And I am suppose to care what you say. Kennedy is ill and in the hospital and people with no moral concious can make jokes. I think it is more due to age and we need to be careful about choosing such old people for such an important postion.
Oh, I will never forget that handpicked committee Dubya set up to investigate the intelligence of Iraq information. What a mockery of American intelligence that was. I knew that him and Cheney would testify together. My only question was which knee HOWDY DOODY would set on, the left or the right.
after 9/11 the US had the goodwill of all the world. If Gore had been president we would have gone into Alphganistan and most likely brought OsamaBinforgotten to justice. He is not against Jews but I don't think he would have had all those zionist in his cabinet wanting to go to war on Iraq, Iran, Syria. tttom can you even say mistake? Osamabinforgotten wanted to bring America to it's knees and Bush has played right into his hands. I think Bush is as delusional as BinLaden.
I think French is on board or cut a deal with America but Putin says....
Putin: American attack on Iran will be viewed as an attack on Russia atimes.com — The barely reported highlight of Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Tehran for the Caspian Sea summit last week was a key face-to-face meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Russia will probably supply Iran with a few nukes.
ttom, you laugh so easily but do you realize how ugly this can get? Russia and China have became very friendly also.
I predict that Isreal will attack Iran before Bush's term is up with the blessing and backing of Bush that Bush has promised. It's called you scratch my back and I'll scratch your's. Isreal is such a victim of terrorism but never pays any attention to UN sanctions set on Isreal. And the victimization is going to expand and be made very one-sided.
Bush: We’ll back up Israel against Hamas threats
Published: 05.14.08, 18:06 / Israel News
US President George W. Bush said Wednesday after his meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the US will back up Israel against the threats it faces.
“Hamas insists upon wanting to destroy Israel, and the United States will fully support Israel as well as those Palestinians wishing to live in peace alongside Israel,” said Bush. (Roni Sofer)
Conrad I do not dislike all Jews, I dislike the extreme zionist lobbist behind the Iraq war. I participated on politcal forums with very intelligent people who had the understanding before I did but I did not just buy it, I did LOTS of research to form my own conclusion based on evidence that came out within the start of the war and now. I am sure you must know a lot about these people and the parts they have played but here is a link with there names atleast
This is a weird question. How do you expect a normal person to answer for a hand full of extremist actions? Why would they even try to give an answer to this? There was no justification for this. Does that mean I believe America has been fair in it's dealings with Isreal. NO! I think Isreal is a greedy state that wants it all. Just because you disagree with policy doesn't mean you agree with extremist actions....Like when the leader of the most powerful country in the world says...You are either with us or against us.
You were right SHD, Bush didn't get any on this trip...
By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer 4 minutes ago
"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabian leaders made clear Friday they see no reason to increase oil production until their customers demand it, apparently rebuffing President Bush amid soaring U.S. gasoline prices.
During Bush's second personal appeal this year to King Abdullah, Saudi officials stuck to their position that they are already meeting demand, the president's national security adviser told reporters."
Oh please, don't start preaching about the mud now. Everyone knows what a pig Karl Rove was and all the dirty tactics he used and how all the republicans just parroted every new word he said. And you are even still too obvious with the previous remark "Now you think the SEC can jerk your candidate up from the mud he is in? My God, I didn't know this little thread had such an impact on his campaign. No, I'm not playing your little blame game. You're so silly ttom.
Now you think that a SEC chairman can jerk your canidate out of the mud he is in? A few endorsements by political hungry Dems is going to do that? Support by a few Dem Superdeligates are going to clean things up for him? That is where you lefties have put him. Now you want to blame me? LOL......... That some no name Rep blogger has soiled your good Canidate and his name......LOL..........
I think that you really underestimate the American voter. He/she knows very well where this is is originating. It ain't coming from my ip/tc code. The conspririacy theories spin on and on and on.
Oh please, don't start preaching about the mud now. Everyone knows what a pig Karl Rove was and all the dirty tactics he used and how all the republicans just parroted every new word he said. And you are even still too obvious with the previous remark "Now you think the SEC can jerk your candidate up from the mud he is in? My God, I didn't know this little thread had such an impact on his campaign. No, I'm not playing your little blame game. You're so silly ttom.
Oh my, this is from the man who just can't stop talking about Rev. Wright until it is so old nobody wants to hear it anymore. Then he wants to assume he knows more than anyone in the Military and Pentagon about what is going to happen if we leave Iraq....there is no other solutions....they will get their hands on a nuke and bomb Isreal....talking about black and white thinking. I think we have a little more surveillance and air power than you even want to consider. Atleast Obama is not singing bomb Iran and talking about staying for 100 years. And you are even admitting his diplomacy and leadership skills. And as far as the ecomony, there is nothing new. McCain embraced Bush's policies to get support from the elite, I mean his base.
TT, there will be plenty intelligent people endorsing Obama even republicans but I wouldn't expect neo-cons to endorse him they are the true down fall of America, but tt don't like hearing the truth. Just yesterday he received three endorsement from three former U.S. SEC chairmen, and one was a republican....
