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Jan. 1 - Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf wins vote of confidence validating five-year term as president. Jan. 3 - NASA rover touches down on Mars and signals Earth. Charter jet brining French tourists back from Egypt crashes in Red Sea, killing all 148 aboard. Jan. 4 - Afghans approve new constitution Jan. 6 - Design featuring reflecting pools selected for World Trade Center memorial. Jan. 7 - President Bush proposes legal status - at least temporarily - for millions of illegal immigrants working in U.S. Jan. 8 - U.S. Black Hawk helicopter downed in Iraq; eight people killed. Jan. 9 -...

Below please find a timeline of how the Kerry campaign has been run since August 1st. This is just three months but I think the incompetence, deceit and meanspiritedness exhibited show why John Kerry should not be trusted to run the country for four years. Aug. 1 - Normally a candidate gets a "bounce" in the polls immediately after his convention - not so for Kerry. Aug. 2 - Kerry advisor says Kerry will make world safer by giving Iran nuclear fuel and hope that they use it for good. Sane people everywhere say, "Are you friggin' kidding me?" Meanwhile...

NOTE: I phoned this morning to the Public Affairs office at Ft. Campbell, KY, home of the 101st Airborne. The following was sent to me via email after my discussion with Lt. Col. Wellman in the afternoon. =============================================== US Department of Defense Talking Points – Oct. 27, 2004 – Al-Qaqaa Weapons Facility Following are talking points on the 2003 timeline regarding U.S. and Iraqi military activities in the vicinity of the former Al-Qaqaa military facility. According to the Duelfer report, as of mid-September 2004 Coalition forces have reviewed and cleared more than 10,000 caches of weapons. - This includes 240,000...

Still not 100% complete, but I put this together to see how the different anti-war elements fit together; ie: Democratic Party's concerted effort to run the longest presidential campaign in history with the most opposition candidates in history anti-war protesters and of course the UNSC opposition to the war in Iraq http://www.scottmalensek.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=163&st=0&#entry334

The 'positive' candidate: a timeline by Nathan Carleton September 06, 2004 John Kerry loves to accuse his opponents of below-the-belt personal attacks. He has discussed a “Republican attack squad,” responded to supposed attacks on his “patriotism,” and charged, with very little evidence, that the White House is illegally coordinating 527-advertisements against him. Last week, Kerry described the Republican convention as “almost nothing but anger and insults.” The next time Kerry calls a heated analysis of his voting record a smear campaign, remember what he and his high-level supporters have been doing the last year and a half: 4/2/03: Kerry calls...

I was updating my John F. Kerry Timeline and ran across this item on the Kerry-Edwards official web site (johnkerry.com). John Kerry's Vietnam Service Timeline March 17, 1969 The policy of Coastal Squadron One, the swift boat command, was to send home any individual who is wounded three times in action. After sustaining his third wound from enemy action in Vietnam, Kerry was granted relief under this policy. Question for military freepers: 1. Is this a policy for the Navy or just the Coastal Squadrom One? Or just John Kerry? 2. What about the Army, Air Force, Marines, etc. 3....

Several days I ago I realized that all the dates of John Kerry's activities were totally jumbled in my head. I sat down to make a little timeline. It grew into a massive timeline - and covers his entire life. I know several other FReepers had the same confusion. So here is the result. It is still a work in progress, and any additions, corrections, etc. will be most appreciated.The entire timeline along with pictures will be archived at my web site: http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html. I will be making the additions there, so you might want to bookmark that site. John...

I have seen a lot of requests for a Kerry timeline. Here it is courtesy of wintersoldier.

This shows just about every little event detailing America's war with Saddam. It starts off in 1974, has a lot about the Iran/Iraq War and the US involvement, and then goes into mega detail from that point on. I think you'll all like it. :)

ABSOLUTELY THE MOST COMPLETE TIMELINE AROUND Details the creation and rise of Al Queda Details America's relations and War with Iraq, Iran, etc. THIS IS A MUST VIEW -Good sourcing too http://www.finchfactory.com/howdiditcometothis.htm

Much information on the Iraq prison torture story is making it's way into the major media. Most of it is confusing, if not deliberately misleading. Given the amount of information available to the average news reader, a better understanding of the situation could likely result from reviewing the events of the story in chronological order.

