1000
Anderson and Count Frankenstein can't stay honest themselves and they are going to keep others honest?
1001
The Dam Has Broken.
The House FINALLY faces 'reality.'
It's coming around.
"A healthy venting."
Finally. Let's get this over with.
Maxine Waters is correct, it's an election year mess. John Kerry rules !!
1005
Dennis is and has been right. He's right, the invasion has 'branded' this country as an aggressor nation. The mission is already complete. Saddam Hussein is removed from power. There are no weapons of mass destruction. There is no winning the war. The people of Iraq aren't going to capitulate for a democracy to the extent everyone wants to believe in this country. They follow their holy men. Iraqis have NEVER been great soldiers and given the anger they feel toward this country's military while oppressed into service we better hope they don't get better at being soldiers so much aa people who follow their religious leaders. There is no winning in Iraq.
Okay. DEFINE WINNING.
"You don't think this won't be all over the television in the Arabian nations tomorrow?"
So, what?
I would hope so. At least they know all the people in this country aren't war mongers.
THE WAR against al Qaeda is in Afghanistan. I think the Republicans are confused.
With 2500 dead Americans and over 15 thousand maimed Americans, I don't believe any one is going to come home 'happily.' The Republicans aren't capable of leadership. They are only capable of politics. They don't care about National Security, They care about their own security at the cost of the nation.
1011
"We believe this is the end of al Qaeda in Iraq." They just named a new leader. Let's say it is, then what? There is still a Civil War. The USA better not enter into ethnic cleansing. If they do they are doing the work of Iran without Iran raising a finger or falling under scrutiny. This is hideous.
You know what was really hideous on CNN? When Zarqawi was killed they showed all of SIX people leaping in joy with guns and the like. SIX PEOPLE. Not crowds. Not the masses of people. SIX PEOPLE. They did it not once but over and over and over again., all day long.
Who needs it? This is some of the most moronic crap I have ever heard including the Republican rant.
enough.
Friday, June 16, 2006
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Anderson Cooper has reason to be nervous. He's on the "W"rong side of the debate !
There is a question about the misuse of American Assets to secure this nation? I don't think so, Anderson !
Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney has SPREAD and PROPAGATED the "Global War on Terror." Their administration is an abject failure for five full years.
enough
June 10, 2006.
North Cove, Washington.
Maybe Anderson will visit the disasterous erosion of the Washington Coast after repeated storms and erosion.
Photographer states :: Significant erosion has impact this small ocean front community on the pacific ocean in Washington state. this on going phenomena has claimed, homes, the light house and cemetery established in the late 1800�s for pioneer settlers. The home in the photo had between 10-15 feet of front yard on oct 6 2005 ( 35 weeks ago)
The Spin Machine is spinning it's wheels again.
1000
Anderson is wishing on more spin the this adminstration is still a favorable one. You know Anderson I don't get it. You stand up for the victims of Katrina over and over yet there is no justice for the highest death toll do to a major storm EVER in history. Talk about two faced. This adminstration allowed the death of thousands and you promote them all the more.
MEPs divided over CIA report13.06.2006 - 09:54 CET By Helena SpongenbergEUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The CIA was "directly responsible" for abduction, detention and rendition of terror suspects in Europe and member states "may be held liable" for failure to comply with the European Convention of Human Rights, according to European lawmakers.MEPs in the temporary committee on alleged CIA renditions issued the text which stated it is "implausible...that certain European governments were not aware of the activities linked to extraordinary rendition taking place on their territory."
The committee adopted the interim report by a majority of 25 members against 14 with seven MEPs abstaining. The whole of the parliament is due to vote on the report at the beginning of July."I am happy that the majority of MEPs on this committee support the report," said Swedish MEP Cecelia Malmstrom in a statement."But it is strange and surprising that the [centre-right] EPP-ED members continue to deny what the rest of the world acknowledges: that illegal renditions do take place in Europe, that international conventions have been breached and that European citizens have been tortured with the awareness of European governments," she stated."Why don't the EPP members trust [US secretary of state] Condolezza Rice who has confirmed that these renditions have taken place in Europe?" Ms Malmstrom asked.
http://euobserver.com/9/21835
1011
Same article, just proof that the word about Condi Rice's knowledge regarding 'extraodinary rendition' is valid. NSA. I am sure all those given a free ticket to torture by the NSA had their communications tapped. It's interesting, but, in the Senate hearings regarding the nomination of General Hayden this subject NEVER came up. Conveniently forgotten.
EU-CIA report faces parliamentary storm
MEP’s report into allegations of illegal CIA activity is set to hit troubled waters when it is debated in plenary next month.
On Monday rapporteur Claudio Fava MEP had difficulty getting his interim report secured in committee.
The Italian faced nearly 200 last-minute amendments that had to be debated before the committee approved the final text.
The interim report was eventually agreed to- with 25 votes in favour, 14 against and seven abstentions.
“I am happy that the majority of MEPs on this committee support the report. But it is strange and surprising that the EPP-ED members continue to deny what the rest of the world acknowledges,” ALDE MEPs said in a statement on Monday.
“Illegal renditions do take place in Europe, international conventions have been breached and European citizens have been tortured with the awareness of European governments."
"Why don't the EPP members trust Condolezza Rice who has confirmed that these renditions have taken place in Europe?"
http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200606/b77df002-4848-4ebf-bd3b-ab23eaf159ac.htm
1021
The news secretary.
1022
commercials
IT would seem all the money the Indian tribes spent on Jack Abramoff didn't get them off the hook for environmental issues after all.
Seneca Gaming official denies hazard exists
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060613/1044530.asp
Federal environmental officials installed a half-dozen air sampling machines near the H-O Oats silos Monday, trying to learn if airborne asbestos is escaping from the demolition site where the Seneca Nation of Indians plans to build its Buffalo Creek Casino.
Technicians from the Environmental Protection Agency placed air pumps at the Lofts at Elk Terminal, directly across Perry Street from the silos, as well as the public housing at the nearby Perry Homes and Perry Annex.
Jeffrey Bechtel, the EPA official who came to Buffalo on Saturday at the county's request and ordered an emergency crew to fly in Sunday for testing, said the EPA's air sampling may settle the question.
1026
While Anderson is showing the access from Mexico of drug economies into the USA, the president selling out USA Security by underming USA airlines to foreign investors.
U.S. Airline Industry: Not for SaleTuesday June 13, 5:48 pm ET
Blocked at U.S. Ports, Foreign Capital Comes After U.S. Airlines
Flight Attendants Launch Massive Grassroots Effort to Save U.S. Aviation
CHICAGO, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Directly in line with the Dubai ports deal, the Bush Administration bypassed Congress and arbitrarily set a rule that changes long-standing aviation law to allow foreign control of U.S. airlines and their operations. United Airlines Flight Attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants, AFA-CWA, AFL-CIO, has launched a massive grassroots campaign to protect U.S. aviation. United Master Executive Council (MEC) President Greg Davidowitch made the following statement about the critical call to action to save U.S. aviation:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060613/dctu073.html?.v=29
1037
commercials
1040
Is this any way to secure a country? By Miriam Pemberton and Lawrence Korb
This is what passes for a security debate in the halls of Congress these days. The House and Senate Armed Services committees are on track to hand the president the 460-odd-billion-dollar military budget he asked for, give or take a billion or two.His political troubles are emboldening them to raise a few objections along the way. The House committee expressed “strong concerns about the escalating costs of military platforms” (planes, ships, tanks).Such platforms would clearly include the V-22 Osprey helicopter, which, despite two decades and $18 billion already spent in development, is not yet operational. The Army no longer wants it. The Armed Services committees don’t seem to care; they noted their concerns and fully funded the program anyway.
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/OpEd/061306_oped2.html
1053
Anderson is wishing on more spin the this adminstration is still a favorable one. You know Anderson I don't get it. You stand up for the victims of Katrina over and over yet there is no justice for the highest death toll do to a major storm EVER in history. Talk about two faced. This adminstration allowed the death of thousands and you promote them all the more.
MEPs divided over CIA report13.06.2006 - 09:54 CET By Helena SpongenbergEUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The CIA was "directly responsible" for abduction, detention and rendition of terror suspects in Europe and member states "may be held liable" for failure to comply with the European Convention of Human Rights, according to European lawmakers.MEPs in the temporary committee on alleged CIA renditions issued the text which stated it is "implausible...that certain European governments were not aware of the activities linked to extraordinary rendition taking place on their territory."
The committee adopted the interim report by a majority of 25 members against 14 with seven MEPs abstaining. The whole of the parliament is due to vote on the report at the beginning of July."I am happy that the majority of MEPs on this committee support the report," said Swedish MEP Cecelia Malmstrom in a statement."But it is strange and surprising that the [centre-right] EPP-ED members continue to deny what the rest of the world acknowledges: that illegal renditions do take place in Europe, that international conventions have been breached and that European citizens have been tortured with the awareness of European governments," she stated."Why don't the EPP members trust [US secretary of state] Condolezza Rice who has confirmed that these renditions have taken place in Europe?" Ms Malmstrom asked.
http://euobserver.com/9/21835
1011
Same article, just proof that the word about Condi Rice's knowledge regarding 'extraodinary rendition' is valid. NSA. I am sure all those given a free ticket to torture by the NSA had their communications tapped. It's interesting, but, in the Senate hearings regarding the nomination of General Hayden this subject NEVER came up. Conveniently forgotten.
EU-CIA report faces parliamentary storm
MEP’s report into allegations of illegal CIA activity is set to hit troubled waters when it is debated in plenary next month.
On Monday rapporteur Claudio Fava MEP had difficulty getting his interim report secured in committee.
The Italian faced nearly 200 last-minute amendments that had to be debated before the committee approved the final text.
The interim report was eventually agreed to- with 25 votes in favour, 14 against and seven abstentions.
“I am happy that the majority of MEPs on this committee support the report. But it is strange and surprising that the EPP-ED members continue to deny what the rest of the world acknowledges,” ALDE MEPs said in a statement on Monday.
“Illegal renditions do take place in Europe, international conventions have been breached and European citizens have been tortured with the awareness of European governments."
"Why don't the EPP members trust Condolezza Rice who has confirmed that these renditions have taken place in Europe?"
http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200606/b77df002-4848-4ebf-bd3b-ab23eaf159ac.htm
1021
The news secretary.
1022
commercials
IT would seem all the money the Indian tribes spent on Jack Abramoff didn't get them off the hook for environmental issues after all.
Seneca Gaming official denies hazard exists
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060613/1044530.asp
Federal environmental officials installed a half-dozen air sampling machines near the H-O Oats silos Monday, trying to learn if airborne asbestos is escaping from the demolition site where the Seneca Nation of Indians plans to build its Buffalo Creek Casino.
Technicians from the Environmental Protection Agency placed air pumps at the Lofts at Elk Terminal, directly across Perry Street from the silos, as well as the public housing at the nearby Perry Homes and Perry Annex.
