U.S. troops "terrorize" Baby Noor

"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs. Whether you like it or not..."

Saving Iraqi baby a new mission for U.S. troops

When troops from the Georgia National Guard raided a Baghdad home in early December, they had no idea that their mission in Iraq would take a different turn.

As the young parents of an infant girl nervously watched the soldiers search their modest home, the baby's unflinching grandmother thrust the little girl at the Americans, showing them the purple pouch protruding from her back.

Little Noor, barely three months old, was born with spina bifida, a birth defect in which the spinal column fails to completely close. Iraqi doctors had told her parents she would live only 45 days. (Watch U.S. troops make saving a baby girl their mission -- 2:11)

But she was tenaciously clinging to life, and the soldiers in the home -- many of them fathers themselves -- were moved.

"Well, I saw this child as the firstborn child of the young mother and father and really, all I could think of was my five children back at home and my young daughter," Lt. Jeff Morgan told CNN from Baghdad. "And I knew if I had the opportunity whatsoever to save my daughter's life I would do everything possible.

"So my heart just kind of went out to this baby and these parents who ... were living in poverty and had no means to help their baby. I thought we could do that for them," he added.

So Morgan and his fellow soldiers began working to get Noor the help she needs.

"We ... collectively decided this is going to be our project," said Sgt. Michael Sonen. "If this is the only contribution we have to defeating the war on terrorism, this is going to be it."

The soldiers brought Noor to a U.S. military base for medical examinations and got friends and charities in the United States to help get her the surgery that could save her life.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia and his office are working to speed up the process of getting a visa for Noor's grandmother, who will accompany her to Atlanta.

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What made the grandmother feel it was safe to "thrust the little girl at the Americans"? Clearly she has a better understanding of what we're about than many among us do.

This certainly seems to bely the portrayal of US servicemen as 21st Century "Jenjis" Khans!

As ever, we are ... PROUDLY AMERICAN!

God bless Baby Noor!

Former paper of record graduates Econ 101!

(Login required and not worth it)
U.S. Growth May Hinge on Businesses

Did Paul Krugman approve this headline?

"May" hinge on businesses?

Growth has, does and ALWAYS WILL rely mostly on the health of "Business".

Most of us figured this out when we plopped a card table on the sidewalk in front of the house and endeavoured to sell lemonade.

Apparently, that trumps an Ivy League "education"!

Justice Department: Quisling hunt is on

Justice Department Probing Domestic Spying Leak

The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into recent disclosures about a controversial domestic eavesdropping program that was secretly authorized by President Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, officials said yesterday.

Justice prosecutors will focus their examination on who may have unlawfully disclosed classified information about the program to the New York Times, which reported two weeks ago that Bush had authorized the National Security Agency to monitor the international telephone calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens and residents without court-approved warrants, officials said.

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But Duffy reiterated earlier statements by Bush, who had sharply condemned the disclosure of the NSA program and argued that it seriously damaged national security.

"The fact is that al Qaeda's playbook is not printed on Page One, and when America's is, it has serious ramifications," Duffy said, reading from prepared remarks. "You don't need to be Sun Tzu to understand that," he added, referring to the ancient Chinese general who wrote "The Art of War."

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In another recent case, the CIA general counsel's office notified the Justice Department in November that classified information had been disclosed in a report by The Washington Post on the existence of secret "black site" prisons in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Justice officials declined to comment yesterday on whether that referral has also led to a full criminal probe.

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What is the punishment for treason nowadays?

Prolly sentencing the guilty to serve as wait staff for the pampered vermin of Gitmo.

We support impeachment ...

... of any president who does not monitor the communications of the enemy during wartime.

Admit it, flakes -- you've been praying to Mother Gaia for the next terrorist attack to hit us so you could lay the blame at the feet of the president ... and Michael Moore could produce another lie-filled "documentary" and finally pay off his Crispy Creme tab!

And bongs would be raised high in toast to the intrepid Jihadists for outwitting the idiot Bush and his SS stormtroopers and slaughtering our "little Eichmann's".

RIP "Loyal Opposition".

American Jihadist seeks Moonbat lawyer to sue Prez

ACLU head counsel, Ramsey Clark, call your office!

Lawsuit against Bush?

Iyman Faris, the only named American target of the National Security Agency's secret warrantless wiretap program, will consider a lawsuit against the president of the United States, according to his criminal defense attorney, David Smith.

