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You might not think so from listening to me, but I like to be liked. Not only that, I like my country to be liked around the world and it isn't. I wish President Bush would try to make this country less hated. He could do it if he set his mind to it. To begin with, we should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own - for our own sake. Iraq isn't our problem. It's the world's problem. When the president spoke at the United Nations,...

Labor leader Simon Crean has intervened to ensure his MPs do not insult US President George Bush, quelling a backbench plan for Labor politicians to turn their backs to the world leader when he addresses Parliament later this month. Labor backbencher Harry Quick was yesterday called in and reprimanded by Mr Crean for his attempts to organise a silent protest. Mr Quick is also planning to wear a white armband to the October 23 joint sitting of Parliament, and to carry the helmet of an Iraqi soldier killed in the first Gulf War. "What I'm showing is disrespect for the...

Iraq's governing council is to take action against the Arabic television networks al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya for what it calls "incitement to violence" in their reporting about Iraq. Some sources in Baghdad said the council intended to expel the two leading Arabic channels from the country for a month. Leading Iraqi officials have complained for several weeks about the tone of the coverage on the Arabic networks, particularly their decisions to air recorded messages from Saddam Hussein and threats against the 25 Iraqis who were appointed to the governing council. Samir Shakir Mahmoud al-Sumaidy, head of the council's media committee, told...

In a little noticed interview with Fortune Magazine last week, presidential frontrunner Gen. Wesley Clark defended Saddam Hussein against charges that he was engaged in crimes against his own people at the time the Iraq war started, contending instead that the Iraqi dictator should have gotten a pass because his atrocities took place ten years ago. Asked why it was right for President Clinton to use military force to halt Slobodan Milosevic's crimes against humanity in Kosovo, but not for President Bush to do the same thing against Saddam, Clark said that in Iraq, "The imminence of stopping a...

John Burns, the great New York Times reporter, offers us a brutally blunt assessment of how badly Western correspondents covered Saddam Hussein's regime. His report, excerpted by The Wall Street Journal and Editor & Publisher, is spreading rapidly on the Internet and is bound to have an impact on the public's already low respect for most journalists. The compulsively candid Burns, until recently the New York Times bureau chief in Iraq, wrote his comments for the new book "Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq" (The Lyons Press), a collection of first-person accounts by journalists in Iraq. Burns, who has...

Johnny Depp is feeling patriotic - about France. The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star slammed the United States over Iraq in an interview in the German magazine Stern this week. "America is dumb, is something like a dumb puppy that has big teeth - that can bite and hurt you, aggressive," he was quoted as saying. Depp lives in France with the French singer and actress Vanessa Paradis, with whom he has two children. He said he was delighted when he saw that French fries had been rechristened "freedom fries" in the U.S. Capitol canteen. "Nothing made me happier than...

<p>September 3, 2003 -- THE Arab satellite station Al- Jazeera re-launched an English-language Web site Tuesday, five months after hackers brought down its site at the height of the Iraq war. Susi Sirri, news coordinator and spokeswoman, said the site aims "to fill a niche for English speakers who want to get the other side of the story, the Arab perspective."</p>

french news BERLIN, Sept 3 (AFP) - Hollywood hearthrob Johnny Depp has slammed US President George W. Bush's policy on Iraq, calling him "one of the worst liars I have ever seen," in an interview with German magazine Stern to appear Thursday. Depp, who lives in France with his wife, pop singer Vanessa Paradis, and two children, told the magazine that "grown-up men and women in positions of power" in the US government had shown themselves to be "idiots" in choosing to go to war against Iraq and attacking Paris for its opposition to the war. The 40-year-old, who plays...

BERLIN - American actor Johnny Depp (news) likened his native country to a "dumb puppy that has big teeth" in an interview published Wednesday, ridiculing Washington's confrontation with France, where he lives, over the war in Iraq (news - web sites). The "Edward Scissorhands" and "Sleepy Hollow" star, who spends much of his time in the south of France with his companion, Vanessa Paradis (news), and their two small children, told the German magazine he couldn't see himself paying more than short visits to his Los Angeles residence in the present political climate. "America is dumb, is something like a...

Johnny Depp Says U.S. Is Like a 'Dumb Puppy' By REUTERS Filed at 7:48 a.m. ET BERLIN (Reuters) - Hollywood star Johnny Depp said on Wednesday the United States was a stupid, aggressive puppy and he would not live there until the political climate changed. The 40-year-old actor, who stars in the ``Pirates of the Caribbean,'' told the German news magazine Stern he was happier staying in the south of France with his wife, the French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis, and their two children. ``America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite...

