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The only thing consistent about you is your hatred of Bush.
Yeah right, like you're for states' rights.... LOL....
I live in California and I and an overwhelming majority of California citizens went to the polling booths in March 2000 and voted by a 61.4 percentage to support Proposition 22, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman. The California Supreme court has yet to make any ruling on the constitutionality of this law; hence the San Francisco mayor is breaking the law and the will of the California people.
Perfect example, thanks for furthering my post and the truth with your own post. Your rage and hatred has unbalanced you.
I live in California and I and an overwhelming majority of California citizens went to the polling booths in March 2000 and voted by a 61.4 percentage to support Proposition 22, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman. The California Supreme court has yet to make any ruling on the constitutionality of this law; hence the San Francisco mayor is breaking the law and the will of the California people.
Do you feel clever by continuously posting your sophomoric information on the three branch of American government? You keep bringing up Massachusetts when I posted nothing about Massachusetts.
Try and forget the hatred for a second and pay attention here, I live in California and I and an overwhelming majority of California citizens went to the polling booths in March 2000 and voted by a 61.4 percentage to support Proposition 22, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman. The California Supreme court has yet to make any ruling on the constitutionality of this law; hence the San Francisco mayor is breaking the law and the will of the California people.
BTW; you all seem to laugh at the idea of there being enough votes to ban gay marriage in America. Two thirds or 66.6% is a very special number in the executive branch. Proposition 22 received 61.4 % of the vote in California, or the MOST liberal state in the nation.
To post such an article and highlight.....
A full withdrawal before its scheduled departure date by one of Washington's biggest backers in the war on terror would be a major blow to the unity of U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.
is the truest testament to your treasonous nature. You really should move out of America.
I have no idea what your point is over gay marriage. It has become relevant today because activist mayors and judges have been “breaking the law” by marrying same sex partners over the last few months.
Is your point; anarchy is fine as long as you disagree with the law?
Is your point; any mayor should have the right to disregard any legally passed democratic law or the legally voted will of the people, in favor of what he or she feels is best?
Is your point; American citizens, or more specifically California citizens, have no right to have a democracy or to vote for what they feel is best for them?
Is your point; you had no idea Kerry and Edwards are also against gay marriage?
Not those damn activist Alabama, bible belt judges in the legal system? We can't have any of that. We'll have judges putting themselves above the law by "willfully and publicly" flouting orders to remove 100 year old, 2.6-ton monuments from every state in the union.
Liberals better get busy on their re-writes of the Constitution and eliminations of the will of the people which gave American citizens their democracy and states' their rights.
Geesh time for another civil war. lol.
Proposition 22
On March 7, 2000, the people of California voted on Proposition 22, a proposal to enact a state "Defense of Marriage Act" as an initiative statute. The text of Prop 22 reads:
“Only marriage between a man and a woman
is valid or recognized in California.”
Proposition 22 was ratified by an overwhelming majority of California voters, prevailing by a 23-point margin. Statewide, 4,618,673 votes were cast in favor of the proposition, comprising 61.4% of the total vote. Opponents garnered 2,909,370 votes, for 38.6% of the vote.
In March 2000, 61.4 percent of voters supported Proposition 22, the Protection of Marriage Initiative, to protect the rights of marriage for only a man and a woman. According to the Los Angeles Times exit poll, that included 65 percent of Latino voters, 62 percent of black voters, 59 percent of Asian voters, and 58 percent of white voters.
The point clearly eludes you, you wish to spin Bush’s opposition to gay marriage as a conservative, right-wing, religious, point of view, when in reality opposition to gay marriage is a universal position which I highlighted by showing liberal France’s position towards gay marriage.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ignored the voted wishes of the California voters who voted down gay marriage at the voting booths 4 years ago and paid absolutely no penalty.
Yet rule of law seems important to the liberal French who "suspended for a month" the activist mayor Noel Mamere, after he officiated over a June 5 wedding of two men in defiance of French authorities instructions.
AK, as I said months ago, republicans are accountable to a higher standard. I stated this earlier and provided evidence with current examples of Ryan, Lott.
Thank you AK, now you highlight another example….
Judge Roy Moore lost his judgeship while San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ignored the voted wishes of the California voters who voted down gay marriage at the voting booths 4 years ago.
The sad joke is you attack Bush and his conservative voters while ignoring the rest of the conservative world which takes legal action when activist judges or mayors take the law into their own hands.
