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TOM HARKIN, FAKE WAR HERO: In an update to an earlier post, I noted some comments by Donald Sensing about Sen. Tom Harkin, most recently seen attacking the patriotism of Dick Cheney. Sensing observed: "Harkin himself claimed to have battled Mig fighters over North Vietnam while a Navy pilot. He was a pilot, but never went to Vietnam." A reader emailed to say that he didn't think Sensing's sourcing was good enough for a charge of that magnitude. It seemed to me that I remembered some Harkin truth-stretching from back then, and I trust Sensing, but in keeping with Walter...

Harkin Calls Cheney Comments 'Cowardly' DES MOINES, Iowa - Sen. Tom Harkin pushed the name-calling in the presidential race to a new level, calling Vice President Dick Cheney a coward for not serving in Vietnam and cowardly for his criticism of John Kerry. Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, recently said that if elected he would pursue a more effective and "more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side and lives up to American values in history." Cheney, in campaign speeches, has been mocking that reference to sensitivity. Harkin, D-Iowa and a...

DES MOINES -- Sen. Tom Harkin called Vice President Dick Cheney a "coward" for avoiding service in Vietnam and called on President Bush to end the "backdoor draft." The Iowa Democrat was responding Friday to the call-up of a Des Moines police officer who has already completed his eight-year military commitment. Harkin echoed comments earlier this week by Des Moines Police Chief William McCarthy, who said the military's treatment of Des Moines Police Officer Rodell Nydam was "evil." Nydam, 26, is being called back to Iraq despite finishing his National Guard commitment in April. He's being called up under the...

NewsMax.com's "Left Coast" reporter James Hirsen has the latest on Democratic Party counterattack plans for the bombshell new book, "Unfit for Command."Michael Moore’s factually challenged waste of celluloid has been publicly embraced by top dog Dems like DNC ringleader Terry McAuliffe, Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin and others. John Kerry also recently used Moore-generated scenes to smear the president. But curiously, when over 200 decorated veterans created a one-minute TV spot expressing their views on the Dem candidate’s war record, McAuliffe and his Democrat buds squealed for the White House to declare war on these "partisan liars.” Sources indicate that a...

The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com Animosity that runs endlesslyBy Mona CharenPublished July 3, 2004 Theaters are filling up with fans of Michael Moore -- a propagandist who makes Oliver Stone look like Alistair Cooke. Mr. Moore is, of course, free to say the war on terror is a clever cover story for George W. Bush's attempt to line his own pockets. Or to suggest that as nasty as Osama bin Laden is, he is nowhere near as bad as our president.     But the reception this preposterous pastiche of lies, warmed-over conspiracy theories and free-floating venom has received from the Democratic...

Most of us old enough to have been reading newspapers and watching television in the mid-1980s remember when the Soviet-backed Marxist-Leninist junta “Sandinistas” were battling the anti-communist guerrilla army of “Contras” in Nicaragua. And who could forget the overblown Iran-Contra affair, the attempt to arm the Contras through a deal to swap arms for hostages with the mullahs in Iran. What might be hazy in the memory after 20 years, however, is the Keystone Kops, I-want-to-play-president role of the freshman senator from Massachusetts, John Forbes Kerry. Still humming his “Give peace a chance” mantra from Vietnam days, Kerry jumped into...

Dem Senator Calls for Rumsfeld to Resign 5 minutes ago Add White House - AP Cabinet & State to My Yahoo! By SONYA ROSS, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The White House reaffirmed President Bush (news - web sites)'s support of embattled Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday even as a Democratic senator became the first in Congress to demand Rumsfeld's resignation over the U.S. military's abuse of Iraqi prisoners. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, demanded Rumsfeld's ouster "for the good of our country, the safety of our troops, and our image around the globe." "If he does not resign forthwith,...

This is a copy of an e-mail I just got back from my Senator concerning my thoughts on an investigation of pre-war intelligence and my response follows: Dear Gene: Thank you for contacting me. I am always glad to hear from you. I appreciate knowing your views regarding the need for an independent investigation into America's pre-war intelligence in Iraq. I believe that an investigation is needed, particularly into the pre-war threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. If the President relied on faulty intelligence, or misled the American people about a weapons threat that did not exist, the...

