Oh Dear.....More Oppression of Poor Muslims !

Australia's most iconic building, the Sydney Opera House, on Tuesday canned a lecture entitled ''Honour Killings are Morally Justified,'' which was to have been given by Muslim writer Uthman Badar (the spokesman of extremist Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir), only hours after it was announced. The talk was planned as part of the taxpayer-funded annual Festival of Dangerous Ideas, which takes place in August.

Late that day, the Opera House committee announced, ''The Festival of Dangerous Ideas is intended to be a provocation to thought and discussion, rather than simply a provocation. It is always a matter of balance and judgement, and in this case a line has been crossed. It s clear from the public reaction that the title has given the wrong impression of what Mr Badar intended to discuss. Neither the festival organisers (the St James Ethics Centre), nor the Sydney Opera House in any way advocates honour killings or condones any form of violence against women.''

Of course not!  What could have given people that impression, other than the title of the lecture, the blurb, and the record of the scumbag speaker in demanding shariah law and excusing terrorist groups?

The Blurb Badar wrote:  For most of recorded history parents have reluctantly sacrificed their children - sending them to kill or be killed for the honour of a nation, their flag, their king, their religion. But what about killing for the honour of one's family? Overwhelmingly, those who condemn ''honour killings'' are based in the liberal democracies of the West. The accuser and moral judge is the secular (white) westerner and the accused is the oriental other; the powerful condemn the powerless. By taking a particular cultural view of honour, some killings are condemned whilst others are celebrated. In turn, the act becomes a symbol of everything that is allegedly wrong with the other culture.

Pardon me, but how is it possible to construe this talk as anything but apologetics for honour killing and an attack on its white critics. And why is this extremist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, now attacking critics of the ISIS terrorist group that's slaughtering civilians even given any stage to advance their inhuman agenda?  The organisers of this utter disgrace may congratulate themselves on winning media attention. Perhaps that was the aim all along.

 But media attention will eventually fade, and those highbrow organisers will have to live with the fact that they intended to elevate the slaughter of women and girls to the very centre of Sydney's cultural life. It is disturbing that the Sydney Opera House and the St James Ethics Centre - organisations that claim to provide cultural and thought leadership - failed to understand why it was not worth talking about justifying the murder of women just because they happen to be born as Muslims.

The federal government is considering expanding the criteria for proscribing terrorist groups following fresh advice it could not act to curb the activities of the radical group Hizb ut-Tahrir under existing laws. Attorney-General George Brandis yesterday confirmed new counter-terrorism laws would be introduced in two weeks to boost powers of spy agencies including ASIO and ASIS. The intelligence agencies are believed to have recently repeated advice to the Attorney-General's Department that proscribing Hizb ut-Tahrir as a terrorist organisation would make it illegal for anyone in Australia to be a member. Maybe Mr Badar should be thinking of leaving Australia.

Just Some of The Victims of Honour Killings

The Way I See It.....the quote from a British philosopher that ''if you hear of a really stupid idea in the public forum you'll find a bunch of left-wing elitist academics behind it.''  That's what we have in this situation. I must say, that here in Australia I haven't seen such a startling symbol of our cultural elite's loathing of our society and its weakening of our resistance to barbarity than this incident. Our civilisation is being betrayed by Simon Longstaff and his ilk at the St James Ethics Centre, a secular non-profit organisation for the promotion of ethical decision making. They certainly dropped their ethics this time and ignored the many victims of this barbaric practice in the name of their Festival of provocation. He even had the stupidity to Tweet, ''Have not the Íslamophobes won the day when a person dare not speak out on controversial matters because he is a Muslim?''  No victim here Simon, the real victims couldn't express their disgust of you and the immorality of the said topic.

