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Congress is looking into people who disappear at sea. I thought that might be a criminal code called Maritime Law that enforces order at sea. No? I think there needs to be an investigation why those laws don't work.
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Anderson in Iraq. And hereeeeee's Frankenstein !! Live from 360 the last look at Tookie Williams. An automated voice announcing "Here's Hollywood Andy in Iraq. Take it away, Andy"
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Seismic activity that will bring democracy in Iraq. Right.
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Iraqi casting mail in ballots. That was an interesting statement. "This is the first elections since the fall of Saddam Hussein." Because the Iraqi people voted BEFORE Saddam was toppled, didn't they? This isn't even close to being a new experience except they have color on their finger now.
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You all need to get your facts straight. The 6.7 earthquake was in Afghanistan.
A strong earthquake occurred at 21:47:46 (UTC) on Monday, December 12, 2005. The magnitude 6.7 event has been located in the HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2005/usgnay/
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The Iraqi Army is voting first. Why? Why the partisan voting? To discourage Sunnis from coming to the polls? If the Iraqi government wanted to bring the Sunnis on board they should have let the Sunnis vote first. Sort of like a welcome mat.
A strong earthquake occurred at 14:20:44 (UTC) on Sunday, December 11, 2005. The magnitude 6.6 event has been located in the NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2005/usgmat/
That was an interesting coment, Chris. "Is this the democracy, Bush promised us?"
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Nic Robertson - Sunni turn out . "Ground breaking move to bring the Sunnis to the Iraqi Army." An American general and the Iraqi Minister of Defense received a Sunni delegation whom want a Sunni Army for a Sunni Province. That is a shame the Iraqi Defense Minister won't see it their way because the Sunni Army already exists so why not make it official rather than continue to oppose the ethnic strength of these people. That opposition simply fuels the insurgency. What difference does it make what the 'label' the armed force is called if they are defending a province of Iraq in an orderly fashion. That refusal doesn't make sense.
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A micro earthquake occurred at 19:29:45 (UTC) on Wednesday, December 7, 2005. The magnitude 2.8 event has been located in NORTH CAROLINA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/usgibm.htm
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63% of Americans 'think' Iraq has made progress in the last year. Where? Seriously. What do Americans know about what is actually happening in Iraq?
U.S. Helps Some Iran-Backed Terror
Dahr Jamail and Harb al-Mukhtar / Inter Press Service
BAGHDAD - After the U.S. forces and the bombings, Iraqis are coming to fear those bands of men in masks who seem to operate with the Iraqi police.
Omar Ahmed's family learnt what it can mean to run into the police, their supposed protectors.
Omar was driving with two friends in the Adhamiya district of Baghdad at night Sep. 1 when they were stopped at a police checkpoint.
This is crazy. Get out of Iraq!
Bush admits to 30 thousand dead Iraqis and he wants to continue this conflict? He wants to continue this conflict while rejecting requests of Sunnis to organize an official Army under the sanctions of the national charter. This is nuts!
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Joe Johns - Democrat Bashing
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The news secretary
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Hello from anderson
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Commercials - Why bother watching with commercial break after commercial break?
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Tookie Williams will be executed. That is a shame. It's a national shame. Ahnold isn't going to change his mind. The execution won't achieve less violence either. It will satisfy the families. They have that right under the law.
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"Go where people are most affected." Baghdad, Hospital. "Snapshot of life in Iraq." Traffic accidents and sick children and wounds of war. Not even Newark sees that mess. Quite the contrary. Newark isn't the "Knife and Gun Club' isn't reputation dictates. Hm. The media can't get it right in the USA what makes anyone think a half a world away will be any different.
More hospital buildings with no equipment. That might explain the 30 thousand dead.
Oh, this is about 'The Sick Vote.' This isn't about '… the most affected.' It's about how the ill vote in the face of their daily death. 1000 days in Iraq. 2144 American soldiers dead.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/takeaction/deaths.php
Let's see that is ONLY 2.144 dead Americans per day in an illegal and immoral war.
15881 wounded American soldiers. That is an average of 15.881 wounded per day.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/takeaction/wounded.php
And this is the real thrill. This is where Georgie gets his information:
Somewhere between 27,383 to 30892 dead Iraqi citizens. That isn't the Iraqi military or the insurgency.
That is an average of 29 dead Iraqi citizens per day including women and children.
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
Why there is a stealth bomber.
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Ed Lavendera and the lethargic forensics of 'The South.' The experts like Dr. Minyard believes the bodies are too decomposed to 'figure anything out.'
This is pathetic. Police can go into a forest where a murder took place, put up a tent over a crime site and fill a tent with enough chemical residue to create powder shadows to find fingerprints and evidence of why a murdered body was found where it was found. And these bodies are still intact and they can't figure out the reasons for their deaths? This is outrageous. This is a cover up. The Ninth Ward will never be excavated because Bush's FEMA is trying to stave off the inevitable until the floods return next season further contaminating the crime scene. It's doesn't matter, Georgie, the mud can be a mile thick and we'll eventually find the truth. It's done everyday in all corners of the world. They are called archeologists and anthropologists. Amazing science. They can figure out how old bones are back millenium. Let's get on with this and stop the cover up and criminality of the events of Katrina.
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Australia's riots. "The ugly underbelly of Australia." Well, it's underbelly isn't as ugly as Katrina's.
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Heidi the news secretary.
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Anderson Cooper 360 is trying it's best as subliminal messages. Verbiage like "Keeping the peace." What peace?
