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Surge Is Working As Democrats Strive Toward American Defeat

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Despite their self-proclaimed “mandate”, the House Democrats barely bribed together enough votes for the “cut and run” appropriations bill last Friday.  But despite the Democrat Party’s rush toward American humiliation in World War III, the surge in the Iraqi Theater is showing more and more results — while the Democrats try to starve our troops in combat.

US Captures Carbomb Ringleaders – USA Today

U.S. forces have arrested the leaders of one of the deadliest car-bomb-making networks in Baghdad, a military spokesman said.

After months of intelligence gathering, U.S. troops captured the ringleader of the Rusafa car bomb network and three of his lieutenants on Wednesday, Army Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said in an interview Saturday with USA TODAY.

The group, named after the area in Baghdad where it operated, has been linked to at least 14 car bomb attacks since early February that claimed the lives of 265 Iraqis and wounded 650 others, Caldwell said. Among the attacks was a blast Feb. 3 that killed more than 100 people in a Shiite market in downtown Baghdad, he said.

“This car bomb network was a major one operating in Baghdad,” said Caldwell, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq. “They were responsible for a horrific amount of civilian casualties.”

It was the biggest bust of car bombmakers since the start of the Baghdad security plan last month, Caldwell said.

Each Picture In Iraq Is a Piece of the Landscape of War – ABC News (h/t – Confederate Yankee)

Even in Baghdad, some residents are tired of al Qaeda. In one neighborhood residents have been told not to smoke or wear short pants. The bodies of al Qaeda victims litter the streets. In the past week the men on the street corners have been whispering, “Let’s get rid of them one by one”.

According to the U.S. military, a group of al Qaeda in Iraq fighters recently entered a small village east of Baghdad and announced they would be back and would take several houses for their base. When they returned two days later, their convoy was attacked by villagers. The military found out when the villagers told them to come out and pick up bodies and prisoners.

The numbers of civilian deaths are down a little but that’s only a small part of the story. It’s the little things together that make the difference. It might be too early to tell if this is a tipping point in the war, but it does appear as though the momentum has changed.

So the heroes of the US Armed Forces and the Iraqi people have stepped up to do their part.  But back at home, we watch one political party hoping and moving us toward defeat, while our military across the globe is taking the War on Terror into the terrorists’ backyards.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Comments

  1. This is a letter I’m sending to my Congressperson today:

    March 26, 2007
    Daniel Lipinski
    Congressman – Illinois 3rd
    1717 Longworth House Office Building
    Washington, DC 20515
    Dear Mr. Lipinksi:

    The Congress of the United States has made me so angry that I’m writing this letter at 2AM on Monday morning 26 March.
    I can not believe… my mind is still processing this… I can not believe that the House of Representatives have passed the atrocity that is HR1591. In your statement you write:

    “In particular, I am glad that this bill provides $750 million to SCHIP, enabling children in Illinois to continue to receive quality health care. And the $400 million in funding for LIHEAP will help many of my constituents heat their homes throughout the winter.”

    What?!

    You are GLAD that a bill that hands over Iraq to Al Qaida in 2008 contains more than $1,000,000,000 in pork for Illinois. Blood money, Congressman… the bloodiest. I am distraught that I’m represented in the Congress of the United States by someone who is GLAD that he was bought off by the extreme Left in Congress.
    Congressman, do you know anything about the enemy we face? Do you? The ONLY people you should be (as your statement put it) “pressuring” is the vast array of Jihadis who are running wild all over the Earth. But no, you want to “pressure” the President.
    No matter what the faults of President Bush are… and there are many… do you think he needs more pressure? And Pressure from craven politicians from Congress no less.

    Why is no mention of our enemy to be found in your statement, Congressman? Or is the enemy the President?

    The Sunni and Shiite Islamic Jihadis are absolutely determined to destroy us. They state this themselves as much as they can. They are not motivated by economics, technology, or some secular Marxist ideology.
    They are devout followers of their religion. They believe in the core of their hearts and minds that they are working toward the betterment of mankind by destroying us. Their religious faith is what propels them and fills them with confidence.

