As the title implies... If you are a democrat or a liberal this is NOT for you! Leave now! If you stay and get upset don't blame me.

 

"All of this twisted, blame-America-Bush-bashing and mind-numbing negativism has obscured some very important facts that need to be re-emphasized:

Saddam is responsible for two horrific wars and the deaths of hundreds of thousands. His record is replete with the kind of atrocities that brought the United States into two world wars, as well as a bloody campaign in Korea and the war I fought in - Vietnam. He raped, tortured, robbed, starved and murdered his own people. He acquired and used weapons of mass destruction against his neighbors and countrymen. He attempted to assassinate an American president. He trained and supported Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and Muslim Brotherhood terrorists who killed Americans. Are we to believe that Al Qaeda was the only Middle Eastern terror group that Saddam did not support?"

Posted at: 12/20/2003 01:39:52 AM : Permalink

 

'She said, 'Do you suppose that the Bush administration has Usama bin Laden hidden away somewhere and will bring him out before the election?'' said Fox News analyst and Roll Call executive editor Mort Kondracke. 'She was not smiling.'

Posted at: 12/17/2003 02:15:28 PM : Permalink

 

"Dean said it was not worth trying to woo French support on foreign policy initiatives. 'The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy,' he said. "

I spotted this on Andrew Sullivan.com. You guys should really check him out.

Posted at: 12/16/2003 05:09:01 PM : Permalink

 
"The interview, the first time Dean has been questioned in detail about his foreign policy views, appeared to be part of an effort to transform Dean from a candidate known largely for a single, defining issue - opposition to the war in Iraq - to someone with the gravitas to be president and deal with the complex foreign policy challenges of the age."

HEY! Look, I found the gravitas... Is anybody surprised?

Posted at: 12/14/2003 03:07:10 AM : Permalink

 
"NEW YORK, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Revising its year-end economic forecast sharply upward, The Conference Board today projected that real GDP growth will hit 5.7% next year, making 2004 the best year economically in the last 20 years.

The forecast, by Conference Board Chief Economist Gail Fosler, expects worker productivity, which set a 20-year record in the third quarter, to rise at a healthy 3.6% next year. That would follow a gain of 4.3% this year."

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Posted at: 12/11/2003 10:41:22 PM : Permalink

 
December 05, 2003

"BAGHDAD, Iraq - It's a little-known footnote in postwar Iraq that an unassuming Army Civil Affairs captain named Kent Lindner has a bevy of blushing female fans.

Every time Lindner checks in on the group of young, deaf Iraqi seamstresses at their factory here, the women swarm him with admiration. 'I love you!' one of them writes in the dust on Lindner's SUV.

Such small-time adoration is not the stuff of headlines against the backdrop of a country painfully and often violently evolving from war. So on this day, when Lindner and his fellow soldiers are cheered as they fire the deaf workers' boss, a woman who has been locking the seamstresses in closets, holding their pay and beating them, the lack of TV cameras on hand is no surprise.

But later that night, mortars hit nearby. Cameras are rolling, and 15 minutes later folks back home instead see another news clip of Baghdad's latest violence. It's a soda-straw view that frustrates soldiers, like those in Lindner's Civil Affairs unit, who are slowly trying to stitch together the peace while the final stages of the war play out on television.

'We've got a lot of good things going on, but when I went home (on leave), people were just like 'We never hear that stuff,' ' said Civil Affairs Pvt. Amy Schroeder. 'That's what makes the families worry.'

What Iraq looks like on TV, and what Iraq is like for the 130,000 troops living here, sometimes feels like two different realities."

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Posted at: 12/10/2003 12:14:06 PM : Permalink

 
"A crowd of about 100 people attended, and roughly half of them were members of the news media."

"This is huge," said Donna Brazile, who was Mr. Gore's campaign manager in 2000. "It gives Dean what Dean has been missing most: stature."

What, no gravitas?

In 2000, Dr. Dean, then the governor of Vermont, considered running for president and met with Mr. Gore, who dissuaded him in what one former Gore aide described as "awkward conversation." At the time, the aide said, Dr. Dean told Mr. Gore that "he's going to challenge him for the presidency," and Mr. Gore "made a bunch of snide comments after he left."

