Upon my arrival at the office:

Me: Did you hear we’re short one terrorist this morning?

Leftist co-worker: Yep. Just one more way for Bush to keep this going.

God bless Amerikkka.

It is your duty. Do it now.

(h/t Michelle Malkin)

Yeah, but they really really really really really support the troops.

In addition to a boycott of San Francisco, I think the Navy should stop holding Fleet Week in the Bay Area San Francisco all together. That week, millions of dollars are poured into the local economy.

If the SF Board of Supervisors is going to pull a stupid stunt like this, I think the Navy should oblige the City by the Bay in every respect.

**UPDATE**

Let’s take a look at their reasoning:

In turning away the Iowa, supervisors cited opposition to the war in Iraq, the treatment of gay and lesbians in the service and the city’s reputation for embracing the peace movement.

Is this what they mean by “embracing the peace movement?”

**UPDATE**

Diane Feinstein is NOT happy about this decision:

Washington — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a former mayor of San Francisco, blasted the city’s Board of Supervisors for its 8-3 vote against a resolution supporting a bid to move the historic battleship Iowa to the city as a floating museum.

“This isn’t the San Francisco that I’ve known and loved and grew up in and was born in,” Feinstein said Wednesday in Washington.

“I was very surprised,” added the senator, who served as mayor from 1978 to 1989 after eight years as a supervisor.

Referring to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and efforts to defend the country against possible terrorist attacks, she added, “I thought that in view of what’s going on and in view of the loss of lives of our men and women, it was a very petty decision.”

Good for Senator Feinstein. I hope she makes a few phone calls and takes the 8 members of the Board of Supervisors that voted for this nonsense to task. (h/t Michelle Malkin)

Where our level of tolerance and diversity is only exceeded by our love of country.

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Just like they did when they came home from Vietnam - only this time, they aren’t waiting that long. And it isn’t just peace activists this time - it is a U.S. Senator.

Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, took the Senate floor yesterday and likened American servicemen to Nazis:

When you read some of the graphic descriptions of what has occurred here [at Guantanamo Bay]–I almost hesitate to put them in the [Congressional] Record, and yet they have to be added to this debate. Let me read to you what one FBI agent saw. And I quote from his report:

On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water. Most times they urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18-24 hours or more. On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold. . . . On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor.

If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime–Pol Pot or others–that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.

We are fighting an enemy that murdered 3,000 innocent people on American soil 3 1/2 years ago and would murder millions more if given the chance–and according to Dick Durbin, our soldiers are the Nazis.

“Dick” Durbin must go.

**UPDATE**

Power Line’s Scott Johnson puts it this way:

Here is one metaphor by which I am willing to stand. Senators Leahy and Durbin are more fit to reconstitute the Democratic Party as a branch of the Peoples Temple than to hold high office. They are more fit to lead a doomsday cult devoted to drinking poison Kool-Aid than they are to serve as United States Senators.

They could also go to work for Michael Moore making propaganda films - they seem to have a knack for it.