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Posted at 5:04pm on May 15, 2007 Stop the torture!

By JedBabbin

Katie and the Cave Men were enough for one day, but the stuff just keeps rolling in.

Today's Joys of Jihad Bulletin comes courtesy of Mr. Mahjid Khan, a pal of KSM who planned to blow up gas stations in the DC area. He faced his Combatant Status Tribunal today, and began with complaints of "mental torture. " He didn't like the "cheap unscented soap", "noisy fans", and half-inflated balls in the recreation yard that "hardly bounce."

Sure sounds like torture to me.

Here's the link to the transcript (the excerpt is on p. 26):

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/transcript_ISN10020.pdf

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Posted at 10:18am on May 9, 2007 The New Dan Quayle?

By JedBabbin

Barack Obama, according to a BBC report, was speaking of the Kansas tornados when he said, "In case you missed it, there was a tragedy in Kansas," adding that 10,000 people were killed. Actually, 12 were killed.

But can he spell the plural of "tomato"?

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Posted at 2:31pm on May 7, 2007 My War Against "ize" Words

By JedBabbin

Do some words just grate on your nerves? Over too many years in and out of government and the military, I've developed a real allergy to words ending in "ize." Imagine my shock when one of the greatest scribes - my friend Michael Barone of US News & World Report -- titled his latest, "Prioritizing Our Problems." http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=20588

I sent this e-mail to him this morning:

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Posted at 5:45pm on Apr. 24, 2007 Veto Bait

By JedBabbin

If ever a Congress begged for a veto, this one has in the provisions of the war supplemental appropriations bill. Though the report hasn't been released in its entirety, CQ is reporting that the House-Senate conference has put four major provisions in limiting the president's options to deal with the Iraq war. Any of the four would have justified a veto: together, they only demonstrate the hard core of the Democratic party. From CQ, here are the lowlights:

1. Requires withdrawal of American troops from Iraq to begin on July 1, 2007 and be completed within six months. If the president certifies the Iraqi government has met the bill's benchmarks (militia disarmament, enactment of oil revenue sharing law and legislation on elections) the withdrawal can be delayed to begin on October 1, 2007 and completed six months after that;

2. The only troops that can remain behind will be to protect US personnel, to engage in special actions against terrorists, to serve in diplomatic provisions, and to train Iraqi forces;

3. The Iraqi government is required to meet the benchmarks outlined in #1; and

4. Any US military units going to Iraq must be certified "fully mission capable", have been out of Iraq for a year before being sent back in, and extension of tours in Iraq is limited by the law. The provision makes some allowance for the president to waive these limitations.

If all they wanted to do is "cut and run", why'd it take so many words?

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