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To: JaneAustin; ATOMIC_PUNK; Timeout; lieutenant columbo; Miss Marple; PrinceOfCups; rockrr; Peach; ...
Here is the Sunday Top 10 list. 10.

10. Chuck54. #71Watching Condi on FOX now. It is a crying shame that most "people of color" voters are not even watching and if they were they are thinking of Condi as a Bush "shill" or worse an "Aunt Tommie". It is such a pity that they cannot look on this wonderful ambassador of goodwill and think, "This is what I can grow up to be, or this is what my kids could grow up to be." Many will follow the mantra of their "black leaders" and live their lives blaming the Republicans for all their ills and troubles. Not 10%, probably not even 5% know without majority Republican support, the Civil Rights gains of the 60's would not have been possible. LBJ was right. The black voting public think just because he was President when the Civil Rights Act was passed, it just had to be Democrats casting all the votes.
Also, 64, 71, 82, 107, 125, 215, 258, 280 and 299.

9. Rodguy911 #489. Excellent post here phsstpok, exposing the left for what they really and truly are:traitors in time of war. It's a sad commentary on the media and the left that the day has come when the rat/media will ally with terrorists to make potential political points at the expense of our troops. The rat media and the left are now willing to side with terrorists against our fighting men and women all for the sake of pure power. Power for a political party that admittedly stands for nothing except the destruction of our President and our leaders. Shameful at the very least. It's well know that Haditha has been a hell hole for some time. Daily be-headings have been held at a local bridge where five year olds cheered the fact that more were to come. Terror types have been in control of the city for months and the entire population and govt. has been compromised. The(terrorists) send out kids to count how many soldiers are on the way. There is absolutely no way to recognize who is the enemy, friend or foe, in such an environment. What kind of US political party would ally themselves with such a group solely for the potential to take over political power, and beyond that what are their motives for that power? Surely not to benefit the nation but themselves.

8. Maica. #791 Biden officially jumping the shark, from the MTP transcript --- Cliff notes: Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan go to hell and Biden comes to the rescue by calling for a regional conference. Democrats are dangerous, when they are this stupid! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13085904/page/4/ MR. RUSSERT: Before we go, let me hook back around to Iraq and conclude our interview. If things are the way they are today a month from now, two months from now, three months from now, when, when and where do you draw the line? How much time? SEN. BIDEN: I draw the line at the point where there is no reasonable prospect of me believing you can keep the country together. And that’s when this sectarian violence is so far out of hand that there is no possibility of keeping the country together. MR. RUSSERT: And how close are we? SEN. BIDEN: I think we’re perilously close. I think we... MR. RUSSERT: Months? SEN. BIDEN: Well, as I said to you last time I was on the show, I think the time that that’s going to be determined is whether or not they amend the Constitution, which is four more months after they, in fact, get in power, which has just begun now. And so I suspect that’s by the fall. We’re going to know whether there’s been any progress made or not. If there’s no progress made—and by the way, Tim, the other thing, pulling the troops out. My proposal calls for no troops there after the year 2007, other than an over-horizon force, and that is, that’s going to practically take that long for the military to do it. MR. RUSSERT: But if you do get out, and the country just disintegrates... SEN. BIDEN: It will. MR. RUSSERT: ...and you have a haven for terrorism... SEN. BIDEN: You do. MR. RUSSERT: ...and for al-Qaeda. SEN. BIDEN: You do. MR. RUSSERT: What have you... SEN. BIDEN: That’s why we... MR. RUSSERT: What have you achieved? SEN. BIDEN: Well, you—what you’ve done is you have put us in the position—this administration has—where you lose Iraq, you lose Afghanistan. Watch Afghanistan. Watch Afghanistan, and watch Musharraf after Afghanistan falls if we don’t get smart here. And what you end up with is you end up with trying to contain the policy. That’s what I’ve called for for over a year and a half, a regional conference. Get the permanent five of the United Nations to call for a regional conference of all the parties, set up a contact group, agree on a hands-off policy internally in Iraq so this doesn’t develop into a regional war. Nothing’s been done on any of this. There’s no forward thinking here. MR. RUSSERT: Do you feel partially responsible? SEN. BIDEN: No, I don’t. I, I’ve been laying out in detail, on your show and others, for three years how to approach this. And every single recommendation has been rejected. And I would respectfully suggest in almost every instance what I’ve said has turned out to be—end up being the case. MR. RUSSERT: Senator Joe Biden, as always we thank you for your views. SEN. BIDEN: Thank you, Tim. MR. RUSSERT: Coming next, the man who led the pre-war inspections in Iraq has a new report on weapons of mass destruction worldwide.
Also, 116, 133, 155, 180, 200, 204, 240, 267, 536., 542, 553, 558, 566, 586, 632, 644, 754, 793. 794, 799 and 804.

