Posted on 01/28/2007 5:05:56 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
Proper etiquette here is to ping the person you're naming in a post.
You do a great job.
tagline line change :0)
Yes, and he will need money to come to him through that site. ;)
Adlai Stevenson
Hmm yes that is true. But it was still a Senator vrs Senator type of election. The one consistant thing since FDR seems to be the one who can sell themselves as the Washington DC outsider to the country wins.
Also Sunday, U.S. troops captured 21 suspected terrorists including an al-Qaida courier in a series of raids in Baghdad and Sunni areas north and west of the capital, the U.S. command said. Three of the suspects were believed to have close ties to the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq, the military said.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/01/apiraq070128/
Also on the thread:
FR thread Mortars hit Iraqi girls' school; 5 dead
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1775057/posts
SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Mortar shells rained down Sunday on a girls' secondary school in a mostly Sunni area of western Baghdad, killing five pupils and wounding 20, witnesses and police said. At least seven other people died in a series of bombings and shootings across the capital, mostly in Shiite areas.
Elsewhere, Iraqi troops backed by U.S. helicopters battled insurgents 12 miles northeast of the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Iraqi officials said. Provincial Gov. Assad Sultan Abu Klil said a U.S. helicopter went down during the fighting, but U.S. officials would not confirm the report.
Klil said the operation was launched after reports that insurgents planned to assassinate Shiite clerics and pilgrims during the Ashoura festival, which reaches its climax Tuesday.
Two car bombs exploded within a half-hour of each other in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, killing a total of 11 people and wounding 34, police Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qader said. The first blast, which killed six and wounded 19, occurred at a popular car market and the second went off near a restaurant.
Also Sunday, U.S. troops captured 21 suspected terrorists including an al-Qaida courier in a series of raids in Baghdad and Sunni areas north and west of the capital, the U.S. command said. Three of the suspects were believed to have close ties to the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq, the military said.
The U.S. military also reported the deaths of three more American service members — all on Saturday. A Marine died from wounds suffered in fighting in Anbar province, a stronghold of Sunni insurgents, and two soldiers were fatally injured in separate bombings in the Baghdad area, the military said.
Sunday's mortar attack occurred about 11 a.m. at the Kholoud Secondary School in the Adil neighborhood of western Baghdad, police and school officials said. Several projectiles exploded in the courtyard, shattering windows and spraying pupils with glass. AP Television News footage showed blood smeared on the stone steps and walkways.
Hours after the attack, grieving parents wept as the bodies of the victims were placed inside wooden coffins. Police said four girls were killed instantly and a fifth died later. AP television footage showed the fin from one of the mortars lying in a walkway.
The area has been the scene of reprisal attacks by Sunni and Shiite extremists that have persisted as U.S. and Iraqi soldiers prepare for a security crackdown. A Sunni group, the General Conference of the People of Iraq, accused Shiite militias and said the markings on the mortars indicated they were manufactured in Iran.
More than 150 people, mostly Shiites, have died in bomb attacks in the last week as the majority Islamic sect in Iraq celebrates a 10-day festival leading up to Ashoura, the holiest date in the Shiite calendar.
Elsewhere, a bomb exploded about 7:30 a.m. in a minibus carrying passengers to a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad on Sunday, killing one and wounding five, police said.
The explosive device was hidden in a bag left by a passenger who got off the bus before it detonated in the Baladiyat neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. The bus was heading to the adjacent Shiite district of Sadr City, which has been targeted several times in the past.
A parked car bomb exploded in an intersection near an outdoor market in Sadr City about five hours later, killing at least four people, two of them women, and wounding 39, police said. The sprawling Shiite slum is a stronghold of the Mahdi Army that is loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and has blamed for much of the country's spiraling violence.
About five minutes later, a bomb hidden in a bag exploded in an outdoor market in the Baiyaa neighborhood in western Baghdad, an area that is mostly Shiite, although a significant number of Sunnis live there. At least two people were killed and 17 wounded, including two children, police said.
Outside the capital, a car bomb exploded near a mosque in the Sunni city of Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding four, police said.
Iran, meanwhile, closed several border crossings with Iraq for Ashoura, which culminates on Tuesday with processions and ceremonies, including self flagellation, to mark the Shiite saint Imam Hussein's death in a battle.