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It's not a turning point except for you and Frankenstein who exploit every aspect of sensationalism to make a career where otherwise there wouldn't be one. You know if Vietnam the journalists did use propaganda. They told the truth.
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'Back in the United States' - It's easy for reporters to get caught up in the daily death toll. Well, I am so glad I figured it out for you.
I wonder how many South Vietnamese forces there was when we FINALLY deployed the troops out?
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Icasualites.org
Fifty-eight thousand Americans lost their lives. The losses to the Vietnamese people were appalling. The financial cost to the United States comes to something over $150 billion dollars. Direct American involvement began in 1955 with the arrival of the first advisors. The first combat troops arrived in 1965 and we fought the war until the cease-fire of January 1973. To a whole new generation of young Americans today, it seems a story from the olden times.
http://www.vietnamwar.com/
At the highest levels of troop levels in Vietnam.
Starting in 1969 President Richard M. Nixon started the process of "Vietnamization" pulling out American forces and rendering the ARVN capable of fighting an effective war against the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) of the North and the allied National Liberation Front. Slowly, ARVN began to expand from its counter-insurgency role to become the primary ground defense against the NLF and PAVN. From 1969-1971 there were about 22,000 ARVN combat deaths per year. Starting in 1968, South Vietnam began calling up every available man for service in the ARVN, reaching a strength of a million soldiers by 1972. In 1970 they performed well in Cambodia and were executing three times as many operations as they had during the American war period. However, the officer corps was still the biggest problem. Leaders were often poorly trained, inept and the equipment continued to be sub-standard as the U.S. tried to upgrade ARVN technology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Republic_of_Vietnam
Total Armed Forces were over 1,000,000 South Vietnamese in 1971, and U.S. Forces were 525,000 in 1968.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam
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The DeVinci Code is fiction
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Ah, a discussion about Iraq on Anderson Cooper 360 won't be the same without Zarqawi. So, what is he up to?
Family? Kids?
Branding Iraq with al-Qaida
With every passing Iraqi death we lose another piece of our humanity. How can we or Washington justify the mass murder of thousands?
By Nathan Paulsen
The desperate attempt of government officials to brand the Iraqi insurgency with al-Qaida is part of a deliberate misinformation campaign aimed at dissuading the American public from demanding an end to the Iraq war.
“Branding” is a sophisticated form of mind control that involves the manufacture of public perceptions to achieve predetermined objectives. Normally, branding is employed to sell a product or service to consumers by associating it with positive images. For instance, when I think of Nike, Michael Jordan is the first thing that pops into my mind. And who wouldn’t want to be like Mike? By successfully branding its product with one of the most revered sports heroes of all time, Nike has virtually guaranteed an endless stream of semiconscious consumers wandering into the nearest Foot Locker to buy new pairs of $100 shoes.
http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/12/09/66565
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Mary Snow
The Single Parent Soldier
- She has appealed her status to prevent being deployed to Iraq. Good. Don't go !!!! That is a good question, you should stay home with your son. He needs you. 18% soldiers are single parents.
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The news secretary
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Stanley Tookie Williams vigilance. There is always a vigilance with these executions. People oppose the death sentence. It should be opposed. To kill does not make us better than the killer!
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New Orleans evacuees will be evicted on February 16th. Ah, Lincoln's Birthday. How appropriate.
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Home, Sweet, Home in New Orleans. Tents inside a frame house without walls. Cool. No refrigeration. One electrical outlet for heating water pots. Of course the place can go up like a tinderbox with one spark, but, hey what is a little danger on the frontier. Empty trailers are PAID for and stand empty. That is the kind of Bush progress that Wall Street understands. Income without depreciation. Good. Not bad.
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I hope you all don't mind but I don't revel in religious fiction or death.
Oh, I almost forgot. It would be a MILE POST in Iraq without the recognition of the deep respect and abiding love Bush and Cheney have for the American Soldier ! This might very well explain why no one is allowed at Dover, Delaware. Even the soldiers !!!!!
December 12th, 2005 2:22 am
Family Upset Over Marine's Body Arriving As Freight
10News
SAN DIEGO -- There's controversy over how the military is transporting the bodies of service members killed overseas, 10News reported.
A local family said fallen soldiers and Marines deserve better and that one would think our war heroes are being transported with dignity, care and respect. It said one would think upon arrival in their hometowns they are greeted with honor. But unfortunately, the family said that is just not the case.
Dead heroes are supposed to come home with their coffins draped with the American flag -- greeted by a color guard.
But in reality, many are arriving as freight on commercial airliners -- stuffed in the belly of a plane with suitcases and other cargo.
John Holley and his wife, Stacey, were stunned when they found out the body of their only child, Matthew, who died in Iraq last month, would be arriving at Lindbergh Field as freight.
"When someone dies in combat, they need to give them due respect they deserve for (the) sacrifice they made," said John Holley.
John and Stacey Holley, who were both in the Army, made some calls, and with the help of U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, Matthew was greeted with honor and respect.
"Our familiarity with military protocol and things of that sort allowed us to kind of put our foot down -- we're not sure other parents have that same knowledge," said Stacey Holley.
The Holleys now want to make sure every fallen hero gets the proper welcome.
The bodies of dead service members arrive at Dover Air Force Base.
From that point, they are sent to their families on commercial airliners.
Reporters from 10News called the Defense Department for an explanation. A representative said she did not know why this is happening.