The government last week suspended for a month a mayor from the opposition Green party, Noel Mamere, after he officiated over a June 5 wedding of two men - France's first gay wedding - in defiance of authorities' instructions.
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=8881
Figures all a blind person like you could can see is someone grasping for an emotional issue which appeals to the religious right. I guess you missed the activist judges and mayors who ignored the will of California voters in favor of making their own law.
Kerry, Edwards May Not Vote on Marriage
While Kerry and Edwards oppose gay marriage
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20040713/ap_o...
I believe I'm against lifting the ban on logging in remote areas of national forests. However I'm not a knee-jerk, hate America first, politically polluted, liberal.
Hummmm
"When the Forest Service originally proposed protecting these special places to hunt, fish and camp, the millions of public comments received were overwhelmingly supportive," Idaho Conservation League spokesman John Robinson said. "There's no reason to drag out this fight."
Sources are stating the Saudi government has just made a 180 degree turn from supporting or ignoring terrorists to fighting terrorism.
The November elections are a life-time away and Iraq is changing for the better since the new Iraq government began using a politically incorrect sharp sword.
I'm seeing this "news" break and hearing Sara's argument we are losing the battle against terrorism and Al Qaeda. I guess this UBL "senior" associate didn't get that DMC's hate America first memo.
Bin Laden Associate Turns Self In
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
A senior associate of Usama bin Laden has surrendered to Saudi Arabian authorities, FOX News has confirmed.
Jalid al-Harbi, also known as Abu Suleiman al-Makki or "the crippled sheikh," apparently turned himself in to the Saudi embassy in Tehran, Iran in response to the amnesty offered last month by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah.
The life of a victimized liberal, "a dollar short and a day late".
Rice: No Plan to Delay National Election
Jul 13, 9:34 AM (ET)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of a new federal voting commission suggested to congressional leaders that there should be a process for canceling or rescheduling an election interrupted by terrorism, but national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said no such plan is being considered by the administration.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040713/D83PU9TO1.html
So, flash forward to President Bush, who's being accused of many things, some of them flat-out untrue. For example, the Senate Intelligence Committee (search) did not find any evidence that the Bush administration attempted to coerce, influence or pressure analysts to change their judgment on WMDs in Iraq — so reads conclusion 83 of the Senate report.
Thus, all the bomb-throwers who accuse Mr. Bush of lying about WMDs have been dishonorable. They were wrong and had no proof to begin with.They are guilty of a slander, a dishonorable act.
Dissent or Dishonor?
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
By Bill O'Reilly
Dissent or dishonor? That is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo." America was founded on dissent, that is loyal opposition to government policies. And that's a good thing. But now some Americans are confusing true dissent with dishonesty and dishonor.
"Talking Points" believes the Bill Clinton situation is a good example. While president, Mr. Clinton did a number of questionable things. Conservatives especially were angered that Mr. Clinton used the Oval Office in an unseemly way and then lied about it. The dissent over that was absolutely appropriate, but some right-wingers went overboard and began accusing Mr. Clinton of all kinds of deeds that were unproven and sometimes even defamatory.
That kind of behavior is simply dishonorable. Just because you don't like a politician doesn't give you the right to lie about them. Dishonor is defined as treating someone in a degrading manner, trying to injure them personally. There's no place for that in America.
So, flash forward to President Bush, who's being accused of many things, some of them flat-out untrue. For example, the Senate Intelligence Committee (search) did not find any evidence that the Bush administration attempted to coerce, influence or pressure analysts to change their judgment on WMDs in Iraq — so reads conclusion 83 of the Senate report.
Thus, all the bomb-throwers who accuse Mr. Bush of lying about WMDs have been dishonorable. They were wrong and had no proof to begin with.They are guilty of a slander, a dishonorable act.
Other examples, Whoopi Goldberg (search) made crude jokes about Mr. Bush's name. Is that dissent or dishonor? Whether you like him or not, Mr. Bush is the president. It is dishonorable for Ms. Goldberg crudely to mock him without purpose. There's no dissent in that and it reflects poorly on her.
Meryl Streep said, "If you're going to invite Jesus on the campaign bus and ask him to stump for you, you'd better listen carefully to what he has to say first. He did not say 'blessed is the preemptive strike.'"
Dissent or dishonor? In this case, Ms. Streep is dissenting. She's objecting to a policy matter and that's legit. See the difference? Goldberg is disrespectful. Streep is entitled to her opinion about an issue, although I'd love to talk to her about it.