And that goes for the Muslim community in Australia as well. For years this country's coterie of imams have been loathe to publicly scold Hizb ut-Tahrir's vocal members, shaking their heads in private but preferring to preach freedom of expression. Prominent Islamic leader Ameer Ali, former president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, said all Muslim groups, leaders and mosques preachers should be resoundingly denouncing the views of this radical filth. ''But I don't hear it yet. I don't hear people coming out in sermons denouncing them. They need to do this and be at the forefront of demolishing their ideas that are brainwashing our youth.''

UPDATE:  Yesterday (better late than never) Australia's Islamic leaders have come out and demanded Uthman Badar and his radical group to stop voicing its vile sermons in public, hate-filled messages which they claim are tarnishing the entire Muslim community. The religion's chief authority - the Australian National Imams Council - has had enough of this group expressing any justification for honour killing as well as their sickening views that men could ''morally'' marry pre-teen girls and that the U.S. and Australia were terrorist nations for invading Iraq and Afghanistan.

The WHITE Side of the Story of Negros !

This is the reason CNN has dropped Buchanan. It's like Newt G. said, "You are not supposed to bring up uncomfortable Facts." (verified on Buchanan’s website)

BUCHANAN TO OBAMA
Finally...It is Said Publicly. I have never seen the white side explained better!
Pat Buchanan had the guts to say it. It is about time!!

           BUCHANAN TO OBAMA
By Patrick J. Buchanan

Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America .. Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to... This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances, and demands heard. And among them are these:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Jeremiah Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream. Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants. Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated their time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.
We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude??

Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Let him go to Altoona ? And Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids...? Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America ? Is it really white America's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?

Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?

As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?

Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?

We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena . And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.

Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago. This needs to be passed around because, this is a message everyone needs to hear!!!

OK...........will you pass it on ?

YES. I did but will you?

Because I'm for a better America

I am
Not racist,

                          Not violent, Just Not silent anymore.

 The Way I See It......Patrick Buchanan makes so many good points that now is the time every American should be heard and not stifled by political correctness from speaking on the subject of race relations.  Obama loves playing cards: the Black and White race card, the rich against poor card and the amnesty Latino card.
 

The Democrats have a lot to be ashamed of and to answer to white Americans why they stacked the majority of government entitlements towards unwed black mothers. So over the years more and more of the products of this fornication (with the shocking lack of Negro male responsibility) grew up with no urge to study at school, find work, or respect for people's property or life. The media as a whole has always downplayed any reporting of Black on White crimes, but watch all hell break loose when it's the other way around. Read my blog post on February 3rd, entitled Bad Boys, Bad Boys, What you gonna do when they come for you? for the latest in Negro youths assaulting innocent whites.

ONE Week in the World of Islam: What is Wrong with this Faith ?

In Kenya:
                    At least 53 people have been killed after unidentified armed men stormed the coastal city of Mpeketoni, setting hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices on fire and spraying bullets in the streets. The largest number killed were in a hotel watching the World Cup on television. A Kenyan army spokesman blamed al-Shabaab, Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked militant group. ''They were shouting 'Allahu Akbar', meaning 'God is great', in Arabic.

In Nigeria:
                    Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have reportedly kidnapped 20 women from a nomadic settlement in north-east Nigeria near the town of Chibok, where the Islamic militants abducted nearly 300 girls in April, most of whom are still missing. (photo right)

In Iraq:
                   Sunni Islamic militants claimed on Sunday that they had massacred hundreds of captive Shiite members of Iraq's security forces, posting grisly pictures of a mass execution in Tikrit as evidence and warning of more killing to come.

In Syria:
                   The al-Qaeda-breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria has prevented food and medical supplies from reaching some neighborhoods in an eastern Syrian city, an activist group said. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said....an offensive by ISIS in eastern Syria against rival Islamic rebel factions has killed more than 640 people and uprooted at least 130,000 since the end of April.

In Spain:

Spanish police arrested eight people in a pre-dawn raid in Madrid on Monday, breaking up a jihadist recruitment network led by a former Guantanamo Bay inmate (are your listening Obama?). Spain's government has said it fears battle-hardened Islamist fighters may return to Spain from Syria. Spain this year marked the 10th anniversary of the March 11, 2004 al-Qaeda-inspired bombing of four packed commuter trains in Madrid, which killed 191 people.

