19 November 2004 Federalist Patriot No. 04-46 Friday Digest Restore our founding virtues! Support The Federalist -- http://FederalistPatriot.US/support.asp
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A week into the Fallujah operation, an NBC photographer embedded with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, recorded video of a young combat-hardened Marine entering a room in a mosque where he found several insurgents on the floor under covers. Unable to determine if these enemy combatants were injured, dead or preparing to ambush his unit, the Marine raised his rifle in preparation to defend himself and his fellow Marines. When he detected movement from one of the combatants, the Marine yelled, "He's (expletive) faking he's dead! He's faking he's (expletive) dead!" and killed the Jihadi -- and that is where this story should have ended. As it turned out, however, the Jihadi had been wounded the day before and the NBC photographer, Kevin Sites (whose photographs are featured on many anti-war Website), stepped up to get his 15 seconds of fame. Sites turned the video over to his network, telling them that he did not think the Jihadi was a threat, and within 24 hours, Lefty lynch mobs were forming to hang themselves a Marine. Notably, the loudest protests of "war crimes" were from those who have never been closer to combat than the distance between their living-room lounge chairs and TVs. (Of course, it is a war crime to store weapons in a mosque as was documented, but the Lefties are not protesting that.) Indeed, the Leftmedia's mindless promotion of this video (as with the Abu Ghraib feeding frenzy: see -- http://FederalistPatriot.US/alexander/edition.asp?id=258) was tantamount to shaking a hornet's nest -- making the task of our fighting forces in Fallujah and elsewhere in the region all the more difficult. Actions have consequences, and the exploitation of this video empowered Jihadis in the region -- in effect, making life very difficult for our Armed Forces. But what you're not hearing from NBC's Tom Brokaw or any other Leftmedia talkingheads in their wholesale condemnation of this incident is that Jihadis (knowing that U.S. military personnel have the decency to tend to wounded enemy combatants) have routinely booby-trapped the bodies of dead insurgents. In fact, one member of the Marine squad now being scrutinized was killed (and five others wounded) when attempting to check on a wounded Jihadi only days earlier. In addition, the Marine now being questioned for killing this wounded Jihadi suffered a wound to his face a day earlier when an injured Jihadi fired on him. These facts notwithstanding, the Left and their media minions have now made this young Marine their poster boy for U.S. atrocities. Here, we would remind these hypocrites that a few short weeks ago, they were doing all in their power to support John F. Kerry's campaign for the most powerful office in the world. This would be the same JFK who received a Silver Star (with and erroneous "V") for chasing a wounded Vietcong combatant (described as a young boy in a loin cloth) around a hutch and shooting him in the back. While we have strenuously questioned the merits of John Kerry's Silver Star for this action, we have never questioned his decision to kill this VC enemy, whom he judged to be a threat to his boat crew. By the Kerry standard, the young Marine in question should get a Silver Star. (Of course, enlisted personnel really have to do something spectacular to pin one of those on.) Now that the Left is once again decrying military actions to liberate Iraq, please take a moment and join more than 115,000 grateful Americans who have already signed An Open Letter in Support of America's Armed Forces in support of our Patriots in uniform. These American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen have plowed the ground for liberty while protecting their countrymen back home. We remain the proud and the free because they have stood bravely in harm's way and remain on post today. For this, we, the American People, offer our heartfelt thanks. Please support our troops -- let your voice be heard! Join fellow Patriots on the front lines in defense of our liberty and national sovereignty. Link to -- http://PatriotPetitions.US/USMIL (If you don't have Web access, please send a blank e-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Each e-mail sent to this address will be counted as one signature for the petition.) Memo to the Pentagon: Leave the reporters embedded, but have them check their cameras in the rear. Otherwise, the resulting Leftist hype will continue to jeopardize our mission -- and jeopardize the lives of American military personnel. Quote of the week... "Some 40 Marines have just lost their lives cleaning out one of the world's worst terror dens, in Fallujah, yet all the world wants to talk about is the NBC videotape of a Marine shooting a prostrate Iraqi inside a mosque. ... The al-Zarqawi TV network, also known as Al-Jazeera, has broadcast the tape to the Arab world, and U.S. media have also played it up. The point seems to be to conjure up images again of Abu Ghraib, further maligning the American purpose in Iraq. Never mind that the pictures don't come close to telling us about the context of the incident, much less what was on the mind of the soldier after days of combat. Put yourself in that Marine's boots. He and his mates have had to endure some of the toughest infantry duty imaginable, house-to-house urban fighting against an enemy that neither wears a uniform nor