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  • Take a Deep Breath (Iraq)

    04/10/2004 6:16:38 AM PDT · by neverdem · 32 replies · 212+ views
    NY Times ^ | April 10, 2004 | DAVID BROOKS
    Come on people, let's get a grip. This week, Chicken Littles like Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd were ranting that Iraq is another Vietnam. Pundits and sages were spinning a whole series of mutually exclusive disaster scenarios: Civil war! A nationwide rebellion! Maybe we should calm down a bit. I've spent the last few days talking with people who've spent much of their careers studying and working in this region. We're at a perilous moment in Iraqi history, but the situation is not collapsing. We're in the middle of a battle. It's a battle against people who vehemently oppose a...
  • Quagmire and dire quacking

    04/08/2004 11:07:51 PM PDT · by JohnHuang2 · 4 replies · 125+ views
    Washington Times ^ | Friday, April 9, 2004 | By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
    <p>By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.</p> <p>If, as Sen. Teddy Kennedy rumbled recently, Iraq is President George W. Bush's Vietnam, surely the silver-haired senator is becoming Mr. Bush's Jane Fonda.</p> <p>Of course Teddy is not as svelte as Miss Fonda, for he has never been an adept of fad diets, and an aerobics regimen could impair his precarious health. Nonetheless, Teddy is becoming the Fonda of our time. Possibly he will fly off to Falluja to be photographed on a burned-out Humvee or visit Najaf to confer with the scowling Muslim cleric, the Rev. Muqtada al-Sadr. Having become so historically minded, Teddy goes on to call President Bush our era's Richard Nixon.</p>
  • Al Qaeda again threatens America (Thread 3) Daily Terror Threat

    02/05/2004 8:31:17 PM PST · by Mossad1967 · 5,011 replies · 8,961+ views
    World Tribune ^ | Thursday, February 5, 2004
    <p>SANAA, Yemen, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- A purported statement by al-Qaida in Yemen warned Saturday of a "major strike" soon in the United States.</p> <p>The statement, distributed by the Yemeni Tagamoo Party for Reforms, said: "A major strike, a big event will take place in America soon," reminiscent of the Sept. 11 attacks.</p>
  • Richardson To Protect Otero Mesa (NM, to prevent oil and gas drilling)

    02/01/2004 11:49:00 AM PST · by CedarDave · 28 replies · 241+ views
    The Albuquerque Journal ^ | February 1, 2004 | Tania Soussan
    Sunday, February 1, 2004 Richardson To Protect Otero Mesa Gov. Bill Richardson pledged Saturday that the state will do all it can to protect Otero Mesa from oil and gas development, including protesting a federal plan for the area and making life tougher for drillers.     "The federal government just got a notice that if they want to drill in Otero Mesa, this governor and this state are going to fight them," Richardson told a cheering crowd of more than 600 people at the KiMo Theatre in Downtown Albuquerque.     The U.S. Bureau of Land Management earlier this month released...
  • Hill Cool to Bush Immigration Plan

    01/10/2004 9:33:03 PM PST · by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle · 183 replies · 580+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 1/11/04 | Helen Dewar
    President Bush's proposal to give temporary legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants is running into stiff resistance from both left and right on Capitol Hill and stands little chance of enactment this year, according to supporters and opponents. While this assessment is based on early responses, with the lobbying effort barely begun, some lawmakers say the measure's only chance of passage this year would require an all-out push by the president, and even that might not be enough.
  • Question About Flight Simulator Brings Visit From Police

    01/09/2004 3:37:55 PM PST · by The Magical Mischief Tour · 128 replies · 212+ views
    Question about flight simulator brings visit from police By VIRGINIA RAY Recorder Staff COLRAIN - An innocent inquiry to a Staples store clerk about a computer software program that teaches how to fly an airplane by instrumentation brought a surprise visit this holiday season to a local family from the state police. "At first, I felt a little angry and violated" about someone telling authorities about her inquiry, said Julie Olearcek, a 15-year Air Force Reserve pilot. "But now that time has gone by, I realize it may take someone like that, who's a little nervous, who may save the...
  • CHICKEN LITTLE POLITICIAN GETS SKEWERED

    01/01/2004 2:47:01 AM PST · by JohnHuang2 · 28 replies · 904+ views
    New York Post ^ | Thursday, January 1, 2004 | By STEFAN C. FRIEDMAN and JOE McGURK
    <p>BLUE ALERT: A cop searches a young woman arriving at Times Square last night before the festivities.</p> <p>January 1, 2004 -- Mayor Bloomberg yesterday questioned the character of a congressman who said he wouldn't spend New Year's Eve in Times Square because of fear over a terrorist attack.</p>
  • The Story Gets Worse (NYT Opinion Alert)

