George Bush's dangerous vision for the future of our country involves a re-awakening of religous zealotry.
It has always been my opinion that President George W. Bush has hoped for the fall of Israel and the great Apocalypse to begin. I also believe that Bush is determined to be president during the second coming of God. He has now finally and publicly affirmed my worst fears… unfortunately.…
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— go to most recent comments26 - Baronius
Every time I hear this kind of complaint, I wonder, would you rather elect a person who thinks that G-d doesn't want him to be President?
27 - Jet in Columbus
Baronius, Both are a nightmare. A man deluded (along with his followers) into thinking that like a Pharaoh he is assigned by got to lead his country. Or a man with a persecution complex who is convinced that once he took office, God didn't want him there.
We're not talking about a "complaint" about the man, he actually said it.
28 - Baronius
OK, I could have said that better.
A religious person tries to do God's will. Partly, that means not sinning. But it's not just about what you don't do. You should try to make the world a better place, to help your fellow man. Obviously, people will disagree about what that means. But any individual who believes in God, Zeus, Gaia, whatever, can be expected to make decisions based on those beliefs.
I haven't said anything interesting yet.
I think people try to do God's will in their own lives, but get nervous when the other guy says he's trying to do God's will in his life. Not necessarily because they're living different lives. There's a fear, I guess, that the other guy is hearing voices.
But consider that it's 1998. You have international name recognition, your party has been on the ropes for six years, and John McCain is going to run for president. People you trust are telling you that the party needs you. So you pray for guidance, and running for president seems to make sense. You think you can serve God as president. What's so wierd about that?
29 - Baronius
Oh, about the "complaint". I wasn't referring to Bush's statements. I meant the complaining reaction to such statements.
30 - Jet in Columbus
Baronius, there are flip-sides to every coin...
"A religious person tries to do God's will"
There are many who believe that Bush makes his decisions and then justifies them by saying 'God' made me do it. Sort of like Flip Wilson's famous bit about "The Devil made me buy this dress!!!". Or even worse a man who uses God's word to say "Fear me, I speak for Him!"
"I guess, that the other guy is hearing voices."
Bush isn't hearing voices, he's trying to put his own voice into God's mouth. I honestly belive that like in England, when you ascend the thrown as King or Queen, you become the head of the Church of England. Bush has deluded himself into thinking he's become the head of the church of the USA.
"So you pray for guidance, and running for president seems to make sense. You think you can serve God as president. What's so wierd about that?"
Go back and read the article again... The man is so smug and self-confident that we strolls into his office and before serving even one day as Governor of Texas, he smirks at his friends and braggs "God wants me to be President"
There are two things I HATE about Bush, and I cringe every time I see him speak.
1. That smirk, like a punk sneering at his pals saying "Ha Ha I got away with it, and there's nothing they can do about it!"
And
2. The retarded stammer the man has as if at times he's really intelligent, and others he can't string five words into a intelligent sentence/thought to save his live.
You say tomayto-I say tomahto.
Jet
31 - Jet in Columbus
KABUL, Sept 16 (Reuters) - A blast hit a car on a road just to the south of the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing three Afghan aid workers and wounding one, police said.
A resurgent Taliban have unleashed a wave of violence across the Afghan south and east this year and attacks have also increased in parts of the country previously considered safe, including Kabul and the west.
The aid workers' car was hit by a mine, said senior Kabul police official Alishah Paktiawal.
"It killed three of them and wounded one. They were from a non-governmental organisation but I don't know which one," Paktiawal said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Paktiawal blamed "enemies of Afghanistan", a term the government uses to refer to the Taliban and allied militants.
While NATO forces have in recent weeks mounted a big offensive in the southern province of Kandahar, killing hundreds of militants in the Taliban heartland, violence has flared in other areas.
Just over a week ago a suicide car-bomber attacked a U.S. military patrol in central Kabul, killing 16 people including two U.S. soldiers.
Separately, Taliban fighters have seized an area on the main road in the remote southwestern province of Nimroz, where attacks have been rare, the province's governor said.
"We want the government to do something as soon as possible, this is a strategic place. This road links Herat and Kandahar," the governor, Ghulam Dastagir, told Reuters, referring to the main towns in the west and south.
Militants also attacked and briefly seized a district government headquarters in the neighbouring western province of Farah this week, provincial police said.
In a separate incident, four Taliban were killed in an attack on a police post in the southern province of Uruzgan on Friday, police said.