7.Peach. #35 Good morning. When Hans Blix and others start talking about how the administration lied and there were no WMD in Iraq, remember this: Last month Moshe Yaalon, who was Israel's top general at the time, said Iraq transported WMD to Syria six weeks before Operation Iraqi Freedom began. Last March, John A. Shaw, a former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said Russian Spetsnaz units moved WMD to Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. "While in Iraq I received information from several sources naming the exact Russian units, what they took and where they took both WMD materials and conventional explosives," Mr. Shaw told NewsMax reporter Charles Smith. Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong was deputy commander of Central Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In September 2004, he told WABC radio that "I do know for a fact that some of those weapons went into Syria, Lebanon and Iran." In January 2004, David Kay, the first head of the Iraq Survey Group which conducted the search for Saddam's WMD, told a British newspaper there was evidence unspecified materials had been moved to Syria from Iraq shortly before the war. "We know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD program," Mr. Kay told the Sunday Telegraph. Also that month, Nizar Nayuf, a Syrian journalist who defected to an undisclosed European country, told a Dutch newspaper he knew of three sites where Iraq's WMD was being kept. They were the town of al Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria; the Syrian air force base near the village of Tal Snan, and the city of Sjinsar on the border with Lebanon. In an addendum to his final report last April, Charles Duelfer, who succeeded David Kay as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said he couldn't rule out a transfer of WMD from Iraq to Syria. "There was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved. In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation," Mr. Duelfer said. In a briefing for reporters in October 2003, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper Jr., who was head of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency when the Iraq war began, said satellite imagery showed a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria just before the American invasion. "I think the people below Saddam Hussein and his sons' level saw what was coming and decided the best thing to do was to destroy and disperse," Lt. Gen. Clapper said. You haven't heard much about these reports, because they contradict the meme that Saddam either had no WMD, or destroyed it well before the Iraq war began. A man who had been deputy chief of Saddam Hussein's air force claimed Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war began. Special Republican Guard brigades loaded yellow barrels with the skull and crossbones sign on each barrel onto two airliners from which the seats had been removed, Georges Sada said. There were 56 flights in all. The captured files of the Iraqi intelligence service, still mostly untranslated, could shed light on what did happen to Saddam's WMD.
Also 45, 142, 660 and 62.