"I am sure he would be delighted to sue President Bush," said Smith, of the law firm English & Smith in Alexandria, Va., who is representing Faris in his criminal appeals. "He may be the only person in the country who can."

To accomplish this goal, Smith has issued an all points bulletin for civil liberties attorneys and constitutional scholars interested in taking up his client's case. "If some lawyer would like to sue on behalf of Faris, I would be happy to introduce them," Smith told Salon Thursday evening. "I've got the man here."
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For those who don't know ... or remember ... Mr. Faris is the American "citizen" who conspired with al Qaeda to cut the support cables on the Brooklyn Bridge, plunging thousands, quite possibly including friends and family of The Ponderosa, to a watery death.

And, oh yes, he was allegedly foiled thanks to one of the taps of intercontinental phone calls between foreign al Qaeda and the US that have the flakier among us branding the president "a dictator".

If it's true that you can judge people by the quality of their friends, you Moonbats are looking pretty shabby.

We half hope that this case goes before a court, as the enemies of America will surely be bussed in en masse to lend their support to this evil pondscum.

We urge them to get a good spot in front of the banks of cameras.

Wear your treason with pride!!!

Let America see who you are!

Bush Boom reflected in "holiday" spending

Holiday retail spending up 8.7 pct: report

U.S. consumers spent 8.7 percent more during the just ended holiday shopping period than in the comparable period a year ago, according to a report from an affiliate of MasterCard Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Monday.

The study, by SpendingPulse, covered the period from the Friday after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday through December 24, Christmas Eve. That period included 30 days in 2005, compared with 29 days in 2004.

The report found the biggest increases in spending on home furnishings, up 15.2 percent, followed by consumer electronics and appliances, up 10.5 percent. Spending on jewelry was down 4.6 percent.

The report covers spending in stores and on the Internet, and includes food sales. It excludes spending on autos and gasoline.

WOE IS US! WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE RAISE TAXES!

This is getting repetitive.

John Kerry Stimson Thorne Heinz: Hypocrite

Kerry: 'America Can Do Better'

We shouldn't be letting 95 percent of container ships come into our ports without ever being physically inspected.

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Kerry Blasts Bush Over NSA Spy Program

WASHINGTON — Domestic spying authorized by the White House "doesn't uphold our Constitution" and President Bush's defense of the practice is "lame," Sen. John Kerry said Tuesday.

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Lessee if we have this straight ... by failing to inspect more than 5% (if you accept Kerry Stimson Thorne Heinz' numbers) of the container ships sailing into our harbors -- 100% would be great, but a logistical impossibilty -- the president has been lax in his Constitutional duty to "provide for the common defence".

But, by monitoring phone calls between overseas al Qaeda and in-country persons -- quite feasibile with no logistical constraints given current technology -- the president is breaking the law?

Should we monitor and inspect all containers regardless of their nation of origin given a common sense suspicion that they might contain nasty stuff while not exercising similar judgement vis-a-vis inter-continental phone calls?

These people keep driving nails into their electoral coffin.

We urge them to push this line of attack through Election Day 2006.

Happy Birthday to The Saviour

We don't much care whether it was December 25th or July 4th.

Today is the day we choose to celebrate your birth.

Thank you for your life, death and resurrection.

Update: From The Vatican --
May the birth of the Prince of Peace remind the world where its true happiness lies; and may your hearts be filled with hope and joy, for the Saviour has been born for us.

The Ponderosa's "Persons of the Year"

The Iraqi voter


The American warrior

For obvious reasons.

To coin a phrase, "let freedom reign".

Honorable Mention goes too Gamma Ray -- oops -- wrong year-end thread -- Honorable Mention goes to ...



... The American Moonbat, for the initiative he's displayed in extinguishing the bong, getting up off the futon in his parents' basement, heading for the local library computer and providing our mortal enemy with just enough hope to keep it fighting on against the forces of Civilization.

Israelis hold firm: Saddam had WMD

Two wrongs don't make a right
(All emphasis ours)

No weapons of mass destruction? Says who? The Bush administration's claim relied heavily on Israeli intelligence, but United States forces botched the hunt.

"It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong," U.S. President George W. Bush said last week, prior to Thursday's parliamentary elections in Iraq, thus aligning himself with what America has considered an indisputable fact for some time now: There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Bush believes that the offensive was justified despite this mistake.

