Teresa knows how it works

Teresa Heinz Kerry helps Democrats raise $1M at Phoenix event

In regard to the hunt for terror leader Osama Bin Laden, Heinz Kerry said she could see the al-Qaida chief being caught before the November election.

"I wouldn't be surprised if he appeared in the next month," said Heinz Kerry, alluding to a possible capture by United States and allied forces before election day.

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Another great Kos post (since I'm too busy to look at anything myself today): Daily Kos :: Edwards keeps up the heat

Seriously, the Bush Administration is completely off message on Iraq -- which is bound to continue given how quickly events on the ground are unfolding. Forced to wing it, these officials will be all over the map in their responses.

BUSH SAYS IRAQ WILL HOLD ELECTIONS IN JANUARY

"They're going to have elections in January in Iraq. When America gives its word, America will keep its word. We'll stand with the people of Afghanistan and Iraq." [9/22/04, Remarks by the President at Victory 2004 Rally , Latrobe, Pennsylvania]

CHENEY SAYS IRAQIS WILL DECIDE WHETHER TO HOLD ELECTIONS

"First of all, I'll be happy to pass along the message. I will see Mr. Allawi, as I mentioned, on Thursday -- both in the Congress, and then he'll come to the White House for a meeting with the President and myself. He has indicated repeatedly that he wants to keep that January deadline. We agree wholeheartedly. It's important to remember this is an Iraqi decision." [Dick Cheney, Lansing, Michigan, 9/21/04]

RUMSFELD SAYS ELECTIONS CAN BE OPEN TO 3/4 OR 4/5 OF IRAQ

"Let's pretend hypothetically that you get to election time in January and lets pretend that its roughly like it is, or a little worse, which it could be, because you've got to expect it to continue. They're not happy the way its going. They don't want a government elected in that country...badly, they don't want that. And let's say you try to have an election and you could have it in three-quarters or four-fifths of the country, but some places you couldn't because the violence was too great. So be it. Nothing is perfect in life. So you have election that's not quite perfect." [Donald Rumsfeld, Senate testimony 9/23/04]

DICK ARMITAGE SAYS ELECTIONS ARE OPEN TO ALL

"We're going to have an election that is free and open and that has to be open to all citizens. It's got to be our best effort to get it into troubled areas as well," [Dick Armitage, House testimony, 9/24/04]

EDWARDS SAYS:

"The administration's credibility on Iraq collapsed today. Over the past 24 hours, the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of State have all contradicted each other on elections in Iraq.

"For a President who is fond of saying we should not send mixed messages - you need a scorecard today to keep up with all the different and contradictory statements from the White House.

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TANG Typewriter: It Was ROVE

A long read it and worth it. It is a piece of investigative fiction, and yet probably very close to the truth.

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CBS News ran with the wrong forged document story

The Story That Didn't Run

Sept. 22 - In its rush to air its now discredited story about President George W. Bush’s National Guard service, CBS bumped another sensitive piece slated for the same “60 Minutes” broadcast: a half-hour segment about how the U.S. government was snookered by forged documents purporting to show Iraqi efforts to purchase uranium from Niger.
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A team of “60 Minutes” correspondents and consulting reporters spent more than six months investigating the Niger uranium documents fraud, CBS sources tell NEWSWEEK. The group landed the first ever on-camera interview with Elisabetta Burba, the Italian journalist who first obtained the phony documents, as well as her elusive source, Rocco Martino, a mysterious Roman businessman with longstanding ties to European intelligence agencies.

Although the edited piece never ended up identifying Martino by name, the story, narrated by “60 Minutes” correspondent Ed Bradley, asked tough questions about how the White House came to embrace the fraudulent documents and why administration officials chose to include a 16-word reference to the questionable uranium purchase in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union speech.

But just hours before the piece was set to air on the evening of Sept. 8, the reporters and producers on the CBS team were stunned to learn the story was being scrapped to make room for a seemingly sensational story about new documents showing that Bush ignored a direct order to take a flight physical while serving in the National Guard more than 30 years ago.

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In the Washington Times - believe it or not:

Commentary: Iraq's bridge too far

Off the record conversations with intelligence chiefs in five major European countries -- each with multiple assets in Iraq -- showed remarkable agreement on these points:

-- The neo-con objectives for restructuring Iraq into a functioning model democracy were a bridge too far. They were never realistic.

-- The plan to train Iraqi military and security forces in time to cope with a budding insurgency before it spun out of control was stillborn.

