http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200704/POL20070412a.html
“Gold Star Dad Says Anti-War Dems ‘Too Busy’ to Meet Him”
By Nathan Burchfiel
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
April 12, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “(CNSNews.com) - Leading Democratic proponents of setting a timetable for pulling troops out of Iraq have refused to meet with the father of a dead soldier who believes a withdrawal would mean his son’s life was “wasted.”
Army SSG Joshua Hager was wounded near Ramadi when an improvised explosive device blew up under his vehicle on Feb. 22, 2007. He died the next day from his injuries.
Hager’s father, Kris Hager, wants opponents of the war to rethink their position because he believes ending U.S. involvement would mean his son’s life was wasted there.
“How do I tell my grandson his father’s life was wasted by Congress?” Hager said in an email.
Hager told Cybercast News Service that information he’s received from his son’s commanders led him to believe the bomb that killed Joshua originated in Iran. He believes withdrawing troops from Iraq will weaken the United States’ ability to pressure Iran to stop supplying insurgent forces with weapons.
The U.S. military and President Bush have accused Iran of supplying money, weapons and ammunition to Iraqi insurgents, resulting in more sophisticated and deadly bombs. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has denied the allegations.
Hager has tried — without success — to schedule meetings or phone calls with some of the leading proponents of a military withdrawal, including Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania.”
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27846
“The Clinton Syndrome”
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 13, 2007
North Korea has already missed today’s deadline.
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April 13, 2007 2:20 AM
“Paying Nuclear Tribute to North Korea
Plutonium in our time.”
By Claudia Rosett
When does President Bush wake up and smell the debacle cooking at his own State Department under the name of a “denuclearization” deal with North Korea? Thanks to U.S. backflips linked to this February 13 agreement, North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Il, while still clinging to his nukes, has now regained access to some $25 million in funds frozen until this week at Banco Delta Asia in Macau. There is plenty of reason to worry that along with the money, Kim has effectively secured from the U.S. a free pass for some of North Korea’s global crime and weapons rackets.
Cut through the diplo-speak, and the stark message to rogue regimes everywhere — notably Iran — is not only that nuclear blackmail pays, but America will help deliver the cash. In one of the most astounding, foolhardy, and humiliating episodes of U.S. foreign policy in recent years, the entire world has just witnessed Washington — at the urging of State Department envoy Christopher Hill — dispatching some of its ace terrorist-money trackers to Beijing, not to shut down the bad guys, but to hustle frozen funds as fast as possible back into the hands of Kim Jong Il.”