QUESTION TIME MIAMI STYLE.



On this week's BBC Question Time coming from Miami - we will have Michael Moore (extreme left-winger and pie-eater), Sidney Blumenthal (former Clinton Adviser - say no more!), David Frum (Conservative commentator and Bush biographer "The Right Man") and Richard Littlejohn (Who he?). I bet the audience is loaded with Dem supporters and I have already been in contact with David Frum to let him know what to expect. Should be a bear-pit and a last chance for the BBC to try and influence the US election. Hope David does well.

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SH(AMNESTY) INTERNATIONAL.



As we approach the US election, all the stops are being pulled out by the leftists and this is apparent in a report released by Amnesty International today accusing President George Bush of "encouraging abuse" of prisoners in US military custody by branding them terrorists and killers without trial. The human rights group made the claim in a report, which documents the alleged abuses of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay. The organisation also appealed to Mr Bush and his Democratic election challenger John Kerry to pledge an investigation into claims of torture and degrading treatment by US personnel around the world.



It's just a thought but surely Amnesty International wouldn't be so cynical, so contrived, so.partisan that they would be seeking to influence the result of the US election perchance????

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ON THE MOVE.



Just wanted to wish the Black Watch British soldiers a safe and successful tour of duty as they move north to Baghdad to help the US take on the Jihadists. It's not going to be easy but in the final analysis, and listening to what soldiers rather than girly-men liberal media commentators say, they are well up for the challenge. I'm sure they'll do well - and all will return safely to their families. This is WAR and this is why we need soldiers, not aromatherapists or pop-psychologists.

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CONGRATS TO SLUGGER!



I noted in today's Irish Independent that there was quite a lengthy article on blogs. Sorry I don't have a link to it - but the article singled out Slugger O'Toole as a "first rate Irish political blog." I just wanted to congratulate Mick and the gang over at Slugger. They deserve the kudos and have certainly set standards. (Naturally, being profoundly British blog, ATW could not have been considered as an "Irish" blog!!)

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SADDAM INTERVENES IN "BOMBGATE."



From the hugely entertaining Scrappleface:-



"When Iraqi military interrogators informed the imprisoned Saddam Hussein that 377 tons of explosives had disappeared from a huge weapons storage facility, the former Iraqi president expressed concern that the extremely powerful chemical agents might "fall into the wrong hands." His remarks bolstered claims by Democrat presidential candidate John Forbes Kerry that President George Bush had made a "great blunder" by failing to secure the weapons cache at Al Qaqaa." Read the rest of it - what a hoot!

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THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY FOR KERRY!



This is quite a good expose at NRO of the malignant IAEA and its central role in the latest "Get Bush" campaign!



As Clifford May puts it, "The Iraqi explosives story is a fraud. These weapons were not there when US troops went to this site in 2003. The IAEA and its head, the anti-American Mohammed El Baradei, leaked a false letter on this issue to the media to embarrass the Bush administration. The US is trying to deny El Baradei a second term and we have been on his case for missing the Libyan nuclear weapons program and for weakness on the Iranian nuclear weapons program."



Liberal are now reverting to full denial mode. They say something so it is true - even when it is patently false.

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TRANSPARENT DECOMMISSIONING.



Any future decommissioning carried out by the IRA should be transparent, Conservative leader Michael Howard has said. He said if his party got into office at the next election there would be no move towards joint authority with the Republic of Ireland "by stealth".



Big deal. OF COURSE there should be no move towards de facto joint authority. That would be against the democratic wishes of the majority of people in NI. OF COURSE the IRA should visibly decommission - or be crushed. That still won't make Sinn Fein fit for Government. An insurrectionist movement has no place in politics and the great sin of the Belfast Agreement and any DUP spawned variation upon it is that it tries to turn this vice into a virtue.

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Kerry and the Plastic Paddies



Isn't John Kerry's campaign supported by some really unpleasant groupings? This week alone we have witnessed endorsements from the media in China and Iran, the pusillanimous Spanish government and the PLO. To add to this horrible spectacle, dear old JFK has now received backing from Bubba Bill 'I'd go to bed with a frog if it had the ability to put on a tutu' Clinton.



The latest addition to this showboat of schlemiels comes courtesy of a US-based organisation called Northern Ireland Alert. It champions Kerry's campaign because it claims Bush has somehow neglected the opportunity to be sufficiently proactive in Ulster matters. In plastic paddy-speak, it means Bush has not been as disgustingly partisan as Bubba Bill was in promoting a republican agenda at every juncture, in addition to lavishing known terrorists with gut-wrenching respectability.



Members of the above group will doubtless be the type who like to rattle tins for Provo fundraising in Irish theme bars, who championed Joe Kennedy Jr when he verbally abused a soldier during a visit to Belfast in 1987, and who blindly refuse to strike an analogy between their Hibernian heroes and the monsters who destroyed the World Trade Center three years ago. Mind you, with Kerry seeking to lay the blame at the feet of the DUP in order to woo the most abhorrent personages in the Irish American community, what can one expect?

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