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Highway Bill Embroiled in 9/11 Dispute

McCain and Lieberman (not people I always agree with) are the heroes of the day. They did a little hostage taking of their own, and it looks like the House will back down and do the right thing.

WASHINGTON — Nearly 5,000 Transportation Department workers face a furlough on Monday, a possible result of two senators using an expiring highway bill to force House Republicans to accept a two month extension of an independent investigation of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

"We all have a choice here to make," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who along with Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., was using the highway bill as leverage to win an extension for the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, which is scheduled to finish its work on May 27.

He said the choice was between "minor" disruptions in highway projects and "telling the families of those who died on 9/11 that the commission will not be able to complete its work."

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U.S. Won't Sign Anti-Land Mine Treaty

Is this Bush's Fault... no its Clinton's for saying "no but maybe later" because later meant Bush, so now its just plain "no."

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Thanks to George's little war: `Next wave' of terrorists taking shape

WASHINGTON -- Even if Al Qaeda is crushed, terrorist threats will remain because of a global surge in anti-Americanism, the emergence of dozens of groups representing terrorism's "next wave" and the worldwide spread of Al Qaeda's philosophy and "destructive expertise," the nation's top intelligence officials said Tuesday.

Still, CIA Director George Tenet and Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said Osama bin Laden's network itself remains the greatest immediate threat to Americans.
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Plunge in support for U.S.

"Support for America has dropped in most of the Muslim world," Jacoby said in a statement to the committee. Favorable ratings for the U.S. among Moroccans dropped to 27 percent a year ago from 77 percent in 2000, he said. In Jordan, a key partner in the war on terrorism, those rates went to 1 percent last May from an already dismal 25 percent in 2002.

All of this, Jacoby said, is increasing pressure on governments that are important to U.S. efforts against terrorism.

Under George's leadership, al Qaeda is still strong and we're breeding new enemies like rabbits. The legacy of Bush will be a dark cloud for decades to come.

The environment for the hearing was dramatically different from last year, when the Bush administration was poised to attack Iraq over Saddam Hussein's alleged stockpiles of banned weapons and purported links to Al Qaeda.

Tenet stated definitively last year, "I think we will find caches of weapons of mass destruction, absolutely."

No such weapons have been found, but Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, asked members to hold questions about lapses in the Iraq intelligence until a closed-door hearing with Tenet scheduled for next week.

Aww that's sweet. Roberts was so thoughtful as to have anything embarrassing said about our intelligence services (or how their reports were manipulated and cheery picked by a war mongering administration) be said in private. Us taxpayers really don't want to know what's going on. Roberts is soooo thoughtful.

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Fun with the Web

Al-Sistani sets terms for Iraq election delay: interview

In American papers you can read about Al-Sistani pushing for elections. In United Arab Emirates (spelling?) you can read about an Al-Sistani interview to a German magazine, in which this is said:

In what Der Spiegel termed a veiled threat of an Iraqi intifada, al-Sistani said: “It cannot take too long ... the people know what they have to do.”

Not good. Not good.

Al-Sistani has refused to meet with US officials in Iraq including top American administrator Paul Bremer.

Arab media reports say the 73-year-old cleric would be willing to wait up to 10 months for elections if experts say they could be organised within this timetable.

US officials say there is no time to organise elections by the end of June.

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Jesus Christ Superstar Soundtrack Lyrics

When I read all the reviews about Mel Gibson's Passion movie, I hear Murry Head's voice singing:

Did you mean to die like that?
Was that a mistake, or
Did you know your messy death
would be a record breaker?

$26 million for a Wednesday may indeed by a record breaker. As for messy, I hear that Kill Bill is nothing in comparison.

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For a White House that stays on message...the message is a little cofused

Fog of War

"He volunteered to go to Vietnam."

-- Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot, yesterday, on National Public Radio

"No, I didn't."

-- President Bush, Feb. 8, responding to a question on NBC's "Meet the Press" about whether he volunteered to go to Vietnam

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Trouble for Bush's evil "secure my base" amendment - I mean anti-gay marriage amendment

70% OF EXISTING MARRIAGES MAY ALREADY BE GAY

The Bush White House’s plan to push for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriages suffered a surprising setback today as a new study revealed that well over seventy percent of existing marriages may already be gay.

The study, conducted by Dr. Charles Cranborn of the University of Minnesota, confirmed what many social scientists have long suspected: that within the first five years of marriages, most men become, for all intents and purposes, gay.

“Soon after marrying, most men stop hitting on women and start shopping for furniture,” Dr. Cranborn said. “Scientifically speaking, how gay is that?”

