Michelle has a great piece up on her blog today about Obama’s deliberate weakening of our national security. Read it and then send it to your friends.

In January of 2007, the U.S. military captured five Iranian “diplomats” in Iraq.

These so-called diplomats were in fact Iranian Quds Force members sent to Iraq to assist the insurgency.

The Quds Force is an elite unit of the Revolutionary Guard tasked with fomenting terrorism around the world.

Tehran’s ambassador to Baghdad says U.S. forces have now transferred custody of the men to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki so they can be returned to Iran.

I’m betting we got absolutely nothing in trade for those guys. Obama is once again acting like a pussy-in-chief on the world stage.

How pathetic is it that this moron actually gave the Iranians their terrorists back.

Reuters is gleefully reporting on a new BBC poll that reveals nearly the whole world wants Barack Obama to win the election.

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may be struggling to nudge ahead of his Republican rival in polls at home, but people across the world want him in the White House, a BBC poll said.

All 22 countries covered in the poll would prefer to see Senator Obama elected US president ahead of Republican John McCain.

In 17 of the 22 nations, people expect relations between the US and the rest of the world to improve if Senator Obama wins.

More than 22,000 people were questioned by pollster GlobeScan in countries ranging from Australia to India and across Africa, Europe and South America.

The margin in favour of Senator Obama ranged from 9 per cent in India to 82 per cent in Kenya, while an average of 49 per cent across the 22 countries preferred Senator Obama compared with 12 per cent preferring Senator McCain. Some four in 10 did not take a view.

“Large numbers of people around the world clearly like what Barack Obama represents,” GlobeScan chairman Doug Miller said.

“Given how negative America’s international image is at present, it is quite striking that only one in five think a McCain presidency would improve on the Bush administration’s relations with the world.”

I don’t think it’s any great mystery as to why the world wants Obama to win. The rest of the world are a bunch of cowards and peaceniks who depend on the United States for their security. We may not always be popular, but we kick ass and take hyphenated names when it counts. Which is more than can be said of pretty much every country cited in this poll. Barack Obama represents the kind of European socialism and appeasement the rest of the world has come to embrace.

Instead of killing the enemy Barack Obama will try and “hug it out” which will put all Americans in danger, but will no doubt make him a big hit in Europe.

For the second time in recent weeks, honorary Palestinian militant and former President, Jimmy Carter, opined about Mid-East peace and offered his own foreign policy.

While in the Welsh border town of Hay to attend the Guardian literary festival, Carter told the Guardian that Britain and other European governments should break from the US over the international embargo on Gaza.

He described the EU’s position on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as “supine” and its failure to criticise the Israeli blockade of Gaza as “embarrassing”.

He also called on the EU to reassess its position on Hamas if the terrorist group agrees to a cease-fire.

Carter never misses an opportunity to criticize Israel and carry water for Hamas. I really think the old man has lost it. Hamas is one of the most vicious terrorist groups on earth, and a former President of the United States hugs these people and constantly shills for them.

Never mind the constant rocket attacks on Israeli civilians or the 4-ton truck bomb that detonated at the border with Gaza instead of Israel thanks to an alert Israeli soldier.

For Carter it’s all about peace and negotiation and hugs, but Carter doesn’t live in the real world. That’s why he allowed Iran to make a mockery of America while he was President.

When President Bush spoke of appeasement while in Israel recently, he was speaking about Jimmy Carter. Carter has shown himself to be the world’s biggest appeaser time and time again.

-Chris Jones

Great Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal called “How To Enrage A Democrat.”