Eight years later, it’s starting to look like they aren’t anymore. Think about it.

Now Krugman’s tossing around the word “treason.” Sounds scary at first, a little cavalier, even dangerous. Sounds like radical left-wing hate speech. It made me worried, because the Department of Homeland Security warned against extremist political hate speech . . .

Let’s be real. Krugman is an august Nobel laureate, not some frothing populist wackjob. And it isn’t like total nutcases read the New York Times. DHS was very specific about the threat. It’s from radical right-wing extremists. You don’t have to worry about the left-wing kind.

With that kind of weight behind the anti-planet betrayal movement, I’m convinced. I’ve turned the corner. I’m ready to go “green,” but I’m not really interested in pussyfooting around. When someone like Krugman starts using the “T” word, that can only mean it’s time for radical action.

No, I don’t mean targeted hits on Earth-hating Republicans or truck bombs outside power plants. Don’t be ridiculous. That would be wrong. We’re talking about a law-enforcement problem, just like global jihad should have been during the Bush regime, before they liked us better. (Thank Gaia that’s behind us. Terrorism is so Bush era. As the Secretary of Homeland Security noted that ”man-caused disasters” are the real problem, and if betraying Earth isn’t a man-caused disasterist offense, I don’t know what is.) It has to be dealt with in a lawful manner.

So here’s the deal. It’s time to establish an International Climate-Change Tribunal that has the authority to deal with Earth treason witht eh full weight of international law. In Bali or someplace like that, tropical and green.

It’ll need a big office complex, conference center, hotel rooms and cabanas, plus gyms and pools with swim-up bars, and courtrooms and holding cells. Lots of waterskiing, parasailing, bars and strip clubs, too. They can engage the world’s greenest minds to make sure all that stuff’s green. Wicked green. With high-tech window panes, solar panels and a wind turbine or something like that. Totally eco-friendly, minimal carbon footprint and non-globalizationist.

How hard could it be to get the UN General Assembly to make the United States pay for that?

Damn, they should be paying me to come up with ideas like that. Back to the Earth traitors. This isn’t just about punishment. It’s about re-education. They would need to be lectured a lot, for long hours, under bright low-wattage eco-bulbs, about the damage they have done to the environment. Might want to play a lot of Pete Seeger and Peter Paul and Mary to soften them up. Strict Vegan diet to cleanse their systems. All copies of Ayn Rand, down the composting port-a-potty! (Anyone who didn’t demand George Bush’s prosecution should probably be waterboarded to see whether they think it’s torture or not, but that’s a separate matter.)

It would be nice to think all of that would be enough to bring everyone around, but not everyone is amenable to logic and persuasion. Recalcitrant denialists have to suffer the fate of all traitors. Once convicted by the tribunal, they will be drawn, quartered, and finally, when not quite dead yet, burned at the stake. No half-measures, not where loyalty to the planet is concerned.

Same thing goes for Krugman. According to this University of Colorado recycling website, it takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday edition of the New York Times. That sounds a little high, and we already know that we greens tend to skew our data a little, but let’s just say that for Krugman to accuse certain humans of betraying their planet, it spelled doomed for a heck of a lot of trees. Look, it was in a good cause. To save that forest, Krugman had to destroy it.

For such a historic day, the scribblers seem to be ignoring a lot of history. It’s like no one wants to talk about it anymore.  Too bad. A great accomplishment, at tremendous sacrifice by both Americans, Iraqis and their British, Australian, European and Asian allies. Congratulations, Iraq. All yours now. Until and unless you need a little more help. Hopefully we’ll have an American president who is willing to help.

Looking back over six years of good intentions, tragic errors, generosity, arrogance, partisan vituperation, painful deaths and ultimate vindication, two things strike me: the ever-resisted lesson that human affairs are more complex than academic theories claim, and the simple truth that most human beings prefer a measure of freedom to immeasurable repression.