    Al Qaida and others have explicitly stated they are relying on Anti-American and Leftists domestic groups in the United States to emasculate the US. You , sir, are the tool they are relying on. You’re glad?
    Are you glad that you’re validating their religious faith? YOU are contributing to their confidence that Allah will bring us down just as Allah brought down the Soviet Union.
    Islam has been at war against the world since 622AD. Do you think they’re not going to wait ONE MORE YEAR for us to leave Iraq… just as the Soviet Union left Afghanistan and then fell out of existence.. and feel they have defeated a second Superpower?
    This is going to cause an EXPLOSION in Islam. They are going to go into such a frenzy of religious revival, the blood will be flowing from all quarters of the Earth.

    Congressman: You and your party will have contributed to untold destruction because you caused the US to back down. Back down to Jihadis! Jihadis who destroyed Persia… Jihadis who destroyed Byzantium and Constantinople. Jihadis who have been savagely brutalizing the Israelis.
    Why Congressman..? Why? Please don’t tell me that you hate Republicans so much that you have to offer up the country as a sacrifice. I hope you’re not one of those people.

    This is a map of Jihadi attacks around the world since 2003. 4,454 attacks with 28,957 dead.

    Your vote has confirmed to the Jihadi that it is only a matter of time before the United States is completely neutralized and their effort at imposing Sharia upon the world is a certainty.
    I think Bridgeview is in your district. Our little local hotbed of Islamic terror. I scanned through your press releases going back to 05 and I don’t see any messages about any involvement with that community. I infer from that and your enthusiastic support of this bill that perhaps you are not aware of the basics of Islam.

    Congressman, I’m an Italian-American male, 32 years old now. Grew up in Bridgeport, went to High School in Oak Lawn.

    I knew as much about Islam as anyone else… which is to say.. nothing. In the 90s, I was living in Hong Kong and an English ex-pat asked me what I thought about some strange Arab guy Bin Laden.

    Tuff tuff.. I told him it’s absurd that anyone should give him any attention, he’s a media creation and that’s all. Later that year two US embassies were destroyed. I was determined to find out why I had dismiss the man… what did I not know that I should have known? That required learning about Islam.

    Islam is more than the standard personal faith that most religions are. Islam is also a Totalitarian Military-Political System that will tolerate nothing other than itself. And will use any means (nothing is too extreme) to spread itself.

    I have the misfortune of working in the Sears Tower… any out of place noise in that building causes me to go through my internal “have we been attacked” checklist. I do not feel any more secure with that travesty that you voted for

    Please learn about Islam and undo the damage you and your party have done. Below my name I will leave you with some words about Islam that men far greater than myself have spoken

    Sincerely,

  3. To me at this point it is a simple proposition. Do the Democrats benefit more from a defeat or victory in Iraq? They are so invested in our defeat, they will not acknowledge any improvements. And they are so fearful at this point, that they feel the need to furthur undercut the efforts of the troops before they reach a critical mass of success. Simple and shameful.

  4. Vince, you expressed all our anger in your dead-on letter. Shame on the democrats. Why don’t we just drop a nuke on our boys and girls in Iraq now?? Liberal traitors have, once again, betrayed the ones who have made our freedom possible – not to mention the 10’s of millions of people in Afghanistan and Iraq. Plus, do they not realize that by attempting to bring democracy to the Middle East could, down the road, make a safer United States and world? Liberals are like little babies who, when they don’t get what they want, when they want, throw a tantrum (or use “porkish” bribery and blackmail tactics). Normally, I wouldn’t care, because some of them are downright amusing in their shrillness, but they are ruining MY country and world. The war is a necessary thing, if you truly understand what’s at stake. Being an ex-liberal, I know that most of “the left” has no clue. For them, defeat is their only option.

  5. Do the Democrats benefit more from a defeat or victory in Iraq? They are so invested in our defeat, they will not acknowledge any improvements.

    While the democrats won’t admit it, you are absolutely right that they have staked their party on defeat.