The Kerry-Kennedy-Haiti Connection By Cliff Kincaid March 26, 2004 It wasn't a big story when John Kerry said that he would have risked U.S. lives to maintain Marxist Jean-Bertrand Aristide in power in Haiti. And except for columnist Robert Novak, there hasn't been any discussion of why Kerry chose such a controversial course of action. Novak noted evidence of "Aristide's gold-plated U.S. connections." He explained, "He is close to Kerry's influential friends, the Kennedy family of Massachusetts, and is the unconditional favorite of the Congressional Black Caucus." Novak noted that Aristide spent millions on U.S. lobbyists and lawyers, and that,...

Washington, Mar. 26 (CWNews.com) - The US Senate yesterday passed a bill that will make criminals punishable for harm done to unborn children in the course of a violent crime. Ten Catholic senators voted against the bill, which was opposed by abortion providers. The legislation which the Senate approved on March 25 has already been passed by the House of Representatives. It now needs only the signature of President George W. Bush in order to become federal law. The President has indicated that he fully supports the measure, and is likely to sign it promptly. The measure passed despite the...

POSTED: 3:47 pm CST March 22, 2004 UPDATED: 3:57 pm CST March 22, 2004 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Tom Harkin reacted Monday to accusations made by a former top Bush administration official. President George W. Bush's former counterterrorism coordinator accused the Bush administration of failing to recognize the al-Qaida threat before the attacks of 9/11. Clarke said Bush has done "a terrible job on the war against terrorism." Clarke made that charge in a critique of the administration's anti-terror efforts in a new book, "Against All Enemies." He also claims the president pressured him to link Iraq to the attacks....

Anyone make sense of this? http://www.midiasemmascara.org/

<p>Washington, D.C. - Sen. Tom Harkin called Thursday for U.S. peacekeeping forces to be dispatched to Haiti, saying Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected with stronger voter support than President Bush.</p> <p>"He's got more support there than Bush got in this country," said the Iowa Democrat in a conference call with Iowa reporters. "He's a legitimate, democratically elected president."</p>

<p>Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa said Tuesday that he will reassess his support for presidential candidate Howard Dean after the upcoming Wisconsin presidential primary.</p> <p>Late last week, Dean said he would quit if he lost in Wisconsin on Feb. 17.</p>

Missteps Pulled a Surging Dean Back to Earth By JODI WILGORENand JIM RUTENBERG Published: February 1, 2004 itting on a mirror-ceilinged bus normally used by Aretha Franklin, Howard Dean searched for something to say to 1,000 screaming supporters about his surprising third-place showing in the Iowa caucuses. His campaign brain trust — the longtime loyalist from Vermont, the Washington media guru — choreographed an entrance into the ballroom near Des Moines where Dr. Dean would whip off his suit coat and roll up his sleeves, ready to fight the next round. Senator Tom Harkin, stunned that no one had prepared...

<p>Howard Dean collected the influential endorsement yesterday of Sen. Tom Harkin, Iowa Democrat, as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination sought to explain statements he made years ago criticizing Iowa's caucuses and calling President Bush a moderate.</p> <p>Mr. Harkin's endorsement is one of the key prizes in a state where the caucus system relies heavily on political operations to identify and mobilize supporters.</p>

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin will endorse Howard Dean for the Democratic presidential nomination, party sources said Friday, giving a key boost to an embattled front-runner 10 days before the state's kick-off caucuses.

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - 'This may not be Vietnam, but boy, it sure smells like it," said Sen. Tom Harkin recently. The Iowa Democrat is but one of a host of critics in Washington politics and the media who claim that US troops and administrators are "bogged down" in Iraq. Having covered the war as an embedded reporter, having conducted the first national poll of the Iraqi people (in concert with Zogby International), and having remained in close touch with the military men and women who are temporarily the princes running the land of the Tigris and Euphrates, I believe...

OK I just turned on C-span to see the words $1 Billion Amed. to the Education bill by Mr. Harkin (D-Iowa). Mr. Spector had a roll call vote. He said this amount exceeds the limit one can use in and amendment. Harking asked for the rule to be waved. I filed this under Breaking news becasuse the Senate is LIVE.

Ginsburg, the politician Posted: August 15, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com When Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke to the American Constitution Society recently, I focused my criticism on the substance of her remarks. I hoped others might join my in my outrage that a sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice might actually suggest that the U.S. judiciary should be influenced by the constitutions and courts of foreign countries. In condescending language undermining the principle of American sovereignty, she said, "our island or lone-ranger mentality is beginning to change." Justices, she said, "are becoming more open to comparative...