In Belgium:
                     The forth person to die after a gunman opened fire on the Jewish Museum in Brussels was to be buried in a Muslim cemetery in Morocco. His name is Alexandre Strens, whose mother is Jewish and father a Muslim Berber, was to be buried near his grandparent's graves in the cemetery in Taza, north-east Morocco. A suspect, Mehdi Nemmouche, was arrested in Marseille, southern France, 11 days ago.

In Indonesia:
                     Radical Islamists in Indonesia have been celebrating and swearing allegiance to ISIS on line, raising concerns that more potential terrorists will be attracted to the conflicts in Iraq and Syria. Jakarta-based terrorism expert Sidney Jones says Indonesians are known to be fighting in Syria, and that Indonesians attracted to ultra extremist ISIS are more radical than the Bali bombers.

In Sudan:
                    The retired Libyan general Khalifa Heftar, who is leading the military campaign dubbed as ''Operation Dignity'' against Islamist militias accused Sudan directly of providing aid to these groups. Heftar says that these militias have wreaked havoc in the North African nation.

In China:
                   China today sentenced three people to death over a deadly attack at Beijing's Tiananmen Square last October, state television reported, an incident blamed by the government on Islamist militants.  Five people were killed and 40 hurt when a car ploughed into a crowd at the northern edge of the Square and burst into flames.

                    All of those sentenced appeared to have ethnic Uighur names. China has blamed this and previous attacks on Muslim separatists. Like the suicide bombing last month killing 39 people at the market in Urumqi. In March, 29 people were stabbed to death at a train station in Kunming city.

In Britain:
                    The Prime Minister has taken a strong stance to the ''Trojan Horse'' scandal which revealed Islamist extremism in schools in Birmingham. The Trojan Horse scandal found some six schools had enforced ''a culture of fear and intimidation'', with the chief inspector for schools for England Sir Michael Wilshaw, saying head teachers had been ''marginalised or forced out of their jobs'' in an ''organised campaign to target certain schools to impose a narrow faith-based ideology.'' (There's that jihad by stealth again)

Inspectors found boys and girls had been segregated and were told Christian celebrations, including Christmas, had been scrapped while Muslim festivals went ahead. Also music classes were  discouraged and contact with non-Muslim pupils phased out. In two of the schools it was found that an extremist al-Qaeda-sympathising preacher had been invited to address the children and that the curriculum had been restricted to comply with conservative Islamic teaching.

In Israel:

This past Thursday night, three Jewish teenagers - one of whom is a dual American/Israeli citizen - were abducted on the West Bank. The Israelis are certain that Hamas scum are responsible. For the moment, we can also observe the reaction of the Palestinian Authority, via the Times of Israel to learn that the Fatah Facebook page features the image at left. (Three Jewish Mice on a hook)

In Australia:
                    Yesterday, in Sydney District Court, a Muslim ass-kissing barrister defended a Hyde Park rioter who wounded a police officer during the violent September, 2012 riots, saying he should not be sentenced harshly just because ''some in the community may disapprove of his faith.'' Ahmed Elomar struck Senior-Constable Jason Blanchard (right) with a pole and left he with bleeding from the head while Elomar ''disappeared'' into the 300-strong crowd, his face covered with a balaclava. The turd also carried a sign: ''Our dead are in paradise, your dead are in hell!''  The judge is still presiding.

Here's what makes this religion repugnant. Earlier this year, a beautiful young Pakistani girl named Amina stood in the living room of her western Sydney home, listening in horror as her father explained how he planned to murder her. The bastard said, ''I am going to kill you now, right here!'' he shouted at the 16 year old. ''And no one will say anything about what I do to you. I am too powerful in the community.''  You see Amina's parents had promised her to a man 13 years her senior and she had made the mistake of refusing to marry him.