6. Anita. #22 Russert comes into this sunday's Media Nuggets###### Tim Russert gave a telephonic interview to Deborah Soloman for NYTimes Magazine on Mother's day - Saying nothing about his mother (inspite of pressing repeatedly), complaining about Fox on Air Force One & whining about Bushies dissing MTP - Russert's image didn't come up well. MTP boss was angry, ran to Wash.Post & whining that the interview was "misleading, callous and hurtful" to him. ###### Paper of Fiction - "Mr. Paulson and other executives expressed little interest in taking the post. ... They couldn't get someone from Wall Street because nobody wanted the job" -> per NYT-WH Reporter granting anonymity to secret sources inside WH. Within 2 days Mr. Paulson resigns as chairman of Goldman Sachs & stands with the Prez. accepting nomination as Treasury Sec. :-) The same reporter is still covers WH. ###### When unemployment is 6-year low(4.6%) with booming economy, Wash.Post is in doom and gloom -> 70 reporters, editors, photographers, newsroom employees & 100 employees outside the newsroom will be out of their jobs. Wash.Post acknowledges that Circulation has decreased in recent years. As misery loves company, Wash.Post points out they aren't alone & NYTimes, Tribune and other dailies face the same burden as them. Experts say that Wash.Post's biased reporting is the reason for it's sinking circulation & earnings. ###### Associated Press's chief political writer, Ron Fournier was famous for predicting the wrong results since Bush elected. He is not in AP anymore and quitting political reporting for good. ###### Ketchup Queen Heinz' 4Q Profit Fall, Plans to cut 2,700 jobs & exit 15 plants this year. ###### Da Vinci Code backlash? -> Films from MGM will no longer be distributed on video and DVD by Sony instead chose 20th Century Fox. Sony will lose $25 million to $30 million by this decision. ###### Profits are plummeting at Time Inc. Sports Illustrated and Fortune are suffering steep declines in advertising pages, while namesake title Time is seen as in danger of becoming obsolete. ###### New Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke WAS sympathetic to journos. Not anymore. After his private conversation with Maria Bartiromo was deliberately leaked, taking cue from his WH experience he CANCELLED the Fed Fourth of July party with Washington's A-list reporters permanently. ###### Fox News Business Channel could launch as soon as this month. [Who will take-over Cavuto's time now?]. ###### Media shareholders alert! - Associated Press , NYTimes, LATimes, Wash.Post, and ABC News are paying $750,000 to Wen Ho Lee as settlement fees for not revealing the name of Clinton admn. official who slandered the scientist. NYTimes faces another big libel suit from Stephen Hatfill in anthrax slur.
#47 Journalists Core Values Innocent until accused.How to use the word "alleged" and still get your point across. Finding a quotable Congressman to say what you mean. Top-notch news analysis in a word: Vietnam.
#81 I'm watching FNS. I'm liking Wallace less and less each week. He's trying to hard to imitate Russert. Agreed. I saw a Drudge item posted yesterday in that ABC was gaining over MTP & FNS lost 14% of it's audience.
Also,18, 35, 55, 60, 67, 73, 98, 150, 169, 178, 199, 211, 231, 264, 286, 314, 3374 and 405.

5. rockrr #809.
How does anything the folks of SouthPark do not qualify as criticism or ridicule? Fair enough question. I could go on for hours offering highly detailed criticisms of algore's claims, methods, and agenda, but Southpark captured it better than I ever could have ("a thousand words"). The amazing thing (at least to me) is that algore performed the equivalent of a political kamikaze run - he unequivocally stated his (scientifically unproven, more than slightly lunatic) prognostications about global warming in the goofy "Earth in the Balance". Now it's OK to hold an eccentric viewpoint or two, but algore essentially predicted that the world would end unless we made drastic alterations to our habits by 1995 (we didn't and last time I checked, it didn't either ;'} Most folks would point and laugh at someone who so totally blew any chance at credibility after a stunt like that, but this certifiable moonbat actually ran for the Presidency of the United States and came within a breath of achieving it! Now he's back out on the street peddling the same old hash and people are buying it! I have to hand it to the fellow who wrote "Chicken Little" - he had an uncanny insight into the Lemming-like nature of some people! algore did a skit on SNL a little while back, pretending to be giving a State of the Union speech. It was supposed to be funny, but it raised the hair on my scalp. I thought to myself "Thank God that's the closest he will ever get to the Oval Office!"
Also, 42, 373, 391, 535 and 561.

4. Johnny7 #661 It's a tax on carbon-producing products... think energy. Past examples/implementations: On January 1, 1991, Sweden enacted a carbon tax, placing a tax of .25 SEK/kg ($100 per ton) on the use of oil, coal, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, petrol, and aviation fuel used in domestic travel. Industrial users paid half the rate (between 1993 and 1997, 25% of the rate), and certain high-energy industries such as commercial horticulture, mining, manufacturing and the pulp and paper industry were fully exempted from these new taxes. In 1997 the rate was raised to .365 SEK/kg ($150 per ton) of CO2 released. Finland, the Netherlands, and Norway also introduced carbon taxes in the 1990s. In 2005 New Zealand proposed a carbon tax, setting an emissions price of NZ$15 per tonne of CO2-equivalent. The planned tax was scheduled to take effect from April 2007, and applied across most economic sectors but allowed a standing exemption for methane emissions from farming and provisions for special exemptions from carbon intensive businesses if they agree to adopt world's-best-practice standards of emissions. After the 2005 election, the minor parties supporting the Government opposed the proposed tax, and it was abandoned in December 2005. The Government said the tax would not be effective at reducing carbon emissions.As President of the United States, Bill Clinton proposed a BTU tax that was not adopted. In April 2005, Paul Anderson, CEO and Chairman of Duke Energy, called for the introduction of a carbon tax.

Also 11, 57, 183, 294, 311, 399 and 460.