"Aides to Mr. Gephardt seemed equally surprised, noting that Mr. Gephardt had put aside his own bid for the presidency in 2000 to endorse Mr. Gore."

"If that's true, it would be surprising," said Steve Murphy, Mr. Gephardt's campaign manager. "Al Gore and Dick Gephardt fought side by side to pass the Clinton economic plan, to defend against the Republican efforts to cut Medicare, to pass the assault weapons ban and to save affirmative action. Howard Dean was on the other side of every one of those fights."


Posted at: 12/9/2003 01:54:06 PM : Permalink

 
The problem with this tactic is that it isn't true. However, this minor obstacle shouldn't be a problem for dems. It was Huey Long, I believe, who said, "A lie is as good as the truth, you just have to say it more often." This is what the dems are using to gen up their troops. But to recap, in case you've forgotten, here are the facts in a nutshell:

• Gore had a 25% lead going into the race and lost it.


• Gore lost his own state.


• Gore lost Clinton's state.


• If he had won either of those he would be president now.


• The Florida supreme court (all dems) violated the constitution in it's finding. Don't believe me? The chief justice, and the oldest back justice of the Florida supreme court said so in their dissent. The vote was 4-3 and those two voted against it.


• Gore knew he lost but tried to steal the election and it was the US Supreme Court who prevented it.


• After the fact and with multiple counts by multiple news services Bush still won. Even if the courts had let the count go on Bush would have won. It is only possible to steal an election you have won if you have the convoluted mind of a dem.

The dems are doing this because they are following in the footsteps of Huey Long. Huey died, (Gov of Louisiana many years ago) killed in office. He was a colorful and crooked character and he was a dem.

Posted at: 12/7/2003 01:20:08 AM : Permalink

 
"I voted for what I thought was best for the country. Did I expect Howard Dean to go off to the left and say, 'I'm against everything'? Sure. Did I expect George Bush to f - - - it up as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did,"

I guess this is the sound of frustration from the impending loser to Dean. Pity. Perhaps if he had told the truth about the war he wouldn't have to say it was "f---"ed up.

Posted at: 12/7/2003 12:56:28 AM : Permalink

 
"By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, December 5, 2003; Page A31

Diane Rehm: 'Why do you think he [Bush] is suppressing that [Sept. 11] report?'

Howard Dean: 'I don't know. There are many theories about it. The most interesting theory that I've heard so far -- which is nothing more than a theory, it can't be proved -- is that he was warned ahead of time by the Saudis. Now who knows what the real situation is?'

-- 'The Diane Rehm Show,' NPR, Dec. 1

It has been 25 years since I discovered a psychiatric syndrome (for the record: 'Secondary Mania,' Archives of General Psychiatry, November 1978), and in the interim I haven't been looking for new ones. But it's time to don the white coat again. A plague is abroad in the land.

Bush Derangement Syndrome: the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency -- nay -- the very existence of George W. Bush. Now, I cannot testify to Howard Dean's sanity before this campaign, but five terms as governor by a man with no visible tics and no history of involuntary confinement is pretty good evidence of a normal mental status. When he avers, however, that 'the most interesting' theory as to why the president is 'suppressing' the Sept. 11 report is that Bush knew about Sept. 11 in advance, it's time to check on thorazine supplies."

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Posted at: 12/5/2003 01:01:21 PM : Permalink

 
"Planting trees to curb the effects of global warming is unlikely to work.

A US-Brazilian team has found that some parts of the Amazon rainforest emit more carbon dioxide (CO2) than they absorb in very wet conditions.

Their report, published in the journal Science, says previous studies have almost certainly over-estimated how much CO2 the Amazon can take in."

Posted at: 12/5/2003 04:09:39 AM : Permalink

 
It is a sad comment that I don't feel I can put this on the prebleny site. There are those who would object to having this there.

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We knew there was a dinner planned with ambassador Bremer and LTG Sanchez.

There were 600 seats available and all the units in the division were tasked with filling a few tables.

Naturally, the 501st MI battalion got our table. Soldiers were grumbling about having to sit through another dog-and-pony show, so we had to pick soldiers to attend. I chose not to go.

