The people of Iran are pouring into the streets in protest of last week’s election, which has all the signs of having been stolen by current President/anti-Semitic lunatic Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Some of the protesters have been shot. News is leaking out of this tightly controlled country via Twitter!

What has been the very late reaction of our own fearful leader, President Barack Hussein Obama?

Mr. Obama said he was deeply troubled by the violence surrounding the election, but stressed it was up to the Iranian people to choose their leadership. He said he would maintain his policy of directly negotiating with Iran’s leaders on its nuclear program, irrespective of the vote.

Way to go, Barry. Give this homicidal A-hole legitimacy while the Mullahs charge the enforcers with the task to put down this protest before it becomes a new revolution. Can’t have freedom breaking out all over the place, now can we.

Especially since our own government is working overtime to abridge ours.

When even WaPo notices, that’s sayin’ something.

My message to the people of Iran?

Viva La Revolución!

Gee, if you look at the YouTube of our Prez, ol’ Barry ‘O’ bowin’ low to the Saudi king, it would make you wonder what the boys in the big White House are a drinkin’ or maybe that should be a smokin’ with statements like this one highlighted at Ben Smith’s Politico blog.

The White House is denying that the president bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London, a scene that drew criticism on the right and praise from some Arab outlets.

“It wasn’t a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he’s taller than King Abdullah,” said an Obama aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

No kidding — if I was a lyin’ SOS weasel I’d insist on anonymity, too.

Take a good close look and then decide for your own self.

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air asks:

Will the media finally report this, as Ben Smith did, now that the White House is trying to deny the obvious and rewrite history? Or will they continue to sit silently while Obama tinkles on their heads and calls it rain?

The MSM is so in the bag for this administration they’ll let themselves get piss-soaked and still feel clean. Oh, and speakin’ of the press. In this morning’s presser our fearful leader declined to make any comment on the continuing Somali pirate standoff. In the face of reporters wanting to know what the White House’s stand would be Obama said that he wanted to remain focused on housing. Hillary warned us about this neophyte’s potential to not be up to the 3 AM call — which he’s had two of in less than a week.

So, let’s wrap up here. In the case of a bow that can be nothing but a bow — Obama says that he didn’t bow.

Liar!

In the case of No. Korea firing a multi-stage rocket/missile over an ally’s territory and against UN sanctions — nothing but more talk, Talk, TALK!

Bullshit artist!

And with pirates holder a US flagged vessel’s captain and a US warship now on the scene — nah, don’t feel like discussin’ it.

Coward!

Wow! That’s just a bit too much hopey-changiness for me for one week.

Damn, the week’s not over yet . . .

Over at Joshuapundit it’s not put exactly that way, but the meaning is the same: Obama To Israel – Get Bent

The Obama Administration is sending a clear message that they no longer consider Israel as one of our most important allies but as an obstruction. And they couldn’t care less about making it blatantly obvious.

Seems like senior Israeli officials have come to D.C. to discuss the Iranian nuclear threat and can’t get meetings with anyone of authority in the Obama administration. At the same time, the Obama folks are pushing for $20-plus million dollars to facilitate Hamas immigration to the US. WTF???

President Obama’s foreign policy direction is crystal clear. He has accepted the leftist doctrine that the problems in the Muslim world are all the fault of the evil colonialist West, so he plans to placate them as much as necessary.That’s what’s behind his distancing himself and his administration from Israel, and from Britain, which is seen in the Arab world as a former occupier and colonial power.

In that context, the Obama Administration could care less about the implications of Iran having nuclear weapons. They don’t see that as a threat to the new policy of moving closer to the Muslim world…and the last thing they want is for those pesky Jews in Israel to upset things.

Ya know — I pushed all the Jewish friends and acquaintances that I had not to vote for this fool. He was anti-Israel from the get go but talked his way into their lil’ Lefty hearts.

Gonna regret that someday real soon — mark it!

