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The Sun Online carries the story of new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s rather effusive praise of George W. Bush’s leadership.

In his speech, Brown referred to Winston Churchill:

The Prime Minister vowed to take Winston Churchill’s lead and make Britain’s ties with America even stronger.

Mr Brown stunned critics by THANKING President Bush for the fight against Islamic extremism, and insisted the UK-US relationship will be his No1 foreign policy priority.

He said on his first visit to the President’s US retreat at Camp David: “Winston Churchill spoke of the ‘joint inheritance’ of our two countries.”

Many expected Brown to chill US-UK relations on the heels of Tony Blair’s tight relationship with the White House.  If chill is to come, it will come another day, I suppose.

(H/T DrudgeReport)

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The Gateway Pundit (which you should read every day) discusses a Debka File report claiming the US sank a North Korean ship bound for Iran carrying nuclear weapon making cargo.

Debka is notorious for reporting stories that are, well, stories that aren’t true.  But such a heavy-handed action by the US could explain North Korea’s recent cooperation on the nuclear front. 

We’ll keep our eye’s peeled.

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The TimesOnline headline demands attention:

Scientists breed world’s first mentally ill mouse

Amazingly, the creature is already being mentioned as a dark-horse candidate for the Democrat party presidential nomination, and the French parliament is taking up a measure to make the animal its national mascot.

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For years, now, al Qaeda and Taliban criminals have used the Western mountains of Pakistan as their home base.  Emboldened by Pakistani President Musharraf’s reluctance to deal with radical Islam head-on, the Taliban have recently begun a campaign to turn Pakistan into what Afghanistan was before 9/11.

Ed Morrissey had been keeping up with these events, and this story today on Captain’s Quarters may signal the end to Musharraf’s patience with the radicals.

Let’s hope so.

On the other hand, we know that leaders–even our own–tend to get weak-kneed when push comes to bullets.  Remember that it was Musharraf who wanted the US Army to let local tribesman capture Bin Laden in 2002–tribesmen who let the murderer escape.  During the siege of the Red Mosque last month, Musharraf allowed numerous deadlines to pass.

All of these actions embolden the enemy.

If Musharraf is serious about crippling Islamofascism in Pakistan, he must prosecute the war ruthlessly.  Not an easy thing, since Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will be calling for him to stop the bloodshed.

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