I find it absolutely astounding that the Democratic National Committee cannot find an actual photo of an American soldier for their Military and Families page...but, instead must try to placate the American People with a PhotoShopped picture of a Canadian soldier.

Support the soldiers....just not ours!

Duke

Thank you, Howard for keeping the fact that Democrats DO have a message out in the public eye.

I hope to see you here in CT supporting Lamont, Murphy, Courtney and Farrell in the near future!

1st I'd like to find out why you think the members of your party are stupid. You place a picture of a happy crowd on the main page of your site taken from
http://www.fotosearch.com/DGV648/1992030/ AND you put a picture of a soldier on your main page that has been "photoshopped". The soldier is a Canadian NOT an American soldier. I know sometimes I'm a little slow but not stupid as your webmaster seems to think I am.

Next time Democrats should show real crowds of Dems at rallies and REAL American soldiers who vote Democrat, not use photo shop and stock pictures. This looks stupid.

the picture of the soldier on the veterans page link is NOT a US Soldier, but rather a Canadian one. I hope the DNC realizes this and changes it. It is making the rounds of forum and political sites,like Malkin, et al

Oh give me a break. They made a mistake. So what ? Which is worse ? Making a mistake on posting a picture or sending off young men and women to die for LIES. I will pick this harmless mistake over the mistakes and treatment of our veterans and soldiers at the hands of bush and his gang of chicken hawks. Besides, you are using this to distract from what the article says ---deal with it..even our soldiers are fed up with the lies, etc of this administration

The Canadians are veterans of the war on terror, too. Their soliders have stood shoulder to shoulder with our troops in Afganistan and Iraq. Do they deserve any less respect?

You would ignore their valient efforts? The fact that the administator made a mistake in posting a photos here illustrates just how close and vital their efforts ae to protecting the world against terrorists.

I salute them and challenge those who would indicate they are an afterthought (sort of a insignificant joke?) and not worthy to be included in a story about the bravery of those who fight for alll of us everyday on the battlefields in the Midddle East.

It's one of the big Republican myths that we can stand alone and stop the terrorists. Why has the President alienated the rest of the world? Why do Republicans continue to have such a isolated, arrogant, polarized view of the the world?

Shame on you.

It looks like, according to all polls, Democrates will have an easy time taking control of the house or senate or both. Which leads me to some questions. First, what is the October surprise that Karl Rove has been promising the right, could it be the battle group that is presently heading to the Pursion gulf, that was instructed to be in place by October 27th? Can these morons really believe that by bombing Iran, they can save there chances in Midterms?
Also, the Bush people know that if the Democrates win next month, there will obviosly be investigations, and there are curtain items they don't want known. As the elections draw closer, they will try to buy off polls that will show curtain races closer than they really are, that way when they try to steel elections no one will question the results. But with so many races now up for grabs, how will Rove be able to steel so many, and can he do it? And if he gets caught, now that congress has handed Bush so much more power. How will the WH respond. Will he call Martial Law, and call the elections null and void, and keep Republican palls if office, while at the same time declare all Democrates enemys of the U.S. and have them all arrested? Like to know if these concerns are on any one elses mind.

It seems that the moonbats in the Malkin batcave have too much time on their hands.

Listen, I really don't care about a few pictures. This is a webpage after all... Republicans are desperate. Victory is in sight!

Vigla - if the party wants to shed its image of being weak on defense, then being able to publically identify an actual American soldier in uniform might be a good place to start, doncha think?

the picture was NOT photoshopped by the DNC --they got it from IStock--oh those little details the right leaves out

Even if it is true about the photoshop, who do you think cares? This administration's approval rating is down to 33%. I think Americans have more serious issues on their mind.

Is this Karl's October surprise? Good job Brownies.

ooooh, quickly! call drudge! this one should bring a bounce for arbusto--maybe he'll get up to 34%...

trolls, your desperation is evident. i suggest finding a good psychological professional NOW.

the transition into reality-based governing will be shocking. prepare and avoid trauma.

Here's Something Worth Caring About

Perhaps Malkin's nutbirds can make a real difference by contacting George Allen (VA), Jim Talent (MO), Rick Santorum (PA), Mike DeWine (OH), and Burns (MT) for starters.

I am a Democrat.

I support the Democratic Party.

However, I find it disappointing to see the Democratic National Committee web log (Blog) treated so ineffectively as to have to post a phony picture of one of our boys.

It is obvious that the person who created the web page lacked the necessary resources and the organizational support to do a high-quality and professional job.

The chronic inability of the DNC Blog administrators to ban trolls effectively is one indication of how much support is needed here.

This blog could be a more powerful tool. I do feel my support for the DNC has been misused at times.

