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Saturday, January 20, 2007

Bush State Of The Union Speech

      The President's State of the Union speech comes up on Tuesday, giving him one more chance to convince both the public and the House and Senate that his plan for Iraq is the right plan. He will, no doubt, wish to 'stay the course' in his speech and he will not give in to any idea's but his own.

    As was with his childhood, he is a sore loser and he will not give up even if he knows that he is wrong. He is just attempting to change the rules a little bit but with the same outcome as before.

   The Democrat's do not support an 'escalation' and many Republicans do not either. Other GOP members are trying to get out from under the Bush fiasco as they clearly understand that they will not be re-elected in 2008 if they stick with the Bush rhetoric.

    It is being suggested by former speech writers that Bush needs to be more forceful, blunt or combative in his speech to rebuff both his critics and the Democrats.

    White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino:

"President Bush will discuss his determination to defeat the terrorists who are part of a broader extremist movement that is now doing everything it can to defeat us in Iraq. If the extremists prevail in Iraq, the American people will be less safe and our enemies will be emboldened and more lethal."                     Yahoo News Article

Bush probably will try to link the war to the threat to America since the Sept. 11 attacks because fighting terrorism has such widespread appeal, said Bruce Riedel, a former official at the National Security Council and analyst at the liberal Brookings Institution.

"Fear is a commodity that the administration has sold before, and right now they're not having much success with the public or the Congress with the arguments they've trotted out on the (troop) surge," said Ridel.

   So it looks as if the 'fear card' will be taking the spotlight once again. This time around we will really get to see if the public is still so ignorant and stupid as to listen to anything this sack of shit says!

 

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U.S. Wants Radar Base In Czech Republic

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - The United States has asked the Czech Republic to host a radar base that would be part of a global missile defense system, the prime minister announced Saturday, drawing a warning from Russia of retaliatory actions.           Yahoo News

Independent defense experts have said the ground-based missile defense system is still years from being able to protect against long-range missile attacks.

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    As if Russia is going to allow this base so close to home! More of the fantasy that Ronald Reagan started with his Stars Wars weapons system!

    So I take it that our government would then have to start the draft again just to guard the workers who would be building this station?

 

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Troop Death Toll Climbs

   The  Associated Press reports that 20 personnel were killed in military operations on Saturday in Iraq. This is after the 2 that were killed on Friday.

    13 were killed when an U.S. Army helicopter went down northeast of Baghdad. the military hasn't determined the cause of the crash.

    From Yahoo News:

An attack Saturday night blamed on militiamen in the city of Karbala killed five soldiers. Roadside bombs killed another soldier in the capital and one in Nineveh province north of Baghdad.

   ....and yet President(?) Bush still does not get it. It must be great to be a coward and still send others to their deaths!

         IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!

 

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The Democrats Are Getting Verbal

   It looks as if the Democrats are beginning to grow some backbone!

Sen.John D. Rockefeller IV  said of George Bush.

“To be quite honest, I’m a little concerned that it’s Iraq again. This whole concept of moving against Iran is bizarre.”

"I don't think he understands the world. I don't think he's particularly curious about the world. I don't think he reads like he says he does. Every time he reads something he tells you about it, I think."       NYTimes

 

    Yes,and what would you expect from this idiot? This asswipe has never cared about anything outside of his eyesight and even that is debatable. President Bush has had his head buried up his ass since childbirth and he has never had any initiative for anything other than failure. I'd be surprised if he could tell you anything about Vietnam without having someone make notes for him!

   Stay tuned for Iraq 2:Iran!

 

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Honda Aircraft Co. is okay for Greensboro

    This report comes from the state of North Carolina, city of Greensboro. This is where I happen to reside.

    The county here (Guilford) has been trying to land Honda Aircraft Co. small jet plant to be built at Piedmont Triad International Airport. That's no big deal since this area could definitely use the employment.

    Honda, as do most companies' in this day and age, wants a few tax incentives from the city,county,as well as the city of High Point and Winston-Salem.

    News&Record

The new company is seeking a total of $1.2 million in economic incentives from the county and the city of Greensboro, as well as $100,000 from the city of High Point and $100,000 from a group in Winston-Salem, commissioners said. Honda would employ 300 people at an average $72,000-a-year salary, commissioners said.

Honda Aircraft announced last summer that it would open its headquarters at PTI, but the big prize — a manufacturing operation — was still to be determined.        Entire Article

   I think that it is in the best interest of the cities involved to approve the economic tax incentives that Honda is seeking. This is as long as the cities and the county do not go nuts with the incentives like they did with Dell ($242 million with state incentives and $37 million from Winston-Salem)

   We already have the Honda headquarters so now let's go get the manufacturing facility also!

 

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The Military's Role As Oil Protection Service

   This interesting story come from Alternet and it looks at the way that the United States is increasingly using its military to police oil pipelines and to secure Americas flow of oil by what ever means needed. That would, in my opinion,include attacking Iraq and the future attack on Iran.

The Article

A View From The citizens Of Iran

   Vice Idiot Dick Cheney is using the old line that if we attack Iran, the citizens of the country will rise up against their government and help the Americans.

   Ali G. Scotten,of the Christian Science Monitor, has been to Iran and says that even though the majority of Iranian citizens think highly of Americans, they would more than likely defend their government.

   Read it here

 

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3,033 U.S. Troops Dead Since 2003. Prison Bound for cheating On Spouse?

    If you are married and you have an affair in the state of Michigan, don't get caught. If you are prosecuted for cheating, you could end up in prison for life.

   The state's appeals court said those flings could be prosecuted as first-degree criminal sexual conduct, which could get you a life sentence.    Follow me

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   The United States military reported Saturday that 3 American Troops were killed.  According to the Associated Press, that brings the total count up to 3,033.

    Speaking of the war in Iraq. An Associated Press-Ipsos poll last week found that 70% of Americans oppose sending more troops into the country.