The debate on this question is only beginning, but he already closed the argument about the intelligence failure: "As president, I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq. And I'm also responsible for fixing what went wrong by reforming our intelligence capabilities. And we're doing just that."

And here is what he said about other intelligence services, including those of Israel: "When we made the decision to go into Iraq, many intelligence agencies around the world judged that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction." Indeed, many top intelligence and army officials in Israel still insist: "We said this at the time and we were not mistaken. The Americans are the ones who are making the mistake now."

Here is an interesting version that does not worry the public in Israel, in the absence of a public debate over the war in Iraq. These senior officials, who are intimately familiar with Israeli intelligence material, still believe that Iraq really did have weapons of mass destruction. Not nuclear weapons, of course. Israel never made this claim. The Americans indeed erred in inflating the insubstantial information on nuclear plans. But there were chemical and biological weapons. And if the Americans have decided otherwise, especially for political reasons, they are now making a second error on top of the first error.

Some of these officials have shared their views with their American contacts. "Why didn't we find the weaponry?" the Americans asked. The Israelis told them politely: because most of it was transferred to Syria before the war. Such suspicions have been openly published. All the intelligence services in the West are familiar with photographs of trucks sneaking across the border at night, accompanied by senior Iraqi officers. The problem is that the moment Israel turns an accusatory finger toward Syria, it is immediately suspected of ulterior, political motives.

"They can think whatever they want," an Israeli officer says. "Perhaps it is impossible to change their opinion, but it is also impossible to change the truth. Material was transferred to Syria in the dark of the night, on the very eve of the war. Therefore, the Americans did not find it." And this, as suggested above, is the more polite explanation.

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WMD to Syria? You know who's responsible for this claim (and Astroturf!): the Jews!

Uh ... this has been the "non-existent" plan all along ...

Rumsfeld Announces Iraq Troop Cutbacks

BAGHDAD -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld today announced a modest reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq following successes in blocking insurgents from crossing the Syrian border as well as expanding Iraq's nascent security forces.

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Exactly why the MSM continues to proffer this story is clear: they want to make it appear that pressure from domestic enemies like former hero Murtha and current dingbat Pelosi affected Administration policy.

But this has been the plan -- for those who could be bothered to PAY ATTENTION -- all along.

In answer to those that worry that ...

... a President Shrillary would exercise the same powers of the office that GWB has: If she's listening in on the conversations of our declared enemies -- first of all, we'd be shocked at her display of common sense.

Second, we'd salute her for providing for the common defense, the most important responsibility a president has.

Prevent the Jihadists from blowing me to smithereens.

The rest of my life I can take care of.

* "It's alright if I aid and comfort I'm a Democraaaat ..."

" ... If al-Qaeda kill a few of us, it's all Bush's fault!"

* Sung to the tune of "Theme From Bonanza"

"Loyal" opposition update -- Dems to Brooklyn Bridge: Drop ... just .. drop

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Vice President Dick Cheney also defended the program, saying it has "saved thousands of lives." Administration officials say Bush’s program has uncovered Iyman Faris' plan to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge and another bombing plot in Britain. Heaven knows what plots they found that they could not publicly disclose.

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Saddam appeals to MSM, Loony Left

Saddam Claims He Was 'Beaten by Americans'

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein again grabbed center stage at his mass murder trial Wednesday, suddenly standing up and surprising the courtroom with claims that he and other defendants were "beaten by Americans."

The deposed leader's lengthy complaint came after witnesses graphically described how their captors administered electric shocks and used molten plastic to rip the skin off prisoners in a crackdown following an assassination attempt against Saddam in 1982.

A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad called Saddam's allegations "completely unfounded" but said "we are prepared to investigate."

"Beyond that, we have no interest in being a part of what are clearly courtroom antics aimed at disrupting the legal process," said Lt. Col. Barry Johnson.

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Where's Ramsey Clark when you need him? Oh, wait -- he's at Saddam's side!

Gotta give Saddam credit -- like most tyrannical dictators, he's a madman but no fool. He's tossed a softball to the American MSM and the Loony Left ... Hopefully, they'll take the pitch, but it's getting difficult to say which side they're on.

We'll perhaps feel a tad of sympathy for Saddam when he reports that the Americans fed him into the plastic shredder.

Blessed with the stupidity of our opponents

Blocking renewal of the Patriot Act, which by all accounts has been an effective tool against terrorism with no apparent REAL encroachments on civil rights.