Jeffrey Bechtel, the EPA official who came to Buffalo on Saturday at the county's request and ordered an emergency crew to fly in Sunday for testing, said the EPA's air sampling may settle the question.
1026
While Anderson is showing the access from Mexico of drug economies into the USA, the president selling out USA Security by underming USA airlines to foreign investors.
U.S. Airline Industry: Not for SaleTuesday June 13, 5:48 pm ET
Blocked at U.S. Ports, Foreign Capital Comes After U.S. Airlines
Flight Attendants Launch Massive Grassroots Effort to Save U.S. Aviation
CHICAGO, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Directly in line with the Dubai ports deal, the Bush Administration bypassed Congress and arbitrarily set a rule that changes long-standing aviation law to allow foreign control of U.S. airlines and their operations. United Airlines Flight Attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants, AFA-CWA, AFL-CIO, has launched a massive grassroots campaign to protect U.S. aviation. United Master Executive Council (MEC) President Greg Davidowitch made the following statement about the critical call to action to save U.S. aviation:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060613/dctu073.html?.v=29
1037
commercials
1040
Is this any way to secure a country? By Miriam Pemberton and Lawrence Korb
This is what passes for a security debate in the halls of Congress these days. The House and Senate Armed Services committees are on track to hand the president the 460-odd-billion-dollar military budget he asked for, give or take a billion or two.His political troubles are emboldening them to raise a few objections along the way. The House committee expressed “strong concerns about the escalating costs of military platforms” (planes, ships, tanks).Such platforms would clearly include the V-22 Osprey helicopter, which, despite two decades and $18 billion already spent in development, is not yet operational. The Army no longer wants it. The Armed Services committees don’t seem to care; they noted their concerns and fully funded the program anyway.
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/OpEd/061306_oped2.html
1053
The News Secretary.
Anderson has been out peddling his book. I wonder where the proceeds are going. He hasn't said. A Katraina Fund perhaps. He should say where all that money is going. Perhaps pet shelters on the Gulf Coast.
Anderson Cooper's Book Hits Top Spot On New York Times Bestseller ListJune 13, 2006 5:39 p.m. EST
Julie Farby - All Headline News Staff Writer
(AHN)-Anderson Cooper's mix of memoir and reportage "Dispatches From the Edge," will hit the top spot on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list this week. The book displaces "Marley and Me," the bestseller about a recalcitrant dog, and leapfrogs Tim Russert's collection "Wisdom of Our Fathers."
Cooper's current achievement marks the first time in a while that a journalist sits atop the list. Two years ago, Tom Brokaw did it with "The Greatest Generation," but that book wasn't a memoir and had the advantage of a glitzy premise.
According to the Variety report, part of the reason for Cooper's sales bonanza is he has been marketing the book on "AC360" in the context of news stories related to Katrina. Besides, Cooper's appearance on Oprah-which certainly helped propel book sales-more than a thousand fans lined up to see the anchor and have books signed at a Gotham Barnes and Noble last week.
Meanwhile, Cooper's fortunes also are turning around on the tube. After an April in which his ratings were down 36 percent in the 25-54 demo for the 10 p.m. slot compared with a year ago, May saw a jump of 24 percent.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7003899911
1055
Bob Woodruff is back. Very nice.
enough.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Anderson is on extended leave.
1015
John Robert's credentials gives him more experience with the subject of weather and a wider experience than Anderson.
1018
This is old news about al Zarqawi. It was a 'concussion' blow by high explosives. Everything about the physical appearance of his head even looks like concussion. The 'bruising' under the eye lid is bleeding into the socket. The blood at the nose. I never thought for one minute the USA military 'fought' with the man.
1021
The News Secretary
Saud Satisfied With Iran TalksAgencies
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=83676&d=13&m=6&y=2006
TEHRAN, 13 June 2006 — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said yesterday he hoped for a speedy resolution of the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program. “We hope this crisis is solved as soon as possible,” he told a joint news conference with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki.
Saud said he was satisfied with what Mottaki had told him about the nuclear file. “He told me that Iran has a positive view and is examining the content of the proposals” offered to Tehran, he added.
Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Russia and China last week offered Iran incentives and multilateral talks if it agreed to freeze uranium enrichment, at the center of fears the country could acquire atomic weapons.
1026
A look at U.S. military deaths in Iraq
Associated Press
As of Monday, June 12, 2006, at least 2,499 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 1,965 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
The AP count is six more than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Monday at 10 a.m. EDT.
The British military has reported 113 deaths; Italy, 32; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 17; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Slovakia, Denmark three; El Salvador, Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Romania, one death each.
1036
commercials
1039
Two children among dead in Iraq raid
http://www.cbc.ca/storyview/MSN/world/national/2006/06/12/iraq-raid-monday.html
Nine people — including two children —are dead after a raid on a house northeast of Baghdad, coalition forces said Monday.
The raid happened in the city of Baqouba, in the same area where insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed last Wednesday, and was one of 140 military operations carried out in the wake of his death.
The military said coalition forces came under heavy machine-gun fire from a rooftop.
Coalition aircraft attacked the building, heavily damaging the house and destroying nearby vehicles.
1041
I never 'bought' the idea about sunscreen either. Maybe it's living in a coastal city, but, the sun is respected. It's not 'sun SHINE.' It is solar radiation. Human beings destroyed the ozone layer. What's to say? If human bieng pollution can destroy the ozone layer,they can also destroy the benevolent planet, Earth through Human Induced Global Warming.
What bothers me is that I don't know the components of the propellant of the spray on variety. There has also been a very negative 'shift' in the ozone layer this year. I would not put it past Bush to 'pull' a fast one and ignore Internatioanl Laws and laugh in the faceof them allowing American Manufacturers to go back to CFCs. Wouldn't doubt it for a minute.
The 'guidelines' of sunscreen have always been conservative in this house. Frequent application has always been the rule of thumb.. The SPF number isn't a guarantee of protection to all people in the same way. All it means is that if one person 'burns' after fifteen minutes in strong sun, the lotion is supposed to supposed to prolong that times upto 15 times. A lotion cannot dictate 'the sun penetrance' from day to day. It's a silly concept. I never take safety that frivilously. The companies though, don't have a case. I knew better. The average public did not and 'trusted' them. They'll have to pay in a class action suit. Too bad.
1050
I am saying good night.
enough
John Robert's credentials gives him more experience with the subject of weather and a wider experience than Anderson.
1018
This is old news about al Zarqawi. It was a 'concussion' blow by high explosives. Everything about the physical appearance of his head even looks like concussion. The 'bruising' under the eye lid is bleeding into the socket. The blood at the nose. I never thought for one minute the USA military 'fought' with the man.
1021
The News Secretary
Saud Satisfied With Iran TalksAgencies
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=83676&d=13&m=6&y=2006
TEHRAN, 13 June 2006 — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said yesterday he hoped for a speedy resolution of the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program. “We hope this crisis is solved as soon as possible,” he told a joint news conference with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki.
Saud said he was satisfied with what Mottaki had told him about the nuclear file. “He told me that Iran has a positive view and is examining the content of the proposals” offered to Tehran, he added.
Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Russia and China last week offered Iran incentives and multilateral talks if it agreed to freeze uranium enrichment, at the center of fears the country could acquire atomic weapons.
1026
A look at U.S. military deaths in Iraq
Associated Press
As of Monday, June 12, 2006, at least 2,499 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 1,965 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
The AP count is six more than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Monday at 10 a.m. EDT.
The British military has reported 113 deaths; Italy, 32; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 17; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Slovakia, Denmark three; El Salvador, Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Romania, one death each.
1036
commercials
1039
Two children among dead in Iraq raid
http://www.cbc.ca/storyview/MSN/world/national/2006/06/12/iraq-raid-monday.html
Nine people — including two children —are dead after a raid on a house northeast of Baghdad, coalition forces said Monday.
The raid happened in the city of Baqouba, in the same area where insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed last Wednesday, and was one of 140 military operations carried out in the wake of his death.
The military said coalition forces came under heavy machine-gun fire from a rooftop.
Coalition aircraft attacked the building, heavily damaging the house and destroying nearby vehicles.
1041
I never 'bought' the idea about sunscreen either. Maybe it's living in a coastal city, but, the sun is respected. It's not 'sun SHINE.' It is solar radiation. Human beings destroyed the ozone layer. What's to say? If human bieng pollution can destroy the ozone layer,they can also destroy the benevolent planet, Earth through Human Induced Global Warming.
What bothers me is that I don't know the components of the propellant of the spray on variety. There has also been a very negative 'shift' in the ozone layer this year. I would not put it past Bush to 'pull' a fast one and ignore Internatioanl Laws and laugh in the faceof them allowing American Manufacturers to go back to CFCs. Wouldn't doubt it for a minute.
The 'guidelines' of sunscreen have always been conservative in this house. Frequent application has always been the rule of thumb.. The SPF number isn't a guarantee of protection to all people in the same way. All it means is that if one person 'burns' after fifteen minutes in strong sun, the lotion is supposed to supposed to prolong that times upto 15 times. A lotion cannot dictate 'the sun penetrance' from day to day. It's a silly concept. I never take safety that frivilously. The companies though, don't have a case. I knew better. The average public did not and 'trusted' them. They'll have to pay in a class action suit. Too bad.
1050
I am saying good night.
enough
Saturday, June 10, 2006
The Devil is in the Details
1000
I guess Andy is out of a job again.
1010
I don't really appreciate the chronic bantering of the USA about the details of the attack that killed al Zarqawi. He's dead. I don't need to know anything else.
1011
The fact that the military is making 'excuses' for killing innocent Iraqis based on 'inexperience' of the soldiers dispatched into a very dangerous area of the country only speaks to the fact that Iraq is another Vietnam. This same type of circumstances occurred with 19 year olds in the jungles of Vietnam. It's inexcusable that the USA government is sending 'inexperienced' soldiers into battle when they are nothing but sitting ducks.
Get them out of there.
We don't belong in Iraq. We never did.
END IT !!!!
1014
This isn't 'the news' - it's ONLY about the military and Neocons. Who needs it?
Bring the troops home. They are being abused by the 'inappropriate use of power' by this administration, House and Senate.
This is out of "Stars and Stripes."
Army announces details of 2007 transformation and rebasing plan
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=37761
I DON'T SEE leaving any American Troops behind to die in Iraq without proper support.
enough.
I guess Andy is out of a job again.
1010
I don't really appreciate the chronic bantering of the USA about the details of the attack that killed al Zarqawi. He's dead. I don't need to know anything else.
1011
The fact that the military is making 'excuses' for killing innocent Iraqis based on 'inexperience' of the soldiers dispatched into a very dangerous area of the country only speaks to the fact that Iraq is another Vietnam. This same type of circumstances occurred with 19 year olds in the jungles of Vietnam. It's inexcusable that the USA government is sending 'inexperienced' soldiers into battle when they are nothing but sitting ducks.
Get them out of there.
We don't belong in Iraq. We never did.
END IT !!!!
1014
This isn't 'the news' - it's ONLY about the military and Neocons. Who needs it?