The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Sept. 1 — The Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera launched an English-language Web site Monday, five months after hackers brought down a temporary site at the height of the Iraq war. Susi Sirri, news coordinator and spokeswoman, said the site aims "to fill a niche for English speakers who want to get the other side of the story, the Arab perspective." "We are following Al-Jazeera's model: opinion and counter-opinion. That is the motto of the (organization)," Sirri told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Qatar. The English site works closely with the...

President George W Bush's personal chef has been humiliated by a team of French practical jokers who tempted him with a job offer to desert his employer and go to work for President Jacques Chirac.The stunt, which is threatening to spiral into a diplomatic incident, happened when Walter Scheib visited Paris in his capacity as president of the Chefs des Chefs d'Etat, a club for those who cook for the world's heads of state.On Wednesday evening he was due to attend a party at the Elysee Palace given by the French leader's wife, Bernadette. That afternoon a French television company...

Big publishers cash in as right-wing polemics sell in their thousands Two large American publishers are to launch off-shoots to capitalise on the latest literary phenomenon gripping the United States: the right-wing diatribe. Hillary Clinton's autobiography leads this month's US bestseller lists, but over the last year it has been books written from the opposite end of the political spectrum - many of them accusing her husband of everything from treason to destroying the American way of life - which have gripped the imagination of the book-buying public. Among the most successful has been Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold...

<p>Is President Bush the Iraq war's "useful idiot"? The phrase was coined by Vladimir Lenin to refer to Communist sympathizers who believed what they were told - and what they were told was mostly lies. It could be somewhat the same with Bush. He may well be the last person to believe the Iraq war was waged virtually in self-defense. He believes that dictator Saddam Hussein was on the verge of obtaining nuclear weapons, and other weapons of mass destruction, and was linked to Osama Bin Laden.</p>

<p>John G. Adams, a key figure in the proceedings that effectively ended Sen. Joseph McCarthy's career, passed quietly from the scene last week at age 91. Not surprisingly, his death made no news; it's been a while since those heady days when McCarthy launched his investigations of the Army, which had, he charged, been shielding countless Communist agents at Fort Monmouth and elsewhere. It fell to Adams, the Army's chief counsel, to deal with the charges, which he did to devastating effect in the Army-McCarthy hearings that held the nation in thrall in the 1950s.</p>

July 4, 2003 | "Slander" is defined in Bouvier's Law Dictionary as "a false defamation (expressed in spoken words, signs, or gestures) which injures the character or reputation of the person defamed." The venerable American legal lexicon goes on to note that such defamatory words are sometimes "actionable in themselves, without proof of special damages," particularly when they impute "guilt of some offence for which the party, if guilty, might be indicted and punished by the criminal courts; as to call a person a 'traitor.'" So how appropriate it is that in the rapidly growing Ann Coulter bibliography, last year's...

Kids fear Ann Coulter "Mommy, make the scary lady go away." Those are the tearful words of Kaylee Brodkin, 7, of Gary, Ind., who for the last five days has been awakened in the middle of the night by terrifying nightmares - nightmares featuring television pundit/author Ann Coulter. With the ubiquitous Coulter currently on a national book tour, little Kaylee's sad story is far from an isolated occurrence. "More and more these days, we are seeing small children who have been traumatized by Ann Coulter," said Dr. Harmon Densmore, chief clinical psychologist at the Chartwell Children's Institute based at the...

To the editor: "Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy," writes Ann Coulter in her new book, "Treason," subtitled "Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorists." Wrong. Our nation is presently "under attack from within" by the group known as PNAC, the "Project for the New American Century,"[1] which now inhabits the Bush White House. Liberals are certainly not siding with this enemy. The progressive movement desperately is attempting to defend the U.S. constitution from this menace. Desperate because the White House and both houses of Congress have...

.details{font-family : arial;font-size: 10px; color: ffffff;background-color : CE0000;} Wednesday 25 June 2003 06:46am COMICAL ALI 'HELD' (NO JOKE) Jun 25 2003 WORLD EXCLUSIVE From Paul Martin In Baghdad   COMICAL Ali, Saddam Hussein's ludicrous spin doctor, has been arrested in Baghdad, it was claimed last night.Information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf had been hiding out at a relative's house since April watching satellite TV - banned under Saddam.US troops set up a road block in the Baghdad suburb and caught him in his car on Monday night. WINNING: Al-Sahaf Al-Sahaf - who became a comic hero for his ridiculous denials...

