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Americans in Afghanistan are being warned to stay away from the Kabul airport due to terror threats tied to the Islamic State. The US Embassy in Kabul sent out an alert early Thursday, Afghanistan time, telling US citizens not to travel to the airport “because of security threats outside the gates. [snip] The State Department security alert also told Americans who where at three specific airport gates to “leave immediately,” without further explanation. [snip] “US citizens who are at the Abbey Gate, East Gate, or North Gate now should leave immediately,” it added.

2003 STATE OF THE UNION For three years, we have heard lies from the Democrats and from their willing accomplices in the MSM. It has been a non-stop assault. They have been emboldening our enemies because all they care about is their own power. On Sean Hannity radio, the bloated drunken lifeguard Senator from Massachusetts actually said - "We were told we would find nuclear weapons." Here is an excerpt of what was really said. Read the entire speech again, and you will see why the President had no choice after the attack on 9-11. The Dems had a...

In recent weeks, a debate has raged over the phrase "imminent threat." Many liberal critics have asserted that a central claim in President Bush's case for war in Iraq was that Iraq posed an "imminent threat." They argue that it's now clear that no such threat existed, and thus the President's argument has been revealed as deceptive or illegitimate. Conservatives retort that Bush never actually used the phrase and in fact specifically used language indicating that the threat was not imminent on several occasions. As a factual matter, conservatives are largely correct and liberal critics and journalists are guilty of...

After the release of the Iraq Survey Group's Duelfer report, the headlines blazed "No WMD Found." ...This reflects the notion that Iraq was only a threat if it had military munitions filled with WMD. The claim "Iraq was not an imminent threat" was also expounded by pundits that seemingly crawled out of the woodwork as well as those opposed to President Bush. But have these individuals read carefully the report...? While no facilities were found producing chemical or biological agents on a large scale, many clandestine laboratories operating under the Iraqi Intelligence Services were found to be engaged in small-scale...

President Bush's State of the Union Address Jan 28, 2003 [snip] "Twelve years ago, Saddam Hussein faced the prospect of being the last casualty in a war he had started and lost. To spare himself, he agreed to disarm of all weapons of mass destruction. For the next 12 years, he systematically violated that agreement. He pursued chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, even while inspectors were in his country. Nothing to date has restrained him from his pursuit of these weapons -- not economic sanctions, not isolation from the civilized world, not even cruise missile strikes on his military facilities."...

THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE KERRY'S "GLOBAL TEST" FOR PREEMPTION:WHY SECURITY MOMS WILL VOTE FOR BUSH WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA   by Mia T, 10.01.04   BUSH: I WILL ACT PREEMPTIVELY TO PROTECT AMERICA (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) KERRY: I WILL REQUIRE 'A GLOBAL TEST' TO ACT PREEMPTIVELY (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) LEHRER: New question. Two minutes, Senator Kerry. What is your position on the whole concept of preemptive war? KERRY: The president always has the right, and always has had the right, for preemptive strike. That was a...

HEAR THE FIRST VEEP DEBATE NOW! (the whole ball of wax) CHENEY WARNS AMERICA: THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT OUR SURVIVAL KERRY-EDWARDS TRIES TO SHUT DOWN DEBATE   WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA   by Mia T, 9.09.04   CHENEY WARNS AMERICA: THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT OUR SURVIVAL (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) KERRY-EDWARDS TRIES TO SHUT DOWN 'SURVIVAL' DEBATE (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) "It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today on November 2nd, we make the right choice because if we make the wrong choice, the danger is that...

kerry + "imminent threat" RUSH HAS IT WRONG by Mia T, 8.18.04 The addition in John Kerry's latest speech, that a Commander-in-Chief Kerry will act against an imminent threat, is nothing new. Acting against an imminent threat is consistent with the old neo-neoliberal/Soros doctrine; it is not consistent with the Bush Doctrine. Gathering threat, not imminent threat, is the Bush Doctrine operative phrase. Indeed, the left criticized George Bush precisely because the threat was not imminent. Remember, President Bush said that if we wait until the threat is imminent, we will have waited too long. Kerry is Unfit #10:...

The VP candidate once called Saddam Hussein's Iraq an "imminent threat." What will he say tonight?According to previews of John Edwards's much-anticipated speech tonight, the junior senator from North Carolina will attempt to establish his foreign policy bona fides. At the center of the address, naturally, will be Iraq. The issue will be a tricky one for Edwards. Along with Senator Joseph Lieberman, Edwards was an unapologetic defender of the war throughout the Democratic primaries, even as John Kerry began his efforts to distance himself from his support of the war-efforts that culminated in Kerry's embrace of the "antiwar" label....