Bring the troops home. They are being abused by the 'inappropriate use of power' by this administration, House and Senate.
This is out of "Stars and Stripes."
Army announces details of 2007 transformation and rebasing plan
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=37761
I DON'T SEE leaving any American Troops behind to die in Iraq without proper support.
enough.
Friday, June 9, 2006
Censorship of Aaron Brown limits him to discussing personal agendas.
New look, outlook for Aaron Brown
By Neal Justin
Star Tribune
MINNEAPOLIS --
Aaron Brown's younger brother has just walked into the lobby of Minneapolis' WCCO Radio, which is a little weird because I'm here to take Aaron to lunch.
Wait, it is the former CNN anchor, looking a full decade younger than his 57 years, thanks to laser eye surgery and the fact that he no longer seems to be carrying the weight of the world news on his shoulders.
The Hopkins, Minn., native, who left the cable network in November after being replaced by two-decades-younger Anderson Cooper, doesn't have a "mad as heck, not going to take it anymore" attitude, despite the fact that he was dumped for a hipper model. Instead, he seems at peace, an approach that should serve him well when he begins teaching at Arizona State University next spring.
Brown can't talk about CNN until his contract expires in 2007, but he did open up about his new approach to life and his new look.
Q. Why the eye surgery?
A. I just got tired of wearing glasses, and, all of a sudden, I had the time and the freedom to do it. Peter [Jennings] used to say, "You look stupid without glasses." OK, so maybe it's not a great career move, but the TV Aaron wore glasses, and, maybe, at some level, the TV Aaron was in conflict with the other Aaron.
Q. What do you mean?
A. The TV Aaron was public and I'm very shy. My wife and I would go to a party and we'd have to take separate cars because there would always be a point where I'd get really anxious and have to leave early. I need to feel really comfortable with people. But I could put on the uniform and do the job of a reporter.
Q. Peter Jennings was your mentor at ABC. Why did you two hit it off?
A. I was never afraid of him. Peter could come out and say, "We need to do a story about monkeys driving the subway" and people would launch and I would look at him and say, "Come here a sec." We'd go into his office and I'd say, "That's really stupid." I was just this yokel who came in from Seattle. I didn't get that he was this anchor god, and I think Peter loved that give-and-take.
I understood it when I became the anchor. I was amazed how few people would come to me -- and my door was always open -- and say something was stupid.
Q. How did his death affect you?
A. It had a profound effect. I started thinking less and less about what I was accomplishing and more and more about what I'm missing. What had I sacrificed to become me? I had absolutely decided that once my CNN contract expired in 2007, I was going to do something else. To be honest, I wanted to walk away on my own terms, but when it went down, I was the calmest guy in the room.
I'm at peace now with all of it. I'm proud of what I've done and I'm content that I'll always be seen professionally in a certain way. You're taught along the way to never do anything to screw up the first line in your obituary, and mine is still going to say, "Aaron Brown, one of the anchors who helped the country through difficult days after 9/11. . . . " That's not a bad ending. Dan [Rather] is really the sad character right now. His obituary is going to say, "Dan Rather, who was forced to resign. . . . " That's a bad ending.
Q. You had lunch with Rather shortly after leaving CNN. What did you two talk about?
A. I took a lot of lunches with Dan. He's been a great supporter of mine, in good times and bad. Incredibly gracious. When I got the job, the first thing he said to me was, "You need to learn to say no. People are going to be pulling at you, every Bemidji radio station, and your inclination is going to be to want to do it all."
Q. The funny thing is that was probably Rather's Achilles' heel. He wanted to do it all.
A. I was going to say, I'm not sure Dan could ever say no. I did tell him at lunch that the only thing I was worried about was: What's it going to feel like the day the first big story goes down? We were talking post-Katrina, which was the first major story since we were both gone.
Q. And Rather would have loved that story.
A. That was particularly cruel.
Q. What do you want to do next?
A. I've been talking to some people about doing an interview program and maybe a couple of documentaries a year.
http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/tv/mmx-0606070404jun08,0,5579162.story?coll=mmx-television_heds
Aaron didn't shy away from unpopular scandal viewed as politically incorrect.
AmericaBlog's John Aravosis on Aaron Brown's News Night
John was featured on a segment entitled:
"Credential Questions" about the Jeff Gannon saga, and talks about the things that Wolf Blitzer wouldn't. (Click on video at link. Scott McClellan statements at end of observation of press. "Hiding in Plain Sight.))
Video
In a Dec. 28, 2004, interview on CNN’s “Newsnight With Aaron Brown,” Newsweek reporter Charles Gasparino, who was covering the scandal, said he thought reporters ignored it because “it’s a politically correct company.” He meant that Fannie Mae helped provide mortgages for the poor, something “liberal journalists like.”
John was featured on a segment entitled:
"Credential Questions" about the Jeff Gannon saga, and talks about the things that Wolf Blitzer wouldn't. (Click on video at link. Scott McClellan statements at end of observation of press. "Hiding in Plain Sight.))
Video
In a Dec. 28, 2004, interview on CNN’s “Newsnight With Aaron Brown,” Newsweek reporter Charles Gasparino, who was covering the scandal, said he thought reporters ignored it because “it’s a politically correct company.” He meant that Fannie Mae helped provide mortgages for the poor, something “liberal journalists like.”
The Defeat of the Marriage Amendment brings Anderson Cooper out of hiding
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I find MIchael Berg very well spoken. He has an interesting insight. I hope he is elected. He is a voice of reason when everyone is seeking anger. I appreciate his insight and vision.
George Bush never looked into Nick's eyes Even more than the murderers who took my son's life, I condemn those who make policies to end lives
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1221644,00.html
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Terror leader’s network led to fatal air strike
By Ferry Biedermann, Middle East Correspondent Published: June 8 2006 19:12 Last updated: June 8 2006 19:12
Showing graphic pictures of the dead al-Qaeda leader’s bloodied head, a spokesman for the US-led coalition on Thursday elaborated on how the operation to strike at Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had unfolded.
The information that led to the air strike that killed him came from within Zarqawi’s own network, said Maj Gen Bill Caldwell.
The information that finally led to the death of Iraq’s most wanted insurgent leader, who carried a $25m (€19.5m, £13.4m) bounty on his head, emerged last December and identified Sheikh Abd al-Rahman as Zarqawi’s spiritual leader. It was by following the sheikh, and a process of “painstaking, deliberate exploitation of intelligence” that the coalition forces were able to pinpoint their target, said Maj Gen Caldwell.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/34d28a9e-f71a-11da-a566-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=c1a5b968-e1ed-11d7-81c6-0820abe49a01.html
If Sheikh Abd al-Rahman is alive, he'll act to inspire greater hate. If he's alive there will be more trouble. He's invested and a spiritual leader. That spells trouble.
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A male news secretary
.
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Somalia Islamic Leaders Meet Interim Gov't
By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN , 06.08.2006, 12:24 PM
Islamic militia leaders who seized Somalia's capital this week and are accused of harboring al-Qaida fugitives started discussing the future of the lawless country Thursday with its largely powerless U.N.-backed government. The meeting came a day after the Bush administration sounded a surprising conciliatory note toward the militia.
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/06/08/ap2803071.html
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Insurgents aren't invested in the large scale damage brought by al Qaeda. If they were they would be doing it. For all we know al Zarqawi may have killed insurgents and/or their families. Being al Qaeda and a Jordanian would not necessary set well either if the killings in Jordan by Iraqis were giving them a bad name and more problems. In other words where the insurgents may have had sympathy from Islam and even nation leaders that would have changed after the killings in Jordan.
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The Cole had been refueling in Yemen's port of Aden on Oct. 12, 2000, when al Qaeda-linked militants in a dinghy packed with explosives attacked. The explosion blew a hole in the side of the destroyer, but it remained above water and eventually underwent $250 million of repairs.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/08/terror/main1694567.shtml
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I don't really care what makes Osama bin Laden happy.
1049
The program is becoming quagmired in it's own focus.
enough.
I find MIchael Berg very well spoken. He has an interesting insight. I hope he is elected. He is a voice of reason when everyone is seeking anger. I appreciate his insight and vision.
George Bush never looked into Nick's eyes Even more than the murderers who took my son's life, I condemn those who make policies to end lives
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1221644,00.html
1019
Terror leader’s network led to fatal air strike
By Ferry Biedermann, Middle East Correspondent Published: June 8 2006 19:12 Last updated: June 8 2006 19:12
Showing graphic pictures of the dead al-Qaeda leader’s bloodied head, a spokesman for the US-led coalition on Thursday elaborated on how the operation to strike at Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had unfolded.
The information that led to the air strike that killed him came from within Zarqawi’s own network, said Maj Gen Bill Caldwell.
The information that finally led to the death of Iraq’s most wanted insurgent leader, who carried a $25m (€19.5m, £13.4m) bounty on his head, emerged last December and identified Sheikh Abd al-Rahman as Zarqawi’s spiritual leader. It was by following the sheikh, and a process of “painstaking, deliberate exploitation of intelligence” that the coalition forces were able to pinpoint their target, said Maj Gen Caldwell.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/34d28a9e-f71a-11da-a566-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=c1a5b968-e1ed-11d7-81c6-0820abe49a01.html
If Sheikh Abd al-Rahman is alive, he'll act to inspire greater hate. If he's alive there will be more trouble. He's invested and a spiritual leader. That spells trouble.
1025
A male news secretary
.
1026
Somalia Islamic Leaders Meet Interim Gov't
By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN , 06.08.2006, 12:24 PM
Islamic militia leaders who seized Somalia's capital this week and are accused of harboring al-Qaida fugitives started discussing the future of the lawless country Thursday with its largely powerless U.N.-backed government. The meeting came a day after the Bush administration sounded a surprising conciliatory note toward the militia.
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/06/08/ap2803071.html
1032
Insurgents aren't invested in the large scale damage brought by al Qaeda. If they were they would be doing it. For all we know al Zarqawi may have killed insurgents and/or their families. Being al Qaeda and a Jordanian would not necessary set well either if the killings in Jordan by Iraqis were giving them a bad name and more problems. In other words where the insurgents may have had sympathy from Islam and even nation leaders that would have changed after the killings in Jordan.
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The Cole had been refueling in Yemen's port of Aden on Oct. 12, 2000, when al Qaeda-linked militants in a dinghy packed with explosives attacked. The explosion blew a hole in the side of the destroyer, but it remained above water and eventually underwent $250 million of repairs.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/08/terror/main1694567.shtml
1045
I don't really care what makes Osama bin Laden happy.
1049
The program is becoming quagmired in it's own focus.
enough.
Thursday, June 8, 2006
Well. Blogger is back up.
1000
The return of "The Rise of the Moral USA Military" is over. We don't need nor do we want a defamed USA because of corrupt talking head generals on the payroll of CNN with NO ANSWERS except to support Rumsfeld propaganda. These people are part of the problem by inflaming the issues rather than seeking answers. Their opinions are not valuable. The 'USA military' has a lot of regrouping to do. I don't see that happening with a primarily National Guard deployment that was completely unprepared to spend years of their lives in service in a foreign war. It's outrageous already. They need to go come home. The Iraqis need to POLICE themselves without a Western military within their borders.
