The anchor urged the officials to finish writing the document after telling Iraqis that Saddam Hussein's police state would never return, words that failed to soothe another caller.Read More......
"Instead of Saddam we now have thousands of Saddams," he fumed.
"...[Bin Laden's] prolonged stay in Afghanistan - where hundreds of 'Arab mujahedeen' receive terrorist training and key extremist leaders often congregate - could prove more dangerous to U.S. interests in the long run than his three-year liaison with Khartoum," in Sudan.Good, solid analysis. But when it comes to smoking guns, that doesn't even begin to compare to:
BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO ATTACK INSIDE THE UNITED STATESOr we could blame Reagan for training and arming Bin Laden in the first place. But keep trying, far right. Maybe we'll all forget the worst terrorist attack in US history happened on Bush's watch and he responded by failing to catch Bin Laden and then invading a country that had nothing to do with it. Then again, maybe we won't forget. Read More......
Taft's problems surfaced in connection with Thomas W. Noe, a prominent Republican campaign contributor who managed failed rare-coin investments for the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation. Taft appointed Noe to the Ohio Board of Regents and Ohio Turnpike Commission. Noe resigned from both jobs in the wake of the coin scandal.Read More......
"We feel you either have to fight this war right or get out," Rosemary Palmer, mother of Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder II, said Tuesday.23 year old Edward was one of those soldiers from Ohio, the ones celebrated and mourned at a service attended by thousands, one of the soldiers Bush couldn't be bothered to mourn himself in person or even send a representative. Nice. Read More......
"This is not a major story. It's a crappy little crime and it may not be a crime at all." -Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen this morning on Valerie Plame’s outingOn Bush lying about the justification for going to war in Iraq:
Cohen said that everybody got it wrong, that reporters are not CIA agents, and that you have to rely on your sources. "I don't fault reporters for getting it wrong," he said.See, now here's the funny part. I'm a reporter, a writer, an activist, and many other things. And I didn't "get it wrong" like Richard Cohen apparently did. I totally got that something didn't add up BEFORE the war in Iraq started. I remember telling many people that the fact that the rationale for going to war in Iraq had changed, oh, 27 times (literally) had me a bit concerned. I remember telling them that I supported going into Afghanistan but Iraq smelled fishy - Bush didn't have a clear reason for going in and something didn't smell quite right.
"I appreciate all their help, but their help is going to have to diminish and go to the sidelines, so it's going to have to get back to a mom sitting in a chair waiting for George Bush," she said in an interview Tuesday. Of those who suggest that her personal tragedy has become a political rallying point, she says, "I kind of see their point that this was a grass-roots thing that grew into a monster...."Part of her reason for saying this? Sheehan is a human being, a grieving mother, and the relentless nasty attacks from the far right are naturally taking their toll.
"The media focused more on me and not the message," she says. "I'm not the only one that wants answers."
She admits she also has a more selfish motive for wanting to move out of the spotlight. "Maybe if they focus on the message, the right-wingers will leave the messenger alone a little bit," she says.Read More......
Maine is in the midst of its third referendum campaign in eight years to decide if gays should be given broad civil rights protections. And while the measure has nothing to do with same-sex marriage, conservatives are warning Maine could go the way of Massachusetts if gays are given more rights.And these people call themselves Christians. They are frauds. Maine's law is about prohibiting discrimination. Period.
"Absolutely," said Michael Heath, executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine, embracing the gay marriage connection. "This vote in November either sends us toward it or points us away from it."
Antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, is moving her camp closer to President George W. Bush's Texas ranch.The property owner, Fred Mattlage, told Cindy he supports what she is doing. Read More......
The piece of private property was offered by a relative of a man who had a fired shotgun in frustration over the protests, a source in the Sheehan camp said. The property owner is also a veteran.
"A neighbour of President Bush's has offered us his land," the source said. "It's got plenty of acreage for us, it's private land, we would have legal permission to be on it, it's much closer to the ranch -- in fact it's across the street from his (Bush's) church."
"We have taken him up on his offer," the source added.
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