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550 metric tons of yellowcake ferreted out of Iraq on the way to Canada.

This yellowcake, from what I understand, was from Gulf War I.

I guess the left’s position now is going to be…

“Well, we had no business going into Iraq. We should have left that yellowcake with Saddam Hussein and his multi-billion-dollar fraud known as the Oil-for-Food Program.”

AP Exclusive: US removes uranium from Iraq

Well, you leftists are going to love this. Those of you who have been excited after Obama’s patriotism speech are really going to love this.

AP news alert, here.

“Former Abu Gharib detainees are suing US contractors in four states for alleged torture.” Former Abu Gharib detainees suing US contractors in four United States’ states for alleged torture! Thank you, United States Supreme Court, and the American left and your civil rights coalition!

“The first complaint was filed Monday in US District Court in Seattle. Others are being filed in Detroit; Columbus, Ohio; and Greenbelt, Maryland. The complaints allege that innocent people who were arrested and taken to the prison were subjected to forced nudity, electrical shocks, mock executions and other inhumane treatment by employees of defense contractors CACI International and L-3 Communications, formerly Titan Corporation. The plaintiffs are represented by law firms in Philadelphia and Detroit and by the Center for Constitutional Rights.”

The Center for Constitutional Rights is a so-called nonprofit legal advocacy organization based in New York, founded in 1966 by attorney William Kunstler. Do you remember Bill Kunstler? Most radical anti-American pro leftist lawyer ever, practically. He was with the Chicago Seven — just a pure, radical leftist. He’s a hero like Saul Alinsky was a hero. He remains a hero to this day with these people. He’s just a genuine leftist extremist. In recent years the Center for Constitutional Rights has been frequently in the news for civil liberties and human rights litigation and activism, as well as their legal assistance for people imprisoned in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.

“Matthew Vadum of the Capital Research Center, a conservative nonprofit organization aims to study nonprofit organizations called the Center for Constitutional Rights, the terrorist legal team because it is believed that CCR is an ultra leftist public interest law firm that has protected the supposed constitutional rights of those who would destroy the United States.”

So that’s the law firm behind these four lawsuits of US private contractors in Abu Ghraib.

Obama follows, Wesley Clark was on Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer, with remarks like this in his speech in Independence, Missouri, on patriotism.

OBAMA: I will never question the patriotism of others in this campaign. And I will not stand idly by when I hear others question mine.

Wait a minute, whose patriotism has been questioned here? Whose qualifications have been questioned here? What’s happening here, folks, is very simple, an effort to devalue McCain’s military experience and hero status and to raise up Obama’s patriotic position by redefining what patriotism is.

OBAMA: When we’re arguing about patriotism, we’re arguing about who we are as a country and, more importantly, who we should be. But surely we can agree that no party or political philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism.

Then why the hell do you feel it necessary to go to Independence, Missouri and talk about it? Then why the hell do you have such difficulty in deciding whether or not to wear the American flag lapel pin?

One party obviously has a track record that deserves to be examined. We all know which party that is. And this is why this party is constantly defending itself on this. Let’s be honest, folks. Patriotism is equated with supporting the military when the US is at war. Which political party the last three years has done its best to secure defeat of its country and the US military at war? Democrat Party.

One party has a track record that deserves to be examined when it comes to patriotism, and they know it. They know they’re weak on national security. Which is why they gave us Kerry the last election, they thought he would overcome it. Which is why they’re now trying to devalue McCain’s hero status and his war service and that’s why they send their candidate out to Independence, Missouri, to do a defensive speech on patriotism, because they know.

OBAMA: Of course, precisely because America isn’t perfect, precisely because our ideals demand more from us, patriotism can never be defined as loyalty to any particular leader or government or policy. As Mark Twain, the greatest of American satirists and proud son of Missouri, once wrote: “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.” That’s what patriotism is.

Wait a second. He just contradicted himself here. Patriotism can never be defined as loyalty to any particular leader or government or policy. And then he quotes Mark Twain: “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” This is a huge contradiction.

