Posted on 10/25/2006 8:25:52 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1725292/posts?page=1
Iraqi Government Plans to Demobilize Illegal Militias
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2006 The Iraqi government has plans to demobilize all illegal militias, including radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadrs so-called Mahdi Army, the senior U.S. diplomat in Iraq said today.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has agreed to getting rid of the militias, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters at a Baghdad news conference.
Illegal militias that commit violence and murder need to be dealt with, Khalilzad said, noting the Iraqi government recognizes that fact.
Maliki wants to demobilize all the militias, including al-Sadrs, Khalilzad said. Yet, he noted, U.S. officials dont have direct contact with Sadr, although there is some interaction with some of Sadrs representatives in the Iraqi Assembly.
Khalilzad said he believes that an integrated, political approach is the best way to try to convince militia leaders to disband their men and stack arms.
However, Maliki doesnt rule out the use of force to coerce the militias to disband, Khalilzad said. We will see what happens, he added.
Khalilzad said he believes the Iraqi government is taking the right path in addressing the militia issue. Iraqs prime minister is anxious for Iraqis to assume more security roles and responsibilities, to include dealing the problem of militias, the ambassador said.
Meanwhile, U.S., coalition and Iraqi security forces are actively tracking, targeting, detaining people who are operating in death squads, and their leadership, who are breaking the law, Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr, commander of Multinational Force Iraq, said.
When Iraqs government zeroes in on the militia issue, then the Iraqi security forces will become the dominant security forces in the country, Casey predicted.
I think it will happen, he said.
How are you?
Happy birthday, Johnnie.
Ruth's Crisp? Wrong show, pal!
Oh, and you're a great American.
;^)
LOL I like Sean
Happy birthday! :)
Don't worry, he won't! He's bound to talk about football at some point in the show! LOL!
A very happy birthday, Johnnie.
What's up with the keywords here?
Rush said he was sorry, but also stated something about Fox's ailment being taking advantage of by Dems.
I think MJFox's response to the whole mess was professional... "I'm just glad people are talking about stem cell research" or something along those lines.
Sadly (for the MSM) this will not effect Rush too much.
LOL! Looks like somebody was playing!
Did you get to see the Presidents presser?
Matt from the Today Show pissed off me saying Rush Mocks MJFox
"..U.S. Senate candidate Tom Kean, Jr. ..: I categorically denounce the inappropriate and outrageous claims made by Rush Limbaugh on his radio show today. ..I believe the science of stem cell research holds immeasurable potential that might one day provide a cure for such a horrible disease.."
His handlers are making him look like an idiot. Here is what they allowed him to call "inappropriate and outrageous claims":
RUSH: "Ladies and gentlemen, just one more thing on the controversy involving the Michael J. Fox commercial running in Missouri for the Democrat candidate, Claire McCaskill, and in Maryland, for the Democrat candidate Benjamin Cardin.
The ad is misleading in countless ways, primarily in the most fundamental of ways. Remember that the Amendment 2 in Missouri is simply a cloning amendment that would legalize cloning in the state of Missouri. It is called the stem cell research and cures initiative and has nothing to do with stem cell research. The Michael J. Fox ad says that Jim Talent and Michael Steele want to criminalize stem cell research. They don't. Stem cell research is legal in both states, and it is ongoing at universities in both states. ..." Inside Edition Preparing Rush/Fox Hit Piece? October 24, 2006
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102406/content/cutting_edge.member.html
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RUSH: "..The debate we're having is almost always about governmental funding or radical measures like the one currently on the ballot in Missouri, which is Amendment 2, which would write a right to cloning into the state constitution of Missouri, and it's one of these cleverly worded things that makes you: if you vote yes, you're voting no, and vice-versa. [ http://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/2006petitions/ppStemCell.asp ]
Let me explain to you, ladies and gentlemen, what's going on in my home state that has made this whole stem cell debate so controversial there, and it is typical of the Democrats in this country and the left who can only succeed by misleading.
Here's the history in Missouri. For four years, legislators in Missouri have tried to pass a simple ban on human cloning, something that neighboring states to Missouri have done. It's a one-page piece of legislation, a one-page bill. It has never passed. It says that "somatic cell nuclear transfer," that's cloning, "will be a crime in Missouri. Somatic cell nuclear transfer is the scientific term for cloning, the same method used to clone Dolly the sheep.