    The idea that setting a date certain will somehow make things better is absurd, and while they are going out of their way to screw our troops and their efforts, they basically harm the mission.

    The reality is that they likely don’t care if it harms the mission, because their party fairs better if there is defeat than victory.

    They really should be ashamed of themselves.

    Vince nice letter, I hope it doesn’t fall on deaf ears.

  6. Bravo, Vince! I concur with Peter H., that is the best letter I’ve ever read. While my representative has not made any public statements that I know of (no pork for us in the bill), she is definitely a Porklosi sheeple, voting which ever way she is instructed.

  7. sure am glad you guys are here to straighten me out. so when is fortress bagdad”s grand opening. i heard they would be a bunch of blackwaterites there. too bad those sunni loving saudis kicked us out of their country, at least our good friends the shiites don’t think like that.

  8. The long-term damage the Democrats are doing to the entire world pains me. I knew this year was going to be bad.. now they’re just dumping nuclear bombs into the fire. Everyone must contact thier Anti-American politicians and knock sense into them.

    The left is blind to what it is doing (lets hope) and its up to those who know truth to insist on spreading it.

  10. I didn’t know Mike Pence (R), Indiana was so funny:

    Here are some examples of what the Democrats consider ‘urgent’ needs that require ‘prompt action: ‘

    — $25 million for payments to spinach producers
    — $120 million to the shrimp industry
    — $74 million for peanut storage
    — $5 million for shellfish, oyster and clam producers

    “Spinach, shrimp, peanuts and shellfish? That’s not a war funding bill, that’s the salad bar at Denny’s.

  11. too bad those sunni loving saudis kicked us out of their country,

    Do you have a shred of honesty in your body? Rather, is there a shred of intelligence in your body? Weren’t you the one who asked someone, the other day, why they don’t think for themselves?

    Tell me, what about the McGovern-crats inspires you?

  12. Hello ThatGayConservative – markie probably has no idea what a “McGovern-crat” is!! Which, in and of itself, is funny!! Most leftists don’t understand what their side even stands for anymore. All they care about is pandering to poll numbers and special interest groupies. Basically, the left has turned into what they accuse the Right of being: rich elitist snobs, who think they can spend your money better than you can.

  13. Here’s what the troops in Iraq think of John Kerry, the jokster.. this is around the time after his “botched joke” attack on the troops happened..

    It was mid December 2006 at Camp Victory Iraq and I was about to enter the DFAC for dinner. I heard the SGT in charge of the guards talking about how John Kerry’s people and requested that Mr. Kerry be allowed to enter the DFAC through a side entrance instead of the main where all persons must present a valid ID. Mr. Kerry’s staff was told that he would have to enter the main entrance and present a valid ID just like the policy states. They then wanted to be allowed to bring in a backpack and were told no bags allowed. I entered the DFAC and found a table to sit not far from the room where Mr. Kerry was eating. This room is separated from the dinning area by doors, I have no idea how many people were in the room with Mr. Kerry but there were two soldiers standing outside the doors as guards. I overhead many soldiers of different ranks saying they can’t believe that Mr. Kerry has the nerve to come to Iraq after what he said in public about our troops. Others where saying “Help Us Help Us”. Mr. Kerry came out of the room and stood in line for ice cream, no one approached him to talk. There was a female soldier from Australia who Mr. Kerry tried to talk with but she had a look on her face as if she was annoyed.

  15. Kerry is a traitor many times over. He and his ilk still think there is a draft and that only stupid people, or “less fortunate” people go into the military. They wish it were that way, so they could exploit them as “victims” of the “evil” Bush administration. Meanwhile, he and his traitor buddies helped facilitate one of the worst human tragedies ever in Cambodia, by spewing lies about his fellow soldiers in Vietnam and championing the tyrants of Communism. Some things never change. Only now, they are making heroes out of Islamo-fascists, while using every opportunity to bash this country and leaders. The left is truly living in a universe I am glad I no longer live in. They are not Americans, by any stretch.