HELOOOOO ! ANybody HEAR me????

Posted by Jared on October 7, 2006 at 10:48 PM

i cite this to remind us ALL that trolls hate it when we ignore them.

REMINDER: ignore the trolls. last night's thread is a piece of crap. intelligent people are brought down by the disruptions and the good posts get lost.

get lost--that's exactly what will happen to the trolls November 7th --so they don't have much time, and they're painfully aware of it.

[although i realize the photo is much more important than the poll that shows Dubs at 33% favorable. LMAO! hahahahaha okay, back to the phones...]

Fade,

Alright,

I'll ignore GreenMTBoy when he finally figures out there is a new thread. Out of respect for the Blog, I'll ignore him/her. I wanted to mess with him/her though :-(

Sunday TV used and coined the demon that the dems are facing --

THE ROVE FREAK SHOW --

Dems need to call this spin out everythime they face it. Make this a well known well used way to attack and minimize Rove and Republican spin.

OK, the photo has been changed ! BIG DEAL ! Companies, etc all use photos that are sold in big books for advertising purposes, I know because I used to help make up our Company brochures. So a photo chosen in which ONE soldier was mistakenly a Canadian not an American was used is not the end of the world.

Not when You have the Republicans back on their butts! You think a lot of Republican underwear did not have to get thrown away last week, as they watched foleygate unfold and Haster knew about it without any doubt!

You think that photo matters when you count the highest number of US boys dead or injured in just 8 days this month?

How about when you compare it to the NIE report that Bush spawned a whole new generation of Terrorists

Or that Woodward's book says that Bush and Rumsfeld, etc all knew 60 days before 9/11 that it was coming down>

Katrina failure, Deficit growing, Medicare & SS about to be dismantled, Energy costs, Terri Schiavo vote, Stem cell rejection, Immigration, American jobs at only 55,000 last month, Afghanistan now a total failure, Corruption rampant with Rove at 485 visits from Abramoff !

Come on guys, except for the Republican trolls, this is no big deal.

FOCUS! we have 30 days left! Are we going to give a shit about a Picture that was mistakenly chosen?

Go hit the phone banks or the pavement. Let the Republicans diddle with whatever little they can find.

Isn't it amazing? They took down the picture of the Canadian soldier and replaced it with an American Flag. Guess someone is paying attention after all.

Posted by Kev on October 8, 2006 at 02:28 PM

awww, Kev...don't be sad, please. i wasn't calling anyone out, i'm merely trying to get the troops on high alert...as Pam so clearly mentioned above.

we all get sucked into it, from time to time. that's their goal, not ours.

have you noticed how practiced the Rove machinery is when it comes to changing the subject if they are challenged with truth? the trolls do the same thing.

it's up to us to focus, as if they weren't there.

Let the Republicans diddle with whatever little they can find.

Posted by PamB on October 8, 2006 at 02:46 PM

good slogan, sistah! i'm tired of talking and need a break. the talk shows were positive

Rahm was a pit bull...grrrrr

Clair was stronger than her 94% bush opponant

Shimkus will be fighting for his seat

i'm not going to stop until it's over, but that expensive champaign is waiting, though dusty

i'm not going to stop until it's over, but that expensive champaign is waiting, though dusty
Posted by fade2bluz on October 8, 2006 at 03:04 PM

me either, {{{fade}}

I have my bottle from 2004 left over, along with the blue paint, and I cannot wait to pop it!

There wasn't one person on the Sunday shows, who did not think Foleygate will affect the elections! That included all the Repugs.

Although one said , " unless Rove and the RNC comes up with something in the next few weeks, most Republicans will probably choose to stay home" You KNOW Rove is not going to take this sitting back. No matter how dirty, how distorting, how swiftboating.

Notice how the word out was "Blame the Democrats". That was mentioned a few times this morning, but it just sounded SO LAME.

Keep up the good work. You have worked you tail off this election, and it will show in the results !

(ps, do you have any friends or family in CT? Use Lamont's tool on their site to send out postcards to them from you)

It doesn't matter what the Republicans do in the next month. It's what they didn't do in the last four years.

Iraq and Afganistan are a lot worse off. Katrina shattered our Gulf coast and FEMA still has its citizens exciled in either exile or in trailers. The Medicare perscription drug doughnut hole is hitting the country's sickest seniors.

The national debt and trade imbalance are out of control...and now we find out that the House Republican leadership looked the other way while one of its members sexually stalked the pages in their care for at least three years.

So the Republicans are upset that a photo was misposted here? Is this the only thing that upsets them? Pretty warped priorities IMO.

Posted by PamB on October 8, 2006 at 05:32 PM

Pam, I found it amusing this morning that Talent was advocating several Democratic Party positions (like promoting alternative fuels) in his pitch on Meet the Press...instead of running on the Republican Party record.