    12/13/2003 6:47:02 AM PST · by diotima · 40 replies · 196+ views
    The New Yawk Times ^ | 12/13/2003 | NYT team of crack reporters
    Isn't this about where we did not want to be at this point? While the Bush administration says things are going well in Iraq, the news from the American-led occupation is looking like a catalog of easily predictable, and widely predicted, pitfalls. Frustrated by suicide bombings and guerrilla violence, American military officers resort to the kind of harsh tactics that have caused endless ill will in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unable to develop reliable intelligence of its own, the administration has authorized the creation of an internal Iraqi spy agency, which will recruit former Iraqi military and intelligence officials to find...
  • Returning troll Zotted: War on Terror is unwinnable (MAJOR BARF ALERT)

    11/22/2003 8:23:18 AM PST · by HomerSimpson2003 · 99 replies · 484+ views
    The Guardian ^ | 11/22/03 | Jonathan Steele
    A war that can never be won Terrorism is a technique, not an enemy state that can be defeated Jonathan Steele Saturday November 22, 2003 The Guardian The bombast has increased with the bombs. We saw two disturbing escalations this week. The explosions that devastated the British consulate and the HSBC bank in Istanbul mark a significant widening in the choice of targets by those Islamist radicals who use terror to express their hatred of British and US policy in Iraq and the Middle East. The Blair/Bush response reached an equally alarming new level of ferocity. At their swaggering joint...
  • Press panics over Iraq

    11/10/2003 8:49:45 AM PST · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 18 replies · 252+ views
    NY Daily ^ | 11/10/03 | Stanley Crouch
    When I look at the coverage of casualties in Iraq, I am happy that the same kind of media and the same style of journalism were not in place 150 years ago. I say that because I'm not sure the media of today would have allowed President Abraham Lincoln the time he needed to find Gen. Ulysses Grant, who revamped the Union war effort and commenced putting his foot in the backside of the Confederate Army. The Rebel army won many early battles in the cause of making sure that Southern gallantry, plantation life and refined manners rolled over the...
  • America the beautiful: Hal Lindsey hails U.S. for helping Iraq while others withdraw

    10/29/2003 11:41:38 PM PST · by JohnHuang2 · 6 replies · 152+ views
    WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, October 30, 2003 | Hal Lindsey
    America the beautiful Posted: October 30, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The International Red Cross announced its decision to further cut back operations in Iraq following the latest terrorist attack against its Baghdad headquarters. The IRC announcement came on the heels of a United Nations' decision to do the same thing for the same reason. Doctors Without Borders also decided to leave the Iraqis to fend for themselves. And at the International Donor's Conference in Madrid, most of the world made the same decision. While the Russians offered to "invest" $4 billion in Iraq, Moscow didn't offer any direct aid. The...
  • After yet another bloody day in Iraq, Bush may have to cut and run

    10/29/2003 6:51:30 AM PST · by dead · 39 replies · 116+ views
    Sydney Morning Herald ^ | October 30, 2003 | Marian Wilkinson
    After yet another bloody day in Iraq, US President George Bush dropped his enthusiastic message that the latest wave of attacks was evidence of just how much "progress" was being made in bringing freedom to the country. Bush's Democratic opponents had been scathing when he proffered this view on Monday following the death of nearly 40 Iraqis and one American in a wave of suicide bombings that also left about 230 wounded. "If this is progress, I don't know how much progress we can take," Senator Tom Daschle retorted. In a hastily called news conference, Bush instead stressed that the...
  • New York Times illogical Iraqi stance

    10/26/2003 9:38:02 PM PST · by Gdzine · 3 replies · 116+ views
    New York Times ^ | October 26, 2003 | ALEX BERENSON
    U.S. Case for Helping Iraq Suffers a Setback The rocket attack on a Baghdad hotel being used by the deputy defense secretary was a serious setback for the administration.
  • Whay Are We Back In Vietnam [Frank Rich Quagmire Alert]

