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  • "Mr Gaubatz is not some marginal figure." -- Melanie Phillips

    [Read the article: Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq]
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    Gaubatz is a man with a mission:
    http://www.saneworks.us/mission.php

    MISSION STATEMENT
    The Society of Americans for National Existence or SANE is what its name declares: a society of sane Americans dedicated to preserving and strengthening America’s national existence. By national existence we mean what you normally mean when speaking of such matters. America is a unique people bound together through a commitment to America’s Judeo-Christian moral foundation and to an enduring faith and trust in G-d and in His Providence. America’s founding, and its greatness was neither accident nor staging ground for some better existence or world state. America was the handiwork of faithful Christians, mostly men, and almost entirely white, who ventured from Europe to create a nation in their image of a country existing as free men under G-d. The founding fathers understood that party-led parliaments and democracy were the worse form of government and sought to resist the movement that was soon to find fertile ground in France with the French Revolution, the end of which we can see now before our eyes.

    Thus, these great men formed a republican form of government, predicated upon a constitution and built upon federalism, with a clear separation of powers at the national level between the executive, legislative and judicial branches, all in an effort to avoid the obvious failures of democracy and parliamentary rule.

    So at its core, SANE is dedicated to the rejection of democracy and party rule . . .

    . . . SANE’s Mission goes well beyond these rudimentary though necessary steps . . . Thus, SANE stands for the following: . . . A limited but strong national government to protect our Homeland against the foreign aggressor, including those foreigners who have penetrated our borders . . .

    . . . But there is one guiding principle at work in all of this. Any world view, ideology, or –ism that promotes directly or indirectly the elimination of national existence and the establishment of a world state is our foe. So you can know at the start that liberalism (and this includes libertarianism) and Islam are in our sights.

    - - MISSION STATEMENT of Gaubatz's political organization

    "Mr Gaubatz is not some marginal figure." -- Melanie Phillips

  • "John Loftus — formidably well-informed" -- Melanie Philips

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    Some pro-Bush bloggers are gonna have second thoughts about enthusiastically linking to Melanie Philips, if they take a tour of www.john-loftus.com and see items such as:

    "Bush administration blocked key investigations into allegations that top Saudi Arabian royals and some members of the bin Laden family, not just Osama, funded and supported Al Qaeda."

    "Sure we knew that the Saudis were giving money to terrorist groups, but they were only killing Jews, they weren’t killing Americans."

    "Throughout the Bush family's decades of public life, the American press has gone out of its way to overlook one historical fact - that through Union Banking Corporation (UBC), Prescott Bush, and his father-in-law, George Herbert Walker, along with German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, financed Adolf Hitler before and during World War II. It was first reported in 1994 by John Loftus and Mark Aarons in The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People."

    - - www.john-loftus.com

  • The scariest thing about Gaubatz

    [Read the article: Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq]
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    is that, if he were in Congress now, he might not be the craziest member.

    If Gaubatz had been a member of Congress last year, he DEFINITELY wouldn't have been the craziest member.

    Here's an item about ex-Congressman Weldon, who isn't merely Gaubatz-crazy, but completely batshit.

    http://washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_06/009093.php

    June 28, 2006
    THE WELDON FILES....
    Is Curt Weldon the weirdest congressman currently in office? It's a fierce contest, of course, but the latest news from Weldon-land is definitely opening up some daylight with the competition.

    Here's the story. A guy named Dave Gaubatz, who was deployed to Iraq in 2003, became convinced that there were several hidden WMD caches in southern Iraq that had been overlooked by military inspectors. He tried to get someone to inspect the sites but had no luck, so he turned to Weldon and congressman Pete Hoekstra. Here's his story about his meeting with Weldon on May 4:

    Congressman Weldon asked me several times during the meeting if I would go with them [along with three Iraqi citizens] to the four sites near Basrah and Nasiriyah, Iraq. During the meeting it was discussed that no member of their respective committees would be informed, specifically no member of the Democratic party.

    Congressman Weldon whom I had respected very much then advised no member of the "Military" was to be informed because they could not be trusted with this intelligence information.

    . . . Weldon was seriously planning to take a secret trip to Nasiriyah and attempt to dig up the alleged WMD himself . . . Did you get that? He was going to take a little jaunt to Nasiriyah, break out his shovel, and start digging around himself — without telling the military what he was doing. Then, when the glorious shells were found, he was going to call in the press and declare himself Weldon of Arabia, Discoverer of WMD.

    - - Kevin Drum

    Weldon's no longer in Congress, but Pete Hoekstra's still there, and Hoekstra has been in sync with Gaubatz on the WMD nuttiness issues (see Hoekstra's WSJ op-ed, for example) -- and Hoekstra is still the "ranking member" (Senior Republican) of the House Intelligence Committee.

  • Captain Ed: "Gaubatz' reasonable story"

    [Read the article: Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq]
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    It may, in fact, be true that Melanie Philips is even nuttier than Gaubatz. But look at how Captain Ed speculates about that. First he joins the blogswarm, and links approvingly to her article.

    "Bloggers today have been linking to an article in The Spectator, a well-regarded British magazine, written by Daily Mail columnist Melanie Philips regarding Iraqi WMDs. According to the man assigned to look for them, the WMDs were there . . . the truth has been hidden . . . Read the entire article."

    Then, later, Captain Ed reconsiders, finding Melanie Philips to be just a bit nuttier than would be proper.

    http://captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/009749.php
    "See update below -- not very credible . . . is this Melanie Philips' stretching of Gaubatz' reasonable story?"
    - - Ed Morrissey

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