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ON PEGGY NOONAN ON HILLARY CLINTON SENDING MEN TO WAR(IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY)1 by Mia T, 7.07.06   She seems like someone who might calculatedly go to war, or not, based on how she wanted to be perceived and look and do. She does not seem like someone who would anguish and weep over sending men into harm's way. And in this, as president, she would be deeply unusual. LBJ felt anguish; there are pictures of him, head in hands, suffering. Bush the Elder wept as he talked, with Paula Zahn, about what it was to send men...

"SONNY" CALLAHAN + BILL CLINTON'S CINDY SHEEHANS by Mia T, 8.24.05 One is inevitably reminded of the quite unbelievable image of the president of the United States on the phone with a congressman discussing Bosnia while being simultaneously serviced by Monica Lewinsky. -- Charles Krauthammer, History Will Not be Kind to Clinton ASIDE: While clinton was being serviced by The Intern, he and Congressman H.L. "Sonny" Callahan were discussing sending American troops -- our sons and daughters -- to a dangerous place full of death. -- Mia T What was always staggering to me about this scene was not what...

Boat sale by 'Duke' made him $400,000 Buyer's kin were lenders of Cunningham mortgage By Jerry Kammer and Marcus Stern COPLEY NEWS SERVICE July 5, 2005 CITY ISLAND, N.Y. – Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham made roughly a $400,000 profit by selling the boat he lived aboard in the nation's capital from 1997 to 2002 to a businessman convicted in a bid-rigging scheme. The man said he subsequently got advice from Cunningham about how to pursue a presidential pardon from the Bush administration. The businessman further acknowledged that a mortgage company owned by his daughter and nephew provided Cunningham with two...

YOO-HOO SUSAN SARANDON! Remember Sonny Callahan and how cavalierly the rapist ordered the troops to war?   9/15/98 John Kass Chicago Tribune SURE CLINTON'S TRYST IS A PRIVATE MATTER --JUST LIKE WAR IS September 15, 1998 President Clinton's defenders keep making their case that his private life has no bearing on how he does his job. They prattle on about his job approval ratings, which actually track how fat our wallets have become, not whether he can lead this country in a serious crisis. Maybe you think that Independent Counsel Ken Starr's report is about Clinton, the lothario. But,...

WASHINGTON - (AP) -- Al Qaeda and Middle East terrorists are operating near Ecuador's borders with Peru and Colombia, and Ecuador needs U.S. help to combat them, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said Thursday. ''We have got in the triborder area a bit of a problem with al Qaeda itself and some Hezbollah elements,'' he told the House Appropriations' foreign operations subcommittee. ``We do need cooperation.'' In addition, U.S. efforts to help Colombia combat drug traffickers -- and perhaps insurgents -- might hurt Ecuador if the traffickers and rebels seek to escape there, he said. President Bush's request for...