    10/26/2003 8:49:11 AM PST · by timpad · 9 replies · 159+ views
    The New York Times ^ | October 26, 2003 | Frank Rich
    FRANK RICHWhy Are We Back in Vietnam?Published: October 26, 2003 n his now legendary interview last month with Brit Hume of Fox News, George W. Bush explained that he doesn't get his news from the news media — not even Fox. "The best way to get the news is from objective sources," the president said, laying down his utopian curriculum for Journalism 101. "And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world." Those sources? Condoleezza Rice and Andrew Card. Mr. Hume, helpfully dispensing with the "We Report" half of...
  • Novak: War is worrying Republicans

    10/20/2003 6:14:36 AM PDT · by Brian S · 21 replies · 160+ views
    October 20, 2003 BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST The defeat on Iraq aid that the Senate handed President Bush on Thursday, when normally dependable supporters defected, was presaged four days earlier when the respected Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called on Bush to act more like a president. Sen. Richard Lugar's comments, unexpected in their bluntness, conveyed a major political message. Members of the president's party are really worried about the war. Lugar's stance on NBC's ''Meet the Press'' was the exception among Republicans in openly implying Bush is not in control. Nevertheless, GOP senators returned from...
  • The Democrats Take A Leak

    10/02/2003 5:42:48 AM PDT · by kattracks · 6 replies · 295+ views
    CNSNews.com ^ | 10/02/03 | Ron Marr
    If I were to ever contribute money to the Democratic Party, I would earmark the funds to go specifically toward acting lessons. In recent days, the Democratic tendency to lie, obfuscate and create mountains out of molehills has taken on an especially amusing quality. There is the gnashing of teeth and yanking of hair; however, the giant chompers are of the plastic Halloween variety and the hair is a cheap toupee. There is feigned outrage, but even those lefty members of Congress seeking to convey million-watt angst don't seem to believe what they are saying. It is the "Chicken Little...
  • General Clark says he'd relieve Rumsfeld of his command. (Barracks Emporer Alert!!)

    09/28/2003 8:50:37 AM PDT · by .cnI redruM · 41 replies · 279+ views
    PoliticsNH.com ^ | Sept. 27 | By JAMES W. PINDELL and SAM YOUNGMAN
    NEW CASTLE, -- Gen. Wesley Clark, told a New Hampshire audience Friday night he had only fired one person in his life. On Saturday he said he wanted to fire a second person: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. When asked at a house party on the Seacoast about what he would do in Iraq if elected president today, he was met with applause when he said, "First of all I would change the Secretary of Defense. Then I would go to the commanders of the ground and go to Iraq myself personally and I would develop an exit strategy that...
  • HEADLINES FROM TOMORROW'S 'NEW YORK TIMES' -- "The Sky is falling, the sky is falling..."

    09/22/2003 6:49:57 AM PDT · by clintonbaiter · 4 replies · 130+ views
    Iconoclast.ca ^ | Yale Kramer
    For those who do not see The New York Times regularly, the Sunday, September 21, 2003, front page had seven stories on it. One had news content, and six had the usual Times' Henny Penny stories -- reports that are not about news or events but about social issues or trends that worry, or warn, or whine, or caution, or fear, usually expressing a black, or gay, or womens', or disapproving Euro point of view. To save you the trouble of picking up the Times in the future, here are some typical stories that might appear in that shameful publication's...
  • Why Iraq is not like Vietnam

    09/02/2003 8:45:27 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 12 replies · 645+ views
    Christian Science Monitor ^ | August 27, 2003 | John Hughes
    In the wake of last week's terrorist attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, and the continuing killing of American soldiers, the doomsayers are suggesting that the dreaded "Q" word - "Q" for quagmire - now hangs like a specter over US involvement in Iraq. Is Iraq to become another Vietnam, bogging down American troops indefinitely, and leading to abject withdrawal? Let's hope not. The success or failure of the American venture in Iraq has enormous consequences for the future of the Arab world, the foreign policy of the US, and the political fate of George Bush. The fact...
  • Liberal arguments: Still a quagmire

    08/28/2003 5:31:52 PM PDT · by .cnI redruM · 10 replies · 161+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | August 28, 2003 | Ann Coulter
    Liberals are hopping mad about the war with Iraq. Showing the nuance and complexity of thought liberals pride themselves on, they are excitedly restating all the arguments they made before the war – arguments which were soundly rejected by the American people, the U.S. Congress and the Bush administration. Before the war, they said Saddam Hussein – their favorite world leader behind Jacques Chirac – was not a threat to America's interests in the region, was not developing weapons of mass destruction, and did not harbor terrorists. Now that we've taken the country and are uncovering mass graves, canisters of...