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The heated argument consumed nearly eight minutes, so space permits only some limited excerpts as provided by the MRC's Jessica Anderson who caught the August 31 exchange: Joy Behar: "Did you really say that, 'Thank God he was our President'? That's the first thing you said? You didn't say 'Oh, expletive,' or something?" Rudy Giuliani: "No, no, that wasn't the first thing I said. That's one of the things that I said on September 11th to my police commissioner. It really came out because that was just a few months after that disputed election, and so I had called the...

NJ Coalition for Self DefenseSink The Pink!!!Please join with us in staging a counterprotest against the "Commie Mommies" and their "Halt The Assault" road show of lies.On Friday, July 16th, the Million Moms will be sending their propaganda machine back into Trenton,  New Jersey where they started. The NJCSD  needs your help to be there to "welcome" them.Please help us send them the message that our rights are not negotiable.For more information, please contact our coordinator for more details on how to help us Sink The Pink, or log onto our bulletin board to discuss strategy!The return of assault weapons,...

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We now hear the argument that since weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have not - so far - been found in Iraq (news - web sites), there has been a massive intelligence failure, and we never should have gone to war. But failure to find stockpiles does not mean the ultimate peril did not exist. Far more important were Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's history, capability and intent, and the serious and long-term threat he posed to a vital region, to America's allies and to our national security. First, Saddam had used WMD - against Iran in the mid-1980s, and he...

Okay - the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban is set to sunset in September of 2004, two months before the general election: http://www.awbansunset.com/future.html I can see many, many scenarios, but all of them get back to Soccer Moms -vs- NASCAR Dads. Here are two of them: 1) There is another big terrorist attack, the Soccer Moms get scared, and come home to the Republicans. Voter sentiment favors the Second Amendment, self-defense, and self-preservation. Bush supports sunsetting, Kerry supports extension, big win for Bush. 2) No further terrorist attacks. Further drip, drip, drip of causualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. Voters become complacent...

Like it or not, Maj. Scott Ritter had it right all along. Most of the rest of us, from the president to his key advisers, such as Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, Wolfowitz and Tenet, to the majority of Congress and to most of the talking heads – including the pre-Iraq War NBC analyst David Kay, who reported WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) behind every Iraqi sand dune – blew it big-time when it came down to the awesome arsenal that Saddam had supposedly squirreled away. Ritter, the United Nations' chief weapons inspector in Iraq until 1998, took us all on...

LONDON (AFP) - An Iraqi exile group in London which claims to have supplied Britain with a key piece of intelligence on Iraqi weapons has admitted that the information might have been false. The claim that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) was able to deploy chemical or biological weapons within 45 minutes of the order being given was a headline-grabbing assertion in a British government dossier published in September 2002, in the run-up to the Iraq (news - web sites) war. It was also at the heart of a row between the British government and the BBC over allegations...

From Iraq to Libya, US knew little on weapons Doubts that Hussein had WMD raise questions about war's rationale and intelligence reliability. By Peter Grier | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON – When it comes to unconventional weapons, Iraq may have been far from the most dangerous country in the world after all. In recent days a string of surprising revelations has scrambled the world's proliferation threat assessments. Iraq's weapons programs were apparently in shambles, for instance, while Libya's were surprisingly advanced. Pakistan's nuclear scientists might have been rogue agents, proffering secrets for cash. And it appears...

War with Iraq is more justified now than it was when MPs sanctioned the invasion, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw claimed. David Kay has resigned as head of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), saying he does not believe Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction existed. His replacement, Charles Duelfer, a former United Nations inspector, has previously expressed doubts about their existence. Mr Straw said: "I accept from a personal point of view that it is certainly disappointing that the inspectors, including those of the ISG, have not so far educed further evidence." However, he insisted the Commons was right to back...