obeys any normal rules of war. ... When not disemboweling Iraqi women, these killers hide in mosques and hospitals, booby-trap dead bodies, and open fire as they pretend to surrender. Their snipers kill U.S. soldiers out of nowhere. According to one account, the Marine in the videotape had seen a member of his unit killed by another insurgent pretending to be dead. Who from the safety of his Manhattan sofa has standing to judge what that Marine did in that mosque?" --The Wall Street Journal Patriots, we need your help... If you have not already done so, please take a moment to support The Federalist Patriot today by making a contribution to our Patriot Fund -- however large or small. As you know, The Federalist Patriot is not sustained by any political, special interest or parent organization. Nor do we accept any online or e-mail advertising. Our mission and operations are funded by -- and depend entirely upon -- the voluntary financial support of American Patriots like YOU! 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Box 507 Chattanooga, TN 37401-0507 (Please make your check payable to "The Patriot Annual Fund", and please note your e-mail address on the memo line so we can credit your contribution to your subscriber account, and so our publisher can thank you. Include a self-addressed, stamped #10 [10" business] envelope with your donation, and we will send you our trademark slogans "Veritas vos Liberabit" [the Truth will set you free], "Annoy a Liberal," "Red States" and other great stickers.) Open query... "Liberals are talking about the Blue States seceding from the Union. There's a map on the Internet of the Blue States joining Canada. ... Secession, if followed by invasion, conquest, occupation and, ultimately, cultural cleansing, is a terrible thing. Trust me, Southerners know about this. We need to help these Liberal hotheads cool down. ... [A]re the root causes worthy of sundering the Great Experiment -- Democracy in America? Apparently, the two most important reasons for secession are partial-birth abortion and homosexual marriage. The Liberals are kidding, right? They can't live in a society that bans infanticide -- as every state did before the U.S. Supreme Court made up law, science and medicine in 1973. And, Liberals can't survive where homosexuals can't marry -- as they never have, ever, from the tiniest tribe to the greatest (and most decadent) civilizations -- until last year in the Netherlands? Ok, maybe we can't make an argument against the sanctity of life and marriage just to keep the Liberals from leaving." --James Atticus Bowden In other news... As was noted by The Patriot last year, the United Nations corruption scandal is likely to bite UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. This week, congressional investigators revealed that Saddam Hussein's regime had skimmed over $21 billion from the UN's Oil-for-Food program, more than twice the amount previously believed. While the program was meant for the welfare of the Iraqi people, Saddam appears to have used his oily, ill-gotten gains to influence friends and enemies and grease the palms of foreign and UN officials, foreign banks, journalists, and terrorist organizations. Among the many investments Saddam made were attempts to buy off UN and foreign officials in the hopes of getting UN sanctions lifted. Saddam also used the money to buy additional arms for his depleted military and apparently funneled funds to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, terror groups like the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Mujahadeen Khalq, a group seeking to overturn the government of Iran. Interestingly, officials and banks of France and Russia, two ardently pro-Saddam countries, have been implicated in the corruption. Coincidence? On Tuesday, Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve chairman and head of an allegedly independent panel looking into the massive UN corruption, refused a request by Congress to release some of his evidence and documentation early. Last week, both Volcker and Annan were accused by members of Congress of a massive cover-up and obstruction of the investigation into this, the greatest humanitarian aid scandal in history. At this point it's difficult to determine how far the tentacles of this corruption will reach, but it's a safe bet that there are many UN, French and Russian corporate and government officials who aren't sleeping too well these days. The BIG lie... "The [Clinton] impeachment battle was not about the Constitution or the rule of law, but was instead a quest for power that the president's opponents could not win at the ballot box. ... In this combustible climate, the congressional Republicans took the politics of personal destruction to a new level, using the subpoena power to investigate Democrats, attack them in a number of public hearings and attempt to change popular public policies by discrediting the president and members of his administration personally." --Exhibit placard at Clinton's new presidential "LIE-brary" The Clinton's dedicated this post-modern behemoth on Thursday, which, apparently, was supposed to be a cool, dry fall day in Little Rock. Sen. Ms. Hillary Rodham-Clinton-Rodham told reporters that the building is evocative of Clinton's "Bridge to the 21st Century" theme. We have to agree with our friend Rich Galen: "If you look at [this building] you can come to one of two conclusions: It is either a bridge to nowhere, or it's a double-wide." We reviewed the entire video of Bill and Hill seated next to each