"The other side makes hysterical claims that this bill would criminalize embryonic stem cell research and put patients in jail, and both claims are utterly false. Today in Missouri, there is a constitutional amendment called Amendment 2, and it calls itself the 'Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative.' McCaskill favors it. Senator Talent opposes it. Amendment 2 is misleading in that it appears to put stem cell research in the Constitution and to ban human cloning, but the fine print creates a right to do somatic cell nuclear transfer, cloning, which is the scientific term for cloning, the same method used to clone Dolly the sheep." Now, The Amendment 2 proponents are using Michael J. Fox and trotting out other people with sick relatives to try to convince Missourians that there will be no cures for their diseases without Amendment 2, which is a cloning amendment that has nothing to do with stem cell research.
The truth is, all stem cell research is legal today in Missouri. Jim Talent does not seek to criminalize it, as Michael J. Fox asserts in his television commercial. Stem cell research is legal today in Missouri, it is happening at universities across the state. The truth is Amendment 2 would put human cloning in the Constitution. Now, the Michael J. Fox ad says that Talent wants to criminalize research, and this is false. It is already legal and it's already happening. Senator Talent and other opponents of Amendment 2 are not touching stem cell research in any way. What they want to do is stop human cloning from becoming a new right in the Missouri Constitution, and so they have named the pro-cloning bill the stem cell research and cures initiative so that people will go to the polls on November the 7th and think they're voting for stem cell research, which is already legal.
[] Michael J. Fox is participating in this disinformation campaign. Folks, I don't care what anybody says, it is unseemly, it is exploitative, and it is downright mean to mislead people who suffer from incurable diseases at the moment or horrible diseases, that there is a cure around the corner if only, if only Republicans could be defeated. There has been a tradition in this country of bipartisan efforts to cure all of these diseases or to come up with vaccinations for them, but never mind that, we're in the process here now of damaging what has traditionally been this bipartisan effort in addressing and curing illnesses by politicizing them. We're now politicizing diseases and illnesses. .." Michael J. Fox Is Not Infallible; He's Just the Latest Victim Used by the Democrat ---- October 24, 2006
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102406/content/rush_is_right.member.html
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My Note: This is a perfect example of exactly how DemocRATS fool people who have said no to what they want to do in the past. Here are specific excerpts I took from the ballot measure in Missouri which ILLUSTRATES exactly how deceptively it is worded. The very first statement is a lie. Statements 2, 5, and 13 use the technical words and techniques that MEAN CLONING. See below:
Missouri 2006 Ballot Measure Constitutional Amendment 2 Stem Cell Initiative Submitted October 11, 2005
http://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/2006petitions/ppStemCell.asp
(1) No person may clone or attempt to clone a human being.
(2) No human blastocyst may be produced by fertilization solely for the purpose of stem cell research.
(5) Human embryonic stem cell research, also referred to as early stem cell research, means any scientific or medical research involving human stem cells derived from in vitro fertilization blastocysts or from somatic cell nuclear transfer. For purposes of this section, human embryonic stem cell research does not include stem cell clinical trials.
(13) Stem cell means a cell that can divide multiple times and give rise to specialized cells in the body, and includes but is not limited to the stem cells generally referred to as (i) adult stem cells that are found in some body tissues (including but not limited to adult stem cells derived from adult body tissues and from discarded umbilical cords and placentas), and (ii) embryonic stem cells (including but not limited to stem cells derived from in vitro fertilization blastocysts and from cell reprogramming techniques such as somatic cell nuclear transfer).
Limbaugh Says Actor Fox Exaggerates Effects of Disease in Ads (WaPo Hit Piece)
The Washington Post ^ | Tuesday, October 24, 2006 | Daniela Deane
Posted on 10/24/2006 6:42:45 PM EDT by kristinn
Edited on 10/24/2006 9:49:35 PM EDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1725229/posts
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To: Matchett-PI; All
The Washington Post has replaced the original article at the source link and almost completely rewritten their hit piece with a new author:
By David Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 25, 2006; C01
120 posted on 10/24/2006 8:24:16 PM CDT by kristinn
A birthday boy! Party hearty and come back tomorrow older and (hopefully) wiser.
Don't know why I tell people that: Never worked yet for me.
Yeah
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