For the first two years of his shorten term, Talent sponsored only a handful of bills and the majority was for historic preservation?

He didn't get off his ass until it became clear that rubber stamping the White House’s agenda 94% of the time wasn't really impressive. So he introduced more legislation in the last six months of his term than he had in the entire 3 1/2 years he's been in the Beltway...and almost all of them issues important to progressives not his conservative base? Who exactly does he think he’s fooling?

"I'm just getting started...I better get back to work" he says in his TV ads. Where in the hell have you been, Senator Talent? Most of us in Missouri thought you were still on vacation...if we even remember who your are, Jimmy Come Lately.

So a Photoshop graphics mistake is more important to you pedophile enablers than the kids who were humiliated and stalked by that sexual predator?

You guys better check in with the women in your own party. This morning on Meet the Press Cookie Roberts was ready to drop kick every Republican male involved in tolerating this sexual stalker. She was so vivid, I think she kind of scared the rest of the panel. (I am woman hear me roar, I believe your mentioned the other night?)

George Will also looked like he had had enough of been kicked around by Rumsfeld and the rest of the neocons and was ready for an intervention from the left. You are losing the support of your most staunch supporters. Does that register yet?

If Roberts and Baye Buchanan are any indication of how angry the women in your party feel about this page scandal, just imagine what the women in the Christian right feel. And how the Soccer Moms and Security Moms must feel? You have a lot more to worry about than Al Queada striking again.

So you Republican men are into photo layouts and scrap booking these days? I'm so glad you have a hobby other than chatting on the internet with minors.

Your party can't spin your way out of this one. Just like the latest airline terrorist scare didn't faze the public, your “blame the victim and other party crap” doesn't fool anybody. Americans from all walks of life are on to your tricks now.

I hope working out your frustration on this blog helps easy the pain you are feeling. Stop by anytime you catch another proofreading blooper or photo identification problem. We appreciate your diligence.

forty-percent

Your personal beliefs are all that matter, other people with beliefs modeled after religions five times older than that of Christianity, or simply beliefs of their own are all fools. You will sell your vote to anybody that says they will impose your personal beliefs on all of us as a whole, here and around the world. Turning a blind eye when your chosen officials show weakness and stupidity by taking the fight where the real enemy was not and letting the ones who sucker punched all of us as a whole run and hide. The mountains in Afghanistan should have been turned into an 18 hole golf course with ponds and sand traps, most importantly a big American flag right in the middle of it on top of Osamas grave. For the victims of Sept 11 families to go and feel a little better! But instead we marched on a nation that had not attacked us but most of it's inhabitants we knew hated us. We were gonna force them to be free like us in the name of freedom. You don't even notice that Democracy was already in place all around, Hammas in Palestine, Hezbollah in Lebanon, both democratically elected, both at war with our ally Israel. Dangling the best people our nation has to offer in hostile territory like bait to enforce our version of freedom. Arms, legs, livers, intestines, and brain matter scattered everywhere and you say it wont stop until "victory" (everybody agrees to be free as you want them to be). Move our troops to Afghanistan, the people who we should be killing will follow, that is for sure! No attacks for five years? How absurd! I beg to differ, now we are being attacked every fifteen minutes, boom, another leg, boom, another daddy, boom, another mommy gone!
If you are the forty percent, you have been sold out for your vote by people that care nothing for your values, just your vote. The only freedom getting pushed around here is freedom for big business to cut and run on American labor by outsourcing. We are literally putting America in a Chinese pawn shop to fund all these futile efforts.
You are the new republican party, the religious republican liberals. That's right liberal! Liberal with money. Liberal with blood!
We need a new democratic Conservative, pro-gun (to protect our personal freedom from the forty percent), pro-choice (let everybodys god judge people for their choices, not our government!), pro-America (it's time to take our flag away from the forty percent). The hypocrites have got it dirty enough! We need to learn from our mistakes I.E.: If your not gonna kill em all, you can't kill them at all! Hello! Vietnam! This must be our democratic theme song!!!!!!!!

Joel Taylor
Omro Wisconsin

Sandy,

I think it was Wolf and Late Edition, where they had an analyst on who was talking about how the Republicans (all of them) got used to Abuse of Power. They thought they were invincible and could get away with anything!

Well, guess what Repugs! Your abuse has caught up with you and Americans are sick to death with the lot of you! Your Contract with america just got Cancelled! It was a farce anyways!