For years, child marriage in this country has been hidden under layers of culture and tradition in tight-knit communities (I'd call them ghettos). Then came the news of a 12 year old girl who was  ''married'' in January to a 26 year old Lebanese university student (photo left) in an Islamic ceremony at the girl's home in New South Wales' Hunter Valley, and the layers of secrecy began to peel away. The man was arrested on 25 counts of sexual intercourse and was granted bail in March for a trial in the coming months. The girl's father and the imam who allegedly performed the wedding ceremony have also been charged and will face a court at a later date.

The Way I See It......the variety of Muslim extremists who have struck from Moscow to Mumbai, Bali to London, Syria to New York shows the Koran too easily lends itself to interpretations that licence terrorism, intolerance, oppression and the subjugation of women.

Western leaders and many elitist academics in our universities wallow in a political correctness that doesn't allow for any meaningful debate and discussion on what to do with the Muslim problem without being called a ''racist.''  It's about time people who are serious about taking this bull-by-the-horns start saying, We are not racist, we are Realists!''  Why aren't so-called ''moderate'' Muslims speaking out against this constant inhumanity or is that they are too busy working on the flip side of terrorism; jihad by stealth. (colonisation to look like immigration)?

Islamophobia is real, and it has a right to exist. That PR manta that Islamists keep repeating in the halls of the United Nations, from western-based Islamic Associations and on European and American television is wearing very thin. You know the one: ''The Koran promotes a devout hesitation before the inscrutability of the Divine and urges a penitent, generous life shared in pursuit of mercy, charity and beauty.''  That was to mesmerise the West into letting in the hordes that are now purposely NOT assimilating in the host country. Until those Muslims not involved with terrorism speak up and practice multicultural involvement, I don't trust them. That goes for any Muslim leaving his country of origin going to Syria to fight with the jihadists. The risk is too high and they should not be allowed to return and their citizenship cancelled.

Waleed Aly Avoids the Obvious Truth....Again !

Here is Australia, Fairfax columnist and Muslim apologist Waleed Aly did it with Boko Haram and does it again with Iraq. Don’t mention Islam!  Waleed Aly is the model moderate Muslim, used by the media to persuade us we have little to fear from Islam but our own bigotry. His rewards have been great. Once the spokesman for the Islamic Council of Victoria, he is now an ABC (another organization that tries not to use the ''M'' word) radio host and an AGE newspaper columnist (where he does most of his Muslim denials).

He has burrowed himself so deep into the media and political fabric of Australian society (like a bedbug), the crazy thing is he even turns up as a politics lecturer at Monash University's Global Terrorism Research Centre, despite having NO doctorate and having qualified in engineering and law. This week Aly showed the style that's made him such a pet of the establishment Left
 but a worry to me.

In Iraq we have Islamist extremists - led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant - slaughtering Shiites, attacking the Iraqi democracy and claiming a new Islamic Sunni state in the north of Iraq and Syria. Just yesterday these jihadist savage scum put a photo on Twitter of the severed head of the police chief of Mosel, a city they overran, and wrote, ''This is our ball, it's made of skin, maybe one of the teams would like to use this head for a soccer ball.''  Thankfully, Twitter took it down.

Who does Aly blame? THE WEST !

We haven’t yet come to terms with just how much damage the invasion of Iraq has done. It’s likely we won’t fully know for decades. But it’s clear that the blowback is already under way...

Predictably, Aly does not even mention a more telling fact: that the US pulled out prematurely from Iraq in 2011, leaving a vacuum that terrorists now fill. Nor does he mention that the regime the West toppled in 2003 was one of the most brutal known, responsible for starting two wars and a genocide. If he believes that regime should have been left in place he should say so explicitly and reckon what that would have cost in more lives lost.