Which political party is it that is suggesting to us that terrorists deserve constitutional rights, the same constitutional rights accorded United States citizens? We don’t have the right to spy on terrorists? Which party is it that wants us to sue phone companies that allow terrorists to be spied on? Which party is it that’s doing its level best to discredit any intelligence gathering technique that is used in order to improve this nation’s security? No wonder they feel defensive about this. Which party was it that was saying that the surge would never work? Which party was it that claimed the surge wouldn’t work? Which party was it whose supporters ran a full-page New York Times ad on “General Betraeus”?

Which party was it whose members accused Petraeus of lying before he opened his mouth? Which party has as a member a man who avoided voting on the MoveOn.org resolution in the Senate? Barack Obama and the Democrat Party. Remember the vote on condemning MoveOn.org, guess who didn’t vote? He wasn’t there, he didn’t vote. It was Barack Obama. Which party has accused troops of murder and rape? The Democrat Party. Which party has members that have accused Guantanamo operatives of torture and being like Pol Pot’s regime and the people who ran the Soviet Gulags? That would be Dick Durbin and the Democrat Party. Which political party has tried to kill — and they failed — war spending bills with poison pills and other techniques? It would be the Democrat Party. So no wonder they feel defensive about patriotism.

OBAMA: Surely we can arrive at a definition of patriotism that however rough and imperfect captures the best of America’s common spirit. What would such a definition look like?

Okay, so now not only are we being lectured to on patriotism by Obama, we’re being told that only he can redefine it. He’s going to redefine patriotism for us. What he says after this doesn’t matter. We don’t need The Messiah to redefine patriotism. We know it when we see it. We know it when we don’t see it. And we see it plain as day when we don’t see it. So he wants to redefine it.

McCain’s response to Wesley Clark saying being shot down over Vietnam does not qualify you to be president.

MCCAIN: I think that kind of thing is unnecessary. I’m proud of my record of service and I have plenty of friends and leaders who will attest to that. But the important thing is, and if that’s the kind of campaign that Senator Obama and his surrogates and his supporters want to gauge, I understand that, but it doesn’t reduce the price of a gallon of gas by one penny. It doesn’t achieve our energy independence, make it come any closer. It doesn’t help an American stay in their home who are in risk of losing it today. And it certainly doesn’t do anything to address the challenges that Americans have in keeping their jobs, their homes and supporting their families.

What the hell is this?

This is the Clinton response. McCain is out there saying, ‘Hey, they can challenge me all they want, they can tell me I’m not qualified to be president, but that doesn’t put one more drop of fuel in your gas tank.'” Did he sound a little hurt there? I’m not sure. Anyway, he thinks this kind of campaigning is unnecessary.

Now, Wesley Clark was on Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer, and he said that he didn’t think that McCain’s service as a fighter pilot and prisoner of war was relevant to running the country. He didn’t think it was a qualification for being the president of the United States.

Wesley Clark from 2004 at the Democrat National Convention, and remember General Clark was running for president himself, and he lost out to Kerry in the primaries. Here is a portion of Wesley Clark’s speech.

War. War. I’ve been there. So has John Kerry. John Kerry has heard the thump of enemy mortars. He’s seen the flash of the tracers. He’s lived the values of service and sacrifice. In the Navy, as a prosecutor, as a senator, he proved his physical courage under fire. And he’s proved his moral courage too. John Kerry fought a war, and I respect him for that. And he came home to fight a peace. And I respect him for that, too. John Kerry’s combination of physical courage and moral values, is my definition of what we need as Americans in our commander-in-chief.

Oh, so much here. First off, how do you come home and “fight a peace”? How do you do that?

Well, Kerry did it. He was the architect. He was the scriptwriter for how you come home and “fight a peace.” We get out of Vietnam, and they won’t let it go. It was John Kerry throwing his medals over the White House gate. (Fake medals. He kept his real ones at home.) It was John Kerry who was telling lies about the Swift Boat buddies, telling lies about American combat troops in general, that they were raping and mutilating and doing all this Genghis Khan stuff. While America was trying to heal from all of this and get over it, John Kerry was indeed “fighting a peace.” Kerry came home and lied about American soldiers to a Senate committee. That’s how he was “fighting a peace.”