-- The insurgency has mushroomed from 5,000 in the months following the collapse of the Saddam Hussein regime to an estimated 20,000 today, which is still growing. Insurgents are targeting green Iraqi units and volunteers for training and some have already defected to the rebels.

-- Iraqi soldiers trained by the United States are complaining that the equipment ordered by the U.S. from the Ukraine that is being assigned to them gives them "2nd class status."

-- To cope with the insurgency, the United States requires 10 times the rebel strength -- or some 200,000 as a bare minimum. Short of that number, the insurgency will continue to gain momentum. The multiple is based on the British experience in Northern Ireland for a quarter of a century as well as France's civil war in Algeria (1954-62), when nationalist guerrillas were defeated militarily, but won the war diplomatically. France deployed half a million men to defeat the fellaghas in Algeria.

-- The U.S. occupation has lost control of large swathes of Iraq where the insurgency operates with virtual impunity.

-- Iraq was a diversion from the war on a global movement that was never anchored in Baghdad.

-- Iraq does not facilitate a solution to the Mideast crisis. And without such a solution, the global terrorist movement will continue to spread.

-- Iraq has become a magnet for would-be Muslim jihadis the world over; it has greatly facilitated transnational terrorism.

-- Charting a course out of the present chaos requires an open-ended commitment to maintain U.S. forces at the present level and higher through 2010 or longer.

-- The once magnificent obsession about building a model Arab democracy in Iraq now has the potential of a Vietnam-type quagmire.

-- Everything now undertaken in Iraq is palliative to tide the administration over the elections.

-- What is urgently needed, whether a Bush II administration or a Kerry White House, is for the world's great democracies to meet at the summit to map a common strategy to confront a global challenge. The war on terrorism -- on the terrorists who have hijacked Islam -- is only one part of a common approach for (1) the defense of Western democracies and (2) the gradual transformation of an Arab world that must be assisted out of poverty, despair and defeat.

-- A war on terrorism without a global strategy, which must include the funding of major educational reforms in poor countries like Pakistan, where wannabe jihadis are still being churned out by the hundreds of thousands, could only lead to the gradual erosion of Western democratic structures.

-- The "war on terror" is a misnomer that is tantamount to rhetorical disinformation. One can no more fight terrorism than one could declare war on Hitler's Panzers in World War II or Dreadnoughts in World War I. Terrorism is a weapons system that has been used time and again for the last 5,000 years. The root causes are the problem, not the weapon.

-- To ignore the causes is to guarantee escalation -- to weapons of mass destruction.

5 out of 5 experts agree.... Bush screwed the pooch.

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America the Beauti-- ugh

This ain't no joke:



See for yourself.

Have a nice crusade. Roman Shmoman. Stalin Shmalin. Hitler Shitler. Bush Shmush. Ush Crush. Bomb Shmomb. Die G'bye

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Some pictures are worth no words at all:

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More proof that the Maryland and Georgia votes are all ready decided

Activists Find More E-Vote Flaws

After Harris met Thompson at the Defcon hacker conference this year, she asked him to examine the GEMS program. He found he could write a five-line script in the Notepad text editor that would change the vote summaries in GEMS without changing the raw precinct data. The auditing log in GEMS wouldn't record the change because it only tracks changes that occur within GEMS, not changes that occur on the computer outside of GEMS.

After writing the script, Thompson saved it as a Visual Basic file (.vbs) and double-clicked it to execute it.

The command happens in the background where no one can see it. To verify that the changes occurred, Thompson could write another script to display the vote data in a message box after the change. Once the scripts finished their work, they would go into the Recycle Bin, where Thompson could delete them.

When Harris demonstrated the vulnerability to officials in California, she opened the GEMS program to show that the votes changed as the script commanded them to.

"You have to know in advance what you want to change," Thompson said, "but it's pretty easy to write a script to find the data that you want to change. If you want Stan Smith to have more votes than he currently has, you write a line of your script that says select everything in the table where candidate equals Stan Smith, and increment the votes. Then you delete the votes from another candidate by the same amount."

Thompson acknowledged that the hack would take an insider with knowledge of the voting system and election procedures and access to GEMS. But this could include technical people working for a county or Diebold employees who sometimes assist technically challenged election officials on election night. It's unlikely that unsavvy election officials or observers would notice or understand the significance of someone writing five lines of code in Notepad.
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But speaking generally on the vulnerabilities Harris mentions, Diebold spokesman David Bear said by phone that no one would risk manipulating votes in an election because it's against the law and carries a heavy penalty. He also said that election "policies and procedures dictate that no (single) person has access or is in control of a (voting) system," so it would be impossible for anyone to change votes on a machine without others noticing it.