   Instead of protesting the war in Iraq by marching in the streets and blocking the entrance to military bases, today's war protesters are taking to the Internet according to this article.

    How long did it take them to figure this out?

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Friday, January 19, 2007

The Weekend Is Here

   Rich Little may not be able to joke about Bush or Iraq at the on-coming dinner party but a few of our other comedians can!

   By way of DailyKos we have this!

by Bill in Portland Maine

Fri Jan 19, 2007 at 03:59:29 PM PST

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE...

Rich Little may not be able to mention Bush or Iraq, but these guys certainly can...

"In the [60 Minutes] interview, Bush said popularity is not his goal. Well, I thought, mission accomplished."

"President Bush watched the hanging of Saddam Hussein. He said he was not pleased with how the Iraqis executed Saddam Hussein. The Iraqis fired back, 'Yeah? We're not pleased with the way you executed the war.'"
---David Letterman

"The good news is last night President Bush finally admitted he's made mistakes in Iraq. The bad news is he's planning to make the same mistakes again."

"President Bush also said that all the military commanders who have looked at his plan say it will work. That's because all the ones who said it wouldn't work aren't military commanders anymore."
---Jay Leno

"Former President Bush is going to celebrate his 85th birthday by jumping out of a plane. So for one minute there will be two Bush’s in a freefall."
---Conan O'Brien

 

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Pelosi and the White House Trade Jabs

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hit the nail on the head Friday when she said that President Bush is hurrying troops into Iraq while betting that Congress won't cut off funds if they are already in battle.  The White House called her claim "poisonous."

   Pelosi, on ABC's "Good Morning America."   

    "The president knows that because the troops are in harm's way, that we won't cut off the resources. That's why he's moving so quickly to put them in harm's way."

Spokeswoman Dana Perino had this to say from the White House.

"Those particular comments were poisonous. I think questioning the president's motivations and suggesting that he, for some political reason, is rushing troops into harm's way, is not appropriate, it is not correct, and it is unfortunate because we do have troops in harm's way."       From Yahoo News

    Surely our fine, upstanding Idiot in Chief wouldn't pull something such as this! Of course not, that's why he went about rushing them over to Iraq before the ink in his speech was even dry.

    Only those with an I.Q. under 10 (sorry FoxNews viewers) would believe that Bush's rush isn't politically based bullshit.

President Bush could care less about who he places in harms way as long as it is not himself.

 

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Bush Has no Authority To Launch War With Iran

From AOL NEWS:      

Associated Press  |   LAURIE KELLMAN  |   January 19, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic leaders in Congress lobbed a warning shot Friday at the White House not to launch an attack against Iran without first seeking approval from lawmakers.
"The president does not have the authority to launch military action in Iran without first seeking congressional authorization," Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid , D-Nev., told the National Press Club.

    Last week, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, D-Del., challenged the president's ability to make such a move. In a letter to Bush, Biden asked the president to explain whether the administration believes it could attack Iran or Syria "without the authorization of Congress, which does not now exist."

   I do not see President Bush explaining anything to anybody since he thinks that he is the king of the United States. I would bet that if bothered with such a trivial thing as the Constitution, he would just invent a signing statement to get rid of the problem!     Entire Article

 

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The Iraq War Monetary Cost

House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt, D-S.C. says that the war in Iraq has cost the United States taxpayers $379 billion to date and is expected to cost another $140 billion this year. This year's tab alone is thus nearly three times as much as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the whole war would cost before it started.

    Want to read more? Then check out The Denver Post.

Pay attention to the 4th  from the last paragraph.

 

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Page bill Passes,Bob Ney to Serve 2 1/2 Years in Prison

   The House voted Friday (416-0) the group which supervises the page  program. The vote basically says that both parties have a equal say over the program and how it is run.

    This comes after former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla. made some inappropriate emails to some of the younger male pages and after those in charge of looking in on the accusations covered it up instead.

    That would have been the House Page Board's past Republican chairman, Illinois Republican John Shimkus.

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    Former Republican Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio got 2 1/2 years in prison on Friday for his dealings with Jack Abramoff.

The former U.S. lawmaker had pleaded guilty to illegally accepting trips, meals, drinks, tickets to concerts and sporting events and other items worth tens of thousands of dollars in return for official acts performed for lobbyist Abramoff and his clients.

    U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle said that after Ney serves his time he will be on probation for two years and must perform 100 hours of community service in each of the years.

He also is required not to drink any alcohol while on probation. The judge also fined Ney $6,000.      From Yahoo News

    I personally think that Ney got off lightly.

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"Some Troops Home By Summer," Gen. Casey

    In keeping with the Bush Crime Family's need to get the American public behind this 'escalation' of troops in Iraq, we now have Gen. George Casey saying that if things go right in Baghdad, some of our troops could be coming home by this summer.

    Yahoo News

    "I think it's probably going to be the summer, late summer, before you get to the point where people in Baghdad feel safe in their neighborhoods," Casey told reporters at a news conference with visiting Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

    Asked how long the 21,500 extra U.S. troops are likely to be kept in Iraq, Casey replied, "I believe the projections are, late summer."                Entire Article

   Do not believe this crap! This is the administrations attempt at getting the congress and the Senate and You to buy into his rhetoric!

   By the summer of 2015, maybe?

 

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News This Morning

   A teacher in Connecticut faces up to 40 years in prison for exposing a seventh grade class to porn on the class  computer.

    Julie Amero is  a 40-year-old substitute teacher who claimed that the porn PopUps came from an infestation brought on by malicious software. That would be Adware, Spyware,worms and viruses,ect.

   On Jan. 5, 2007, Amero was found guilty of four felony counts of "injury or risk of injury to, or impairing morals of, children." Each count carries a maximum sentence of 10 years . Alternet

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    Go can go here for a look at how far the health care in Iraq has fallen since the United States attacked. No matter what the president tells you, health care was better under Hussein.