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Recently I visited a rather lame anti-Bush site. It was selling T-shirts and caps with anti-Bush slogans. One of the slogans actually made me laugh. It reads: FOUR MORE WARS! I fully support the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Furthermore, I would, on general principle, support more wars in the Middle East. We need to depose as many dictators and Saudi princes as we can. The world would be a better, safer place. I know the left hates this idea, but it's time they grew up and dealt with life. The entire free world should rise...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Pat Roberts said there was some concern Iraqi weapons of mass destruction had gone to Syria, and Washington vowed to carry on searching for such arms in Iraq (news - web sites). Roberts, a leading member of President Bush (news - web sites)'s Republican Party, said on Wednesday: "I think that there is some concern that shipments of WMD (weapons of mass destruction) went to Syria." He did not elaborate. Syria, which borders Iraq, has in the past denied U.S. charges it has weapons of mass destruction programs and supports "terrorist activity."...

Boob tube: Ex-safety boss spent $17G on TV By Jack Meyers Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Former Secretary of Public Safety James P. Jajuga, currently a focus of the burgeoning federal probe into misuse of grant money, spent $17,000 in anti-terrorism funds to buy a 60-inch plasma screen television for his office, records show. The acquisition was made in June 2002 while the Legislature was struggling to bridge a $2 billion deficit, and current public safety officials cannot justify the big screen TV's use in anti-terrorism efforts. ``I've only seen it used as a regular TV . . . or for...

<p>COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Mortar shells found in Iraq and believed to be suspicious in fact contained no chemical agents, the Danish army said after a week of tests.</p> <p>The 36 shells, found 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the city of Qurnah in southern Iraq on January 9, had initially been thought by Danish and British troops to contain a blister agent.</p>

I believe in conspiracies John Laughland says the real nutters are those who believe in al-Qa’eda and weapons of mass destruction Believing in conspiracy theories is rather like having been to a grammar school: both are rather socially awkward to admit. Although I once sat next to a sister-in-law of the Duke of Norfolk who agreed that you can’t believe everything you read in the newspapers, conspiracy theories are generally considered a rather repellent form of intellectual low-life, and their theorists rightfully the object of scorn and snobbery. Writing in the Daily Mail last week, the columnist Melanie Phillips even...

DAVID ROSE REVIEWS MYLROIE'S BOOK: A blind spot called IraqLaurie Mylroie picks through the mounting evidence that Saddam Hussein is behind the Islamist attacks on the United Statby Laurie Mylroie and David RoseThe Guardian/The ObserverJanuary 15, 2004 The War Against AmericaLaurie MylroieHarperCollins £9.99, pp352 The torrent of comment that all but flooded the media of the West in the wake of the terrorist atrocities on 11 September was often, perhaps inevitably, marked by inaccuracies and glib assertions, recycled and repeated numerous times. Among the most frequent was the attribution to Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network of previous attacks...

With U.S. reliant on Chinese lending, two economies deeply linked BY JOHN SCHMID Milwaukee Journal Sentinel WASHINGTON - (KRT) - When an American buys a house, there's a decent chance the Chinese bankrolled a chunk of the mortgage. In fact, the People's Republic of China finances more consumer and government spending than any foreign lender other than Japan. Beijing's central bank, the People's Bank of China, buys mortgage-backed bonds from both U.S. home-lending agencies, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, to the tune of $48.6 million on average every workday. In that way, the central bank lends its vast dollar reserves,...

<p>Tests by Danish, British and U.S. experts have been inconclusive in determining if mortar shells unearthed last week in southern Iraq contain a blister agent, a Danish army spokesman said Wednesday.</p> <p>The 36 shells, discovered last week by Danish troops, are believed to be from the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.</p>

<p>Foxnews Dana Lewis is reporting that several AL-Queda have been arrested in Northern Iraq in Mosul!</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — Lynne and Scott Albert readily agree on family finances, summer vacations and the perfect holiday gifts for their 5-year-old twins — Care Bears for Cammie, a toy monster truck for Josh.</p> <p>Like many other educated couples, the Alberts agree on many aspects of family life but find little common political ground.</p>

Radio talk show host Laura Ingraham received a hostile reaction last week from crew on ABC’s daytime show, The View, to the premise of her new book, Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Subverting America. Other than Rachel Campos, one of three finalists auditioning to join the show permanently, the co-hosts were all appalled by Ingraham’s contention that elites on the coasts are out of touch with “the heartland.” When Ingraham argued “that the Democratic Party is not connecting with the people who are its logical constituents, from the South and from the...