<p>A New York Times reporter delivers an antiwar speech that offended many.</p> <p>ROCKFORD — New York Times reporter Chris Hedges was booed off the stage Saturday at Rockford College’s graduation because he gave an antiwar speech.</p> <p>Two days later, graduates and family members, envisioning a “go out and make your mark” send-off, are still reeling.</p>

Amnesty International is investigating claims that British and American troops tortured prisoners of war in Iraq with night-long beatings and, in at least one case, electric shocks.

(note hammer and sickle on chest!) Joseph Stalin and Superman would seem to have little in common except their shared nickname, "the Man of Steel." Stalin was a brutal dictator who murdered millions, while Superman is the mythical embodiment of truth, justice and the American way. Yet in Superman: Red Son, a new three-part comic book series, the first of which has just been released by DC Comics, writer Mark Millar posits an alternative universe where Superman grew up on a collective farm in the Ukraine in the 1930s rather than in the idyllic Midwest town of Smallville, U.S.A. Indoctrinated...

France says it is victim of smear campaign Bush administration disputes charge From Andrea Koppel and John King CNN Washington Bureau Thursday, May 15, 2003 Posted: 12:45 PM EDT (1645 GMT) French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte said the United States is spreading misinformation about the French government. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- France says it is the victim of a smear campaign by the Bush administration, charging some U.S. officials are leaking false stories about alleged French complicity with the Iraqi regime. The Bush administration dismissed the charge. The French government lays out its claim in a letter written by the French ambassador...

Anti-war MP George Galloway said he was pelted with stones when he spoke at a May Day rally. The Glasgow Kelvin MP was speaking at a workers' festival in Wallasey, Merseyside, to a crowd of around 200 supporters. When he began his speech, a shaven-headed man threw three objects including eggs and shouted profanities. The man was confronted by several members of the crowd before being taken away by police. Mr Galloway went on to deliver a 15-minute speech in which he defended himself against newspaper allegations that he was on Saddam Hussein's payroll. The egg thrower was arrested by...

The William Morris Agency shuts down boycott-hollywood web site. Figures.

An annoying liberal co-worker emailed this to me, saying "Have a Nice Day!" GRRRRR! Luckily, I was able to scroll through past FR threads regarding MoveOn.org and fire back my ammunition about this organization and what the so-called "peace movement" really consists of!

Wednesday, April 23, 2003Hollywood Appeasers Cash In on Anti-U.S. RantsDon't believe the whining of Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon and other Tinseltown leftists who claim they're paying a price for opposing Operation Iraqi Freedom. They're getting rich from their anti-U.S. activism, according to the liberal Washington Post. Consider this boast from Janeane Garofalo, who still refuses to make the apology she so publicly promised after Iraqi citizens welcomed their U.S.-led liberators. "I knew when I started speaking out that it was going to be unpleasant, and I’ve taken my punches. But the positives have far outweighed the negatives,” she...

For critics of war in Iraq, evaluating the outcome of the conflict has become an exercise in movable goalposts. Nothing the coalition does is good enough. As one problem is solved, the naysayers identify another. Some of this stems from naïveté: Most anti-war activists seem to imagine that a nation's infrastructure and civilian authority can be rebuilt overnight. But many commentators are handicapped by ideology, and have made themselves wilfully blind to the numerous successes in Iraq -- be they political, cultural, economic or military. It is instructive to remember what naysayers were predicting when this war began. The figure...

Actor Tim Robbins has been given some good news after weeks of being attacked for waving peace signs at the Oscars - he's to be honored by UCLA. Robbins and partner Susan Sarandon were blasted by right-wingers for their anti-war stance at the Academy Awards last month - leading to an honor at the Baseball Hall of Fame to be scrapped earlier this month. But now UCLA scholars have stepped up to recognize former student Robbins and bestow the Alumnus of the Year Award on him. UCLA theatre professor Gary Gardner says, "Tim reflects who we are and what we...

The Dixie Chicks aren't the only Texas natives bashing President George W. Bush.Sandy Duncan who is performing in South Carolina, told a local paper that she questioned the decision to go to war, and wishes that rather than President Bush, the United States had a leader who was 'globally aware' and 'really smart.''I just wish men would quit thinking they could just duke it out with each other,' the native of Henderson, Texas, told the Times and Democrat.'I don't have all of the facts, and who knows what's really the truth, but I really don't respect [President Bush's] way of...