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   In response to the presidents view on stem cell research as being 'murder' we have this from Senator Tom Harkin last year on the floor of the Senate:

So I ask, if using discarded embryos to extract stem cells is murder, isn't it then immoral to allow federal research on existing lines of embryonic stem cells as the current administration's policy permits? Murder is murder, Mr. President. [...]

And if it's really murder...why isn't the President using his authority, his moral authority, to shut down all the in-vitro fertilization clinics in America? By his definition of murder, these clinics are institutions of mass murder.

    I put this up just to remind you of what kind of a hypocrite we have up there in the White House.

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     One more look at the Bush Administration here.

    It seems that the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) has asked comedian Rich Little not to make fun of Bush and not to mention Iraq.

   From Attytood:

    Little said organizers of the event made it clear they don't want a repeat of last year's controversial appearance by Stephen Colbert, whose searing satire of President Bush and the White House press corps fell flat and apparently touched too many nerves.

    "They got a lot of letters," Little said Tuesday. "I won't even mention the word 'Iraq.'"

    Little, who hasn't been to the White House since he was a favorite of the Reagan administration, said he'll stick with his usual schtick -- the impersonations of the past six presidents.

    "They don't want anyone knocking the president. He's really over the coals right now, and he's worried about his legacy," added Little, a longtime Las Vegas resident.

   I guess that free speech doesn't apply to you when you are in  "lord George's" presence.

 

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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Senate Passed Ethics Reform Bill, Cheney Rejected Help From Iran and some Generals Testify

From Yahoo News

By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON - The Senate, responding to voter frustration with corruption and special interest influence in Washington, on Thursday overwhelmingly approved far-reaching ethics and lobbying reform legislation.                   Under the bill, passed 96-2, senators will give up gifts and free travel from lobbyists, pay more for travel on corporate jets and make themselves more accountable for the pet projects they insert into bills.         Entire Article

   The oversight committee part of the bill did not make it through this time. The committee would have been an independent group to investigate the breaches of ethics from members.

    From Yahoo News

Thu Jan 18,2007

LONDON - An Iranian offer to help the United States stabilize
Iraq and end its military support for Hezbollah and Hamas was rejected by Vice President
Dick Cheney in 2003, a former top State Department official told the British Broadcasting Corp. ADVERTISEMENT

The U.S. State Department was open to the offer, which came in an unsigned letter sent shortly after the American invasion of Iraq, Lawrence Wilkerson, former Secretary of State
Colin Powell's chief of staff, told BBC's Newsnight in a program broadcast Wednesday night. But, Wilkerson said, Cheney vetoed the deal.

"We thought it was a very propitious moment" to strike a deal, Wilkerson said. "But as soon as it got to the White House, and as soon as it got to the vice president's office, the old mantra of 'We don't talk to evil' ... reasserted itself."

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    Of course this was rejected by Cheney, Bush and the rest of the Crime Family! The group would have lost to much money and I'd bet that Cheney's old company had already paid him to much for all of those no-bid contracts that they received from this administration.

    Someone from the State Department has denied that the department ever got the letter from Iran. It probably went into the paper shredder that was parked in front of Cheney's house!

    Meanwhile, some retired generals  told a U.S. Senate committee on Thursday that sending the additional 21,500 troops to Iraq will not help.

"Too little and too late," is the way Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, a former chief of the Central Command, described the effort to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.... "The solution is political, not military," he said.

"A fool’s errand," was the judgment of Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, who commanded troops in the first Gulf War. He said other countries had concluded that the effort in Iraq was not succeeding, noting that "our allies are leaving us and will be gone by summer."

  TPMCafe  has a list of bills that are up for proposal in Congress that have to do with the Bush 'escalation'. Check it out when you have the time.

 

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Democrats Cut Back Oil Company Subsidies

    The House, in its continuing effort to get some good bills/legislation passed in its first one hundred hours on the job, cut back on some of the oil industry subsidies on Thursday! This amounts to billions of dollars that the federal government may be able to add to the treasury.

   Critics  of the bill claim that it will diminish oil production in the U.S. and increase reliance on imports.

   Of course, the Democrats only hold a slight majority in the senate so it remains to be seen if this bill will get put into action.

    From Yahoo News

The legislation would impose a "conservation fee" on oil and gas taken from deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico; scrap nearly $6 billion worth of oil industry tax breaks enacted by Congress in recent years; and seek to recoup royalties lost to the government because of an Interior Department error in leases issued in the late 1990s.

Democrats said the legislation could produce as much as $15 billion in revenue. Most of that money would pay to promote renewable fuels such as solar and wind power, alternative fuels including ethanol and biodiesel and incentives for conservation.

"The oil industry doesn't need the taxpayers' help. ... There is not an American that goes to a gas pump that doesn't know that," said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (news, bio, voting record), D-Md. Pump prices topped $3 per gallon last year as the oil industry earned record profits.

The bill, Hoyer said, "starts to move our nation in a new direction" on energy policy.

   To read the GOP's reasoning for opposing this legislation, go here.

 

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Spying On your Spouse, Or Neighbor, Or Employees

     Welcome to the digital age! Don't you just love all of the modern technology that helps  you to communicate with friends and family? I know that I do!

   I spend many hours per day either fixing someone's computer or working on one of several blogs that I have. There are alot of emails to read and to send, phone calls to make on both the land line and the cell, and faxes to send and to receive.  The digital world makes this all possible without even leaving my desk.!

    But how much of all of this digital info is going to places that you would rather it not go to?

    What about the workplace? Are you aware that your boss may be tracking your every keystroke and email that you send and receive as well as every website that you visit and every IM that you have ever sent? The computer is not the only source where the boss, or your spouse for that matter, may be searching for evidence of wrong doing.

