By the way, Americans and British should be worried about Iranian bombs too. The policy of the Iranian government is “Death to the Great Satan” and has been since 1979. That’s us, for anybody who doesn’t know. By that they mean that the US should be destroyed. And an Iranian official has declared that the Iranian government has a special branch set up to plan how to destroy Britain.

You can talk about all this being bluster. People talked about Hitler’s talk being bluster too, that he really did not mean it. I regard what Presidents of Iran (and other officials) say as evidence of what they think, and indicators of how they will act when they get the capability.

If it turns out to be a matter of survival, them or us, I prefer that we survive. Call me old-fashioned, but I doubt even the liberals, even the airheaded celebrities who have been so ignorantly critical of the Bush Administration for so long, would actually choose differently when push came to shove. If they had the wits to recognize when that was, of course.

Remember how Gazans manned phone banks to canvass for Obama votes? He’s paying off his friends. Watch out Israel.

As for the NIE, those intel “experts” were not hapless, they knew exactly what they were doing. They were sabotaging the policy of the Administration that governed the country they were obliged to serve because they did not like their Constitutional boss, President Bush. Now they have one more to their taste, one who shares their policy preferences for appeasement.

Obama has made a good start for the Second Coming of the Carter Administration, wrecking foriegn policy, social policy (the “Stimulus Bill” reverses the successful welfare reform of the 90s), and economic policy. The Mullahs will walk all over him, and he won’t have a clue as to what happened. Neither will all his expert advisors, who live in a bizarro world of mirror imaging and unrealism.

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Presidential Determination No. 2009-15 of January 27,
2009

Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs
Related To Gaza

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States, including section
2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of
1962 (the “Act”), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601), I
hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the
Act, that it is important to the national interest to
furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to
exceed $20.3 million from the United States Emergency
Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose
of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration
needs, including by contributions to international,
governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and
payment of administrative expenses of Bureau of
Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department
of State, related to humanitarian needs of Palestinian
refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.

You are authorized and directed to publish this
memorandum in the Federal Register.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, January 27, 2009

[FR Doc. E9-2488
Filed 2-3-09; 8:45 am]

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