And what words never pass his lips in this article?  Yes, “Islam” and “Muslim”.
True, he does mention “Islamic” - but only once, in noting the Sunni force involved is indeed the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Nowhere does Aly describe Islam’s role in fostering such violence and contempt for democracy, whether in Iraq, Egypt or Syria, all countries he discusses in this piece.


No, just blame the West for Muslims slaughtering Muslims to impose a fascist state.
It’s always the West, which makes Aly’s piece reads dangerously like an apologia for Islamist extremism of the deadliest kind. But just to underline Aly’s slipperiness, here is the core of his argument. The West was stupid to remove Saddam Hussein in Iraq and thus unleash this terrorist “blowback”. But it was stupid not to remove Bashar al-Assad in Syria and thus allow this terrorist uprising. Whatever it chooses, the West is wrong:

Obama ran an anaemic campaign for military intervention in Syria that went nowhere. These days he regards Syria merely as “somebody else’s civil war”.
We will never know what would have happened had America intervened at that stage. But we do know that Bashar al-Assad had free reign to unleash brutal force, thereby radicalising the environment and laying down a magnet for Sunni terrorist groups. And we now know that those groups are enmeshed with those in Iraq.... Mosul is in terrorist hands because we blew the lid off Iraq, then refused to help put it back on Syria.

The Way I See It.....it is impossible to ignore the influence of Islam in this conflict:

The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (Isis) has imposed a strict set of Sharia laws on the citizens of Nineveh province just days after capturing the provincial capital of Mosul.
In a document circulating on social media attributed to the group, Isis warned tribal leaders and sheikhs not to “work with [the Iraqi] government and be traitors” while proclaiming that women should only go outside if absolutely necessary. 
“For women, dress decently and wear wide clothes. Only go out if needed,” read the document ...
The document added that Isis wish to destroy all shrines and graves, in reference to Shia shrines in towns such as Samarra where fighting is continuing. “For those asking who are you? We are soldiers of Islam and took on our responsiblity to bring back glory of the Islamic Caliphate… Anyone who steals [will have their] hands cut,” the document translation read.              

          UPDATE:   Over 500,000 Iraqis have fled the northern provinces in Iraq and with the jihadi militants now only 100 km from Bagdad, the head Mullah has called upon all citizens strong enough to carry a rifle to join forces with the security forces to defend the capital.

                                                        

            

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OBAMA'S Nation is Turning into an Abomination !

Trading deserters for terrorists. Deserting Americans in Benghazi and then lying about it. Using the IRS to persecute critics. Using Executive Orders to circumvent Congress.  Destroying America's healthcare system and allowing Veterans hospitals to just let veterans die.

Millions of Americans are wondering: How exactly does Barack Obama get away with dismantling and destroying the greatest nation on earth, committing outrage after outrage, day after day and year after year? How can a scandal-plagued president so openly and arrogantly trample the nation's laws, hobble its economy, hurt its friends and -- shockingly -- help its enemies without being impeached and removed from office. President Richard Nixon was threatened with impeachment and got hounded out of office for just OKing a break-in at the Democratic office and Clinton came close when he and Monica Lewinsky were found to discussing the merits of a favourite cigar of his. But not Obama!  WHY?

As an ex-pat living in Australia I am stunned. Are Americans caught in some sort of trance-like state, oblivious to what is happening to them, and paralysed from acting rationally while their nation disintegrates before their eyes?  In fact, Romney had it right on the money....''Forty-eight per cent won't vote for me because they're the ones on handouts from the government and the socialist in Obama will continue the entitlements, they know that.''  Redistribution of wealth is Obama's credo.

Increasingly, an offbeat-sounding yet surprisingly insightful answer to that question is being cited: ''Bread and Circuses'' -- a comparison of America in the Age of Obama with ancient Rome when the restless masses were continually bribed and entertained during the once-great empire's rapid decay and disintegration. For while now America, like ancient Rome, is indeed in decline, and 21st century ''bread and circuses'', with a multitentacled government dependency and deception could be much more than it seems.