1) Digital Phones    I am talking about that nice service that you can get from your local cable provider.  The cable company that you subscribe to for your phone service has every call that you have made and all of the details of who you called, where,how long, and they can provide a transcribed text of those calls. This is much like Yahoo, MSN, Google,AT&T and others who provide Internet service. I'm sure that you remember the government wanting all of those records at one time last year.

    Do not believe that because your phone service is being routed through a cable company that it cannot be listened in on. I'm not talking about just the government. I'm talking about your spouse who thinks that you may be having an affair. Or, once again, your boss who thinks that you spend to much time on the phone.  For that matter, it may be someone who doesn't even know you but is just digging for info on you. you may be one of those who orders things by phone thereby providing a snoop with you credit card number and social security number.

    For the right price, you can purchase the software/hardware to spy to your little hearts content! This stuff is not as expensive as you may think.

    The solution for home phone users is to scramble your telephone conversations. There are many scramblers out there but don't be fooled by those cheap little $100 to $300 models that are just wasting your money and giving you little in the way of protection.

    Even the digital conversation through the cable company can be scrambled.

    I guess that it all comes down to what is your privacy worth to you?

     My next post on this subject will deal with the toys that your boss uses to spy on you and how you can get around most of them.

    Since this is a political site, first things first!

 

  

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Pulitzer Prize Winner Art Buchwald Dead at 81

    I used to read Mr. Buchwald's column as a teenager and he always was pretty much right on target with his views.

   Mr Buchwald died from kidney illness which he has been battling for quite some time.

    Art Buchwald will be sorely missed by many.

    From one of Mr. Buchwald's column's on March 7:

 "I am writing this article from a hospice. But being in the hospice didn't work out exactly the way I wanted it to. By all rights I should have finished my time here five or six weeks ago -- at least that's all Medicare would pay for."

"I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?"

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Buchwald's Farewell Column, Written to Be Released at Death
By E&P Staff
Published: January 18, 2007 2:50 PM ET

NEW YORK Art Buchwald wrote a final column that he asked not be distributed until after he died. The piece was penned on Feb. 8, 2006, after Buchwald decided to check into a hospice. He eventually left the hospice, of course, and resumed his syndicated column. Buchwald died last night at the age of 81. Here's the farewell column, courtesy of Tribune Media Services:
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GOODBYE, MY FRIENDS
By Art Buchwald
Tribune Media Services
Several of my friends have persuaded me to write this final column, which is something they claim I shouldn't leave without doing.
There comes a time when you start adding up all the pluses and minuses of your life. In my case I'd like to add up all the great tennis games I played and all of the great players I overcame with my now famous "lob." I will always believe that my tennis game was one of the greatest of all time. Even Kay Graham, who couldn't stand being on the other side of the net from me, in the end forgave me.
I can't cover all the subjects I want to in one final column, but I would just like to say what a great pleasure it has been knowing all of you and being a part of your lives. Each of you has, in your own way, contributed to my life.
Now, to get down to the business at hand, I have had many choices concerning how I wanted to go. Most of them are very civilized, particularly hospice care. A hospice makes it very easy for you when you decide to go.
What's interesting is that everybody has his or her own opinion as to how you should go out. All my loved ones became very upset because they thought I should brave it out -- which meant more dialysis.
But here is the most important thing: This has been my decision. And it's a healthy one.
The person who was the most supportive at the end was my doctor, Mike Newman. Members of my family, while they didn't want me to go, were supportive, too. But I'm putting it down on paper, so there should be no question the decision was mine.
I chose to spend my final days in a hospice because it sounded like the most painless way to go, and you don't have to take a lot of stuff with you.
For some reason my mind keeps turning to food. I know I have not eaten all the eclairs I always wanted. In recent months, I have found it hard to go past the Cheesecake Factory without at least having one profiterole and a banana split.
I know it's a rather silly thing at this stage of the game to spend so much time on food. But then again, as life went on and there were fewer and fewer things I could eat, I am now punishing myself for having passed up so many good things earlier in the trip.
I think of a song lyric, "What's it all about, Alfie?" I don't know how well I've done while I was here, but I'd like to think some of my printed works will persevere -- at least for three years.
I know it's very egocentric to believe that someone is put on earth for a reason. In my case, I like to think I was. And after this column appears in the paper following my passing, I would like to think it will either wind up on a cereal box top or be repeated every Thanksgiving Day.
So, "What's it all about, Alfie?" is my way of saying goodbye.

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 Those of you who may not be familiar with Mr. Buchwald can read some of his past columns here from The Washington Post.

 

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Sen. Chuck Hagel after Bush's Speech On Jan.10

    Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NEB.):

"The speech given [Jan. 10] by this president represents the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam.We are projecting ourselves further and deeper into a situation that we cannot win militarily."

"To ask our young men and women to sacrifice their lives to be put in the middle of a civil war is wrong. It's, first of all, in my opinion, morally wrong. It's tactically, strategically, militarily wrong."

"[T]he fact is, the Iraqi people will determine the fate of Iraq. The people of the Middle East will determine their fate. We continue to interject ourselves in a situation that we never have understood, we've never comprehended [and] we now have to devise a way to find some political consensus with our allies [and] the regional powers, including Iran and Syria."

"To say that we are going to feed more young men and women into that grinder, put them in the middle of a tribal, sectarian civil war, is not going to fix the problem."

    Maybe if some of our president wanna-be Democrats had a spine and spoke out like Senator Hagel has, we might put an end to this shit!

 

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Bush's Inaugural Address and the Way He's Been Since

    President Bush is due to give his State of the Union speech on Tuesday so I thought it a good idea to give the reader his Inaugural Address from January 20, 2001.

    Read this and then ask yourself, does this sound like the man in the White house?   I think not!

 

President George W. Bush's Inaugural Address

January 20, 2001

President Clinton, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens, the peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

As I begin, I thank President Clinton for his service to our nation.