Edwards urged military action on Iraq instead of North Korea with John King, who was subbing for Wolf Blitzer....... KING: Senator Edwards, when discussing the North Korean problem, the president wants to confront the regime, deal with its own missiles program plus its exports. There is not a reasonable military option when it comes to North Korea is there? EDWARDS: Well, I don't think we're focused on military options right now, John. I think it was important, in answer to your last question, it was important for the president to go to the region. I think he did help alleviate...

Wendell Goler, on tonights "Special Report with Brit Hume" has John Edwards on CNN claiming that Iraq was an imminent threat!!The President never used those words, but Johnny the Ambulance Chaser did!!

Outside view: Kennedy vs. Kennedy By Mark Q. Rhoads A UPI Outside View Commentary Published 1/31/2003 7:57 PM WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- More than 40 years ago in October 1962, 30-year-old Edward Moore Kennedy was a first-time candidate for U.S. senator from Massachusetts. He was running for the seat previously held by an older brother, President John F. Kennedy. During that month, with the congressional election only weeks away, President Kennedy unilaterally justified an act of war -- a blockade -- against Cuba. The reason given was that Cuba had accepted delivery and had deployed new missiles from the...

In politics the next best thing to a true friend is an overzealous enemy, for which reason British Prime Minister Tony Blair and George W. Bush are doubly blessed. They became friends indeed when they joined together to topple Saddam Hussein and both are better off for a domestic opposition that always reaches for too much. In Blair's case, that opposition includes the once prestigious British Broadcasting Corporation. During the Iraq war, BBC reporting was jaundiced and sometimes vehemently anti-American. That's OK, provided the "Beeb" didn't mind sacrificing its reputation as an honest broker of information. But it is a...

How dare George W. Bush now claim he never said Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to the United States.     Listen to this quote from 2002 on the danger posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction:     "I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."     Oops. Actually, that wasn't George W. Bush. It was John F. Kerry explaining why he was going to vote for the congressional resolution authorizing the use of force against Saddam's regime in Iraq.     Mr. Kerry now explains he wasn't really...

CIA Director George Tenet said in a speech Thursday that his agency never contended that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction were an imminent threat, and Senator John Kerry then exploded as if he were himself a weapon of mass destruction. "They (the Bush administration) said Iraq posed a 'mortal threat,' an 'urgent threat,' an 'immediate threat,' a 'serious threat,' and yes, an 'imminent threat' to the people of the United States," said the Democratic presidential candidate in what a news account describes as a prepared statement. Given that Bush-is-a-liar outburst, it would seem time, for the sake of perspective...

THE Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, my hometown newspaper, unintentionally broke some news on its website last Thursday after Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet defended his agency in a speech at Georgetown University. "In his first public defense of prewar intelligence, CIA Director George Tenet said today that U.S. analysts never claimed Iraq was an 'imminent threat,' the main argument used by President Bush for going to war." I followed the debate over the Iraq war closely and wrote about it extensively. Yet somehow I missed what, according to the Journal-Sentinel, was the "main argument" for the war: an "imminent threat" from...

Dispel the Imminence Myth - What YOU Can Do Right Now! Enough is enough!  We can stop the media lies right now -- or at least let them know that people are on to them.  If you are unfamiliar with the Imminence Myth, click here.  Every FReeper has to FReep the following email to the email list below.  It is a long list, so I have broken it up into three sections.  Please send to each section.The email reads as follows: Subject: Important Fact CorrectionDear Sirs,Please note that your company has (and continues) to misquote President Bush, to his prejudice.  This...

What the Bush administration really said about the threat from Iraq. THE Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, my hometown newspaper, unintentionally broke some news on its website last Thursday after Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet defended his agency in a speech at Georgetown University. "In his first public defense of prewar intelligence, CIA Director George Tenet said today that U.S. analysts never claimed Iraq was an 'imminent threat,' the main argument used by President Bush for going to war." I followed the debate over the Iraq war closely and wrote about it extensively. Yet somehow I missed what, according to the Journal-Sentinel,...

Bush’s ‘Imminent Threat’ Lie! In making the case for war to the American people, President Bush clearly stated the primary reason for war was that Iraq’s WMD posed an imminent threat to the US. Ted Kennedy, Dennis Kucinich, Helen Thomas, Howard Dean, AP, UPI, New York Times, LA Times, network news, and many more have all told us this fact. Many go on and tell us how Bush mischaracterized or even lied about the threat. The problem with this story is, it is not Bush who is lying. Bush never said imminent threat or anything remotely close when he made...

(AP) CIA Director Geprge Tenet speaks at Georgetown Univeristy in Washington Thursday, Feb. 5, 2004. WASHINGTON (AP) - In his first public defense of prewar intelligence, CIA Director George Tenet said Thursday that U.S. analysts had never claimed Iraq was an imminent threat, the main argument used by President Bush for going to war. [Bush actually said; we need to take out the Iraqi criminal (Hussein) BEFORE he becomes an imminent threat.] Tenet said analysts had varying opinions on the state of Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs and those differences were spelled out in the October 2002 National...