other on the platform in the rain, and not once did they exchange words -- or even look at each other. We suppose they have Chelsea fooled. News from the Swamp... Now that the election is over -- and the good guys have won -- the Swamp is gearing up for the second Bush administration shakeup. The President has wasted no time in making personnel changes, and is expected to bring eight or nine new faces to the 15 top spots in the executive branch. Chief among these is the appointment of National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State. (Of course the Leftmedia was quick to paint Rice with the same tar they painted Justice Clarence Thomas: see -- http://FederalistPatriot.US/news/Ricebait) This historic appointment of the first black woman to the post (being vacated by the first black man to hold it) wasn't much of a surprise. White House insiders have noted that there never really were any other names under consideration for the job. Rice enjoys perhaps the closest relationship with President Bush of anyone in the White House and has been with him since he was Governor of Texas, serving as his foreign policy tutor. Rice has a solid resume for the job, which goes back further than her work as National Security Advisor. She served as a Kremlinologist for the National Security Council during Bush(41)'s administration, and was provost at Stanford University. She is expected to have a relatively smooth confirmation, although she'll doubtless receive some tough questions about the Iraq war. Rice's appointment sends a clear signal that Bush intends to maintain tight control over his war cabinet and seeks to present a more unified face to the world, something that was often difficult to achieve under Colin Powell, who submitted his resignation last Friday. Powell found himself at odds with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other more conservative elements of the administration about the direction of U.S. foreign policy. Still, he was able to forge working relationships with Jordan, the Palestinians, and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, and despite the media's image of him as an embattled lone voice, Powell remained loyal to the end never airing any grievances publicly. In fact, Powell never even hinted there were any grievances. His departure was followed by the resignation of Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a longtime Powell friend. Stephen Hadley, Rice's number two in the NSC, will be stepping up to the top position as National Security Advisor. Hadley is another one with the credentials to match the job: principal at the Scowcroft Group in DC, assistant secretary of defense during Bush the Elder's administration, and a national security staffer from 1974 to 1977. Hadley is controversial, however, due to his involvement in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address, in which the President mentioned Iraq's attempts to obtain yellow-cake uranium from Niger. Hadley took the blame for those 16 words, but more recent events such as the 9/11 Report, the Butler Report, and the thorough discrediting of camera-hogging Leftist stooge Joe Wilson will help him weather the storm. Other changes that have been announced in recent days include the appointment of Alberto Gonzales to replace John Ashcroft as Attorney General. Gonzales, the current White House legal counsel, is another longstanding member of the Bush team, and his confirmation hearings are expected to be less acrimonious than his predecessor's. Demo Senator Patrick Leahy, the Judiciary Committee's ranking minority member, said that he doesn't see any significant problems with Gonzales's confirmation. Leahy may seem like he's extending an olive branch, but we suspect the real reason for this comity may be that the Demos' chief obstructionist, Tom Daschle, will soon be a private citizen. Elsewhere, Margaret Spellings will replace Rod Paige as Secretary of Education, and Commerce Secretary Don Evans, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham have also tendered their resignations. No word yet as to their replacements. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is also expected to resign, as is Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson. On the Hill, as the Demo minority becomes just a little more minor, Nevada Senator Harry Reid has been chosen to take over as Minority Leader for the coming 109th Congress. He has signaled that he wants to build consensus and work with the Republicans, but we've heard that before. Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois will be Minority Whip, and Chuck Schumer of New York, who has a Midas touch for fundraising, has been tabbed to lead the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee. And what of John Kerry, the junior senator from Massachusetts? He returned to the Swamp this week, and received the adulation and applause of his Demo compatriots (or should we say comrades?). He put his best Botoxed face on the moment, answering the inevitable questions about his past, his present, and his future: "It is so premature to be thinking about something that far down the road. What I've said is I'm not opening any doors, I'm not shutting any doors. If there's a next time, we'll do a better job. We'll see." Of course, he may not be legally qualified to run...see "Petition to Investigate and Indict John F. Kerry for acts of treason" at http://PatriotPetitions.US/) In the House, Republicans are proposing to change internal rules to allow members indicted by state grand juries