Wesley Clark, a man — which, again, Democrats seem to feel the need to prove to people that they are patriotic. Even when nobody is charging them with being unpatriotic, they still feel the need to prove it, which is quite telling to me. Then we have these comments from Wesley Clark four years ago in which we now remember that the Democrats nominated their version of a war hero, as a means of being elected president. This is after 9/11; they’re convinced the American people want somebody tough in the White House, and so Kerry wore a uniform and Kerry was this for them. But then the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth came out with their ads (which nobody has disproven, by the way) and Kerry was toast.

But just above Wesley Clark define qualifications for the presidency based on Kerry and his military service.

“He lived the values of service and sacrifice. In the Navy, as a prosecutor, as a Senator…” There’s a lot of sacrificing in the Senate. “[H]e proved his physical courage under fire…. [H]e came home to fight a peace… [P]hysical courage and moral values, is my definition of what we need as Americans in our commander-in-chief.”

Now, he define presidential qualifications for Americans, by using John Kerry as an example. Let’s now go to Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer talking to Wesley Clark. He said,

SCHIEFFER: “Well, you went so far as to say that you thought John McCain was, quote — and these are your words — ‘untested and untried.’ And I must say, I had to read that twice, because you’re talking about somebody who was a prisoner of war. He was a squadron commander of the largest squadron in the Navy. He’s been on the Senate Armed Services Committee for lo these many years. How can you say that John McCain is untested and untried, General?”

CLARK: Because in the matters of national security policymaking, it’s a matter of understanding risk, it’s a matter of gauging your opponents, and it’s a matter of being held accountable. John McCain’s never done any of that in his official positions. That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded? That wasn’t a wartime squadron. He hasn’t been there and ordered the bombs to fall. He hasn’t seen what it’s like when diplomats come in and say, “I don’t know whether we’re going to be able to get this point through or not. Do you want to take the risk? What about your reputation? How do we handle this publicly?”

SCHIEFFER: Yeah.

CLARK: He hasn’t made that calls, Bob.

SCHIEFFER: Well, General –

“He hasn’t made those calls.” Do you believe this? By the way, I don’t for a minute believe that he’s out there as an independent contractor. This is not an idle comment on MSNBC when nobody is watching at ten o’clock at night. This is one of the revered Sunday morning shows. These comments are rehearsed! These comments are made on purpose.

SCHIEFFER: “I have to say, Barack Obama has not had any of those experiences, either, nor has he ridden in a fighter plane and gotten shot down.”

CLARK: Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.

SCHIEFFER: Really!

CLARK: But Barack is not… He is not running on the fact that he has made these national security pronouncements. He’s running on his other strengths. He’s running on his strength of character, on the strengths of his communication skills, on the strengths of his judgment. And those are qualities that we seek in our national leadership.

I don’t know how in the world you can sit around and tar and feather McCain as being “unqualified” after having been a prisoner of war for five years. You talked about “sacrifice.” He talked about John Kerry’s sacrifice. You talk about “bravery.” McCain went into the teeth of the dog in this war. He stayed in the Navy for eight years after he got out of the Hanoi Hilton. He never went to Washington and threw his medals over the White House fence. He never bumped and decried his fellow airmen or soldiers or Marines who fought in Vietnam.

Wesley Clark above: “It’s a matter of gauging your opponent. It’s a matter of being held accountable. McCain has never done any of that in his official positions. He hasn’t been there and ordered the bombs to fall.”

Let me tell you what they’re heading at here.

If you go to certain left-wing blogs and websites, you will find all kinds of vicious attacks on McCain, such as accusing him of war crimes for bombing civilian targets in Hanoi in the 1960s. There are others who are accusing McCain of disloyalty during his captivity in Vietnam because they say that he was coerced into participation in propaganda films and interviews after he had been tortured.