There is no such thing as "The War on Terrorism" as Shepard wants us all to believe. There is a war against terrorists and I have yet heard a successful strategy by this administration in the direction of ending that war so much as propagating it further. Bush and his administration does nothing but make speech after speech about the expanding terrorist networks and yet there is nothing they say that speaks to ending the assault of terrorists AND Jihadist governments including Hamas. Under this administration and Secretary of Defense there has been nothing but failure after failure including the elections of extremist groups in places like Egypt and Palestine. Now, Somalia is completely compromised with a promise to Civil War if those circumstances are resolved swiftly by the international community, because, Lord knows Bush, his State Department and his military CAN'T do a darn thing about it.
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Speak up Generals. Your country is at risk.
1024
Santorum and the corrupt administrations that favor business over people. They get confused, the poor folks that claim to be Republicans. They think business and people are the same thing. "W"rong !! People like to breathe clean air.
Pa. Senate race gets unfriendly environmentally
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/14758283.htm
...Casey aimed his attack directly at Santorum at a Pennsylvania Environmental Council dinner, accusing the two-term senator of repeatedly putting business interests ahead of the environment and public health.
"Sen. Santorum has spent 16 years in Washington and I am sure he has given thousands of speeches," Casey told the audience of 400 at the Philadelphia Hyatt Regency at Penn's Landing. "But when it comes to the environment with Sen. Santorum, when all is said and done, there is more said than done."
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The "Defense of Marriage Act" is a problem. When it was passed the 'correct' political position was that of supporting Civil Unions for homosexuals. Therefore, to make America comfortable with the Gay Community a law was passed so people didin't feel compromised and Civil Unions would come to benefit the people that loved each other outside traditional marriages. Since, then, judges whom uphold Civil Rights clearly demonstrated time after time, in state after state, that all people are allowed to be protected under laws that currently enforce provisions of marriage. There is no reason to victimize an entire segment of community. We frequently rely on the courts to show us the competency of our Constitution and laws. The "Defense of Marriage Act" is unconstitutional and needs to be reversed. The American Society needs to stop being HOMOPHOBIC !
1038
Bush has betrayed Political Conservatives. It's just that simple. Bush and Cheney have hijacked the Executive Branch for personal agendas and not that of a party that is only one segment of this country and not the entire populous.
The 'statement' that is the title is an example of "homophobia' and a hysteria that simply does not exist. Wanting to be married is hardly the definition of destruction of the American Family. Lou Dobbs, by the way, does a good job and openly reveals the 'religious agenda' of a Political Conservative that is based in perference and not the reality people are unique as the USA Constitution sees them.
Conservative strategist claims that 'homosexual agenda' is 'designed to do away with the American family'
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Conservative_strategist_says_homosexual_agenda_designed_0607.html
Published: Wednesday June 7, 2006
A conservative strategist claimed that the "homosexual agenda" is "designed to do away with the American family" in an appearance on CNN, RAW STORY has found. To watch this segment, tune to 5:12 on the video clip below.
Lob Dobbs, a conserative CNN host, also beats on GOP strategist Richard Viguerie, asking what conservatives have done for American families.
"What have we done for the family that everybody's so concerned about?" asked CNN host Lou Dobbs. "Where are the values? I'm lost."
"You've got schools that are now indoctrinating the children with values that are in opposition to the American families' values here in this country," replied Viguerie. "You've got schools that are actually teaching people. The inner city and people don't need anything as much as they need good schools."
Dobbs then asked, "What's gay marriage got to do with any of that?"
"Because the homosexual agenda in my opinion and many conservatives is designed to do away with the American family," Viguerie claimed.
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commercials
The return of "The Rise of the Moral USA Military" is over. We don't need nor do we want a defamed USA because of corrupt talking head generals on the payroll of CNN with NO ANSWERS except to support Rumsfeld propaganda. These people are part of the problem by inflaming the issues rather than seeking answers. Their opinions are not valuable. The 'USA military' has a lot of regrouping to do. I don't see that happening with a primarily National Guard deployment that was completely unprepared to spend years of their lives in service in a foreign war. It's outrageous already. They need to go come home. The Iraqis need to POLICE themselves without a Western military within their borders.
There is no such thing as "The War on Terrorism" as Shepard wants us all to believe. There is a war against terrorists and I have yet heard a successful strategy by this administration in the direction of ending that war so much as propagating it further. Bush and his administration does nothing but make speech after speech about the expanding terrorist networks and yet there is nothing they say that speaks to ending the assault of terrorists AND Jihadist governments including Hamas. Under this administration and Secretary of Defense there has been nothing but failure after failure including the elections of extremist groups in places like Egypt and Palestine. Now, Somalia is completely compromised with a promise to Civil War if those circumstances are resolved swiftly by the international community, because, Lord knows Bush, his State Department and his military CAN'T do a darn thing about it.
1023
Speak up Generals. Your country is at risk.
1024
Santorum and the corrupt administrations that favor business over people. They get confused, the poor folks that claim to be Republicans. They think business and people are the same thing. "W"rong !! People like to breathe clean air.
Pa. Senate race gets unfriendly environmentally
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/14758283.htm
...Casey aimed his attack directly at Santorum at a Pennsylvania Environmental Council dinner, accusing the two-term senator of repeatedly putting business interests ahead of the environment and public health.
"Sen. Santorum has spent 16 years in Washington and I am sure he has given thousands of speeches," Casey told the audience of 400 at the Philadelphia Hyatt Regency at Penn's Landing. "But when it comes to the environment with Sen. Santorum, when all is said and done, there is more said than done."
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The "Defense of Marriage Act" is a problem. When it was passed the 'correct' political position was that of supporting Civil Unions for homosexuals. Therefore, to make America comfortable with the Gay Community a law was passed so people didin't feel compromised and Civil Unions would come to benefit the people that loved each other outside traditional marriages. Since, then, judges whom uphold Civil Rights clearly demonstrated time after time, in state after state, that all people are allowed to be protected under laws that currently enforce provisions of marriage. There is no reason to victimize an entire segment of community. We frequently rely on the courts to show us the competency of our Constitution and laws. The "Defense of Marriage Act" is unconstitutional and needs to be reversed. The American Society needs to stop being HOMOPHOBIC !
1038
Bush has betrayed Political Conservatives. It's just that simple. Bush and Cheney have hijacked the Executive Branch for personal agendas and not that of a party that is only one segment of this country and not the entire populous.
The 'statement' that is the title is an example of "homophobia' and a hysteria that simply does not exist. Wanting to be married is hardly the definition of destruction of the American Family. Lou Dobbs, by the way, does a good job and openly reveals the 'religious agenda' of a Political Conservative that is based in perference and not the reality people are unique as the USA Constitution sees them.
Conservative strategist claims that 'homosexual agenda' is 'designed to do away with the American family'
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Conservative_strategist_says_homosexual_agenda_designed_0607.html
Published: Wednesday June 7, 2006
A conservative strategist claimed that the "homosexual agenda" is "designed to do away with the American family" in an appearance on CNN, RAW STORY has found. To watch this segment, tune to 5:12 on the video clip below.
Lob Dobbs, a conserative CNN host, also beats on GOP strategist Richard Viguerie, asking what conservatives have done for American families.
"What have we done for the family that everybody's so concerned about?" asked CNN host Lou Dobbs. "Where are the values? I'm lost."
"You've got schools that are now indoctrinating the children with values that are in opposition to the American families' values here in this country," replied Viguerie. "You've got schools that are actually teaching people. The inner city and people don't need anything as much as they need good schools."
Dobbs then asked, "What's gay marriage got to do with any of that?"
"Because the homosexual agenda in my opinion and many conservatives is designed to do away with the American family," Viguerie claimed.
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The graph that accompanies this article is rather dramatic and occurred because Southern Conservatives were lead by 'carrot and stick' to believe a majority vote in the USA could result in a Christian Nation 'under God' rather than a nation of compassion that envelopes all Americans and not just Christian priorities. The Jewish don't believe as Christians do. They recognize Gay Members of their community in equality as well as recognizing a woman's right to choose because she alone is responsible for her life. The Jewish Community is discriminated along wtih the Gay Community and women in general. Returning to the garph, now, the 'priviledge' Christians were lead to believe is theirs to have has gone federal with a corrupt President that has used 'their religious' agenda for his personal gain regardless of it's lack of Constitutionality. It is a coupe regime in DC. It's harmful and detrimental to the well being and security of our nation.
Purple MountainsCould the interior West—long seen as an archetypal red region—be turning blue? The fate of the Republican Party may hinge on the answer
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200607/purple-west
by Ryan Sager
fter the 2004 election, plenty of people noted that a shift of 60,000-odd votes in Ohio would have handed the Electoral College to John Kerry. But there was another place—less remarked upon—where a shift of similar magnitude would have done the same trick: the Southwest. Fewer than 70,000 votes among Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico, with their collective nineteen electoral votes, could have swung the election just as surely as Ohio’s 60,000. And with George W. Bush winning by margins of 5 percentage points, 3 points, and 1 point, respectively, these were swing states by any definition of the term.
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I hope CNN does not intend to show the photos. I do believe the Geneva Conventions would prevent this as well. To exploit the images of innocent civilians for any reason is just "W"rong. Especially Islamic women and girls. Please provide them their privacy at least in death.
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enough
Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Seeing the world through peace, not war.
1000
The Culture of Fear rises again.
The accused terrorists were caught, right? I thought so.
Canadians urged not to apply stereotype to Muslims
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2006/06/06/1616582-sun.html
TORONTO -- Canadians must understand an alleged plan to launch a terrorist attack in Ontario wasn't engineered by Muslims, but instead was a plot by people who happened to be Muslim, experts, politicians and community leaders said yesterday.
They say it would be a mistake now for people to draw rash conclusions about the possible failures of Canadian multiculturalism or seek radical societal changes since the 17 suspects were arrested under the federal Anti-Terrorism Act.
DIDN'T Bush do a great job at taking down al Qaeda and it's spawned networks. What a mess. Now Canada. A complete failure. Bush's campaign against terrorists after September 11, 2001 is a complete failure. He failed to stop them and they attacked Spain, they attacked London and now there was a terrorist cell arrested in Canada. A complete failure.
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It is another Timothy McVeigh issue. Was McVeigh a terrorist? Then why aren't the victims of Oklahoma City compensated the same way that the victims of the terrorists of September 11, 2001?
The Toronto Star said police had intercepted the fertilizer to be used in the bomb and substituted a harmless powder before the arrests were made. Police officials said yesterday that they stood by their statement that three tons of the fertilizer, which is highly explosive when mixed with fuel oil, was ``delivered" to the bombers.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/06/06/six_accused_of_hatching_bombing_plot_in_canada/
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Today is NOT 666. It's 6/6/06. O6. O6. O6. OOOOOOOO6. Got it. Propaganda by CNN. It's not 666. It's 6/6/06. Jerks.