The most intense phase of violence since the Taliban were ousted in 2001 has surprised the government and its Western allies and raised concern about the prospects for a country that had been seen as a success in the war on terrorism.
32 - Dave Nalle
An interesting argument here, Jet. But I don't see it born out by his actions. IF he's so holy and obsessed with doing god's work, why has he been so remarkably lukewarm on the issues the religious right holds so dear? He's only provided lipservice and token efforts on abortion and stem cell research and has done nothing at all about prayer in schools. Hell, he won't even meet with pro-life groups publicly.
Maybe there's some sort of constant struggle going on between his faith and his common sense. Or maybe his 'picked by god' comments are more in the line of a sense of destiny rather than some more literal, messianic delusion.
Dave
33 - Jet in Columbus
Maybe true Dave. I'm beginning to think I'm having as much trouble figuring out Bush as most men have trying to figure out their wives.
I think Bush is on a power trip that's gone to his head. I mean look, now he's trying to rewrite the Geneva Convention for chrissakes, which has stood for decades!
I think he's doing it by justifying his actions using the one thing movt people fear God.
Fear God-Fear Bush.
Who knows.
All I know is that he scares me.
Tantum meus sententia
Jet
34 - Dave Nalle
Maybe true Dave. I'm beginning to think I'm having as much trouble figuring out Bush as most men have trying to figure out their wives.
Perhaps that means you're secret soul mates.
Dave
Tontum meus senescencia
35 - Jet in Columbus
You old romantic you...
Excuse me while I throw up
36 - Matthew T. Sussman
I always suspected Jet had tantrum dementia
37 - Baronius
Jet, by your own account, Bush had been a governor for four years when he made this statement.
You say that Bush has awful motivations for his actions, and you don't understand what he does. I say that Bush has healthy motivations, the ones he claims, and I understand what he does. Have you considered that maybe your behavioral model is wrong?
It's like you think he's secretly a lion, and you can't understand why he doesn't shed, eat raw meat, or roar. Then how can you think he's a lion? I mean, come on! The Whos down in Whoville are singing without their scrapumples, jinjingos or runkles. Even the Grinch could admit when he was wrong.
Jet's theory / pros:
Bush's smirk
something at Haliburton
a hunch
Jet's theory / holes:
every action Bush has taken in his presidency
38 - Hairy Carrot
I would agree that Bush definitely caters to the religious right, but his true loyalty is with the big businesses and their constituency. For instance, his oil buddies didn't have to be sworn in for their "testimonies" after the public clamored for their heads following Katrina. Dubai Ports deal had him squarely on the side of commerce instead of security. The examples are many, but you get my point. He can alway kiss the religious right's ass in public, but he can't show the money sticking out of his hole.
39 - Jet in Columbus
Baronius 37, we can butt heads over this for a year, you're not going to change your mind, I'm not going to change mind.
I'm just glad that we're free enough to both have a forum for our opinions.
Thanks for contributing
Jet
40 - Jet in Columbus
Harry Carrot, I can't argue with that.
41 - Nancy
Bush uses whatever excuse he thinks will get him by, depending on the audience he's addressing. He seems oblivious to other parties also being amongst the wider audience.
I would be a lot happier if he'd just stop speaking like an illiterate backwoods cracker. His grammar & vocabulary are worse than I've heard from many ghetto people. I'm embarrassed to have to admit he's an American, let alone the president. He's a national disgrace. I'm surprised Laura (and/or his mother) tolerate it.
I've come to the conclusion he's actually the antichrist. Isn't the antichrist supposed to be from the middle east? Well, Junior is from the middle of the east coast. They never did say WHICH 'middle east' it was....
42 - Jet in Columbus
Well...uh... there Nancy... uh.. it's like... uh..
well... you might be right... they uh...well... here in God's You-nited States of 'mericas... uh... I forgot what I was going to... to... well...
Hmmm.....
43 - Mohjho
Come on Jet, good ol' boy Bush must have divine guidance. How do you account for him being elected over MaCain in the 2000 primaries (besides the 300 million in election funds)?. Remember these classics?;
"Compassionate conservatism", "no child left behind", "I'm a unit-er, not a divider".
Constitutionally challenged, failed businessman, fake fighter pilot, ivy league east coaster Texas want-a-be undrunk and not to mention he can't put a simple sentence together.
