprising similar to the Tienanmen Square display.

The ominous result of this course of events is that the capitalism that China allows to flourish within its borders is then used to bolster and strengthen its basic governmental philosophy that the general population cannot be trusted and that the liberties of the people must continue to be restricted.

Not only that, but the bounty produced by the capitalistic model is used to continue to build itself into the largest and most dangerous totalitarian army in the world.

Although China has seen the light that only capitalism can produce wealth and prosperity, it has failed to embrace the underlying principles of liberty from which capitalism draws most of its vitality.

The result, unfortunately, is a significantly strengthened--and dangerous--super-power.

In dealing with China we cannot for one moment forget that they are still Communists. And with their growing military power, we must always keep the suspicious eye on them, regardless of our business connections with them.

TWO FOILED TERROR PLOTS IN ONE WEEK

Washington, DC (TLS). Americans should be celebrating right now. Not only that, but they should be singing the praises of the Bush Administration. In less than one week, two major terrorist plots on our own soil have been foiled.

Somebody is obviously doing their job and doing it well.

Earlier in the week a terrorist cell operating in America's heartland, in St. Louis, was busted after information surfaced concerning Muslim Palestinian immigrants who were planning to use grenades, mines, and other heavy fire-power to launch attacks against American citizens.

The Liberty Sphere reported on this thwarted attack this past Sunday.

Then, just days later the FBI announced that it had foiled a major terrorist plot to murder hundreds of U.S. soldiers in major military bases around the country. The Muslim extremists were caught just in time.

My friends, these are major successes that should call forth congratulatory words from citizens all across the country. Had the President and his Administration not been doing their jobs, there is no way to ascertain the mass carnage that these two plots would have produced.