You want 'the truth' about energy. Not as oil and gas industries. That is a losing propostion.
MoveOn targets four in Congress for aiding 'war profiteer' Halliburton
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/MoveOn_targets_four_in_Congress_for_0606.html
Four U.S. Representatives are coming under fire this week from MoveOn.org Political Action Committee, RAW STORY has learned.
In what MoveOn says is the third and final ad in its "Red Handed" series, the group will accuse the Congresspersons of protecting war profiteers. Two earlier ads in the $1.3 million ad buy accused the Members of supporting what MoveOn calls a flawed prescription drug plan and allegedly protecting big oil companies while gas prices rise.
The ads, which will run through June 16th, target Reps Nancy Johnson (R-CT), Thelma Drake (R-VA), Chris Chocola (R-IN), and Deborah Pryce (R-OH).
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Woman charged with smuggling babies arrested in Arizona
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - A woman who allegedly smuggled babies and young children from Mexico was arrested Monday when she attempted to cross the Arizona-Mexico border, authorities said.
Norma Higinia Felix De Sanchez, 41, was among 11 people charged last week on four felony counts of conspiracy, bringing illegal immigrants into the United States, and transporting and harboring them.
De Sanchez allegedly used false identification documents to bring children across the border.
A legal U.S. resident living in Yuma, Ariz., De Sanchez was crossing the San Luis port of entry with two family members Monday when border inspectors arrested her, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14748174.htm
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There is an aspect to the struggle in Iraq that the American Public doesn't get a view of. Iraq has a history now of attacks by the USA. These towns in An Albar are strongholds to the Sunnis. I hope this isn't taken wrong, but, Sunnis are human beings although their attacks make them heinous, there are Sunnis that don't attack the USA or other Iraqis. Those Sunnis frequently die in attacks by others. As Sunnis die, the more determined the entrenched Sunnis become. It's a power loop that continues to feed itself. When people die in war, their memories, especially in Islam are elevated to extraordinary. Those deaths fuel retaliation. I really think it is best for the USA to leave as a stigmatized problem in Iraq and allow the people there to settle their conflict with each other.
Haditha (Øديثة) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, about 240 km northwest of Baghdad. It is a farming town on the Euphrates River with a mostly Sunni Muslim population of around 90,000.
Haditha Dam has a six turbine hydropower plant which at their peak produce 660 MW.
[edit]
Haditha during the Iraq war
Haditha Dam, the largest hydroelectric facility in Iraq, is located in Haditha. The dam and surrounding areas was initially secured by U.S. soldiers in April 2003 as part of the invasion of Iraq. An attack on the dam would have severely flooded towns along the Euphrates downstream from Haditha, as well as eliminating an important source of electricity needed for the re-establishment of the country.
As the fighting continued following the fall of Saddam Hussein, Haditha became a center for insurgent activity. It lies between Al-Qaim, an insurgent entry point, and Baghdad.
On July 16, 2003 Mohammed Nayil Jurayfi, mayor of Haditha, and his youngest son, Ahmed, were assassinated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha
THE KILLING in Hadith has a history. This is not the first time.
Alleged 2005 Massacre
Main article: Haditha killings
On 19 November 2005, US Marine Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas was killed in Haditha in a roadside bomb attack on Marines from Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines.[5] The unreleased report of the US military investigation into the event is said to have found that 24 unarmed Iraqis, including 11 women and children, were killed by 12 members of the US Marines, apparently in retaliation for the death of Terrazas,[6] and two captains and a lieutenant colonel have been relieved of duty.[7]
The Mayor of Haditha in November of 2005, Emad Jawad Hamza, allegedly brought a complaint to the local US commanders at the time of the incident.[8]
According to James Crossen, who was sitting next to Terrazas when the roadside bomb exploded, women and children in the area often helped insurgents. It's likely, according to Crossen, that women and children had given information about US patrols to insurgents. This information, according to Crossen, led to the roadside bomb attack. [9] In addition, Terrazas' father said other marines told him they were fighting with insurgents who used civilians as human shields
THE 'battles' that occur in Iraq day to day are battles, not just suicide bombs. We thinik of suicide bombers as 'crazies.' Each town has a populous that lives this nightmare day after day. To Iraqis there is no place to go. They don't want it anymore. The price is too high for both sides. There needs to be borders in Iraq that separates Kurds, from Sunnis from Shia. It has my opinion since the beginning of the invasion. We need to think of these attacks within the hamlets of Iraq and who is affected day after day. Not only that consider whom is left in Iraq. People are leaving and becoming refugees. Whom exactly is the American soldiers firghting and fighting for?
LEBANON: HAVING FLED IRAQ, CHALDEANS SEEK BETTER LIFE ABROAD
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Religion&loid=8.0.307051354&par=0
Beirut, 6 June (AKI) - Impoverished and living in Lebanon illegally - many of the 3,000 Iraqi Chaldean Christians who have fled their homeland now dream of a better future abroad with Australia the most desired destination. Most of the refugees left Iraq in the wake of the US invasion of the country and while the bloody sectarian stuggle that followed has mostly pitted Shiite and Sunni Muslims against each other, the small Christian minority has not been spared the bloodshed. But some Christians abandoned the country in the 1990s when it was still ruled by Saddam Hussein."I come from the northern Zakho region, and in 1996 together with my wife and children I fled because we were feeling threatened by an environment that was becoming more and more hostile," Sacharia Chamun,38, a father of seven, tells Adnkronos International (AKI).The family of nine share two small rooms in Beirut's Sidd al-Bawshriyye suburb in a building that overlooks an open drain used by a nearby print works shop to dump acid and chemicals.
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The Culture of Fear rises again.
The accused terrorists were caught, right? I thought so.
Canadians urged not to apply stereotype to Muslims
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2006/06/06/1616582-sun.html
TORONTO -- Canadians must understand an alleged plan to launch a terrorist attack in Ontario wasn't engineered by Muslims, but instead was a plot by people who happened to be Muslim, experts, politicians and community leaders said yesterday.
They say it would be a mistake now for people to draw rash conclusions about the possible failures of Canadian multiculturalism or seek radical societal changes since the 17 suspects were arrested under the federal Anti-Terrorism Act.
DIDN'T Bush do a great job at taking down al Qaeda and it's spawned networks. What a mess. Now Canada. A complete failure. Bush's campaign against terrorists after September 11, 2001 is a complete failure. He failed to stop them and they attacked Spain, they attacked London and now there was a terrorist cell arrested in Canada. A complete failure.
1009
It is another Timothy McVeigh issue. Was McVeigh a terrorist? Then why aren't the victims of Oklahoma City compensated the same way that the victims of the terrorists of September 11, 2001?
The Toronto Star said police had intercepted the fertilizer to be used in the bomb and substituted a harmless powder before the arrests were made. Police officials said yesterday that they stood by their statement that three tons of the fertilizer, which is highly explosive when mixed with fuel oil, was ``delivered" to the bombers.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/06/06/six_accused_of_hatching_bombing_plot_in_canada/
1011
Today is NOT 666. It's 6/6/06. O6. O6. O6. OOOOOOOO6. Got it. Propaganda by CNN. It's not 666. It's 6/6/06. Jerks.
You want 'the truth' about energy. Not as oil and gas industries. That is a losing propostion.
MoveOn targets four in Congress for aiding 'war profiteer' Halliburton
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/MoveOn_targets_four_in_Congress_for_0606.html
Four U.S. Representatives are coming under fire this week from MoveOn.org Political Action Committee, RAW STORY has learned.
In what MoveOn says is the third and final ad in its "Red Handed" series, the group will accuse the Congresspersons of protecting war profiteers. Two earlier ads in the $1.3 million ad buy accused the Members of supporting what MoveOn calls a flawed prescription drug plan and allegedly protecting big oil companies while gas prices rise.
The ads, which will run through June 16th, target Reps Nancy Johnson (R-CT), Thelma Drake (R-VA), Chris Chocola (R-IN), and Deborah Pryce (R-OH).
1014
Woman charged with smuggling babies arrested in Arizona
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - A woman who allegedly smuggled babies and young children from Mexico was arrested Monday when she attempted to cross the Arizona-Mexico border, authorities said.
Norma Higinia Felix De Sanchez, 41, was among 11 people charged last week on four felony counts of conspiracy, bringing illegal immigrants into the United States, and transporting and harboring them.
De Sanchez allegedly used false identification documents to bring children across the border.
A legal U.S. resident living in Yuma, Ariz., De Sanchez was crossing the San Luis port of entry with two family members Monday when border inspectors arrested her, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14748174.htm
1025
There is an aspect to the struggle in Iraq that the American Public doesn't get a view of. Iraq has a history now of attacks by the USA. These towns in An Albar are strongholds to the Sunnis. I hope this isn't taken wrong, but, Sunnis are human beings although their attacks make them heinous, there are Sunnis that don't attack the USA or other Iraqis. Those Sunnis frequently die in attacks by others. As Sunnis die, the more determined the entrenched Sunnis become. It's a power loop that continues to feed itself. When people die in war, their memories, especially in Islam are elevated to extraordinary. Those deaths fuel retaliation. I really think it is best for the USA to leave as a stigmatized problem in Iraq and allow the people there to settle their conflict with each other.
Haditha (Øديثة) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, about 240 km northwest of Baghdad. It is a farming town on the Euphrates River with a mostly Sunni Muslim population of around 90,000.
Haditha Dam has a six turbine hydropower plant which at their peak produce 660 MW.
[edit]
Haditha during the Iraq war
Haditha Dam, the largest hydroelectric facility in Iraq, is located in Haditha. The dam and surrounding areas was initially secured by U.S. soldiers in April 2003 as part of the invasion of Iraq. An attack on the dam would have severely flooded towns along the Euphrates downstream from Haditha, as well as eliminating an important source of electricity needed for the re-establishment of the country.
As the fighting continued following the fall of Saddam Hussein, Haditha became a center for insurgent activity. It lies between Al-Qaim, an insurgent entry point, and Baghdad.
On July 16, 2003 Mohammed Nayil Jurayfi, mayor of Haditha, and his youngest son, Ahmed, were assassinated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha
THE KILLING in Hadith has a history. This is not the first time.
Alleged 2005 Massacre
Main article: Haditha killings
On 19 November 2005, US Marine Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas was killed in Haditha in a roadside bomb attack on Marines from Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines.[5] The unreleased report of the US military investigation into the event is said to have found that 24 unarmed Iraqis, including 11 women and children, were killed by 12 members of the US Marines, apparently in retaliation for the death of Terrazas,[6] and two captains and a lieutenant colonel have been relieved of duty.[7]
The Mayor of Haditha in November of 2005, Emad Jawad Hamza, allegedly brought a complaint to the local US commanders at the time of the incident.[8]
According to James Crossen, who was sitting next to Terrazas when the roadside bomb exploded, women and children in the area often helped insurgents. It's likely, according to Crossen, that women and children had given information about US patrols to insurgents. This information, according to Crossen, led to the roadside bomb attack. [9] In addition, Terrazas' father said other marines told him they were fighting with insurgents who used civilians as human shields
THE 'battles' that occur in Iraq day to day are battles, not just suicide bombs. We thinik of suicide bombers as 'crazies.' Each town has a populous that lives this nightmare day after day. To Iraqis there is no place to go. They don't want it anymore. The price is too high for both sides. There needs to be borders in Iraq that separates Kurds, from Sunnis from Shia. It has my opinion since the beginning of the invasion. We need to think of these attacks within the hamlets of Iraq and who is affected day after day. Not only that consider whom is left in Iraq. People are leaving and becoming refugees. Whom exactly is the American soldiers firghting and fighting for?