Michael Moore's movie is dissent, but his dishonesty within the film is dishonorable. Also, when he runs around Europe bashing America, he's giving comfort to our enemies, totally dishonorable and disgraceful in a time of war. You have to be careful where you utter anti-American statements. What's OK in Berkeley is not OK in Paris.
Finally, let's take a look at conservative Ann Coulter. She writes,"Kerry picks a pretty-boy milquetoast as his running mate, narrowly edging out a puppy for the spot."
Dissent or dishonor? Well, it's dissent. She's simply making fun of John Edwards. Although to be fair, short of Newt Gingrich, Coulter would have been displeased by anyone Kerry picked.
Once again, dissent must be protected, but dishonorable behavior must be condemned.
And that's "The Memo."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,125510,00.html
Yes, the best way to end terrorism is to break into your house at night and drag you away without a warrant, Saddam was quite good at controlling his constituents.
Hundreds of suspected criminals were detained in an Iraqi police sweep. Just after dark, police in pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles spread through the Bab Alsheikh neighborhood and snatched suspects off the streets.
Even America puts it's constitution on hold from time to time, it's call Marshal Law.
In the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, Kurdish security forces captured 15 militants, including a man believed to be a senior leader in a local group linked to Al Qaeda, an official in a pro-American Kurdish party said Tuesday.
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Hundreds of suspected criminals were detained in an Iraqi police sweep in a Baghdad neighborhood.
The Baghdad operation Monday involved dozens of Iraqi police officers and was intended to crack down on "criminals, kidnappers and looters," Hussein Ali Kamal, the deputy interior minister, said Tuesday.
Authorities arrested 527 suspects, said Sabah Qassem, an Interior Ministry information officer.
Just after dark, police in pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles spread through the Bab Alsheikh neighborhood and snatched suspects off the streets. Some fought back, setting off dozens of small gunbattles. One suspect died and two were injured while resisting arrest, Kamal said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,125474,00.html
Anything but the truth, attack Bush at all cost, "I mean how much can one guy take?"
The logic of the liberal, Tenet had no accountability for the information he gave Bush, "I mean how much can a guy take"?
"I do believe Tenet had had enough. How much can one guy take"
On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney accused his Democratic rivals of rewriting history.
Cheney, on a re-election campaign swing through Pennsylvania, told a fund-raiser that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq rid the world of a "gathering threat" to peace and security.
He also accused Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and his running mate John Edwards of hypocrisy in criticizing the administration's war policies.
Both had seen the same prewar intelligence on Iraq that Bush saw and both of them supported the decision to go to war, Cheney said.
U.S. President George W. Bush gives the thumbs up as he escorts his daughter Barbara to Marine One, before departing the White House July 13, 2004. Bush and his daughter are traveling to the Midwest for a two-day campaign
Bush Haters worldwide are still watching the famed 'Bush is Nazi' add on MOVEON.ORG -- despite repeated claims by the site's founders the short had been removed more than six months ago!
As of Monday morning [11 am Eastern] -- the ad was still carried on MOVEON's website -- under the curious file name "renamed.again.renamed.mov.FKbxnT3hzaHCcOR7vWvRYmZpbGUtMTM4OQ--.mpg"
The ad shows images of Bush with text saying, "God told me to strike at al-Qaida," before turning to images of Hitler with the words, "And then He instructed me to strike at Saddam." The ad ends with the words, "sound familiar?" on a black and white screen.
Last year, MOVEONE Executive Director Eli Parser claimed the ad was promptly taken off the Internet after its submission, as part of a contest, by a member of the public.
DRUDGE presents a direct current MOVEON link to the ad:
http://www.moveon.org/images/renamed.again.renamed.mov.FKbxnT3hzaHCcOR7vWvRYmZpbGUtMTM4OQ--.mpg
http://drudgereport.com/flash7mo.htm
Things in Iraq will change for the better within a couple months. Many times the American constitution has been put on hold during wartime.
The secret to the western world ending a war in today's world is unrestrained leadership during that war.
Winning is paramount during wartime. Money, politics, truth, everything is secondary to winning during wartime.
This concept has eluded liberals and the French since time began. Hence liberals and French.
"Terrorism isn't just killing and blowing up bombs, whoever threatens the ordinary life of the people is a terrorist," al-Yawer told reporters Monday. "We have a very sharp sword ready for anyone who threatens the security of this country."