Now he sees himself as the leader of a new American religious movement. Maybe part of his "no soul left behind" program. Actually, thats all this lame duck has left to shoot for.
It must be all part of God's plan....or the other guy.
44 - Nancy
I was about to say, there's long records of people selling out to the Devil for advancement. Remember too, the devil famously is well able to quote scripture for his own purposes. Finally, even St. Paul warns against those who pose as shepherds, when actually they're wolves in sheeps' clothing, so it's not a new phenomenon.
45 - Jet in Columbus
Mohjho you asked-How do you account for him being elected over MaCain in the 2000 primaries?
His brother is the governor of Florida-The state that elected him in 2000-Duh.
In 2004 Ken Blackwell was co-chairman of Bush's reelection committee and just by cooincodence the Ohio Secretary of State, you know, the guy who runs the elections... Duh
46 - Jet in Columbus
OR just a deluded and very dangerous mind Nancy
47 - Bliffle
Baronius:
"You think you can serve God as president. What's so wierd about that?"
To those of us free of the god delusion this seems like psychosis.
48 - Jet in Columbus
If a Jewish or Catholic Vice President suddenly became presiden, how fast would the Baptists be screaming "Separation of Church and State!!!!"
49 - Nancy
Well, if you remember back to when Kennedy was running for Prez, they did that very thing, claiming that he would end up being a catspaw for the pope, etc. They seem to be always the first to claim the right to dictate to others, but scream bloody murder when anybody even looks crosseyed at THEM.
50 - Jet in Columbus
Exactly my point Nancy, Religion is just fine in politics... As long as it THEIR religion and no one else's.
51 - Jet in Columbus
A string of suicide bombings across Afghanistan killed 19 people - including four Canadian soldiers - on Monday and wounded scores of others a day after NATO announced a victory over insurgents in a southern Taliban stronghold.
A bomber on a motorbike blew himself up in the normally quiet western Herat province, killing 11 and wounding 18, including the province's deputy police chief, said Sayed Hussein Anwari, Herat's governor.
Four Canadian soldiers were killed when their foot patrol was attacked by a suicide bomber on a bicycle in Kafir Band, a village in southern Kandahar province's Panjwayi district, said Karen Johnstone, a spokeswoman for the Canadian military in Ottawa.
The attack, which was claimed by the Taliban, happened in the same area where NATO forces said a day earlier they had ended a two-week Canadian-led operation against insurgents that they described as successful mission that had killed at least 510 militants
The bomb targeting the Canadian soldiers destroyed equipment and shredded the uniforms of the troops. Pools of blood soaked into the dusty road, near the remains of the bomber and a gold-colored military patch from a soldier's uniform.
"Some 50 to 60 soldiers were patrolling on the main street when a man on a bicycle stopped and blew himself up near the forces," said 50-year-old farmer Fazel Mohammed, who lives about 20 yards from the site.
Maj. Luke Knittig, a NATO spokesman, said the blast killed four NATO soldiers and "wounded a number of others, including civilians." NATO said in a later statement that 25 Afghan civilians had been wounded, including children.
An Afghan official said the bomber targeted Canadian troops as they were handing out candy to children and killed and wounded dozens of people. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the media.
But Mohammed and another villager disputed the account, saying few children were in the village at the time of the blast.
Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, who claims to be a spokesman for Taliban affairs in southern Afghanistan, said the bomber was an Afghan from Kandahar named Mullah Qudrat Ullah.
Ahmadi, whose exact ties to the militants are not known, told The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location that militants would continue attacking U.S., NATO and other coalition forces.
Most of Afghanistan's recent surge in violence has taken place in volatile southern provinces, where some 8,000 NATO forces took military control from the U.S.-led coalition on Aug. 1. NATO commanders say they need another 2,500 troops plus greater air support to crush the Taliban threat more quickly.
In Kabul, a suicide car bomber killed four Afghan police and wounded another in the eastern suburb of Poli-e-Charki, said Ali Shah Paktiawal, the criminal director of Kabul police. At least 10 civilians were wounded in the blast in a market, said a witness, Baktiar Ahmad.
Police also clashed with suspected insurgents in neighboring Helmand province Sunday, killing 13 suspected Taliban and wounding four, said Ghulam Nabil Malakheil, the provincial police chief.
Police recovered the dead militants' bodies, including that of Mullah Mohammed Akhunzada, a known Taliban commander, Malakheil said. The insurgents took the wounded with them.