Barack Obama got his anti-Americanism from his Commie-loving mother and his ''hate-the-first-world-countries'' from his  drunken, socialist, anti-colonialist, loser Kenyan father. (Read my blog: American Exceptionalism (July 3, 2011).  It was bad enough when he gave Hosni Mubarak's lack of support and welcomed the Muslim Brotherhood into ruling Egypt. And he seriously supports the Islamist filth that usurped the democratic forces fighting to overthrow Assad with weapons and is thinking of giving them surface-to-air missiles in spite of his military advisors disapproval. Why not? He's over ruled them just this month with swapping a deserter, which cost 6 soldier's lives trying to free him, for 5 high echelon al-Qaeda militants. It's a shame the orders to shoot him on sight as a deserter were not fulfilled.

Obama refuses to apologize, instead he rationalises by saying, ''it's our creed not to leave any soldier behind.''  Norman McDaniel, a POW in the Vietnam War, and described his experience in his book ''Scars and Stripes'' told reporters ''it was incredible that we negotiated giving up five top terrorists for a fellow that it is claimed sent emails to his folks saying 'Í hate America' and 'America is the most conceited country in the world' just wasn't a deserter but also a traitor who converted to Islam and was advising jihadi fighters at a base in Pakistan how to ambush convoys.'' He said the swap makes ''every soldier, American citizen vulnerable and valuable to the Taliban.''  Terrorists now know that the White House is willing to give up major terrorists in Guantanamo prison in exchange for a single American soldier.


Elaine Donnelly ( photo right ) of the Center for Military Readiness told reporters that ''at a minimum, all of these allegations should be investigated...the sooner the better.'' Bergdahl directly disobeyed Articles 86 AWOL and Article Desertion. Both articles call for trial by court martial.''Something very bad is going to come of this,'' she said. She also questioned whether the exchange and others that may come would be the method through which which Obama finally keeps his first term promise to close Guantanamo Bay prison. ''One of the loose strings he's not been able to resolve is closing Gitmo,'' she said. ''But using the captured terrorists for exchanges would make Gitmo irrelevant.''
Donnelly said the price to the U.S. for the release of Bergsdahl is very high, and there appears to be no significant benefit to the nation's security.

The Way I See It.....the biggest question the mainstream media is not asking about this exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for 5 senior deadshit jihadists is ''Was the White House directly or indirectly involved in a financial exchange to ensure Bergdahl's release, thereby knowingly funding a terrorist organization?''

Brad Thor, bestselling author, appeared on TV last Friday asking the same thing but had more information. Thor noted that Bergdahl is believed to have been held by the Haqqani network, which has pledged alliance to the Taliban but operates independently. He described the Haqqani network as ''like organized crime, but with Muslims - 80% Sopranos, 20% Al Qaeda. ''Yet, it's the Taliban, the Afgan group, that got the 5 prisoners retuned to them,'' Thor remarked. ''So we need to ask, cui bono? What was in it for the Haqqanis? And the Haqqanis in every transaction always want money, including 2008 when they captured New York Times reporter David Rohde. So for the Haqqnis to just hand him over for nothing makes no sense at all.''

Thor said the said the Obama administration needs to be asked whether it funnelled money to the Haqqani network. ''I'm telling you, there was some sort of deal, aside from the prisoners, that the White House doesn't want to talk about.....I promise you.'' He added a few choice words for how the Obama administration has approached foreign policy and the economy. ''They are completely inept. They are incompetent. They are ignorant. They don't know what they're doing,'' Thor stated. ''The economy hasn't recovered. Show me one thing from this administration that the American people should be saying, 'we want more of that, that's great.' They haven't done anything right. It's hard to believe Americans are putting up with this presidential failure......impeach him!''

UPDATE: Fox News reveals that the release of these five prisoners was desired by Obama for some time. He ignored military and intelligence assessments, abandoned a promising effort to retrieve Bergdahl by the tried and true method of ransom, and made no attempt to obtain the release of THREE other American hostages!