So who really did save Private Jessica?From Richard Lloyd Parry in al-NasiriyahDoctor claims that soldiers terrorised unarmed staff THE rescue of Private Jessica Lynch, which inspired America during one of the most difficult periods of the war, was not the heroic Hollywood story told by the US military, but a staged operation that terrified patients and victimised the doctors who had struggled to save her life, according to Iraqi witnesses. Doctors at al-Nasiriyah general hospital said that the airborne assault had met no resistance and was carried out a day after all the Iraqi forces and Baath leadership had...

It's True: 'Liberals' Wanted Saddam to Beat U.S. Gary Kamiya, executive editor of the left-leaning Internet journal Salon, confirms what some Americans have suspected: Liberals were cheering for the enemy in Iraq, the Washington Times pointed out today in an item headlined "Cheering the enemy." "I have a confession: I have at times, as the war has unfolded, secretly wished for things to go wrong," Kamiya wrote. "Wished for the Iraqis to be more nationalistic, to resist longer. Wished for the Arab world to rise up in rage. Wished for all the things we feared would happen. I'm not alone:...

2002-08-08) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (LA Daily News) - ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings is apparently not the only celebrity to take issue with Toby Keith's chart-topping country hit, "Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)." Now, the Dixie Chicks's lead singer, Natalie Maines, freely shares her dislike of the song. "Don't get me started," Maines told the Los Angeles Daily News. "I hate it. It's ignorant, and it makes country music sound ignorant. It targets an entire culture - and not just the bad people who did bad things. You've got to have some tact. Anybody can write,...

Second Thoughts By: William W. Lawrence 04/15/2003 We hear so much about young Americans -- teenagers and early 20s -- who give Americans a bad name. Then we watch our young GIs and our chest swells with pride.They were freeing an oppressed people while naked women, transvestites, dogs, dancers and singers joined Harry Belafonte in an antiwar protest to "praise the patriotism of the demonstrators" and condemn the military action in Iraq."We denounce governments that act with tyranny," Mr. Belafonte told the crowd. He was talking about our government, not Saddam Hussein's. Listen, there were always war protesters.I was a...

U.K. Citizen/Human Shield/High Rantress Ms. Uzma Bashir AKA "Baghdad Betty" Title: "A Lady With Real Attitude" By Paul Belden BAGHDAD - On the first night of bombing in Baghdad, I recall having written about a much-loved young peace activist named Uzma Bashir who had gone to Iraq to serve as a human shield, and whose many friends had gathered in an Amman hotel to hear the latest news from Iraq. They were all very frightened for her safety, I wrote.They needn't have bothered. As it turned out, the bombing campaign didn't hurt Uzma one bit. It did, however, really...

BOSTON GLOBE CONTINUES FABRICATIONS On its front page today, the Boston Globe continues its misreporting and printing false information to deceive the Boston and American public for its thoroughly antiAmerican owners (NYTimes). On page 1 and then leading in to the War in Iraq section, Brian BacQuarrie, is disingenuous to America over and over claiming the torture chambers are a "ghost", a "tale", and mostly made up. Most importantly, the article claims that no one was found imprisoned -- despite the fact that yesterday over 100 men and women were freed from a cemented-in chamber. No matter that torture chambers...

The following email was sent to Rush. To listen to Rush read this email (complete with his all knowing commentary) click here. http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_041103/content/who_s_responsible_for_more_deaths__enron_or_cnn_.guest.html This man (Eason Jordan) is disgusting. He lifts rationalizing to new heights. To tell the truth or not to tell the truth, that is the question. Is it nobler in the mind to tell the truth and save some lives, or to refrain, thus costing more lives over time. Oh, and silly me. I thought it was a journalists duty to report the truth. But not when it interferes with the bottom line apparently. After all CNN...

Organisers of the anti-war movement have been accused of "hijacking" public feeling against military action in Iraq for their own ends. As protesters prepared to take to the streets once more to voice their continued opposition, those leading The Stop The War Coalition were branded "hard-line Marxists" who were pursuing their own political agenda. Labour MP David Winnick told PA News: "I don't doubt the sincerity of most of the peace marchers who marched before and those who, for some reason, march today. "They have a perfect right to do so but the fact remains that there are a number...

