ARAFAT IS DEAD

USA Today

Fallujah--by embeds

BBC

BBC is providing LIVE UPDATES on Fallujah, according to Kurdo.


Hat Tip: Kurdo’s World

With HEART

Road of a Nation

The American elections is the key for Iraqis to stay on the same way and the line we started for freedom and independents ,and as that I am sure that the policy towards Iraq is something final and its apart of the national security of the united state ,and it will not change ,but for me I prefer GWB to continuo this mission ,because he have the ability to do that ,and he is the one that the terrorist afraid of ,

yes maybe Bin Laden is still free and a life ,but look to him where is he ,he is hiding ,waiting the chance every two or three year to show up for some moments ,and claming the ability to lead the world from a cave ,imagine , I wonder what and how he is thinking ,saying that I fight for the week people in the world ,and I represent the Muslims ,and all of us knows that week people and ordinary people never been in the equation at lest in the middle east that you came from ,and look what you did to Muslims you united the whole world in all different religions agents the Muslims all over the world ,even that you don’t represent them ,you only represent the extremes ,and they never accept to be part from any kind of the human life .


Bin laden is now only a shadow ,and he cant be more than that ,after he was a real threat for all free world ,he is now asking and trying to change GWB by appearing before the elections ,but he didn’t release that he united the American to get him ,and after he was roiling poor people in Afghanistan to make there life more miserable ,now look tom Afghanistan .


Iraq ,this is the most part id like ,what I and many and many of my people Waite to see ,a free liberated country ,and that will never be happened if we waited the mercy of the great friends of the exit regime ,or by our self's ,if we find them .look to Iraq and how he is walking with confidant steps towards what he want ,yes we got a lots of enemies and we got a long time to go ,but only it start with a sense and then turn to a feel and then to a wish and then to act ,and that what we dot together with our friends and only the real friends ,yes I support GWB because I see in him what I didn’t see in any modern leaders able to lead free nations .


I thing GWB did in 4 years what no one did ,from fighting the terrorist and help the nations to be free ,and he got the courage to go to the lands and fight them .


there for I wish that he be reelected ,so he accomplish what he start .


this is a copy from our latter to white house singed by some of Iraqis live here in Iraq ,and I write it by my hand write ,I hope that they will have the time to read it as a thankful letter from one of the people that GWB helped ,I at least chose my way did you ?

Here is an Iraqi. You can see his heart, and you don’t have to read his mind---he tells you what he is thinking.

For those who have not read Sarmad before, it is worth it. English is not his first language, but he expresses his feelings very well.

Here is a man who cares. Here is an Iraqi . . . with HEART.

[Blank lines for ease of reading.]

DUELFER

Charles Duelfer reported that his convoy was attacked. Two were killed. Duelfer escaped injury.

Was Duelfer (Head of the Iraq Survey Group) the target, or was it a coincidence?

We are in the midst of flattening Fallujah’s terrorists. The Fallujah opposition has insisted that the Americans stay out. The area has not been thoroughly inspected.

Wonder what they will find in Fallujah.

DEMOCRATS

The Democrats can’t figure it out. Someone must have cheated.

Democrat talking heads are confused, and differ in their opinions of the cause. What went wrong? How can they fix it? Why not blame the Republicans?

The DLC brought out their statistics. Everybody voted for Bush except “high school drop-outs,” and post-graduates. (The DLC representative on C-SPAN didn’t mention prison inmates—-see earlier post about PA and Gov. Rendell.)

The answer is simple. You went so far to the left that you scared the middle, and you angered some of the silent majority. Your candidate was not inspiring; ran on his Vietnam record, and betrayed the troops—betrayed the people. Your message was that America could do nothing right and you had a plan.

You were part of the problem; not part of the solution. You might ask Zell Miller for his reasons (he’s still a Democrat.)

“America can do better.” So, we did. We voted Republican—-silently, with the majority.

It will take a while for the Democrats’ twitching to slow down.

ARAFAT

Yassir Arafat’s health reports are being spun from every direction. He was dead--then he wasn’t dead. In a coma--and not. On a respiration . . . yes. Or, is it no? But, they are going to pull the plug. Suha (his wife) said he was alive, and that they were trying to bury him alive. Initial reports state: that the Palestinian Authority want 72 hours before they announce Arafat’s death because they need the time to organize.

The spinning would be enough to put the Palestinian people into turmoil. Arafat was their leader for 40 years, which is enough to throw them into turmoil at his death. Through all the turmoil, Arafat’s death does appear to be imminent.

We wonder if the change will be for good, or for bad, or simply for more turmoil in a place of much turmoil.

HAMMORABI'S FLAMETHROWER

Hammorabi


Sam (at Hammorabi) discusses Fallujah. (Interesting info)

And, while he's at it, he turns his "flamethrower" toward our French "friends." In particular, he scorches JACK.

Thank You!

To OUR TROOPS, who are working so hard for US.

To the American People, who have stood FIRM and STRONG.

To the SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH,

To the POWs, who joined Veterans FOR TRUTH,

To the Vietnam Veterans—WELCOME HOME!!!!!

To the Administration, who have been STEADFAST.

We send to you, a DEEP, THANK YOU . . . again.

Escaping Bush

We are hearing that people are threatening to escape Bush by fleeing, in doves, to Canada.

Um . . . excuse me! Could you take Michael Moore with you?

FLYOVER COUNTRY SPEAKS

The Mortician is dissecting the body. Democrats are spinning the issues and trying to tell us that we really were compatible with the Democrats . . . we just happened to choose Bush because . . .mumble, mumble, mumble. (please-- fill in the “mumble.”) Democrats, you probably haven’t figured it out, nor will you.

Why Americans voted for Bush may be examined for a long time. I believe part of it has to do with the Democrats becoming the party of hatred for months after the 2000 election. (They certainly caught my attention.)

The Democrats took a short breath after 9/11, but saw their opportunity with Iraq. Bush warned when he gave the “Axis of Evil Speech.” Iraq was on the list. Many “mouthed” words of support, and then turned. Then, the many bad-mouth the war, American, anything and everything we were doing. The agenda was formed. The Democrats joined with the far left, and the anti-war, and the radical liberals. And then, they began to chant Anti-American words—to the point where Saddam Hussein was saying the same. They took the position of France. They took the position of the U.N. They took almost every position to heart . . . except the real position which America believes.

The religious right didn’t believe the Democrats. The traditional married people didn’t believe the Democrats. The Patriotic Americans, who believe in supporting their government and their troops, didn’t believe the Democrats. The taxpayers didn’t believe Kerry could manage without increasing taxes. The “old folks” didn’t believe the “Social Security Surprise.” And when the Democrats introduced the draft bill into Congress, it was difficult for the American People to believe that it wasn’t a Democrat-inspired subterfuge; but, the Democrats were calling for more troops and many may have believed the Democrats were on the way to DRAFT.

Geraldine Ferraro is explaining that the Republicans have convinced the people that the Democrats have no values.

I voted for US and for IRAQ, and for continuing the fight of the War on Terror. We, ALL, joined to vote against the Democrats. Each for our own reasons; but, one of the biggest reasons might be that the Democrat Party did not represent the wishes of the large number of somewhat traditional people in FLYOVER COUNTRY.

It’s called the “Great Silent Majority.” It’s called “Flyover Country—the part of America between the Liberal on the East Coast, and those on the left coast, and those surrounding the lake shores. The planes of elite fly over US, and try to ignore US.

The quiet voters came marching out--the actions were "louder than the words.”

FLYOVER COUNTRY HAS SPOKEN.

The Arafat Confusion

ARAFAT

At a press conference, going on right now, one reporter stated that the word is that Yassir Arafat is gone, has passed away.

CNN: “French Hospital spokesman denies Arafat is dead.”

Whether or not it is fact, it would appear that parts of the Middle East will be undergoing another change.

Aftermath Coverage

Antimedia has several sections of post election coverage.

Also, there is coverage of the Iraqi comments about the American election.


Captain’s Quarters has the Hannity map. Hannity was waving that map during the broadcast. Now you can have a closer view.

KNOW AN ANGEL

Blackfive

“Willie Aufmkolk - An Angel That You Should Know”

We Will Never Forget Our American Friends

As I met Patti in 2003 I was looking in the internet for information about the Iraq war, because a good friend from me from Forth Biehler, Wiesbaden, Germany went in May 2003 to Iraq to help the Iraqi people to rebuild their country. For me and my husband Rudi were this it a great opportunity to do something for my American friends, to give something back to our friends who have given us so much over the last 59 years.

Blackfive gives us a diversion from the election aftermath. (Much appreciated!)

Pundits Noticed Problems

Exit Polls Wrong

Susan Jones, CNSNews.com
Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004

As Wednesday dawned with a Bush victory waiting in the wings, many pundits and press outlets were starting to question how Tuesday's exit polls could have been so wrong.

Those polls showed Kerry leading into Tuesday evening, only to be replaced with actual results that showed Kerry trailing.

The "New Toy" (as one pundit put it) was exit polling. The pundits will need a newer toy for the next election; this one didn't work very well for them, or for US. It was a fiasco.

While the pundits have less to do, maybe they will figure out what happened.

Congratulations Sent

by Hammorobi

In our last article and most simple questioner about the US election about 75% of the commentators in this site voted for GWB. Ultimately he won though not by 75% but we may say by majority (including Ohio) especially compared to 2000 election!