Now the symbolism of our troops withdrawing from Iraq’s cities is richer than Washington grasps. Mesopotamia created urban culture: Ur, Babylon, Nineveh and countless lesser-known sites are where humans first worked out ways to live together in close quarters in large numbers. The coming wave of terror will strike cities that make Baghdad seem a youngster.

The “cradle of civilization” is rising from the grave again.

Yes, sectarianism, old grievances and the greed for power may deliver future crises — even an eventual civil war. An unnatural state with grossly flawed borders, Iraq has more obstacles to overcome than any of its neighbors except Lebanon.

But our achievement remains profound: We gave one key Arab state a chance at freedom and democracy. We deposed a monstrous dictator who butchered his own people and invaded two foreign countries. And we didn’t quit, despite the scorn of the global intelligentsia.

Human events aren’t linear, nor do they conform to political programs. In Iraq, the unintended consequences ultimately gave us an unexpected victory.

We botched the occupation early on, which seemed to create an opportunity for our enemies. As a result, al Qaeda declared Iraq the central front in its war on civilization.

Iran will be free one day, the only question is when. And it won’t be because of President Obama’s grotesque Cairo apologia.

There is evil in the world. No matter how resistant Obama may be to learning that basic lesson, our enemies will hammer it into him.

As our troops leave Iraq’s cities today, their commanders know that still more bloody trials lie ahead. Now and then, the Iraqis will “shoot the red star cluster,” calling for our help. But today isn’t just a day for Iraqis to celebrate — it’s a good day for us, too.

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Claims of a “military coup” have appeared in the press because that is the way far-left officials of the Obama Administration have described it.

Nevertheless, Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton quickly issued statements saying that his removal was somehow a violation of the Inter-American Democratic Charter. This was a clever ruse designed to disguise the fact that all of the major elements of constitutional power in Honduras, except for the increasingly unpopular and power-hungry president, acted on behalf of the people.

The new president, Roberto Micheletti, has made it clear that Zelaya was removed because he had behaved in an unconstitutional manner. “I did not reach this position because of a coup,” Micheletti said. “I am here because of an absolutely legal transition process.”

Blogger Jason Poblete commented that the Obama Administration “was quick to call the events in Honduras a coup.

Indeed, this was not a “military coup” in the traditional sense of the army acting unilaterally to depose a popular president. The Army was acting in accordance with the dictates of the other political institutions.

Not only did the Congress and the Supreme Court act against Zelaya, the Catholic Church of Honduras-which is not under the sway of Marxist-oriented Liberation Theology-had opposed his illegal acts.

In the New York Times story about the “coup,” the reporter waited until the fifth paragraph to note that “the [Honduran] Supreme Court issued a statement saying that the military had acted to defend the law against ‘those who had publicly spoken out and acted against the Constitution’s provisions.’”

So it wasn’t really a coup.

What the Obama Administration should be doing, under the circumstances, is protecting this democratic government from external threats from Chavez and Castro. Instead, it is working with Chavez and Castro to bring back to power a Marxist puppet.

Calls are already being heard from Obama’s far-left base to destabilize Honduras by cutting off U.S. military aid to the government. Human Rights Watch, the George Soros-funded group, has come out with a statement denouncing the “military coup.”

Some of these far-left activists are claiming that Obama was behind the “coup,” but this is obviously propaganda designed to force the Administration to use international bodies, such as the U.N. and the Organization of American States, in an effort to restore Zelaya to power.

29 Jun 2009

Tonight, people shouted AllahAkbar much louder and stronger than prev nights in objection to GC’s certification

People in Melat Park, Valiasr Sq., Vanak and sidewalks of Vailasr St. are holding hands and are trying to form a human chain.

But reports of sporadic clashes indicate that the armed forces are trying to prevent the formation of the human chain.

Reports: About 3000 Protesters clashing with Hezbollah at Vali Aasr Sq. (not conf)

Larijani (head of Par):CNN has given money&cellphones 2 protesters 2 portray a wrong image of Iran