Cheerleading for surrender in Iraq even as the greatest blow for freedom since the fall of the Berlin Wall resonates throughout the Middle East.

Hand-wringing over common sense surveillance of communications between the U.S. and known members of al Qaeda.

Championing the cause of the pampered Jihadists at Club Gitmo -- Korans and prayer mats for all!

The Terrorist Bill of Rights (thanks McCain).

Vowing to undo the policies that set off an impressive economic boom.

Preventing us from tapping into the vast oil reserves in the ANWR wasteland, thus preventing us from reducing our dependency on foreign crude by even a smidgen.

This certainly looks like a winning hand in '06.

IDF general: Saddam shifted CW to Syria

Ya’alon: Iraq Moved its Chemical Weapons to Syria Before War

Former IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya’alon said in an interview with the New York Sun on Thursday that Iraq moved its chemical weapons to Syria six weeks before the war started.

"He transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria,” said Ya’alon. “No one went to Syria to find it.”

Ya’alon’s assertion that Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction were clandestinely sent to Syria on the eve of the war contradicts U.S. President George W. Bush’s statement last Wednesday at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., that “much of the intelligence” on Iraq "turned out to be wrong."

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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has also contended that Iraq’s WMD were transferred from Iraq to Syria before the war. In December 2002, Sharon told Israel's Channel 2 Television that "chemical and biological weapons which Saddam is endeavoring to conceal have been moved from Iraq to Syria."

Syria has long been known to be developing its own chemical weapons (CW) of mass destruction. In March 2004, former CIA director George Tenet told the Senate Armed Services Committee that "Damascus has an active CW development and testing program that relies on foreign suppliers for key controlled chemicals suitable for producing CW."

A senior official in the Iraqi embassy, Entifadh Qanbar, generally supported Ya’alon’s claim that Iraq moved its chemical weapons to Syria, but said that his government “is basically operating in the dark” because it doesn’t control its own intelligence agency.

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This jibes with the Duelfer Report's -- you read the whole thing, right? -- description of heavy truck traffic from Iraq to Syria in the weeks before OIF.

Another damned Zionist tool of American neocons! Or vice versa ... Hard to keep the lunacy straight.

Iraqis defy terrorists, befuddle Moonbats ...

Millions of Iraqis Vote in Relative Peace

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Millions of Iraqis, from tribal sheiks to entire families with children in tow, turned out Thursday to choose a parliament in a mostly peaceful election — among the freest ever in the Arab world.

So many Sunni Arabs voted that ballots ran out in some places. The strong participation by Sunnis, the backbone of the insurgency, bolstered U.S. hopes that the election could produce a broad-based government capable of ending the daily suicide attacks and other violence that have ravaged the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Difficult times lie ahead, however. The coalition of religious Shiite parties that dominates the current government is expected to win the biggest portion of the 275 seats, but will almost certainly need to compromise with rival factions, with widely differing views, to form a government.

Up to 11 million of the nation's 15 million registered voters took part, election officials estimated, which would put overall turnout at more than 70 percent.

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Excellent coverage here and here.

And the "non-plan" reaches another milestone.

It's no secret we have been supporters of regime change in Iraq -- which could only have been accomplished via the invasion of Iraq and the arrest of Saddam -- since it became official U.S. policy in 1998.

Unlike many of our cohorts, we have never gone squishy in our support, having actually read the multifarious reports in their ENTIRETY -- not merely media excerpts -- and remain convinced that Saddam was a patron for terrorist groups and was intent on resuming WMD production at the moment the failing sanctions regime breathed its last.

We will not pretend that democracy in Iraq was the primary goal all along, for it wasn't. It could not be. While we believe that every person, as a child of God, has the inalienable right to self-determination, were that to become a casus belli our armies would never rest.

But the transformation of Iraq from a kleptocracy to a nation where the people choose their leaders is truly an amazing, possibly history-altering event. That it has been so downplayed in the US media speaks more to the nasty effects of Bush Derangement syndrome than it does to the significance of the vote.

We salute, applaud and raise our glasses to the Iraqi people who have three times this year raised their purple middle fingers to the terrorists and excercised their God-given right to self-government.

The success of the Iraq project is not ensured. That depends on the wisdom of the Iraqis.

But Thursday's elections represent the greatest blow for freedom since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. If that blow is felt in neighboring states, we may very well look back on December 15, 2005 as the day the Middle East took its first steps toward sanity.