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With headlines like these:

Obama mulls reaching out to moderate Taliban

CRISIS IS ‘GREAT OPPORTUNITY’

CHAVEZ CALLS ON OBAMA TO FOLLOW PATH OF SOCIALISM…

Obama can not assure economy will grow again by end of year; Urges Americans not to ’stuff money in mattresses’…

. . . What else can we say?

Well, it was interesting, if not terrifying to contemplate. However, according to Information Dissemination, the Iranian ship MV Iran Deyanat that had been hijacked by Somali pirates and then spirited away after the pirates agreed to give it back has made it to its original destination: Rotterdam.

Well, the MV Iran Deyanat popped up in the news again today, this time making port in Rotterdam. Not only was the ship deemed unsuspecting of any problems, but it underwent a normal inspection without issue and according to this news report, is tied up to bouy 29 without the necessity of extra security as the ship waits to unload cargo.

Hopefully this will allow the never ending conspiracy theory surrounding the ship die. Was there anything that made this ship unusual? Hell ya! Pirates turned down a $2 million dollar ransom at one point, the ship had an unusually long official transit log, Reuters reported on dead people and other health related problems of those exposed to the ship, and official government folks in Somalia threw plenty of gas on the fire. In the end, it amounted to nothing, adding just one more legend to the piracy off the Somalian coast.

Laer at Cheat-Seeking Missiles is offering up his mea culpa with a caveat:

Plus, I wouldn’t put something as nasty as a ship-borne dirty bomb beyond the Iranians. Anyone odd enough to spiritedly deny the holocaust while aggressively calling for a new one provides plenty of evidence of being a wee tad meshuggah.

Well, we can’t get ‘em all right — but I still think there are nuggets of possibility in the ID post’s comments.

OK, Dave — this one’s for you!

A couple of days ago I got an email form Shirat Devorah with an update on that Iranian ship that was being held captive by Somali pirates. The Brian Harring article declares that the ship WAS a dirty bomb that was going to target Israel on Yom Kippur. Did you read about it in the MSM? Didn’t think so . . . (nuttin’ but crickets chirping over at AP, NBC, CBS, ABC, NYT, LAT, etc.)

“October 10, 2008 Armed Somalia pirates on Friday released three Indians and 26 other members of the crew on board a hijacked cargo ship after keeping them in captivity for more than one and half months. ….The ship MV Iran Deyanat, carrying 40,000 tonnes of iron ore en route from China to Netherlands, was hijacked on the Red Sea by Somali pirates on August 22.” 80 nautical miles off the coast of Yemen.

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An American-based website, http://www.longwarjournal.org/ strongly pro-U.S. Department of Defense initially discussed this on September 22 but, like the DoD, has had nothing to say about it since, and this in spite of an enormous flood of commentary on the internet that never somehow seemed to filter its way downward to any aspect of the American media. After her capture and removal to a Somali port, the Deyanat’s cargo containers were broken into by the pirates in search of loot.

The result? Sixteen of them died of extreme radiation poisoning.

Once this bizarre and frightening information emerged, a blackout was imposed inside the United States and from the date of capture until today, not one word of this has ever been seen in or on the American media.

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The ship was released by Somali pirates on October 10, after a $250,000 cash bribe was paid by the U.S. Navy for her release. The MV Iran Denyant was taken into immediate custody of a joint naval taskforce present, to include Russian and French ships. Crew members had all been interrogated and all of them, deemed “uninformed of the ship’s course or cargo” were duly released to their diplomatic representatives. The ship was boarded, occupied and thoroughly searched by U.S. Navy specialists but a subsequent report on the suspicious cargo containers has been heavily classified.(‘Top Secret- Galactic’)

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I have a correct copy of the ship’s real manifest that a U.S. Navy source faxed me about two hours ago. There was no rocket fuel on board. Her cargo contained “a significant quantity” of radioactive waste from China, in lead-lined and secured cargo containers. The ship was never boarded by anyone from the time she left Nanjing in China until the Somali pirates grabbed her. Sixteen pirates died within two weeks, of heavy radiation poisoning, and three more are expected to die. An international force consisting of American, Russian, French and Dutch ships were involved in blockading the ship and preventing her from leaving Somalian waters.