LEBANON: HAVING FLED IRAQ, CHALDEANS SEEK BETTER LIFE ABROAD
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Religion&loid=8.0.307051354&par=0
Beirut, 6 June (AKI) - Impoverished and living in Lebanon illegally - many of the 3,000 Iraqi Chaldean Christians who have fled their homeland now dream of a better future abroad with Australia the most desired destination. Most of the refugees left Iraq in the wake of the US invasion of the country and while the bloody sectarian stuggle that followed has mostly pitted Shiite and Sunni Muslims against each other, the small Christian minority has not been spared the bloodshed. But some Christians abandoned the country in the 1990s when it was still ruled by Saddam Hussein."I come from the northern Zakho region, and in 1996 together with my wife and children I fled because we were feeling threatened by an environment that was becoming more and more hostile," Sacharia Chamun,38, a father of seven, tells Adnkronos International (AKI).The family of nine share two small rooms in Beirut's Sidd al-Bawshriyye suburb in a building that overlooks an open drain used by a nearby print works shop to dump acid and chemicals.
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I don't dabble in speculation that insults and injures others. Just a thing I have about respecting culture no matter how odd it may seem as a Western citizen.
Unholy to some, 666 binds many Malaysian Chinese in matrimony
Kuala Lumpur, June. 6 (AP): The number 666 may represent the mark of the Devil to fans of the classic 1976 horror film 'The Omen.' But it was a good omen for many ethnic Chinese in Malaysia.
So much so that hundreds of couples rushed to tie the knot today, July 6, 2006, or 6/6/06. In the Hokkien dialect, spoken by many of Malaysia's Chinese minority, the number six is pronounced to sounds like the word "luck", so today was expected to bring them triple luck.
Today is also the much-awaited day for the release of a remake of The Omen, in which the Antichrist appears on Earth as an innocent looking five-year-old child on whose scalp the number 666 is engraved.
In Malaysia, a mass wedding registration ceremony was held for 234 Chinese couples, ranging from 19 to 56 years old, at the Thean Hou Temple in a suburb in the country's biggest city of Kuala Lumpur, national Bernama news agency said.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200606061964.htm
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Tuesday, June 6, 2006
The Contradiction
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Court Turns Aside Libby's Request for Many Documents
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/03/washington/03libby.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
THE SAME PARTY THAT CAN'T STAY OUT OF TROUBLE. THE SAME PARTY THAT HAS ENORMOUS PROBLEMS WITH CORRUPTION.
Bush Rallies Gay Marriage Opponents
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/06/05/ap2794756.html
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THE SAME PARTY THAT CLAIMS HIGH MORAL CHARACTER. THE SAME PARTY THAT IS LOSING THE WAR ON TERRORISTS.
Islamic militia takes Mogadishu
Mon Jun 5, 2006 2:28 PM EDT
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-06-05T182818Z_01_L05776082_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SOMALIA-COL.XML
Parents’ disgust at Iraq inquest delay
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/63441.html
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Americans see Congress as Unethical, Dishonest
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/12121
Safavian's Wife Talks in Abramoff Probe
Friday June 2, 2006 4:31 PM
AP Photo WX118
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The wife of former Bush administration official David Safavian testified Friday that she reluctantly agreed that he should spend the money for an expensive golf outing with lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5861546,00.html
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Kennedy Steps Back Into Spotlight
Politician Returns After Rehab Stay
POSTED: 6:08 pm EDT June 5, 2006
UPDATED: 6:30 pm EDT June 5, 2006
BOSTON -- He'll take things day to day, but Rep. Patrick Kennedy said that he is ready to resume his public life.
NewsCenter 5's Janet Wu reported that the Rhode Island politician returned to his home state Monday after a month-long rehab stay to fight an addiction to prescription drugs.
Kennedy stepped back into the spotlight, seemingly unguarded, willing to take all questions and responsibility. But are all the embarrassing, personal headlines in his past?
"I can't make that promise. This is a disease of one day at a time," Kennedy said.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/9324296/detail.html
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Gunmen Seize 50 in Iraq Bus Station Raids By QAIS AL-BASHIR , 06.05.2006, 11:51 AM
Gunmen in police uniforms raided bus stations Monday in central Baghdad, kidnapping at least 50 people, including drivers and passengers preparing to travel outside Iraq, an Interior Ministry official said. The attackers also grabbed people working in the area, where several travel agencies are based and buses pick up passengers traveling mostly to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohamedawi said.
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/06/05/ap2793702.html
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After the commercials again.
All DeLay's Children
The Nation: Disciples Of 'The Hammer' Will Carry On His 'De-Legacy'
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/05/opinion/main1680814.shtml
If the toothless lobbying "reform" bill approved by the House and Senate is any indication, we haven't seen the last of the likes of Jack Abramoff or Tom DeLay. DeLay exits Congress June 9, but his influence lives on. His former deputy, Dennis Hastert, remains Speaker of the House. His key liaison to lobbyists on K Street, Roy Blunt, is majority whip. Even John Boehner, a rival from the Gingrich years, retained three DeLay staffers when he became majority leader. More important, the Hammer left many nails behind among the lower tier of House GOP leadership members, committee chairmen, party spokesmen and fundraisers he propelled to power. These are the people who will shape the GOP's agenda for years to come. Here are five disciples who are carrying on DeLay's legacy. Eric Cantor (age 43). A fast-rising third-term Congressman, Cantor distinguished himself as DeLay's "chief defender," according to Roll Call. He was appointed chief deputy majority whip — the fourth-most powerful position in the House — at the ripe age of 39. Cantor became the youngest member of the House leadership after a DeLay staffer recommended he be named Blunt's deputy over a host of older and more qualified candidates. Thus, when DeLay's ethical problems piled up in 2004 and '05, the Virginian held countless press conferences and strategy sessions with conservative activists to protect his leader.
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Court Turns Aside Libby's Request for Many Documents
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/03/washington/03libby.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
THE SAME PARTY THAT CAN'T STAY OUT OF TROUBLE. THE SAME PARTY THAT HAS ENORMOUS PROBLEMS WITH CORRUPTION.
Bush Rallies Gay Marriage Opponents
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/06/05/ap2794756.html
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THE SAME PARTY THAT CLAIMS HIGH MORAL CHARACTER. THE SAME PARTY THAT IS LOSING THE WAR ON TERRORISTS.
Islamic militia takes Mogadishu
Mon Jun 5, 2006 2:28 PM EDT
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-06-05T182818Z_01_L05776082_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SOMALIA-COL.XML
Parents’ disgust at Iraq inquest delay
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/63441.html
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Americans see Congress as Unethical, Dishonest
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/12121
Safavian's Wife Talks in Abramoff Probe
Friday June 2, 2006 4:31 PM
AP Photo WX118
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The wife of former Bush administration official David Safavian testified Friday that she reluctantly agreed that he should spend the money for an expensive golf outing with lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5861546,00.html
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Kennedy Steps Back Into Spotlight
Politician Returns After Rehab Stay
POSTED: 6:08 pm EDT June 5, 2006
UPDATED: 6:30 pm EDT June 5, 2006
BOSTON -- He'll take things day to day, but Rep. Patrick Kennedy said that he is ready to resume his public life.
NewsCenter 5's Janet Wu reported that the Rhode Island politician returned to his home state Monday after a month-long rehab stay to fight an addiction to prescription drugs.
Kennedy stepped back into the spotlight, seemingly unguarded, willing to take all questions and responsibility. But are all the embarrassing, personal headlines in his past?
"I can't make that promise. This is a disease of one day at a time," Kennedy said.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/9324296/detail.html
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Gunmen Seize 50 in Iraq Bus Station Raids By QAIS AL-BASHIR , 06.05.2006, 11:51 AM
Gunmen in police uniforms raided bus stations Monday in central Baghdad, kidnapping at least 50 people, including drivers and passengers preparing to travel outside Iraq, an Interior Ministry official said. The attackers also grabbed people working in the area, where several travel agencies are based and buses pick up passengers traveling mostly to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohamedawi said.
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/06/05/ap2793702.html
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After the commercials again.
All DeLay's Children
The Nation: Disciples Of 'The Hammer' Will Carry On His 'De-Legacy'
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/05/opinion/main1680814.shtml
If the toothless lobbying "reform" bill approved by the House and Senate is any indication, we haven't seen the last of the likes of Jack Abramoff or Tom DeLay. DeLay exits Congress June 9, but his influence lives on. His former deputy, Dennis Hastert, remains Speaker of the House. His key liaison to lobbyists on K Street, Roy Blunt, is majority whip. Even John Boehner, a rival from the Gingrich years, retained three DeLay staffers when he became majority leader. More important, the Hammer left many nails behind among the lower tier of House GOP leadership members, committee chairmen, party spokesmen and fundraisers he propelled to power. These are the people who will shape the GOP's agenda for years to come. Here are five disciples who are carrying on DeLay's legacy. Eric Cantor (age 43). A fast-rising third-term Congressman, Cantor distinguished himself as DeLay's "chief defender," according to Roll Call. He was appointed chief deputy majority whip — the fourth-most powerful position in the House — at the ripe age of 39. Cantor became the youngest member of the House leadership after a DeLay staffer recommended he be named Blunt's deputy over a host of older and more qualified candidates. Thus, when DeLay's ethical problems piled up in 2004 and '05, the Virginian held countless press conferences and strategy sessions with conservative activists to protect his leader.
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DeLay departure will be a deliberately low-key affair By Patrick O’Connor
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) will leave Congress this week with a pronounced lack of fanfare.
The former majority leader ends his almost-24-year congressional career this week when he officially resigns Friday.
The controversial Texan leaves Capitol Hill under a cloud of doubt about the election-year prospects for his Republican colleagues, and his last week in the House promises to be an understated affair.
http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/060606/delay.html
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Who's voting for these people?
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Whistleblower: Ports 'Wide Open' To Illegal Immigrants
POSTED: 7:33 am PDT June 5, 2006
UPDATED: 8:13 am PDT June 5, 2006
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LOS ANGELES -- Illegal immigration is a hot button political issue these days, but a knowledgeable insider from the Customs and Border Protection agency told NBC4's Kelly Mack that his superiors are increasingly cool to the idea of stopping illegal immigation at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/9320316/detail.html
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Decentralization inhibits ability to suppress avian flu
Disease killed 1 personevery 2½ days in May
By MARGIE MASONThe Associated Press
here-->June 04. 2006 10:00AM
Indonesia averaged one human bird flu death every 2½ days in May, putting it on pace to soon surpass Vietnam as the world's hardest-hit country.