to remain in leadership positions. This proposal was geared specifically toward Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who's been under the microscope of Ronnie Earle, an ultra-partisan Demo prosecutor from Travis County, Texas. DeLay's alleged improprieties stem from his role in the Texas redistricting that took place before the 2004 election, in which Republicans picked up five congressional seats. Earle has already handed down indictments to three DeLay associates, but his zealotry should surprise no one. Indeed, he once even had himself indicted before a grand jury on spurious charges. We kid you not! Meanwhile, President Bush has turned to Congress to bring back the line-item veto, which was struck down after a short life by the Supreme Court in 1997. Bush has an interest in this tool to "maintain budget discipline," he told reporters recently. The line-item veto would give the president the power to veto specific parts of spending bills, thereby cutting down on legislative pork. Currently, the president only has the power to veto or sign such bills in their entirety. The line-item veto became the law of the land in the 1990s, thanks to the Republican Contract with America, and President Clinton used it successfully 44 times before then-New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani led a fight to have the law repealed. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the law gave the president unconstitutional sway over Congress's power of the purse. That power, however, has helped to build significant budget deficits and the time may have come to rethink how budgets are passed. We'll stay tuned to see how this develops. In other news from the Political Front... Ken Mehlman will soon be rewarded for his outstanding work on President Bush's re-election campaign with the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. There's a whole voting process that Mehlman will be subject to in January, but the President's recommendation makes that pretty much perfunctory. Mehlman, who got his start in politics going door to door for Ronald Reagan in 1980, intends to institutionalize the 72-Hour Project, the grassroots mobilization efforts that helped Republicans greatly in 2002 and 2004. He also wants to get more activists on talk radio and the Internet to spread the Republican message at the local level. Mehlman's opposite number in the DNC will probably be Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, who was on the short list of VP names for John Kerry, and was recommended by incoming Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. Howard Dean, another 2004 has-been, has expressed interest in the job, but his post-primary antics make him an outside shot at best. Though our opinion carries little weight among Demos, The Patriot would prefer to keep Terry McAuliffe as DNC chair. During his tenure, Republicans made historic congressional gains in 2002, re-elected President Bush, stretched the congressional majority, and defeated Tom Daschle in 2004. Picked by Bill Clinton because of his supposedly tremendous fundraising skills, McAuliffe has left his successor with the monumental task of rebuilding a national party that is sinking in power and popularity. And so, as we bid farewell to T-Mac, we do so with great melancholy -- for we can't think of another Demo in recent years who has done more for the Republican Party. So long, Terry. We hardly knew ya. On the National Security front... Porter Goss's stewardship of the CIA continues to be fraught with controversy. This time the New York Times is to blame. The Gray Lady -- whose motto has become "All the news that's printed to fit" -- posted a headline this week accusing Goss of ordering the CIA to back Bush during the election. Taking a cue from the Demos' cries of partisanship in the beleaguered agency, the Times got their story from a memo in which Goss actually said the following: "I also intend to clarify beyond a doubt the rules of the road. We support the administration, and its policies in our work as agency employees. ... We provide the intelligence as we see it -- and let the facts alone speak to the policymakers." This has been a rough transition for Goss, who was hit with two more resignations this past week. Goss has had the support of the administration, but he faces a monumental challenge in rebuilding an agency that has been under heavy fire for its severe shortcomings regarding September 11. The coming days and weeks are not expected to be easy. On the Homeland Security front... Our sources have confirmed reports that an al-Qa'ida captive recently confirmed collateral information indicating that al-Qa'ida operatives in the Western Hemisphere are attempting to smuggle nuclear material across the Mexican border into the U.S. Our sources further indicate that this material is already in the hands of operatives in Mexico, and that al-Qa'ida may use a Mexican organized crime syndicate to arrange the crossing. This information coincides with the 1 November theft of a crop-dusting plane just across the border from San Diego. Though the HomSec alert for New York and Washington, D.C. has been relaxed, events on our porous Southwestern border make plain that the national threat endures. >From the "Department of Military Readiness"... Progress continues on protecting U.S. citizens from ballistic-missile attack. Last week, the Missile Defense Agency announced the successful first-time firing of the laser flight modules of the Airborne Laser (ABL) system. The ABL system comprises a megawatt-class