Japan, China demand N. Korea scrub A-bomb test
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/10/08/japan-korea.html

North Korea has tested its first nuclear weapon, its official news agency reported

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/10/08/korea-atomic.html

UK Official Says British Govt Warned US on Iraq
Blunkett: Britain was incapable of stopping war plans by Cheney, Rumsfeld.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15166761

Guards Describe
Guantanamo Prisoner Abuse
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-security-guantanamo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

US Soldiers Wounded in Iraq Reaches Highest Monthly Level
By Ann Scott Tyson

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100806Z.shtml

NATO: Afghanistan At A Tipping Point
NATO's top commander in Afghanistan said Sunday the country was at a tipping point and warned Afghans would likely switch their allegiance to resurgent Taliban militants if there are no visible improvements in people's lives in the next six months. Full story:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/08/terror/main2072505.shtml

Please excuse the mistake everyone, I posted here by mistake, I thought I was in the Sunday open thread and I made a mistake. Sorry about that. Please accept my apology for the mistake.

test

FEARAILTY! FEARAILTY! FEARAILTY!, This is all that this S.O.B. Bush has been preaching all over the United States, This is how they gained the White House, the Senate, the House, and the Supreme Court, is by FEAR,FEAR,FEAR, FEARAILTY!!!
It is time the Democrats take it all back, with REALITY & TRUTH and not the lies and FEARALITY of
Dictator Bush and the Public-cans!

For the past few years now, America has waged the War on Terror. How terrified do we, the people, have to be, before our own ruling class can call it a win? How many of our freedoms will we give up before we will surrender the least of our comforts, or give up the strangely comforting fear itself? How many countries must be laid waste, how far must “Democracy” be spread, before the “Terrorist” bogeyman can be retired? How many people have to die because of FEARALITY!!! Isn't time we get back to REALITY!

Drone, yawn, drone, yawn....

H-E-L-L-O!

The North Koreans have just claimed to have set off a nuclear weapon.

ARE YOU LISTENING?

George W. Bush named North Korea one of the "Axis of Evil." Remember that? HE was going to keep US Safe. He was going to stop them from doing this. He has dropped the ball AGAIN! Yet another in a long line of FAILED POLICIES of the Bushies. Five years running now.

Where is the Democratic response? Where are the Democrats out shouting and screaming and pointing fingers and swift boating this further failure of the Bush Administration and the Republicans?

Can no one in the DNC see how elections are won in the age of American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, McDonalds, and Starbucks. IT IS CALLED PACKAGING! TV turns out bad circuses,Mickey D's turns out bad cake, and Starbucks pours out burnt, bitter coffe to wash it down with and we all are fat and think we are happy and keep buying the crap.

Has no one been watching the Republicans and Carl Rove and learned the packaging process? Are we too nice to use their tactics to fight back and win? The stakes are too high to simply take the high ground.

On making the world safe, they have made political bullets, put them in their gun, and held it to their head and we cannot pull the trigger? IT DOES NOT GET ANY EASIER THAN THIS! They are gift wrapping this election for us and we will still be lucky to squeak by with a slim majority in one maybe both houses. And if we fail, we'll blame it on Rove, and the "vast right wing conspiracy", and Limbaugh and wedge issues, and whaaa, whaaa, whaa...

It is simple. They are already on the run with their own sex scandal and now Kim has handed us this beautiful field of nice, green, nutritious grass ready to be made into political hay and NOBODY has started the goddamn tractor and rounded up the farm hands. Hell, we can't even find some biodiesel to put in the tractor.

Are we so weak that we cannot cut the hay others have provided and feed ourselves? Perhaps we don’t deserve any better governance than that to which we have fallen victim.

Howard Dean throws out a war whoop and everyone is on his ass and he looses the primary. Kerry drones on in intellectual monotone and the NASCAR crowd turns to re-runs of Rosanne on basic cable and wanders off to Walmart to support the entire Chinese economy with one-stop efficiency. Leiberman turns into a Bush tool. (At least someone pulled his plug.) Duh-Bya mumbles, stammers and chimps his way into the Oval Office because he comes off more retarded than the average voter. And the average voter, like the average viewer of American Idol believes that they too can be a star...or a President so they vote for the evil genious disguised as a fool.

Nero played a liar while Rome burned and a Liar played a guitar while New Orleans drowned.

The Republicans create irreconcilable differences among the voters with unwinnable, deadlock, BUSHit wedge issues that span generations such as abortion and gay marriage and a bunch of cultural and moral crap that has so little to do with running the country. Anyone who spends more than 10 minutes of time annually on television on these distractions should be locked away in a secret CIA prison that does not exist. And WE allow them to control the dialog that ensues and then and win and win and win. Cake and circuses.

This bunch of smoke and mirror liars (remember when John Kerry was caught on tape say they were the “biggest bunch of liars I’ve ever seen"? He was right and they used the true to bludgeon him.) exposes themselves over and over and no one can put a stake in their heart!

