So, Just Like There Aren't 57 States...

...there weren't 54 terrorist plots foiled by the NSA's phone call database.

"NSA chief’s admission of misleading numbers adds to Obama administration blunders

Gen. Keith B. Alexander admitted that the number of terrorist plots foiled by the NSA’s huge database of every phone call made in or to America was only one or perhaps two — far smaller than the 54 originally claimed by the administration."

Hmm. Obama lied again. It's becoming so commonplace, one hardly notices it anymore.

It's Either True Or It's Not

Today, two bombs exploded in Oslo, Norway doing considerable damage to a Norwegian government building where their prime minister is officed.

There is a link to an Iraqi cleric who threatened the lives of Norwegian politicians, Mullah Krekar, the founder of the Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam.

This mullah said that, if deported from Norway, he'd be killed, therefore the politicians who deported him deserve the same fate. Norway considered deporting him because they saw him as a national security threat.

In the ABC News article, the writer chose to make an interesting connection. He wrote;

Prior to the Iraq War, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell said Ansar al-Islam was the "sinister nexus between Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network."

Now then, we've been blasted by the left who assert that Powell was either lying or duped when making this statement. If that is the case, why is it used NOW as supporting evidence of the danger of mullah Krekar?

Either Ansar al-Islam was a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda, or it wasn't. It can't be both. It can't be a connection now, if it wasn't then. If it is a connection now, then it was back when Powell made the statement, too.

So, given the history since Powell said this, if ABC is still reporting it, then I would say there WAS a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda, making Iraq a valid target for invasion in the pursuit of al Qaeda.

If Mexico's Not Going To Do Anything

Then, send troops into northern Mexico to put a stop to it.

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Lawmen under siege along Mexico border

By Jerry Seper
November 15, 2007

Alien and drug smugglers along the U.S.-Mexico border have spawned a rise in violence against federal, state and local law-enforcement authorities, who say they are outmanned and outgunned.

"They've got weapons, high-tech radios, computers, cell phones, Global Positioning Systems, spotters and can react faster than we are able to," said Shawn P. Moran, a 10-year U.S. Border Patrol veteran who serves as vice president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 1613 in San Diego.

"And they have no hesitancy to attack the agents on the line, with anything from assault rifles and improvised Molotov cocktails to rocks, concrete slabs and bottles," he said. "There are so many agent 'rockings' that few are even reported anymore. If we wrote them all up, that's all we would be doing."
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Meanwhile, Chertoff needs to do what he said he'd do and put more BP personnel on the line.

Dropping the effectiveness of the border at San Diego by 88% is not protecting it.