laser and its associated fire control systems carried on a modified Boeing 747 aircraft. It is designed to detect, track, and destroy ballistic missiles during their boost phase. If fully developed and deployed, the ABL system would be integrated into a global missile-defense system. The next testing step will involve increasing the power and duration of the laser firing, then integrating the laser onto the aircraft for in-flight testing. >From the "Department of Military Correctness"... The Pentagon has agreed to "end direct sponsorship of hundreds of Boy Scout units which require members to swear religious oaths, on military facilities across the United States and overseas," thanks to the ACLU. The Pentagon permits service members to lead Boy Scout troops unofficially on their own time, using facilities at military bases, but has also allowed military bases to sponsor officially as many as 400 Boy Scout troops. The settlement does not resolve the ACLU's complaint that federal money is used to benefit the Boy Scouts -- for example, to prepare a base in Virginia for the quadrennial Jamboree (a gathering of 40,000 Boy Scouts and leaders on 3,000 acres of the 76,000-acre Army base). The Jamboree will go on as scheduled. We suppose that if the Pentagon won't defend its informal association with the 3.2-million-member Boy Scouts of America (a major feeder organization for military career slots) then we suppose military chaplains are next to go. Here it's worth noting that the American military defeated Hitler and Tojo, then contained Mao and Stalin in the last century, and entered this century tasked with containing Jihadistan -- its most formidable opponent yet. But while our armed forces are fighting and dying in the current struggle, the Pentagon's lawyers chose to run a white flag up the pole when confronted by the ACLU. Rep. J.D. Hayworth, Arizona Republican and an Eagle Scout, noted his objection in a letter to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, himself an Eagle Scout: "Without a shot being fired, Department of Defense lawyers apparently abandoned the Boy Scouts, threw up their hands and surrendered to the ACLU's latest radical attack on the cherished heritage and values of this nation." We in our humble shop join Congressman Hayworth in urging Secretary Rumsfeld to reverse this disgraceful capitulation. Judicial Benchmarks... >From the "Court Jesters" File, regular Patriot readers know about the lawsuit filed by 11 state attorneys general against various power companies intended to block CO2 emissions. As it turns out, new evidence suggests there is global warming occurring after all. We're sure this important new evidence will find its way into the lawsuit if the prosecutors can first address two tiny problems: Global warming has been occurring for far longer than man has been burning fossil fuels; and global warming is occurring on Mars. Here at The Patriot, we haven't yet figured out how the Left is going to blame the burning of fossil fuels for global warming on Mars, but we suspect it'll involve some sort of Red States / Red Planet conspiracy theory. On the other hand, if global warming can occur on Mars without human causation, can't it also occur on Earth without human causation? Never let it be said that the Left let the facts get in the way of a good lawsuit. >From the "Non Compos Mentis" Files... France goes pre-emptive because it can! In a stunning show of military might, France attacked and destroyed the air force of the Ivory Coast. The French did so in retaliation for a ceasefire violation that killed nine Frenchman and one American. While no sensible person could fault the French for this -- one might even ask why they didn't do more -- it is certainly notable that France acted unilaterally, and only afterward are they requesting a UN Security Council vote for an arms embargo. Why the inconsistency? Please, Mr. Chirac: no blood for cocoa! >From the "Village Academic Curriculum" File... The University of Georgia's website features an official page titled "Religion and Homosexuality" insisting that the "Old Testament clearly indicates that King David had a homosexual relationship with Jonathan, the son of King Saul." We were unable to find that one in our KJV. The page also claims that until the Thirteenth Century, there was "no organized opposition to homosexuality" either from the church or from society in general. Wasn't the Bible written before the Thirteenth Century? Their answer is that "all English translations [of the Bible] have been deliberately mistranslated to make it appear that God condemned homosexuality." And on the basis of that ridiculous conspiracy theory, they also claim that "there is absolutely no condemnation of homosexuality in the Hebrew Old Testament [or]... in the Greek New Testament." Unfortunately, we didn't make this one up. Around the nation... >From the states, it turns out that the red states are not only right when it comes to elections, but they're also more generous than their blue-state brethren. The Catalogue of Philanthropy recently ranked the 50 states, adjusting for gross income, on their collective donations to charity. The top five just might surprise you -- or not: Mississippi, Arkansas, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Alabama. These are all red states, and, in fact, the entire top 25 is made up of red states. New York was the most generous blue state at No. 26. It seems that liberals are benevolent only with other people's money. On the culture front... "Distraught over the re-election