John Aravosis at something called Americablog.com wrote, “A lot of people don’t know that McCain wrote propaganda video for the enemy while he was in captivity. Putting that bit of disloyalty aside, what exactly is McCain’s experience that prepares him for being commander-in-chief? Getting shot down, tortured, and then doing propaganda for the enemy is not command experience,” this guy wrote in a blog post titled, “Honestly, Besides Being Tortured, What Did McCain Do to Excel in the Military?”

So the left-wing blogs have started this, and Wesley Clark is picking up the theme. There is an echo chamber on the left too, and more and more of these left-wing talking points that are shouted and emitted by Obama’s people and his campaign come from the dark reaches of the kook left. So now, not only is McCain not qualified just because he flew a bombing mission and got shot down over Hanoi and then spent five years in as a prisoner of war. That doesn’t qualify him! No, what John Kerry did is more of a qualification! John Kerry had moral character! You heard Wesley Clark. After Clark twice now rip McCain, praises Kerry four years ago at the Democrat National Convention.

Wesley Clark ought to have zero credibility with anybody. This is nothing but a partisan, political hack who himself was incompetent! Didn’t Clinton fire the guy? He was the NATO general in the Bosnia war, and I think even Clinton fired the guy! He’s a big pretender.

And by the way, here’s Obama out there with his patriotism lecture, frankly, I don’t think we need to be lectured to on patriotism by Barak Obama. Here’s a guy who trashes the country all the time. His minister trashed the country all the time. His friend William Ayers tried to overthrow the country!

We don’t need lectures from Obama on patriotism. “Well, that’s not the William Ayers that I knew. That’s not the Reverend Wright that I knew all these years.” He has just, by his own definition, thrown both of these guys on the bus. They are not American patriots. Obama gets away with recasting himself as often as he wants. The Media will bend over forwards and backwards — they’ll put themselves in pretzel-like positions — in order to accommodate this guy’s daily recalibrations so he can appear to move to the non-controversial “center.”

Obama speech in Independence, Missouri. He said,

“I will never question the patriotism of any of my opponents.”

Hey! Who has questioned his?

And then he said,

“I’m not going to sit idly by when someone questions mine.”

Now, who is questioning his patriotism? There might be some fringe people out there, for crying out loud, but who is doing it? Is McCain doing it? Who of any consequence or importance is questioning Obama’s patriotism? They’re questioning his experience!

If anybody wants to talk about questioning patriotism, how about Wesley Clark and what he said?

“I don’t think that getting shot down in a plane (grumbling) qualifies anybody to be president,”

… and so forth.

Every Fourth of July, some Democrat somewhere goes somewhere and talks about “patriotism.” It must be that there is some doubt, if you have to go out there and do this, if you have to give a speech on patriotism and what it means.

We know the Democrats have spent years trying to redefine it. Mrs. Clinton herself defined patriotism as criticizing the president.

They have been trying to redefine patriotism as the abject dislike of your country, as the abject dislike of your president and the dissent and criticism of both. That’s how they’ve been defining patriotism and so they have to go out there and make speeches about patriotism.

This is a fine time. The Fourth of July is coming up on Friday, Independence Day; this would be a fine time for somebody to run around and start talking about American exceptionalism — in either party, frankly — and reminding the American people what this country is, where it started, how it started, the Founders, all of this, what happened, the miracle in Philadelphia.

Obama, finished …

“No political party has a monopoly on patriotism.”

This is the one area… We find the Democratic Party when we look at them and we look at the leftists; we see them on offense. They just are relentless. They never stop.

But when it comes to patriotism, they are defensive. They do have to go out and remind everybody that they are, and now Obama is saying …

“no political party has a monopoly on it.”

So it must mean that they’ve got some focus group data that suggests it’s a problem.
Shocking isn’t it…

Obama finished, saying that patriotism — he defined it.

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time… All the time? If that’s what patriotism is, he has just accused his buddies on the left of being unpatriotic! I mean, not only do they not support the country all the time. They actively are engaged to inflict harm on this country! For example, in Iraq, they are enmeshed and they own defeat.

“…and your government when it deserves it.”

So that gives them, with that little definition, “Of course the government deserves being criticized when it’s being run by George W. Bush!”

So everybody is in the clear on that. “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time…”