  17. to think the surge is working only adds to the reality of how deluded the gop is.

    anyone who supports the gop is a traitor, plain and simple. the commander & chief has commited treason and needs to be tried for it. if convicted, the man should sit in the electric chair and recieve the punishment he meted out (more than any other governor in us history).

    we were lied into this war. every decision made about it has been wrong. why should we trust this charade of an administration when we know for fact that each and every decision made by them has been wrong and supported only by fabricated data and lies? it’s absolutely pathetic that 29% of the us public still believes this lying administration.

  19. No, sweet pea, it’s a necessary reality. But you just keep on keepin’ on with your one-liners of idiocy!! Each time you post, it further proves you have absolutely nothing to say.

  20. ***anyone who supports the gop is a traitor, plain and simple.***

    How intellectually dishonest or morally bankrupt you are!! Sorry, but “the left” are the real traitors, “plain and simple”. You morons have a way of distorting all truth. We weren’t lied to, except all throughout the ’90’s, when the depraived rapist was in charge.

  21. Well, I would love to continue this eye-popping and jaw-dropping dialogue, but I have a job and must tend to it. I know that’s a foreign concept to most leftists, who are waiting for their government hand-out, but it’s what we Americans do! So, I bid everyone, even you welfare cases, farewell ’til later.

  22. LNC, don’t let a lower-case-libtroll like the so-called “rightiswrong” (oh, how original…) get your goat. He’s just another one of the Perpetually Indignant Groups. PIG for short.

    And riw, please get a clue regarding treason. Just look up the definition under Article III, Section 3 of the US Constitution. It enumerates the three-part test for identifying it. Clearly, the President did NOT do any of those items…unlike people like Jane Fonda, Sean Penn and John Walker Lindh.

    Plus, one would assume you would have grasped that impeachment is a remedy to remove a president (or other officer) for the commission of high crimes and misdemeanors.

    While “high crimes and misdemeanors” is a term of art, it most certainly does not encompass presidential action, which, though legal and constitutional, is not popular with the American people or a majority of Congress.

    Checkmate.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  24. markie is an honest example of the leftists in America. They would revel in an American defeat. They believe their country is the root of all that’s wrong with the world. From climate change to aids in Africa. They root for more soldier deaths in Iraq so as to humiliate the USA furthur.
    Did you ever wonder where the Nuclear Freeze nics went? The Anti free traders, the pro USSR lefties went? They didn’t all of a sudden become pro Democracy, pro capitalists. They become anti war nics and envirnmentalists. They are kooks who don’t know how to make a living in a capitalist society like ours. Sean Penns speach saturday was spot on. The leftists think Bush took us to war, not to protect us from terrorists and to take the fight over there. No Sean says it’s so Bush didn’t have to spend the money on health care and free school lunches for kids and stem cell research. Nutts.

  25. “… a group of al Qaeda in Iraq fighters recently entered a small village east of Baghdad and announced they would be back … When they returned two days later, their convoy was attacked by villagers. …”

    Best news I’ve heard in a long time.

  29. lesboneocon: you poor, deluded little traitor. no, aq was NOT in iraq before we got there. well, you better run now and turn on fox news…you need some additional washing on that teeny brain of yours.

  30. peter h: you deluded little traitor: yes, bush has commited treason. he’s profited from this war, which is a treasonable offense.

    now, where is that post of mine that you famously bragged you’d save to re-post…you know, the one where I correctly predicted the democratic party taking over congress. you so boldly predicted that i would be wrong. well, fool, once again, like lemmings over the cliff, you’ve shown how little knowledge you have. is your brain pathetically small, or what?

    CHECKMATE loser.

  32. rightiswrong , i wish you guys would assign each of your standard 50 or so cliches a standard number so when you feel releaving the pressure in your ass you can just type

    32 9 8!!!! 9 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

  33. This is the Democrat plan for Iraq:

    – The US leaves in humiliation
    – A real Civil War happens
    – The Taliban gradually take control of the country
    – Osama Bin Laden moves
    – Al Qaida plots what turns out to be the largest terrorist attack on US soil in history
    – US issues Ultimatum to the Taliban Iraq govt to hand over Al Qaida.
    – They ignore it
    – We invade Iraq.

