tooo funny... spell check doesn't always help. 8^)
Posted on 09/03/2006 5:01:28 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., and his Democratic challenger, state treasurer Robert Casey.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., and his primary challenger, Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey; actress and animal rights activist Bo Derek.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn.; Iraqi deputy prime minister Barham Salih; Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iranian representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency; Teamsters president James Hoffa and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao; former Clinton adviser Lanny Davis and former Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd.
I see. That may be it. Thanks.
I was referring to the 6 years post war to secure the peace, and the 40 subsequent years the troops remained. Let history be our guide. Someone needs to ask the dems if our Germany and Japan policy was a quagmire and a dismal failure. Using their logic, keeping troops in Germany and Japan just 3 1/2 years securing the peace instead of decades would have been a more intelligent military strategy. That's what they're suggesting in Iraq, an area far more volatile and less industrialized.
I saw your post about Chuckie not reading the book about the Iraq stategy...
You might be surprised how LITTLE Senators actually read..
Sen. Jeff Sessions admitted on the Senate floor last spring that the Senators do NOT read the legislation they are voting on...their aides do..and when it is time for a vote on a particular bill or amendment, their aide TELLS them how to vote..
I am sure that isn't 100% of the time, for 100% of the Senators...but I wouldn't be surprised if the Dems purposely didn't read that so they would have the "plausible deniability" if ever asked why they voted this or that way...when it is written right there in that book..
Judith Miller and Fitzgerald have a strange history. Miller is being investigated for her participation in the warning of an Islamic charity that had that same charity warned in advance of an impending raid due to Miller's advance phone call. Fitzgerald was in charge of that investigation as well. His people managed to "lose" a lot of damning information on that Islamic charity and this incident happened the DAY AFTER 9/11/06. I've got some far out notions about Fitzgerald and how deep he is into this but already he's filed to force Miller to reveal her source that the Islamic charity was about to be raided. Off the top of my head I think Fitz was using this Libby investigation to get her to reveal more information than warranted about the Plame revelation.
This whole thing was a blatant, perhaps desperate, attempt to STOP the war with Iraq. Other players had different motives, perhaps, but Joe Wilson speaks fluent French and spent a lot of time hobnobbing with the French. Somebody orchestrated that whole op-ed thing with Joe Wilson and may I remind that the very act of sending this sleazy has-been to Niger was the work of his wife Val Plame who got SOMEBODY in the CIA to approve it.
I think it's about the Clintons and Iraq's oil-for-food program and a bunch of somebodies on through the chain of command that would be in danger should our plan to take down Saddam continue. There are just so many tentacles in this thing, many common tentacles.
Judith Miller was a good buddy of disgraced, exiled Iraq leader Chalibi, some suggest she was veeeeery good buddies. I didn't want to mention my theories upthread but I'll throw them out now.
This Plame affair and the millions spent on it are about far more than I think we now know. The NY Times was a willing participant in what was an attempt to STOP our intended invasion of Iraq. Recall that this all came through right before we invaded Iraq...in early 2003 as I recall.
Will we ever know all the details? I dunno. But like Libby wrote to Miller....the aspen trees in Colorado all change color at the same time as their roots are interconnected.
God knows who's paying off Fitzgerald but this guy has some splaining to do. Again, will the manly men of congress look into this?
And again, who the hell knows?
In that article that you linked to about Khatami's visit and speech last night...
The line that just stuck out to me, from the article was this one:
"He said American Muslims, 'through active participation in the social arena' can form lobbying groups and form a consensus with other Americans."
This is right out of the their manifesto...to take down America from within, using our political and social system.
Nonsense. We identify with America and take great pride in representing our country. We are just as concerned about America's interests as other citizens. To insinuate that we are not loyal Americans does a great disservice to the sacrfices many of my colleagues have made to the defense of this country, including their lives. I have worked and lived in seven different countries and never found anyone who didn't identify with America in pursuit of our national interests.
One example: people resigned when Yugoslavia broke up because they had loyalties to the Croatian 'desk' or the 'Serbian' desk rather than to American policy vis a vis Yugoslavia.
LOL. Where do you come up with this nonsense? Some FSO's did resign because they disagreed with our policy. It was the principled thing to do. Warren Zimmerman, a former COM in Yugoslavia, was one such person.
Grow up NRO. War is a continuation of politics by other means. With 50% or more of the the American people all ready expressing doubts about Iraq, thanks to the Junk Media and the Democrats endless seditious propagandizing, the Bush Administration is having to jump thru all these diplomatic hoops over Iran to try and build domestic concensus for action
At this time the Bush Administration has neither the domestic consensus nor the votes in Congress for anything other action.