Well that is reasurring, no one will manipulate the vote because is against the law, and it might be hard to do without others noticing it. Feel better now?!?

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Bush: We don't need no stinkin' Allies! We're the Federales!

President Bush's Lead Balloon

We did not expect President Bush to come before the United Nations in the middle of his re-election campaign and acknowledge the serious mistakes his administration has made on Iraq. But that still left plenty of room for him to take advantage of this one last chance to appeal to an increasingly antagonistic world to help the Iraqis secure and rebuild their shattered nation and prepare for elections in just four months. Instead, Mr. Bush delivered an inexplicably defiant campaign speech in which he glossed over the current dire situation in Iraq for an audience acutely aware of the true state of affairs, and scolded them for refusing to endorse the American invasion in the first place.

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A vote for Bush is a vot for a hell of a lot more in taxes for many of us

Edwards Outlines the KerryEdwards Plan for Ohio's Economic Recovery...

It's time to return to the idea that made this country great," said Edwards. "Instead of helping wealthy people protect their wealth, we should reward the work of America's middle class."

The president has spent the past four years working to shift the tax burden onto people who work, while eliminating taxes on unearned income. The Bush administration's new "tax reform" plan, as revealed in a memo released by his former Treasury Secretary, is a reckless continuation of the President's history of serving special interests on the backs of working Americans.

The President's plan will raise taxes on typical families and take away deductions for home mortgages, charity and health care, hurting middle class families even more than before and rewarding special interests. [Emphasis Mine]

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Bush Loses the Twinkie Defense

Twinkies Maker Seeking Ch. 11 Protection

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Interstate Bakeries Corp., the nation's largest wholesaler baker whose products include Twinkies and Wonder Bread, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early Wednesday. The company also named a new chief executive.

Uh Oh, is the Wonder Bread constituency going to be angry at Bush's economy? Nah, they just ordered more steak because of their Atkins diet.

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How convenient

Loophole Lets Pharmacies Bill Govt. Twice

PHILADELPHIA - A regulatory loophole is allowing some pharmacy companies to bill government health programs twice for the same drugs, according to whistleblower lawsuits challenging the payments.
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In a case recently decided by a federal appeals court, a former administrator at a subsidiary of the pharmacy company Omnicare alleged the firm was cheating the Medicaid program by charging it twice - the sale and the resale - for restocked drugs.

Thomas Quinn said he questioned the practice after seeing workers open packages of returned drugs, push unused pills from their foil packs and place them in fresh cases, then reseal the boxes with irons to make them ready for resale.

The Omnicare subsidiary, based in New Jersey, informed Medicaid when a drug was returned but offered it a rebate of only 50 percent of the original price.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this month called such double payments "disturbing," but said it could not find anything in New Jersey's Medicaid rules requiring the company to give a full refund for restocked drugs.

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BUSH ATTACKS KERRY WHILE COZYING UP TO DICTATORS

From Misleader.org

President Bush earlier this week attacked his opponent, saying "It's hard to imagine a candidate running for President prefers the stability of a dictatorship to the hope and security of democracy." Yet, it is President Bush who regularly declares his personal friendship and gratitude to some of the world's most oppressive dictators, often wining and dining them at his ranch in Texas.

In June of 2004, Bush referred to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as "my friend," even though the Saudi Arabian government has been investigated for its financial ties to the 9/11 terrorists and is listed by the U.S. State Department as one of the world's most oppressive regimes on the planet.

In April, he referred to the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as "my friend" and welcomed him to the Crawford ranch by saying "I always look forward to visiting with him." Bush gave this praise to a dictator, even though Human Rights Watch notes that government "torture in Egypt is widespread and systemic" and the State Department says Mubarak has passed a Constitution in which the electorate is barred from being "presented with a choice among competing presidential candidates."

In 2002, it was Bush who said "I want to welcome the President of China to our ranch, and to Texas." Bush was inviting into his home a dictator who, according to the U.S. State Department, presides over a government that regularly engages in the "arbitrary or unlawful" murder of its own citizens, kidnappings of political dissidents, and repression of religious minorities.

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Bush seems to still have trouble with the meaning of sovereignty.

First he defined sovereignty as meaning you have sovereignty, in his famous Tribal sovereignty flub (QT video... Definitely worth it if you haven't seen it).

