Leadership: For years, Barack Obama called Iraq “a dumb war.” But considering how that conflict undeniably scared Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi into ending his WMD program, the 2003 invasion has never looked smarter.

‘I don’t oppose all wars,” future President Barack Obama told Chicagoans Against War in Iraq during a 2002 rally. “What I am opposed to is a dumb war … a rash war … the cynical attempt by … armchair, weekend warriors in this (Bush) administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.”

Obama called the plan to liberate Iraq an “attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us.” And he warned that it “will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaida.”

Goading the then-commander in chief, Obama said: “You want a fight, President Bush? Let’s fight to make sure that the U.N. (nuclear) inspectors can do their work … let’s fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people.”

Today, after two years of President Obama, our “so-called allies” like Egypt are destabilized, or threatened, and in danger of becoming enemies — nothing “so-called” about it.

Turns out that if it hadn’t been for those “armchair warriors” and their “dumb war” in Iraq, Libya might well be a nuclear weapons power today. All the U.N. inspectors in the world wouldn’t be able to stop Gadhafi from using atomic and chemical weapons to slaughter tens or even hundreds of thousands of his own people to keep himself in power, instead of just conventional weapons to kill a fraction of that number.

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Stick a fork in him. George W. Bush is done with politics.

The ex-President told C-SPAN he has no plans to raise cash, stump for Republican candidates and even appear on television.

“I don’t want to go out and campaign for candidates,” he said in an interview that will air on Sunday. “I don’t want to be viewed as a perpetual money-raiser.”

Bill Maher has a problem: he is always sure, but he is rarely right. Maher belittles anyone who dares to disagree with his learned opinions as ignorant. In reality, a place Maher must have left a long time ago, the Left constantly incites violence against conservatives. Additionally, there is a long history of leftists carrying out their violent fantasies.

First, on the inciting hatred front, why not start with Bill Maher himself?

In the following clip from Maher’s television program, the host jokes about Vice president Cheney dying, than makes the serious point that he believes it would be good if the Vice President died:

Then there was Chris Matthews of MSNBC on Hardball musing about killing Rush Limbaugh:

The website The Onion made a video lamenting that Glenn Beck has not died a painful death:

The website the Daily Caller made a four minute video, compiling tweets urging the assassination of Sarah Palin:

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Rep. Paul Kanjorski, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, had the following to say about Florida Governor Rick Scott, a Republican:

“instead of running for governor of Florida, they ought to have him and shoot him. Put him against the wall and shoot him.”

That is just a sample of the vitriol and hate that regularly comes from the Left. Throughout the Bush Presidency the Left regularly wrote books, made movies, and otherwise advocated the assassination of George W. Bush. Maher’s claim that the Left does not incite violence is the type of absurd claim that could only be made by an ignoramus or a willful deceiver.

Maher’s second claim, that only conservatives carry out acts of violence because they are armed and insane, is equally fallacious.

In 1901 President William McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, who killed the president “because he was the enemy of the good people – the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime.”

Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated President Kennedy (save your comments Oliver Stone fans), was a Communist defector, who returned to the United States in order to assist Fidel Castro.

The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, sent 16 bombs out, killed three people and injured 23. He too was an anarchist, and a devotee of Al Gore’s.

Just last year James Lee, who was inspired by Al Gore, took hostages at the the Discovery Channel‘s headquarters because they were not doing enough to combat global warming in his estimation.

On top of all these examples there are terrorist organizations, like the Earth Liberation Front, that proudly use “economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the environment.”

All this is not to say that Al Gore and his cohorts on the Left are to blame for the actions of terrorists. There are bad people in the world, and their interpretations of notable works does not implicate the authors.

What all these examples do prove is that once again Bill Maher, who represents the thinking of many on the Left, has given voice to a hateful position that is at odds with reality. Maher’s despicable lies about the Right are old hat for the smear merchant. Maher would be well served if he bothered to do even minimal research before opening his mouth.

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Remember the media pillorying President Bush over the term “Axis of Evil?” Turns out the decider may have been onto something.

This week’s Wall Street Journal featured an article by Jay Solomon entitled “North Korea Nuclear Find Raises Fear on Tehran.” From the article:

North Korea’s apparent upgrade to its nuclear-fuel production capabilities is raising fears among lawmakers and proliferation experts about Pyongyang’s potential role in supplying Iran and others with the sophisticated machinery.