Within ten years of marriage, Dr. Cranborn added, a significant number of married men stop having sex with women altogether.

“There’s only one way to describe someone who does not have sex with women, does not hit on women, and spends his free time shopping for furniture,” Dr. Cranborn added. “That word, to be scientific about it, is gay.”

Borowitz sometimes has some pretty good stuff.

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It's Official: They're hiding something

Hastert Tells W.House He Won't Extend 9/11 Panel

I'm so sure it was Hastert's idea.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a blow to the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has told the White House and fellow Republicans that he will not bring up legislation to extend its May 27 deadline, officials said on Wednesday.

President Bush's chief of staff, Andrew Card, personally had appealed to Speaker Dennis Hastert to reconsider, and the Illinois Republican met on Wednesday with Bush at the White House.

But the speaker's spokesman, John Feehery, said Hastert told the White House and members of the House Republican conference that "it's a bad idea to extend the commission and ... that we're not going to bring any legislation up."

I'd love to have heard that conversation:

Card: Oh please Denny? wink can't the commission just have a widdle bit more time? wink
Hastert: Sure
Card: Gulp
Haster: Ahha Ha Ha. Got ya Andy! Nope, I'm so sorry wink we really snicker need their recommendations now.

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Bush is not the CEO President, he's the Marketing President

At The Price of Loyalty: The Bush Files you can find fun souvenirs from O'Neill's time at the Bush Administration.

One is a memo to O'Neill from his public relations chief. Basically for a coming interview about the economy (he is the Treasury Department Secretary afterall), O'Neill receives his answers from his PR department.

FIRST ANSWER, no matter the question:
We must act to ensure our economy recovers and people get back to work.

An interesting look inside the Bush administration. Read on as it talks about how they are dealing with the economy and their excuses. They are saying the same thing now, even though it is two years later.

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Weighing service of Bush, Kerry

That Bush had help getting into the Texas National Guard or was less than diligent about attending all of the required meetings or needed a little help to exit the Guard early so he could attend Harvard Business School does not place him out of the ordinary for men in 1968. This was a time when the date of your graduation could make the difference between life and death.

A lot happened between 1966, when John Kerry graduated from college and made his choices, and 1968, when George Bush graduated and made his. They are two completely different moments. Still, one simple fact remains: John Kerry was the Yale graduate who chose to go to Vietnam.
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As to the question of whom we should trust to be our commander in chief, I would pay much more attention to what these men did after Vietnam. It was President Bush, not his younger self, who took the advice of political advisers and decided not to attend the funeral of a single man or woman killed in Iraq. I, for one, thank God that Karl Rove wasn't advising Abraham Lincoln, or else President Lincoln might never have gone to Gettysburg.

I would also pay more attention to Senator Kerry's work with the first President Bush, when in 1991 and 1992 they supported the use of diplomacy to end the war in Cambodia and to construct a roadmap towards normalization with Vietnam. Both of these men, along with Senator John McCain, were bitterly condemned for making peace. It was one of those rare and wonderful bipartisan acts that transcended politics. It is a story that could inspire us to believe that public service is worth it after all.

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President Calls for Constitutional Amendment Protecting Marriage

I assume if we want to protect marriage the constitutional amendment says that politicans can't wed?



Let's not debate gay marriage right now, to me that is a religious issue. Marriage signifies two completely separate things in America.

The term "married" can mean:

1. You had a religious service where you and your spouse announce your marriage before your God and religious leaders.
2. The government recognizes you and your spouse as "married" a legal entity that signifies various tax and legal advantages.

Number 1 almost always includes number 2 (but not always), but that is only out of convience (i.e. the part "by the power vested in me by the state of..."), and even then you will have to fulfill various governmental requirements (i.e. the 'license' and in some states antiquated blood tests).

I can understand (though I don't agree) the emotion that rises when people think of gay marriages and think of definition number 1, but I really don't understand the anger against definition number 2.

For some reason people are against longstanding gay couples having these legal rights:

Employment Benefits
- Obtaining insurance benefits through a spouse's employer.
- Taking family leave to care for your spouse during an illness.
- Receiving wages, workers' compensation, and retirement plan benefits for a deceased spouse.
- Taking bereavement leave if your spouse or one of your spouse’s close relatives dies.
Medical Benefits
- Visiting your spouse in a hospital intensive care unit or during restricted visiting hours in other parts of a medical facility.
- Making medical decisions for your spouse if he or she becomes incapacitated and unable to express wishes for treatment.
Death Benefits
- Consenting to after-death examinations and procedures.
- Making burial or other final arrangements.