Now we learn that when it comes to Iraq that the Iraqi government can make decisions about its nation, but we can just tell them "no."

Two Iraqi Female Detainees Not to Be Freed Soon

Senior officials in the Iraqi Justice Ministry said earlier on Wednesday that at least one of the two, microbiologist Rihab Taha, could be freed as early as Wednesday following a review of her detention status.
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Justice Ministry officials had also indicated that the detention of the second female detainee, microbial engineer Huda Ammash, was also under review.

Both women were arrested by U.S. forces in May last year and are considered high-value detainees. They are held in a secret, high-security facility near Baghdad. They are both accused of working on Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program.

The U.S. embassy said that while neither woman would be released in the immediate future, their cases were under review.

I'm not saying that releasing the women is a good idea or not, just that if we are saying Iraq is sovereign, maybe they should be allowed to decide for themselves?

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Bush uses his renowned idiocy as a shield against his blatant lies

Wrong Abu the terrorist haunts Bush on campaign trail

WASHINGTON (AFP) - He was Abu, all right. And a ruthless terror mastermind to boot. But the man whose name has been migrating from one of President George W. Bush's stump speech to another for weeks now had little to do with the crime he is being accused of.

At least that was the conclusion of US government and international terrorism experts -- and US courts - back in the 1980s when that dark deed was perpetrated.

Never mind. He surfaced again on Monday as Bush, campaigning in Derry, New Hampshire, again defended his decision to invade Iraq in March 2003 -- this time evoking ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's alleged terrorist connections.

'He was a sworn enemy of the United States of America, he had ties to terrorist networks,' Bush argued. 'Do you remember Abu Nidal? He's the guy that killed Leon Klinghoffer. Leon Klinghoffer was murdered because of his religion. Abu Nidal was in Baghdad, as was his organization.'

The president was referring to the 1985 hijacking by Palestinian militants of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, during which Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound elderly American tourist, was shot and pushed overboard into the sea.

But these hijackers were led not by Abu Nidal, but by Abu Abbas of the Palestine Liberation Front, who released the ship after securing safe passage for himself and his men for Tunisia. "

Never Mind? Bush is lying again... out right lying... to sell a war and all the anger and indignation we can muster is "never mind."

Abbas, who had been indicted for the Klinghoffer murder in the United States, was captured by US troops in Baghdad soon after they seized the Iraqi capital in April 2003. But he died in March in prison, possibly of a heart attack.

To be sure, the Abu from the president's speeches also died Baghdad, but long before the US-led invasion and, some say, at the hands of Saddam's security agents.

Abu Nidal and his followers, who believed that then Palestine Liberation Organization (news - web sites) leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) was too soft on Israel, are blamed for more than 90 terrorist attacks in 20 countries, killing or injuring almost 900 people, according to US officials.

But the 65-year-old terrorist was found with multiple gunshot wounds at his Baghdad home in August 2002. And Klinghoffer, terrorism experts agree, was not among his victims.

So Nidal, who Bush says was a great find in Iraq and proof of Saddam's connection with terrorists was in fact killed by Saddam years before we invaded. And people say reality television doesn't reflect reality.

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What Is Bush Hiding?

"There are a lot of questions and they need to be answered," Bush told the Union Leader in Manchester, N.H., last week. "I think what needs to happen is people need to take a look at the documents, how they were created, and let the truth come out."

I couldn't agree more. And apparently CBS came to the same view. CBS messed up, and yesterday, Rather fessed up. He said the network could no longer stand behind the documents. There will be much hand-wringing about the media in the coming days, and properly so.

But what's good for Dan Rather, who is not running for president, ought to be good for George Bush, who is. "There are a lot of questions and they need to be answered." Surely that presidential sentiment applies as much to Bush's Guard service as to Rather's journalistic methods.

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TIME.com: Bush's Iraq: A Powerful Fantasy
Bush's argument is tight, concise and, so far, impregnable. It is also a clever distortion of reality

"The role of the CIA is to look at different scenarios," McClellan said. But all three CIA scenarios were awful, I pointed out. The best case was "tenuous stability," a continuation of the sapping insurgency we're seeing now.

McClellan began to read from talking points. The "pessimists and naysayers" had been wrong, he said, about the Iraqi people's ability to establish a transitional government, a national council and a transitional law. The "Iraqi people" had little to do with establishing any of those, but McClellan plowed on. A reporter asked if McClellan was saying that the CIA was filled with "pessimists and naysayers," but McClellan wouldn't bite.
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Scott McClellan is beginning to sound like Baghdad Bob, the infamous spokesman for Saddam who announced hallucinatory Iraqi victories as the American troops closed in on Baghdad.