JK conceded after he was completely certain that no more hope otherwise he may have been walked the extra mile.

Now; the terrorists are unable to celebrate!

We still have a tough fight ahead. There are some happy Americans, and some happy Iraqis. There are some very unhappy terrorists. Good.

The Electoral Vote

Predictions:

Station........... BUSH...... Kerry

MSNBC ................269...........238

CNN ...................254...........252

FOX ...................269...........242

Popular Vote: BUSH ahead by approx. 3.5M

OBJECTIVE: 270 = predicted winner


Resumed.

An Election Prediction

Antimedia (at Media Lies) has a detailed prediction of the election.

More Election Posts

Hugh Hewitt has some good election posts--too good and too numerous. Read for yourself.

Disenfranchised

Blackfive describes being disenfranchised on his trip to the polls, then to complain, then back to the polls.

Good Job!! Blackfive!

Voting Irregularities

Dummocrats.com has a list of Voting Irregularities posted at their site.

Philly Machines

Drudge has more on the Philadelphia Voting Machines.

DONE, and waiting

I voted early today.

There were about 20 in front of us; about the same behind us. The line moved quickly and we were back out in about 10 minutes. It seemed to go very smoothly. The turn-out was very good. The number of voters was much higher (for that time of day) then in any election I remember.

There were the usual poll watchers. They were quiet, respectful. The workers looked over worked and still had hours before the counting begins. It’s a long day for them.

No one approached us on the way in, or on the way out---no exit polling.

In Philadelphia, there was an early problem. Several voting machines were questioned. Apparently, there were numbers registered on the machine prior to any voting. According to the news, there are two areas with numbers: one area with an odometer-like counter, which records the number of votes over the life of the machine; and, a lighted counter, which records the number of votes for this machine for this election. The lighted-counter on one machine indicated a few hundred votes. This was reported by a “technician” who stands by the observation.

Tire slashing was reported in Milwaukee. Texas has a snow storm.

And, we are all waiting. The first polls close at 7:00 EST.

TODAY'S THE DAY!

VOTE!!!

TOUGH JOB

Instapundit.com

Glenn Reynolds

To go back to a point that Virginia Postrel makes in the post linked below, perhaps I'm less unhappy with things in Iraq than, say, Andrew because I expected much worse. I thought we'd experience far more casualties in the invasion phase (which lasted three weeks) than we've experienced in the entire year and a half since the war began. My biggest disappointment is that the Administration hasn't taken more direct action against Syria and Iran, which are supporting the insurgency in the hope that it will cause us to elect Kerry and withdraw before doing anything about them. But I don't know what they know, and second-guessing them on this is perilous.

There were disaster predictions flying everywhere during the Afghan phase. Remember . . . our troops wouldn’t be able to survive an Afghan winter. No one has ever been able to conquer Afghanistan; the terrain is impenetrable. (Well, we weren’t trying to conquer the Afghan people—just the Talaban and Al Qaeda. Many Afghans cooperated.

IIRC, wasn’t there some mention of OIL? Were we in Afghanistan for the OIL? Where is it . . .? And, by the way, where is the OIL from Iraq?

We should be slipping and sliding in the stuff by now. Where is it?

Yes, I agree with Glenn: it looked like a tough job in Iraq, and it is a very TOUGH JOB, and will be a rough job which needs to be accomplished. But, I also expected more support from the Iraqis . . . until I noticed what was happening. When we needed them to stand tall and support this, they could not. It is getting better (in that respect) each day; but, it is dangerous and difficult.

Nevertheless, read the TRUTH ABOUT IRAQ (a few posts down). If the surveys are accurate, the IRAQI PEOPLE WANT DEMOCRACY (approx. 3/4 of Iraqis). and many believe in it "WHATEVER IT TAKES."

SADDAM'S TERRORIST CONNECTIONS

Hitchens

In Front of Your Nose
Yes, Saddam did have terrorist connections.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Monday, Oct. 25, 2004, at 12:22 PM PT

In order to believe that Zarqawi is or was innocent of al-Qaida and Baathist ties, therefore, or in order to believe that he does not in fact represent such a tie, you must be ready to believe that:

1) A low-level Iraqi official decided to admit a much-hunted Jordanian—a refugee from the invasion of Afghanistan, after Sept. 11, 2001—when even the most conservative forces in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia were keeping their distance from such people and even assisting in rounding them up.

2) That this newly admitted immigrant felt that the most pressing need of the holy war was the assassination of Kurdish leaders opposed to the rule of Saddam Hussein.

3) That a recently arrived Jordanian, in a totally controlled police state, was so enterprising as to swiftly put himself in possession of maps, city diagrams, large sums of cash, and a group of heavily armed fighters hitherto named after the Iraqi dictator—the Fedayeen Saddam.

I can only say that you are quite welcome to believe all of that if you wish. But you must be able to wish quite hard. The same is true of Abdul Rahman Yasin, who was at least an Iraqi passport-holder when he skipped bail from New Jersey in 1993 as one of the most wanted men in the United States and made it through Jordan to Baghdad in a matter of hours. Peter Boyer in The New Yorker of Nov. 1 is the latest to see nothing especially odd in this. (Boyer does concede, as the New York Times did once report, that Saddam may have hoped to use Yasin as a "bargaining chip." Indeed. And to bargain about what? My friend Rolf Ekeus, the eminent Swedish diplomat who originally founded the UNSCOM inspectorate, told me that Tariq Aziz, Saddam's slimy foreign minister, once asked him to act as intermediary. In return for an easing of sanctions, said Aziz, Iraq had a lot of information about the whereabouts of terrorists that it was willing to trade …)

Millions of Iraqis can tell you that during the Saddam despotism their country was as hard to enter as it was to leave. Any reporter with average knowledge or experience can also tell you that decisions of this kind—about which high-value fugitive to admit, for example—were not taken at consular or desk-officer level during the days of the supreme and absolute leader. But of course, this is no smoking gun. Perhaps, indeed, the Baathists and the jihadists simply collaborate without having to be told. Meanwhile, what are all those other bodies doing in the river?

(See the relationship to bodies in the river at the beginning of Hitchins’ article.)

What caused Hitchens to jump from the Liberal Side?

SEEING RETURNS

Hugh Hewitt is posting about the American Muslims:

I hope exit polling on the votes of American Muslims surfaces quickly from the networks' combine. If Bush does better than expected, it will tell us a lot about the self-proclaimed leadership of this very diverse community. It is hard to imagine Iraqi-Americans or Afghan-Americans voting against Bush, just as it is hard to see many Palestinian-Americans voting for him. But the actual numbers will be among the most interesting of election night.

In the solitude of the voting booth, how will American Muslims vote? It will be very interesting to see the election returns on this.

MUSTARD

We need some humor in the midst of the serious business.

Antimedia has a post on "One Mation Under God."

For my contribution:

Scrolling across the bottom of the TV screen (Fox News):

Among Mustard eaters--52% Bush, 43% Kerry.

(Guess that would be different among Ketchup consumers.)

Are choices in condiments . . . political? Are anti-Kerry people avoiding ketchup?

Questioning Kerry's patriotism

Article

Posted: October 29, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

(…)Documents prepared by the Communist North Vietnamese government in 1971, and later captured by U.S. forces, show unmistakably that Kerry was operating under the direction of the enemy. He was being steered by Hanoi. He was being coached by the Viet Cong. And he was taking this direction, this steering and this coaching willingly.

In case you missed it, you can find all the gory details in a report in WorldNetDaily earlier this week. It's fascinating reading. But it is more than that 72 hours before Americans decide who is going to be the next president.

Think of what I am saying: A man who came to prominence and notoriety in American life, and who is now on the threshold of winning the White House, was actively aiding and abetting the enemy just 33 years ago. He was a tool. He was an agent. He was working for the other side.

3-page Document HERE

IN THE MEANTIME

NY SUN

Hanoi Approved of Role Played By Anti-War Vets
BY THOMAS LIPSCOMB - Special to the Sun
October 26, 2004

(…)The two documents provide a glimpse of the favorable way the Viet Cong viewed the activities in which Mr. Kerry was involved. They are from many documents of a kind that were ordinarily sent to a unit called the Captured Document Exploitation Center at the United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, which was headquartered in Saigon. Documents like these that were sent to the center were immediately translated into English and processed for battlefield intelligence for targeting or operations as required, or filed.

The CDEC cover sheet of the "Directive" indicates it was "acquired" on May 12, 1971. The cover sheet itself is dated June 30, 1971, and is entitled "VC Efforts to Back Antiwar Demonstrations in the United States." It shows a detailed knowledge of such VVAW activities as the Dewey Canyon demonstration on the Mall in Washington in April 1971, mentioning the "return of their medals." And the Saigon American military intelligence cover sheet dates the information in that document as being assembled in Vietnam only a week after the Washington VVAW demonstration had taken place.

Still have to find/read the documents. The originals would be at Texas Tech University; but, one site (apparently) has them--probably a pdf.


ADDITIONAL:

FBI surveillance and Mr. Kerry's own statements have established his two visits to Paris to meet with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations to the Paris Peace Talks as taking place in June of 1970 and August of 1971.