"Iraq will soon offer amnesty to insurgents so long as they haven't performed "atrocious acts" but the interim president is threatening to use a "very sharp sword" to fight guerrillas threatening the country's security."
Surfer bitten in half
By Richard Shears, Daily Mail, in Sydney
A surfer was bitten in half after losing a desperate fight for his life with two Great White sharks.
Brad Smith, 29, was surfing off the Western Australian coast when a huge shark 'as wide as a car' lunged out of the water and snapped his board in half.
Mr Smith's friends could only watch in horror as he fell into the sea and another of the enormous creatures moved in on him. Experts said it was almost as if they had ambushed him.
The surfer lashed out with his fists to try to keep the sharks at bay as they came at him repeatedly. But after just 45 seconds he disappeared beneath the surface - and the water turned red.
When his body floated back up, his friends risked their own lives to go out and drag it back to shore.
Yesterday they were too upset to describe his injuries, but another surfer at Left Handers Beach near the resort of Gracetown said he had been warned: 'Don't go in there, someone's been bitten in half by a shark.'
Another surfer Cameron Rowe, 17, said: 'There was nothing we could do to help him. At first I saw one shark and thought it was one of the usual ones you see swimming-around, reef sharks, which don't cause you any trouble.
'But these things were massive. When the first one came up a bit I could see its fin and it was almost a yard high.
'When it came out of the water with Brad still fighting it, I could see its body was about the width of a car and its open jaws were as wide as a man's arm.
'What happened then just ended up in a terrible feeding frenzy. It was awful.'
One of Mr Smith's friends, Mitch Campbell, said: 'It was the worst thing I have seen. There was so much confusion out there it was impossible to tell which shark was attacking, but they kept coming at him time and time again.
'You could see Brad trying to whack at them to keep them away.
'We were shouting out, "Swim for your life, mate! Swim for your life!" But he obviously didn't have a chance. They were massive.
'He put up such a brave fight. He was punching away and there was water and blood everywhere.'
Police have collected Mr Smith's surfboard, snapped in half by the razor-sharp teeth of one of the sharks. Throughout yesterday-marksmen in a flotilla of boats, aided by police in a helicopter, searched for the killers, to no avail.
The failure to locate the maneaters has sent fear along the West Australian coast.
'If we find them, we have the authority to kill them,' said fisheries officer Tony Cappelluti. Great Whites are a protected species - unless one kills a human.
'If they've tasted human blood, then they'll remain a problem until we've tracked them down,' he added.
Shark expert Sasha Thompson, from the Aquarium of Western Australia, said witness reports suggested the sharks were Great Whites, the most feared of all marine creatures and the species featured in the film Jaws.
'Judging by the size, the area they were swimming in and the power of the jaws, I'd say they were Great Whites,' she said.
She said it was impossible to know what triggered the attack, but added: 'It is whale migration season and that might have something to do with it.'
Great Whites are known to spend time on Western Australia's southern coast in winter before moving north to hunt whales returning to southern waters.
Another marine expert, Mike Roennfeldt, said he was surprised at the nature of the ambush-style attack.
'Generally sharks are solo hunters,' he said. 'It's unusual - unheard of, in fact - for one Great White to knock a guy off his surfboard and then for another to attack, which seems to have happened here.'
It was the second fatal attack in West Australian waters in less than four years.
In November 2000, 49-year-old swimmer Ken Crew died from massive bleeding after one of his legs was bitten off in shallow water just north of Perth's popular Cottesloe Beach.
http://www.thisislondon.com/til/jsp/modules/Article/print.jsp?itemId=11899496
Iraq Insurgent Force May Number 20,000
Updated: 08:27 AM EDT
Guerrillas Led by Sunnis, Not Foreigners Hoping to Build an Islamist State
By JIM KRANE, AP
BAGHDAD, Iraq (July 9) - Contrary to U.S. government claims, the insurgency in Iraq is led by well-armed Sunnis angry about losing power, not foreign fighters, and is far larger than previously thought, American military officials say.
AP
'We're not at the forefront of a jihadist war here,' said a U.S. military official in Baghdad, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The officials told The Associated Press the guerrillas can call on loyalists to boost their forces to as high as 20,000 and have enough popular support among nationalist Iraqis angered by the presence of U.S. troops that they cannot be militarily defeated.
