MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT, AND TO A GOOD CHUNK OF OUR LAUGHABLE "INTELLIGENTSIA" – AT 7:05 P.M. ET:  The guy who wanted to blow up part of Times Square pleaded guilty in federal court today, and admitted his motives:

NEW YORK (AP) -- Calling himself a "Muslim soldier," a defiant Pakistan-born U.S. citizen pleaded guilty Monday to carrying out the failed Times Square car bombing, saying his attack was the answer to "the U.S. terrorizing ... Muslim people."

Wearing a white skull cap, Faisal Shahzad entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Manhattan just days after a federal grand jury indicted him on 10 terrorism and weapons counts, some of which carried mandatory life prison sentences. He pleaded guilty to them all.

"One has to understand where I'm coming from," Shahzad calmly told U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, who challenged him repeatedly with questions such as whether he worried about killing children in Times Square. "I consider myself ... a Muslim soldier."

The 30-year-old described his effort to set off a bomb in an SUV he parked in Times Square on May 1, saying he chose the warm Saturday night because it would be crowded with people who he could injure or kill.

COMMENT:  Just a misunderstood intellectual, probably a victim of a malfunctioning ATM. 

We call attention to his direct, unvarnished linking of radical Islam to his attempted murder of hundreds.  Strange – he's more honest about it than our president.

June 21, 2010