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Posted on 01/10/2005 7:58:39 PM PST by LaDivaLoca
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Did you miss me?
Hello gals! I am sneaking up to give you a Hug! Hope all is well!
Thanks to all of the gals out there who have helped shape our military heroes!
Trying to dig himself out of the “Rathergate” mess at CBS News, White House correspondent John Roberts is telling his critics that he didn’t know that the documents he provided to the White House about the president’s National Guard service were questionable and came from a dubious source, Bill Burkett. Accuracy in Media (AIM) says that Roberts, who is said to be in the running for Dan Rather's job, is deeply implicated in the "Rathergate" scandal that has just been examined by the two-person "independent panel" appointed by CBS.
AIM notes that Roberts was the personal representative of CBS News in a meeting with White House communications director Dan Bartlett, at a critical time when CBS News was developing its fake "story." In the meeting with Roberts, Bartlett was told that he was supposed to confirm or deny authenticity of the National Guard documents that turned out to be bogus. When Bartlett did not immediately denounce them as forgeries, Roberts provided that information to 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes, as if Bartlett had verified the documents as authentic. This was seen as the critical green light for Mapes (and Dan Rather) to go ahead with the bogus story.”
Bartlett later explained that CBS News provided documents that CBS News had said had "come from the personal file of a former commander" in the National Guard and that Roberts expected Bartlett "to authenticate them." The White House received the documents only three and one-half hours before Bartlett was interviewed by Roberts about them. Bartlett commented that "CBS had the obligation to authenticate them before they were used. They could have also given them to the White House much earlier so we had more time to verify them as well."
AIM Editor Cliff Kincaid commented that, "John Roberts was in a position to stop this fraudulent story before it aired. He did not."
The new panel report sheds some light on this controversy, noting that Roberts told CBS that the Bartlett interview had "gone well and that he had not disputed the authenticity of the documents…" The panel said "this reaction" by Roberts and CBS "seriously misplaced responsibility for making sure that the documents were authentic."
So John Roberts, the likely successor to Dan Rather, was guilty of helping to perpetrate this journalistic fraud.
Roberts disagrees, saying in an email that “I should point out that at the time I interviewed Dan Bartlett, I was NOT AWARE that the documents had come from Bill Burkett. In fact, I did not find out that particular gem of information until I read about it in Newsweek magazine some time later. I was never informed by Mary Mapes at any time of the source of the documents - a point I made clear to the Thornburgh/Boccardi investigating panel. Your claims that I ‘was in a position to stop this fraudulent story before it aired’ are misinformed at best.”
AIM editor Kincaid responded that, “Roberts should have known --or should have asked -- about the source of the documents. But it didn't really matter if Roberts knew where the documents came from or not. The main problem was that the White House received the documents only three and one-half hours before Bartlett was interviewed by Roberts about them. That was unfair and Roberts knew it. He should have refused to play a role in this ambush. Not only did he play a role in this attack, he then told Mapes & Company that the Bartlett interview, such as it was, went well! He should be held accountable for his role in the scandal. Pleading ignorance is hardly a defense.”
Kincaid said it is clear that Roberts wanted to be part of the CBS story that was intended to politically damage President Bush and prevent his re-election. Roberts should not be able to get out of this by claiming he was just a gopher for Dan Rather and Mary Mapes and didn’t know what he was doing.
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Mud I suspect that if Buckhead could figure out the documents were fake in less than 3 hours, the people in George Bush's white house could figure it out in 3.5 hours.
The documents had obvious errors. Not only did they contain characters that only a computer could generate, they contained statements that were obviously false to anyone who had served in the guard in the early 70s.
It would be a huge stretch to think the Bush White House with Karl Rove in charge of the campaign just igored this CBS ploy as a non story, and left Barlet to wing it. The point is Roberts asked Bartlet if the documents were real.. and Bartlet was no committal. Bartlet had to know what Roberts was going to ask. And Bartlets considered reponse was a shoulder shrug? Bartlet knew what CBS would do with that kind of response and gave it anyway. There has to be a reason
I think the Bush White House knew the documents were fake. The White house actually forwarded the documenets to sites like Find Law so they could check them out. The White House obviously wanted people to look at the Documents. Shortly after Roberts left, the White House posted those 4 documents on the web. If the White house thought they were true, then the White House would never have helped diseminate the Documents.
If the White House has good calibre people, and I think they do.. they had to know in 3.5 hours that the documents were fake. If they did and did not make CBS aware they knew they were fake, then there has to be a reason they did not.