That number is far larger than the 5,000 guerrillas previously thought to be at the insurgency's core. And some insurgents are highly specialized - one Baghdad cell, for instance, has two leaders, one assassin, and two groups of bomb-makers.
Although U.S. military analysts disagree over the exact size, the insurgency is believed to include dozens of regional cells, often led by tribal sheiks and inspired by Sunni Muslim imams.
The developing intelligence picture of the insurgency contrasts with the commonly stated view in the Bush administration that the fighting is fueled by foreign warriors intent on creating an Islamic state.
'We're not at the forefront of a jihadist war here,' said a U.S. military official in Baghdad, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The military official, who has logged thousands of miles driving around Iraq to meet with insurgents or their representatives, said a skillful Iraqi government could co-opt some of the guerrillas and reconcile with the leaders instead of fighting them.
'I generally like a lot of these guys,' he said. 'We know who the key people are in all the different cities, and generally how they operate. The problem is getting actionable information so you can either attack them, arrest them or engage them.'
Even as Iraqi leaders wrangle over the contentious issue of offering a broad amnesty to guerrilla fighters, the new Iraqi military and intelligence corps have begun gathering and sharing information on the insurgents with the U.S. military, providing a sharper picture of a complex insurgency.
'Nobody knows about Iraqis and all the subtleties in culture, appearance, religion and so forth better than Iraqis themselves,' said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Daniel Baggio, a military spokesman at Multinational Corps headquarters in Baghdad. 'We're very optimistic about the Iraqis' use of their own human intelligence to help root out these insurgents.'
The intelligence boost has allowed American pilots to bomb suspected insurgent safe houses over the past two weeks, with Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi saying Iraqis supplied information for at least one of those airstrikes. But the better view of the insurgency also contradicts much of the popular wisdom about it.
Estimates of the insurgents' manpower tend to be too low. Last week, a former coalition official said 4,000 to 5,000 Baathists form the core of the insurgency, with other attacks committed by a couple hundred supporters of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and hundreds of other foreign fighters.
Anthony Cordesman, an Iraq analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the figure of 5,000 insurgents 'was never more than a wag and is now clearly ridiculous.'
'Part-timers are difficult to count, but almost all insurgent movements depend on cadres that are part-time and that can blend back into the population,' he said.
U.S. military analysts disagree over the size of the insurgency, with estimates running as high as 20,000 fighters when part-timers are added.
Ahmed Hashim, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College, said the higher numbers squared with his findings in a study of the insurgency completed in Iraq.
One hint that the number is larger is the sheer volume of suspected insurgents - 22,000 - who have cycled through U.S.-run prisons. Most have been released. And in April alone, U.S. forces killed as many as 4,000 people, the military official said, including Sunni insurgents and Shiite militiamen fighting under the banner of a radical cleric.
There has been no letup in attacks. On Thursday, insurgents detonated a car bomb and then attacked a military headquarters in Samarra, a center of resistance in the Sunni Triangle 60 miles north of the capital, killing five U.S. soldiers and one Iraqi guardsman.
Guerrilla leaders come from various corners of Saddam's Baath Party, including lawyers' groups, prominent families and especially from his Military Bureau, an internal security arm used to purge enemies. They've formed dozens of cells.
U.S. military documents obtained by AP show a guerrilla band mounting attacks in Baghdad that consists of two leaders, four sub-leaders and 30 members, broken down by activity. There is a pair of financiers, two cells of car bomb-builders, an assassin, separate teams launching mortar and rocket attacks, and others handling roadside bombs and ambushes.
Most of the insurgents are fighting for a bigger role in a secular society, not a Taliban-like Islamic state, the military official said. Almost all the guerrillas are Iraqis, even those launching some of the devastating car bombings normally blamed on foreigners - usually al-Zarqawi.
The official said many car bombings bore the 'tradecraft' of Saddam's former secret police and were aimed at intimidating Iraq's new security services.
Many in the U.S. intelligence community have been making similar points, but have encountered political opposition from the Bush administration, a State Department official in Washington said, also speaking on condition of anonymity.
Civilian analysts generally agreed, saying U.S. and Iraqi officials have long overemphasized the roles of foreign fighters and Muslim extremists.
Such positions support the Bush administration's view that the insurgency is linked to the war on terror. A closer examination paints most insurgents as secular Iraqis angry at the presence of U.S. and other foreign troops.
'Too much U.S. analysis is fixated on terms like 'jihadist,' just as it almost mindlessly tries to tie everything to (Osama) bin Laden,' Cordesman said. 'Every public opinion poll in Iraq ... supports the nationalist character of what is happening.'
