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According to Alan Greenspan.
Say some who've had some experience with terrorism, Israeli lawyers
"No one has yet explained," he said, "how keeping someone from gaining equal consideration based on their individual skill set to obtain lawful employment pleases God.”
-Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Methodist minister from Kansas City and one of the bill’s 165 co-sponsors.
From McClatchy Newspapers
Government isn't bad, its how you do government...that's the scam Republicans have, they run on idea that goverment sucks, then they get into office and prove it.
-- Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, 9-14-07
"Today, most of Baghdad's neighborhoods are being patrolled by coalition and Iraqi forces who live among the people they protect. Many schools and markets are reopening. Citizens are coming forward with vital intelligence. Sectarian killings are down. And ordinary life is beginning to return."
— President Bush in his speech Thursday on Iraq
BAGHDAD — "Ordinary" isn't a word that residents of Baghdad use to describe their lives.
More at McClatchy Online.
A law professor at Vermont Law School, Oliver R. Goodenough gives a good assessment of the 'surge'. He compares it to a 'dollar auction'
Saturday September 1st, the Republican Party of Texas will be having its 2008 Presidential Straw Poll at the Ft Worth Convention Center. Simultaneously, outside the convention center, Texans for Peace will be having it's American People's Poll on Iraq. With none of the major Republicans candidates scheduled to be at the Straw Poll (unless you consider Ron Paul major [ugh]) there's a good chance there will be more Texans for Peace folk than Republicans in downtown Ft Worth Saturday. Let's make it happen!
"He is such a liar, because the only time
he was down there was for photo ops with celebrities, with politicians,
with diplomats,"
said deputy fire chief Jimmy Riches, who spent months
digging for his firefighter son. In this AP story: Giuliani: I Misspoke Ablut Ground Zero
Andrew Sullivan's Quote of the Day sums up the memorylessness of our lame-duck President.
From GWB's veto speech:
| Instead, members of the House and the Senate passed a bill that substitutes the opinions of politicians for the judgment of our military commanders. So a few minutes ago, I vetoed this bill. |
Did the Joint Chiefs of Staff decide to invade Iraq all by themselves? Or is this about substituting the opinion of one politician with the opinion of the elected Congress of the United States? This is a case where the people who pay the bills should make the decission. And there ought to be a rule against politicians using the term 'politician' as a way to denigrate their opposition. Did the
And would GWB stop calling the insurgents 'terrorists', please. We're the ones with an army occupying their country. 'Terrorist' doesn't apply.
Let's stop calling this part of the 'War on Terror', which it isn't and start calling it an Occupation.
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