The officers also recovered 12 AK-47 assault rifles, three heavy machine-guns and six rocket-propelled grenades, he said.
Separately, two police were killed and their vehicle destroyed when they were attacked by a roadside bomb early Sunday in the same district, said Ghulam Muhiddin, the Helmand governor's spokesman. He blamed the Taliban.
The violence comes a day after a top NATO general declared an end to Operation Medusa in Panjwayi and neighboring Zhari districts.
Lt. Gen. David Richards, head of the 20,000 NATO-led force in Afghanistan, described the operation as a "significant success." Richards said the insurgents had been forced to abandon their positions and reconstruction and development efforts would soon begin in the volatile former Taliban heartland.
Associated Press writer Fisnik Abrashi in Kabul contributed to this report.
52 - Jet In Columbus
Bush is still waiting for his "sign" I see...
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Key allies in the war against Afghanistan's Taliban militants pledged to stay the course on Tuesday as a suicide bomber killed 18 in the south and a blast killed an Italian NATO soldier.
The Taliban's intensified campaign against the government and foreign troops supporting it this year has spawned the worst violence since the hardline Islamists were ousted after the September 11 attacks in 2001.
On Tuesday, the Taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide blast outside the governor's office in Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province. NATO troops were in the area at the time but none was hurt, an official said.
Most of those killed were civilians, many queuing to do paperwork for a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Near Kabul, a roadside bomb killed an Italian NATO soldier and seriously wounded two compatriots. The Taliban also claimed that attack.
U.S. and NATO troops are up against a much more intense insurgency than expected and NATO has called for more troops from member nations.
Western governments say the mission, in a central battlefield in the war on terrorism, is essential but the violence is raising doubts and calls for troops to come home.
The sister of the Italian killed on Tuesday said the troops should leave.
"You can't let our boys be slaughtered like butcher's meat," said Barbara Langella. "It's not right that other families, other wives, other mothers, fathers and girlfriends, suffer like this again."
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano defended the Afghan mission, saying it was "indispensable". But the attack also stoked debate in the ruling centre-left coalition.
"There is the financing for the mission until the end of the year, but it's obvious that we have to seriously look at the issue of how to get out," Welfare Minister Paolo Ferrero was quoted in Italian media as saying.
"NOT A FAILING MISSION"
Defence Secretary Des Browne defended the Afghan mission at the annual Labour Party conference in England saying five million children were in school, many new schools, clinics and hospitals had been built and four million refugees were home.
"This is not a failing mission," Browne said.
"We always knew the south would be more difficult ... but we have to tackle Helmand and the south -- and eventually the east -- if we are to secure what we have already achieved in the rest of Afghanistan."
British troops have been fighting intense battles with the Taliban in Helmand. More than 30 British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan this year.
Among those killed in Tuesday's blast in Helmand were six policemen and soldiers, officials said.
"It was a suicide attack on a road in front of the governor's office," police official Mohammad Ayoub said in Lashkar Gah.
Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf said the bomber was from Helmand. A suicide blast in a market in the same town killed 17 people on August 28.
Another Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the blast near Kabul that flipped an Italian armoured personnel carrier, killing the soldier. NATO said five soldiers were wounded.
Nearly 140 foreign soldiers have been killed in violence or accidents during operations this year, including at least four Italians.
The United States, which had been hoping to trim its Afghan force, has about 20,000 troops in the country. NATO, waging its biggest ground operation, has a similar number and is seeking more.
NATO defence ministers will on Thursday examine a proposal that will allow the alliance to rapidly complete its plan to take over command of all peacekeepers in Afghanistan from the U.S. military, NATO officials said in Brussels.
The Taliban have gained strength from links with the booming drugs trade and the support of militant networks in Pakistan. They are also capitalising on anger over poverty and corruption, analysts say. Most Afghans want foreign troops to stay.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai have been at odds over Afghan accusations the Taliban are operating from Pakistan.
The two, major U.S. allies in the war on terrorism, are due to meet President George W. Bush in Washington on Wednesday.
By Abdul Qodous
(Additional reporting by Ismail Sameem in KANDAHAR and the ROME, LONDON and BRUSSELS bureaus)
53 - Nancy
Now, Jet, you know better than that: he The Decider; he doesn't wait for signs, he decides when he's seen one and that's it. Chirst, this is worse than Nancy Reagan & her astronomers.