Many guerrillas are motivated by Islam in the same way religion motivates American soldiers, who also tend to pray more when they're at war, the U.S. military official said.
He said he met Tuesday with four tribal sheiks from Ramadi who 'made very clear' that they had no desire for an Islamic state, even though mosques are used as insurgent sanctuaries and funding centers.
''We're not a bunch of Talibans,'' he paraphrased the sheiks as saying.
At the orders of Gen. John Abizaid, the U.S. commander of Mideast operations, Army analysts looked closely for evidence that Iraq's insurgency was adopting extreme Islamist goals, the official said. Analysts learned that ridding Iraq of U.S. troops was the motivator for most insurgents, not the formation of an Islamic state.
The officer said Iraq's insurgents have a big advantage over guerrillas elsewhere: plenty of arms, money, and training. Iraq's lack of a national identity card system - and guerrillas' refusal to plan attacks by easily intercepted telephone calls - makes them difficult to track.
'They have learned a great deal over the last year, and with far more continuity than the rotating U.S. forces and Iraqi security forces,' Cordesman said of the guerrillas. 'They have learned to react very quickly and in ways our sensors and standard tactics cannot easily deal with.'
07-09-04 0654 EDT
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20040709022809990001
Very important verbiage,...
"This is the last ultimatum to those who give him shelter. This is the last warning. If you don't stop, we will do to you what the coalition forces have failed to do.
Iraqi Group Threatens to Kill Al-Zarqawi
TAREK EL-TABLAWY
Associated Press
Posted on Tue, Jul. 06, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A group of armed masked men threatened Tuesday to kill Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, saying that he was murdering innocent Iraqis and defiling the Muslim religion.
In a videotape sent to al-Arabiya television, the previously unknown group, which called itself the "Salvation Movement," ordered al-Zarqawi to leave the country immediately and questioned how he could justify the killing of innocent civilians and his threats to assassinate interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
The threat came a day after U.S.-led coalition forces, who have been targeting Zarqawi, launched an air strike in the restive city of Fallujah on a suspected safe house used by his followers. The attack killed 15 people, witnesses said.
In the video, three men with rocket propelled grenades and other weapons, flanked by an Iraqi flag, delivered the threats. The man speaking had a clear Iraqi accent.
"We have started preparing ... to capture him and his allies or kill them and present them as gift to our people." one of the men, whose faces were covered with Arab headscarves, said in the video. "This is the last ultimatum to those who give him shelter. This is the last warning. If you don't stop, we will do to you what the coalition forces have failed to do."
Al-Zarqawi, said to be connected to al-Qaida, is believed to be behind a series of coordinated attacks on police and security forces that killed 100 people only days before U.S. forces handed over power to an Iraqi interim government.
The attacks have led to fears that religious fanatics and Saddam loyalists may be joining forces to fight both the multinational force and the new Iraqi government.
However, many Iraqis, including insurgents, are deeply opposed to the presence of Zarqawi and other foreign fighters in their country.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/nation/9088661.htm?1c
And Clinton's lack of decision is responsible for the genocide of ten of thousands of moderate Hutus and a million machete hacked Tutsis.
Judgments on making war are never as simple as correct or incorrect, the US leaving Vietnam caused a Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979, in which approximately 1.7 million people lost their lives (21% of the country's population), which was one of the worst human tragedies of the last century.
http://www.yale.edu/cgp/
My post is rude and uncalled for? No it's you and your overlooking of reality in favor of polictical hatred which is rude and uncalled for. It's you and your ideologues dogmatic, knee-jerk attacks on truth which are rude and uncalled for. You hypocritically count the hundreds of American lifes lost when you're against a war while ignoring the millions of lifes lost when America avoids war. No, I don’t wonder, nor do I care why people of your mindset don’t want to respond to me.
Peg, that was one of the most ignorant comments posted here to date, stick to what you're best at, hating Bush.
LBJ was one of the country's greatest presidents, not only was LBJ one of the very few southern white men of 40 years ago who had the power, the political ability, the personal will and the physical intimidation presence to pressure a white congress and senate into doing the right thing, but they did it....
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964.
Document Number: PL 88-352
Date: 02 JUL 64
88th Congress, H. R. 7152
An Act
To enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Civil Rights Act of 1964".
I thought you would have much preferred Dean as the Dem candidate?