of President George W. Bush, a Georgia man traveled to New York City, went to Ground Zero and killed himself with a shotgun blast," reports Long Island's Newsday. Relatives described Andrew Veal, a registered Democrat, as "despondent over Bush's defeat of Sen. John Kerry." This is yet another example of the extreme pathology of the Left, though it's likely that Veal actually offed himself over some deep-seated romantic difficulties. On the frontiers of science... A leading American "scientist" claims that a person's genetic make-up can determine religious belief. After analyzing and comparing a whopping 2,000 DNA samples, the molecular geneticist concludes that brain chemicals determine an individual's belief or unbelief in God. Dr. Dean Harner, who in 1993 claimed to have found the "gay gene," lent his support to the theory. "Buddha, Mohammed and Jesus all shared a series of mystical experiences or alterations in consciousness and thus probably carried the gene," he said with more than a little backward reasoning. "This means that the tendency to be spiritual is part of genetic make-up. This is not a thing that is strictly handed down from parents to children. It could skip a generation -- it's like intelligence." Around the world... The Romans gave us the wisdom of "De mortuis nil nisi bonum" (say nothing but good of the dead). But if it is good that the dead are dead, then perhaps something else should be said about the death of Nobel Peace Prize-winning terrorist Yasser Arafat. Arafat, as you may know, was the Egyptian-born leader of a people who lived in the Middle East under Israeli authority because their Arab brethren failed in consecutive wars to kill all the Jews as they'd intended. (For the record, Arabs, Muslims and Liberals call the aforementioned people "Palestinians.") Like other mass murderers, it's a pity that Arafat's death did not precede his crimes against humanity. Cynically, some say the difference between being a "terrorist" and a "freedom fighter" is whether one wins the war. Even if Arafat had destroyed Israel, as the Palestine Liberation Organization always promised to do, he'd still have been a blood-soaked terrorist. (George Washington, it should be noted, never paid young people to blow themselves up to kill old people, women, children and babies breaking bread together.) Did Arafat's wife split the billions he stole from UN programs with the new PLO leaders? The rest of the world wants to know. Perhaps this opens a door of opportunity for peace with Israel -- though Arafat turned down the chance to have 95% of what he demanded. But where there is no history of the rule of law as Western Civilization knows it, there can be no individual inalienable rights. Last leader standing, not shot dead, rules. Can a Palestinian leader offer absolute peace and security to Israeli neighbors? That would mean suppressing the terrorists who live among them, so it's not likely. Meanwhile, the Christian Arabs emigrate as fast as they can to decrease their numbers in the region from over 15% to less than 3% in four decades. The name "Palestinian" less and less means "stateless Arab from Arab-Israeli wars" and more and more indicates 'Islamist.' Thus, America and its staunch ally, Israel, return to the Roman wisdom that serves as the U.S. Army War College motto: "Si vis pacem, para bellum" (If you want peace, prepare for war). As for Yassar Arafat, he is now among the pantheon of murderers worshipped by the Left. The Liberal Puritans of Secular Totalitarianism will never speak ill of the special dead of Socialism, Communism, anti-Westernism, anti-Israelism, and other Totalitarianisms. And note that Arafat went to his spiritual home, France, to die. And last... Rush Limbaugh has gone and made liberals mad -- again. Limbaugh recently offered "free therapy" for John Kerry voters who had been "traumatized" by their candidate's election loss. Mental-health officials complained that he made a mockery of valid psychological problems. (Snicker, chuckle). "Rush Limbaugh has a way of back-handedly slamming people," said Sheila Cooperman, a licensed clinician with the American Health Association (AHA). "He's trying to ridicule the emotional state this presidential election produced in many of us here in Palm Beach County. Who is he to offer therapy?" "Us?" Does that render Cooperman ready for therapy? TheBoca Raton News reported that over 30 Kerry voters had contacted AHA seeking counseling after the election. They've dubbed the "disorder" as "Post Election Selection Trauma" (PEST), "a legitimate syndrome or disorder within the trauma spectrum," according to Cooperman. We'd simply call it "Liberalism," but then again, we're not licensed clinicians. "Rush Limbaugh has no clinical qualifications to counsel anyone," Cooperman added. "He's not only minimizing PEST, but he's bastardizing the entire psychological field and our clinical expertise." Yes, yes, of course. Lex et Libertas -- Semper Vigilo, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for the editors and staff. (Please pray on this day, and every day, for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world in defense of our liberty, and for the families awaiting their safe return.) *Printer-friendly format Link to -- http://FederalistPatriot.US/current2004a.asp -- PUBLIUS -- Support Operation Shields of Strength! The Federalist Patriot is receiving new requests from military chaplains in Iraq serving Army and Marine units which have recently been deployed on rotation. 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