54 - Jet In Columbus
Unforunately he seems to have crystal balls too Nancy.
Jet
55 - Jet In Columbus
From Fox News???!!!
NEW YORK " Violence in Iraq is greater than the White House has acknowledged, and the outlook is even bleaker for 2007, author and journalist Bob Woodward said in comments to air Sunday night on CBS television's"60 Minutes."
Woodward, the Washington Post reporter whose third book on the Bush administration,"State of Denial,"comes out next week, said U.S. troops and their allies are being attacked, on average, every 15 minutes.
"It's getting to the point now where there are eight, 900 attacks a week. That's more than a hundred a day. That is four an hour attacking our forces,"Woodward said.
"The truth is that the assessment by intelligence experts is that next year, 2007, is going to get worse and, in public, you have the president and you have the Pentagon saying,'Oh, no, things are going to get better.'"
Known for his access to high-level officials, Woodward said President Bush is so sure of success in the Iraq war that he told some leading Republicans,"I will not withdraw even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me."
Bush and his wife, Laura, have a Scottish terrier named Barney.
A senior administration official, who hadn't seen the book and spoke on condition of anonymity, said reviews of its contents did not suggest anything new.
"The president has been very frank with the country about the challenges we face in the war on terror _ how ruthless, violent and determined our enemy is,"the official said."He's also repeatedly told the American people that it's going to take continued resolve and patience to win this war _ that it's a long war, but one that we must win."
Woodward also asserts that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have been meeting with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who served in the Nixon and Ford administrations.
"Now what's Kissinger's advice?"Woodward said."In Iraq, he declared very simply,'Victory is the only meaningful exit strategy.'
"This is so fascinating. Kissinger's fighting the Vietnam War again because, in his view, the problem in Vietnam was we lost our will."
The reporting by Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate scandal helped bring down the Nixon administration and earned the Post a Pulitzer Prize.
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Associated Press Writer Deb Riechmann in Washington contributed to this report.
56 - Jet In Columbus
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- At least 13 people were killed, including women and children, when a suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body in a busy shopping and pedestrian area of Kabul on Saturday morning, police and U.N. officials said.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack "in the strongest terms."
The bomb exploded near the pedestrian entrance to the headquarters building of Afghanistan's Interior Ministry and near several shops, police said.
The number of known dead was 13 but the death toll could go higher, a U.N. security official said.
The blast, which happened just before 8 a.m., shattered the glass storefronts and killed several shopkeepers, police said.
This was the fifth suicide bombing in Kabul during September, officials said.
Karzai -- who called the suicide attack an "alien phenomenon to the Afghans -- said such "attackers come from outside Afghanistan and target the most devoted and the poorest Muslim people of the world."
He urged the "international community to work with Afghanistan in stopping sanctuaries that raise, train and brainwash young people to become suicide attackers."
-- Journalist Tom Coghlan contributed to this report
Copyright 2006 CNN
57 - Jet in Columbus
NATO took over command of U.S. troops in Afghanistan today, Bush was too busy doing more important things than to finish the war he started...
58 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
The boys in the CFR finally found a use for NATO. American troops will be funnelled through NATO to Afghanistan and points west of there. What you may not understand is that you are seeing major moves of a shadow government that runs America... Things will start going downhill, now, fast.
59 - Jet in Columbus
Shabbat shalom my friend... As I said in the article Ruvy... God help us all
60 - Jet in Columbus
Iraqi insurgents killed 10 U.S. soldiers in a single day, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, in the latest of a surge of attacks on American forces battling soaring sectarian violence and a Sunni Arab revolt.
Tuesday's toll resulted from increased violence this month coinciding with the run-up to U.S. congressional elections in November, in which the Iraq war has become a major issue. President George W. Bush's popularity has been hurt by growing discontent over the war.
Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, who is drafting a widely anticipated report on possible alternatives to current U.S. policy in Iraq, has warned there is no "magic bullet" to solve deepening problems in Iraq.
At least 68 U.S. troops have been killed in October -- a pace that, if it continues, will make it the deadliest month for U.S. forces since January 2005. At least 2,777 have died since the invasion in 2003.
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61 - Jet in Columbus
...Bush reiterated that he does not think Iraq is in the middle of a civil war and said he could not imagine any circumstances under which all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from that country before the end of his presidency.