And I thank Vice President Gore for a contest conducted with spirit and ended with grace.

I am honored and humbled to stand here, where so many of America's leaders have come before me, and so many will follow.

We have a place, all of us, in a long story--a story we continue, but whose end we will not see. It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, a story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer.

It is the American story--a story of flawed and fallible people, united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals.

The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.

Americans are called to enact this promise in our lives and in our laws. And though our nation has sometimes halted, and sometimes delayed, we must follow no other course.

Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations.

Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and pass along. And even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to travel.

While many of our citizens prosper, others doubt the promise, even the justice, of our own country. The ambitions of some Americans are limited by failing schools and hidden prejudice and the circumstances of their birth. And sometimes our differences run so deep, it seems we share a continent, but not a country.

We do not accept this, and we will not allow it. Our unity, our union, is the serious work of leaders and citizens in every generation. And this is my solemn pledge: I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity.

I know this is in our reach because we are guided by a power larger than ourselves who creates us equal in His image.

And we are confident in principles that unite and lead us onward.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them. And every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American.

Today, we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

America, at its best, matches a commitment to principle with a concern for civility. A civil society demands from each of us good will and respect, fair dealing and forgiveness.

Some seem to believe that our politics can afford to be petty because, in a time of peace, the stakes of our debates appear small.

But the stakes for America are never small. If our country does not lead the cause of freedom, it will not be led. If we do not turn the hearts of children toward knowledge and character, we will lose their gifts and undermine their idealism. If we permit our economy to drift and decline, the vulnerable will suffer most.

We must live up to the calling we share. Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos. And this commitment, if we keep it, is a way to shared accomplishment.

America, at its best, is also courageous.

Our national courage has been clear in times of depression and war, when defending common dangers defined our common good. Now we must choose if the example of our fathers and mothers will inspire us or condemn us. We must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations.

Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.

We will reform Social Security and Medicare, sparing our children from struggles we have the power to prevent. And we will reduce taxes, to recover the momentum of our economy and reward the effort and enterprise of working Americans.

We will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge.

We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors.

The enemies of liberty and our country should make no mistake: America remains engaged in the world by history and by choice, shaping a balance of power that favors freedom. We will defend our allies and our interests. We will show purpose without arrogance. We will meet aggression and bad faith with resolve and strength. And to all nations, we will speak for the values that gave our nation birth.

America, at its best, is compassionate. In the quiet of American conscience, we know that deep, persistent poverty is unworthy of our nation's promise.

And whatever our views of its cause, we can agree that children at risk are not at fault. Abandonment and abuse are not acts of God, they are failures of love.

And the proliferation of prisons, however necessary, is no substitute for hope and order in our souls.

Where there is suffering, there is duty. Americans in need are not strangers, they are citizens, not problems, but priorities. And all of us are diminished when any are hopeless.

Government has great responsibilities for public safety and public health, for civil rights and common schools. Yet compassion is the work of a nation, not just a government.

And some needs and hurts are so deep they will only respond to a mentor's touch or a pastor's prayer. Church and charity, synagogue and mosque lend our communities their humanity, and they will have an honored place in our plans and in our laws.

Many in our country do not know the pain of poverty, but we can listen to those who do.

And I can pledge our nation to a goal: When we see that wounded traveler on the road to Jericho, we will not pass to the other side.

America, at its best, is a place where personal responsibility is valued and expected.

Encouraging responsibility is not a search for scapegoats, it is a call to conscience. And though it requires sacrifice, it brings a deeper fulfillment. We find the fullness of life not only in options, but in commitments. And we find that children and community are the commitments that set us free.

Our public interest depends on private character, on civic duty and family bonds and basic fairness, on uncounted, unhonored acts of decency which give direction to our freedom.

Sometimes in life we are called to do great things. But as a saint of our times has said, every day we are called to do small things with great love. The most important tasks of a democracy are done by everyone.

I will live and lead by these principles: to advance my convictions with civility, to pursue the public interest with courage, to speak for greater justice and compassion, to call for responsibility and try to live it as well.

In all these ways, I will bring the values of our history to the care of our times.

What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

Americans are generous and strong and decent, not because we believe in ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves. When this spirit of citizenship is missing, no government program can replace it. When this spirit is present, no wrong can stand against it.

After the Declaration of Independence was signed, Virginia statesman John Page wrote to Thomas Jefferson: ``We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?''

Much time has passed since Jefferson arrived for his inauguration. The years and changes accumulate. But the themes of this day he would know: our nation's grand story of courage and its simple dream of dignity.

We are not this story's author, who fills time and eternity with his purpose. Yet his purpose is achieved in our duty, and our duty is fulfilled in service to one another.

Never tiring, never yielding, never finishing, we renew that purpose today, to make our country more just and generous, to affirm the dignity of our lives and every life.

This work continues. This story goes on. And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.

God bless you all, and God bless America.

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    A liar from the Beginning.

When Will congress Act On This War?

   Many people of the United Sates and other parts of the world have been wondering if congress has the authority to stop the war in Iraq.

   One thing that the congress has, regardless of what that fool in the White house says, is the purse strings. Contrary to the spin from Bushco, cutting off the war funding is not going to harm our troops in any way, shape or form. This is a flat out lie!

    USA Today

By Jonathan Turley

When asked about what Congress can do if it opposes his build-up, Bush was dismissive and said, "Frankly, that's not their responsibility." Of course, the president acknowledged, "They could try to stop me from doing it...but I made my decision, and we're going forward."

Democratic leaders seem to be encouraging the same view of an unchecked executive. The new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and other members suggested last week that it may be unconstitutional for Congress to cut funds for an escalation.

    The Article

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   Also according to the same article above, 2 out of 3 Americans oppose Bush's escalation. 60% think that going into Iraq was wrong to begin with and polls in Iraq show that 70% want us out of Iraq while 60% support killing our troops!

