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Swift Boat Kitty
White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett said yesterday: "Kitty Kelley's allegations make Michael Moore look like a factual documentarian. We're not going to let this garbage she's historically known for spreading go unanswered." He said it would "violate journalistic standards" for news executives to "put this type of trash in their newspapers and on their airwaves." White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan added that the drug allegations were "discredited, dismissed and disavowed years ago."
Heh.
Explaining the French
The right loves to villify the French as cheese eating surrender monkeys, but when it comes to dealing with terrorists, nobody kicks derriére like the frogs.
Torture, deportation, endless detention and more await any Jihadist unlucky enough to be caught planning terrorism in the land of champagne and brie. According to this must read in the Jerusalem Post: This year, eight Muslim imams have been deported from the country under a 1945 emergency law for preaching "discrimination, hatred or violence against a certain person or groups of persons." The judicial system has staged mega-trials of terrorist suspects – 100 at a time, in one instance. Suspects can be held without trial for years. Torture is not uncommon: According to a BBC report, the British High Court has blocked France's extradition request of Rachid Ramda, wanted in connection to the 1995 bombing, on grounds that "the evidence against him had been beaten out of one of the bombers by the notoriously tough French anti-terrorist police."
The French, like any other culture, hold contradictory positions. Just like Americans. Comme ci, comme ca.
8.9.04 22:58
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blogenlust / Website (8.9.04 23:22) Chinese proverb: "What goes around, comes around, bitch." |