The Leftist Thug's Playbook

Former senator and presidential candidate Mike Gravel (D - Luna) was caught giving fellow moonbats advice on how to harrass someone they didn't agree with:

“Find out where he lives, find out where his kids go to school, find out where his office is, picket him all the time,” Gravel said, in an audio tape obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism and provided to FOX News.

“Call him a racist in signs if you see him. Call him an injustice. Call him whatever you want to call him, but in his face all the time.”

The subject of Gravel's wrath is a federal prosecutor in Virginia, who, *GASP* wants to prosecute the suspected head of Islamic Jihad in the U.S. for contempt for failure to testify before a grand jury. Perfect. The Party of Tolerance defending the Religion of Peace.

"Call him a racist. Call him whatever you want to kill him." Gee, that sure sounds familiar. I'm sure glad we don't have any cowardly scumbags around here that do that to those they disagree with.

Thank You for Flying Saddam, Buh-Bye Now!

Looks like ol' Baghdad Jim may be facing a Travelgate of his own. From the Associated Press:

US: Saddam paid for lawmakers' Iraq trip

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

An indictment unsealed in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a member of a Michigan nonprofit group, of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the behest of Saddam's regime. Prosecutors say Iraqi intelligence officials paid for the trip through an intermediary.

At the time, the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq.

The lawmakers are not named in the indictment but the dates correspond to a trip by Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and Mike Thompson of California. There was no indication the three lawmakers knew the trip was underwritten by Saddam.

"Obviously we didn't know it at the time," McDermott spokesman Michael DeCesare said Wednesday. "The trip was to see the plight of the Iraqi children. That's the only reason we went."

During the trip, the lawmakers expressed skepticism about the Bush administration's claims that Saddam was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. Though such weapons ultimately were never found, the lawmakers drew criticism for their trip at the time.

Oklahoma Sen. Don Nickles, the second-ranking Senate Republican at the time, said the Democrats "sound somewhat like spokespersons for the Iraqi government."

In exchange for coordinating the trip, Al-Hanooti allegedly received 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil.

DeCesare said McDermott was invited to go to Iraq by a Seattle church group and was unaware of any other funding for the trip.

Flock of Moonbats Sighted in Tacoma

Byron Dazey at the "My Own Side" blog has great coverage and a photo spread from a protest to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War by “shutting down” the Armed Forces Recruiting Center at the Tacoma Mall on Saturday. It looks like the protest was a bust, with police and pro-military supporters outnumbering protesters.

Here are some pics:
The Ron Paul supporters recycle their signs and show their true colors.

This protester obviously didn't heed Matt Taibibi's admonition to "leave the fucking stilts at home."

This picture says it all for me.