An FBI surveillance report dated November 11, 1971, has also established that Mr. Kerry and Al Hubbard, the executive director of the VVAW who had brought Mr. Kerry into the organization, planned to return to meet with them again in Paris on November 15, 1971.

A November 24, 1971, FBI surveillance report disclosed that Mr. Hubbard had also had meetings on his own with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations in Paris. It noted that he had reported at a national meeting of the VVAW in Kansas City that the Communist Party of the United States had paid his expenses for the most recent one.

UH OH, KERRY

Washington Times

Guided by hidden hands?


By Linda Chavez

The media are too busy repackaging old Iraq news in an October offensive against President Bush's re-election to investigate truly startling evidence unearthed this week that the Communist Party may have been directing John Kerry's anti-war activities in the early 1970s.


The evidence, contained in captured communist records on file at the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University, shows a well-coordinated effort by the Communist Party to recruit U.S. servicemen to become part of the American anti-war movement. The objective was to organize high-profile activities to undermine support for the Vietnam War, including holding hearings on alleged war crimes, lobbying Congress to oppose the war, exploiting the families of American POWs and urging servicemen to return their service medals.

It looks like something is cooking . . . and it might be an ELITIST. The previous article mentioned seeing the documents. I need to check this.

READ MORE HERE

ON THE WRONG SIDE

The Mississippi Press

While John Kerry is running around claiming President George Bush and our troops overseas failed the American people by not guarding an explosives dump without explosives in it, documents have been uncovered at Texas Tech University that show Kerry was following Vietnam War protest guidelines from North Vietnamese communists in the early 1970s.

"Wait! Why am I not seeing any of this in the national news media, Mr. Gaylon?" you might be asking. "This cannot be true. Our Democrat candidate for president surely wasn't on the side of the communists and carrying out their requests when he got home from valiantly fighting for his country and winning all those medals, was he?"

Yes, he was.

The documents -- which actually LOOK like they came from the 1970s and not from a Microsoft Word program -- were found at the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University in Lubbock and reproduced from captured communist records. These documents have been PROVEN 100 percent authentic BEFORE their release, unlike those 60 Minutes National Guard documents that CBS refuses to investigate. They show that Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the Viet Cong provisional governor of South Vietnam at the Paris Peace Talks, delivered a plan from Le Duc Tho -- Ho Chi Minh's second in command -- for American anti-war activities that anti-war protesters followed to the letter.

These documents are available at www.worldnetdaily.com or www.wintersoldier.com and show anti-war protesters not only received approval from the communists in North Vietnam, but also their direction. One of the documents states, "The spontaneous antiwar movements in the U.S. have received assistance and guidance from the friendly (i.e. communist Vietnamese) delegations at the Paris Peace Talks."

The article is dated Oct. 29. Why hasn't the media mentioned this? Guess we know the answer to that one.


READ MORE HERE

CORRECTION & BUCKLING

NY Post

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

(…)Maybe he's feeling the weariness suggested in the videotaped statement last month by his No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri: "Oh young men of Islam," he said, "if we are killed or captured, you should carry on the fight."

Maybe they're buckling.

[This is to correct my previous Zawahiri quote.] Regardless, the idea that they might be “buckling” is a likeable one.

WEAPONS OF MASS INTENT

Greyhawk

The Mudville Gazette has a startling photo! It’s called “The Empty Throne.”

In addition to praising 9/11 in a murel of the planes flying into the Twin Towers during the deadly assault (in permanent Art Form--referenced in an earlier blog, here) there is another one. Saddam displays his intent OPENLY with the depiction behind the throne.

Words don’t adequately describe the feelings when you view it. See for yourself.

How could you doubt the motive (the M.O.) behind the throne.


Hat tips along the way:
Antimedia who directed to—
Instpundit who directed to the Mudville Gazette.

TORA BORA

Wednesday, December 12, 2001

Portsmouth Herald--
U.S. Bombs bin Laden's Tora Bora Mountain Base
By CHRIS TOMLINSON, Associated Press

TORA BORA, Afghanistan — A cease-fire collapsed Wednesday as U.S. airstrikes repeatedly pounded Osama bin Laden's Tora Bora mountain bases after cornered al-Qaida forces reportedly set new terms for their surrender and missed a deadline to disarm.

(…)The whereabouts of bin Laden remained unclear. Some U.S. officials and tribal leaders suspect he might be in or near Tora Bora, in eastern Afghanistan. Others believe he is hiding in the country's south.

(…)The eastern alliance overran al-Qaida's positions on Tuesday and gave their mainly Arab opponents until 8 a.m. Wednesday (10:30 p.m. EST Tuesday) to abandon the Tora Bora area or face a massive attack.

A cease-fire was declared after some al-Qaida fighters used a two-way radio to beg for mercy after they were pinned down in the canyon.

(…)Tuesday's advance on Tora Bora occurred three months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which the United States blames on bin Laden. President Bush launched airstrikes on Afghanistan on Oct. 7 after the former ruling Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden.

It would be difficult to say that Bin Laden was there; no one could prove it at the time, or later. There was a cease-fire, during which the Al Qaeda was to surrender. They did not.

If it can’t be proven that Bin Laden was there, it’s difficult to make the case that we let Bin Laden go.

ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

VOTER FRAUD--------

If you feel justified registering dead people to vote:

If you feel smug, when you register 10 times:

If you encourage illegal voting:

If you are happy to defeat a candidate by using fraud:

You may feel you are hurting the opponent: but . . .

YOU ARE KILLING U.S.!!!

[This applies to ALL PARTIES.]

What Will We Leave to THEM?

Article

Campaign 2004: High Stakes
Quite simply, Kerry must be stopped; and Bush must win
By Paul Johnson

All the elements of anarchy and unrest in the Middle East and Muslim Asia and Africa are clamoring and praying for a Kerry victory. The mullahs and the imams, the gunmen and their arms suppliers and paymasters, all those who stand to profit—politically, financially, and emotionally—from the total breakdown of order, the eclipse of democracy, and the defeat of the rule of law, want to see Bush replaced. His defeat on November 2 will be greeted, in Arab capitals, by shouts of triumph from fundamentalist mobs of exactly the kind that greeted the news that the Twin Towers had collapsed and their occupants been exterminated.

(…)I cannot recall any election when the enemies of America all over the world have been so unanimous in hoping for the victory of one candidate. That is the overwhelming reason that John Kerry must be defeated, heavily and comprehensively.

Hat tip: Little Green Footballs

We don’t just mouth the words and “walk the walk,” we believe in FREEDOM. We are willing to travel the last mile to hold out the hopes of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. We value JUSTICE—-not only for ourselves, but for our fellow individuals around the world.

This is a defining election. This is the “Alert,” the “Warning.” You have a choice to fight for Freedom—-not only your own Freedom, but the Freedom of others. Someone fought for your Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness.

Are you content to watch it disintegrate?

Are you so angry about the 2000 election that you would vote to weaken US, while strengthening the enemy?

Have we worked so hard to watch it all slide backwards?

This election, more than any other election in my time, will impact our future and the future of our great grandchildren.

What will we leave to them?

Captain Ed says:

Captain’s Quarters Blog, Captain Ed

Kerry has been one of the most incompetent major-party candidates in decades, perhaps ever. People point to George McGovern, Walter Mondale, and Kerry's former boss Michael Dukakis as similar or potentially worse candidates, but all three of those men stood for their beliefs and values. Kerry stands for himself and nothing else. The only thing keeping Kerry afloat is the high tide of Bush hatred among the Left and an increasingly desperate mainstream media that will do almost anything, including sacrificing their credibility, to keep Bush from being re-elected. Hopefully, that will not be enough.

The Democrats turned an election loss from anger to hatred; they fueled it regularly for four years, turning it into rage. It has grown until it is out of control. And then, they nominated Kerry--a hedonistic politico.

Mirror, Mirror . . .

Kerry Spot

The far left hates George W. Bush with a raging fury. So does al-Qaeda. Was it really so shocking that the rhetoric of the former would eventually be taken up by the latter?

No, this tape should cause many on the left to stare into the mirror for a long time and ask, “What have I turned into? How did I become so reflexively partisan, so blinded by rage, so intemperate in my rhetoric that my own arguments are being echoed by a man who planned and enjoyed the mass murder of Americans?”

“How the hell did I reach the point where I agree with Osama bin Laden on Bush?”

UPDATE: I'm not going to go looking for too many "Well, now I agree with Osama" comments from lefties. But I had these comments by Daily Kos readers forwarded to me: "He couldn't believe that Shrub stayed in a classroom reading a book about a goat to kids while his country was being attacked. SMACKDOWN from OBL." Another one: "well I guess I have to agree with the man. Although it pains me. on a side note. Is Amazon shipping F911 to Afgan addresses?"

(It was probably a pirated copy.)

AN IRAQI PERSPECTIVE

Hammorabi

Alert!

The next few days before or during the US election or even just after the election the terrorists plan for a big attack with possible mass killing. It is likely that chemical plus conventional high explosives may be used. The after-math of the attack may take days to clear.


Al-Qaeda has already declared that the New York 11 Sep 2001 attacks will look like dwarfs beside the proposed attacks!


This is may be just a psychological war but it have to be taken seriously. Iraq, US, UK, Poland, Italy and US interests in Europe, Africa, ME and other places are likely targets.


The Americans have to know one point only which is; if GWB lose the election the terrorists will declare victory and their attacks will get worse and their cells will sneak every where by two major ways. First is by nuclear mushroom like spread in ME and Africa while the second spread will be octopus like spread with long arms inside Europe and US.

The terrorists fears GWB and will take a deep breath and expand if he is losing!

If it made no difference to the terrorists, they would say nothing. Obviously, it does make a difference.

THE MAGIC FRACTION 2/3

Rendell Flip Came After Exposure of Jailhouse Vote Drive (PA)


"I'm friends with Ed Rendell, too," an angry Weldon continued. "But I've go to call a pig a pig. I've got to call something the way it is. To me it's purely partisan. This is about Pennsylvania being a very close state."

Asked point blank if he though Rendell was trying to "disenfranchise" military voters in his state, Weldon told Hannity: "That's exactly what he's doing. I have soldiers e-mailing me from overseas ... Marines coming up to me saying, 'I have friends who haven't got their absentee ballot.'"

Asked how many prisoners would take advantage of Gov. Rendell's absentee ballot outreach, Weldon said, "I have no idea."

Surveys show that two-thirds of active-duty military back President Bush, while the same proportion of the prison population supports John Kerry.

Comparisons are important, but it’s a first for this comparison. (Emphasis mine.)

VOUCHERS

MEMRI

Intriguing Figures among Voucher Recipients

(…)Another person who was directly involved in terrorism is Abu Al-Abbas, who was allocated a total of 11.5 million barrels, some of which was lifted by Vilma Oil Consultant, a Spanish company. Abu Al-Abbas has also sold 1.5 million barrels through Ayad Ammora and Partnership (Syria), which is also listed as a recipient of vouchers for 18 million barrels.
Abu Al-Abbas was first mentioned in a "top secret and personal" letter (No.110/2/43 of 25 January 1993) from the Iraqi intelligence service to the secretary of the president of the republic. The letter listed the terrorist organizations that could be employed by Iraq to carry out sabotage and terrorism activities against American interests in the Arab world.

(…)Khalid Gamal Abdul Nasser (the son of former Egyptian leader Gamal Abdul Nasser), a recipient of vouchers for 16 million barrels, had operated through the Swiss company Lex Oil, as well as through Iraqi-Egyptian Company and another company under the unusual name of Income Company, which is also listed as recipient of vouchers. This may be a case of double counting, but it has to be examined further.

(…)The most intriguing of all is the case of Benon Sevan, the UN director of the Oil for Food Program. Mr. Sevan, who was identified in the lists with the United Nations but listed under African-Middle East (Panama), has received several vouchers. The last one for 1.5 million barrels appears to coincide with Mr. Sevan's visit to Iraq and his meeting with Iraq's Deputy President Taha Yassin Ramadan in February, 2002. At the meeting, Mr. Sevan was quoted by Babil, the daily which was owned by Saddam's son Uday, as stating that the program "suffers from paralysis." Following his meeting with Sevan, Ramadan declared: "We call on the United Nations to exercise its role to ensure proper implementation of the memorandum of understanding on the Oil for Food Program." [5]

(…)Names of Individuals in the Duelfer Report not Included in Al-Mada

(…)Iran
Mujahideen Khalq, multiple vouchers. This is an Iranian terrorist organization which was sponsored by Saddam and allowed to operate from Iraqi soil against Iranian targets. They sold their vouchers through Century Marketing, which is listed as a British company.

(…)Russia
Mr. Yelloshin (3 million barrels) – head of Russian President's office
Mr. Gutzariv, Member of the Duma (Parliament), 2 million barrels lifted by Slavneft.
Peace and Unity Party (multiple vouchers) – lifted by Lukoil

There is more information. There are conclusions and cites. For more information, click on the above link.

SOFT?

Chrenkoff

On P. J. O’Rourke:

Mind you, just before you think that P J has turned soft in his old age, he adds: "having covered the first Iraq war and seeing what the Iraqis did to Kuwait, it certainly would have been on my mind to wipe them out."

STAKES R US

Washington Post

Missing and Explosive


Thursday, October 28, 2004; Page A24

It may not be fair to claim, as Sen. John F. Kerry did on Monday, that the loss represents "one of the greatest blunders of this administration." Apart from the doubts about whether the explosives disappeared before or after U.S. troops reached the site, Iraq was covered with some 10,000 weapons sites under Saddam Hussein; Qaqaa was not among those given highest priority by U.S. intelligence.

Unfortunately, high explosives are not in short supply in the world's black markets, and HMX is far from the most valuable material needed for a nuclear bomb. We have said repeatedly, however, that President Bush erred in not dispatching enough troops to Iraq to secure the country after the war. We'll never know if a larger invasion force might have been able to prevent this looting, but the chances of avoiding this and other terrible reverses surely would have been much higher.

It's worth noting, meanwhile, that the sensation over the missing explosives emanates from the International Atomic Energy Agency, whose director, the Egyptian Mohamed ElBaradei, has been an adversary of the Bush administration on Iraq since well before the war. This month Mr. ElBaradei delivered a report to the U.N. Security Council complaining of "widespread and apparently systematic dismantlement" of dual-use equipment at sites once related to Iraq's nuclear program -- at least some of which apparently was done by the U.S. mission itself. News of the missing explosives then leaked to the U.S. media within days of its receipt by his agency. On the same day that it appeared in the New York Times, Mr. ElBaradei took the unusual step of submitting a second letter to the Security Council confirming the report. The fact that he was providing easy fodder for Mr. Kerry's campaign just eight days before the presidential election evidently did not deter this U.N. civil servant.
© 2004 The Washington Post Company

Hat tip: Soccer Dad

We have found out much more than we wanted to know; but, it is necessary that we know.

Because we invaded Iraq:

Iraq will be disarmed; Saddam is no longer a threat.

Saddam is no longer providing payments for terror; or, providing safe haven for enemies.

Whatever the Iraqis think of US, they have an opportunity for a better future.

Iraq’s WMD have disappeared. Where? How? We don’t know, yet.

We found out who our friends are . . . and, who they are not.

We discovered which countries were subverting the U.N. Resolutions.

We realized that Saddam Hussein was contained in a multi-door box--a useless box.

We became aware of the contact between Al Qaeda and the regime—dangerous.

Iraq was a ticking time bomb. The U.N. is a ticking time bomb.

Oil For Food was Oil For Fraud—not only in the U.N., but around the world.

The media is off-the-cliff LEFT and willing to sell propaganda.

We know more than we knew before the invasion—because of the invasion.

We are walking in a minefield; at least now we know it.

There is more to come. It is much better to be alert, not ignorant.

9/11 and Iraq have made US realize the stakes . . . the stakes are US.

SIGN WARFARE

Pittsburgh Live

The local Republican and Democrat camps are each accusing the other of a grassroots effort to steal the presidential election. Campaign signs, it seems, are getting yanked like weeds as fast as they are planted.

Everyday citizens are the thieves and vandals who perpetrate the perennial rash of sign-stealing, according to Steven A. Peterson, professor of political science at Penn State University. The crimes are especially rampant this election year, he said, because of the close race between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry.

"There is more passion involved here than we normally see in a presidential election," Peterson said. "People who are normally friendly get angry at others with opposing views. It's indicative of an election with a lot of emotion right underneath the surface."

Unsubstantiated reports of constituents, and even politicians themselves, stealing and damaging yard signs and banners have spanned the democratic process from the Pennsylvania General Assembly to the White House.

It’s happening right here in “River City.” SIGN WARFARE is an up and down affair—one day some are up, another day others are up—some days many are down. Like ducks in the shooting gallery, the signs pop up and down. Apparently, they are targets.

One day, on the way to the mailbox, I was surrounded by Kerry signs. I got an unsolicited political phone call and happened to ask about Bush signs. Well, many had gone missing (been vandalized) and the Republican Party had run out of signs.

No problem. (Signs should not go unchallenged.)

I’ll devise a sign:

“Just say, “NO”—KERRY in the typical thick red circle with red line through.

“YRREK”—backward on issues!

Maybe a white flag with “Kerry Surrender Monkey?” (Nah.)

Ah, a white flag with KERRY printed upside down. Too subtle?

On my way to the car the next day, most of the Kerry signs were gone. I’m happy to believe that they changed their minds. (What a dreamer!) The signs must have been stolen. There was one lone sign, up very close to the neighbor’s house. It was a sure indication that the other signs were stolen, but the thief didn’t have the courage to get that close to the house.

I could raise the Kerry surrender sign, but that’s no fun. The sign-stealers are spoilers.

FROM THERE TO HERE:

I voted for Gore in 2000. Now, I will vote for Bush.

I understand the anger of the 2000 Election, but somewhere along the way . . . I got over it. That’s not the case for many others. Those for Kerry are still angry and the Democrat anger has been festering for four years . . . and the party has been feeding off it . . . for four long years. Kerry may not have a good plan, but the Democrats have been working on a plan--actively, and Kerry has been rehearsing his inaugural speech for most of his life. The Democrats think it is coming together.

The hatred did not magically appear with the Primaries. The hatred has been fueled on a regular basis. And that . . . is what changed my attitude.

For this election, the Democrats hate Bush more than they hate the enemy. In fact, they give more consideration to the enemy than they give to the people of the United States.

COMEDY COMMENTARY

This was posted in the comments section of Captain's Quarters Blog


Kerry's Al Qaqaa missing stockpile accusation - wrong accusation, wrong weapons, wrong time.

Posted by: BillD

[And, I'd like to add: Wrong Candidate for US. ]

KERRY DOESN'T CARE

Everyone knew that Saddam Hussein was dangerous. Every Iraqi knew that Saddam Hussein was dangerous. It seems the only person on the earth who didn’t realize that Saddam was dangerous . . . . . . was JOHN KERRY. What he says and what he are two different items. His actions speak louder than his words.

Richard Holbrook said that we do not know the facts; but, Kerry and the New York Times and NBC don’t care about the facts. They care so much about the elections that they would do anything, say anything, for their own political benefit.

It isn’t to our benefit. It doesn’t help US; it hurts US. And, John Kerry marches toward the cliff—with enthusiasm. Kerry has had one thought: "the power of the Presidency."

It is disgusting that a member of the United States Senate (John F. Kerry) would take another wrong position against US. Kerry just doesn’t CARE about US. Kerry is for Kerry.

THE LETTER

Ali

The letter is calling for the establishment of an international court to prosecute individuals or groups who support and justify terrorisim, namely clerics who release “fatwas” that provoke hatred and encourage terrorist attacks(like Qaradawi for example), and the letter will eventually be sent to the Security Council and the UN secretary general after getting sufficient support.

(…)
Today, I got a reply from Dr.Jawad with a translated version of the letter and it was amazing to know that within a couple of days, they managed to collect over 10 000 signatures from Arab liberals, writers and intellectuals.

Support coming from anywhere would be helpful of course but I understood from his reply that he would prefer support from inside the Arab or Muslim world and I assume that he thinks that this way there will be no chance for those who believe in conspiracies to question the integrity of this project, as those idiots will not hesitate to call it a “crusade” if the support came from westerners.

The letter gives pause for thought on this topic. What do you think?

BUSH SAYS

Drudge

"Our military is now investigating a number of possible scenarios, including that the explosives may have been moved before our troops even arrived at the site. This investigation is important and it's ongoing. And a political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief."

PLAYING CLUE

UNSCR 1134 (1997)

Reaffirming its determination to ensure full compliance by Iraq with all its obligations under all previous relevant resolutions and reiterating its demand that Iraq allow immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access to the Special Commission to any site which the Commission wishes to inspect, and in particular allow the Special Commission and its inspection teams to conduct both fixed wing and helicopter flights throughout Iraq for all relevant purposes including inspection, surveillance, aerial surveys, transportation and logistics without interferences of any kind and upon such terms and conditions as may be determined by the Special Commission, and to make use of their own aircraft and such airfields in Iraq as they may determine are most appropriate for the work of the Commission

Fox 2/11/03

Tuesday, February 11, 2003

"This is a man who is trying to stall for time," he (Bush) said after a meeting with Australian Prime Minister John Howard, a staunch U.S. ally against Iraq. "The reason we need to fly U-2 flights is they're not disarming."

Iraq's acceptance of the U-2 flights, as well as its submission of new documents to the United Nations over the weekend, marked Baghdad's latest step to stave off a U.S.-led attack and convince other governments that it was now ready to cooperate in full with U.N. inspectors.

(…)"The inspectors are now free to use the American U-2s as well as French and Russian planes," Mohamed al-Douri, Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations, told The Associated Press in New York.

Iraq Watch 2/19/03

ZAINUDDIN YAHYA (Malaysia): (…)
At the same time, the disarmament efforts must be a part of a clear, sanctions-lifting plan, he continued, so that the debilitating humanitarian crisis in Iraq could be brought to an immediate end. The success of the current exercise required the fullest cooperation by the Government of Iraq in every respect, and he welcomed their recent decision to issue a presidential decree containing prohibitions on importation and production of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, as well as their acceptance of reconnaissance flights. Iraq must continue to cooperate with the inspectors and refrain from giving any pretext to warmongers. (…)

RUBERT JAYASINGHE (Sri Lanka) said that since the adoption of resolution 1441 (2002), UNMOVIC and the IAEA had submitted two reports to the Council. In their second report, the inspectors had indicated an increased level of cooperation on the part of Iraq, pointing out, however, that vital questions remained unanswered, and that Iraq had not been fully complying with resolution 1441. A few days ago, Iraq had acceded to some of the key requests of the inspectors, including interviews of scientists without the presence of the Iraqi officials and allowing reconnaissance flights over Iraq. The third report of the inspectors was expected on 14 March.

JAGDISH D. KOONJUL (Mauritius) said that the reports of the inspectors were comprehensive, objective and highly professional. It was extremely important for the Iraqi authorities to understand that resolution 1441 put an obligation on them to comply fully with all the requirements of the resolution, leading to the complete and total disarmament of Iraq. He welcomed the Iraqi Government's decision to allow surveillance flights and private interviews, as well as the reported adoption of national legislation prohibiting proscribed activities. He noted, however, that such measures were being taken on an incremental basis and only under pressure. If Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction, as it claimed, it should provide the necessary evidence, to convince the international community that that was the case, and that it had destroyed whatever biological and chemical weapons it was known to have possessed.

Global Security

22 FEBRUARY 2003

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry reported that a U-2 reconnaissance plane surveyed several areas over Iraq during a six-hour period on 22 February. The UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) did not comment on the reconnaissance flight.

Brainy Encyclopedia 2/11/03

March 11, 2003

• Iraqi fighters threaten two US U-2 surveillance planes forcing them to abort their mission and return to base. Iraqi officials described the incident as a "technical mistake" by the U.N. inspectors. Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for UNMOVIC, said that Iraqi officials had been notified about the flight beforehand.

This may be when the explosive materials were removed? At a time after flights were permitted, the Iraqis prevented flights and used some trumped up explanation—a faux excuse. We don’t know what they were doing during this time; but, we can suspect anything and everything.

DID YOU KNOW?

The Truth About Iraq

You may not know:

• 80,000 Iraqi children are alive today
because the Coalition Forces took Saddam Hussein from power.

• Polls show 75% of Iraqis want a democracy.

• 51% of Iraqis say their country is going in the right direction.

This is the truth about Iraq - the truth that people should know before they vote.

We are airing commercials right now to get the truth out - see the commercial.

In these times of media bias, it's difficult to get the truth out.
The Truth About Iraq needs your help to shout the truth!

MOHAMMED, the Amazing

Iraq the Model

We’re changing so quickly and the concept of one opinion and one point of view is becoming part of history.

Who said that nothing has changed?! Who claimed that the present is worse than the past?!

I wish they could attend even one of those meetings or lectures to see the progress we’ve so far made, and let them know that these meetings and discussions are much more in number and in effect than the car bombings but unfortunately they don’t attract the same attention.

Many people describe Iraq these days as a hell, and I want to say that this 'hell' is my paradise despite all the dangers and difficulties and even losses, as these struggles make the process itself a real life, a joy that only oppressed people with dignity can sense when they become free, and I truley feel sorry for anyone who doesn't see it this way.

-By Mohammed

Even though it is a struggle, and is dangerous, you can hear and feel Mohammed’s optimism. Each time he writes, it takes me back to his war journal. He’s an amazing person, and a gifted writer.

KERRY'S CON-JOB

Michelle Malkin covers some Kerry lies and exaggerations.

Hat tip: to Redhunter. Redhunter includes several links to information about Kerry’s lies.

STOLEN HONOR (update)

Need to know what to do with the video? Where to get it? How to make a vhs copy? How to make a svcd?

Go here: for information

SEE STOLEN HONOR---FREE

Now available FREE:


HERE: then click STOLEN HONOR (at left)

STOLEN HONOR explains why so many people do NOT believe John F. Kerry.


Liz Trotta information. She was a reporter in Vietnam.

I viewed the video twice--once at each site. The second site and reference to it has disappeared (probably because of bandwidth problems.)

ADAPT, IMPROVISE, OVERCOME!

A returning Vet (from Iraq) stated that ¾ of the military are for Bush. It is not reasonable to believe that Iraq has gone so wrong if that many of the military are for “W.”

The Democrats must agree with the estimates because they seem to be attempting to prevent the military vote—at least, that is the appearance in Pennsylvania. My voice may not be loud, but (if this is true) it is most despicable that of all the election tricks. Those troops who are fighting for our country and for the Iraqis’ freedom should be the first to vote—I mean . . . PRIORITY.

In Iraq, the plan for the war and the plan for the peace do exist . . . and the PLAN IS TO WIN. We will need no plan for the peace if we don’t win; we will only need further war plans. When Kerry discusses “No Plan for the Peace” he indicates that he is only planning for the peace. He can’t win the war by only planning for the peace. JOHN KERRY—FIRST WE WIN THE WAR, THEN WE WILL HAVE TIME TO PLAN FOR THE PEACE. If you are so busy planning for the peace, you might miss the war and lose it.

The returning Vet expressed the plan: ADAPT, IMPROVISE, OVERCOME! I agree with the returning Vet’s opinion. We must win in Iraq; we must do WHATEVER IT TAKES.

ADAPT, IMPROVISE, OVERCOME and WIN.

MIA

UPDATE: Antimedia reported the site is working. There may have been too many hits.

Stolen Honor (stolenhonor.com)

“Sorry, this site is temporarily unavailable.

Please check back later.”


(to see “Stolen Honor” online)

“The file you requested was not found on this Web site (…)

Error Code: 404”

Too many hits? Or, hackers?

EVERY NETWORK SHOULD SHOW

About Stolen Honor

Thursday, Oct. 21, 2004
New York Times: Every Network Should Show 'Stolen Honor'

The first sentence of the New York Times' review today of "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" was what we expected: It said Sinclair Broadcast Group should not show the documentary. Then the pro-Kerry daily explained why in a stunning recommendation:
"It should be shown in its entirety on all the networks, cable stations and on public television."

(…)TV reviewer Alessandra Stanley indicates she doesn't like the fact that "Stolen Honor" will hinder Sen. John Kerry's candidacy, but she nonetheless advises that "it does help viewers better understand the rage fueling the unhappy band of brothers who oppose Mr. Kerry's candidacy and his claim to heroism."

Stanley writes:
This film is payback time, a chance to punish one of the most famous antiwar activists, Mr. Kerry, the one who got credit for serving with distinction in combat, then, through the eyes of the veterans in this film, went home to discredit the men left behind. The film begins with dirgelike music and a scary black-and-white montage of stark images of soldiers and prisoners as a deep voice sorrowfully intones, "In other wars, when captured soldiers were subjected to the hell of enemy prisons, they were considered heroes." The narrator adds, "In Vietnam they were betrayed."

The imagery is crude, but powerful: each mention of Mr. Kerry's early 1970's meeting with North Vietnamese government officials in Paris is illustrated with an old black-and-white still shot of the Arc de Triomphe, an image that to many viewers evokes the Nazi occupation of Paris. ...

The film's producer, Carlton Sherwood, a former investigative reporter and a Vietnam veteran, gives his own testimony, explaining that even though he has uncovered all kinds of misdeeds in his career, the history of Mr. Kerry's antiwar activism is "a lot more personal." He recalls listening to Mr. Kerry's testimony in 1971, saying, "I felt an inner hurt no surgeon's scalpel could remove."

That pain is the main theme of the documentary, which can be seen in its entirety on the Internet for $4.99. One former P.O.W., John Warner, lashes out at Mr. Kerry for having coaxed Mr. Warner's mother to testify at the Winter Soldier Investigation, where disgruntled veterans testified to war crimes they committed. Calling it a "contemptible act," Mr. Warner, who spent more than five years as a prisoner, tells the camera that Mr. Kerry was the kind of man who preyed on a mother's grief "purely for the promotion of your own political agenda."

Hat tip: Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth

Watch YOUR BACK!

”I GOT YOUR BACK”

John Kerry says, “I got your back!”

Did he say that to his fellow Swiftees, just before he left Vietnam….early?

Did he say that to US, just before he helped to lose the Vietnam War?

(Maybe Kerry said it to the North Vietnam representatives in Paris.)

Yup, he’s got our backs . . . just before we feel the knife.

The Mile Wide SMILE

Blackfive


Finally, I leave you with a personal experience. We have a group of Afghan men who clean the building where I work. They're here every day and I see them in the hallway seven days a week. They like to practice their English, or at least the English phrases they're learning in books or class: "Good morning, How are you? I am fine, thank you..." You get the idea. They didn't work on election day, because they were voting, and the roads were pretty congested. I asked them the first morning they were back to work if they had voted. They all got smiles a mile wide, had to show me their thumbs with ink on them, and each of them wanted to shake my hand and I got to congratulate each of them on their new country! Now, if that doesn't bring a tear to your eye, then you have ice water in your veins!

There are good stories out there. Many in the media can't see them, won't find them, won't even look for them.

MEKONG DELTA BLUES

Captain's Quarters Blog

Mekong Delta Blues! (the new John Kerry campaign theme song)

I hear that swiftboat comin',
it's comin' 'round the bend,
I ain't had my head above the railing
since I don't know when

I'm stuck in the Mekong Delta,
and time keeps draggin' on
But that Purple Heart collection
is gonna get me home

When I was first elected,
my daddy told me son,
You gotta raise their taxes,
and take away their guns

Life ain't easy in the Senate,
when you're from the ruling class
And never take a firm position,
it'll only bite you in the --

Read it all at Captain’s Quarters Blog

Treacherous

Stolen Valor

Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Former POW: Kerry Preyed on My Family
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004

A former Vietnam War prisoner of war charges that as he was being tortured by his communist captors, John Kerry was preying on his family to denounce the United States.

The new allegation against Kerry is made in the controversial documentary “Stolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal” by James H. Warner, a former Marine Corps naval flight officer who won the Silver Star after spending more than five years in a North Vietnamese prison.

(…)Warner recounts that Kerry personally recruited his grieving mother to testify at the Winter Soldier hearings – testimony that Warner was confronted and taunted with while in captivity, testimony that later appeared in John Kerry’s infamous wartime book, “The New Soldier.”

(…)“It’s a pretty horrendous thing, these family members being called by Kerry or his group while their son or husband is being tortured in a Hanoi prison,” Burkett said. “And the message to the POW families was clear: If you speak out against the U.S., the communists will go easy on your loved one.”

Burkett said the effort to involve the POW families in the anti-war movement was one of the most “evil things Kerry and his group ever did.”

There is more at the above link. No wonder Kerry doesn't want the film viewed.

Hitchens' Opinion

Hitchens

It's a good coincidence that the Duelfer report appears in the same week as The Bomb In My Garden, a memoir by Saddam Hussein's chief nuclear physicist. Between them, or taken together, the two bodies of evidence enable two quite different yet quite compatible conclusions. The first is that the Saddam regime was more disarmed than perhaps even its leadership knew. The second is that it would have been very unwise to proceed on any assumption except that of its latent danger.

This may seem like an attempt to have it both ways, but consider: We only know all of this, about the Baathist weapons programs and their erosion and collapse, because of regime change. Up until then, any assumption that all the fangs had been removed would have been a highly irresponsible one. It would have involved, quite simply, taking Saddam Hussein's word for it. His prior record of deception, double-dealing, and concealment makes that quite impossible. The long-felt need was for an administration that did not give him the benefit of any doubt, that had a nasty and suspicious mind, and that would resolve any ambiguity on the presumption of guilt.

(…)His conclusion is that, given an improvement in the economic and political climate, Saddam could and would have done one of two things: reconstitute the program or share it with others. Had it not been for 9/11, it is sobering to reflect, there would have been senior members of even this administration arguing that sanctions on Iraq should be eased. And, through the open scandal of the oil-for-food program, there were many states or clienteles within states who were happy to help Saddam enrich himself. Moreover, within the "box" that supposedly "contained" him were also living Kim Jong-il, A.Q. Khan, and Col. Qaddafi. We know from the Kay report that, as late as March of last year, Saddam's envoys were meeting North Korea's team in Damascus and trying to buy missiles off the shelf. It would never have stopped: this ceaseless ambition to acquire the means of genocide. If anything, we underestimated that aspect of it.

An interesting opinion. With the release of 4,500 entities having dealing with Saddam’s regime, the plot thickens.

The Emperor Pays a Visit

Antimedia’s good friend tells the story:

More news the media won't reveal

Good Tuesday morning! John Kerry brought his "front porch meeting" to our Canonsburg, PA neighborhood on Labor Day morning. Since you will never hear the truth from the TV or print media I thought that you should know from someone who was `almost' there.

The residents who live on the street where the event took place were not allowed to attend.

Kerry shipped in approximately 90 invitation only VIPs. In addition, there was a hard luck case who was about to lose her job at USAIR and another was an elderly woman who was having health care problems. Neither one was from this neighborhood. The street was closed to all traffic the night before and all residents on the street were REQUIRED to remove their Bush/Cheney signs.


Read more at HERE

PENNSYLVANIA

Hugh Hewitt

Democratic Governor Ed Rendell is picking up where Gore-Lieberman left off in Florida 2000, by doing all he can to obstruct the vote of the military serving overseas.

IF Gov. Rendell is attempting to obstruct the military vote . . . that is more despicable than the dead Chicago Democrat voters of the past, or the other dead registrants for this election. It’s more despicable than registered persons who can not be found.

Obstructionism may not be illegal but it is immoral. IF it is proven that Rendell participated in obstructing the vote . . . any vote . . . but especially the military vote, he should be driven out on the rail.

The previous Governor of Pennsylvania was Republican. With Pennsylvania, it could easily happen again in two years.

UPDATE:

It's called:

Voices of Iraq

The producers of VOICES OF IRAQ distributed over 150 DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERAS across the entire country to enable everyday people - mothers, children, teachers, sheiks and even insurgents - to document their lives and their hopes amidst the upheaval of a nation being born.

Beginning amidst the Falluja uprising in April, going through the marshlands in the South, the Kurdish communities in the North and ending in September of this year, thousands of ordinary Iraqis became filmmakers to reveal the richness, complexity and emotion of their lives.

Instructions">Instructions to Participants

This is an amazing project!

Through IRAQI EYES

This afternoon, on FOX at approx. 5-5:30, there will be video clips from a documentary about life through the eyes of Iraqis. It should be very interesting.

DESPERATE DEMOCRATS

DAGNEY covers registration fraud, and hackers. You couldn’t guess in a million years which party! Okay, you’re right . . . .it’s the DEMOCRATS.

Further, I received a phone call from Republicans. During the call, I requested information about a sign. Well, seems there are none available because they are being stolen. The Republican Party had to order more signs.

STRANGE! THE KERRY SIGNS ARE STILL UP!

If they aren’t stealing Kerry signs, who do you think is stealing Bush signs . . . right again--seems like the Democrats want to win by hook or crook (mostly by CROOK.)

TWENTY YEARS OF FLUFF

Kerry bills: (by factcheck.org)

• S.791: Authorizes $53 million over four years to provide grants to woman-owned small businesses. (1999)

• S.1206: Names a federal building in Waltham, Massachusetts after Frederick C. Murphy, who was killed in action during World War II and awarded (posthumously) the Medal of Honor. (1994)

• S.1636: A save-the-dolphins measure aiming “to improve the program to reduce the incidental taking of marine mammals during the course of commercial fishing operations.” (1994)

• S.1563: Funding the National Sea Grant College Program, which supports university-based research, public education, and other projects “to promote better understanding, conservation and use of America’s coastal resources.” (1991)

• S.423: Granting a visa and admission to the U.S. as a permanent resident to Kil Joon Yu Callahan. (1987)

• H.R.1900 (S.300): Awarded a congressional gold medal to Jackie Robinson (posthumously), and called for a national day of recognition. (2003)

• H.R.1860 (S.856): Increased the maximum research grants for small businesses from $500,000 to $750,000 under the Small Business Technology Transfer Program. (2001)

• S.J.Res.158: To make the week of Oct. 22 – Oct. 28, 1989 “World Population Awareness Week.” (1989)

• S.J.Res.160: To renew “World Population Awareness Week” for 1991. (1991)

• S.J.Res.318: To make Nov. 13, 1992 “Vietnam Veterans Memorial 10th Anniversary Day.” (1992)

• S.J.Res.337: To make Sept. 18, 1992 “National POW/MIA Recognition Day." (1992)

[By my tally: 2 possibly okay]

Words of Wisdom--Iraqi Style

by Alaa

(...)So, I have been, personally very attentive to the debates and positions of both candidates, and I have some thoughts which I would like to share with you, my American friends. To start with, Senator Kerry may be a very good man and quite patriotic. Also we have to respect the almost 50% of the American people who lean towards the democrats. I don’t know much about domestic issues in the States so naturally, as might be expected, the position of any Iraqi would be mainly influenced by the issue that most concerns him. Thus, regardless of all the arguments of both candidates the main problem is that President Bush now represents a symbol of defiance against the terrorists and it is a fact, that all the enemies of America, with the terrorists foremost, are hoping for him to be deposed in the upcoming elections.

That is not to say that they like the democrats, but that they will take such an outcome as retreat by the American people, and will consequently be greatly encouraged to intensify their assault. The outcome here on the ground in Iraq seems to be almost obvious. In case President Bush loses the election there would be a massive upsurge of violence, in the belief, rightly or wrongly, by the enemy, that the new leadership is more likely to “cut and run” to use the phrase frequently used by some of my readers. And they would try to inflict as heavy casualties as possible on the American forces to bring about a retreat and withdrawal. It is crucial for them to remove this insurmountable obstacle which stands in their way. They fully realize that with continued American and allies’ commitment, they have no hope of achieving anything.

On the other hand if President Bush is reelected, this will prove to them that the American people are not intimidated despite all their brutality, and that their cause is quite futile. Yes there is little doubt that an election victory by President Bush would be a severe blow and a great disappointment for all the terrorists in the World and all the enemies of America. I believe that such an outcome would result in despair and demoralization of the “insurgent elements” here in Iraq, and would lead to the pro-democracy forces gaining the upper hand eventually. Note that we are not saying that President Bush is perfect, nor even that he is better than the Senator, just that the present situation is such that a change of leadership at this crucial point is going to send an entirely wrong message to all the enemies.

Unfortunately, it seems to me that many in the U.S. don’t quite appreciate how high the stakes are. The challenge is mortal, and you and we are locked in a War, a National Emergency; and in such circumstances partisan considerations must be of secondary importance. If you lose this war, you are no more, and you will have to withdraw within you boundaries cringing and waiting for terror to strike you in your homeland, afraid to move around, afraid to travel, afraid to do business abroad. You will have to see all your friends abroad annihilated and intimidated and nobody will have any confidence or trust in you anymore. And you will have to watch from far with bitterness the forces of darkness and evil taking over in many parts of this earth, with feelings of impotence and inability to do anything about it. In other words you would lose all credibility, and the fiends of terror and obscurantism would go triumphantly dancing the macabre dance of mayhem and death, and darkness would descend and obliterate the light and the hope.

You think I am exaggerating, you think I am being paranoid? I just pray that destiny would not prove all these things; I pray that these horrors will not come to pass. And all this for what? For failing to confront few thousands ex-baathists and demented religious fanatics and some common criminals, concentrated in some rural areas of a country of the size of just one of your states; and that for a nation that has defeated Natzism, Imperial Japan and the Soviet Empire!


Well if Senator Kerry is such a good man, and he may well be, then it would be prudent to wait just another four years to elect him, after the job is done. And if this is interference in your national affairs by a foreigner, I am not going to give you any apology for it.

Salaam
# posted by Alaa : 3:42 PM

Another terrific post by Alaa. Possibly he could send this to Ohio to counteract the Guardian.

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More Kerry Threats & Scares?

Scare Tactics

Anti-Kerry Film Withdrawn From Abington Movie Theater
Delaware Professor Threatens Lawsuit
POSTED: 6:34 pm EDT October 19, 2004
UPDATED: 6:54 pm EDT October 19, 2004

ABINGTON, Pa. -- A film about Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam War years brought controversy to the Delaware Valley Tuesday.

"Stolen Honor" was due to play at the Baederwood Theater in Abington, Pa., Tuesday night and it was a sellout. But, citing possible civil disobedience and a threatened lawsuit, the theater's owner decided not to show the controversial film.

One Professor can stop a film? This is an example of our education in the U.S.?
Dump that Professor, he doesn’t believe in observing and thinking for oneself. (Could Americans sue Michael Moore for defamation of character? Picture thousands of law suits in small claims courts throughout the U.S. Then we could call him POOR Michael Moore.)

But wait . . . maybe it’s the civil disobedience which stopped the film, not the law suit. And who would be causing the civil disobedience? The Democrats.

It is unlikely the Professor is a Republican Vietnam Vet. We wouldn’t be surprised to find out that he is a Democrat, a Kerry supporter. It wouldn’t be surprising to find out that his attorney is, also. No, I doubt we would be shocked. . . .shocked.

We can hope somebody sues the professor and his attorney. Censorship is the public’s interest. Sue him and stick to it. He'll likely want to drop the suit after the elections.

It's okay for us to hear about Michael Moore's propaganda piece for months at a time, but not to hear information about John Kerry. The troops should get copies of this documentary. After all, troops in Iraq were subjected to Moore-Manure.

Kerry's storm trooping front men of fear mongering are on the march. If they don't scare you about the draft, or the social security, or flu shots, they'll think of something else.

Kerry's people are afraid of everything except terrorists. Strange isn't it.

SLIPPING IN SLIME

Rosett

October 15, 2004, 8:42 a.m.
“Conflicts-of-Interest-R-Us”
Kofi Annan uses the Iraqi people’s money to investigate the Oil-for-Food fiasco.

Over at the United Nations "Conflicts-of-Interest-R-Us" world headquarters, there's a new twist on the former Oil-for-Food program for Iraq. Secretary General Kofi Annan has now decided that the U.N.-authorized investigation into Oil-for-Food, the "independent inquiry" headed by former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, will be funded with money left over in the administrative account of...Oil-for-Food.

In other words, Volcker's investigation, with its $30-million projected budget, will now be funded out of one of the same Oil-for-Food accounts Volcker is supposed to be investigating.
That's bad enough. The other problem with Annan's plan is that all Oil-for-Food money flowed from the oil wells of Iraq and was meant to bring aid to the Iraqi people. Any leftover funds belong by rights to the Iraqis, to serve their needs — not those of the U.N. So why should Annan use the Iraqi people's money to pay for an inquiry into an Iraq-relief program that under U.N. management became the biggest bungle in the history of humanitarian relief?

Maybe that seems natural to Annan, who runs a U.N. Secretariat that for over six years was paid by Saddam to supervise Saddam. But that was precisely one of the conflicts of interest that helped create the U.N. Oil-for-Food fiasco that now needs investigating. Under Oil-for-Food, the Secretariat collected a 2.2 percent cut of Saddam's oil revenues to cover the cost of ensuring that Saddam did nothing but good deeds for his fellow Iraqis with the rest of his oil income (apart from using .8 percent for the weapons inspections that for four years Saddam refused). The evidence is now legion of the $10 billion or more grafted by Saddam out of Oil-for Food; the expired medicines and rotten cooking oil shipped into Iraq; the relief funds spent on palaces, fancy cars, illicit arms, and whiskey for Saddam's Republican Guard.

Read more at the above link. This is similar to using the mugging victim's money to prosecute the mugger. The theft isn't bad enough, now it has to be repeated. The U.N. is slipping in oily slick slime.

How We Lost in Vietnam

The Interview

“How North Vietnam Won The WarTaken from The Wall Street Journal,
Thursday August 3, 1995

What did the North Vietnamese leadership think of the American antiwar movement? What was the purpose of the Tet Offensive? How could the U.S. have been more successful in fighting the Vietnam War? Bui Tin, a former colonel in the North Vietnamese army, answers these questions in the following excerpts from an interview conducted by Stephen Young, a Minnesota attorney and human-rights activist. Bui Tin, who served on the general staff of North Vietnam's army, received the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. He later became editor of the People's Daily, the official newspaper of Vietnam. He now lives in Paris, where he immigrated after becoming disillusioned with the fruits of Vietnamese communism.”

Question: How did Hanoi intend to defeat the Americans?

Answer: By fighting a long war which would break their will to help South Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh said, "We don't need to win military victories, we only need to hit them until they give up and get out."

Q: Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi's victory?

A: It was essential to our strategy. Support of the war from our rear was completely secure while the American rear was vulnerable. Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us.

A very informative interview. Hat tip: Swift Boat Vets for Truth (right side link) The interview is worth reading regardless of how you are voting. It explains some interesting perspectives . . . and truths.

During the past few months I have been reading much on the history of the Vietnam War and drawing some conclusions. When the Swift Boat operations began they could hardly go anywhere--they were relegated to coastal areas. By the time Kerry left Vietnam, the Swiftees were on the major rivers and into the lesser waterways. They were less hampered, more mobile, had control over much more of the water.

These Swift Boat crews fought hard and had gained much. In 1970, the Swift Boats were turned over to the Vietnam Navy—to patrol the coast and the inland waterways. You can see the progress when you read the reports, read the histories.

Now read how we lost the war (at the above site); it’s well-described in the interview.

KERRY DISCHARGE

Bandit

SECNAVINST 5420.174C, Section 9-1:

"d. The following applies to applicants who received less than fully honorable administrative discharges because of their civilian misconduct while in an inactive duty status in a reserve component and who were discharged or had their discharge reviewed on or after April 20, 1971: the NDRB shall either re characterize the discharge to Honorable without any additional proceedings or additional proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with the Court's Order of December 3, 1981, in Wood v. Secretary of Defense to determine whether proper grounds exist for the issuance of a less than honorable discharge, taking into account that:

(1) An other than honorable (formerly undesirable) discharge for an inactive duty reservist can only be based upon civilian misconduct found to have affected directly the performance of military duties;

(2) A general discharge for an inactive duty reservist can only be based upon civilian misconduct found to have had an adverse impact on the overall effectiveness of the military, including military morale and efficiency.

Bandit: “Section 9-1 explains how Kerry could havr received a less than honorable discharge due to ‘civilian misconduct found to have had an adverse impact on the overall effectiveness of the military, including military morale and efficiency.’"

”Vietnam Veterans Against the War and his discredited Winter Soldiers band of brothers certainty comes to mind as one possible finding for ‘civilian misconduct’ under SECNAVINST 5420.174C and would explain the record that Kerry refuses to address. “


[Note: There are strange happenings with Kerry’s discharge. It is a concern. Kerry and crew would like to keep US busy looking into AWOL, and drill absences; but, whatever we don’t know about Bush, we know Kerry was talking to the enemy, in Paris. We know where Kerry was and it was not to our benefit. If you can’t help, don’t harm . . . Kerry was harmful. We know where Kerry was . . . because he told us.

Make no mistake, Kerry betrayed US. Kerry betrayed his fellow military, and worst of all, he betrayed the POWs. Kerry undermined our bargaining power which endangered captives and may have caused some to die, needlessly.

There are no excuses for John Kerry. Kerry understood the enemy before he understood America.]

KERRY WARNS

Kerry Warns Middle Class Against Bush


1 hour, 36 minutes ago
By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON - Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) accused President Bush (news - web sites) on Sunday of planning a surprise second-term attempt to privatize Social Security (news - web sites), and forecast a "disaster for America's middle class." Republican party chairman Ed Gillespie called the charge "just flat inaccurate."

Kerry is going to help those of us in the Middle Class . . . Watchout!

For the last few days, Kerry had been carping about Bush wanting the draft—while it was the Democrats who promoted it, and likely voted for it; and Kerry wants 47,000 more troops. (It’s obvious who want to push the draft bill-----the Democrats.) The Republicans voted against it. Bush said NO to a draft. The Democrats are dealing out a little fear for what is left of the campaign.

Next step in the Kerry’s fear campaign: secret meeting to get rid of Social Security. Well, if so, say hello to the Gray Panthers, again. That goes for Bush or Kerry. However, it seems more like a Kerry scare tactic. Bush wants to offer something to the younger people who don’t have confidence that Social Security will be there—some of their money for private investments. The post baby boomers want Social Security to be there; but, are afraid it will disappear. If the government paid back all the money it borrowed from the trust fund (with interest) there would be less of a problem. (The interest should be compounded, of course.)

I don’t believe the Republicans can afford to “fool” with privatization. If they attempt to privatize Social Security it’s a guarantee for a Democrat win in 2008. (Might even be a shoe-in for Democrats in 2 years.) It sounds as though the Democrats don’t believe the polls are really neck-n-neck (tied) and they are looking for an edge.

Ah well, only a little over two weeks to go. (Wonder what the Dems will think up next.)

NOT IN BULK

ft.com

More than 30 Canadian internet pharmacies have decided not to accept bulk orders of prescription drugs from US states and municipalities.

(…)Mr Kerry has argued that opening the US to Canadian imports could help lower the costs of prescription drugs for elderly Americans. Such reimportation has become one of the points of difference between him and President George W. Bush during the election campaign.

But growing concern in Canada that growing exports to the US could lead to rising prices and shortages north of the border has prompted the Canadian International Pharmacy Association (Cipa), whose members include several of the biggest internet and mail-order drugstores, to act. “We don't want to give Americans the impression that we have unlimited supply for them to tap into on a commercial basis,” said David Mackay, the association's executive director. Americans, he added, “can't get everything from Canada. We can't be your complete drugstore”.

Not much of a surprise that Canada doesn’t want higher prices and possible shortages. It does make you wonder why the pharmaceutical companies can’t sell the drugs cheaper here in the U.S.

KERRY'S DRAFT

Kerry's crew says: Too few troops; need more troops.

Kerry's Democrats put a DRAFT bill in Congress.

Kerry said: He wants 47,000 more troops.

Kerry says: It's Bush who will cause draft.

Bush says: NO DRAFT!


Now, who do you think is playing the "DRAFT GAME?"

Anti-Kerry Vietnam Veterans Launch New Ads (Thurs)

WASHINGTON – Two groups of Vietnam veterans opposed to Sen. John Kerry once again have joined forces to run television ads against the Democrat presidential candidate.Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and POWs for Truth, which launched their joint ad campaign last month, unveiled two ads Thursday.

In one commercial, the faces of dozens of men are shown as an announcer says: "They're the men who served with John Kerry in Vietnam. They're his entire chain of command, most of the officers in Kerry's unit ... And they're the men who spent years in North Vietnamese prison camps. Tortured for refusing to confess what John Kerry accused them of - of being war criminals."
In his Senate testimony after the war, Kerry cited reports from other soldiers of atrocities.

The other ad asks, "Why is this relevant?" The answer, the ad says: "Because character and honesty matter. Especially in a time of war."

PHARAOH blasts FRIEDMAN

Big Pharaoh

Friedman:
“I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I hear the president and vice president slamming John Kerry for saying that he hopes America can eventually get back to a place where "terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance."

“That's why Mr. Kerry was actually touching something many Americans are worried about - that this war on terrorism is transforming us and our society, when it was supposed to be about uprooting the terrorists and transforming their societies.”

Big Pharaoh discusses the Friedman quotes and it’s worth reading.

Nuisance and nuisance are a part of the thinking which allowed this danger to grow. We ignored the growing danger as groups around the world chose to kill innocent people in order to send a hate-message. This message is not comfortable to send anymore.

Al Qaeda sent US a strong message on 9/11. Now that we are paying attention, should we return to the old days and allow the terror to continue to grow . . . again?

It wouldn't be wise.

DISCHARGE

Antimedia

Was Kerry dishonorably discharged?

The New York Sun investigated Kerry's discharge from the Navy and found some curious anomalies.

An official Navy document on Senator Kerry's campaign Web site listed as Mr. Kerry's "Honorable Discharge from the Reserves" opens a door on a well kept secret about his military service.

Antimedia covers the mystery surrounding Kerry's discharge, including links to the New York Sun, and commentary from a poster who thinks its a "red herring."

INSTAPUNDIT fires back

INSTAPUNDIT

Yeah, I think it was a mistake.

STILL MORE: Andrew Sullivan writes: "The usually even-keeled Instapundit says that Kerry's 'position on gay marriage is the same as the President's.' I can't see how that's even remotely the case."

Well, it was this Kerry statement that led to my conclusion:
The president and I have the same position, fundamentally, on gay marriage. We do. Same position.

Call me crazy, but I took that to mean that they had the same position. Since it was a Kerry statement, I should have realized that I was probably missing out on a crucial nuance.

[And, the winner is . . . . .not Sullivan.]