We are proud that we were able to play a small role in the extension to 25 million people of rights we were fortunate enough to be born unto.

Iraqi voter to Moonbats ...

"... go to Hell ... "


Via The Political Teen ...

Wow, that's original

Obama says Republicans practice "Social Darwinism"

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Republicans controlling the federal government practice Social Darwinism, a discredited philosophy that in economics and politics calls for survival of the fittest, according to a Democratic U.S. senator.

Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, a fast-rising Democratic star, told Florida party members that only a philosophy among Republicans of sink or swim explains why some Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans still live in cars while Republicans in Washington prepare next week to enact $70 billion in tax breaks.

"It's called the 'Ownership society' in Washington. This isn't the first time this philosophy has appeared. It used to be called Social Darwinism," Obama said late Saturday at the Democrats meeting at Walt Disney World.

"They have a philosophy they have implemented and that is doing exactly what it was designed to do. They basically don't believe in government. They have a different philosophy that says, 'We're going to dismantle government'," Obama said.

Republicans running the federal government believe, "You are on your own to buy your own health care, to buy your own retirement security ... to buy your own roads and levees," Obama said, referring to flood barriers that gave way in New Orleans during Katrina last August.

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It's tough to make Howard Dean sound rational, but Obama comes close here.

The current GOP Congress and president have done about as much to "dismantle government" as LBJ did. As for providing for your own health care and retirement security -- many of us feel we are MUCH better equipped to do this for ourselves rather than have media appointed "rising stars" like Obama do it for us.

Obama calls that "Social Darwinism". Some of us call it "self-reliance".

We're not sure who, aside from the staunchest large "L" Libertians, has called for individual citizens to fund roads and levees. But we hope that most state and city governments, where such projects are properly are managed, are better run than those of Louisiana and New Orleans.

It's fitting that Obama peddled this nonsense at Disney World: the chap is positively goofy.

Color us purple

Purple Finger for Freedom

Twice this year, Iraqis have shown their courage, defying the terrorists -- risking their lives to exercise their right to vote.

They will vote again on December 15.

Shelby Dangerfield, a 10-year-old Montana girl, demonstrated Americans' solidarity with freedom-loving Iraqis by inking her finger purple last January.

From December 12 - 15, let's follow her example by inking our index finger purple.

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We don't generally go in for useless symbolism like ribbons and cheesy songs, but we intend to ink our fingers as a sign of solidarity with the Iraqis who will boldly go to the polls on the 15th, in defiance of the "insurgents" and to the chagrin of many here at home.

Plus, it'll really tick off the Moonbats!

Murtha does it again

Murtha Disputes Bush on Iraq

Rep. John Murtha on Monday rejected the Bush administration characterization of the war in Iraq, calling it a fight against insurgents, not terrorists, and he said it is a battle the United States cannot win militarily.

Murtha, a Democrat from western Pennsylvania, reiterated his call for the withdrawal of American troops, speaking in Center City about an hour after President Bush spoke a few blocks away.

Murtha said the United States is seen as an occupier by Iraqis, and, being in Philadelphia, he drew a comparison to the American Revolution. He said that if the French had remained in the infant United States after the Revolutionary War, "we'd have thrown them the hell out of here." That's how Iraqis are reacting now to the presence of U.S. troops, the 73-year-old congressman said.

"The Iraqis are not against democracy, they are against our occupation," he said.

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So "insurgents" are killing other Iraqis? If "the French had remained in the infant United States after the Revolutionary War", would American Minutemen have murdered other Americans by the thousand?

Can't this guy just keep his fricking mouth shut? The Iraqi elections are less than three days away, and this clown's teeing up soundbytes for al Jazeera!

Murtha, like another Vietnam vet, John Kerry Stimson Thorne Heinz, seems to believe that his service in Vietnam inoculates him from charges that he is providing fodder for the enemy.

Balderdash!

Benedict Arnold was once a brave American general.

With all due respect given for your service, Mr. Murtha: Please shut up!

Back after technical difficulties ...

Yes, even software guys can have technical difficulties with their machines ... after all, we're SOFTWARE, not HARDWARE guys.

Anyhow, while we were away, Howard Dean and John Kerry Heinz made pronouncements that heartened our enemies, the president gave a couple of fine speeches on Iraq and the economy, and Thy Majestie's (sic) "Jeanne D'Arc" edged oh-so-slightly ahead of Kamelot's "The Black Halo" for our Metal cd of the year.


