Posted on 05/23/2004 3:37:58 PM PDT by AntiGuv
not yet, no.
#80 !
#80
... "Too much news", yea, bad news. Would welcome some good news That's my problem, I"ll find it...
#80!
Aren't they one in the same network?
QuokkaPerth
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I know, but...
so much crap gets slung around by both poles of the ongoing war for public opinion that it is getting TIRESOME to try to weed through al the "he said/she said" to try to find the hard data with/from which to make up my own mind.
HA! Thanks, that makes perfect sense to me.
I think they're actually using footage from the last Reform Party convention. I swear one of them looked like pat buchanan.
Camel Chit !
Sheherezade was the story teller from the Arabian nights who made up stories to tell the king every night so she could escape execution. That's all I meant, it seemed a little spot on that someone who is repeating the bad guy party line would have the same name as such a historically signiicant elaboratrix.
"My view is that of the Framers of the Constitution."
You don't know jack about the framers. You're just another one of those nut jobs that would sentence this nation to more and more decades of fear. George Bush is the first president in many years to operate on the principle of smashing our enemies before they can destroy us. If you've got a problem with that then I say you're a coward.
Aha...Yes, I know about that Sheherezade. I see what you were saying. Thanks.
Hmmmmmmm
Since las tyear, this reporter has had her/his share of 'quagmire-styled' stories:
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/photos/6503383.htm
Jittery U.S. Soldiers Kill 6 Iraqis
SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI
Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The night air hung like a hot wet blanket over the north Baghdad suburb of Slaykh. At 9 p.m., an electrical transformer blew up, plunging the neighborhood into darkness.
American soldiers, apparently fearing a bomb attack, went on alert. Within 45 minutes, six Iraqis trying to get home before the 11 p.m. curfew were shot and killed by U.S. forces.
Anwaar Kawaz, 36, lost her husband and three of four children. "We kept shouting, 'We're a family! Don't shoot!' But no one listened. They kept shooting," she told The Associated Press. She's expecting another child this month.
When asked about Friday's shootings, Lt. Col. Guy Shields, coalition military spokesman, said, "Our checkpoints are usually marked and our soldiers are trained and disciplined. I will check on that. That is serious."
Confronted by daily guerrilla attacks that have claimed 56 American lives since May 1, U.S. troops are on edge. Iraqis complain that many innocent people have died at surprise U.S. checkpoints thrown up on dark streets shortly before the curfew. Drivers hurrying home say they don't see the soldiers or hear their orders to stop.
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http://www.robincmiller.com/art-iraq/b189.htm
U.S. Troops Accused of Killing Iraqis
Thu, Apr 17, 2003
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI, Associated Press Writer
MOSUL, Iraq - Anarchy and violence in Iraqi's third-largest city have drawn U.S. Marines into confrontations for two straight days, and hospital officials said 17 Iraqis died and at least 17 others were injured.
Hospitals said 14 people died Tuesday, while U.S. officers put the death toll around seven. Three more Iraqis were reported fatally shot Wednesday and 17 wounded.
"They are killing us and no one's talking about it," Zahra Yassin said at a hospital with her wounded son. "We want Saddam back. At least there was security."
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In Samara, Iraqi looters fill void after soldiers withdraw
By SCHEHERAZADE FARAMARZI, ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAMARA, Iraq (AP) - When the U.S. Army unexpectedly withdrew most of its troops from this central Iraq town full of Saddam Hussein loyalists, guerrillas firing machine guns, mortars and grenades overran abandoned U.S. bases, leaving a shaken Iraqi civil defense chief pleading for the Americans' return.
"We cannot handle this on our own," Capt. Ihsan Aziz told The Associated Press after the weekend pullout of U.S. troops.
The redeployment of American troops to a garrison about six miles north of Samara may be a harbinger of things to come in Iraq as the U.S.-led coalition moves to turn over security and more authority to Iraqis inside cities and towns, despite worries by some residents that they're ill-prepared to handle insurgents.
Muslims did worse things in Bosnia and Kosovo.
Gee, I used the magic words. OK, Ronly Bonly Osama come here. Srebrenica, Srebrenica, Srebrenica.
mark
I'm starting to believe that the only "truth" that can exist in the Middle East is that which is dictated by force of arms. And I'm starting to advocate that we simply hire some creative authors to define that truth, and brush all else aside.
Naked twister and a barking dog for Sheherazade.
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