    Yeah Democrats AWESOME PLAN.. Seems kinda familiar though.

  34. On my webpage I have a video from ABC News from 1999 linking Sadam and Al Qaida.

    I’m sure Bush pre-emptive caused that.

    vincep312.home.comcast.net
    Scroll to the bottom

  35. Yeah, AQ was in Iraq, no matter how you want to spin it. Top Iraqi officials met with AQ henchmen on more than one occassion, before the war and before 9/11. I know the MSM is your news source, but it’s a compensated tool of the democratic/socialist party and will report exactly what they want it to. So, taking snipes at Fox is further proof of your blatant hypocrisy and intellectual bankruptcy. You hate Fox because it dares to give the other side of the story. You’ve been so brainwashed by the forced-feedings of liberal spew, you wouldn’t recognize the truth. This fact clearly proven in your posts.

  37. LesbianNeoCon , all the Useless Idiot has to do is go to my webpage and watch the ABC News video report from 1999 and that dispells any notion that the idea of cooperation between the two was a lie by Bush.

  39. Vince P – I actually remember that report, but because in those days of true denial (I was still a liberal), I never gave it a 2nd thought. I only respond to those liberal dimwits for pure amusement purposes!! It’s actually an exercise in futility to try to point out how wrong they are, since facts aren’t part iof their alternate reality. They are the kind who stand on their heads and tell you you’re upside down. And don’t ask them to ever prove anything, because all you will get are talking points from the “Huffing Report” or “Silly Chaos”.

  40. Lesbian: I agree with you totally. That’s one of the reasons why I made my site.. it made it convienent for me to have readibly available facts and save me the effort of going through endless google results. Because you’re right.. they dont care about the facts and I wasn’t about to waste my time haviing to keep looking for the same data over and over

  42. http://the-gathering-storm.blogspot.com/2007/03/storm-track-infiltration-struggle-for.html

    Europe is in a life or death struggle with Islam and Denmark and the Netherlands along with Great Britain are on point and multiculturalism is the jihadist’s weapon of choice.

    First the Netherlands.

    Dutch politicians and media are downplaying excesses of multicultural society and thereby increasing these, in the view of Islam expert Hans Janssen. Jansen, Professor of Modern Islamic Ideology at Utrecht University, characterizes the Dutch as inhabitants of “a peaceful enclave” who have, however, “forgotten that peace sometimes needs to be defended through violence”. A peaceful society that wishes to remain existent and stay peaceful “will have to find a way to defend itself through non-peaceful means from people who are not peaceful”, as the Arabist writes.

    As Jansen sees it, the Netherlands is too indulgent to violence of fundamentalist Muslims. But he also suggests that moderate Muslims, too, strive after an Islamic society in the Netherlands. They intentionally make use of the radicals to enforce their wishes, according to the Arabist. According to Jansen, Muslim fundamentalists frequently make threats, but the Dutch media remain silent about them.

    Jensen has an interesting solution that should be seriously considered by all European nations threatened by the jihadists.

    He is pleading for a central reporting station for all Dutch people who are being threatened.

    His analysis of the multicultural problem is sound.

    “What is thought, written, exhibited or performed in the Netherlands is to a large extent no longer made in freedom, without this being perceptible. It is not the lie but the obscure threat that reigns. We do not realize that the threat of violence, and violence itself, can only be stopped through the controlled and cunning use of violence”. The Dutch secret service (AIVD) should get a special department “that gets its hands dirty, if need be”.

    BTW: Jensen knows what he’s talking about. He’s an authority on the Arabic language and the Koran. Theo van Gogh, who was murdered by a Muslim terrorist in 2004, employed him as his tutor on Islam.

    Now on to Denmark.