Simply absurd how the Neo Isolationists keep fantasizing how if the US simply turns the cold solder and ignores the Iranian rulers some how the Iranian people will magically rise up and rescue the Neo Isolationists from having to do anything about the problem.
NOT one authoritarian regime has ever been over thrown by it's own inhabitants without the active support, and a threat by, some external power. The idea that a revolution will spontaneously break out some day in Iran if the US just continue to sit on it butt and wish it is absurd nonsense dreamed up by senile old "Realists". The same "realist" in the US Political Establishment who did NOTHING about the growing thread of Islamic Fundamentalism for 3 decades hoping it would go away.
I only used the Nazis to forestall the "you can't kill 1.8 billion people arguement." If you like, take the Japanese. There you have the religious component you desire.
I am well aware of the mufti/Hitler connection.
I just do not believe in 'good moslems,' period.
See my #624
tooo funny... spell check doesn't always help. 8^)
How many terrorists attacks on US soil have been pulled since 09-11-01?
Why is it the bulk of the fighting, and the vast bulk of the dying, on OUR side of the war is being done by Muslim Iraqis, Pakistanis and Afghanis?
I wish I had watched it. It ain't over yet.
Posted at 11:55am on Sep. 3, 2006
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - Review
including Santorum vs. Casey on MTP
By Mark Kilmer
Sunday, September 3, 2006.
{This review is dedicated to the memory of Joe Wilson's time in the limelight and to the erstwhile "scandal" which bore his name.}Rick Santorum "debated" Bobby Casey junior on NBC's Meet the Press, but it was really Russert vs. Santorum, with Casey along for decoration, and Santorum won.
The there's FOX NEWS Sunday, where Liddy Dole got Chuckie Schumer to agree to take her to dinner. For his part, Schumer demanded that the White House apologize for leaking Plame's name. He's not sure it was Armitage who leaked it, but he knows for a fact that "Karl Rove leaked it too."
Arlen Specter on FNS said that the nomination of Judge Terence Boyle "does have big trouble."
On TW, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Joe Biden, said that he didn't know if we had helped foil the recent terror plot involving airplanes exploding over the Atlantic, but that it was proof that the Bush Administration had done nothing to make our country safer from terrorism.
On FTN, DNC boss Howard Dean, talking about his party's electoral chances this November, proclaimed: "We're going to win in places like Indiana! We're going to win in places like Arizona! [YEAAARRRRGH!]" (He set himself up.)
Also on FTN, GOP Senate Whip Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate agenda this September will be "entirely about national security."
And on LE, it was Shays-Meehan. Marty Meehan behaved like irrelevant snot, but Chris Shays explained his "timetable" for getting out of Iraq. He said that it head to do with replacing the Iraqi forces as they become competent to handle security themselves. (He says that the Iraqi government has stopped doing anything.) Guest host John Roberts accused Shays of advocating "cut and run."
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Follow the Read More for the his show by show review. He includes a link to the transcript of the Casey/Timmah vs Santorum "debate," as well as to a "live blog" coverage, which should both prove useful.
"He rocks.lots of mixed emotions about Centanni and Wiig, but it's hard to know what any of us would do in their place. I for one would not ever put myself in that position to begin with. One revolution was enough for me.
democrats are essentially saying "vote for us and we will not spend money on defending the nation and odds are you will not die."
Who wants to fly on an airplane with maintenance based on "odds are it will not plunge out of the sky to your death".
not going to happen.
Point of order. Most of the work was done by Southack, he deserves the recognition for the list of Bush accomplishemenents. But thank you both for the honor. :-)
And no one in the Junk Media bothers to ask if Iranians can influence their Govt in ANY way.
Yes, the Saudis have been killing and rounding up AQ within the country.
----And yet they still fund Mosques here in the US promoting hatred of Jews and Americans. Is it unreasonable to think that we could have assistance with this as well?
We can't wall ourselves off from "foreign influence" whatever that really means.
Foreign Influence is not a new concept. The first 5 Federalist Papers are entitled with that subject. Our forefathers knew that Republics fail due to the internal conflict sparked by foreign powers. Frankly, your dismissal of the term is the kind of complacency I dread when thinking of the State department.
When I think of "Foreign Influence" I think of Clinton taking Chinese political contributions. And Al Gore at the Temple taking money from that Bhudist nun. This isn't academic.
In fact, the reason that Armitage knew about Plame sending her husband to Niger was because he was copied on memo to Libby answering this question.
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