"You mean every single troop out? No," he told Stephanopoulos. "The fundamental question is: Are we on our way to achieving a goal, which is an Iraq that can defend itself, sustain itself, and govern itself and be an ally in the war on terror in the heart of the Middle East."
The Defense Department has confirmed the death of 78 soldiers this month in Iraq, taking the war's total fatalities to 2,784, and making October one of the bloodiest months in Iraq since the war began.
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62 - Jet in Columbus
The Iraq war has now lasted longer than World War II.
63 - Jet in Columbus
The Iraq war has now lasted longer than World War II. That means it's taken Bush longer that it took the U.S. to defeat both the Nazis and Japan combined and they didn't have the technology we have today.
What does that tell you?
64 - S.T.M
Jet said: "The Iraq war has now lasted longer than World War II."
Sorry Jet, can't let your Amero-centric view of world history pass without comment.
WWII began in 1939 and finished in 1945. Now, let me count on my fingers ... 1 .. 2 .. 3 .. 4 .. 5 .. 6. Yes, six years. Oh, that's right, America didn't enter until halfway through. How could I be so silly. Glad they did, though, or I might be speaking Russian today (although not German, those buggers got shown off).
Sorry old boy, but that one always pisses me off. As does "we saved your ass in WWI". Well, you might have had you had any more than token involvement. That one began in 1914, not the end of 1917. I feel it my duty to set the record straight and to help Americans to a better understanding of both themselves and world history ;-)
65 - Jet in Columbus
Wrong America didn't get involved with WWII until 1941
66 - STM
America is not the only nation fighting for the coalition in Iraq, Jet ... although it has the bulk of the commitment.
But even using your argument, you are still wrong about your time frame for WWII (and virtually every American historian would back me up on this). Also, you are in fact wrong about US involvement in WWII. The US Navy was operating destroyers in the Atlantic from 1940 onwards, to help British convoys leaving the US and Canada on their side of the big ditch. FDR called the german submarines the "rattlensakes" of the Atlantic.
The destroyer USS Reuben James was sunk mid-atlantic by a U-Boat with very heavy loss of life (some 150 US sailors) well before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.
She wasn't the only one sunk, either. Americans should not forget a) those who died and b) that the US was already actively helping out its friends prior to Germany's declaration of war in the wake of the Japanese attack.
Hope that helps with your view of world history old boy :)
67 - STM
Perhaps you could have said "America's involvement in the Iraq war has now lasted longer than America's involvement in WWII", thus sparing us foreigners whose views aren't Amero-centric the usual collective groan in response to just one more example of Americans' warped views of world history.
Apart from that, it's all good :)
68 - Jet in Columbus
Alright STM, let's try it this way...
So here's the question. Why is it taking Iraq so long to provide adequate security for its own country? e-mail your thoughts to us or go to cnn.com/caffertyfile. Wolf?
BLITZER: Someone pointed out to the president today, Jack, that this war in Iraq right now has lasted longer than World War II.
CAFFERTY: Yeah, and we won that one.
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69 - STM
Answer: Blitzer and Cafferty should go back to college, study history again and get the number of years correct. CNN is a news service watched all over the world, too.
Tsk bloody tsk. I'm giving Ted a call this arvo. By the time I'm finished, the paint will be peeling off his office wall.
Any broadcaster who thinks WWII lasted three years is an imbecile.
What a disgrace, CNN. The situation in the CNN situation room must be decidely grim.
70 - Jet in Columbus
In any case it's a case of bad planning. The time span vs technology argument still works.
71 - Silas Kain
Where's Ann Richards when you need her?
72 - Jet in Columbus
UP in heaven watching over us Silas... up in heaven
73 - Silas Kain
Amen, Jet! She's up there singing What a Friend We Have in Georgie! Because GWB is going to hand the Democrats a majority in one or both houses of Congress!
74 - Jet in Columbus
Not if Diebold has anything to say about it, have you seen my latest article?
75 - Jet in Columbus
...The U.S. military said 96 U.S. troops have died so far in October, the most in one month since October 2005, when the same number was killed. The highest monthly death toll prior to that came in January 2005, when 107 U.S. troops were killed.
The spike in deaths has been a major factor behind rising anti-war sentiment in the United States, fueling calls for President Bush to change tactics.
Polls show a majority of Americans are opposed to Bush's handling of Iraq, and at a news conference in Washington on Wednesday, Bush indicated he shared the public's frustration even as he pushed back against calls for troop withdrawals.
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