What the hell is wrong with the democrats??????? You need a Carl Rove? E-mail me!

About the pictures: Change them. Don't take shortcuts. Be DIRECT. Show our soldiers...coming home in flag draped coffins that the BuShittes don't want us to see. Show our soldiers with their wounds and missing legs and arms. Maybe then the public won't allow anyone in Congress to even try to cut their benefits and perhaps, just prehaps, public opinion of this foolish military adventure will end this war and the Republican grip on our nation just as it did 30 years ago. (That was the Vietnam war and the Nixon Administration, kiddies.)

The October Surprise for which we are waiting:

DICK Cheney has been on the loose for the last few months leaving his bunker empty. ...or is it? Perhaps they have had bin Laden cooling off down there and are waiting for another week or two to drag him out and win the hearts and votes of America. Of course they will claim that he was "just captured" through their "diligent" war efforts.

Think this is farfetched conspiracy thinking? Keep in mind the Bush War Crime Family is only half as stupid as they think you are.

If they pull this stunt, remember, you heard it here first.

FROM KENNEDY ASSASSINATION ON !!
DO IQ'S MATTER -- SURE LOOKS RELATIVE !

GEORGE W. BUSH - A HALF-WIT-- TO BILL
CLINTON:

The study determined the following IQs of each president as accurate to within five percentage points:
147 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)
132 Harry Truman (D)
122 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
174 John F. Kennedy (D)
126 Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
155 Richard M. Nixon (R)
121 Gerald Ford (R)
175 James E. Carter (D)
105 Ronald Reagan (R)
098 George HW Bush (R)
182 William J. Clinton (D)
091 George W. Bush (R)

IRANIAN PRESIDENT-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- IQ 135.

VENEZUELA-President Hugo Chávez--IQ-129

Cuban leader Fidel Castro--IQ--106

ISRAEL'S --Aierl Sharon--IQ--Below 67

ISRAEL'S--Ehud Olmert --IQ--Above 67

HOW DID AIPAC & ISRAEL TAKE OVER AMERICA.

The Jewish Mafiya does not operate in a vacuum, from their assassination of president John Kennedy up to today. It operates within the Jewish community as a whole. It operates with the support of the Jewish establishment, from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith to Hollywood and the New York Times. It also operates with the support of the Christian establishment, from Pat Robertson & Jerry Falwell up to the Pope. These support groups won't put up a fuss if the FBI arrests a Jewish contract killer or a Jewish extortionist or two now and then, but any realistic effort to stamp out the whole kehillah will have all of the support groups screaming bloody murder. To use other words, what we must deal with is not a criminal problem but a Jewish problem. The problem will be solved only after this fact is generally understood. Meanwhile, the American sheep had better resign themselves to a good fleecing. Better yet, wake up to the fact.

(THE LAST FOUR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS WERE
PUPPETS FOR AIPAC & NOW INCLUDES CONGRESS)

Jewish organized crime in America. will not be stopped, regardless. The FBI has essentially put the Italian Mafia out of business in the United States during the past decade, but it won't put the Jewish Mafiya out of business, and the reason is that the Jews have vastly more money at their disposal for corrupting the system than the Italians ever did, and America has become corrupt Repuiblican or Democrat, look close at campaign money and AIPAC & other Jewish lobbies.

We are being victimized by non-citizens who can run to Israel or Russia and can't be extradited? American laws were made only to be broken by the Jews.In America the Jewish mob has continued to consolidate its power. The standard media ploy of referring to the gangsters as "Russians," We really cannot help revealing that nearly all of them are Jews. There is reluctance by the FBI and local and state police to crack down on the so-called "Russian Mafiya" or even to investigate it. It is the biggest threat to Americas Homeland Security, they flood accross our borders with no mention by Media, ??

Israel, Mossad, Iran and a Nuclear False Flag Attack :

"It is very evident from surveillance conducted against Mossad agents in the Federal Republic as well as interceptions of Israeli diplomatic communication from the Federal Republic to Tel Aviv, that the Mossad has successfully penetrated various extremist Arab groups in both the Federal Republic and the United States.

These investigations disclosed in late May of 2001 that an attack was to be made against certain specified targets in the American cities of Washington and New York. But it was apparent that the Mossad was not only fully aware of these attacks well in advance but actually, through their own agents inside these Arab groups, assisted in the planning and the eventual execution of the attacks.

That the Israeli government was fully aware of these attacks is absolutely certain and proven. Diplomatic traffic between the Israeli Embassy in the Federal Republic and the Israeli Foreign Office made it very clear that Minister President Sharon was fully aware of this pending attack and urgently wished that no attempt was made to prevent the attacks.