But, about 1500 the G2, LTC xxxxx, came up to me and with a smile, asked me to come to dinner with him, to meet him in his office at 1600 and bring a camera. I didn't really care about getting a picture with Sanchez or Bremer, but when the division's senior intelligence officer asks you to go, you go.

We were seated in the chow hall, fully decorated for thanksgiving when all kinds of secret service guys showed up.

That was my first clue, because Bremer's been here before and his personal security detachment is not that big. Then BG Dempsey got up to speak, and he welcomed ambassador Bremer and LTG Sanchez.

Bremer thanked us all and pulled out a piece of paper as if to give a speech. He mentioned that the President had given him this thanksgiving speech to give to the troops. He then paused and said that the senior man present should be the one to give it. He then looked at Sanchez, who just smiled. Bremer then said that we should probably get someone more senior to read the speech.

Then, from behind the camouflage netting, the President of the United States came around.

The mess hall actually erupted with hollering. Troops bounded to their feet with shocked smiles and just began cheering with all their hearts. The building actually shook. It was just unreal.

I was absolutely stunned. Not only for the obvious, but also because I was only two tables away from the podium.

There he stood, less than thirty feet away from me! The cheering went on and on and on. Soldiers were hollering, cheering, and a lot of them were crying. There was not a dry eye at my table. When he stepped up to the cheering, I could clearly see tears running down his cheeks.

It was the most surreal moment I've had in years.

Not since my wedding and xxxxx being born. Here was this man, Our President, came all the way around the world, spending 17 hours on an airplane and landing in the most dangerous airport in the world, where a plane was shot out of the sky not six days before. Just to spend two hours with his troops. Only to get on a plane and spend another 17 hours flying back. It was a great moment, and I will never forget it.

He delivered his speech, which we all loved, when he looked right at me and held his eyes on me.

Then he stepped down and was just mobbed by the soldiers. He slowly worked his way all the way around the chow hall and shook every last hand extended.

Every soldier who wanted a photo with the President got one.

I made my way through the line, got dinner, then wolfed it down as he was still working the room. You could tell he was really enjoying himself. It wasn't just a photo opportunity. This man was actually enjoying himself!

He worked his way over the course of about 90 minutes towards my side of the room. Meanwhile, I took the opportunity to shake a! few hands. I got a picture with Ambassador Bremer, Talabani (acting Iraqi president) and Achmed Chalabi (another member of the ruling council) and Condaleeza Rice, who was there with him. I felt like I was drunk.

He was getting closer to my table so I went back over to my seat. As he passed and posed for photos, he looked me in the eye and "How you doin,' captain." I smiled and said "God bless you, sir." To which he responded

"I'm proud of what you do, captain." Then moved on.

Posted at: 12/4/2003 10:59:46 PM : Permalink

 
"The goal of the Baathists in Iraq is not to remove the coalition forces by military means, but to so weaken Western morale that the American and British publics decide to throw in the towel. A critical part of the enemy's calculation is the lesson it took from Beirut and Somalia: that the American public cannot tolerate any casualties. So broadcasting every funeral plays directly into the hands of the Baathists. It's what they want. Why does it honor soldiers killed by these thugs to give the enemy an easy propaganda victory?"

Posted at: 12/3/2003 11:52:30 AM : Permalink

 
"WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 — Beyond issues like Iraq and the economy is one political reality that both the White House and Democrats say is already shaping next year's presidential race: If President Bush carries the same states in 2004 that he won in 2000, he will win seven more electoral votes.
"Before a vote is cast, we've increased our margin,' Matthew Dowd, chief strategist for Mr. Bush's campaign, said. 'In a race that's very close, those small readjustments in the electoral map will have significance.""

Posted at: 12/2/2003 05:44:56 PM : Permalink

 
Image that you are Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein and you wanted to give some money to a political party or a candidate in America in order to help you win your war against America. Which party, which candidate would you give your money too?

Posted at: 12/2/2003 03:48:44 PM : Permalink

 
"December 2, 2003 -- SEN. Hillary Rodham Clinton has just returned from a badwill tour of Iraq, seeking to use the facade of saluting the troops and sharing their Thanksgiving to undermine the political support for their mission."

Posted at: 12/2/2003 02:52:15 PM : Permalink