WARREN, Mich, May 14 (Reuters) - Three former chairmen of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday, bolstering the Illinois senator's economic credentials and bipartisan appeal as he closes in on his party's nomination.
Former SEC head William Donaldson, who was appointed by Republican President George W. Bush, joined Arthur Levitt and David Ruder in backing Obama, who leads rival Hillary Clinton in the number of delegates necessary to become the Democratic White House nominee.
Levitt was appointed by former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, while Ruder was appointed by former President Ronald Reagan, a Republican.
All three commended Obama for his approach to regulation.
"Each of us has been committed to prudent economic policy and effective financial regulation for many years," they said in a joint statement along with former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, also an Obama supporter.
"We believe Senator Obama can provide the positive leadership and judgment needed to take us to a stronger and more secure economic future."
In the statement they praised Obama's "reasoned approach" in analyzing "the current financial crisis and the need for balanced regulatory reform." Continued...
I don't know anjel, Mccain did hire the same man Comcad who helped Rove to spread the rumors about his daughter to work in this campaign. Maybe he is just playing nicey, nice now to look good but I think they will pull out all their dirty tricks when the time comes if needed.
It is the miliatary quesitoning the politicians conrad, what part of that don't you understand? The politicians are a bunch of damn liars. And yes, some of us don't follow like sheep and we do question.
Well, maybe he didn't live in America until he was 16. But if his parents were American's he was born an American citizen whereever he was born. My neice was born in Germany because her father was stationed there and she has dual citizenship but she was always an American citizen.
TT in your opinion we are doing such great things...butaccording to high rank on ground officials and high ranking Pentagon officials we are losing and the army is too stretched thin to continue. Except for Petraeus of course who got a promotion. And that was all politics. Ignorant politicians need to get out of the military's way but all they have created is another Vietnam and we most likely will have a draft. So you got any son's to offer up TT? Are you just an arm chair warrior willing to send other people's sons to war for years to come and not accomplish a damn thing just like Vietnam.
The Krepinevich assessment is the latest in the debate over whether the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have worn out the Army, how the strains can be eased and whether the U.S. military is too burdened to defeat other threats.
Rep. John Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat and Vietnam veteran, created a political storm last fall when he called for an early exit from Iraq, arguing that the Army was "broken, worn out" and fueling the insurgency by its mere presence. Administration officials have hotly contested that view.
George Joulwan, a retired four-star Army general and former NATO commander, agrees the Army is stretched thin.
"Whether they're broken or not, I think I would say if we don't change the way we're doing business, they're in danger of being fractured and broken, and I would agree with that," Joulwan told CNN last month.
Krepinevich did not conclude that U.S. forces should quit Iraq now, but said it may be possible to reduce troop levels below 100,000 by the end of the year. There now are about 136,000, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.
For an Army of about 500,000 soldiers — not counting the thousands of National Guard and Reserve soldiers now on active duty — the commitment of 100,000 or so to Iraq might not seem an excessive burden. But because the war has lasted longer than expected, the Army has had to regularly rotate fresh units in while maintaining its normal training efforts and reorganizing the force from top to bottom.
Krepinevich's analysis, while consistent with the conclusions of some outside the Bush administration, is in stark contrast with the public statements of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and senior Army officials.
Army Secretary Francis Harvey, for example, opened a Pentagon news conference last week by denying the Army was in trouble. "Today's Army is the most capable, best-trained, best-equipped and most experienced force our nation has fielded in well over a decade," he said, adding that recruiting has picked up.
Rumsfeld has argued that the experience of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan has made the Army stronger, not weaker.
"The Army is probably as strong and capable as it ever has been in the history of this country," he said in an appearance at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington on Dec. 5. "They are more experienced, more capable, better equipped than ever before."
Krepinevich said in the interview that he understands why Pentagon officials do not state publicly that they are being forced to reduce troop levels in Iraq because of stress on the Army. "That gives too much encouragement to the enemy," he said, even if a number of signs, such as a recruiting slump, point in that direction.
Krepinevich is executive director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a non-profit policy research institute.
He said he concluded that even Army leaders are not sure how much longer they can keep up the unusually high pace of combat tours in Iraq before they trigger an institutional crisis. Some major Army divisions are serving their second yearlong tours in Iraq, and some smaller units have served three times.
Michael O'Hanlon, a military expert at the private Brookings Institution, said in a recent interview that "it's a judgment call" whether the risk of breaking the Army is great enough to warrant expanding its size.
"I say yes. But it's a judgment call, because so far the Army isn't broken," O'Hanlon said.
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Thank you for serving our country. 
RE: Obama for Presidnet!.....Heptachromic
And I am suppose to care what you say. Kennedy is ill and in the hospital and people with no moral concious can make jokes.I think it is more due to age and we need to be careful about choosing such old people for such an important postion.