For more go to: Marriage Rights and Benefits
Thanks to Atrios for the link.

That is what people seem to be arguing against. They are arguing that a long standing couple should not have the right of having one of the partners make a medical decision if the other is incapacitated. The amendment is not protecting marriage it is attacking long term stable relationships based on love. The very thing this country needs more of. This is not a slippery slope that leads to beastiality, arguments like that are quite simply homophobic. We aren't talking about breaking any moral tradition here. We are simply talking about supporting and promoting long term stable loving relationships.

If you say Bush isn't against civil unions or what I am talking about than your source is lying to you. If the President says that, he is lying to you. This is a federal power grab based on religious homophobia for political reasons. Bush in a nutshell. Here is the amendment he supports.

Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution or the constitution of any state, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups. Emphasis mine.

There you go. Plain as day. This law would make it illegal anywhere in the United States for a long standing couple to have the right where one of the partners could make a medical decision if the other is incapacitated.

This is not about marriage, it is about hate.

Sorry for rambling, and the bad photo.

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Kerry's no stranger to Doonesbury

October 21, 1971


Thanks Alex for the link.

Read the last strip on that page to see that Kerry's critics were as intelligent in 1971 as they are now.

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No one can say George is responsible for the crimes of his Grandfathers:

On October 20, 1942, the US Alien Property Custodian, under the "Trading With the Enemy Act," seized the shares of the Union Banking Corporation (UBC), of which Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder. The largest shareholder was E. Roland Harriman. (Bush was also the managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman, a leading Wall Street investment firm.)

The UBC was established to send American capital to Germany to finance the reorganization of its industry under the Nazis. Their leading German partner was the notorious Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, who wrote a book admitting much of this called "I Paid Hitler."

Among the companies financed was the Silesian-American Corporation, which was also managed by Prescott Bush, and by his father-in-law George Herbert Walker, who supplied Dub-a-Ya with his name. The company was vital in supplying coal to the Nazi war industry. It too was seized as a Nazi-front on November 17, 1942. The largest company Bush's UBC helped finance was the German Steel Trust, responsible for between one-third and one-half of Nazi iron and explosives.

But given this history I really think that when it comes to a court case happening in 2004 of allowing a family to sue Austria to get back some of what was taken from them by the Nazi's the Bush administration would be on the site of the family. Hope Bush is on the side of the Austrians.

Trail of Nazi plunder leads to high court

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Op-Ed Contributor: Lawyers, Guns and Mayors

Few problems facing American cities are more serious than gun violence. Guns destroy thousands of lives every year and spread fear in our neighborhoods. It is much too easy for criminals to get firearms. And when a handgun is readily available, a minor argument or domestic dispute can quickly escalate into a homicide.

We've worked hard to get illegal guns off the streets, through tough law enforcement, by supporting reasonable gun laws — and by suing gun manufacturers and dealers to get them to take responsibility for their actions. Some two dozen American cities and counties have filed similar lawsuits.

But Congress is on the verge of passing legislation that would undercut the ability of local governments to hold the gun industry accountable for its role in flooding our cities with guns. The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act would shield irresponsible firearms manufacturers, wholesalers, dealers and trade associations from any form of civil liability in cases in which they recklessly or negligently supply firearms to criminals. The bill, which was approved by the House last April, is now being considered in the Senate.

We do not advocate suing manufacturers in all instances when an incident involving a gun causes harm or injury. But shouldn't we be able to sue manufacturers and suppliers when they act with wanton disregard for the safety of our neighborhoods?

By immunizing gun manufacturers against civil liability, the bill would remove much of their legal incentive to behave responsibly. It would encourage bad manufacturers to remain bad and good manufacturers to become lax.

Wow, sounds like some standard liberal mayor carping.

Michael R. Bloomberg is the mayor of New York. Richard M. Daley is the mayor of Chicago. James K. Hahn is the mayor of Los Angeles. Scott L. King is the mayor of Gary, Ind.

Well... um... Bloomberg isn't really that republican. Thanks goes out to a phunkster for the link.

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Ronald Reagan thought ketchup was a vegatable
George Bush thinks making a burger is a manufacturing job

Rep. Dingell Writes a Letter (warning: its a PDF) about the Economic Report of the President.

I noticed in the recently released Economic Report of the President that there was some consternation in the defining of manufacturing. It could be inferred from your report that the administration is willing to recognize drink mixing, hamburger garnishing, French/freedom fry cooking, and milk shake mixing to be vital components of our manufacturing sector.