Although the Israeli officials were instructed to warn the American intelligence community that some kind of an attack might be possible, at no time were the specific dates and targets (known at that time to Israeli officials) to be given to the Americans.

In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing—that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack—but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections."

"HAWKISH ISRAELI LOBBY WANTS WAR WITH IRAN !!

"AIPAC PRESSURES BUSH & CONGRESS
TO BOMB IRAN !!

Iran: Bomb or Bargain?

A roster of speakers put together by the New America Foundation examined U.S. policy options toward Iran in Washington last week and mostly deplored the lack of leadership in the Bush administration and its refusal to engage in talks with the Iranians. The debate was framed around the question: to prevent Iran from arming itself with nuclear weapons, does the U.S. attack preventively, does it live with a nuclear Iran, or does it offer concessions in a "grand bargain"?

WE NEED TO "CUT & RUN" FROM ISRAEL NOT IRAQ.

Evidence Points to Israel's Policy of Deliberate Destruction of Lebanese Infrastructure & civilians, According to Amnesty International :

Amnesty International today published findings that point to an Israeli policy of deliberate destruction of Lebanese civilian infrastructure during the recent conflict.
A new 22-page report shows how Israel's destruction of thousands of homes, strikes on numerous bridges and roads as well as water and fuel storage plants was an integral part of Israel's military strategy in Lebanon, rather than "collateral damage" resulting from the lawful targeting of military objectives.

The information reinforces the case for an urgent, comprehensive and independent United Nations inquiry into grave violations of international humanitarian law committed by Israel during their month-long conflict.

"Many of the violations identified in this report are war crimes that give rise to individual criminal responsibility," said Curt Goering, Amnesty International USA's Senior Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programs. "They include directly attacking civilian objects and carrying out indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks. People against whom there is prima facie evidence of responsibility for the commission of these crimes are subject to criminal accountability anywhere in the world through the exercise of universal jurisdiction."

Goering is leading an Amnesty International mission to Lebanon to investigate war crimes in the region.

NO ONE BELIEVES OUR GOVERNMENT ANYMORE & WHY !!

TO AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR AMERICAN INTEREST !!

Surprisingly many Americans don’t believe their government about 9/11. (Again, why should they,so many false statements & speeches have been given in the last 5 years)

EVEN MORE THE LAST THREE WEEKS !!

9/11 conspiracy theorists multiply :
There are many unanswered questions about the attacks on 09/11/01, the obvious failures of existing security systems, the decisions regarding the assessment of terrorist threats; the wisdom, morality, and legality under international law of the unilateral attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq; the implementation of repressive domestic measures such as the Patriot Act and the confinement of immigrants and undocumented visitors without due process; and the reluctance and refusal of key government officials to fully cooperate with congressional and media investigations. Political Research Associates fully supports the vigorous investigation of these matters.

Increased spending on military hardware, covert action, and the devices and services to implement increased government surveillance of domestic dissidents authorized after 9/11 has undoubtedly been a financial bonanza to many businesses run by allies of the Bush administration. None of this is good news.

Silverstein made $4 Billion on WTC investment
Follow the money - it was a controlled demolition

You’ve got to be lucky to make $4 Billion killing on a 6-month investment of $124 Million.

ISRAEL: THE TERRORIST STATE, THE VOGUE STATE,THE FAILED STATE, THE USA WELFARE STATE..
CONTAIN ISRAEL TO 1948 BORDERS ..