819 posted on 06/07/2006 12:31:28 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (I would rather be an Iraqi in a Hidatha guarded by Marines, then a subject of Al-Qeda anywhere.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Great job MNJ, lots of work I know.


820 posted on 06/07/2006 12:34:03 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Support new Media, ticket drive-bys--America--Land of the Free because of the Brave)
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To: MNJohnnie

Congratulations to all the wonderful winners, and thank you, Johnnie, for all that hard work.


821 posted on 06/07/2006 12:38:38 PM PDT by Bahbah (The Dream Act...the latest nightmare to be brought to you by the US Senate)
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To: MNJohnnie
Damn....... just damn.

;-)

Just kidding.....

822 posted on 06/07/2006 1:00:36 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Scientists Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
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To: MNJohnnie; rodguy911; Alas Babylon!; Phsstpok
FIRST - Phsttpok

He put in some long thoughtful posts this Sunday. Read them. Share them. They are worthy of your time.

#222 MNJ, I've been "studying on" your post #14 in the preview thread since you posted it and I wanted to put my response over here, on the Sunday thread, partly because I think your post and link are worthy of the attention they'll get here and partly because I think you may have hit on a new meme that has exploded on the web in the last 24 hours. I'm taking the liberty of quoting your entire post from the preview thread, but I would suggest that anyone who finds the points made as interesting as I did click on the link above and go read them as a contiguous post, without my interruptions below.

