Sean Hannity Show, Mike Ghouse's talking points on Rebels in Libya

The commanders are having difficulty identifying the Gaddaffi loyalists, as all are in civil clothing.

The intelligence sources are finding an easy way out to “guess” Al Qaeda and Hezbollah among rebels. We need to demand the NATO commander to produce verifiable information to be certain that Al Qaeda and Hezbollah are with the rebels.

President Reagan’s wisdom echoes in my ears, “Trust but verify,” we need to quit guessing and blunder as we did with WMD and Iraq. 

If we cannot aim Gaddafi, we should not fire.

Caution is preferable to blind shooting; we are not there to shoot, but there to protect the civilians from the massacre. 

Throwing Gaddafi is the responsibility of the Libyans and not ours, we are there to prevent a massacre and NOT fight for them.

The usage of the phrase Allahu Akbar, which is God is great is common among Muslims, the Al-Qaida Gang uses it and it is used when the Green bay Packers won the super bowl.  When your friends little girl kicks the goal in soccer, Allahu Akbar is said out loud.

Muslims routinely use the words like Allahu Akbar to appreciate things and not necessarily as a battle cry. They seek refuge in a higher power. In the Libyan context, it simply means God is great, Gaddaffi is not.

We have an opportunity to regain our dignity we lost in Iraq and Afghanistan by targeting the civilians; we have to be an example to the world in civility.  

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Respone in Dallas Morning News

We all should be concerned about the hearings and hope and pray that Mr. King would be honest, sincere and fair, although his record is marred with bigotry. We hope he will not destroy the fabric of our society and pit one American against the other.

 

Acknowledging that “some of our own” are a security threat to our nation is the right thing to do. We should have done it ourselves, since we did not, we have to accept the bad choice of Mr. King.

I welcome the hearings, Muslims have nothing to fear and nothing to worry, let the man fall flat on his face “if” he resorts to untruths. What if he turns out to be honest and finds guys like Shehzad? Then we owe him gratitude, not just Muslims but the whole nation.

Just as we produced the Quraan conference in Dallas to evaporate the lies the right wingers had propagated, this will perhaps become the first nail in their coffin and hope they will stop pitting one American against the other to have political gains.

If nothing else comes from the hearings, one thing is for sure. Muslims are not a monolithic lot and they are no different than any of the 301 million of us. Each one of has a different thumb print, eye print, DNA, different sizes, shapes and colors, political affiliations, so be it with faiths or no faiths.  That is God’s universe.

Zakaria, Kristof and Ghouse on Middle East

Those who watch and read multiple sources of news and information are fairly similar and accurate in their assessment of the situation in the Middle East, except those who just watch American News media, forget about the Fox news watchers.

In the last few weeks, I found similarities in the takes of Nick Kristof, Fareed Zakaria and myself.  Between Kristof and me, four articles have a similar take and one has an identical paragraph that I wrote on 25^th and he wrote the same on 26^th.

Full story at: http://theghousediary.blogspot.com/2011/02/fareed-zakaria-nick-kristof-mike-ghouse.html

Competetion in media is good for America

I was at lunch with my daughter and the topic came about Middle East; I was taken back that she was mirroring exactly what Fox and CNN (to an extent) do, exaggerate and highlight an isolated incident as the norm.

The events in the Middle East have gotten the right wingers by their balls, I just wrote this yesterday . They cannot sell lies to Americans anymore.

The LA Times reports the possibility of Aljazeera on Cable networks in the US.  In Los Angeles, KCET-TV provides online streaming coverage from the network and includes an Al Jazeera English report in its broadcast lineup.

We have better cars today, better television sets and now it is time for better news, and competition will do that. We welcome Aljazeera.

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America is on the right track, thank you Mr. President

The hope Obama kindled for the people around the world on Tuesday November 4, 2008, is alight now.  I felt  tears of Joy to imagine America becoming a great nation once again, an America with fewer enemies and more friends to rally with us.  

The President has chosen a clear path of diplomacy, perhaps the first American President to have taken the right step by being with the people rather than the dictators.

I have been urging the president from January 28^th on Hannity Show “Not to alienate the people” Thank God he has done the right thing.