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This idea of freedom of speech is going to far with this Tea Party Express. White people in RV driving from city to city disrupting the townhouse meetings. Everyone wants and needs healthcare but the wealthy wants tax cuts, they can pay for healthcare for themselves and others. It won't stiphened their income. I think President Obama's Healthcare reform is great it allows people who can't afford healthcare to have it. That what the Hatians do. It's not socialism it's called taking care of your country so we can stand strong against the enemy. This capital government is a mess,...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's defense minister said on Monday that any U.S. military attack over its nuclear programme would result in a humiliating defeat for the United States, the official IRNA news agency reported. He was speaking on the anniversary of an attempt in 1980 by the U.S. military to rescue Americans held hostage in the U.S. embassy in Tehran. The mission failed when the helicopters crashed in a sand storm in the Tabas desert in eastern Iran. "If America chooses the military option a humiliating defeat worse than their failure in the Tabas desert will await them," Defense Minister...

Now that the self appointed gods of the Conservative movement have decided that a Supreme Court nominee is reason to overthrow the President, it is time to re-evaluate who speaks for the grass roots. The main tactic of these gasbags is to use their echo chamber in the new press as a bludgeon to attack anyone who disagrees with their coup. These are the Conservative idealists who falsely believe that the Country has moved as far right as we are. These folks are generally straight fiscal Conservatives and secular in their beliefs. These folks think that because Harriet Miers is...

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MANKATO, MINN. -- Richard Clarke, who served as the national coordinator for counterterrorism in the White House, argues in his new book, "Against All Enemies," that the Bush administration ignored the threat from Al-Qaida and instead chose to fight "the wrong war" by attacking Iraq. The troops who could have been used in Afghanistan to capture Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaida were instead held back for the planned invasion of Iraq. In contrast to the 150,000 men sent to Iraq, only about 11,500 troops were sent to Afghanistan, a force smaller than the New York City police. The result is...

Thursday, January 30 Armstrong: A war would make racing difficult -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reuters MILAN -- American cyclist Lance Armstrong, the four-time Tour de France champion, says he is concerned about his security if the United States goes to war against Iraq. "We Americans do not enjoy much sympathy abroad at the moment," Armstrong said in an interview with the Italian sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport published on Thursday. "If I have to do the Tour with a war under way it would be very difficult for me." "In cycling you ride in the open -- there is no fencing or protection...