Israel: the terrorist state, the rogue state, the failed state:
Developments in the Middle East permit only one conclusion: it is time for the United States to "cut and run" from Israel, not Iraq. The Israeli government has become the enemy of every American, and endangers every American with its suicidal policy of terrorizing the Middle East. Truly, the leading terrorist state, rogue state and failed state in the Middle East is Israel.
First, a timeline to the truth. President Bush and many world leaders have repeated the big lie that Hamas and Hezbollah "provoked" the latest war. That simply isn’t true. Palestinians voted in a free and fair election for a Hamas administration. Hamas was a party to a cease-fire.
Bush and Israeli leaders began a campaign of terror,
intimidation and assassination to undo a free and democratic election. Israel has committed genocide against the Palestinian people as a whole, and particularly against the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip. The Gazans who attacked Israeli military installations and took an Israeli soldier prisoner were only defending themselves in a war that Israel has continued relentlessly for decades. They only acted after decades of mealy-mouthed peace efforts by world leaders and the hypocrite-in-chief American President (insert name of your choice).
Israel responded to the military attack by launching a terror campaign against Palestinian civilians.
Hezbollah reacted in sympathy with Hamas, and sought to take the pressure off the besieged Palestinians. Who can condemn them for that? Hezbollah also attacked military targets. Once again, Israel responded by launching terror attacks against women and children, as the latest gruesome photographs now establish. Bottom line: Israel, not Palestinians, is the aggressor. Israel is the occupier.
Second, Ralph Peters is a columnist for the New York Post and author. We have disagreed on virtually everything concerning Iraq. I was right and he was wrong. But today he made some observations with which I agree. Peters writes that "Israel picked the wrong fight" by attacking innocent, civilian Lebanon. He's right.
Peters and I also disagree in that I once took a military oath of enlistment to defend the U.S. Constitution, and only the U.S. Constitution. Peters apparently took a loyalty oath to both Israel and the United States. That's a mistake.
I am not pro-Israel or anti-Israel, not pro-Arab or anti-Arab. I have only one loyalty, one priority, and one polestar: the interests of the United States of America and the U.S. Constitution. That's why Peters and I often part company: he wants to sympathize with Israelis; I only want to argue the vital interests of the American people and no one else.
Now, why is Israel the worst terror state, rogue state and failed state in the Middle East? Let’s look at the evidence.
First, terrorism. The state of Israel was created by terrorists, who terrorized the United Nations into partitioning the Palestinian Mandate. The nation was conceived and born in terrorism. (OK, so was the United States, but then that's another story.) Since its founding, Israel has maintained a policy of relentless terrorism against the lawful inhabitants of Palestine.
Israel could buy peace tomorrow by ending the occupation and agreeing to live in peace with its neighbors. But Israeli leaders don’t want peace any more than some Palestinians do. Both sides would have to yield their dreams to reality, and admit they might not get all they want in a final settlement. So the extremists on both sides, Israelis and Palestinians, find it more convenient to labor on with warfare.
Second, rogue state. Israel is a rogue state. Once again, Ralph Peters: "[The United States] can influence Israel. But we don't control Israel." I opposed the war in Iraq, but many Americans supported president Bush in 2003. Many people, including high elected and appointed officials, thought that by attacking Iraq they would open an avenue to peace. Today hundreds of thousands of Americans are in harm's way in the Middle East implementing President Bush's policies.
By launching it's terror war against Gaza and Lebanon,
Israel has all but destroyed President Bush's Iraq policy. It won’t be long before the Iraqi people are rising against their American occupiers, and we face a situation similar to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. There was never any chance that Bush's misguided and misinformed policies would succeed; but even if there was a slight chance, Israel's terrorism destroyed that remote possibility.
Despite the fact that American taxpayers subsidize Israel's warmongering, while Israeli investors take money out of that country and invest in New York real estate, Israel has betrayed President Bush. (Israeli real estate investors are voting with their dollars concerning the future they see for the Israeli state.) In other words, Israeli leaders have repaid Bush's loyalty with the treachery of an unprecedented campaign of terror against unarmed civilian populations.
Finally, failed state. Israel is a failed state. U. S. Senator Charles Schumer was quoted this weekend as saying Israel was created as a response to the Holocaust. Why should innocent Palestinians have been forced to pay for Europe's atrocities? Palestinians did not murder a single French Jew or German Jew or Polish Jew.
It is often said that Shakespeare gives some of the best lines to fools. The prime Minister of Iran has said some awful, foolish things about the Israelis. But he has also stated a truth that becomes more accepted in the world with each passing day: "Why make Palestinians and Arabs pay for the crimes of others, by allowing Israel to punish Palestinians and Arabs as payback for the European Holocaust?"
Today there is no prospect that Israel can ever be a nation in the normal sense of living in peace with its neighbors. Israel is too strong to be defeated, and the Arab world is also too strong to be defeated. Neither side can defeat the other. But Israeli dreams of superiority, hegemony and victory are just that: pipe dreams.

(IQ'S) WHO IS BEING LED AROUND WITH RINGS IN THEIR NOSES???

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON SEPT 11
VIEW VIDEO DOCUMENTARY ( GOOGLE)

9/11 - WHAT DID THE GOVERNMENT KNOW AND WHEN DID IT KNOW IT?

EVIDENCE LINKING ISRAELI'S TO 911 IS (CLASSIFIED):

ONE AMERICA FOR AMERICANS, AMERICAN INTEREST ONLY

ADVICE FOR REPUBLICANS RUNNING FOR CONGRESS.

GIVE IT UP, AND SAVE YOUR TIME & MONEY.

WE WANT PEOPLE IN UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT THAT ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO,
AND FOR THE INTEREST OF THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE.. NOT FOREIGN LOBBIES,
OIL COMPANY LOBBIES, OR THE BIG CORPORATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN DRAINING
THE UNITED STATES ECONOMY.

THAT MEANS DEMOCRATS TEMPORARILY,
UNTIL A THIRD PARTY CAN BE PUT IN PLACE
FOR 2008 AND BEYOND.