     The congress can end this war at practically anytime that they wish to. The question is, when will they act? Will they wait for thousands of our people to die in Iraq first or will they grow some balls and do it sooner?

   As noted in the above article.

"Yet, rest assured: When members finally feel comfortable with acting to end this war, they will find all the authority they need in the Constitution and all the reasons they need in Iraq."

 

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Christian Zionist and Politics

      This piece is on our two favorite topics in this country, politics and religion.

    I bring this up because of the overwhelming influence that some religious leaders have on the White house and our U.S. policy towards the middle east, especially when it comes to Israel.

    You have people like John Hagee and Rod Parsley, to name a few,  who would like to see the 'end times' come upon us as soon as possible. Especially Hagee!

    Hagee is one who totally supports Israel and has giving much money to various groups such as the United Jewish Appeal . He raised over $1 million to help Soviet Jews resettle in Israel. Nothing wrong with that in and of itself.

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Hagee believes that the resettlement of Soviet Jewry is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. It must be pretty heady to think and project that you are one of the major instruments for the fulfillment of the prophetic Word. No wonder his followers are impressed and even mesmerized.

   Hagee and many other preachers have gone political in their support of Israel, especially with the way things are being played out at the present time. They see the war in Iraq and our future attack on Iran as the beginning of the end so far as biblical prophecy is concerned.

   From BBC News

Wednesday, 19 July 2006

That final battle between East and West - at Armageddon, as the actual Israeli location of Meggido is known in English - will precipitate the second coming of Christ, he concludes.

And what they see in the news only reinforces their faith, according to Timothy Shah, a scholar at the Pew Forum.

"When they see what's going on in the Middle East, a whole range of enemies arrayed against God's people, they see God's word being played out on their television sets," he said.

Said Nancy Roman, the director of the Council on Foreign Relations:

"Part of what is happening is that the evangelical community in the US is becoming more engaged in the political process," she said.

"Whereas the church used to counsel people not to engage in politics, many churches are now counseling the opposite.

"It's important and it will have a huge influence on foreign policy over time," she added.       Entire Article

Michelle Goldberg, author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism: " Christian Zionism is responsible for American support for some of the most irredentist Israeli positions."

"The influence of Hagee is to make the American public support the government's completely one-sided, hawkishly pro-Israel stance. These groups have much more influence than Aipac or the so-called Israel lobby."

    Being a Christian myself, I find it appalling that we have so-called preachers who are vigorously pushing for war and for what would become almost total annihilation of this planet.

    I guess that Hagee and the rest haven't studied the Book of Revelation to thoroughly as of late. No matter how you try to interpret it, the United States is really not mentioned in it. Some will say that it is because the U.S. did not exist at the time of the writings. This may be true, but since it is a book dealing with the future, I would think that we would be included in God's foreknowledge. Maybe the U.S. is in such bad shape by this time that we cannot do anything with the events surrounding us so we did not warrant any mention?

    Go here,here,and here for more reading on the Christian Zionist movement and the repercussions that they will have on the U.S. and the rest of the world.

Evangelical Right for a view on Hagee's White House visit.

 

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The Morning News Blast

    First up is this story from Alternet on George Bush and the Christian Zionist as the president ready's for the second war with Iran, or is it the second coming?        The Article

    Pastor John Hagee and Rod Parsley  are two examples of Christians (?) that the  world could do without as both of these men have way to much influence on Bush and the U.S. policy towards Israel and the middle east.

    These two men, and many others, are what is wrong with Christianity today. They do not teach nor do they practice Christianity. They teach and they practice 'religion'.

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   Next up is yet another article from Alternet concerning the Stop Online Exploitation of Our Children Act. This would require that the government create a list of child predators and such and then the bill would have  Internet publishers police their sites for these people on the list looking for their emails, comments and such.       The Article

                                     

 

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

War of Shadows

 

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War of Shadows
    By Chris Hedges
    Truthdig.com

    Sunday 14 January 2007

    I have spent most of my adult life as a reporter covering insurgencies, from the five years I covered the wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala to seven years in the Middle East and nearby regions, where I covered the two Palestinian uprisings and the civil wars in Algeria and Sudan, and finally to the three years I reported on the wars in the Balkans, including the rebellion in the Serbian province of Kosovo by the Kosovo Liberation Army. Some of these wars were fought with skill, such as the U.S.-led counterinsurgency campaign in El Salvador and the French-backed counterinsurgency in Algeria; others were not, such as the war in Kosovo, fought by a Serbian government whose stupidity and brutality rivaled our own in Iraq.

    The plan to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq will be accompanied by a subtle, but disastrous, change in the way the war is fought - a change that will almost assuredly increase the monthly tallies of American dead and wounded. The president warned that "deadly acts of violence will continue, and we must expect more Iraqi and American casualties." In his version of the war, these losses will allow us to climb from the sinkhole we have dug for ourselves to the sunlight of victory. Unfortunately, for Iraqis and for us, what the president proposes is a mistake of catastrophic proportions. It defies basic counterinsurgency doctrine and will leave American troops more vulnerable, more exposed and in greater danger in this war of shadows.

    A counterinsurgency war is, first and foremost, a political war. It requires a deftness, as well as cultural and political sensitivity, that American troops and commanders, most of whom do not even know enough Arabic to read the road signs in Baghdad, do not possess. Military strikes must always be very limited, infrequent and surgical - a tactic foreign to the terrified 19-year-old kids who unleash 1,000 rounds per minute with their M249 SAWS in crowded Iraqi neighborhoods moments after an improvised explosive device goes off. The greatest failure in Iraq - a war I always opposed - was to use American forces to occupy the country and then, after sectarian blood lines had been drawn and American troops had killed thousands of innocent Iraqis, set out to try to build a proxy army of quisling Iraqi nationals. It was doomed from the start. We lost the war, and in Iraqi eyes it was defined as our war by the time our invading forces blasted their way into Baghdad.