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The entire matter has been shut up and you will never see any mention of it in any mainstream media. The matter is now considered closed.

The author goes on to speculate that the Bush administration’s desire “to open a ‘US Interest Section’ in Tehran just after the presidential elections on November 4th” is the reason that this has been totally clamped down and buried.

Me? Shoot, I don’t know — doesn’t look like any of us will for 20-50 years or so . . .

Technorati Tags: Shirat Devorah, dirty bomb, MV Iran Deyanat, Somali pirates

Iranian parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has spoken — Iran would rather see Barack Obama in the White House than John McCain. Why?

We are leaning more in favor of Barack Obama because he is more flexible and rational, even though we know American policy will not change that much[.]

I think it’s because they believe that ol’ Barry will be a big ol’ pussy, rolling right over if Iran attacks Israel! At least that’s the impression VP candidate Joe Biden made the other day with his rant about a new Obama administration facing a huge International crisis within the first 6-months of taking office. The general consensus is that Joe is warning all of us that Barack will blink and try to talk his way out of a conflict with ol’ Mahmoud and the Mullahs instead of kickin’ some Iranian ass!

Haaretz is reporting that Iran has warned foreign diplomats in London that senior officials in Tehran are leaning toward a preemptive attack on Israel. Maybe that is what ol’ Slow Joe was referring to — and telling us not to get too terribly upset when Obama turns the other cheek; when he turns away from Israel to avoid a larger conflict with Iran.

A third hot front in the war with radical Islam we sure don’t need, but unless you’ve never paid any attention to history, ignoring someone that is lobbing attacks your way isn’t the way to make them stop — unless you simply surrender. Hmmm, that’s what Obama has been recommending us doing in Iraq. See a pattern yet?

President John McCain won’t let Iran get away with an attack on Israel without paying a heavy price and the whole world knows that to be a fact. Therefore, if McCain is elected Iran more than likely won’t dare to attack Israel on his watch. No one in the world knows anything about how a President Obama would react except that his rhetoric to date strongly indicates that he wouldn’t.

See a pattern yet? Doah!

Technorati Tags: Ali Larijani, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, President John McCain, President Obama

The MV Iran Deyanat. Photo from Maritime News Russia.

[H/t: Cheat-Seeking Missiles]

I meant to link to this the other day after reading Laer’s post at C-SM and was reminded of it again after seeing it also on Ace today. From Shirat Devorah: Hijacked Iranian Ship was a Dirty Bomb Meant for Israel on Yom Kippur

On August 21st, 2008, the MV Iran Deyant, 44,458 dead weight bulk carrier was heading towards the Suez Canal. As it was passing the Horn of Africa, about 80 miles southeast of al-Makalla in Yemen, the ship was surrounded by speedboats filled with members of a gang of Somalian pirates who grab suitable commercial ships and hold them and their cargos and crews for ransom. The captain was defenseless against the 40 pirates armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades blocking his passage. He had little choice other than to turn his ship over to them. What the pirates were not banking on, however, was that this was no ordinary ship.

The MV Iran Deyanat is owned and operated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) – a state-owned company run by the Iranian military that was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on September 10, shortly after the ship’s hijacking.
According to the U.S. Government, the company regularly falsifies shipping documents in order to hide the identity of end users, uses generic terms to describe shipments to avoid the attention of shipping authorities, and employs the use of cover entities to circumvent United Nations sanctions to facilitate weapons proliferation for the Iranian Ministry of Defense.

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Within a period of three days, those pirates who had boarded the ship and opened the cargo container with its gritty sand-like contents, all developed strange health complications, to include serious skin burns and loss of hair. And within two weeks, sixteen of the pirates subsequently died, either on the ship or on shore.

News about the illness and the toxic cargo quickly reached Garowe, seat of the government for the autonomous region of Puntland. Angered over the wave of piracy and suspicious about the Iranian ship, authorities dispatched a delegation led by Minister of Minerals and Oil Hassan Allore Osman to investigate the situation on September 4. and they witnessed some of the deaths due to exposure to ‘something on that ship.’

