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The Pentagon has confirmed that it sought to build a "Gay Bomb." It would supposedly turn our enemies into fairies and "make them more interested in sex than fighting." This may be a super (pronounced with a lisp) idea to some, but killing our rivals is probably more effective. And there are only 72 female virgins in Paradise, not male.

Rush Limbaugh aired this little diddy of Al Gore criticizing President G.H.W. Bush on his friendly relationship with "ruthless" Saddam Hussein.

Commander of 1/5 Cav says that more al Qaeda were killed or captured in Amiriyah during the past week and had been in the six months prior. Also, near Haifa Street, Colonel Roberts of the 2/1 BCT of the 1st Cav notes that there was a 60 percent drop in attacks in the Karkh district from January and sectarian murders is down 94 percent from the same time. Sounds like we're really losing the battle. How about we start listening to the men on the ground and not the politicians in Washington?

Authorities are investigating Iranian ties to the JFK plot to destroy a fuel pipeline that the attackers were hoping would be more devastating than 9/11. One of the men arrested in the plot was attempting to pick up an Iranian visa so that he could attend an Islamic conference in Iran. Steven Emersen says that this doesn't look like the work of al Qaeda, but of a Shia terror group. It's important to remind ourselves that Osama bin Laden is not the only enemy America has. Though there is a commonality among our foes: the practice of Islamic extremism.

Here's a plot that didn't get much press. On January 4, 2007, federal prosecutors in Chicago indicted Rockford, Illinois resident Derrick Shareef (a.k.a. Talib Abu Salam Ibn Shareef) on one count of attempting to damage or destroy a building by fire or explosion and one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction." His target: CherryVale Shopping Center in Rockford, Illinois, a mall of about 130 stores. He was also living with a man indicted on terrorism and espionage charges in March. Give it a look.

Along with Iran aiding Shia militiamen in Iraq, a senior U.S. diplomat has accused the nation with supplying Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan with weapons and funding insurrections across the Middle East. It seems abundantly true that they are operating under the rule, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." The Undersecretary of State did not directly accuse the Iranian government. I hesitantly agree with Senator Lieberman's comment: “I think we’ve got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq and to me, that would include a strike … over the border into Iran, where we have good evidence that they have a base at which they are training these people coming back into Iraq to kill our soldiers.” It's dangerous, but worth considering. Satellite imagery has also linked Iran to an attack in Karbala, Iraq.