    Multiculturalist ideology, i.e. the blind tolerance of any culture or tradition, is destroying Europe and standing in the way of any positive development of Islam. In making room for Sharia, there is the risk of conflict with European constitutions. An interesting thing is taking place in Denmark, a country which is at the forefront of multi-culturality. The SIAD Party has recently been founded and it proposes the following: anyone who cites Koranic verses contrary to the Danish constitution must be punished because the constitution is superior to all other laws. And they quote articles 67-69 of the Danish Constitution which says, “We authorize freedom of worship, as long as it is exercised within the framework of Danish laws without disturbing public order.”

    Perhaps Europeans are beginning to reflect on the possible contrast that exists between the constitutions of European countries and certain laws of the Koran.

    In Demark too, there exist two trends: the “left”, or the “do-gooders”, who want to respect the culture of others, saying that ours is not an absolute, or suggest that we must be tolerant and give Muslims time to take this step; and those who make no allowances, and who say that if a person is not able to integrate, he is better off going elsewhere.

    But the most significant and problematic case is that of Great Britain: here, after decades of multiculturalism, instead of integrating and coexisting, Islamic communities are increasingly closing themselves into ghettos, and fundamentalistic behaviours, dangerous for all society, are emerging.

    LionHeart blogs on this threat and does a good job of it.

    Rape, assaults, muggings, pedophilic forays and other forms of harassment and general degradation of the Kaffirs’ quality of life, in order to make ‘them feel themselves subdued’, are all part of the ‘street Jihad’ being waged out of Europe’s muslim ghettos to humiliate the surrounding Kaffir populations.

    On to Great Britain.

    The most representative association of British Muslims, the Muslim Council of Great Britain, has asked that Muslims be recognized the right to apply Islamic morals in state schools. On February 21, it published a 72-page document and presented it to the government in the name of 400,000 Muslim students attending the country’s state schools. They ask that the government accept the demands of Muslim parents and youngster on the grounds of faith concerns.

    They also demand separate classes for girls and boys; the refusal of dancing and of sex education (which is a family matter and not a topic for school); drawings and anatomy textbooks must not show genital organs. As for faith and history, they ask for a revision of the entire teaching system in the name of Islamic morals. The Education Ministry has not yet replied officially, but has already said that these requests will be a step backwards in terms of the tolerance that already existed.

    And this is one of the best explanations of the Muslim culture problem and how the way multiculturalism should work.

    In other terms, despite the best intentions, Muslims tend to confuse customs with ethics. Customs are tied to determined groups (ethnic, geographic, religious…) and do not apply to the national civil society. Ethics dictate principles which are valid for every human person, independent of their sex or religion, and therefore are worth defending and fighting to defend. It is time that we learn to defend ethics that are respectful of the human person, by starting to teach and practice them in schools, to everyone. As for special treatment for a particular group, in the name of their different culture, this is a deformation of what should be “authentic multiculturalism,” which learns to evaluate different cultures and improve one’s own on the basis of comparison.

    And on citizenship:

    What is the identity of an Italian citizen of Egyptian or Moroccan or Chinese or Albanian origin? If it is Egyptian, Moroccan, Chinese, Albanian, then I ask: what is the sense of having requested and obtained Italian citizenship? It is not perhaps to enjoy the advantages that a country offers and then return to live in one’s country of birth or that of one’s parents? In that case, I am just an exploiter. But if it means a conscious choice, which implies changes in behaviour, the desire to build with other citizens a more just society etc, then, yes, I deserve citizenship. I think that society must help each person to make such pondered choices, helping and facilitating efforts to integrate.

    ‘nuff said.

  45. bzzzt. wrong. no evidence that aq was in iraq prior to our invasion and occupation. where’d you get your source vk? the whilte house press sec’y? haha. how foolish you people are for believing anything these liars say. they’ve lied about everything in regards to this war and now it’s coming home to roost.

    get off their bandwagon before you’re proven a fool. it’s better to claim ignorance than to be proven an imbecile.

  47. Per the PIG rightiswrong: “he’s profited from this war, which is a treasonable offense”

    Really? For starters:

    1. You cannot prove that he profited from this war. All presidents put their holdings in a blind trust prior to entering office, if they have any holdings which may cause any conflict of interest.