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Although American intelligence and government sources are maintaining a strictly observed silence, the same does not apply to the Russians and so it is that we learn the real story of the MV Iran Deyanat. She was an enormous floating dirty bomb, intended to detonate after exiting the Suez Canal at the eastern end of the Mediterranean and in proximity to the coastal cities of Israel. The entire cargo of radioactive sand, obtained by Iran from China (the latter buys desperately needed oil from the former) and sealed in containers which, when the charges on the ship are set off after the crew took to the boats, will be blasted high into the air where prevailing winds will push the highly dangerous and radioactive cloud ashore.

Given the large number of deaths from the questing Somali pirates, it should be obvious that when the contents of the ship’s locked cargo containers finally descended onto the land, the death toll would be enormous. This ship was nothing more nor less than the long-anticipated Iranian attack on Israel. Not the expected rocket attacks (which could be intercepted by the Israelis) but an even more deadly and unexpected attack by sea.. It is very interesting to note that the Israeli government has in the past few weeks, been loudly demanding that the United States establish a naval blockade of Iran.

The reason for this blockade would be to prevent any more Iranian ships with deadly cargos from attacking either Israel or other targets from the sea.

Laer wrote:

If this is true and Iran had pulled it off, it would have been impossible for the Tehraniacs to avoid blame for the attack, and the Chinese would have been hard pressed to avoid accusations of knowingly abetting the plot. I’ve always felt that if (when) Iran gets the bomb, it will be delivered via intermediaries to Israel for detonation, not atop an Iranian missile because I thought plausible deniability was important to the Tehraniacs.

Apparently I was wrong, and they’re crazier than I thought.

Ace looked at this story and concludes:

Although this all seems patently absurd, so did 9/11. While liberals will all laugh at the cowardly chicken little conservatives, the difference between us seems that we can imagine the possibility of the next 9/11, whereas they can barely even acknowledge the last one.

And here’s the thing: We must have paid off the pirates to have ourselves a sneaky-peek at this ship by now.

Assuming we did that, why is there no statement from the US that the cargo is harmless whatsits or the like?

The Drawn Cutlass has an opinion on why this story isn’t getting any attention from the MSM.

This story is under tight wraps, it isn’t getting coverage at all. There’s another Somali pirate story, the ship with the tanks aboard, and this isn’t that ship. If this story was covered by the MSM it would doom Obama’s chances at being elected, because the electorate would turn to McCain in a nuclear war situation. The MSM, which would normally jump at the chance to reveal a story that the administration is keeping under wraps, has its own reasons to spike this story.

Things like this must be kept fully in mind when you cast your vote for President on 11/4. We all can imagine how John McCain would react to something like this if, God forbid, Iran or another Jihadist entity were to launch a successful attack on our ally, Israel. One can only speculate on what a President Obama would do, and the best guess is that he would think about it — a whole lot! — and then what?

Exactly . . .

It’s all a story that would do Tom Clancy proud. Wait a sec. Clancy’s Jack Ryan novel Debt of Honor — about a 747 being crashed into the Capital building during the State of the Union Address — was published way back in 1994, 11 7 years before 9/11!

Uh Oh!

“Calling John McCain! President John McCain . . .”

Technorati Tags: MV Iran Deyant, IRISL, John McCain, President Obama

Laer over at Cheat-Seeking Missiles has been real busy today so I’ll excerpt and link to a couple of his goodies.

First, if you missed it on Face The Nation yesterday like I did, General Wesley Clark — at the time a Barack Obama ‘mouthpiece’, intimated that John McCain’s military career didn’t make him qualified to be Commander-in-Chief. Laer responded to Clark’s lambasting of McCain:

What a sterling condemnation of … Barack Obama. What does being a Socialist organizer in Chicago do to prepare Obama for president? How much executive experience did he gain as an abortion hawk in the Illinois Senate? And in his 143 days on the US Senate floor?