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Bush thinks leadership is using simple phrases to reassure America that everything is all right.

Bush sees leadership as being a cheerleader. One of the few things he actually has experience in:




But does America really want a President whose greatest moment as President was simply reenacting his cheerleading glory days?




No America does not:
President Bush's Ratings Slip to Lowest Level of His Presidency, According to Latest Harris Poll

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - September 17, 2004 - President Bush's ratings have slipped to 45 percent positive and 54 percent negative, the lowest ratings of his presidency, according to a new Harris Poll. These numbers compare to 50 percent positive, 49 percent negative in June and 48 percent positive, 51 percent negative in August. This downward trend no doubt helps to explain why the lead which the president enjoyed over Senator Kerry immediately after the Republican convention in New York - the so-called "convention bounce" - has now disappeared.

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Kerry on Letterman

Kerry's "Top Ten Bush Tax Proposals":

10. No estate tax for families with at least two U.S. presidents.

9. W-2 Form is now Dubya-2 Form.

8. Under the simplified tax code, your refund check goes directly to Halliburton.

7. The reduced earned income tax credit is so unfair, it just makes me want to tear out my lustrous, finely groomed hair.

6. Attorney General Ashcroft gets to write off the entire U-S Constitution.

5. Texas Rangers can take a business loss for trading Sammy Sosa.

4. Eliminate all income taxes; just ask Teresa to cover the whole damn thing.

3. Cheney can claim Bush as a dependent.

2. Hundred-dollar penalty if you pronounce it "nuclear" instead of "nucular."

1. George W. Bush gets a deduction for mortgaging our entire future.

For a video clip of Kerry reading these go to: CBS | Late Show with David Letterman

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What's the Bush administration have against voting?

IHT: Pentagon blocks site for voters outside U.S.

In a decision that could affect Americans abroad who are not yet registered to vote in the Nov. 2 presidential election, the Pentagon has begun restricting international access to the official Web site intended to help overseas absentee voters cast ballots.
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According to overseas-voter advocates who have been monitoring the situation, Internet service providers in at least 25 countries - including Yahoo Broadband in Japan, Wanadoo in France, BT Yahoo Broadband in Britain and Telefónica in Spain - have been denied access to the site of the Federal Voting Assistance Program, apparently to protect it from hackers.

To prevent hackers from blocking access to this site... we are blocking access to this site.

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Kiwi troops coming home

New Zealand's troops are pulling out of Iraq under a cloak of secrecy as security deteriorates in the battle to control the war-torn country.

Just thought I'd post this to TCS because you'll never hear about this on the news.

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Kerry Finally Kicks it into Gear!

John Kerry for President - Speech at New York University

The President has said that he “miscalculated” in Iraq and that it was a “catastrophic success.” In fact, the President has made a series of catastrophic decisions … from the beginning … in Iraq. At every fork in the road, he has taken the wrong turn and led us in the wrong direction.

The first and most fundamental mistake was the President’s failure to tell the truth to the American people.

He failed to tell the truth about the rationale for going to war. And he failed to tell the truth about the burden this war would impose on our soldiers and our citizens.

By one count, the President offered 23 different rationales for this war. If his purpose was to confuse and mislead the American people, he succeeded.

His two main rationales – weapons of mass destruction and the Al Qaeda/September 11 connection – have been proved false… by the President’s own weapons inspectors… and by the 9/11 Commission. Just last week, Secretary of State Powell acknowledged the facts. Only Vice President Cheney still insists that the earth is flat. [Emphasis Mine]

Yeaaahhhhhh!

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Elected Kerry and men will have sex in front of you and use your bible for toilet paper (I know that because the RNC told me)

GOP mailing warns liberals will ban bibles

The literature shows a Bible with the word "BANNED" across it and a photo of a man, on his knees, placing a ring on the hand of another man with the word "ALLOWED." The mailing tells West Virginians to "vote Republican to protect our families" and defeat the "liberal agenda."

Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said Friday that he wasn't aware of the mailing, but said it could be the work of the RNC. "It wouldn't surprise me if we were mailing voters on the issue of same-sex marriage," Gillespie said.

And let's not even mention that cats and dogs would live together... in sin!

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Ooops... did I say that out loud?

U.K. envoy: Bush the best recruiter for al-Qaida
Italian media report ambassador's remarks at private conference

There was stunned silence. Truth is so rare these days, it actually seems odd to hear it.