The latest death, announced Wednesday, was a 15-year-old boy whose preliminary tests were positive for the H5N1 virus. It comes as international health officials express growing frustration that they must fight Indonesia's bureaucracy as well as the disease.
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060604/REPOSITORY/606040396/1013/48HOURS
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In that last hour I read material on nearly eight different subjects in about nine articles. All were credible journalism and I was able to render opinion on the 'focus' of the CNN propaganda regarding the Marriage Amendment including the polygamist culture which is supposed to encourage the frenzy for a marriage amendment. No one watching Anderson Cooper 360 can make the same claim to being informed.
enough
Saturday, June 3, 2006
Playing into the hands of disaster
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It's doesn't matter what the 'American' experts say, Bush handed the USA Military over to the Iraqi government years ago. He openly stated the USA Military will stay as long as the Iraqi government wants them. That's hideous for a Commander and Chief to turn over 130,000 troops to a still anarchic government. It's completely irresponsible. When the Iraqis took sovereignty back from Bush our military should have left as well. In all honesty, as in the Phillipines or Japan or any other corner of the world, the sovereign country has a right to take custody of those soldiers that broke the law if their investigations lead to indictments. Quite frankly, the Iraqi government doesn't exert their authority to demand jurisdiction over the proceedings including the Generals, The Secretary of Defense and The Commander and Chief.
The issue is in the hands of the Iraq government, not the USA Military. We don't belong in Iraq. We never did. These atrocities did not take place on USA military bases, they occured in the streets of Iraq.
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Abu Ghraib occurred while Bush still owned Iraq after the invasion and is why they all received a slap on the wrist and/or were scapegoated to save USA authority. I don't know a better reason for a central Iraq government except to demand justice for "W"rongful killings.
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John Roberts keeps 'blowing off' the incidents as nothing but politics in both countries. Like what? Do the deaths of people mean anything to him?
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It's doesn't matter what the 'American' experts say, Bush handed the USA Military over to the Iraqi government years ago. He openly stated the USA Military will stay as long as the Iraqi government wants them. That's hideous for a Commander and Chief to turn over 130,000 troops to a still anarchic government. It's completely irresponsible. When the Iraqis took sovereignty back from Bush our military should have left as well. In all honesty, as in the Phillipines or Japan or any other corner of the world, the sovereign country has a right to take custody of those soldiers that broke the law if their investigations lead to indictments. Quite frankly, the Iraqi government doesn't exert their authority to demand jurisdiction over the proceedings including the Generals, The Secretary of Defense and The Commander and Chief.
The issue is in the hands of the Iraq government, not the USA Military. We don't belong in Iraq. We never did. These atrocities did not take place on USA military bases, they occured in the streets of Iraq.
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Abu Ghraib occurred while Bush still owned Iraq after the invasion and is why they all received a slap on the wrist and/or were scapegoated to save USA authority. I don't know a better reason for a central Iraq government except to demand justice for "W"rongful killings.
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John Roberts keeps 'blowing off' the incidents as nothing but politics in both countries. Like what? Do the deaths of people mean anything to him?
I'm not impressed with Cooper's replacement. He tries to 'out class' the cover up by smoothing it over as politics. How irresponsible is that?
I have an assignment for John Roberts. List any and all subjects in Iraq and the USA that are not politics. I doubt people are dying on any side of the war for the case of politics, Mr. Roberts. I am keeping them honest. We should all be so lucky.
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Wow. Jeff put the truth to the test. Incredible journalism. He should be noted by the profession for such a direct approach. Congratulations. That is magnificent journalism. Thank you. He should be recognized for that work. Thank about taking personal responsiblity.1033
Some how I get the feeling that Nigerians don't want foreign oil companies ...
... on their sovereign soil. Imagine that. Go, Nigeria.
Foreign Oilmen Kidnapped In Nigeria
Hostages include 6 Britons, 1 American and 1 Canadian
Published 2006-06-03 08:55 (KST)
Eight offshore oil workers have been kidnapped aboard a drilling rig in the troubled Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The workers, six Britons, one American and one Canadian were reportedly seized during an early Friday (5 a.m) raid on the Bulford Dolphin oil platform by suspected militants fighting for the control of the region's oil resources. The kidnapping, reported June 2, is one in a series of skirmishes between the Nigerian government and oil companies, on the one hand, and armed militants operating in the region on the other. The attackers reportedly arrived in boats, fired shots in the air before seizing the oil workers. The Associated Press quoted an oil spokeswoman as saying that the kidnappers were in contact with local companies and willing to negotiate. The police however said that no one had claimed responsibility and no demands were made. It was reported that work on the oilrig was immediately suspended after the incident.
http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=296359&rel_no=1&back_url=
Foreign Oilmen Kidnapped In Nigeria
Hostages include 6 Britons, 1 American and 1 Canadian
Published 2006-06-03 08:55 (KST)
Eight offshore oil workers have been kidnapped aboard a drilling rig in the troubled Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The workers, six Britons, one American and one Canadian were reportedly seized during an early Friday (5 a.m) raid on the Bulford Dolphin oil platform by suspected militants fighting for the control of the region's oil resources. The kidnapping, reported June 2, is one in a series of skirmishes between the Nigerian government and oil companies, on the one hand, and armed militants operating in the region on the other. The attackers reportedly arrived in boats, fired shots in the air before seizing the oil workers. The Associated Press quoted an oil spokeswoman as saying that the kidnappers were in contact with local companies and willing to negotiate. The police however said that no one had claimed responsibility and no demands were made. It was reported that work on the oilrig was immediately suspended after the incident.
http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=296359&rel_no=1&back_url=
Bush's Motto : Homeland Insecurity, guaranteed to re-elect.
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Yeah, the 'money' of Homeland Security. What? Count the Red Cities, etc., etc., etc. There is something 'hard' to understand? Bush got tired of shelling out money to the Blue Cities. Just that simple. Is San Francisco in there? I didn't check it out.
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Oh, they are great soldier until they try to run for office as Democrats. Then they are just in the way for those that never valued them in the first place. I am sure all the returning Iraqi Veterans running for office this year receive a full backing from CNN and lots of television time. Right?
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Yeah, the 'money' of Homeland Security. What? Count the Red Cities, etc., etc., etc. There is something 'hard' to understand? Bush got tired of shelling out money to the Blue Cities. Just that simple. Is San Francisco in there? I didn't check it out.
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Oh, they are great soldier until they try to run for office as Democrats. Then they are just in the way for those that never valued them in the first place. I am sure all the returning Iraqi Veterans running for office this year receive a full backing from CNN and lots of television time. Right?
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The current storm season isn't that complicated. It's going to be bad, stay out of the way. The real challenge is staying clear of land based storms that are sudden and unexcepted.
enough
Thursday, June 1, 2006
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Bush's military is out of control both internationally and domestically. There are reports from everywhere. Redefining the military war ethic is simply a propaganda tool, no different than the 'ethic course' the White House Staff had to take after the arrest of Lewis Libby.
English-born Moazzam Begg was living in Pakistan with his wife and children when he says he was kidnapped at gunpoint, interrogated, tortured and later imprisoned by U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. Take action in June to end abuses like these.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/
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http://www.themonitor.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=13480&Section=Local
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Hurricane season may not match '05
Associated Press
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The Atlantic hurricane season that officially starts today will be active, but it shouldn't be as destructive as last year's record-setting season, one of the nation's top hurricane forecasters said Wednesday.
The latest forecast from William Gray's team at Colorado State University calls for 17 named storms for the 2006 season. Nine storms are expected to become hurricanes, and five of those are expected to have winds of 111 mph or greater, the forecasters said.
The four big storms that made landfall in 2005 set a record.
"Statistically, the odds of having four major storms make landfall this year are very small," said Phil Klotzbach, a research associate on the team.
http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/06/06/01/100wir_a6hurrfor001.cfm
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Iran isn't using talks to find peace, it's using it as a game to buy time to measure it's opposition and plan attacks against them. No one can accuse the Iranian President of lying, he has to be honest before Allah and makes his plans known regardless it's genocidal intent. Iran has no reason to cause these problems for the world but they'll do it anyway.
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I've seen all I have to. This program attempts to be 'the expert' on everything while propagandizing for Bush. I don't know where Cooper gets the 'estimate that a shrimp boat was carried three miles when the levee and accompanying canal is about 100 feet away. I don't know where that comes from. The shrimp boat was obviously deposted in the splash zone of the nearby canal. ?????
Enough.
Bush's military is out of control both internationally and domestically. There are reports from everywhere. Redefining the military war ethic is simply a propaganda tool, no different than the 'ethic course' the White House Staff had to take after the arrest of Lewis Libby.
English-born Moazzam Begg was living in Pakistan with his wife and children when he says he was kidnapped at gunpoint, interrogated, tortured and later imprisoned by U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. Take action in June to end abuses like these.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/
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Everyone has a different predictions depending on who one talks to, I don't see that prediction is important except it gives the sense of danger that it should.. It's a matter of paying attention as well as having effective evacuation routes. Keep in mind there were record deaths last year. There is possiblity again this year if the danger is played down.
Up to 6 major hurricanes expected June 01,2006 Jennifer C. Smith Monitor Staff Writer
McALLEN — In the words of the late, great actress Bette Davis: "Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be bumpy night."
Or a bumpy few months for the Rio Grande Valley, if 2006 hurricane predictions are accurate.
The Atlantic hurricane season starts today, and National Hurricane Center meteorologists are predicting up to 16 named storms — four to six of them major hurricanes — in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean.
The number is significantly less than last year’s record 28 storms. But, don’t be fooled: Caution is the highest priority.
http://www.themonitor.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=13480&Section=Local
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Hurricane season may not match '05
Associated Press
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The Atlantic hurricane season that officially starts today will be active, but it shouldn't be as destructive as last year's record-setting season, one of the nation's top hurricane forecasters said Wednesday.
The latest forecast from William Gray's team at Colorado State University calls for 17 named storms for the 2006 season. Nine storms are expected to become hurricanes, and five of those are expected to have winds of 111 mph or greater, the forecasters said.
The four big storms that made landfall in 2005 set a record.
"Statistically, the odds of having four major storms make landfall this year are very small," said Phil Klotzbach, a research associate on the team.
http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/06/06/01/100wir_a6hurrfor001.cfm
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Iran isn't using talks to find peace, it's using it as a game to buy time to measure it's opposition and plan attacks against them. No one can accuse the Iranian President of lying, he has to be honest before Allah and makes his plans known regardless it's genocidal intent. Iran has no reason to cause these problems for the world but they'll do it anyway.
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I've seen all I have to. This program attempts to be 'the expert' on everything while propagandizing for Bush. I don't know where Cooper gets the 'estimate that a shrimp boat was carried three miles when the levee and accompanying canal is about 100 feet away. I don't know where that comes from. The shrimp boat was obviously deposted in the splash zone of the nearby canal. ?????