Yeah! 143 days with nothing to show for it, a bunch of South-side Chicago political wheelings & dealings trumps riding a fighter jet, being a prisoner of war and commanding a naval air wing, huh General?

Never mind, though. Obama promptly threw the General under the bus! Man, it’s gotta be gettin’ crowded under there.

I caught the blurb on Drudge last night that President Bush was livid over a story in The New Yorker that would again expose the details of a classified program in our war on terror — or as Seymour Hersh puts it, “the President’s war on terror” — not any of us involved, natch — just ol’ BushCo at it again.

I’ll have to agree with Laer again:

Sedition, thy name is Seymour Hersh.

The Liberal elites don’t get it at all, and they don’t respect anything about the military. In fact, their behavior shows that they fear our own government and those sworn to protect it more than they fear those striving to obtain nuclear weapons in order to kill us in mass.

Technorati Tags: General Wesley Clark, Barack Obama, Seymour Hersh

[Update: Today's article in Reuters puts my little musing of yesterday in a sharper focus.]

I think of things while in the shower. Like this moring, I was thinkin’ that in just a few more weeks the eyes of the world will be on the new Olympic stadium in Bejing as the athletes march in the opening ceremony. Heads of state from all over the world will be there, including President Bush and one would assume the highest ranking of the Chinese Communists. All the high-ranking al Queda operatives and planners could possibly be thinking as they watch and read about the 2008 Olympics is, “What a target rich environment — Oh ya betcha!” When I got that far in my mind, my inner Tom Clancy decided it was time for a little channeling o’ the Okie . . .

“No, it wouldn’t be easy, maybe not even possible, but if one could pull this off, Allah would be most pleased and the virgins would be non-stop — even to the point where a faithful man would have to consider asking for them to stop, or maybe slow it down a bit. But, one would have to have faith that if there would be so many of them that the stamina would also be provided. What other payment would suffice the success of such a demonstration of the power of Allah? The time to dream is over, time to act. The torch has reached the platform and in mere moments the Olympic flame will be lit — and then the flame of cleansing will follow. Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! . . . It is time.”

The last thing that anyone in the Olympic Stadium saw was the Olympic flame coming alive followed by a searing beyond-white light — microseconds later no one in the immediate area was alive, actually no one was anything at all except for vaporized and burned at the molecular level. Televised images of the Olympic Opening Ceremony from inside the Olympic village ceased immediately, those from remotes within a few miles went black seconds later — only those from far away that had satellite links showed what had to have been a nuclear blast. Spy satellites confirmed this and that knowledge set off a second chain of events.

The Chinese military immediately began looking for the likely culprit — surely this had to have come from Russia, or the U.S., probably Russia. Not England, or France. Pakistan? India? Not likely, but have to admit, close. North Korea? No.

Most of all, must save face. Who to strike? Eenie. Meenie. Miney. Mo.

The Russians saw it coming but with little time to decision make, let alone act. “Punch the Button comrades . . . punch ALL the buttons!”

Washington had more time, and the ballistic missile defense system saves San Francisco. Lucky them . . . The President gone, the east coast soon to be history — what to do? Launch ‘em ALL! Let God sort it out.

The Israelis weren’t stupid. Western Europe and America were never going to help, never going to be able to help, not in this or the next generation’s lifetimes. The Arabs and the Persians would descend upon God’s people and finish what the Nazi’s started decades ago. It really wasn’t a decision to make, it was fate, and destiny, and if God was willing — self preservation.

They launched ‘em ALL! No more Saudi oilfields and refineries. No more Iraqi oil. No more Arabic capitals. No more Iranian nuclear threat. No more much of anything . . .

Needless to say, what would be left of the world, and the world’s economy, wouldn’t be a very fun place to be. We don’t really understand the environmental fallout of pumping that much radioactive matter into the atmosphere, but one wouldn’t be able to put up an argument that what followed wasn’t man-caused Climate Change. This time, that moniker would fit.

If I were even remotely as talented at Robert Ferrigno this would be a great place to start a story. I’m not — so let’s hope we never have to live it to find out what happens . . .