ROME - Britain’s ambassador to Italy described President Bush as “the best recruiting sergeant” for al-Qaida, Italian media reported on Monday.

The comment, made at a closed-door conference at the weekend, was denounced by one leading Italian newspaper editor, who issued an open letter snubbing the veteran ambassador, Sir Ivor Roberts.

Roberts was quoted as telling an annual Anglo-Italian gathering in Tuscany, “If anyone is ready to celebrate the eventual re-election of Bush, it’s al-Qaida.”

Corriere della Sera newspaper said Roberts also told the meeting of British and Italian policy-makers, “Bush is al-Qaida’s best recruiting sergeant.”

The British embassy in Rome declined to comment about the remarks, saying the Tuscan conference had been covered by the so-called Chatham House Rules, which means that anything said by delegates should remain off the record.

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Your President wants you to know everything is going fine in Iraq

Classic guerrilla war forming in Iraq | csmonitor.com

To many experts, the conflict in Iraq has entered a new phase that resembles a classic guerrilla war with US forces now involved in counterinsurgency. And despite the lack of ideological cohesion among insurgent groups, history suggests that it could take as long as a decade to defeat them.

Hello? Hello? Its me, Bush again, don't listen to that liberal filter... who are these "Christian Science Monitor" people. Sound pretty confused.... As I've always known in my heart Christian and Science are like oil and sound foreign policy they just don't mix. So they're just some kind of pessimistic nay sayers that don't see the truth: new schools, terror at home, 9/11 9/11 9/11... thank you.

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It's Monday: The Top Ten Conservative Idiots, No. 171

7. Navistar
Just when you thought the craze for buying the largest vehicles with the world's worst gas mileage was dying out, along comes Navistar with their bid for the king-size SUV crown. Meet the Navistar CXT - 21 1/2 feet long, and 9 feet tall.


Man, I didn't know they made penises that small! The truck is built from the same platform as Navistar's cement mixer, and will cost $93,000 to $115,000 fully loaded. In case you were wondering, it gets 6-10 miles per gallon of diesel. But with pipelines back to normal and operating at 200% capacity in Iraq, all I can say to people who are worried about conservation is: don't worry about it! A Navistar spokesperson said, "We can see it as a vehicle for business people who want to make a distinct impression. For personal use, it's for people who want to make a statement." Yes, as long as that statement is, "Look at me! I'm a fucking asshole!"

With a curb weight of 14,500 pounds I want any idiot who buys one of them to pay a damn big road and bridge maintenance surcharge.

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Terrorism Preparation

From Parody: Unready.net - Be Amused - Chemical Threat - Visual Guide

3. If you are a fish or a little bird, do not die. Please, do not die.


To even more horribly funny reality (via Tajikistan): Case of the seizing of an airplance by terrorists

Unquestionably, obit to the commands of terrorists and then the assents of special task force who should deliver hostages
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Try not to be outstanding off the other hostages, in no way disarrange the terrorists
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Don't express you angry, don't wipe in voice, our chough

Reads like one of my posts.

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Portrait of George Bush in '72: Unanchored in Turbulent Time

Of course wittle George was unanchored (acting like a 16 teen year old, despite being 26), but wouldn't you be, if your dad did some kind of weird tennis ballet with construction magnates?

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George Bush

is the death of this country. He's insane. By the time he's through, the entire Middle East and large swaths of Asia will be irradiated, then it'll blow over onto us and we'll all die of brain tumors. Bush is a fucking threat and he's FUCKING US and the whole world is agape in horror. We've chosen a madman to run the biggest, baddest superpower in world history, and he's gonna cream us all.

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WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH JOHN KERRY?

WHY DOESN'T THIS MOTHERFUCKER LOOK THE CAMERA IN THE EYE AND CALL THIS SHIT? WHAT THE FUCK????

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"Government has a final responsibility for the well-being of its citizenship. If private cooperative endeavor fails to provide work for willing hands and relief for the unfortunate, those suffering hardship from no fault of their own have a right to call upon the Government for aid; and a government worthy of its name must make fitting response."
 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt



"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions, but laws must and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
- Thomas Jefferson



"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."

"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree."
- James Madison



"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas. It is, I believe, the faith in our fellow citizens as individuals and as people that lies at the heart of the liberal faith. For liberalism is not so much a party creed or set of fixed platform promises as it is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man's ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves."
- John F. Kennedy



"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are [a] few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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