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Senator Warner is completely laughable. He states he doesn't know how every container can possibly be inspected. That figures. He states it isn't economically feasible and the American economy will be affected. Oh? I thought the downturn of the stock market after September 11th was sincerely significant. I thought the possiblity of having a drastically serious episode of a breech of Homeland Security will only serve to cause a greater disruption to a Republically demised American economy. Senator Warner needs to retire. Poor man can't think clearly.
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Bush has a plan? He doesn't have a plan. He has a desire to make more of a war than should be made. He plans to confront Syria and Iran and make the entire mess even worse. Nowhere is he seeking active solutions for the Middle East diplomatically. The core issue is a peace between Palestine and Israel. Those peace talks aren't even on the table. What is on the Bush Table is war and more war regardless. There is an escalation of tensions everywhere in the Middle East and Bush's trigger finger is itchery than ever, ie: Somalia.
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You know Andy there is absolutely no mention of the reason Bush is so very, very oppositional to the Iraq Study Group and a new Democratic House and Senate. Seriously.
Libby.
Libby Denies Seeing Cheney's Notes on Newspaper Column
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/20/AR2006052000951.html
Lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the indicted former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, said in a court filing late Friday that Libby did not see the notes Cheney inscribed on a key newspaper column criticizing the administration's rationale for invading Iraq until he was shown the annotations in the course of an FBI investigation.
The lawyers raised the issue to cast doubt on a claim by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald in a court filing a week ago that the annotations "serve both to explain the context of and provide a motive for" Libby's statements and actions that brought about his indictment.
NO one ever talks about this. It's about the security of this nation and no one every talks about this AT ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!
Go get 'em Drew !
Speaking of modern day Vietnam
Another Mekong Delta province succumbs to bird flu plague
http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=24049
Kien Giang is the fourth Vietnamese province hit by bird flu with some 70 ducks perishing last weekend, all testing positive for H5N1, said the local animal health department Tuesday.
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The Rassmussen polls always gives Bush a break:
Forty-two percent (42%) of Americans approve of the way that George W. Bush is performing his role as President. Fifty-five percent (55%) disapprove of his performance. These numbers includes 17% who strongly approve and 38% percent who strongly disapprove.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm
At least Rasmussen delineates between STRONLY approve and disapprove. If one looks at those 'die hard' Bush fans, it is ONLY 17%, that was seventeen percent that 'Strongly Approve.' Hello? That is impeachment territory.
1045
The only place where the parents lose their battle over ethical treatment of the disabled is the potential for genetic medicine.
Parents of disabled children ask for the `Ashley treatment'
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/01/09/2003344027
...Dan Gunther, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington who devised Ashley's treatment with the blessing of her parents, said four sets of parents had contacted him to ask that their children be considered.
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US media organizations have also been approached by parents keen to find out whether their disabled children could have their growth stunted to prevent them attaining full adult size....
Currently, at UNC-Chapel Hill there is cutting edge medicine being given to patients that protect them from lung transplant rejection. The infusion was originally offered for cancer. It is a genetic medicine. The 'side effects' were that transplants seemed to be protected and now it is being administered on a Step Down Unit. One day when a protocol is developed by the pharmacy and MDs the infusion will probably be given on a regular medical unit without any telemetry or close monitoring of vitals signs, mentation and signs of allergic reactions. This is absolutely the most cutting edge of modern day medicine and it is being aggressively pursued to the point of administering just as soon as it is investigational without any protocol. Since there is no animal testing, the protocols are literally developed as the medications are administered. It is a genetic medicine product so there is no animal testing because it is developed for people. It is that aspect of the current state of medicine that has me wishing everyone was fighting their maladies to the death until they can't fight anymore because a cure might be right around the corner.
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War mongering in Africa followed by a reason to obess over killing more and more people, Opray's Mission. Over 30 minutes of carrying on about a conflict that if escalated would cause greater hardship than Iraq with it's 250,000 dead and rising.
It would seem Michael Scheuer could not be more correct. The West is confused about 'the enemy' and why they never ASSIGNED responsibility of the failure to stop Osama bin Laden.
Insights: International Peace and Security
Ex-CIA analyst says West misunderstands Al-Qaeda
22-year CIA vet says 9/11 commission failed America by not finding anyone responsible
RFE/RL: And the use of the phrase "after Iraq" refers to a time when the United States is no longer in that country?
...Scheuer: The book is written because I think we're defeated in Iraq. I think we're simply looking for a way to be graceful about the exit, but it's going to be very clear to our opponents in the Islamic world that they've defeated the second superpower.
They defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan; they've defeated us in Iraq; and it looks very likely that they'll defeat us in Afghanistan. And so Iraq, for all intents and purposes, as far as our enemies are concerned, is over....
RFE/RL: You decided to end your career at the CIA earlier than you originally planned to. Was it difficult to resign?
Scheuer: I resigned from the agency with much regret. I had intended to work there for 30 years and then retire, or longer if I could. And I had nothing to complain about regarding the agency. Indeed the agency asked me to stay when I decided to resign.
I resigned because I thought the 9/11 commission had thoroughly failed America by not finding anyone responsible for anything before 9/11. The amount of individual negligence and culpability at the highest levels of the American government was completely whitewashed by the 9/11 commission. And I resigned because I wanted to speak out on those issues.
My feeling since I have left has been that I have not had any influence at all on that particular debate. I think I've had a bit of influence through my books and writings on trying to convince people that the war we're fighting against Al-Qaedaism is a more serious problem than we have imagined to date. And that it has much more to do with religion than anyone in power is willing to talk about. I seem to have an equal number of detractors on the right and on the left, and perhaps that is suggests that I have at least said something that's getting some attention.
RFE/RL: Can I ask what your political affiliation is?
Scheuer: I've been a Republican all my life. I've never voted for a Democrat. I think my father would reach out from the grave if I did and throttle me. But that doesn't have anything to do with American security. I don't think the Bush administration has had a more pointed or eager critic than myself.
It is problematic to 'throw in' with former agents to establish issues for govenment policy as the agents would love a totalitarian government without any freedom of democray. THAT is the issue we always face with Bush's illegal initiatives including his covert intentions of spying on Americans. In this case, the issue that is intriguing is the fact that someone whom was respected at the higher levels of the CIA was actually disgusted with the 911 Commission for pandering to Bush rather than nailing him for negligence of his responsiblty to the American people. Additionally, he admits openly 'Al-Qaedaism' is a huge problem that Bush dropped as an American priority when he illegally invaded Iraq.
The issues in Somalia is not a matter of escalating war to fight 'Al Qaedaism' it is promoting economic solutions removing the incentive to turning to the tactics of al Qaeda in the first place.
I also find it interesting to realize all the detainees are completely worthless to interrogate as IF they were truly al Qaeda they are trained to give false information.
This programming is a 'do nothing' about terrorists and their networks except to promote war. War in any country is not an answer to extremism. War in the cause of Islamists/Jihadists only fuels more war and more death. It would be better to realize that BEFORE Somalia is more a victim to it than less.
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