As of last night, John McCain had at least 707 delegates, Mitt Romney had 294 and Mike Huckabee had 195. A candidate needs 1191 delegates to win. McCain’s total will go up as the California delegates are parceled out. By my math, there are 1147 delegates yet to be awarded (again, some of these are actually already in McCain’s column from California). This means:
McCain needs
487484 of 1147Romney needs 897 of 1147
Huckabee needs 996 of 1147
Whatever Romney is up to, it cannot realistically be about winning. It only prevents some from getting over the “sit in the wilderness” fixation.
If a certain Congressman gets his way, Obama may have more than two terms be defeated militarily or to drown in economic crisis.
Come on, there must be some mistake. Frank Rich wrote that, not bin Laden.
If OBL made a tape that no one played. Would it still make a sound?
But DPBKMB, the Public has a Right to Know what bin Laden has to say. Even if he’s dead. And they have an Even More Fundamental Right to Know what spin Peter Bergen has decided to put on it.
Meanwhile, the Iranian Hitler continues to call for genocide, while the world yawns:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95NMH4O1&show_article=1
And so it goes…
Joe, the “Iranian Hitler” might be calling for genocide, but its current practitioners are the Israelis, who are now bombing the storehouses of food and medicine. Terrorists are loathsome pigs, whether they’re al-Qaeda, or Hamas, or the Israeli military. They are all in the same boat. They are enemies of humanity, with no shame.
Mr. Hartland, military action in which civilians are harmed does not, in and of itself, constitute genocide. If it did, then the Allies were guilty of genocide against the French, the Belgians, and the Dutch, since thousands of people in all three of these countries were killed by Allied bombing during the Second World War.
As a general point, the population of the Gaza Strip in 1967 was about 350,000, and is now estimated to be about 1.4-1.5 million. Whatever the effects of Israeli policy have been in the intervening 41 years, “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” cannot be rationally claimed to be among them.
Finally, terrorists such as Hamas and al-Qaeda try to maximize the death toll resulting from their strikes. If you think the IDF is using its maximum firepower in Gaza, you are, to be blunt, either ignorant or delusional.
in fact, mohamad atta wrote his last will and testament the night of the first Qana massacre in 96.
i have found that though sunnis and shias hate each other the one issue they all agree on is their disdain for israel and for americas foreign policy that supports israel.
but israel is the key to the whole thing. no israel, no al queda, hamas, hezbollah
Lester is wrong: I was ordered to fight all men until they say—There is no God but Allah.
Hey Eric, Did you see James Robbins article today in NRO re:OBL? I thought he was on the mark:
January 15, 2009 6:00 AM
The One That Got Away
OBL and the end of the Bush years.
By James S. Robbins
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjBlNTdiYjM4MzhlZGU1MDRjNTc3ODEwOWZlYTFmMTQ=
no israel, no problem
The fascist mind depends on cultivating a state of war mentality. Thus it becomes very important to find supposed examples of the cause (state, nationality, religion) under siege. However never make the mistake of believing that fascists are created by their alleged grievances. Rather fascism depends on a mindset that must shape its preconceived perception of the world to narrative of war and that is overly prepared to use grievances as a post hoc rationalization. However take one grievance away and you get another in its place, because it is the underlying mindset, not the supposed exterior cause, that is determinative.
Lester-Atta wrote his will, which was not martrydom document at all but a mere will, before the event you cite.
In any event, when terrorists murder thousands of innocent people in the name of a cause, should you espouse the cause or do the opposite?
Finally, would OBL be so kind as to issue a video with his ugly face next to a current newspaper. Because CIA “authentication” aside, these generic tapes lead to the suspicion that he is now fertilizer despite the media’s uncritical reception.
Edit-”to create the narrative of war”
ian- I’d like to avoid having terrorism on american soil.