I'm also asking that a special merit award be given for your original post in the awards for today's thread. First, the link and video was great: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/31/haditha/index.html Video on lower right hand side of the screen. Called "Haditha Uncovered. Go watch it. Perhaps someone can explain to me the logical and factual flaws in the "Iraqi Civilian Right Groups" "story. How can these facts be logically reconciled with what the Iraqis, and some supposed Freepers, are accusing the Marines of doing? I think your analysis is spot on about this video: To Quote Time: "According to published reports, a number of Marines from the storied 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division are accused killing more than 20 Iraqi civilians in retaliation for the death of one of their comrades by a roadside bomb in November, 2005." Okie, 20 Dead Civilians. Which we are told were all shot thus supposedly proving "the Marines falsified the original report". So what could just be an honest mistake between a Marine's assumption on the spot of cause of death in his After Action Report (We didn't fire up the building, they were dead, must of been the bomb shrapnel) with a medical examiners report filed after a autopsies is NOW claimed by the accusers as"proof" that the "Marines Lied". Ok so the accusation is they were all shot to death at short range in a building that had not been penetrated by any rounds from outside. No bullet holes in the building, must mean it was not Collateral Damage but a deliberate act is the accusers claims. In other words the accusers claim the Marines shot to death the Iraqis inside the building as a deliberate act not an accident of war. In fact, Some are running around claiming a shrapnel wound is so obviously different that a Combat Infantry Marine would know the difference between the two. Leave aside the obviously question why would Infantry Marine would be examining the wounds of dead Civilians, lets assume, that is correct. Or to extend your comment, perhaps the particular people shot to death at close range weren't dead when the Marines filed their report, only later, when other "parties" showed up, such as insurgents an "Iraqi Civilian Right Groups" looking to stage an incident Ok, then how come the "survivors" as interviewed for CNN by the "Iraqi Civil Rights group" are making such obviously absurd claims on the video? "They burned the room with my father in it then threw a bomb"? Neat trick that. How they "Burn the room"? We don't use flame throwers. "Threw a bomb" but the accusers are telling us it all gun shot wounds. "a Bomb" inflict shrapnel wounds. Yeah, that bothered me a lot, too. Notice also the mannerism of the "children survivors". Having come thru what would of been the most terrifying event of their lives and being forced to talk about it again, yet the kids show no hesitation or emotion. Just a dull recital of supposed "Facts" as if they were reciting a story as an memorization assignment in School. Very strange that. Absolutely no real emotion, just a breathless recital of "Facts" Then when done speaking look over to the person standing to the right of the camera (You can see his shadow behind the kids). Sure looks like kids looking at a teacher to see how they did in reciting their "lesson" I'm not sure whether they've changed the video between the time you watched it and when I did, but narrator/reporter does pick up on this a little, including pointing out a discrepancy where the little girl, on the 3rd time through her story, says that she knew the explosion was going to happen so she covered her ears. He doesn't outright say that the people in the house (assuming she was anywhere near that particular house that morning) were involved in the bombing, but he clearly leaves that as one possibility. Perhaps they saw your post and are trying to clean up their presentation to avoid accusations of bias? Then there is the part where the "Iraqi Civil Rights Group" filming the kids told the Iraqi boy to "show his wounds". It must not of occurred to the "Iraqi Civil Rights Group" making the video to consider the Iraqi boy's supposed "wound". Apparently no one bothered to think about where he was "shot". The supposed "wound" supposedly inflicted by US Marines at point blank range, (as claimed by the "Iraqi Civil Rights Group)" is directly over his spine. Yet when told he got up and turned around for the camera to "Show his wounds"? If he HAD been shot there, he would be crippled for life, his spine severed just below the neck. So all this is being based on the claims of an "Iraqi Civil Rights Group" which are demonstrated to be lying. Since they lied about this, what ELSE might they have lied about? So maybe some one can explain these inconsistencies in the "witnesses" testimony? Some "Americans", especially in the Junk Media, maybe want to rethink their rush to judgment on these Marines The "bullet wound" directly over the upper part of the spine would almost certainly have left him a quadriplegic, if it really were a bullet wound. I have a very dear friend who has been in a wheel chair for over 30 years following an accidental shooting while he was an MP in Germany. His wound was about 3 vertebrae higher than this kids and the kid certainly wouldn't have been able to move his legs, if not all of his extremities, even if he survived such a wound. This is so obviously faked that I'm shocked that it hasn't made the front page of every paper in the world. But maybe that's changing. Not long after you posted on the preview thread a firestorm broke on Michelle Malkin's blog over a UK Times article and photo about Haditha: UK TIMES SMEARS OUR MARINES (UPDATED WITH RESPONSE). The Times had used a photo of dead bodies lined up against a wall, hands tied and obviously executed to illustrate their story on Haditha, titled "Massacre Marines blinded by hate." The small problem is that the photo was of local Shiite workers and police massacred by "insurgents" a few months before Marines are supposed to have commited the supposed "atrocity." This was first pointed out by Joe G. on his blog. Malkin gave it much wider exposure and a bit of a blogstorm started. Michelle even got a response to an email she sent the US editor for the UK Times and the offending photo and caption was removed, but no apology was forthcoming and it is being passed off as a "mistake." Mistake my ass! This is an all out assault on the US, the US military and the hated US Marines in particular. The psychotic left, who are so well represented in the drive by media, the so called "peace movement" and the modern Democrat party are trying to destroy this country's ability to defend itself because they view any such defense, regardless of cause, as illegitimate. And the more effective a person or institution is the more they hate it. Not hate as in dislike. Hate as in "they must not only die, they must be wiped from the face of the Earth and erased from history." We've all been talking about Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS). Now we can add to that Military Derangement Syndrome and the far more virulent and specialized psychosis Marine Derangement Syndrome. And, as they usually do, they've allowed their psychosis to blind them to obvious flaws in these stories. And a bit at a time they're being exposed at it. Take Jason Smith's catch on the NRO Media Blog: BBC: Taking the Insurgents' Word For It (discussed on this FR thread). They've lost the "culture of corruption" attack angle with the William Jefferson and other dim scandals (despite the absolutely atrocious performance of Hastert and Boehner). They've fallen back on their supposed "great victory" of the Vietnam days and they're trying to recreate what they think they did back then. First, what they think they did that "worked" isn't what actually happened. Second, they were dealing with a conscript military who didn't have any idea of what they were doing or why they were there. This time they have to look long and hard to find such malcontents and they are usually exposed as either outright frauds, such as the lies told by the fake Ranger, Jesse MacBeth (several threads on FR, plus lots of blog comments blowing this one out of the water) or careerists who trained to fight tank battles in the Fulda Gap and lash out because they can't adapt to fighting a new enemy. And remember the New York Times "exclusive interview" with the Abu Ghraib "hooded man" who turned out to be a liar? Or the gift that keeps on giving, the Gitmo flushed Koran story from Newsweek? They're out of their minds, out of control and very rapidly descending to Air America levels of credibility. I'm beginning to think that, within a month or so, this whole thing is going to blow up in their faces completely. Something will happen, some incident that exposes without possibility of obfuscation their completely insanity, treason and agenda of hate. What frightens me is that, if that happens, we don't know what they might do. We've established pretty effectively that they literally are losing their hold on reason. They still have the ability to cause damage on a massive scale. Desperate people, particularly desperate insane people, are truly dangerous.<

