Links and Minifeatures 10 27 Friday

Border Patrol Agents sentenced to Prison: For Doing their Job



If this is the way we're going to approach it, why do we have Border Patrol Agents? Why have law enforcement at all? Violating the "civil rights" of someone who has just wounded a law enforcement officer? Get real!

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Iran Doubles Nuke Enrichment Capacity



They already have more than enough enrichment for energy needs (despite what the article says). Why a second set if they're not looking to build a bomb?



Israel isn't fooling itself: Olmert Compares Iran With Nazi Germany. Why are we?



Personally, I don't want to be recycling all the old tasteless jokes about the Holocaust. They're only funny to nine year olds.

Israel's concerns have heightened since the election of Iran's hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who frequently calls for the destruction of Israel and has questioned whether the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews took place.

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"It is the first time that a leader of a very big and important nation openly and publicly declares that an aim of his nation is to wipe off the map," Olmert said. "And this nation continues to be a legitimate member of the United Nations and leaders of many of the countries in the world receive the leader. They hardly do anything."

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Gateway Pundit with some historical context for the election.