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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (39140)	8/3/2005 12:01:47 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93284

I was THERE Billy! The chimp was the main cheerleader for the invasion. Everyone KNOWS it. I'm sure he'd LOVE to pass the buck, but he's the one with the bully pulpit. The rest are insignificant midgets - no one was listening to them. Iraq is the chimp's war. A war we're LOSING. Review the amazing amount of war pimping done by the chimpistration, the exagerations, outright lies, slanted comments and the constant use of 9/11 in the same speechifying pimping invading Iraq. Iraq was the chimp's war, and Iraq will be the chimp's legacy. news.scotsman.com

To: Bill who wrote (39140)	8/3/2005 1:22:19 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

More cracks in the PC Dam: NY officials back terrorist profiling WashPost - AP ^ \| August 3, 2005 \| SARA KUGLER NEW YORK -- Middle Easterners should be targeted for searches on city subways, two elected officials said, contending that police have been wasting time with random checks in efforts to prevent terrorism in the transit system. The city began examining passengers' bags on subways and buses after the second bomb attack in London two weeks ago. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have said several times that officers will not engage in racial profiling. But over the weekend, state Assemblyman Dov Hikind said police should be focusing on those who fit the "terrorist profile." "They all look a certain way," said Hikind, a Democrat from Brooklyn. "It's all very nice to be politically correct here, but we're talking about terrorism." On Tuesday, Republican City Councilman James Oddo said the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack by Middle Eastern men in hijacked airplanes prompted him to publicly declare his support for Hikind's statements. "The reality is that there is a group of people who want to kill us and destroy our way of life," he said. "Young Arab fundamentalists are the individuals undertaking these acts of terror, and we should keep those facts prominently in our minds and eyes as we attempt to secure our populace." (Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...

To: Bill who wrote (39140)	8/3/2005 1:42:12 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 93284

My Affair With Helen Thomas (Issue Related, Not Physical) The Hill ^ \| 8/3/05 \| Albert Eisele White House reporter Helen Thomas is mad at me, big time, as VP Dick Cheney once said in a different context about a different reporter. My sin? I made the mistake of assuming that when I called her last week to ask her about a recent Hearst newspaper column on Cheney, I wasn't calling to pass the time of day but acutally intended to write a story about it. Figuring that, since she has covered every president since JFK, she knew I was going to quote her, since I assume people are on the record unless they tell me otherwise, which she didn't, I asked her if she was promoting a Cheney candidacy in 2008. I then wrote what I thought was going to be a fairly innocuous item in the 'Under the Dome' Thursday column in which I quoted her response, 'The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.' She says I shouldn't have quoted her 'because we all say stuff we don't want printed.' Little did I know, being a creature of the typrwriter/telegraph era of journalism, that cybergossip Matt Drudge would pounce on the item and headline it to the farthest regions of the internet universe, along with an unflattering picture of Ms. Thomas. That was all the Drudge acolytes needed to unleash a flood of e-mails condemning her--and me, as her unwitting accomplice. The general tone of the e-mails, and a number of phone calls as well, can be captured in one communication from Rob Clark of Sarasota, Flordia who wrote, 'Please tell Helen Thomas she can borrow one of my guns if she wants to shoot herself.' The larger lesson here, and one I'm surprised that Ms. Thomas, who has been a Washington reporter since 1943, failed to understand, is that 'off the record' is virtually a meaningless term, which is why this column bears the name it does. It's bad enough that public officials hide behind it to disscredit their critics, but even worse when reporters do it.