Key dates in Chechnya's four-year conflict with Russia. 1999 Oct 1: Russian forces enter Chechnya for the first time since the end of the 1994-1996 war, forcing the rebels to abandon almost a third of the country. Oct 29: 50 people are killed as refugees fleeing towards Ingushetia are bombed. Nov 12: Russian forces take the second Chechen town of Gudermes without resistance. Nov 25: Start of the battle for Grozny, defended by 2,000 separatists. 2000 Feb 1: The rebels say they are withdrawing from Grozny, followed five days later by an announcement by Russian President Vladimir Putin that the...

Activists 'MoveOn' Into Clinton's Office Yesterday's Event at Senator's Midtown Office Designed to Protest Bush's 'Misleading' Policies By Jen SokolerColumbia Daily Spectator February 20, 2004 As thousands across the country visited their congressional representatives yesterday, a group paid a visit to Senator Hillary Clinton's New York office, asking Congress to "censure" President Bush for "misleading the country about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction."MoveOn.org, an Internet-based activist organization, and Win Without War, a coalition of 42 national organizations, co-sponsored the event. MoveOn.org was founded to help the country "move on" from the Clinton impeachment to "real issues." Recently, they sponsored a...

<p>WASHINGTON — U.S. forces in Iraq believe they may be facing an Al Qaeda cell in Fallujah after a man with suspected ties to the terror network was captured last week, sources told Fox News Friday.</p> <p>The man said to have been arrested was Husam al-Yemeni, said to be part of the leadership structure of Ansar al-Islam (search), the Al Qaeda-associated terrorist group based in Iraqi Kurdistan. Some U.S. officials described al-Yemeni as the first Al Qaeda operative captured in Iraq.</p>

(KRT) - When the Wright Brothers defied gravity a century ago, they also supposedly defied science. After all, hadn't scientists said that human-controlled heavier-than-air flight was impossible? Back then, flying through the atmosphere was just as much science fiction as H.G. Wells' recent fantasy about traveling through time. But then two bicycle builders proved science to be wrong. Or so goes the popular conception. Surprise. The popular conception was wrong. Far from defying science, the Wright Brothers exploited it, drawing on a century's worth of experiment, math and theory by prominent scientists and performing a few wind tunnel experiments of...

Dec. 14, 2003 -- Following is a chronology of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's capture by U.S. forces, Saturday, Dec. 13, according to U.S. military officials and NPR reports: 10:50 a.m. Saturday: U.S. military officials receive intelligence that Saddam Hussein may be hiding in one of two locations near the town of Adwar, about 10 miles south of his hometown of Tikrit. About 600 soldiers from the First Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division along with coalition Special Forces units are assigned to kill or capture Saddam. About 6 p.m. Saturday: Under cover of darkness, the...

Iraq's coalition government claims that it has uncovered documentary proof that Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks against the US, was trained in Baghdad by Abu Nidal, the notorious Palestinian terrorist. Details of Atta's visit to the Iraqi capital in the summer of 2001, just weeks before he launched the most devastating terrorist attack in US history, are contained in a top secret memo written to Saddam Hussein, the then Iraqi president, by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, the former head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. The handwritten memo, a copy of which has been obtained exclusively...

September 11 - Hijacked aircraft flown into major US landmarks, destroying New York's World Trade Centre and ploughing into the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked flight crashes in rural Pennsylvania. 2,976 people are killed. December 2 - Palestinian terrorists attack three times in 24 hours - at a pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem, in a car in downtown Jerusalem and on a Haifa bus, killing 25. 2002 March 9 - Palestinian terrorists bomb Jerusalem’s popular Moment Café, around the corner from the Prime Minister’s residence, killing 11. March 27 - A Hamas suicide bomber strikes at Netanya’s Park Hotel during a...

WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (AFP) - The United States wants the United Nations to play a role in its accelarated plan to return power to Iraqis, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday after speaking to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. But Powell did not specify exactly how involved Washington wants the world body to be, following months of wrangling on how much authority US occupation authorities are prepared to grant to the United Nations. "I have been in touch with Secretary General Annan within the last 24 hours to discuss the role the UN might play and to inquire of...

THE FRONT PAGE of the November 7 Washington Post says it all. The first headline, in large type: "Bush Urges Commitment to Transform Mideast." Below, in slightly smaller type: "Pentagon to Shrink Iraq Force." And below that: "Iraqi Security Crews Getting Less Training." It's a jarring juxtaposition. The president eloquently makes the case for a necessarily and admirably ambitious foreign policy. Yet his own administration's deeds threaten the achievement of his goals. In his fine speech to the National Endowment for Democracy last Thursday, the president made the case for "a forward strategy of freedom" in the Middle East. He...