“There’s no question there’s tribal and ethnic hatreds,” Richardson told The Associated Press. “But when those tribal and ethnic hatreds are fueled by American policy of hostility, then you make the situation worse.”

Those were the words of Gov. Bill Richardson talking about why the United States should remove all troops from Iraq.  Richardson’s argument goes well beyond that it is not in the interests of the United States to remain in Iraq.   He actually thinks that an American abandonment would be in the best interests of the Iraqi people.

There is sectarian violence now.  The only restraint preventing full-fledged, organized ethnic cleansing is the presense of American troops.  If American troops are withdrawn, there will be anarchy, and those with the weapons in any given area will kill those without them.  The situation in Iraq is bad now, and I have no problem with a debate on whether it is in our best interests to remain there, but Bill Richardson clearly has no idea what the consequences of his proposed course of action would be.  Am I the only one who will sleep better tonight knowing that he’s a Governor, not the President?

The central conflict that tripped up the comprehensive bill remains the question of whether illegal immigrants should be given the chance to earn legal status. That question will be an issue in at least two of the measures headed for the Senate.The first to come up is expected to be the “Dream Act,” a bill championed by Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) that would give conditional legal status to immigrants brought to the U.S. at a young age.

To qualify under it, they must have been in the country for at least five years, have a high school diploma and meet other requirements. Over the next six years, they would have to spend two years in college or the military, after which they could become legal permanent residents, a step toward citizenship.

Durbin plans to attach the bill as an amendment to a defense funding measure scheduled to come before the Senate today, his staff said.

The bill has broad support, prompting immigration restrictionist groups to send alerts warning that the Senate was planning “to pass an amnesty act by hiding language in the defense authorization bill.”

LA Times

So, here we go again with another amnesty bill in disguise. For one, I am getting really sick and tired of this practice in Congress to attach amendments to bills which have nothing to do whatsoever with the amendment. That needs to stop. Furthermore, what this article leaves out, whether intentionally or not, is that the Dream Act will allow colleges to grant in-state tuition to illegal immigrant students. So all of you who went to a university outside your home state and paid the out of state tuition, which usually is at least double the in state rate, keep in mind that you would have been better off sneaking into the country illegally and getting a tuition break for it under this provision.

“The illegal alien who applies for this amnesty is immediately rewarded with ‘conditional’ lawful permanent resident (green card) status, which can be converted to a non-conditional green card in short order,” Kris Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, noted in a Heritage Foundation paper. “The alien can then use his newly acquired status to seek green cards for his parents who brought him in illegally in the first place. In this way, it is a backdoor amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens who brought their children to the United States.”
The DREAM Act would repeal a 1996 law — the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act — which included a provision barring any state from offering discounted tuition to illegals unless it provided the same tuition discount to all U.S. citizens.

The Washington Times 

If the Holocaust-denying, nuclear bomb-building, terrorism-sponsoring president of Iran thinks he’s going to flit into New York next week for the U.N. General Assembly and escape unchallenged, boy is he going to be in for a surprise. Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel yesterday added his name to a small but high-powered international group of private citizens who are pushing to have Iran thrown out of the United Nations in response to Iran’s violations of the 1948 Convention to Prevent and Punish the Crime of Genocide.

President Ahmadinejad will also be met with a large rally on September 20 outside the U.N. at noon organized by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, and the UJA-Federation of New York. The rally, in support of Israel, calls for implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which calls for disarming Iran’s proxy army Hezbollah. It also calls for supporting the war against state sponsors of terror, including Iran. The executive vice chairman of the Conference, Malcolm Hoenlein, told us yesterday that he’s received requests from as far away as Texas, Arkansas, Ottawa, and New Hampshire to participate in the rally.

New York Sun

Where is the U.S. Government? Are they taking a nap? The fact that this man is even being allowed to set foot on American soil is insane enough, but if that doesn’t do it for you, maybe this will:

In a move that has stunned New York, the Bloomberg administration is in discussions to escort the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to ground zero during his visit to New York next week, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said today.

The Iranian mission to the U.N. made the request to the New York City Police Department and the, which will jointly oversee security during the leader’s two-day visit. Mr. Ahmadinejad is scheduled to arrive September 24 to speak to the U.N. General Assembly as the Security Council decides whether to increase sanctions against his country for its uranium enrichment program.

U.S. May Escort Ahmadinejad to Ground Zero

I swear to God, Michael Bloomberg lives in a completely different world than the rest of us. What a complete ass that man is. If I were a member of the NYPD and was told I had to be a police escort to a  fundamentalist wacko just a few years after his fundamentalist wacko brethren killed a bunch of my fellow officers along with 3,000 other people, I’d spit in Bloomberg’s face and then hand him my badge.