Iranian state television said the crossings were closed to "contain the large number of pilgrims" bound for the Shiite holy city of Karbala in southern Iraq who were planning to cross into Iraq without "legal documents." The report indicated that not all border crossings had been closed and that some pilgrims were allowed through elsewhere.
Also Sunday, drive-by shooters killed a high-ranking Shiite official at the Iraqi industry and mines ministry, along with his 27-year-old daughter and two other people.
Insurgents have frequently targeted high-ranking Iraqi officials who are seen as collaborators with the U.S. forces. Last Wednesday, Iraq's higher education minister, a Sunni, escaped an assassination attempt after gunmen opened fire on his motorcade as he was traveling in southern Baghdad, killing one of his guards and seriously wounding another.
Was is Adlai Stevenson?
I realize, from your sig line, that you support Hunter. I have no problem with that nor do I write him off because of it. I was considering the office of the presidency since FDR, which I believe better represents the current aspects of the politics, the office and the parties, etc. My comment is not about Hunter but any representative in general.
Are you seeing dollar signs in your mind for Hunter? LOL I can't say enough good things about Hunter and hope the GOP is smart enough to come around to realizing he would make the strongest case and make Hillary, Obama, etc. look extremely foolish.
Posted at 1:11pm on Jan. 28, 2007
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - The Review
(In which Joe Biden saves the world.)
By Mark Kilmer
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Two of the 9 o'clock shows led with conservatives seeking the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination. Mike Huckabee (MTP) is going to file papers on Monday. He said that his religion explains who he is, and that candidates who say that their religion won't influence their decision-making are saying that their beliefs are insignificant. Sam Brownback (FNS) would not answer the question of whether or not a Mormon is a true Christian; rather, he pointed out that this country has no religious test for office.Joe Lieberman told Wallace on FNS that he remains allied with the Democratic Party because they are progressive and strong on defense. Strong on defense? It sounds like they've changed from what Joe remembers, and is he trying to tell us something? Or to dangle a threat?
In the din which Russert called a discussion, Chuckie Schumer pointed out that 70% of Americans surveyed by someone oppose sending more troops to Iraq. He declared this "democracy," and I suppose he still doesn't understand why the United States is a republic. Schumer also said that the Democrats voted to approve General Petraeus while opposing his plan because they have no business interfering with the President's decisions on commanders. (I'm still shaking my head. I need a transcript.) He called the President's plan, "A Flop."
On TW, Dick Lugar said that the resolutions would not be helpful and we should give the President's plan a chance to succeed. Joe Biden said that merely by introducing his resolution, he's created great changes in the nature of the world and its condition, and that it is not important if his resolution ultimately fails. What is important is the debate he has started. He's going to announce for President on Wednesday and he can win because Jimmy Carter was an incompetent boob with no experience who got this country into trouble with foreign nations.
On FTN, Jim Webb says that in Iraq, we have a "five-sided problem." He could have been referring to the Pentagon, though he wasn't explicit. Same show, Arlen Specter said he opposes the surge and might like to see a cut in funding, along the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam model. (He named the countries as his precedent.) Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said he doesn't see any of the proposed resolutions getting the 60 votes needed to pass.
On LE, Jay Rockefeller said that if we fail in Iraq, they'll just go on killing each other, Jon Kyl characterized the results of a failure in Iraq as much worse and left open that he might consider sending more than the initial 21,000 troops.
There's more. Read More for the show-by-show discussion.
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As always a very good review. Excellent show by show info at the link.
Excellent!
I think I don't want to read anything from the slanted pen of SAMEER N. YACOUB, an AP terrorist sympathizer, again.
I thought I saw a FNC scroll that 250 insurgents were killed in battles today.
She says.....she's used to dealing with evil bad men...a pause.......Osama bin laden......another pause.....then she says....and in my personal life, I have had evil bad men...........then laughter from the audience.
Can she really have equated OBL and slick willie?
U.S./Iraqi Forces kill 250 TERRORISTS in Major Battle in Najaf!
Iraqi forces with US backup,...one of our chopters downed....tanks there also.
No telling what she will say next.
A trip was organized after 9/11 to visit NYC.
Believe it or not there were many who had never visited NY.
This does not build confidence in the decisions these people make on behalf of the American people.
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