Oh ... BRYCE started a blog!

RIP, 10 of the best men we have

10 U.S. Marines killed in bombing near Fallujah
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A roadside bomb killed 10 Marines and wounded 11 while they were on a foot patrol near Fallujah, the Marine Corps said Friday, in the deadliest attack on American troops in nearly four months.

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God, please be with the families of these courageous warriors ... We can never repay these men -- and all those who came before them -- for their sacrifices on our behalf, save to thank them every day for making America possible.

Deliver, us Lord, from evil.

Why is this controversial?

Pentagon Describes Iraq Propaganda Plan

WASHINGTON - Military officials in Baghdad for the first time Friday described a Pentagon program that pays to plant stories in the Iraqi media, an effort the top U.S. military commander said was part of an effort to "get the truth out" there.

The U.S. officials in Iraq said articles had been offered and published in Iraqi newspapers "as a function of buying advertising and opinion/editorial space, as is customary in Iraq."

The idea has been criticized in the United States, and John Warner, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, went to the Pentagon Friday for an explanation. President Bush's spokesman said the White House was "very concerned."

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Wow ... Clearly some of you -- including Senator Warner and "President Bush's spokesman" need to be reminded that ... THIS IS A FRICKING WAR!

In the "old days", when the CIA's mission statement espoused SPYING and INFILTRATING THE ENEMY as opposed to undermining the President, that organization would have actually CREATED a news organ using sympathetic Iraqis as beards!

That this is at all a source of concern and controversy speaks to the nature of our domestic enemies.

What if an economic boom occurs in a forest but no one hears it?

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: NOVEMBER 2005

Nonfarm payroll employment grew by 215,000 in November, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.0 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Over the month, job growth was widespread, with large gains in construction and food services ...

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Yet somehow, polls continue to show that a majority believe we are in a recession.

Media bias? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

Hundreds of hits a day, yet so few comments ...

C'mon Moonbats ...reveal yourselves ...Thanks to StatCounter we know you're out there!

We have been assured this is not satire

WHY MOMMY IS A DEMOCRAT
A different kind of children's book.

Why Mommy is a Democrat brings to life the core values of the Democratic party in ways that young children will easily understand and thoroughly enjoy. Using plain and non-judgmental language, along with warm and whimsical illustrations, this colorful 28-page paperback depicts the Democratic principles of fairness, tolerance, peace, and concern for the well-being of others. It's a great way for parents to gently communicate their commitment to these principles and explain their support for the party.

Why Mommy is a Democrat may look like a traditional children's book, but it definitely isn't just for children. With numerous subtle (and not-so-subtle) satirical swipes at the Bush administration and the Republican party,Why Mommy will appeal to Democrats of all ages!

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About the author:

Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, I received a B.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. I currently live in Madison, Wisconsin, with my partner Julia[Emphasis ours], her daughter Isabella (age six), and our cat Zachary -- all lifelong Democrats.


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Intrigued as we are by attempts to defend the indefensible, we checked out the sample pages.

"Democrats make sure we all share our toys, just like Mommy does."
[The Ponderosa: What an insipid analogy. A person's hard-earned income is a toy? Let's put this in a manner that even a liberal can understand: Say Sammy Squirrel goes out and searches all day and collects 100 walnuts. Stanley Squirrel, who lives a few trees down, prefers to spend the day curled up in his drey, snoozing the day away. What would you call Steven Squirrel were he to snatch up half of Sammy's walnuts and lavish them on Stanley? Why, A THIEF, that's what! ]
"Democrats make sure we are always safe, just like Mommy does."
[The Ponderosa: Unless you're in Mommy's womb ... Seriously, anti-military, anti-law enforcement, pro-criminal, anti-gun ownership ... continually buoying the spirits of the Jihadists! Mommy and her pals run most major cities. Anyone feel safe walking through them at night? ]
"Democrats make sure children can go to school, just like Mommy does."
[The Ponderosa: For some reason, Mommy doesn't want other mommies to have a choice of where to send their little squirrels to school. Mommy must be an NEA member! ]

We'd love to see how "satirical swipes" can be executed using "non-judgmental language".

We wonder if the book includes a "warm and whimsical" illustration of the aftermath of an abortion.

We are considering writing a companion volume to this masterpiece: "Mommy, Why Did You Abort My Little Brother?"

No, wait -- for little Isabella: "Mommy, Why Won't You Marry My New Daddy?"