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Many of my fellow Democrats are in a tizzy over something President Bush said to the Israeli parliament. From the BBC:

“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals,” said Mr Bush in his speech.

“We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is - the false comfort of appeasement.”

Why is everyone — including Barack Obama — assuming that Bush was referring to Obama?

When I first heard about the comment, I assumed Bush was referring to Jimmy Carter, not Barack Obama. Jimmy Carter is the one who recently met with leaders of Hamas, a terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of Israel.

Funny that nobody thought he was referring to Hillary Clinton. Then again, she made is quite clear what her response would if she was president if and when Iran were to ever launch a nuclear attack against Israel.

Now that I think about it, many of my fellow Democrats got in a tizzy over that too. Go figure.

Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Hamas, Hillary Clinton, Hitler, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Nazis, Terrorists

During World War Two, Nazi Germany transported six U-boat submarines 2,000 miles overland from Germany to attack Russian shipping in the Black Sea. The subs operated out of Romania for over two years, hunting and sinking dozens of Russian ships.

When Romania switched sides and declared war against Germany, it left the remaining three subs - three had already been lost in combat - with nowhere to go. They were scuttled by their crew as the war neared its end.

The location of the three U-boats has been a mystery. Until now.

Selçuk Kolay, a Turkish marine engineer, has located one of the subs two miles off the coast of Turkey sitting 8o feet under the surface. He believes he knows the location of the remaining two.

I’ve always wanted to dive a U-boat. There are about seven that can be reached by SCUBA here on the east cost of the United States. I got to dive ship wreaks while I was in the Air Force and stationed on Guam. There is one Japanese tanker from Word War Two sitting atop a German cruiser from World War One. I once dove deep enough so that I could put one hand on the German ship while placing my other hand on the Japanese tanker. It turned out to be highly anticlimactic.

Guam had a lot of cool dive sites. It didn’t have any U-boats.

Link (Telegraph.co.uk)

Tags: Germany, Guam, Hitler, Nazis, SCUBA, Selçuk Kolay, turkey, U-Boats, World War Two

The Disney Corporation which owns the ABC network is producing “The Path to 9/11″, a docudrama that recounts in dramatic fashion the many events that lead up to the terror attacks of 9/11. The six hour docudrama will be aired on ABC Sunday September 10 and Monday September 11. Oddly enough, Monday happens to be the five year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.Evidently the 9/11 docudrama’s producers simply made a lot of the story up, even though they are claiming the docudrama is based on the 9/11 Report. Not that I’m against making stuff up and passing it off as fact. It’s just that they are trying to put much of the blame for 9/11 on former President Bill Clinton. There is a scene in the docudrama showing a crack team of CIA ninja assassins lead by Donnie Wahlberg about to spring into action and kill bin Laden. Before they can act, they get a collect call from someone in the Clinton Administration telling them to stop. To not kill bin Laden. The problem with this scene is that never happened. Nobody in the Clinton administration ever stopped the CIA from killing bin Laden.

Hasn’t Bill Clinton been blamed enough for things he had absolutely nothing to do with?

If Disney is going to make shit up about 9/11, why not be a little more creative then to simply blame Bill Clinton? It’s old. Why not go all out and blame the 9/11 attacks on Adolf Hitler. They could show that Adolf Hitler traveled to the future in a Nazi time machine and created the Al Qaeda terrorist network. The rightwing has been using the made up word Islamofascism quite a bit lately. Though Hitler was not Islamic, he was a hardcore old school fascist. It even says so on Wikipedia. Plus, Adolf Hitler hated Jews.

Now this would be a kick ass docudrama. They could show Donnie Wahlberg and his crack team of CIA ninjas racing to locate the Nazi time machine and Islamofascist Adolf Hitler. One of the Austin Powers movies featured time travel. Same goes with a couple of the Star Trek movies. The one with the whales was exceptionally good. Remember the Back to the Future movies?

The precedent of traveling in time has already been set.

Disney is missing the mark with this 9/11 docudrama. I applaud them though for having the courage to make shit up. Too many times, documentary film makers adhere to facts when it comes to telling a story. Most of them are beholding to the all powerful historian lobby. A bunch of stuffy know-it-alls assholes that wear tweed jackets with leather patches on the elbows. They smoke pipes and like to talk about Winston Churchill.

It’s refreshing to see a company like Disney have the courage to be a different. To spice things up. To think outside the box. I only wish they had been more original in their fabrications. A little bit more creative. Simply blaming the Clinton administration for everything is worn out.

Tags: ABC, Disney, Hitler, Nazi Time Travel