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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's prime minister vowed on Saturday that attacks by two female bombers which killed 99 people in Baghdad would not derail improved security, but angry residents demanded the government do more to protect them. Nuri al-Maliki said Friday's nearly simultaneous bombings at two crowded pet markets, the deadliest attacks in the city since April, would not herald a return to the savage violence that took Iraq to the brink of sectarian civil war. The U.S. military said there were indications the women were mentally handicapped, and probably unaware they were being used as human bombs. It blamed...

Many different kinds of people listen to Barack Obama and get a little weak in the knees. Young people are enraptured by him, political independents are attracted to him, African-Americans are proud of him, progressives are inspired by him. But the praise is also coming from one corner one would least expect: conservatives. David Brooks, house conservative of the New York Times op-ed page, practically wept with joy at Obama's Iowa victory. "You'd have to have a heart of stone not to feel moved by this," he wrote the next day. "Whatever their political affiliations, Americans are going to feel...

BERLIN — Germany has developed a serious case of Obama-mania.Barack Obama’s high standing in Germany goes beyond his opposition to the unpopular war in Iraq. The country’s sudden crush is bound up with near-constant comparisons here between the young senator from Illinois and President John F. Kennedy Jr. – still admired in Germany and particularly in Berlin.The Berliner Morgenpost over the weekend ran with the headline, “The New Kennedy.” The tabloid Bild declared, “This Black American has become the new Kennedy!” And the headline for the editorial in the Frankfurter Rundschau read simply: “Lincoln, Kennedy, Obama.” “Only a small, informed...

"Crush" Bryan Adams dead at 43 By GREG OLIVER - Producer, SLAM! Wrestling According to WWE.com, Bryan Adams, who worked as Demolition Crush and was half of the KroniK tag team, has been found dead. He was 43. WWE.com said no other details were available. Adams was a boxer in the U.S. Air Force, stationed in Japan, when Antonio Inoki discovered him and talked me into going into professional wrestling. When his time in the service was up, he trained in the New Japan dojo for a year. In the United States, Adams debuted in the Pacific Northwest in 1986,...

This clip from the “Crush on Obama” video should tell the viewer everything he or she needs to know about Barack Obama. The psychology of putting Obama’s picture between the Obama Girl’s “assets” is pretty obvious, but if Obama thinks this is going to appeal to anyone but Bill Clinton, he is deceiving himself.

"Obama" = "Phony Smile on an Empty Suit" It is well known that a word's meaning can be inferred from its context, or the way it is used in a sentence. As an example, "to nifong" means to falsely accuse someone of a crime for personal gain, whether political or financial. Robert A. Heinlein's "Pravda means 'Truth'" was written so the context of "Pravda" meant bovine excrement. Obama's chief supporters are a woman with what looks a ring or stud in her tongue and a crush on Barack Obama, along with George Soros, Allan Houston, Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton, and...

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COPYING AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE FOLLOWING LYRICS IS NOT ONLY PERMITTED, BUT ENCOURAGED.I'm Al Sharpton, and Obama's my man To make him Pres-i-dent, that is my plan. ...Then came Crown Heights, in 1991 My mob went wild, and boy it had fun! The "diamond merchants" sure got a clue, When my mob rampaged and screamed, "Kill the Jew!" They found one, name of Yankel Rosenbaum The brother that knifed him was no Uncle Tom. They rioted and screamed, that was a fact Like the Nazis did, on good old Kristallnacht.* Four years later, we gave Whitey straight dope Harlem's a...

The Iranian government has deployed large numbers of troops in cities in the northwestern region which borders Iraq in an effort to quell three weeks of civil unrest that has left up to 20 people dead and more than 300 wounded, according to reports from dissident groups. They said as many as 100,000 state security forces, backed up by helicopter gunships, had moved into the region to crack down on pro-Kurdish demonstrations. The claims, from Kurdish groups in Iraq, could not be independently verified, and Iranian officials remained silent about the unrest. The state-owned news agency IRNA said the trouble...

Media: As Telesur, Hugo Chavez's new South American TV network, goes on the air, it's billed as a pan-American alternative to CNN. Knowing Chavez, sensible minds fear a propaganda machine. It's much worse. Ahead of its first broadcast Sunday, Telesur released a ghastly news trailer featuring one of the hemisphere's grimmest narco terrorists, Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda. This professional killer leads the 13,000-strong FARC Marxist guerrillas who have terrorized Colombia for 40 years. As Sureshot preened before Telesur cameras, Telesur officials justified their free publicity for him as newsworthiness. "Do they think Sureshot doesn't exist?" said Director-General Aram Aharonian, a Uruguayan...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

The CBS Evening News Website asks its viewers if they "Know of a scam that needs investigating?", and if so to email them for investigation. Um ... yes. As a matter of fact we do. And we encourage all Kerry Crushers to e-mail them at the address provided and report to them that a network news anchor most certainly tried to scam the country into thinking they had a "smoking gun" memo damaging to the President that is almost certainly a forgery. We really think they're going to regret having this request on their website.

Najaf police chief vows to crush militia By Adrian Blomfield in Najaf (Filed: 18/08/2004) The Iraqi police chief charged with ending a two-week Shia insurgency in the holy city of Najaf vowed yesterday to crush militants hiding out in a sacred shrine despite a last-ditch effort to hold peace talks. Delegates from a conference supposedly mapping out Iraq's democratic future flew into the city from Baghdad for talks with the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, in whose name several thousand Mahdi army militiamen have rebelled across southern Iraq. But a breakthrough looked unlikely last night. The eight-strong delegation - slimmed...

US marines poised to crush Najaf revolt By Adrian Blomfield in Baghdad (Filed: 12/08/2004) US marines were poised last night to launch a final assault on militants loyal to the rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr as they sought to recapture Najaf, the centre of a bloody Shia insurgency engulfing southern Iraq. As British troops fought fierce battles with militants in Amara and Basra, American commanders warned the rebel forces they were ready to crush the revolt in Najaf after a week of fierce fighting. Mahdi militiamen on the offensive in Najaf "Iraqi and US forces are making final preparations as we...

'You go in there with both barrels. You let them know they are taking on the US army and you crush them' By Oliver Poole with the Third Brigade Combat Troop, Kuwait (Filed: 18/03/2003) The battle flags were unfurled yesterday as the troops who will spearhead an invasion of Iraq gathered in formation at dawn to be told by their commanding officer to prepare for an advance to the border. US tanks from the 3rd Brigade Combat team fire at a practice range in northern Kuwait Divided into their three companies, each with unit banners held aloft in the early...