I am sure the 163,000 factory workers who have lost their jobs in Michigan will find it heartening to know that a world of opportunity awaits them in high growth manufacturing careers like spatula operator, napkin restocking, and lunch tray removal. I do have some questions of this new policy and I hope you will help me provide answers for my constituents:

• Will federal student loans and Trade Adjustment Assistance grants be applied to tuition costs at Burger College?
  
• Will the administration commit to allowing the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) to fund cutting edge burger research such as new nugget ingredients or keeping the hot and cold sides of burgers separate until consumption?
  
• Will special sauce now be counted as a durable good?
  
• Do you want fries with that?

Thanks to Atrios for the link.

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Bush Education Officials Find New Law a Tough Sell

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 20 — It was 8 p.m., and Ken Meyer was smiling gamely from a gloomy high school stage at an audience of disgruntled teachers and parents to whom he had been introduced as "a bigwig from Washington," come to Utah to explain President Bush's centerpiece education law.
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He is one of many Bush administration officials traveling to explain the 700-page law. Since Feb. 8, at least 10 other department and White House officials have spoken in nine states, although Susan Aspey, a spokeswoman for the Department of Education, said the pace of travel had been consistent for the last year.

And they are doing a great job of selling that law to the locals, just read on...

Last month, the Republican-controlled Virginia House of Delegates passed a resolution, 98 to 1, urging Congress to exempt Virginia from the law. That vote came after Rod Paige, the education secretary, and other administration officials met with Virginia lawmakers, said James H. Dillard II, chairman of the House Education Committee.

"Six of us met with Paige," Mr. Dillard, a Republican, said. "He looked us in the eye and said, `It's fully funded.' We looked him back in the eye and said, `We don't think so.' "

"We got platitudes and stonewalls, but no corrective action," he said.

Well the marketing of the law if full funded, marketing laws is a bit of a hallmark for the Bush Administration. Not only do they have the spiffy www.leavenochildbehind.gov website, they've also made every entrance to the department of eductation building in Washington, D.C. look like a cute little red school house (nice use of my tax dollars).

But how bad is Rod Paige at talking to people though? I mean right after meeting with state legilators they pass a law basically calling his program rubbish. Is he that bad with people?

Rod Paige Criticizes Teachers Union

WASHINGTON - Education Secretary Rod Paige called the nation's largest teachers union a "terrorist organization" during a private White House meeting with governors on Monday.

Democratic and Republican governors confirmed Paige's remarks about the National Education Association.

"These were the words, 'The NEA is a terrorist organization,'" said Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle of Wisconsin.

Wow. I guess he is. George can sure pick 'em.

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If this works, there should be a nice little Bush Countown clock on the bottom of the page now.

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A recalcitrant Bush administration forces the 9/11 Commission to poke into Bob Woodward's notebook

Feb. 18 - Faced with presidential resistance to turning over highly sensitive intelligence briefs, the commission investigating the September 11 terror attacks tried to learn the details in the documents by obtaining access to White House transcripts of interviews that senior officials gave to a prominent journalist, NEWSWEEK has learned.

The extraordinary access that top Bush administration officials gave Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward more than two years ago for his book, “Bush at War,” became a principal issue in the contentious battle between the September 11 panel and the White House over access to the President’s Daily Briefs or PDBs—the intelligence briefing report that is given to the president every morning.

Threatened with a subpoena for the documents, the White House relented somewhat last week and agreed to allow the full 10-member commission to hear a summary of key PDBs about the Al Qaeda terrorist threat that were given to Bush and before him, to President Clinton. The summary was prepared by a four-member team that was allowed to read under highly restrictive conditions hundreds of PDBs dating back to 1998.

Still, the last-minute deal, sources tell NEWSWEEK, came only after intense negotiations in which members of the federal panel repeatedly brought up the Woodward interviews as evidence of the administration’s hypocritical approach toward secrecy. How, commission officials demanded to know, could the White House deny a federal panel investigating the worst crime in U.S. history access to documents that it had already shared with a journalist?

“Woodward was a point of reference to show the PDBs were not as sacrosanct as they claimed,” said one commission official familiar with the negotiations with the White House. “In his book, Woodward claims he saw the PDBs. That was an argument that these were not the ‘Holy of Holies.’”

Haw Haw. The Bush team's constant need to build up their mythology of Bush will get the best of them. They say the Presidential Daily Brief is too important to give to the commission investigating an act of war against America, but they're fine and dandy to give to Bob Woodward. Maybe we'll finally see what Bush was told while on vacation.

