Posted on 11/13/2005 5:20:09 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, November 13th, 2005
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): King Abdullah II of Jordan; Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Democratic Gov. Mark Warner of Virginia.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., chairwoman, National Republican Senatorial Committee; Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., chairman, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee; Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-N.Y., chairman, National Republican Congressional Committee; Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., chairman, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley; Sens. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Carl Levin, D-Mich.; Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi; Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher; Democratic Gov. Tom Vilsack of Iowa; Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas.
RTOFL... I happened by Chrissy this morning in the opening 10min.
It was like some sort of theater of the absurd bizzare group therepy session. Kinda' ironic that a show called 'Hardball' would be so sappy.
I mean I know Chrissy bias, but at least have a Republican on that he can 'try' to play with. Those group sessions are just so lame.
Hey Tom.
If he had a better spokesman he wouldn't have this pressure. Bring on Nugent or Honore.
Yup. Russert asked him' Do you expect people just to have faith in you?"
Dean swtiched the topic to "We will have a plan. Its coming." ( I wonder if that's what Dean tells his wife..."It's coming. Just wait. trust me, its coming. the time isn't right."
Roberts didn't need to say anything
Rockefeller made a fool of himself in trying to spin and lie for the reason of his vote on the war for Iraq
Rockefeller made Juan Williams look more intelligent
I'll be listening for the mew dem TP.. TP fits either way.
Well, according to Clinton, they were awfully big clubs..
mew?? new!
Yep, lying then or lying now he's still a liar.
How many YEARS has it been since clinton promised the troops he sent to Bosnia would be home in one year?
Both!
Maggief, can you multi-task and listen to Wilkow? He is on fire today.
http://www.wabcradio.com
The ironic part of it was Clinton administration assumed that such a negative reaction from their "hand picked" friendly crowd at OSU must mean the whole country was on to his wag-the-dog shtick, and so they pulled the plug on further military actions. They had all the key Dem senators on the record to "go", and then fizzled.
SEN. JAY ROCKEFELLER: I have to ask the question of: Are we better... are the Iraqis better off that we went in there, and are we better off? And in both cases I cannot answer yes. I think we went in under false pretenses. We did not have the reason to do it, and my judgment is the president wanted to do it. Are we better... are the Iraqis better off that we went in there, and are we better off? And in both cases I cannot answer yes.http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fedagencies/july-dec04/senate_7-09.html
If Iran's mullahs or Iraq's Saddam Hussein decide to use terrorists to attack the continental United States, they would likely turn to bin Laden's al-Qaida. Al-Qaida is among the Islamic groups recruiting increasingly skilled professionals, such as computer and communications technicians, engineers, pharmacists, and physicists, as well as Ukrainian chemists and biologists, Iraqi chemical weapons experts, and others capable of helping to develop WMD. Al-Qaida poses the most serious terrorist threat to U.S. security interests, for al-Qaida's well-trained terrorists are actively engaged in a terrorist jihad against U.S. interests worldwide. ...Al-Qaida's expected retaliation for the U.S. cruise missile attack against al- Qaida's training facilities in Afghanistan on August 20, 1998, could take several forms of terrorist attack in the nation's capital. Al-Qaida could detonate a Chechen-type building-buster bomb at a federal building. Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaida's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House. Ramzi Yousef had planned to do this against the CIA headquarters. ...
Al-Qaida's retaliation, however, is more likely to take the lower-risk form of bombing one or more U.S. airliners with time- bombs. Yousef was planning simultaneous bombings of 11 U.S. airliners prior to his capture. Whatever form an attack may take, bin Laden will most likely retaliate in a spectacular way for the cruise missile attack against his Afghan camp in August 1998.
The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who becomes a Terrorist and Why?
A Report Prepared under an Interagency Agreement by the Federal Research Division
September 1999
http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/Soc_Psych_of_Terrorism.pdf
On April 29, 2004, the Department of State released its Patterns of Global Terrorism report [Patterns 2003]. Patterns 2003 continues to list seven state sponsors of terrorism: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, and Libya. However the number of nations on the list was reduced to six when Iraq was removed from the list on October 20, 2004.The degree of support of, or involvement in, terrorist activities in 2003 varied dramatically from nation to nation. Of those on the U.S. terrorism list, for the year 2003, Iran continued to be characterized on one extreme as an active supporter of terrorism: a nation that uses terrorism as an instrument of policy or warfare beyond its borders.
Closer to the middle of an active/passive spectrum is Syria, though not formally detected in an active role since 1986, the Assad regime reportedly uses groups in Syria and Lebanon to project power into Israel and allows groups to train in territory under its control.
On the less active end of the spectrum, one might place countries such as Cuba or North Korea, which at the height of the Cold War were more active, but in recent years have seemed to settle for a more passive role of granting ongoing safe haven to previously admitted individual terrorists. Also at the less active end of the spectrum, and arguably falling off it, are Libya, and notably Sudan, which has stepped up counter terrorism cooperation with U.S. law enforcement and intelligence.
CRS Issue Brief for Congress
Terrorism and National Security: Issues and Trends
Updated December 21, 2004
http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/IB10119.pdf
For the sake of argument, I wish every Freeper would write the RNC and Ken Mehlman asking for more Republican senators to start speaking out and going on the various talk shows more often. It's as though our side just sits there without fighting back and it's not always the president who has to do the talking.
I was excoriated for making that argument relating to the Miers nomination.
Is Dean calling for a Coup!?
Apparently not.
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