    And since you Dhimmicrats are all aflutter over “people tapping into your personal information,” then this blind trust would not be public record, NOW WOULD IT?

    2. Profiting from war is a treasonable offense? According to whom? Per Article III, Sec. 3 of the US Constitution, here are the three criteria ENUMERATED as the basis for treason:

    a. Declaring war/insurrection either within or outside the USA
    b. Giving aid and comfort to the enemy
    c. Providing sworn testimony or proof of the above either in the presence of two witnesses or in a court of law.

    And unlike your Dhimmicrat/Drive-By Media rhetoric, you CANNOT pick-and-choose your reasons for treason. One MUST meet ALL CRITERIA for treason, not nust one or two.

    3. So you guessed that the Dhimmicrats would take over Congress in 2006. Well, even a broken clock tells the right time twice a day. Now, Miss Cleo, can you predict what I will say next?

    CHECKMATE, doofus.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  51. Wow. here’s a victory:

    The Protect John Doe Act
    By Michelle Malkin · March 27, 2007 07:49 PM
    House GOP strikes back at the litigious imams, reports the Washington Times in a web-only exclusive. Audrey Hudson writes:

    House Republicans today surprised Democrats with a procedural vote to protect public-transportation passengers from being sued if they report suspicious activity — the first step by lawmakers to protect “John Doe” airline travelers already targeted in a lawsuit by Muslim imams that charges profiling.
    The introduction of a motion to recommit the Rail and Public Transportation Security Act of 2007 back to committee with instructions to add the protective language was introduced by Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican and ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee.

    Mr. King says all Americans, airline passengers included, must be protected from lawsuits if they report suspicious behavior that may foreshadow a terrorist attack.

    …The language is based on a bill introduced last week by Rep. Steve Pearce, New Mexico Republican, to protect “John Does,” or passengers targeted in the suit filed by six Muslim imams earlier this month in Minneapolis.

    Hearing from a tipster that the the vote just happened and the motion to add the protective language passed 304 to 121.

    More at Jawa Report, Powerline.

    Just received from Rep. Bill Shuster’s office:

    House Votes to Protect Security Conscious Americans from Frivolous Lawsuits
    Washington, D.C. – Congressman Bill Shuster released the following statement upon passage of a Republican motion to make important changes to H.R. 1401, the Rail and Public Transportation Security Act of 2007 passed the House.

    The motion contained language to protect Americans from intimidation and frivolous lawsuits by giving them legal immunity as a result of reporting suspicious terrorism-related activity overwhelmingly passed the House 304 to 121:

    “This is a big victory for all Americans,” Shuster said. “No American should ever be sued because they tried to stop a terrorist act. No American should be forced to second guess a decision to alert authorities that could save the lives of others. Unfortunately, the recent lawsuit filed by the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) seeks to do just that.”

    Last November, six imams were removed from US Airways Flight 300 for what passengers described as threatening behavior. While on board, passengers reported that these men, who were traveling together, dispersed to seats throughout the plane in a formation reminiscent of the 9/11 hijackers and moved throughout the cabin to confer with one another. Additionally, they asked the flight crew for seatbelt extenders, which they then rolled up and kept under their seats for no apparent reason.

    The imams’ complaint, which is supported by CAIR, specifically mentions certain “John Does” as defendants to the suit and describes them as “passengers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport who contacted U.S. Airways to report the alleged “suspicious” behavior of Plaintiffs’…”

    “The enemy we face in the War on Terror does not wear a uniform or insignia. Instead, they are trained to act like you and me, to blend in to society and operate in the shadows,” Shuster said. “Although the Department of Homeland Security has done great work to protect us, they cannot be everywhere. And where there are gaps in security, the American people should step up.”

    “Americans shouldn’t be punished for doing their civic duty,” Shuster said. CAIR’s lawsuit only seeks to chill public involvement in the War on Terror where we need it most. The House’s passage of this important measure will reverse this trend and protect those who want to protect us all.”