THERE is an element of the anti-war movement who live in hope that there is a huge disaster just around the corner. They will not rest in warning of its arrival. They will not be satisfied until it has happened. These are the people who have found it difficult to acknowledge that the war has achieved one mighty goal already – removal of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. This is a terrific outcome. At least Greens Leader Bob Brown had the honesty to acknowledge it unconditionally. "The end of Saddam Hussein's ruthless tyranny is a great day for Iraqis and the world,"...

Archives Write to Mr. Ayaz Amir Some liberation By Ayaz Amir In victory's wake comes a bandwagon effect, gilding the arms of the winners and tarnishing the cause of the losers. Bystanders not wishing to be seen on the wrong side of the argument are tempted to climb this bandwagon. They try to convince themselves that they always knew events would turn out like this. This is happening now in Iraq. The entry of American troops into Baghdad and the collapse of the Saddam regime are drowning questions about the nature of this war, the purposes behind it and...

When antiwar speech turns seditious They've trashed 9-11 memorials. Blocked streets. Burned flags. Shut down bridges. Marched on Broadway. And trampled across the National Mall. They've thrown stones at a uniformed female member of the Vermont National Guard, and hurled pie at a Bay Area television reporter deemed too pro-war. They've carried signs that read "We support our troops when they shoot their own officers" and "Don't impeach Bush . . . execute him." They've publicly wished for "a million Mogadishus" and privately hoped for 100 new bin Ladens. They've issued manifestos calling for sabotage of military establishments in the...

<p>DOHA, Qatar — Live pictures of Iraqis toppling a statue of Saddam Hussein from its towering pedestal yesterday sent shock waves through the Arab world, forcing both rulers and ordinary people to reconsider long-held beliefs.</p> <p>From Morocco to the Persian Gulf, viewers of Al Jazeera and other Arab television networks sat transfixed by the same images of cheering Iraqis jumping on the ruins of the dictator's statue that fascinated U.S. television watchers.</p>

<p>Baghdad's jubilation got the cold shoulder from some journalists yesterday.</p> <p>The press did not question the raising of the American flag over Iwo Jima back in 1945.</p> <p>But only minutes after President Saddam Hussein's statue toppled before overjoyed Iraqis, NBC's Kelly O'Donnell asked Central Command spokesman U.S. Navy Capt. Frank Thorpe whether it was appropriate for Marine Cpl. Edward Chin to briefly cover the statue's face with a U.S. flag. The act implied the United States already had assumed control of the regime, Miss O'Donnell said.</p>

There was shock and disbelief in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Wednesday as Palestinians gathered around TV sets to watch US Marines and Iraqi residents knock down a giant statute of Saddam Hussein in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad. "I'm stunned and appalled. I can't understand what is happening," said Rustum Abu Ghazalah, a 30-year-old shopkeeper in the center of Ramallah. He and grim-faced fellow shopkeepers zapped from one Arab TV station to another with the hope of discovering that what they were hearing and watching was nothing more than a US-produced Hollywood film. "This can't be true," grumbled...

To all: If you go to the ANSWER web page and go to their "Links" page, take note of the commie organizations that support them. I have seen some representative from thes groups on various news programs. Some of the groups sound as if they are sincerely concerned for the down-trodden in the various parts of the world, but make no mistake, these are front groups for communist organizations!

<p>I know we're not supposed to post DU stuff, but I think this thread is VERY telling and exposes their true agenda.</p> <p>"it's staged!"</p> <p>"this is about to be a really ugly day!!"</p> <p>And lots of anger, sadness, fear and loathing.</p> <p>Their chracter is further exposed: the America haters don't give half a **** about the Iraqis, they're just about hateing America.</p>

BERKELEY, California -- Activists at the University of California's Berkeley Campus near San Francisco, birthplace of the 1960s U.S. Anti-War Movement, are struggling to regain their momentum as protests against the U.S. war in Iraq flag. As UC-Berkeley students stood poised to lead the `student march against the war' on Saturday, anti-war opposition here is a mere shadow of its Vietnam conflict-era heyday. "It's strange," observed Jesse Singh Dosanjh, a freshman running for a seat on the student senate. "I am surprised there aren't more protesters." Protests against the U.S. invasion did take place at Berkeley at the start of...

In a live report just now, Ted Koppel reported the exact location of a "line of tanks and armored personnel carriers a mile and a half long," and provided the additional news that they are nearly out of gas and are awaiting resupply. In so doing, he set them up as targets for what's left of the Iraqi military.