    Conventional armies, such as ours in Iraq, come equipped with inherent strengths that rebels cannot match. These strengths include massive firepower, air support and an integrated intelligence and communications infrastructure that permits rapid and effective responses, as well as the ability, in a fixed firefight, to usually obliterate a rebel band. But conventional behemoths, especially when they seek to occupy hostile, foreign territory, have serious and often fatal weaknesses, weaknesses that have been deftly exploited in Iraq and especially Baghdad. Most of the new troops will go to Baghdad, doubling the number of combat troops in the Iraqi capital. Four thousand more Marines will go to Iraq's western Anbar province, where U.S. commanders admit that the 30,000 current U.S. troops have lost control to Iraqi resistance fighters. There are now about 140,000 American military personnel in Iraq, of whom about 50,000 are combat troops.

    American forces, because they control the country's infrastructure, must often remain in fixed, static positions. And troops in static positions are easily targeted by small, mobile rebel bands. During the war in El Salvador new guerrilla recruits, for their first kill, were often sent at night to attack one of the many small bridges held by government troops. The immobile targets were so vulnerable, the newly minted rebel soldiers were almost always assured of success.

    Soldiers and Marines in Iraq are bottled up in heavily fortified and protected compounds, although even these are hit by periodic mortar rounds and suicide bombers. Troops make forays out of these forts in armored convoys that move very swiftly down the middle of city streets in a show of force or to protect supply lines. It is constant and rapid movement that ensures survival. The occupying forces have learned the hazards of remaining in static positions. But now President Bush, who knows as little about warfare as he does about diplomacy, wants to take away this vital mobility.

    "In earlier operations, Iraqi and American forces cleared many neighborhoods of terrorists and insurgents, but when our forces moved on to other targets, the killers returned," the president said. "This time, we'll have the force levels we need to hold the areas that have been cleared...."

    "Our past efforts to secure Baghdad failed for two principal reasons: There were not enough Iraqi and American troops to secure neighborhoods that had been cleared of terrorists and insurgents," Bush explained. "And there were too many restrictions on the troops we did have."

    But the president and the few generals willing to swallow their pride and probably their integrity to support him have failed to explain or grasp the realities of occupation. The presence of more troops on the streets of Baghdad, troops who only understand how to impose their will by force, will fuel the rage most Iraqis feel toward their American occupiers. It will heighten the tension and increase the strikes on American forces, which, tied down, will be more easily targeted.

    The insurgents - Shiite and Sunni - have done what we failed to do. They have built a vast and effective support network within their communities, communities we were never able to reach from Humvees or the fortified walls of the Green Zone. Most of the insurgents are Iraqi. They speak Arabic. They worship in the mosques. They buy vegetables in the local markets. They love their country. And many have paid a terrible price for their patriotism and their faith. These neighborhoods are secure. They are just not secure for us. They will never be. And sending in new batches of Americans from Texas or Ohio or New York to patrol these streets will not make Iraq or America safer. It will ensure that even more mothers and fathers, American and Iraqi, will be ushered by George W. Bush into the long night of bitterness and grief.

 

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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki: Give Us Guns

From Times Online

America’s refusal to give Baghdad’s security forces sufficient guns and equipment has cost a great number of lives, the Iraqi Prime Minister said yesterday.

Nouri al-Maliki said the insurgency had been bloodier and prolonged because Washington had refused to part with equipment. If it released the necessary arms, US forces could “drastically” cut their numbers in three to six months, he told The Times.                          Entire Article

    Of course Bush will not give the Iraqi's the weapons that they need! Hell, that would take money out of Halliburton's pocket as well as other war profiteering corporations. On the flip side of the coin, he can't even supply our troops with the right materials!

 

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Politics Snags Ethics Reform Bill

   Leave it to the Republicans to screw up a good bill!

    The Democrats ethics and lobbying reform legislation was derailed over a dispute with Republicans all because the Democrats were blocking an amendment that would have given the president authority, with the approval of Congress, to single out individual spending items in legislation for elimination.  (AP)

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    The vote (51-46) was nine short of passage as sixty were needed.

    Now the GOP is making the claim that the Democrats are claiming fiscal responsibility but are not showing any by blocking this amendment.

   The fact of the matter is that if this bill were passed with the amendment attached to it, Bush would more than likely scratch out any Democrat spending that did not go along with his warped sense of values or any kind of spending that would hurt his position or the Iraq war that he insist on losing at any cost.

    The only thing worse than having an idiot in the White House is a psychotic idiot in the White House!

    Meet Mr. George Bush.

 

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Congress can't reject Bush's war fast enough. Or often enough.

  Original From DailyKos

by Kagro X

Wed Jan 17, 2007 at 04:32:06 PM PST

A flood of bills calling for an everything from a rejection of the Bush/McCain escalation to the requirement of separate authorization for any hostilities with Iran have been introduced by both houses, and even by Members from both sides of the aisle. In all, 11 bills have been introduced, dealing with bringing the Iraq war to an end, or preventing a war in Iran. The latest, announced today in a "Dear Colleague" letter (can't resist: quick lesson) by Rep. Jack Murtha, is his reintroduction of his bill in the 109th Congress, H.J. Res. 73. What makes it most poignant, though, is not necessarily the substance, but the corrections, as circulated in his letter:

109th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. J. RES. 73

To redeploy U.S. forces from Iraq.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

November 17, 2005

Mr. MURTHA introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

JOINT RESOLUTION

To redeploy U.S. forces from Iraq.