Enough.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Anderson in New Orleans
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The 17th Street Canal
Frankstein is more excited about the show than I am.
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I am not interested in the details of the loss of control by our soldiers. We need to deploy them out of Iraq. They can't break down doors to innocent people's homes without making them the enemy as well. The truth is important to people of faith. These circumstances are not different than Vietnam. The soldiers never knew then whom the enemies were and they don't know now. That also plays into the battleground in Afghanistan. There is too much politics that plays on the battlefield. It's not a good mix and the opposition plays it to their favor. The people of Iraq are tired of dying. Tired of losing family members all the time. It's dehumanizing, truncating and lends itself to surrender. We don't belong anymore.
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About New Orleans. It isn't part of the North American Craton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_craton
Neither is 50% of Texas or any of Florida. The Florida swamps were drained and the people live there. Are we evacuating and abandoning Florida, too? No. So, what makes anyone believe we will abandon New Orleans or the Gulf Coast.
Get over it !
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commercials
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"The Man Cage"
I am sure it's a character building event.
Poor Anderson.
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11 tons? That's all? That's only 22,ooo pounds. What do you think a Mississippi River tanker weights. A tractor trailer fully loaded weighs 80,000 pounds or 40 tons.
Destroyed tractor trailers along gulf coast Highway I-90 as a result of winds and tidal surge from Hurrican Katrina.
Gulfport, Mississippi, October 4, 2005 -fema/illinoisphoto.com- Destroyed tractor trailers along gulf coast Highway I-90 as a result of winds and tidal surge from Hurrican Katrina. Tractor trailers and debri litter this area near the piers in Gulfport, Mississippi.
http://www.katrinadestruction.com/images/v/biloxi_mississippi/17kd183-storage-containers.html
Hello? Let's evacuate the Gulf Coast now.
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The news secretary. No baby names tonight?
What's Nancy doing?
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Nancy actually has good news about women. Congratulations.
Nice.
Go, Nancy.
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There's Ray. That's nice, too. People have an experienced mayor. It's a better idea.
Anderson calm down. Ray isn't nearly as scared of his own life as you are.
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The 17th Street Canal
Frankstein is more excited about the show than I am.
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I am not interested in the details of the loss of control by our soldiers. We need to deploy them out of Iraq. They can't break down doors to innocent people's homes without making them the enemy as well. The truth is important to people of faith. These circumstances are not different than Vietnam. The soldiers never knew then whom the enemies were and they don't know now. That also plays into the battleground in Afghanistan. There is too much politics that plays on the battlefield. It's not a good mix and the opposition plays it to their favor. The people of Iraq are tired of dying. Tired of losing family members all the time. It's dehumanizing, truncating and lends itself to surrender. We don't belong anymore.
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About New Orleans. It isn't part of the North American Craton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_craton
Neither is 50% of Texas or any of Florida. The Florida swamps were drained and the people live there. Are we evacuating and abandoning Florida, too? No. So, what makes anyone believe we will abandon New Orleans or the Gulf Coast.
Get over it !
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commercials
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"The Man Cage"
I am sure it's a character building event.
Poor Anderson.
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1022
11 tons? That's all? That's only 22,ooo pounds. What do you think a Mississippi River tanker weights. A tractor trailer fully loaded weighs 80,000 pounds or 40 tons.
Destroyed tractor trailers along gulf coast Highway I-90 as a result of winds and tidal surge from Hurrican Katrina.
Gulfport, Mississippi, October 4, 2005 -fema/illinoisphoto.com- Destroyed tractor trailers along gulf coast Highway I-90 as a result of winds and tidal surge from Hurrican Katrina. Tractor trailers and debri litter this area near the piers in Gulfport, Mississippi.
http://www.katrinadestruction.com/images/v/biloxi_mississippi/17kd183-storage-containers.html
Hello? Let's evacuate the Gulf Coast now.
1022
The news secretary. No baby names tonight?
What's Nancy doing?
1024
Nancy actually has good news about women. Congratulations.
Nice.
Go, Nancy.
1033
There's Ray. That's nice, too. People have an experienced mayor. It's a better idea.
Anderson calm down. Ray isn't nearly as scared of his own life as you are.
1037
You know Q West doesn't provide personal information to the government..
http://www.qwest.com/index.html
1044
Reconstruction needs to be subsidized. I don't want to hear how the least of us 'Can't do anything about it.' This is the type of project that our taxes should be paying for and not the pitiful pork projects that get rewarded by the Bush White House.
1047
enough
Anderson Cooper is leading Anti-American Rhetoric
1000
I am so tired of the voice of Frankenstein you have no idea.
What impresses me about the violence is that while it educates the Amerccan Public about the atrocities our soldiers have to sustain in this heinous war, it also brings comfort to the enemy. The enemy is reassured when the West is appauled by their hatred. Imagine that, the war that was supposed to stop the terror of The West due to WMD has actually become a tool for the terrorist networks. We don't belong in Iraq.
1020
I've been trying to piece together a riddle about Afghanistan and I can't let the last act of courage by Pat Tillman go by. I realize the entire circumstances are tragic but his actions are not and they jump out at me for the quality warrior he was. He took a 'fellow' Afghan fighter to the top of the hill where gunmen were firing on the caravan which his brother was a part. I can't get over the fact that he was fighting to save his brother yet his first choice as a partner in that act was not a fellow American but an Afghan fighter.
The question in my mind is what is unique about the battlefield in Afghanistan that creates a need of an undeniable American Hero to 'lean'
on a fellow Afghan soldier to save the life of his brother?
The history of the soldiers in Afghanistan creates a puzzle itself. Originally, they were on the same side against another superpower, Russia. They are 'seasoned' in fighting against a disciplined military. They have strategies. Fellow Afghan fighters would know the 'baseline' of the opposition that the Americans would not.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda (or al-Qa'ida, pronounced al-KYE-da) surpassed the IRA and the PLO as the world's most infamous terrorist organization. Al-Qaeda—"the base" in Arabic—is the network of extremists organized by Osama bin Laden.
The Mujahideen
Al-Qaeda has its origins in the uprising against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Thousands of volunteers from around the Middle East came to Afghanistan as mujahideen, warriors fighting to defend fellow Muslims. In the mid-1980s, Osama bin Laden became the prime financier for an organization that recruited Muslims from mosques around the world. These "Afghan Arab" mujahideen, which numbered in the thousands, were crucial in defeating Soviet forces. After the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, bin Laden returned to his native Saudi Arabia. He founded an organization to help veterans of the Afghan war, many of whom went on to fight elsewhere (including Bosnia) and comprise the basis of al-Qaeda. Bin Laden also studied with radical Islamic thinkers and may have already been organizing al-Qaeda when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. Bin Laden was outraged when the government allowed U.S. troops to be stationed in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam. In 1991 he was expelled from Saudi Arabia for anti-government activities.
The Rise of al-Qaeda
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/terror-qaeda.html
1029
Representative Murtha is a soldier from a similar war. I do believe he knows something about Vietnam. There is not much different about that war than Iraq. The leadership in Iraq is non existant no different than the failure of the USA military in Afghanistan. Attacking men who want to 'set the record' straight is not the way of ending violence against American soldiers. Covering up violence against innocent civilians escalates the hatred of the USA.
Anderson has again proven himself to be a well dressed JERK.
1037
Is there a particular reason why the viewership has to be exposed to sexism and racism over someone already wanted by the FBI?
1038
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1045
I am not interested in exploiting the focus of Mr. Jeffs. He needs to turn himself in to the authorities of this country that set the laws he is supposed to live by. He needs to spare his families the pain of confrontation.
1046
I am so tired of the voice of Frankenstein you have no idea.
What impresses me about the violence is that while it educates the Amerccan Public about the atrocities our soldiers have to sustain in this heinous war, it also brings comfort to the enemy. The enemy is reassured when the West is appauled by their hatred. Imagine that, the war that was supposed to stop the terror of The West due to WMD has actually become a tool for the terrorist networks. We don't belong in Iraq.
1020
I've been trying to piece together a riddle about Afghanistan and I can't let the last act of courage by Pat Tillman go by. I realize the entire circumstances are tragic but his actions are not and they jump out at me for the quality warrior he was. He took a 'fellow' Afghan fighter to the top of the hill where gunmen were firing on the caravan which his brother was a part. I can't get over the fact that he was fighting to save his brother yet his first choice as a partner in that act was not a fellow American but an Afghan fighter.
The question in my mind is what is unique about the battlefield in Afghanistan that creates a need of an undeniable American Hero to 'lean'
on a fellow Afghan soldier to save the life of his brother?
The history of the soldiers in Afghanistan creates a puzzle itself. Originally, they were on the same side against another superpower, Russia. They are 'seasoned' in fighting against a disciplined military. They have strategies. Fellow Afghan fighters would know the 'baseline' of the opposition that the Americans would not.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda (or al-Qa'ida, pronounced al-KYE-da) surpassed the IRA and the PLO as the world's most infamous terrorist organization. Al-Qaeda—"the base" in Arabic—is the network of extremists organized by Osama bin Laden.
The Mujahideen
Al-Qaeda has its origins in the uprising against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Thousands of volunteers from around the Middle East came to Afghanistan as mujahideen, warriors fighting to defend fellow Muslims. In the mid-1980s, Osama bin Laden became the prime financier for an organization that recruited Muslims from mosques around the world. These "Afghan Arab" mujahideen, which numbered in the thousands, were crucial in defeating Soviet forces. After the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, bin Laden returned to his native Saudi Arabia. He founded an organization to help veterans of the Afghan war, many of whom went on to fight elsewhere (including Bosnia) and comprise the basis of al-Qaeda. Bin Laden also studied with radical Islamic thinkers and may have already been organizing al-Qaeda when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. Bin Laden was outraged when the government allowed U.S. troops to be stationed in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam. In 1991 he was expelled from Saudi Arabia for anti-government activities.
The Rise of al-Qaeda
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/terror-qaeda.html
1029
Representative Murtha is a soldier from a similar war. I do believe he knows something about Vietnam. There is not much different about that war than Iraq. The leadership in Iraq is non existant no different than the failure of the USA military in Afghanistan. Attacking men who want to 'set the record' straight is not the way of ending violence against American soldiers. Covering up violence against innocent civilians escalates the hatred of the USA.
Anderson has again proven himself to be a well dressed JERK.
1037
Is there a particular reason why the viewership has to be exposed to sexism and racism over someone already wanted by the FBI?
1038
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With high gasoline prices affecting Americans' summer plans, it's time automakers use existing technology to make all of our cars, SUVs, and other light trucks go farther on a gallon of gas. This is the biggest single step to reducing our oil addiction, curbing global warming, and saving YOU money at the pump.
Find out what higher mileage standards could do for both your wallet and the planet by consulting our MPG calculator.
1045
I am not interested in exploiting the focus of Mr. Jeffs. He needs to turn himself in to the authorities of this country that set the laws he is supposed to live by. He needs to spare his families the pain of confrontation.
1046
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