Posted on 09/10/2008 5:27:33 PM PDT by silent_jonny
On the eve of the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Bush met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in the Oval Office of the White House. (Transcript)
President Talabani: I think it's clear that we are in Iraq looking to you as a hero of liberation of Iraq from worst kind of dictatorship … we will never forget what you have done for our people.
The President’s daughter Barbara Bush attended the Oscar de la Renta fashion show in New York City today.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and JCOS Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen testified before the House Armed Services Committee in Washington.
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
LOL that is a random question. And yes I would ;)
LOLOLOLOL Good to know. :-)
I’m watching Ghost Hunters on SciFi and they have a contest to win a trip to “the ultimate Halloween Fest” and it made me think of my lack of haunted house partner.
I ask crazy non-sequitors like that all the time IRL, too. I’m pretty much exactly the same online as I am IRL (much to the dismay of those around me LOL).
You’re welcome, Kas :) And thank you for last night’s Dose.
There’s nothing wrong with random questions. They keep things interesting :)
IN COMMEMORATION OF 911 . . .
THE PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY WILL COMMEMORATE 911 WITH A MOMENT OF SILENCE OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE AT THE PRECISE TIME THE PLANE HIT THE FIRST TOWER (8:?? AM EDT). THEY WILL THEN ATTEND THE DEDICATION OF THE PENTAGON’S 911 MEMORIAL — CSPAN WILL CARRY THE LATTER LIVE (or so they indicate on today’s schedule)
[scroll down to “This Week on CSpan”]
http://cspan.org/
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ANN COULTER HITS ANOTHER ONE OUT OF THE PARK . . .
BUSH 7, TERRORISTS 0
By Ann Coulter
. . . There is no media coverage when another 9/11 doesn’t happen. We can thank God that President George Bush didn’t care about doing the safe thing for himself; he cared about keeping Americans safe. And he has, for seven years.
If Bush’s only concern were about his approval ratings, like a certain impeached president I could name, he would not have fought for the Patriot Act and the war in Iraq. He would not have resisted the howling ninnies demanding that we withdraw from Iraq, year after year. By liberals’ own standard, Bush’s war on terrorism has been a smashing, unimaginable success.
A year after the 9/11 attack, The New York Times’ Frank Rich was carping about Bush’s national security plans, saying we could judge Bush’s war on terror by whether there was a major al-Qaida attack in 2003, which — according to Rich — would have been on al-Qaida’s normal schedule.
Rich wrote: “Since major al-Qaida attacks are planned well in advance and have historically been separated by intervals of 12 to 24 months, we will find out how much we’ve been distracted soon enough.” (”Never Forget What?” New York Times, Sept. 14, 2002.)
There wasn’t a major al-Qaida attack in 2003. Nor in 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007. Manifestly, liberals thought there would be: They announced a standard of success that they expected Bush to fail.
As Bush has said, we have to be right 100 percent of the time, the terrorists only have to be right one time. Bush has been right 100 percent of the time for seven years — so much so that Americans have completely forgotten about the threat of Islamic terrorism.
For his thanks, President Bush has been the target of almost unimaginable calumnies . . . The ferocity of the left’s attacks on Bush even scared many of his conservative allies into turning on him over the war in Iraq.
George Bush is Gary Cooper in the classic western “High Noon.” The sheriff is about to leave office when a marauding gang is coming to town. He could leave, but he waits to face the killers as all his friends and all the townspeople, who supported him during his years of keeping them safe, slowly abandon him. In the end, he walks alone to meet the killers, because someone has to.
That’s Bush. Name one other person in Washington who would be willing to stand alone if he had to, because someone had to.
OK, there is one, but she’s not in Washington yet. Appropriately, at the end of “High Noon,” Cooper is surrounded by the last two highwaymen when, suddenly, his wife (Grace Kelly) appears out of nowhere and blows away one of the killers! The aging sheriff is saved by a beautiful, gun-toting woman.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucac/20080910/cm_ucac/bush7terrorists0;_ylt=ArD8BRFeC_3rc6.awc11iYXSos4F
Great photos of the day Jonny - thanks for the dose as always
We have two locals who gave their all for the freedom that lives in Baqubah today.
I think I need to start wearing lipstick LOL
Each one makes history now. Thank you for carrying the job of reporting history so well.
It often happens that way
Groovy! You got the Toaster tonight...(groovy is a retro word! LOL!
snugs, forget the liptstick ... get the red shoes!
A very young Sarah enjoying a sandwich... I'm thinking; peanut butter and jelly.
An even younger Sarah, with her mother Sally Heath.
I wanted to say thanks for creating history as you have always done such a fine job. I just wish the President and Vice-President could meet you and thank you personally.
wonderful Dose tonight jonny.. thank you.
I used one of your charcoals on the 911 thread here..
Thank You President Bush! Thank you , thank you, thank you.
Thank you for your post, Deb :)
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