It think the truth will come out but only after Dan Rather is gone from CBS. The Bush administration does not want an open war with the media. It will content itself with waiting until Rather is off the air.
You have to ask yourself why Barlett never challenged the validity of those documents? And you have to ask yourself why the White House put those documents on the WEB?
So that's where my lost kitty, Tourister, got off to!
Too much water: An elderly couple wait to be rescued after trying to drive through a shallow lake caused by flooding near Cambridge, Ohio.
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Ok, FRiend, inquiring minds, like me for instance, want to know.
Spill it, what you know, would ya?
My partner and I live in the boonies of northern MN. No cable available. I checked out satellite hook-ups too. Apparently not fast, either according to my work-site's techie guy, who I remotely connect to.
We do have Dish TV, satellite, but doesn't seem to help much. DSL, Cable, Satellite................Am I living back eons ago, just because we live in the woods to get a FAST internet hookup? Seems so.
Zip code 557..
LOL!! too cute. Thanks.
Believe it or not, the top of the head was the hardest part.
My FRiend, your gonna need help greater tahn me on this one. Maybe Gummy can help or point ya to someone who can.
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Hehee! Bayb... you know what I am talkin bout over her. Miss smarty pants/Mom of a sub guy! :]
Oops. 814 was s'posed to be to you, not me.
I'm out the door!
YES!!
Be safe driving home!
Dang he's a good lookin' boy! Good job mom!!!
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Now with a larger following and the help of Togrul and the Chin (a large civilization in northern China), Temuchin was able to defeat the Tartars and avenge his father’s death (Nicolle 18). Temuchin continued to build power by removing rivals (Nicolle 18-19). Deals were struck with most Mongol chieftains giving them leadership roles and wives (Humphrey 47). These chiefs who would not serve under other chiefs were willing to serve under the dominating Temuchin (Humphrey 47). Eventually Jamuga became Temuchin’s primary rival allying with Temuchin’s enemies in a series of campaigns which came to include even Togrul and the Kereits (Nicolle 19). Using superior political and military skill, Temuchin defeated and integrated all opposing Mongol tribes (Marshall 28-32). By 1206 Temuchin led more than two million people and ruled land stretching a 1000 miles from west to east and 600 miles from Siberia in the north to the Gobi Desert in the south (Humphrey 57, 63). Temuchin’s followers, while still nomadic, were now united behind their leader and considered themselves one nation of Mongols (Humphrey 59). Temuchin took the name Genghis which appropriately meant universal leader (USA Today 1). 
Having created a nation Genghis now looked to build an empire (Humphrey 77-78). During his lifetime Genghis conquered Hsi Hsia a southwestern border country of Mongolia, the Chin empire of north China, and (after being provoked by the massacre of a trade caravan and subsequent murder of his ambassador) the medieval Muslim kingdom of Khwarezm (Marshall 42-57). Genghis was able to consistently defeat larger forces by using ruthless military strategies which are well-known and innovative military strategies which should be well known (Marshall 37-57). Genghis’ highly disciplined troops were equally capable of slaughtering civilians whose armies refused to surrender and mastering the advanced methods required to capture fortified cities (Humphrey 82-83). Well supplied and constantly drilled in war games, the Mongolian men were always prepared for war (Humphrey 68). In the field of battle Genghis maintained close communications with commanders using swift "arrow messengers, signal flags, and fire (Humphrey 79-78). The entire army moved and attacked on horseback and there were always one or two fresh horses available for each man (Humphrey 65). Combined with other tactics, the incredible mobility of Genghis’ forces (which was probably not matched until the German blitzkrieg of WWII) always gave him the advantage of surprise (Humphrey 67-68). 
Most of the Western world views Genghis Khan as a simple savage who overwhelmed others by brute force (Marshall 64). However, Genghis was a cunning warrior, a superb motivator, an organized leader, and a wise ruler who valued loyalty, education, strict laws, and the exchange of knowledge and goods with other cultures. Genghis created Mongolia and established an empire that reached from the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea and from Siberia to Tibet (USA Today 1). Genghis died in 1227 but the structure and tradition the great leader established did not (Nicolle 46-47). Descendants were well positioned to expand Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire from the Pacific to the Danube and from Siberia to the Indian Ocean, an area in which half the population of the world then lived (Humphrey 107). It took a genius, not a savage, to accomplish this. 