#670 I have sent the following to MTP via their web page comment form: According to quick transcripts I've seen of your interview with Hans Blix you asked him "Did the WMDs go to surrounding countries." You then (according to these transcripts) accepted his comment "They were destroyed in 1991, that is what Saddams son-in-law has said, and I believe that is the truth." My question to you is are you aware of the following allegations from credible sources? When Hans Blix and others start talking about how the administration lied and there were no WMD in Iraq, remember this: Last month Moshe Yaalon, who was Israel's top general at the time, said Iraq transported WMD to Syria six weeks before Operation Iraqi Freedom began. Last March, John A. Shaw, a former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said Russian Spetsnaz units moved WMD to Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. "While in Iraq I received information from several sources naming the exact Russian units, what they took and where they took both WMD materials and conventional explosives," Mr. Shaw told NewsMax reporter Charles Smith. Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong was deputy commander of Central Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In September 2004, he told WABC radio that "I do know for a fact that some of those weapons went into Syria, Lebanon and Iran." In January 2004, David Kay, the first head of the Iraq Survey Group which conducted the search for Saddam's WMD, told a British newspaper there was evidence unspecified materials had been moved to Syria from Iraq shortly before the war. "We know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD program," Mr. Kay told the Sunday Telegraph. Also that month, Nizar Nayuf, a Syrian journalist who defected to an undisclosed European country, told a Dutch newspaper he knew of three sites where Iraq's WMD was being kept. They were the town of al Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria; the Syrian air force base near the village of Tal Snan, and the city of Sjinsar on the border with Lebanon. In an addendum to his final report last April, Charles Duelfer, who succeeded David Kay as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said he couldn't rule out a transfer of WMD from Iraq to Syria. "There was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved. In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation," Mr. Duelfer said. In a briefing for reporters in October 2003, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper Jr., who was head of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency when the Iraq war began, said satellite imagery showed a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria just before the American invasion. "I think the people below Saddam Hussein and his sons' level saw what was coming and decided the best thing to do was to destroy and disperse," Lt. Gen. Clapper said. You haven't heard much about these reports, because they contradict the meme that Saddam either had no WMD, or destroyed it well before the Iraq war began. A man who had been deputy chief of Saddam Hussein's air force claimed Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war began. Special Republican Guard brigades loaded yellow barrels with the skull and crossbones sign on each barrel onto two airliners from which the seats had been removed, Georges Sada said. There were 56 flights in all. The captured files of the Iraqi intelligence service, still mostly untranslated, could shed light on what did happen to Saddam's WMD. These accounts may be "dismissable," but you don't have the right to dismiss them without examining them in the open and presenting your evidence that they are not correct. I give you credit for raising the question to Hans Blix. I question your impartiatiality and, in fact, your honesty, in that you didn't present any of this evidence when you allowed Blix to dismiss all of these claims so casually. That is not journalism, sir, that is propoganda. Please prove me wrong. I'd really (really) enjoy it if you proved me wrong No inclusion of your screen name (though the link provides that). We'll see if we get a response (I doubt it). And my invitation to "prove me wrong" is intended to get him to show me that he is not a left wing propogandist, not to discredit this post. I realized after sending the comment that it could be taken that way. Sorry

#706. great link, thank you, and delacoert's about page is impressive, but I'm completely overwhelmed!!!!!!!! This is gonna take some time.... Also; #248, 271, 337, 351, 362, 371, 380, 393, 432, 474, 480, 483, 496, 504, 524, 545, 551, 564, 570, 579, 592, 600, 616, 627, 631, 646, 647, 650, 681, 692, 700, 706, 739, 790, 792


824 posted on 06/07/2006 1:21:16 PM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: MNJohnnie

Thanks for saving that transcript between Russert and Biden. I plan to refer to it often. Thanks for the honor of being in such great company as the Top 10! Such a great idea to collate so many great comments together at the end of each thread.

It would be interesting to see how many of the issues that pushed our buttons also became the talking points on each Monday's talk shows.


830 posted on 06/07/2006 5:46:08 PM PDT by maica (Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle --Abraham Lincoln)
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