But there is little doubt that Woodward got details of documents that are central to the commission’s investigation—and more than a little sensitive for the Bush White House. One intelligence document that Woodward described in a May, 2002 Washington Post story , although not in his book, is the Aug. 6, 2001 PDB given to Bush while on vacation at his ranch in Crawford. This is the day that intelligence officials briefed Bush on the prospect of an upcoming Al Qaeda attack and the prospect that terrorists might seek to hijack commercial airliners—a warning that critics have long charged should have triggered a more vigorous response from the White House. The title of the PDB, according to Woodward’s story, was more prophetic than the White House has ever acknowledged: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." Emphasis mine.

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Girl Scout Cookie Sales Are Going Well Despite The Controversial Call For A Boycott

This year's annual Girl Scout cookie sale is going well, despite, or perhaps because of calls for a boycott over the local council's sponsorship of Planned Parenthood's "Nobody's Fool Conference" and the groups’ decision to honor Planned Parenthood's executive director.

"We're pleased to report that the cookie sales have been going very well. All the media attention has definitely put us in the spotlight and those that are very much in support of girl scouts and want to show their support of girl scouts, have been going out of their way to find out where they can purchase cookies, " says local Girl Scouts Executive Director Beth Vivio.

Vivio says some residents are dropping by the scout office to place orders-- something that's never happened before.

And some regular cookie buyers are doubling their orders.

But there have been a few negative incidents...

Vivio says some young cookie sellers in Temple were the target of what she calls inappropriate comments as a result of the controversy.

Buy a cookie!!!!! I swear, they put something in those cookies.... (they're too good).

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Now this would make for a really sucky century.

Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us

Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.

'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.'

The findings will prove humiliating to the Bush administration, which has repeatedly denied that climate change even exists. Experts said that they will also make unsettling reading for a President who has insisted national defence is a priority.

Okay, this is the same pentagon that came up with reports that talked about all sorts of Weapons of Mass Distruction that Saddam was ready to unleash on the world. But everything will be okay because we've got an oil man who doesn't believe in science in charge!

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Idiots

Group offers scholarships, parodies affirmative action

parading affirmative action policies, a conservative student group at Texas A&M University will offer scholarships next year to students who pen winning essays about "overcoming" affirmative action.

The scholarships -- for $5,000, $3,500 and $1,500 -- will be awarded next year in the "Overcoming Affirmative Action Essay Contest," sponsored by the Young Conservatives at Texas A&M and the conservative Texas Review Society, a nonprofit organization that publishes the Austin Review, Texas Education Review, the Houston Review and the Examiner (at Texas A&M).

Earlier this week, the College Republicans at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Conn., announced a $250 scholarship available only to white students. That scholarship requires an essay on "why you are proud of your white heritage" and a picture to "confirm whiteness." Emphasis Mine.

Here's a sample of one of those essays:

Just the other day while driving in my Dad's Jag, I black police officer gave me a ticket. I knew he was being racist and gave it to me because I was white, and it was obvious the he was only a police officer because he was black. So to overcome this unjustness I used my Dad's money to hire a lawyer and sue him for police brutality because he was very impolite with me. The department put him on desk duty just to get the suit dropped. Victory for us with whiteness!

or

Though my grades were crap I had enough money to get in the college of my choice, but the college still wouldn't take me. Meanwhile I noticed they were taking in black students with only slightly better grades! I knew it was affirmative action! So luckily I found out that my daddy's partner when to that school, and they ol' crony network kicked in! Yeah, suck on that affirmative action!

For some reason right wing white Christian republicans have decided it is cool to be victims. So they see everything as an attack against them. They are social hypocondriacs.

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Is it Monday?

If so, its time to slam yet another nail into the coffin of a Bush Lie:
Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.

Al Qaeda Rebuffs Iraqi Terror Group, U.S. Officials Say

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — The most active terrorist network inside Iraq appears to be operating mostly apart from Al Qaeda, senior American officials say.

Most significantly, the officials said, American intelligence had picked up signs that Qaeda members outside Iraq had refused a request from the group, Ansar al-Islam, for help in attacking Shiite Muslims in Iraq.

The request was made by Ansar's leader, a Jordanian, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and intercepted by the United States last month. The apparent refusal is being described by some American intelligence analysts as an indication of a significant divide between the groups.

Since before the American invasion, Bush administration officials have portrayed Al Qaeda and Ansar as close associates and used the links as part of their justification for war against Saddam Hussein's government.

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