First Cup 07.08.06
By Jim Lynch on Jul 8, 2006 in Al Qaeda, First Cup, House, Iraq, Israel, Politics, Saddam Hussein, War on Terrorism
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In The Bullpen (Chad Evans) IDF Starts Incursion; UN Human Rights Council Session Concludes — “The IDF has moved into Gaza in an effort to locate the Israeli soldier who was taken hostage by Hamas over one week ago. Naturally many nations have condemned Israel without condemning the government of Palestine, that is run by Hamas, for attacking an Israeli outpost and taking a soldier hostage. To those nations, it is Israel who is being the aggressive one for responding to an attack and those same nations never utter a word over the daily rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip into Israel either.”
Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) Iraqi Documents: UNMOVIC Knew Of Renewed WMD Efforts (Updated And Bumped) — “Continuing my review of the many documents released from the DocEx files over the last two days, I found yet another interesting piece of information regarding Saddam Hussein’s pursuit of WMD. In a summary of a larger document, the translators found that Iraq had restarted its processing of castor-bean extraction, from which ricin can be developed — and that UNMOVIC discovered it in December 2002.”
Big Lizards (Dafydd) Here’s a Switch – — “In a bizarre twist of politics, the Democrats are fighting like the dickens over Rep. Tom DeLay… to keep him on the ballot in Texas, rather than to boot him off. The theory — and I think it’s so transparent, it’s going to create blowback — is that with DeLay’s “ethical” problems (i.e., he incurred the wrath of notoriously vindictive and partisan D.A. Ronnie Earle), having DeLay’s name on the ballot will so turn off Texas voters, that they’ll vote for the Democrat in a strongly Republican district.
I suppose it could work… if, as Democrats believe, Texas voters are all as dumb as a box of bratwurst. Otherwise, they will easily be able to figure out just what the Democrats are up to.”
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More on Saddam’s WMD capabilities…
Captain Ed has an excellent series of posts up regarding some recently released documents that shed more light on Saddam Hussein’s capabilities and intentions regarding WMD.
Here’s his most recent post, but make sure to also visit his main…
The Texas Democrat Party, or whatever the full name for the party here is, has been fighting to keep DeLay’s name on the ballot for months now. It’s only now received national attention for some reason. Yes, the reasoning is very obvious, but don’t forget that DeLay’s old seat is in an area of Texas where Sheila Jackson Leigh is constantly voted into office. DeLay’s old stomping grounds are a bit more educated, true, but there’s something odd in the water in the Houston area.
My opinion of why Texas Democrats want DeLay on the ballot isn’t to remind people DeLay is a Republican, but rather because we all know some people will vote for DeLay not knowing he’s not actually running which will diminish votes for whomever the Republican Party is supporting. Just like how the Democratic Party fought tooth and nail to get Ross Perot on the ballot and Republicans supports Ralph Nader’s election bids the Democratic Party in Texas wants the same to happen with DeLay’s old seat.
At lesat that’s my two cents.