If Al Queda are thinking ultra diabolically clever they would put attack teams together to strike at Venezuelan and/or Nigerian oil fields/pipelines, imo, that is as probe within the confines of my little scenarios unlimited think tank:)
good site. http://www.electoral-vote.com/ If this holds up Bush wins with 280 electoral votes. People say but Kerry on the other issues will win, but i say by turning Iraq into a non-issue and going so far to say that even if he knew there were no WMDs or Al Queda link he would have voted for the war(and with this he was throwing cold water on everything that had people in outrage: it was so pathetic to see the anti-war protesters that are for Kerry ABB all the way marching for a man who shot down the issue they were disturbed about). When he did that he put a gun to the Iraq issue and shot it. Sorry Kerry but that WAS the issue. Having surrendered that issue he made this race neck to neck with Kerry slipping. Kerry personally lifted Bush off the Iraq meathook and said let's now debate the important issues. Iraq had only been the issue for an intense near 20months. The debates are Kerry's last hope, the polls after the first debate could well reveal who will be the winner. I would say those voting for Kerry and , and those, like me stepping aside for what i consider a huge act of arrogance in thinking he could toss aside iraq and still get the ABB vote and also get the moderate republican voters, will be in shock if Bush wins. To know all the manipulation, lies, skullduggery that Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld pushed down the throat of the public to get this war to happen, all the columns that poured from typewriters mapping the lie of this war to then know this all amounted to NOTHING because Kerry said, 'hey , o.k., i would have done the same thing, we had to have this war'--that is what he is saying when he said i would have voted for the war regardless of WMDs and Al Queda--- everything else he says means nothing to me, nothing. So here we could well be confronted with a post election night "They're Back!"--Bush/Cheney/Rummy. If this happens, the saddest part will be, there will be a lot of angry shocked people sitting in a pit of a power vacuum leaderless, but hey they don't have a leader now in Kerry, but i think they secretly to themselves know that already. But they are carrying out the ABB to the end out of sheer desperation. It appears the convention will end with the protest action a major dud, a non event. Everybody did their obedient pre-convention march exactly as Bloomberg wanted it to happen, so well behaved. A relative few ran to try to enter Central Park and were carried away--out of an estimated 400,000 300 were arrested. 400,000 almost all there to protest the Bush War, a war that their candidate has know problem with----something tragic about that-- How can 400,000 people march and have no impact?? Damned if they had worn easter bonnets it could have passed for the Easter Sunday NYC traditional parade. It was a rudderless leaderless parade as they have NO leaders that can fire up and get commotion and noise. So here we stand at the on the brink of hearing "They're Back!" I estimate McCain's vigorous endorsement of Bush will ensure 15% of the vote that he would have lost if he did not speak out for Bush.
And here the democratic candidate virtually begged McCain to be his VP running mate. Unless Kerry pulls off a big surprise in the debates, i am now seeing a Bush victory. The unthinkable now seems probable.
i see Dreyfus is once again in his "i hate Shi'ites" apoplexy(especially Sistani and Sadr, Dreyfus seems to view that what constitutes 60% of the country should not have power-- he favors working against Sistani and Sadr; again showing liberals become repressors if it does not fit THEIR western Secular is SACRED fanatic view---i state as i have stated before, they, these seculars, have turned secularism into a religion--fanatics are fanatics) This self-styled raving blogger considers Allawi a better choice than Sistani, who he still thinks is islamic barbarian, Hamod would be disgusted with Dreyfus) Dreyfus <<Give the ayatollah what he wants? Well, first of all, whatever the problems one might have with Allawi (and I have a few), he at least (1) represents the government of Iraq, puppet-like or not, and (2) is a secular Arab nationalist.>> Another liberal with all the smarts of a Rush Limbaugh, for when they write like this, i see them as intolerant and stupid as Limbaugh. Ala Lily Tomlin, i remain in search of intelligent life on this planet. Dreyfus<<And there's more. Sistani is a sick old man. He ain't gonna last. He may indeed command cult-like devotion from the self-mutilating, religious Iraqi Shiites.>. This is low level bigoted hating BS from Dreyfus. He wrote the above in an attack on Paul Krugman saying he should stick to economics rather than talk about what he doesn't understand.(Krugman is aces compared to this ranting ego-trip Mister Dreyfus) Sorry Dreyfus you are in thinking Allawi would be a better fate show me you are an bigoted liberal westerner--a small time typist. Gawd save iraq from the americans both right wing and liberal.
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