Whereas Congress and the American people have not been shown clear, measurable progress toward establishment of stable and improving security in Iraq or of a stable and improving economy in Iraq, both of which are essential to `promote the emergence of a democratic government';

Whereas additional stabilization in Iraq by U.S. military forces cannot be achieved without the deployment of hundreds of thousands of additional U.S. troops, which in turn cannot be achieved without a military draft;

Whereas more than $277 billion $471 billion has been appropriated by the United States Congress to prosecute U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan;

Whereas, as of the drafting of this resolution, 2,079 U.S. troops 3,020 3,024 US troops have been killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom;

Whereas U.S. forces have become the target of the insurgency;

Whereas, according to recent polls, over 80 percent of the Iraqi people 91% of Sunni Iraqis and 74% of Shiite Iraqis want the U.S. forces out of Iraq;

Whereas polls also indicate that 45 percent 61 percent of the Iraqi people feel that the attacks on U.S. forces are justified; and

Whereas, due to the foregoing, Congress finds it evident that continuing U.S. military action in Iraq is not in the best interests of the United States of America, the people of Iraq, or the Persian Gulf Region, which were cited in Public Law 107-243 as justification for undertaking such action: Now, therefore, be it

           Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That:

           SECTION 1. The deployment of United States forces in Iraq, by direction of Congress, is hereby terminated and the forces involved are to be redeployed at the earliest practicable date.

           SEC. 2. A quick-reaction U.S. force and an over-the-horizon presence of U.S. Marines shall be deployed in the region.

           SEC. 3. The United States of America shall pursue security and stability in Iraq through diplomacy.

That gives us all a sense of how far wrong we've gone, just since Murtha came to the conclusion that something had to be done.

But Murtha's not the only game in town by a long shot. Here's a quick run-down of the 10 other bills that deal with Iraq and/or Iran. Take note, please, of the first such bill introduced and cosponsored by Republicans (and Dems, too, of course): Walter Jones' (R-NC) H. J. Res. 14.

S. 121, introduced on January 4th by Sen. Russ Feingold. The bill would give the Pentagon and State Dept. jointly 60 days to submit a plan for redeployment from Iraq, within 180 days from enactment. Cosponsors: Boxer.

S. 233, introduced on January 9th by Sen. Ted Kennedy. The bill would prohibit funds for any U.S. forces above the number of forces already there as of January 9, 2007, without a specific Congressional authorization for such increase. Cosponsors: Boxer, Brown, Harkin, Kerry, Leahy, Menendez, Sanders.

H.R. 353, introduced on January 9th by Rep. Ed Markey. This is the House counterpart to Kennedy's bill. Cosponsors: Abercrombie, Conyers, DeFazio, Delahunt, DeLauro, Grijalva, Hinchey, Maloney, McDermott, McGovern, Meehan, Olver, Schakowsky, Mike Thompson, Tierney.

H. Res. 41, intruduced on January 9th by Rep. Marty Meehan. A non-binding resolution rejecting the escalation as "the wrong course of action and should not be done without an express authorization for the increase in an Act of Congress." Cosponsors: Abercrombie, Allen, Baldwin, Blumenauer, Capps, Capuano, Conyers, Cummings, DeFazio, Fattah, Frank, Grijalva, Harman, Hinchey, Hirono, Honda, Inslee, Jackson-Lee, Kaptur, Kennedy, Lee, Lewis, Lynch, Markey, McCollum, McGovern, Moran, Neal, Olver, Payne, Rothman, Schakowsky, Smith, Solis, Stark, Tauscher, Watson, Woolsey, Wu.

H. Con. Res. 23, introduced on January 10th by Rep. Dennis Kucinich. A non-binding concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress (both Houses) that the President should not order an escalation in Iraq. Cosponsors: Capuano, Carson, Clay, Cohen, Conyers, Cummings, Danny Davis, DeFazio, Doyle, Fattah, Grijalva, Hirono, Holt, Honda, Jackson, Hank Johnson, Kilpatrick, Lee, Lynch, Moore, Nadler, Payne, Rothman, Schakowsky, Serrano, Solis, Stark, Watson, Woolsey, Wu.

H.R. 455, introduced on January 12th by Rep. Jerry Nadler. The bill would require that all DoD funds spent in Iraq within 30 days of enactment, be spent only for the purposes of a safe and orderly withdrawal, to be completed by the end of 2007. Cosponsors: Hinchey.

H.R. 413, introduced on January 11th by Rep. Sam Farr. Repeals the Iraq war resolution of 2002, and requires the President to provide for the withdrawal of troops. Cosponsors: None.

H.R. 438, introduced on January 12th by Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. Prohibits the use of DoD funds to increase the number of troops in Iraq beyond the number already there as of January 1, 2007, without specific authorization from Congress. Cosponsors: Lee.

H. Con. Res. 33, introduced on January 16th by Rep. Peter DeFazio. A non-binding resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the President should not initiate military action against Iran without first obtaining authorization from Congress. The resolution rejects the notion that either the AUMF of 2001 or the Iraq war resolution of 2002 authorize military action against Iran, and affirms that explicit authorization for military action is not discretionary, but a legal and constitutional requirement. Cosponsors: Blumenauer, Corrine Brown, Capuano, Conyers, Cummings, Doggett, Farr, Holt, Hooley, Kucinich, Lee, McCollum, McGovern, Murtha, Payne, Rothman, Stark, Mike Thompson, Woolsey.

H.J. Res. 14, introduced on January 12th by Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC). A binding resolution that rejects the suggestion that any prior provision of law authorizes an attack against Iran, and provides that absent an or a demonstrably imminent attack by Iran, any use of force against Iran would require Congressional authorization. Cosponsors: Abercrombie, DeFazio, Duncan (R-TN), Gilchrest (R-MD), Kucinich, Larson, Meehan, Murtha, Neal, Paul (R-TX), Taylor.

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    I guess that this shows that the psychotic in the White House doesn't have a firm grip on all of the GOP members. This could be a good thing but we will have to wait and see if the Bush Crime Family exerts their usual scare tactics on the GOP members. By that I mean, ' dirt '.

 

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