Tehran and Pyongyang have developed expansive military ties over the past three decades and have collaborated in developing missile systems, submarines and small arms. U.S. and allied intelligence services have also interdicted a number of Iran-bound North Korean arms shipments, by sea and by air, in recent years.

Lawmakers and proliferation experts said North Korea, desperate for hard currency, could seek to expand on these military ties to aid Iran’s nuclear work—particularly at a time when Tehran is facing technical challenges in producing nuclear fuel.

“We don’t know exactly how coordinated it is, but it would be naïve to assume that they’re not cooperating on centrifuges,” said Pete Hoekstra (R.-Mich.), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.

A senior U.S. official said the Obama administration recognizes the proliferation risks but that new U.N. sanctions have significantly constricted Pyongyang’s ability to move materials.

The concerns were sparked by a report released Saturday by Stanford physicist Siegfried Hecker that he saw some 2,000 centrifuges organized in cascades at a North Korean facility he visited earlier this month. U.S. intelligence agencies and outside nuclear experts have cited the report, and its description of the size and scope of the centrifuges, to conclude they are so-called P-2 designs—a generation beyond what Iran is using.

“One has to assume that Iran either has the P-2 centrifuge from North Korea, or could get it very easily,” said Simon Henderson, a proliferation expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He also worries that North Korea could enrich uranium on Iran’s behalf.

What’s that? The atheistic communists are working with the religious fundamentalists against the United Sates? If you didn’t know any better you might be tempted to say that there is in fact an Axis of Evil, “arming to threaten the peace of the world.”

One area where President Bush never relented was prosecuting the Global War on Terror. In 2001, President Bush was right that the forces of evil, however diverse, would work together against the United States. North Korea and Iran working together to create nuclear weapons is further evidence vindicating President Bush’s ‘Axis of Evil’ pronouncement.

The latest example of the NAALCP’s brazen political agenda comes in the form of a report on the Tea Party. The report accuses the Tea Party of being “a still inchoate political movement who are in their numerical majority, angry middle-class white people who believe their country, their nation, has been taken from them.” Furthermore, the the Tea Party is condemned for providing a mouthpiece for “anti-Semites, racists and bigots.”

It is sad and pathetic that the NAALCP has sunk to this depth. However, it is not unexpected. Just weeks before the 2000 presidential election, the NAALCP ran perhaps the most audacious and outrageous political advertisement in history. The commercial was narrated by the daughter of James Byrd, a black man that was dragged behind a pickup truck until he was dead. Byrd’s daughter was used to claim that George Bush not passing ‘hate-crimes’ legislation felt like “my father was killed all over again.” The ad ended with “we wont be dragged away from our future.” The television spot led non-partisan political analyst Mort Kondracke to remark “the NAACP ought to be ashamed of itself.”

So, what evidence does the NAALCP have to backup their new report on the Tea Party? The NAALCP website provides a link to another website, Tea Party Tracker. Tea Party Tracker  is allegedly where all the verification of the antisemitism, racism and bigotry of the Tea Party is archived. How convincing is said proof? Well, there is a 13 minute video (Warning: this video contains extreme condescension form some teenage liberal prick) wherein no one makes a single racist comment. Then there is the “eyewitness photos” section. I spent 10 minutes looking though the pictures. There was one Lyndon LaRouche nut with an Obama/Hitler sign and a couple shirts emblazoned with obvious jokes. That’s it. While it may be overboard, if comparing a president to Hitler is racist than a whole lot of Democrats have some ‘splainin to do. What I did see in both the video and the pictures was concerned citizens; ordinary people that see their country being destroyed from within. Evidently, that is what the NAALCP has deemed racist. The Left is incapable of believing that people have actually rejected their failed ideas. The NAALCP represents all liberals in their belief that any opposition to the Democratic Party is racist.

The NAALCP has again demonstrated for everyone what it is really about: advancing the Democratic Party. As we saw in the Journolist emails, when the Left is in a tight spot their default reaction is to cry ‘racist!’ Accusing someone of being a racist is a serious charge. Crying wolf by claiming any and all opposition to liberalism is racism devalues the classification and makes people less sensitive to legitimate cases of racism. If the NAALCP had the slightest shred of integrity they would apologize for their latest report. But they don’t, so don’t expect anything but business as usual from these race-based charlatans.

P.S. Remember, the liberal media cannot wrap their head around the fact that the Tea Party is not in fact a homogeneous group: