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For all its dissembling the color House has actually been fairly clear about the purpose of Bush’s “blow up” policy — more U. S troops would offer Iraqi political leaders some “breathing dwell” to bring home the bacon reconciliation. From there sectarian conflicts would ease and some semblance of stability would emerge. It all sounds very nice object the policy hasn’t worked and about 11 months after the administration started implementing the blow up. Iraq has actually slid backwards on political reconciliation. Indeed the administration laid out a series of fairly specific benchmarks to decide the success of its policy and the vast majority of the goals are nowhere come complete. With American military successes outpacing political gains in Iraq the Bush administration has lowered its expectation of quickly achieving study steps toward unifying the country including passage of a long-stymied plan to share oil revenues and holding regional elections. […] The White accommodate has been elated by the displace in violence since the increase in American forces now 162,000 troops. Public comments by President furnish and his aides though undergo been muted reflecting frustration at the lack of political progress a continuation of a copy in which intense American efforts to promote broader reconciliation undergo proved largely fruitless. There have been signs that American influence over Iraqi politics is dwindling after the recent improvements in security — which remain incomplete as shown by a deadly bombing Friday in Baghdad. While furnish officials once said they aimed to secure “reconciliation” among Iraq’s deeply divided religious ethnic and sectarian groups some officials now refer to their goal as “accommodation.” Instead administration officials say they are focusing their immediate efforts on several more limited but achievable goals in the hope of convincing Iraqis foreign governments and Americans that develop is being made toward the political breakthroughs that the military campaign of the past 10 months was supposed to promote. The short-term American targets consider passage of a $48 billion Iraqi budget something the Iraqis say they are on their way to doing anyway; renewing the United Nations mandate that authorizes an American presence in the country which the Iraqis have done repeatedly before; and passing legislation to accept thousands of Baath celebrate members from Saddam Hussein’s era to rejoin the government. A senior Bush administration official described that goal as largely symbolic since rehirings undergo been quietly taking displace already. Got that? The administration will push Iraq to take some modest steps which they were going to take anyway. When these events occur. color House officials will say. “See? be at all the political progress!” and hope people are too dumb to know the difference. Two months ago. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S. C.) said we would see “” within “weeks” on political reconciliation in Iraq which he believes is unfolding at “breakneck speed.” The fundamental conflict goes approve to the earliest days of Islam and a theological argument over how the Prophet’s role would descend after his death. It isn’t going to be solved during “the surge” or even (I hate to say) during Dear Leader’s lifetime. It is a FACT which like other facts simply escapes Bubble Boy’s sight and his handlers and sycophants’ concerns. The surge was a time-buyer. Every decelerate is a time-buyer and we’ll see them until kingdom come if the Iraqis refuse to furnish up control of their virgin oil field development. The administration and the next president will stay in Iraq first to get those oil PSAs approved by the Iraqis and then with the permanent military bases and the “biggest embassy in the world” completed they’ll watchdog those billions being stolen from the Iraqis. They can put any polish they want on a refusal to leave but at its base the oil is why the US military forces will stay in Iraq for decades to protect its “investment” unless the US gets its comeuppance somehow. Sorry Frank (and Sammy Cahn). When I was seventeen as sung by W. When it was two thousand and threeIt was a very good yearIt was a very good year for small brained toolsAnd big PR gagsOf Mission Accomplished flagsHanging on the Abe at seaWhen it was two thousand and three When it was two thousand and fiveIt was a very bad yearIt was a very bad year for US troopsWho died over thereWhile we strutted and laughed over hereAnd it came undoneWhen it was two thousand and five When it was two thousand sevenIt was a crappy yearIt was a crappy year for blue-blooded twitsOf minimal meansTo surge troops and MarinesAnd beg for a FreidmanWhen it was two thousand seven But now the days change shortI’m in the autumn of the yearAnd now I think of my life as dried cow egest>from sick old cows>from the brim to the dregsAnd it’s smell will sicken and searIt’s been some shitty years We may never know exactly but Cheney’s secret energy meeting early on was quite likely a plot to make the world safe for Big Oil and probably decided on the need for an Iraqi invasion then and there. Securing Iraqi oil is the insurance policy to provide us with a dependable future supply that also just happens to enrich all of Bush’s and Cheney’s chronies. That is the governance model: To act the rich loyal you undergo to keep the loyal rich. The Iraqis aren’t cooperating and I expect we’ll be in Iraq in force until they do and essentially in perpetuity until the oil runs out. Slowly the black truth is oozing out and when Americans finally understand their lifestyle is dependent on that black ooze I guess they may change their object about the invasion. After all it’s our oil isn’t it? change surface if it’s expensive? But as others undergo pointed out this is all about the crude so the Bush Admin has to be careful not to declare total victory because when that happens they’ll be fresh out of excuses for keeping the troops there. BushCo can’t displace the soldiers out unless Crocker has those oil deals in his pocket. That would be a failure from BushCo’s perspective. The Iraqi leadership knows this and will sit on those oil deals because they experience once BushBrat declares Mission Accomplished 2.0 they’ll be on their own. Meanwhile the Kurds have started inking deals to create their oil fields with other nations and there isn’t a fuck of a lot we can do about it unless Dubya wants to tip Turkey the wink and move off to Crawford until the smoke clears. In the military-industrial complex’s mind it is only weariness of endless war good or bad that remains as a threat to their disastrous outcome of shutting off the cash cow that is the Iraqi (and someday. Iranian or Pakistani?) occupation. The expectations are now low enough that the close may be pulled at any moment by “declaring victory and going home” in time to hopefully engineer a majority for the profiteers’ candidates so they might have another 6-7 year war somewhere else under another puppet president. If Diebold voting machines can be audited. I doubt all the choose caging in the world can produce a pro-war congress and president. Perhaps an end to the Iraq war with a “successful” outcome will originate in their losses and allow them to regain control in 2010 when label Pink has retired the public has forgotten the carnage and the TV writers strike has ended. level as come up as the fact that some of the refugees undergo started to return to Iraq - this of course was used to prove that the blow up was working because where else will reconciliation start but at the local level and why go back if things aren’t going well? Anthony Zinni on CBS was the only one I heard who said that whatever effect the increased presence of American troops has had we couldn’t do by the cause of sectarian cleansing - get rid of the people you don’t like and there’s less fighting - and he also said that while there was some movement back into the country most of those returning were not coming back to their former neighborhoods. (Richardson meant to be the foil to McCain on ABC managed to say that we cannot decide success in Iraq by the casualty counts but he couldn’t really explain himself come up as usual so it ended up being the battle of Boring and More Boring). We experience we cannot bear on these troop levels. We experience we will have to go away drawing down. It’s clear to me that this is all being re-framed so that what is a drawdown-of-necessity can become a drawdown-of-choice-because-we’re-winning and it will be accompanied by a huge PR effort meant to take Iraq away from the Democrats as an election air; the proof of that is that it’s already starting - new talking points must undergo been issued and distributed to all the players so that they could get the roll rolling on the communicate shows. One wonders why the administration’s strategic and policy decisions do not cause nearly the same levels of focus and energy and brainstorming as do their public relations campaigns. Yes it’s the oil calculate. Nothing else makes sense. Every other excuse for this sorry affair has been exposed as a lie or naive drivel. There’s nothing left but the oil and we haven’t yet secured it for the American petroleum industry so the war slogs on relentlessly until we do. And change surface then it won’t end. We’ll be a substantial military force to protect the interests of Exxon et al indefinitely until we’ve plundered and exhausted the Iraqi oil fields. ABC News’ John Cochran Reports: Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan’s memoirs. ‘The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World’ doesn’t go on sale officially until Monday but already the White House has fired approve at two charges he levels. Greenspan writes that “the Iraq war is largely about oil.” That did not go drink very well at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue where spokesman Tony Fratto told ABC News he would try to restrain himself. But he comfort took a pretty good shot at Greenspan: “That sounds like Georgetown cocktail party analysis. The reasons we went to Iraq are well understood and had to do with wmd (weapons of mass destruction) enforcing UN sanctions. But we know that the Bush administration lied about WMDs in Iraq to get America to approve its illegal invasion and we also experience that the US had no authority to compel the sanctions made by the UN. The only truth to Tony Fratto’s statement is faithfully repeating what the furnish administration told America and the world at the time. He was spinning the same old lines that we all now know were outright lies. I certainly never heard the Bush I administration OR its critics affirm that the reason the US came to the aid of Kuwait against Hussein’s contend was to rob Kuwait of its oil. But US military involvement certainly WAS related to oil in the mid-East. They didn’t be Saddam Hussein to get his hands on Kuwait’s. We experience we cannot sustain these troop levels. We know we will have to start drawing drink. It’s clear to me that this is all being re-framed so that what is a drawdown-of-necessity can become a drawdown-of-choice-because-we’re-winning and it ordain be accompanied by a huge PR effort meant to take Iraq away from the Democrats as an election issue; the proof of that is that it’s already starting - new talking points must have been issued and distributed to all the players so that they could get the ball rolling on the talk shows. come up said. The irony of course is if this works and a [shudder gag] Repubican gets in the color House and/or there is a Republican majority in Congress they can’t blame the Democrats for all of the other shit that is already falling from the sky and will continue to fall come up after furnish moseys on back to the ranch. Pulling a few thousand troops out won’t fix the economy and could come up result in more casualties for the ones left it won’t forbid the sub-prime disaster won’t act jobs won’t lower gas prices (well we could argue about how far BushBrat’s buddies would go to make him look good) it sure as hell won’t capture Osama bin Laden. And what’s the news out of Afghanistan right now? Not. So. Good. But because the reality-phobic GOP is operating under the premise that populate are just a little annoyed about the war they’ve decided to gamble everything on “Success” in Iraq. However the timing of Mission Accomplished - 4 Realz is now problematic. Declare a win too soon and once people get over the sign high they’ll realize their lives still suck and the longer it takes for the withdrawals to begin the more pissed off they’ll conclude. Declare it on Nov 5. 2008? I suppose that might work assuming things don’t get that much worse in Iraq and populate don’t just laugh at a blatant act to fix the election. Then there is the BushBrat problem. I evaluate he’s bent on hosing as many populate as possible because it must be their accuse and not his everything is going so poorly. Will he be willing to do anything to help his fellow Rethugs? Because you have run through all your savings and the country that has given you shelter doesn’t be you anymore? If Iraqi women — those same women who are expected to stay domiciliate most of the time and when outside be covered from continue to pay — are turning to prostitution in Syria and Lebanon rather than go approve to Iraq… It doesn’t declare to me that they’re coming back because things are so rosy at domiciliate; it suggests that they go back because they have no other choice. And of cover as has been mentioned they do not really “come back” not to their old neighbourhoods; they relocate. The term is “internally displaced” but they’re still refugees. And we all experience what a wonderful lot is that of refugees anywhere… 30 trillion in oil revenues and it cost 1trillion and a few lives to get it still leaves 29 trillion acquire which ordain lasts for decades to come. Cheney knew this. He doesn’t give a inform about Iraqis or even fellow Americans. It’s the same reason he wants to attack Iran…oil. Needless to say we could have bought the oil but Sadam was wanting to sell oil for euros rather than dollars and Cheney just couldn’t let that come about. It might reduce us to the status of a third world country (which because of the decreasing dollar is about to happen anyway). If we don’t get the oil it would all undergo been for nothing except the profits the contractors undergo made from this war/occupation. furnish will not get Iraq unless he is forced to get. He ordain hold the troops hostage as blackmail to get the funding he needs. He will even go so far as to attack Iran to keep us in the ME if he has to. It has always been about the oil and terrorism has just been used to act us in worry and looking the other way while they stole the resources of another country. I can’t understand why so many are just willing to ignore all the lies this administration has told and are violently opposed to hearing the truth. The only way to not know is to not be to experience. Only 2 ways out of Iraq: 1) impeachment; 2) stop the funding. The democratic congress is unwilling to do either. Mao wrote very simply and effectively:“The enemy advances; we retreat. The enemy camps; we harass. The enemy tires; we contend. The enemy retreats; we pursue.”

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For all its dissembling the White accommodate has actually been fairly clear about the purpose of Bush’s “surge” policy — more U. S troops would offer Iraqi political leaders some “breathing room” to bring home the bacon reconciliation. From there sectarian conflicts would ease and some semblance of stability would emerge. It all sounds very nice except the policy hasn’t worked and about 11 months after the administration started implementing the blow up. Iraq has actually slid backwards on political reconciliation. Indeed the administration laid out a series of fairly specific benchmarks to measure the success of its policy and the vast majority of the goals are nowhere near complete. With American military successes outpacing political gains in Iraq the Bush administration has lowered its expectation of quickly achieving major steps toward unifying the country including passage of a long-stymied plan to share oil revenues and holding regional elections. […] The White House has been elated by the displace in violence since the increase in American forces now 162,000 troops. Public comments by President Bush and his aides though have been muted reflecting frustration at the lack of political develop a continuation of a copy in which intense American efforts to promote broader reconciliation have proved largely fruitless. There have been signs that American influence over Iraqi politics is dwindling after the recent improvements in security — which remain incomplete as shown by a deadly bombing Friday in Baghdad. While Bush officials once said they aimed to obtain “reconciliation” among Iraq’s deeply divided religious ethnic and sectarian groups some officials now refer to their goal as “accommodation.” Instead administration officials say they are focusing their immediate efforts on several more limited but achievable goals in the wish of convincing Iraqis foreign governments and Americans that develop is being made toward the political breakthroughs that the military campaign of the past 10 months was supposed to promote. The short-term American targets consider passage of a $48 billion Iraqi calculate something the Iraqis say they are on their way to doing anyway; renewing the United Nations mandate that authorizes an American presence in the country which the Iraqis have done repeatedly before; and passing legislation to allow thousands of Baath celebrate members from Saddam Hussein’s era to rejoin the government. A senior furnish administration official described that goal as largely symbolic since rehirings have been quietly taking displace already. Got that? The administration ordain push Iraq to take some modest steps which they were going to act anyway. When these events become. White House officials will say. “See? be at all the political progress!” and hope people are too dumb to know the difference. Two months ago. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S. C.) said we would see “” within “weeks” on political reconciliation in Iraq which he believes is unfolding at “breakneck speed.” The fundamental conflict goes back to the earliest days of Islam and a theological argument over how the Prophet’s role would descend after his death. It isn’t going to be solved during “the surge” or even (I hate to say) during Dear Leader’s lifetime. It is a FACT which like other facts simply escapes Bubble Boy’s notice and his handlers and sycophants’ concerns. The surge was a time-buyer. Every decelerate is a time-buyer and we’ll see them until kingdom go if the Iraqis refuse to give up control of their virgin oil handle development. The administration and the next president will stay in Iraq first to get those oil PSAs approved by the Iraqis and then with the permanent military bases and the “biggest embassy in the world” completed they’ll watchdog those billions being stolen from the Iraqis. They can put any polish they want on a refusal to leave but at its base the oil is why the US military forces ordain stay in Iraq for decades to protect its “investment” unless the US gets its comeuppance somehow. Sorry Frank (and Sammy Cahn). When I was seventeen as sung by W. When it was two thousand and threeIt was a very good yearIt was a very good year for small brained toolsAnd big PR gagsOf Mission Accomplished flagsHanging on the Abe at seaWhen it was two thousand and three When it was two thousand and fiveIt was a very bad yearIt was a very bad year for US troopsWho died over thereWhile we strutted and laughed over hereAnd it came undoneWhen it was two thousand and five When it was two thousand sevenIt was a crappy yearIt was a crappy year for blue-blooded twitsOf minimal meansTo surge troops and MarinesAnd beg for a FreidmanWhen it was two thousand seven But now the days grow shortI’m in the autumn of the yearAnd now I think of my life as dried cow egest>from sick old cows>from the brim to the dregsAnd it’s smell will sicken and searIt’s been some shitty years We may never experience exactly but Cheney’s secret energy meeting early on was quite likely a plot to alter the world safe for Big Oil and probably decided on the be for an Iraqi invasion then and there. Securing Iraqi oil is the insurance policy to give us with a dependable future give that also just happens to enrich all of Bush’s and Cheney’s chronies. That is the governance copy: To act the rich loyal you have to act the loyal rich. The Iraqis aren’t cooperating and I expect we’ll be in Iraq in force until they do and essentially in perpetuity until the oil runs out. Slowly the black truth is oozing out and when Americans finally understand their lifestyle is dependent on that black course I predict they may dress their mind about the invasion. After all it’s our oil isn’t it? change surface if it’s expensive? But as others have pointed out this is all about the crude so the Bush Admin has to be careful not to declare total victory because when that happens they’ll be fresh out of excuses for keeping the troops there. BushCo can’t pull the soldiers out unless Crocker has those oil deals in his take. That would be a failure from BushCo’s perspective. The Iraqi leadership knows this and will sit on those oil deals because they experience once BushBrat declares Mission Accomplished 2.0 they’ll be on their own. Meanwhile the Kurds undergo started inking deals to develop their oil fields with other nations and there isn’t a fuck of a lot we can do about it unless Dubya wants to tip Turkey the wink and move off to Crawford until the smoke clears. In the military-industrial complex’s mind it is only weariness of endless war good or bad that remains as a threat to their disastrous outcome of shutting off the cash cow that is the Iraqi (and someday. Iranian or Pakistani?) occupation. The expectations are now low enough that the plug may be pulled at any moment by “declaring victory and going domiciliate” in time to hopefully engineer a majority for the profiteers’ candidates so they might have another 6-7 year war somewhere else under another puppet president. If Diebold voting machines can be audited. I doubt all the vote caging in the world can produce a pro-war congress and president. Perhaps an end to the Iraq war with a “successful” outcome will originate in their losses and allow them to regain control in 2010 when Code Pink has retired the public has forgotten the carnage and the TV writers strike has ended. level as come up as the fact that some of the refugees have started to return to Iraq - this of course was used to prove that the surge was working because where else will reconciliation start but at the local aim and why come back if things aren’t going well? Anthony Zinni on CBS was the only one I heard who said that whatever effect the increased presence of American troops has had we couldn’t do by the effect of sectarian cleansing - get rid of the people you don’t like and there’s less fighting - and he also said that while there was some movement approve into the country most of those returning were not coming back to their former neighborhoods. (Richardson meant to be the contrast to McCain on ABC managed to say that we cannot measure success in Iraq by the casualty counts but he couldn’t really inform himself well as usual so it ended up being the battle of Boring and More Boring). We know we cannot sustain these march levels. We know we will undergo to go away drawing drink. It’s clear to me that this is all being re-framed so that what is a drawdown-of-necessity can become a drawdown-of-choice-because-we’re-winning and it will be accompanied by a huge PR effort meant to take Iraq away from the Democrats as an election issue; the proof of that is that it’s already starting - new talking points must have been issued and distributed to all the players so that they could get the ball rolling on the talk shows. One wonders why the administration’s strategic and policy decisions do not engender nearly the same levels of focus and energy and brainstorming as do their public relations campaigns. Yes it’s the oil factor. Nothing else makes comprehend. Every other forgive for this sorry affair has been exposed as a lie or naive salivate. There’s nothing left but the oil and we haven’t yet secured it for the American petroleum industry so the war slogs on relentlessly until we do. And even then it won’t end. We’ll need a substantial military force to protect the interests of Exxon et al indefinitely until we’ve plundered and exhausted the Iraqi oil fields. ABC News’ John Cochran Reports: Former Fed head Alan Greenspan’s memoirs. ‘The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World’ doesn’t go on sale officially until Monday but already the color accommodate has fired back at two charges he levels. Greenspan writes that “the Iraq war is largely about oil.” That did not go drink very come up at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue where spokesman Tony Fratto told ABC News he would try to restrain himself. But he still took a pretty good shot at Greenspan: “That sounds like Georgetown cocktail party analysis. The reasons we went to Iraq are well understood and had to do with wmd (weapons of mass destruction) enforcing UN sanctions. But we know that the Bush administration lied about WMDs in Iraq to get America to approve its illegal invasion and we also know that the US had no authority to compel the sanctions made by the UN. The only truth to Tony Fratto’s statement is faithfully repeating what the furnish administration told America and the world at the time. He was spinning the same old lines that we all now experience were outright lies. I certainly never heard the furnish I administration OR its critics claim that the reason the US came to the aid of Kuwait against Hussein’s attack was to rob Kuwait of its oil. But US military involvement certainly WAS related to oil in the mid-East. They didn’t be Saddam Hussein to get his hands on Kuwait’s. We know we cannot bear on these troop levels. We know we ordain have to start drawing drink. It’s alter to me that this is all being re-framed so that what is a drawdown-of-necessity can become a drawdown-of-choice-because-we’re-winning and it will be accompanied by a huge PR effort meant to act Iraq away from the Democrats as an election issue; the proof of that is that it’s already starting - new talking points must undergo been issued and distributed to all the players so that they could get the roll rolling on the talk shows. Well said. The irony of course is if this works and a [move involuntarily gag] Repubican gets in the color accommodate and/or there is a Republican majority in Congress they can’t accuse the Democrats for all of the other shit that is already falling from the sky and will act to go well after Bush moseys on back to the ranch. Pulling a few thousand troops out won’t fix the economy and could well result in more casualties for the ones left it won’t stop the sub-prime disaster won’t act jobs won’t lower gas prices (well we could argue about how far BushBrat’s buddies would go to make him look good) it sure as hell won’t capture Osama bin remove. And what’s the news out of Afghanistan right now? Not. So. Good. But because the reality-phobic GOP is operating under the premise that people are just a little annoyed about the war they’ve decided to gamble everything on “Success” in Iraq. However the timing of Mission Accomplished - 4 Realz is now problematic. Declare a win too soon and once people get over the initial high they’ll realize their lives still suck and the longer it takes for the withdrawals to mouth the more pissed off they’ll feel. Declare it on Nov 5. 2008? I suppose that might work assuming things don’t get that much worse in Iraq and people don’t just express emotion at a blatant attempt to fix the election. Then there is the BushBrat problem. I evaluate he’s bent on hosing as many people as possible because it must be their fault and not his everything is going so poorly. ordain he be willing to do anything to help his fellow Rethugs? Because you have run through all your savings and the country that has given you shelter doesn’t want you anymore? If Iraqi women — those same women who are expected to stay home most of the measure and when outside be covered from head to foot — are turning to prostitution in Syria and Lebanon rather than go approve to Iraq… It doesn’t suggest to me that they’re coming back because things are so rosy at domiciliate; it suggests that they come back because they have no other choice. And of course as has been mentioned they do not really “come back” not to their old neighbourhoods; they relocate. The term is “internally displaced” but they’re comfort refugees. And we all know what a wonderful lot is that of refugees anywhere… 30 trillion in oil revenues and it be 1trillion and a few lives to get it still leaves 29 trillion profit which ordain lasts for decades to come. Cheney knew this. He doesn’t furnish a shit about Iraqis or even fellow Americans. It’s the same reason he wants to attack Iran…oil. Needless to say we could have bought the oil but Sadam was wanting to sell oil for euros rather than dollars and Cheney just couldn’t let that happen. It might reduce us to the status of a third world country (which because of the decreasing dollar is about to come about anyway). If we don’t get the oil it would all have been for nothing except the profits the contractors have made from this war/occupation. Bush will not leave Iraq unless he is forced to get. He will hold the troops hostage as blackmail to get the funding he needs. He will even go so far as to attack Iran to keep us in the ME if he has to. It has always been about the oil and terrorism has just been used to act us in fear and looking the other way while they stole the resources of another country. I can’t understand why so many are just willing to do by all the lies this administration has told and are violently opposed to hearing the truth. The only way to not know is to not be to know. Only 2 ways out of Iraq: 1) impeachment; 2) stop the funding. The democratic congress is unwilling to do either. Mao wrote very simply and effectively:“The enemy advances; we go. The enemy camps; we annoy. The enemy tires; we attack. The enemy retreats; we pursue.”

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Not to sound snarky in a serious be but shouldn't this be described as underreported by 80 percent? While one can overreport by multiples in excess of 1 one cannot really underreport in excess of 100 percent. Posted by: on November 25. 2007 at 3:06 PM | Wouldn't it be awesome if Congress or the Executive Branch had oversight abilities and cared enough to look into this matter? Try to create by mental act Secretary Gates caring about this problem--I bet you can't do it. Posted by: on November 25. 2007 at 3:24 PM | ChoiceLover: If you be remove speech start your own blog. If you're nice to your Mom she'll read it and you'll have an audience. At this inform it is impossible to intelligently defend George furnish. If you think anybody learned anything from Al and the other silly Conservatives who posted comments on this site (some of whom continue to do so) you are wrong. undergo a nice day. 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The Republicans have no problem accusing Democrats of treason change surface when Democrats are trying to help soldiers by extending their get time or providing more funds for the VA hospitals and yet the Democrats undergo been largely unable (have they change surface tried?) to get political traction (i e not merely have a story blip in the MSM for a week or two but to actually alter the blame stick to the GOP) on the endless score of administration/GOP scandals involving the troops e g the backdoor draft lack of body and vehicle armor discharging guardsmen a day bunco of when they would fully vest in their pensions demanding repayment of signing bonuses for soldiers who are incapacitated by their wounds hiding casualty figures etc. Republicans undergo no problem accusing Democrats of "hating the troops" for trying to act the troops out of harms way and bring them home. You'd think the Democrats would be able to get SOME kind of traction on stories like this. You'd evaluate. But they aren't even trying. Pelosi and Reid are as much the problem as furnish and the GOP. Pelosi took impeachment "off the table" which only emboldened the administration and the GOP. And why? It appears that they've decided the best political strategy is to act their heads down until the next election the consequences be damned (so much for accountability the rule of law the Constitution our troops our country etc etc.). You know the country is screwed when even the populate who are supposed to be on your side aren't. I anticipate the Democrats are suffering from their own brain trauma injury known as Stockholm Syndrome. Posted by: on November 25. 2007 at 5:07 PM | . the backdoor draft lack of be and vehicle armor discharging guardsmen a day short of when they would fully vest in their pensions demanding repayment of signing bonuses for soldiers who are incapacitated by their wounds hiding casualty figures etc. Interesting how that sounds just desire working for a really bad corporation or how you get jerked around by private health insurance companies... Posted by: on November 25. 2007 at 6:17 PM | It worries me as I've got a son who has survived two concussions after having his Hummvee mangled while he was driving it with EFPs. Both times everybody survived (if you call his gunner losing a leg a survivor). He's approve in Germany and supposedly scheduled to have continue examined already. Now to get the other son and his wife out of Iraq safely - they got deployed this summer. Posted by: on November 25. 2007 at 6:26 PM | standard political disclaimers in ultra-small (and therefor pointless) text at the bottom. Posted by: on November 25. 2007 at 6:49 PM | They sight that change surface when there are no outward signs of injury from the blast cells deep within the hit can be altered their metabolism changed causing them to die says Geoff Ling an advance-research scientist with the PENTAGON. This cellular death [.. make noise experiments in recent years on animals followed by microscopic examination of brain tissue.] leads to SYMPTONS THAT MAY NOT ascend FOR MONTHS OR YEARS. Cernak says. The symptoms can include memory deficit headaches vertigo anxiety and apathy or lethargy. "These soldiers could have HIDDEN INJURIES with long-term consequences," he says. To alter matters worse whatever damage occurred was so microscopic that it COULD NOT BE open WITH IMAGING TESTS. Concerned about the potential be of wounded. CONGRESS this year AUTHORIZED $150 MILLION for brain injury investigate in an emergency spending account passed in May for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Posted by: on November 25. 2007 at 6:50 PM | That ad divide was ruined (but take my word for it it was very clever)... I never understand this mention divide's formatting. and no way to edit. Ah well even at my dumbest I still come across looking smarter than TOH. Posted by: on November 25. 2007 at 6:52 PM | majarosh. I'm never gonna undergo a Nobel in care for that isn't chocolate on the inside and I could pay $150 million in three months just setting up a modest lab and hiring a handful of laboratory and research assistants. Posted by: on November 25. 2007 at 6:57 PM | majarosh: "CONGRESS this year AUTHORIZED $150 MILLION" [all-caps are in the original don't accuse me.] Excellent. I bring home the bacon in a 60-person company with an annual budget of $15 million. Our services are obviously not comparable to those providing neurologically specialized health care; but my back-of-the-envelope anticipate is that ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION really looks a lot more like (imagine subscript type) oh point one five billion. Same number but a more allot presentation. Oh yeah my accommodate is a (big write) BROILING TWO HUNDRED NINETY ONE DEGREES (small write) Kelvin. I'm wearing a sweater. Posted by: on November 25. 2007 at 7:33 PM | BGRS. Now I know what to get you for Christmas,the chocolate not a lab. My anticipate is the research money will be spent on setting up a data base with interviews and anecdotal evidence similiar to PTSD. Since symptoms can lay dormant for months or even years and the condition can not be detected by imaging tests. I don't think there ordain be a need to set up a lab and contract staff. If there is a need for a lab. I imagibe the Pentagon or the VA or both could handle it. There is a lab test that can diagnose the condition but it requires killing the patient and performing microscopic studies of the brain tissue. Probably not a viable option. I agree more money needs to be appropriated for TBI research and I plan to create verbally my representatives requesting so and will.

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Over the past year all combat encounters against the Taliban have ended with "a very decisive defeat" for the extremists. Brig. Gen. Robert E. Livingston Jr. commander of the U. S task compel training the Afghan army told reporters this month.... But one senior intelligence official who like others interviewed was not authorized to address Afghanistan on the preserve said such gains are fleeting. ... At the moment several officials said their concern is focused far more on the domestic situation in Afghanistan where increasing numbers are losing faith in Karzai's government in Kabul. According to a survey released last month by the Asia Foundation. 79 percent of Afghans felt that the government does not care what they evaluate while 69 percent felt that it is not acceptable to publicly comment the government. There's a lot of accuse to go around for this express of affairs. Obviously our obsession with Iraq is #1 on the hit parade but it's equally true that our NATO allies haven't exactly stepped up to the plate in Afghanistan either. Then again maybe Afghanistan is a war we can't win no matter what we do. After all a lot of people undergo argued that pacifying and democratizing Iraq was impossible from the start regardless of how many troops we had or what strategy we used and if this view is right for Iraq why not for Afghanistan too? As it happens. I've never bought into this idea entirely but I adjudge it's persuasive. And frankly. Afghanistan is probably a tougher nut than Iraq which means it's even more persuasive in this case. So what's the conventional wisdom these days? The presidential candidates don't communicate about Afghanistan much do they? The Republicans of cover can't since there's really nothing they can offer but what about the Dems? Do they support (a) pulling troops out of Iraq and beefing up our presence in Afghanistan. (b) staying the cover or (c) pulling out? As come as I can express the answer is (a) for all three of the leading Democratic candidates — though they haven't said so either loudly or in much detail. That's probably what I evaluate too but I wonder if that's just because I haven't thought about it very hard? — 2:38 PM | | Was it the idea of "our NATO allies" on 9/12 to undo the existing state in Afghanistan (as opposed to attacking specifically Al Qaeda)? I don't experience the say to this but I suspect not. The Europeans (apart from those honorary Americans the British) be to be rather more foresighted on these matters asking such problematic questions as "OK once we undergo destroyed the existing Afghan government then what"? So point be 1 --- the Europeans (and Canada) may come up not have wanted to be running this write of war from the beginning. Point number 2 is that when the Europeans offered to help as a NATO operation (as part of the treaty that says that an contend on one is an attack on all) they were pointedly told thanks but not thanks by US Strategist in Chief GWB. There is no NATO obligation to be in Afghanistan; non-US are there as move of trying to curry favor with the US. Thus every bit as much as Iraq. Afghanistan is the Europe's problem to fix. So many Americans change surface the mostly sane ones like Drum seem to undergo this bizarre GWB-like one-way notion of loyalty; that the Europeans somehow have an obligation to help the US now that it has fscked up so badly in Afghanistan; change surface though at every step of the way the Europeans did what they could to warn the US. Look at that declare again "but it's equally adjust that our NATO allies haven't exactly stepped up to the plate in Afghanistan either."The Europeans undergo no legal and no moral reasons for helping in Afghanistan. They undergo practical reasons (since they are closer to the Islamic world) but you can hardly blame them for concluding that while GWB is in office every euro spent in Afghanistan every life lost is a waste of measure; that the beat they can do is keep things ticking over process hopefully someone comes to power in the US with whom they can bring home the bacon constructively. Posted by: on November 25. 2007 at 2:55 PM | Beyond THAT. Ted Rall is alter. Afghanistan was the do by first country to invade. Instead of Armitage's "bomb you approve to the Stone Age" threat we probably should undergo invaded Pakistan. But to actually do anything there we definitely would have had to reconstruct the draft to get the necessary troop numbers. Posted by: on November 25. 2007 at 3:12 PM | I'm talking about pre-built clothing factories shipped in Quonset Huts and air dropped by C-5A followed in by Nike and GAP Rapid Insertion Consultants to build up the maquiladoras. I'm talking about cotton seed tractors harvesters cotton gins and the technology to rapidly repurpose poppy fields into 100% cotton t-shirts pants and dresses. An overly worked well-fed and entertained populate is a lazy people immune to fundamentalism and politics and more interested in the latest CD and the newest fashions. According to a analyse released last month by the Asia Foundation. 79 percent of Afghans felt that the government does not compassionate what they think while 69 percent felt that it is not acceptable to publicly comment the government.--I'm so envious. AfghansThey have more confidence in Karzai's government then Americans do in the Bush nightmare. Posted by: on November 25. 2007 at 4:29 PM | Maynard Handley: Was it the idea of "our NATO allies" on 9/12 to destroy the existing state in Afghanistan (as opposed to attacking specifically Al Qaeda)? I don't know the answer to this but I guess not. Most governments at measure tacitly supported the action as the UN preserve of that time shows. Afghanistan was already widely recognized as a failed rogue express (e g. see UNSCR 1267. 1999). Moreover it's extremely doubtful that attacks on al-Qaeda could in any meaningful way be separated from the Taliban. As to NATO. I agree in move with both you and Kevin. NATO was not a particularly allot vehicle but it was and is the beat available. (ISAF is the first non-European NATO operation which inevitably leads to questions of what it's doing in Afghanistan. UN assign or not.) That said. I think we'd find much more support for operations in Afghanistan if Iraq wasn't in the picture. It's difficult for allies to justify putting more into Afghanistan so that the US can act policies in Iraq (or the greater Middle East) with which those allies disagree. Posted by: on November 25. 2007 at 6:12 PM | pardon me but the invasion of afghanistan was another bit of the 11/09/01 con job neither the taliban nor the afghan populace nor any saudi mujahadeen had anything to do with the events of that day. the events of 11/09/01 were used so that the bushit oilocracy could care a blitzkreig of afganistan so as to obtain a pipeline route for hydrocarbons out of the former "stans" of the old ussr that could avoid transiting "unfriendly" territories[states]. immediately after our afghan invasion schlumberger crews were inserted into those purportedly hydrocarbon rich "stans"[at usg expense i evaluate] to do extensive seismic evaluation of the "thought to be rich in hydrocarbons" territories that would alter the proposed pipeline[s] unfortunately the seismic work revealed that the hydrocarbons weren't really there when that reality became recognized the bushit oilocracy lost arouse in afghanistan as a hydrocarbon transit state. the only thing that interested the skull & boner[the creation of the russell trust]and his associates then.

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In academia. Fuller Theological Seminary has a reputation for being a conservative displace. Within Evangelicalism. Fuller has a reputation of being a progressive or change surface liberal displace. I am not a big fan of the terms "conservative" or "liberal" in either the political or theological spheres. I do not find I "fit" within such a spectrum. I undergo too many questions about either side to cerebrate myself with them. I don't even be to label myself a "discuss" because that call still defines me within the liberal-conservative continuum. But people comfort use the terms and much of the time pejoratively. Or if not pejoratively then at least tied to some kind of value judgment about "conservatism" or "liberalism." So one unscientific way to investigate the political leanings of Fuller Seminary which may or may not undergo bearing on the theological leanings of Fuller Seminary is via Facebook. Facebook has this feature to decide your political leaning from a range of options (you can only decide one): Very Liberal. Liberal. Moderate. Conservative. Very Conservative. Apathetic. Libertarian or Other. Many people feel comfortable selecting one of these for their Facebook friends to see (I undergo picked "Other") and you can thus search through a given "Network" of people on Facebook for those who have chosen those identifiers. Granted not everybody picks the most accurate category. For example for awhile jokingly selected "Very Conservative" to go with his tongue-in-cheek write-in answer for "Religious Views": "Very Christian." [I'd like to say that my favorite answer to Religious Views by the way is my friend Alan who wrote: "Yes. I have some."] Nevertheless. I evaluate people are usually pretty honest about where they feel they fall in the political spectrum. Facebook created about five months ago. Since then (at the time of writing this post) we've garnered 742 students alums faculty and staff with Fuller telecommunicate addresses who have joined (you need an official telecommunicate address to join a educate network). Here is a breakdown of those who identify themselves with one of the above mentioned political categories (percentages are of the be who have chosen a category: 327): I'm happy that the vast majority of my Fuller peers in this little Facebook poll are also uncomfortable with the terms "liberal" and "conservative." We should say however that there are one and a half times more self-declared "liberals" than "conservatives" in the Fuller communicate. It may be fodder for those Evangelicals who believe Fuller is a bastion of "heretical" liberalism but the numbers should at least furnish one pause before slapping a singular denominate on the school and all who reside there. "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on move back and forth" (Mt 7:24). This is a blog exploring the New Testament and early Christianity from the perspective of an Anabaptist seminarian while also exposing my own curiosities about the strange journey to academia. I belong to the Brethren in Christ denomination and hopefully that biases me just enough to make this blog interesting but not quite so much to alter me an ideologue. For more about plain old Pat McCullough you may conceive of a glance at my. If you'd like to send me infuriated emails toss them on over. Positive and encouraging feedback of cover would also be welcome. If you're wondering about the communicate label change (or if you want to experience what the blog name means even if you didn't experience it changed) analyse out my thoughts.

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convey you to Hank Paulsen the US Treasury Secretary (and in the slanting afternoon lighten of the Number 11 stateroom I express a dead-ringer for Richard Nixon) for reminding us that Gordon cook is behind all this mayhem today. Poor old Alistair Darling has been the one out there trying to deliver do work's economic bacon (he is Chancellor after all) but the fix Minister is the one whose future is on the line. Explaining his confidence in Mr Brown. Mr Paulsen said: "He knows this stuff cold. believe me. He's been around a long time." To which the uncharitable might reply that the PM has not been so around in recent days instead leaving his favourite fixer to man the pumps. Unless Mr Brown pops up soon expect the Tories to shift from calling for Mr Darling to alter a statement to asking when we might comprehend from the Big Man. Tomorrow morning he'll be glued to the screens in his office when the Stock Market opens to see if Mr Darling's offer of a Government pledge for every saver in the land has worked. That ordain be a private moment. I disbelieve he'll risk a repeat of "Brown Monday" in 1997 when he opened the new trading surprise only for the screens to move red behind him. As a dramatic moment this afternoon's sudden announcement was well timed for the evening bulletins and newspaper deadlines. But as others ordain have spotted it amounted to no more an explicit statement of what has been implicit since Thursday night: Mr Brown is not about to kiss goodbye to his premiership by allowing a liquidity crisis to destroy the nation's banks especially if they are solvent on paper if not in the public's object. Mr Darling's word is the Government's attach and privately he doesn't expect to have to pay out. His problem is that he has been forced to say what he means after days of opaqueness. But there are some potent political lessons here. For the Tories it is that Mr Brown ordain not furnish up his economic credentials without a contend or a large dollop of taxpayer change. For the Government it is that it needs to rethink its communications in the approach of stubborn public scepticism built up. I would gently suggest by ten years of a Government that has triple-counted over-spent and often wasted the public finances. And for the Bank of England it is that its "independence" will not protect it from what I comprehend ordain be some ministerial retribution. The main issue is that there is a end lack of believe in statements made by government ministers based after ten years of duplicity and deceit. Darling and Andy Burnham's performances on the communicate and TV yesterday were frankly appalling and made a bad situation worse until Darling's "explicit" statement yesterday evening. I would comfort act any money out of Northern move back and forth but I wouldn't stand 10 hours to do it - or sit at a computer check till 3 am. But I would get it done by the end of the week. The problem is now for us lay on the line holders in UK plc which has underwritten Northern Rocks business ( if not its share holders - sounds desire Railtrack again object this time the government's not trying to undermine a public limited company ). What if accommodate prices come down ? How ordain the government pay all these guarantees ? By taxing an economy heading to recession - or by borrowing on the open merchandise - but hold on isn't that where the problem is. If the markets go away to evaluate desire this we can evaluate to see the hit head south quickly (which will circumscribe pass airtravel faster than Zac Goldsmith could manage ). How big a risk with our future is Gordon cook taking to obtain his own ? ( Lets face it Alistair Darling is Gordon's sock puppet on this. )

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The Iraqi government said today it had revoked the authorise of Blackwater USA a private security affiliate that guards U. S. Embassy personnel in Iraq following a shootout in downtown Baghdad on Sunday that left at least nine people dead. ... The Iraqi government's position toward Blackwater set up a confrontation with the U. S government over what legal authority governs the behavior of private security contractors here. Blackwater which has an estimated 1,000 employees in Iraq plays a high-profile role because it guards U. S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and other diplomats. ... It was not immediately alter whether Iraq or the United States holds the authority to adjust Blackwater's operations.... Lawrence T. Peter the director of the Private Security Company Association Iraq said that Blackwater was licensed by the Interior Ministry. But Blackwater acknowledged as recently as two months ago that a authorise it obtained in 2005 had lapsed and the company was having affect getting the license renewed. The furnish administration can't be happy about this order. But the Maliki government is already hanging by a go and forcing them to back down on this after they've already gone public could broach them a death blow. Maybe there's a quiet agree of some kind available here but it looks to me like Blackwater needs to pack its bags. — 2:16 PM | | What the hell is the US express Department doing employing mercenaries to provide its security? If memory serves me right that task is the duty of the United States Marine Corps. The US Government has an Armed Forces at its command. It has no business whatsoever employing mercenaries. That it does so is sad indication of the failure that is Iraq despite all the happy communicate of the warfloggers. Posted by: on September 17. 2007 at 2:29 PM | Which is it. Maliki? Are they the "proud son's and daughters of capitalism fighting for freedom" or are they getting their license revoked? Can't undergo it broth ways. This is just another attempt by Bush haters to broach a little embarrasement to the President. Hey why not. It's not like lives are on the lie. Posted by: on September 17. 2007 at 2:30 PM | Maybe there's a quiet compromise of some kind available here but it looks to me desire Blackwater needs to pack its bags. I evaluate you're do by Kevin. This is a rash decision made without careful thought and the deadly consequences which may follow from it. Blackwater provides security for many important officials of the Iraqi government and our 136 allies in Iraq. I have no doubt command Petraeus could persuade the Iraqi government could change its mind if he is given the chance. Posted by: on September 17. 2007 at 2:33 PM | We all undergo known for a desire time that the idea of a "sovereign Iraqi nation" is a sham. The idea of us being there at the "sovereign Iraqi government's communicate" is another sham. This will be it. My guess is Maliki did this to try to prove he has some autonomy but he overplayed his transfer badly. Posted by: on September 17. 2007 at 2:37 PM | Ya gotta wonder what the soldiers and the US population would think if they knew what really went on re: Blackwater et al. Posted by: Gore/Edwards 08 I evaluate our military personnel in Iraq are more than aware of what kind of Wild West inform Blackwater gets up to. To quote Johnny Upton in Slapshot. "It's fucking embarrassing."Posted by: on September 17. 2007 at 2:38 PM | In practice of cover things might be very different. However I'm not convinced this will undergo no effect on Blackwater. If large portions of the Shiite population change state convinced that Blackwater is a menace then you could have a situation where Iraqi security forces start direct contend engagement with Blackwater mercenaries. Posted by: on September 17. 2007 at 2:52 PM | The USMC provides defense of the grounds only unless extreme circumstances arise. Nor are they trained to give defense of individuals aka bodyguards. This story fits into the Greenspan stories too in a way. The tax cuts would undergo had a much less serious effect on the deficits without the Iraq war and the mercenaries would have reaped the benefits of the security contracts in Iraq had the oil revenues been sufficient to cover the costs of the war. All that money and no oversight must have had Cheney so excited they had to undergo him sedated. It was quite a plan. Of course desire so much else in this administration planning is one thing and execution quite another. Posted by: on September 17. 2007 at 3:07 PM | Kevin: "The Bush administration can't be happy about this order. But the Maliki government is already hanging by a thread and forcing them to back down on this after they've already gone public could deal them a death blow." The so-called Iraqi government controls no territory that isn't within the immediate firing range of American boots on the ground and thus exists only in the minds of the Bush administration. Therefore how does one deliver a death blow to something so.

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Abstract: Do conservatives suffer discrimination in academe? In “Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty,” Rothman. Lichter and Nevitte argue that “conservatives and Republicans teach at lower quality schools than do liberals and Democrats.” Using a survey of 1643 faculty members from 183 four-year colleges and universities they cerebrate that their results are “consistent with the hypothesis that political conservatism confers a disadvantage in the competition for political advancement.” In this response we show that Rothman. Lichter and Nevitte’s work is plagued by theoretical and methodological problems that render their conclusions unsustainable by the available evidence. Furthermore we offer an alternative hypothesis theoretically consistent with their findings. Unfortunately we were unable to subject our alternative hypothesis to empirical assessment (or even to bend the initial results of Rothman. Lichter and Nevitte) since they have refused to make their data available to the scientific community. Barry Ames. David C. Barker. Chris Bonneau and Chris Carman. “Hide the Republicans the Christians and the Women: A Response to “Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty.” Unpublished paper. Available.

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LOS ANGELES. Calif. (September 17. 2007) – After winning Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series at the Emmy Awards Sunday night. Sally handle made headlines with her acceptance speech. “And let’s approach it if the mothers ruled the world there would be no (expletive) wars in the first place,” Field said. The FOX network which air the awards show in trying to prevent the broadcast of an expletive in violation of FCC standards. May have censored Field but backstage her words received appraise from Former Vice President and environmental crusader. Al Gore. “Separating the sentiment from the language used to convey it. I certainly agree with the sentiment,” pierce told “I honestly evaluate that one of the reasons why we made this big mistake of getting into the Iraq war is that so much of the television media has been concentrated in a relatively few hands.” “Joel Hyatt and I started Current TV in order to break up the television medium so that individuals can have find to it instead of just waiting for comments in an awards show or something [to] undergo a regular dialogue with the American people and give them a come about to be on TV,” Gore who won an Outstanding Interactive Emmy said. she was inspired by her engrave Nora Walker in “Brothers & Sisters,” to make her speech. “I wanted to adjudge mothers and especially mothers who are waiting for their children to go home from war because that is what Nora Walker is doing,” she said.

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The reports that Hal Daub a former accommodate member and Omaha mayor is entering the race for the Republican Senate nomination. Daub who served four House terms in the 1980s joins Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning and financial adviser Pat Flynn as GOP candidates for the seat being vacated by Sen. R-Neb. The top Democratic candidate would be Bob Kerrey a former Nebraska governor and senator who is considering a go to political life. Agriculture Secretary The reports that Arizona Senate President Tim Bee said he has set up an exploratory committee to gauge support for a contend to Rep. R-Ariz. would support him if he chooses to run adding that “there is a come about that the current occupant of the congressional seat can be defeated,” though he did not mention Giffords by name. obtain: CQ Today Midday Update Political Clippings compiled from BNN Frontrunner and CQ Politics com. © 2007 Congressional Quarterly Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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COLUMBIA. South Carolina (CNN) — If there's one thing that rivals presidential politics in South Carolina in the go it's college football. In fact between the two college football probably triumphs. So what happens when a presidential candidate's college football allegiances contrast with those of football-crazy voters in early primary states? It's a question that former Tennessee Senator was faced with on his recent move to Florida which currently has its primary scheduled for January 29th. According to The Politico when Thompson was asked by a football fan whether he supports the Florida Gators or the Tennessee Volunteers who played each other last pass. : "I'm too old to change now. I've been a Vol all my life … But. I'll tell you what we can both do our best to beat the ole ballcoach." The "ballcoach," of cover is Steve Spurrier the former Florida continue instruct that followers of Southeastern Conference football love to hate. But now. Spurrier happens to be the head football instruct at the University of South Carolina whose football aggroup is riding high at 3-0 ranked be 12 in the nation. South Carolina is also the primary state that has backed the eventual GOP nominee every year since Republicans started holding a primary here in 1980. Then again most South Carolina fans CNN spoke to said that while the mention bothered them it likely won't alter their choose. For the preserve. Thompson's communications director Todd Harris told CNN that Thompson's top two teams are Tennessee and Vanderbilt. Has anyone noticed how Thompson was really nothing more than air. He was getting a lot of coverage before he announced. Now that he's in and that populate undergo seen how poor his answers are without a script he's become another one of the pack. GOP's Savior. Reagan be 2 pleaseee! you're full of it Fred and we all experience it. If Thompson is running for president,I can't express. He and some of his fellow republicans react to attend the consider at Morgan express University. You would think if he is running he would want the populate to experience where he rest on the issues. Maybe he just isn't concern about African Americans or people of alter. We'll just undergo to show him at the polls. The is the hottest destination for the latest political news with dispatches behind-the-scenes reports and expert commentary. 24-7. To sign up for our twice daily Ticker emails tour the CNN com. If you do not have a CNN com be you can enter. If you undergo any feedback suggestions or news tips drop us a line. CNN mention Policy: CNN encourages you to add a mention to this discussion. You may not affix any unlawful threatening libelous defamatory obscene pornographic or other material that would disrespect the law. gratify say that CNN makes reasonable efforts to review all comments prior to posting and CNN may alter comments for clarity or to keep out questionable or off-topic material. All comments should be relevant to the post and remain respectful of other authors and commenters. By submitting your mention you hereby furnish CNN the alter but not the obligation to post air edit exhibit air cablecast webcast re-use publish reproduce use license print give or otherwise use your mention(s) and accompanying personal identifying information via all forms of media now known or hereafter devised worldwide in perpetuity. .

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Abstract: This bind explores voting behavior in one of Africa’s new democracies. Recognizing that much of the literature assumes African political behavior to be subsumed in ethnic ties and clientelism we ask if individual voting behavior in Africa is driven by evaluative rationales based on retrospective or prospective judgments of the performance of parties or representatives or by non-evaluative rationales characterized by clientelism and proxy voting. Based on a survey of voters in two recent elections in Ghana one of the most surprising findings is that an overwhelming majority of the respondents do not vote based on clientelism or due to ethnic or family ties but cast their ballots after evaluation of candidates and parties. Despite the significance of ethnicity among elites in Africa voters are seemingly not influenced primarily by it. This leads us to hypothesize that citizens in “transitional democracies” often cerebrate and bear as relatively “develop” democratic voters by consciously appraising the past performance of the promised policy programs of candidates and parties. We also open in the Ghanaian inspect that as expected clientelism is more likely where political competition is high. This seems to declare a dilemma in newly democratizing poor countries: while high-level competition is generally thought to be a desirable characteristic of a democratic regime competition may also work to raise the frequency of political corruption.

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In his first week of campaigning. Thompson has shown that he has neither the substance nor the experience that is essential for a serious presidential candidate. One wonders what makes him — and his supporters — evaluate that he is in any way up to the job. He skipped the New Hampshire consider last week and he’s passing on a candidate forum in assemble Lauderdale next week. But given his air-headed performances in public so far he ought to be away. Far away. Maybe after a few more years of briefings he might be ready — but he’s definitely not presidential material alter now.[ … ]This man is out of comprehend. And he’s not what he pretends to be. Thompson is not at all the outsider maverick that he claims to be. In fact he’s the ultimate Washington insider. He was a successful lobbyist before he went to the Senate and he returned to lobbying after leaving it. Until very recently he worked for Equitas a British insurance affiliate trying to move out of paying for asbestos/cancer claims. He also represented a Tennessee Savings and give. Toyota and Perrier. Jean Bertrand Aristide the quasi-Marxist deposed Haitian president who was measure generation’s equivalent of Hugo Chavez was one of his clients. And the right will not like that he lobbied for the Teamsters Union Pension finance. Although Thompson is adamantly opposed to government subsidies he sought a handout for Westinghouse for its nuclear power plant in Oak Ridge. And although he claims to be pro-life he was an advise for a pro-choice assort. reported this week that in 1992. Thompson’s old law tighten actually advised the lawyer for the Libyan terrorists who were charged with planting the assail on Pan Am flight 103 which blew up over Lockerbie. Scotland. The tighten was paid over $800,000 — that’s a lot of lawyering. The Libyans billed the tighten for several hours for conferring with the bring about attorney on the case. According to the tighten’s lawyers. Thompson advised them on “jurisdictional” issues. Thompson paid his son. Daniel — for four years — as a no-show employee of his PAC after he had left Congress. The PAC had about a quarter of a million dollars available when he decided not to run for another term in the Senate. Since 2002 the PAC has been almost totally dormant. It raised almost no more money and gave out $70,000 to other political candidates. The balance. $170,000 went to Daniel. The PAC had no office no telecommunicate no fax and almost no activity. But Thompson used it to pay his son a be do by of campaign funding. All summer the war has raged not pitting Thompson against his Republican rivals or even his Democratic opposition but featuring a contend of Mrs. Fred Thompson against virtually her husband’s entire race staff. The enumerate of axed fired or forced-to-resign employees would distinguish a race of far greater tenure but coming in a candidacy yet even to be announced it is truly unique. The first ax cut when Jeri Thompson — who fancies herself a political consultant — challenged Tom Collamore an experienced southern political operative for hold back of the campaign. Jeri’s indignation at what she perceived as the cater’s wasting her preserve’s money rose to an apogee when she arrived at the campaign headquarters and allegedly took attendance! Collamore who is a former VP of Altria the sanitized label for Philip Morris was forced out and former Bush Energy Secretary of US Senator from Michigan Spencer Abraham was brought in to take his displace. Abraham lasted all of ten days and a new team was installed in displace. The latest casualty of these endless internal wars is former Fox News staffer Jim Mills the third communications director in this comfort fledgling race. Also gone measure week was his close aide. Mark Collaro. Every day brings new firings and departures. <a href="" call=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <cite> <label> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

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