    A summary of the Republican Motion to Recommit follows:

    The Republican motion to recommit H.R. 1401, the Rail and Public Transportation Security Act of 2007, provides that any person who makes a voluntary disclosure regarding suspicious activity that constitutes a possible threat to transportation security to appropriate security and law enforcement authorities shall be immune from civil liability for such disclosure.
    The amendment protects any such disclosure relating to threats to transportation systems, passenger safety or security, or possible acts of terrorism.

    The amendment also shields transportation systems and employees that take reasonable actions to mitigate perceived threats.

    The amendment is retroactive to activities that took place on or after November 20, 2006 – the date of the Minneapolis incident involving six Islamic leaders who were removed from a U.S. Airways flight after they were observed acting suspiciously.

    Finally, the motion authorizes courts to award attorneys fees to defendants with immunity.

  53. Did you hear how one of Sen Webb’s aides spent the night in jail because of trying to smuggle the Senators loaded pistol with extra clips into the capitol? The Senator allowed his aide to cool off in jail. The Senator from Virginia said he doesn’t have the protection that the President has so he needs to protect himself. Trouble is DC is a handgun free zone. You know to limit murders and mayhem. How’s that working out for them? Once again, a Democrat who only abides by the laws as they see fit. Laws are for the rabble and hirlings. The corruption and lawlessness goes on unabated. No comment from Sen Reid, the corrupt real estate baron.

  54. Yo markie, Al Q was in Iraq before the war. Check it out, even Democrats admit it. They were in north western Iraq, but the Dems said Sadaam had marginal control. Ha convienient huh? And by the way, would you rather fight Al Q in Iraq or Long Island or Miami or Los Angeles? You aren’t one of those who think if we didn’t go after them, they would have become farmers or mechanics are you?
    And since you noted one of my many type o’s guess it’s on for checking yours bud. God Bless America.

  57. markie, You didn’t note where a bouts you lived. If you don’t want us fighting Al Q in Iraq, I want to know which state and town to point Al Q too.

  59. Vince, it must be in the X chromosome. You could add Shrillary Rotten Clinton, Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson Lee to the “Bitch List.”

    Anyone else care to name their least-favorite female legislator? 😉

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  60. Maxine Waters is the legislator who when listening to a NASA presentation about the Mars rovers asked….”are either of the rovers close enough to go and see how the site has survived, you know where Neil Armstrong landed and took his one small step for mankind”? For those leftists who may not get it. Armstrong landed on the Moon not Mars. The NASA guy was polite and didn’t humiliate the gentle woman from California. So my fave is Maxine, who illustrates what we’re up against.

  61. Hey, wingnuts!!! why don’t you take a break and go for a picnic it baghdad. you can stroll through any neighborhood without any worries….”You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the War on Terror.” – George W Bush… Mission Incompetent continues.

  62. Hey leftnutts!! Take a break and go on a picnic in Downtown Detroit, New Orleans or even Washington DC. You can stroll through any neighborhood with no worries. And if you are afraid, check with any of the Democrat city administrations. The trillion dollar “war on poverty” began over forty, yes 40 years ago. The continuing failure of socialist liberalism.

  65. markie, that’s the best you can do? You still haven’t told us where your home town is. Where your mom lives, so we can take the Al Q fight from Iraq to your home town. Be a man. Stand up for what you believe. Don’t be a liberal toadey.

  66. the rumsfeld-neocon apologists are a riot. the “war” in iraq really is an abstraction to you. mission incompetent, abuse of the troops, no draft and credit card mentality.

  68. Don’t ask me, Gene; I told you marxist was off his meds again.

    And FYI – it was actually our very own Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who confused the moon landing with Mars. Rush has an excerpt of it on his website.

    But hey, Maxine, Sheila, Barbara Lee, Cynthia Jackson – they all look alike to us. Or so we are always told by the media.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  69. OOPS – that last one should have been Cynthia McKinney. But she’s out of office, so it really makes no difference. I could have said LaToya Jackson and it would have meant the same thing.

    Regards,
    Peter H.