I agree, now we are looking for thoughtful ideas about what we do now. My neighbors have never voted democrat, yet they tell me they would this time around if they heard an idea on Iraq that doesn’t sound like giving up.

I would beat these drums to death.

The folks that were killed in 9/11 were killed on the Republicans watch. They failed to protect our own people. I'm tired of hearing the big "E" from them EXCUSES! Lets stop letting them get away with this.

None of the terrorists came from IRAQ. No WMD's either so why are we there?

Why are the Republicans imposing their ideology on IRAQ?

Please let us go back to the seperation of church and state because the Republicans have put the agenda of the religious right ahead of what’s good for America.

The idea of liberty is at the heart of liberal ldemocratic theory. The idea of spreading liberty around the world couldn't be more liberal if one tried. Look it up in Wikipedia or any other encyclopedia. From wikipedia:

Liberalism is an ideology, philosophical view, and political tradition which holds that liberty is the primary political value.[1] Liberalism has its roots in the Western Enlightenment, but the term now encompasses a diversity of political thought.
Broadly speaking, contemporary liberalism emphasizes individual rights. It seeks a society characterized by freedom of thought for individuals, [citation needed]limitations on power, especially of government and religion, the rule of law, free public education, the free exchange of ideas, a market economy that supports relatively free private enterprise, and a transparent system of government in which the rights of all citizens are protected.[2] In modern society, liberals favor a liberal democracy with open and fair elections, where all citizens have equal rights by law and an equal opportunity to succeed.[3]

The Pres. spreading Liberty around the world and giving people hope, like the people of Iraq, couldn't be more liberal in his pronouncements. Why has he failed? Maybe because he's not liberal in his ideology and his thinking.

Why would the Democrats succeed, maybe because the Democratic Party has been the party of liberalism, from Roosevelt and Truman to Kennedy. And Roosevelt and Truman won a World War in the time it has taken the Pres. to get bogged down in Iraq with little international support.

But let's leave that to the historians writing as we speak, the fact is that the Democratic Party Agenda is the truth to the lie that Republicans will be perpetuating that Democrats are weak on defense. America's defenses are weak, and it's Republican inaction in Congress that Americans have to thank for that.

Republicans have little to show for the time they have spent in office. Instead of showing the American people their accomplishments, they propogate lies and mischaracterizations.

The idea of liberty is at the heart of liberal ldemocratic theory. The idea of spreading liberty around the world couldn't be more liberal if one tried. Look it up in Wikipedia or any other encyclopedia. From wikipedia:

Liberalism is an ideology, philosophical view, and political tradition which holds that liberty is the primary political value.[1] Liberalism has its roots in the Western Enlightenment, but the term now encompasses a diversity of political thought.
Broadly speaking, contemporary liberalism emphasizes individual rights. It seeks a society characterized by freedom of thought for individuals, [citation needed]limitations on power, especially of government and religion, the rule of law, free public education, the free exchange of ideas, a market economy that supports relatively free private enterprise, and a transparent system of government in which the rights of all citizens are protected.[2] In modern society, liberals favor a liberal democracy with open and fair elections, where all citizens have equal rights by law and an equal opportunity to succeed.[3]

The Pres. spreading Liberty around the world and giving people hope, like the people of Iraq, couldn't be more liberal in his pronouncements. Why has he failed? Maybe because he's not liberal in his ideology and his thinking.

Why would the Democrats succeed, maybe because the Democratic Party has been the party of liberalism, from Roosevelt and Truman to Kennedy. And Roosevelt and Truman won a World War in the time it has taken the Pres. to get bogged down in Iraq with little international support.

But let's leave that to the historians writing as we speak, the fact is that the Democratic Party Agenda is the truth to the lie that Republicans will be perpetuating that Democrats are weak on defense. America's defenses are weak, and it's Republican inaction in Congress that Americans have to thank for that.

Republicans have little to show for the time they have spent in office. Instead of showing the American people their accomplishments, they propogate lies and mischaracterizations.

Why does Dean allow himself to use Republican-speak in referring to the "war on terror" in the NYT op-ed piece?

Also, a "tough and smart" defense policy!? I doubt that very many 4-stars would buy into anything so described or envisioned.

Further, OF COURSE the Dem party will not "rubber-stamp" Bush policies! Why would it and why hafta even say it!?

It just seems to me that the Repubs continue to set the tone, devise the message, and shape the paradigm of thought. As long as the DNC Chair ACCEPTS this, then the Repubs (read, Rove) remain in control of the national dialogue and OUR COLLECTIVE THOUGHT!

How about BREAKING OUT of the grip on our national psyche and really LEADING!!!