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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (65833)	8/26/2005 3:38:36 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

"You call me a liar when you find yourself at the end of a road Nonsense. I simply noted how often you boast about being a liar, and you seem quite proud of it. Thank you for the reiteration of that fact. "I will repeat to you that I am a liar." That is not at the end of any road, that is at the very forefront of consideration, which is why any discussion with you is pointless.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (65833)	8/26/2005 9:41:45 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Chinu. Maybe next step for sheehan will be democratic senator somewhere just like kery boy did. PR Machine Behind Cindy Sheehan?ABC7 Looks At The Financing Of 'Camp Casey' By Mark Matthews abclocal.go.com With the President back at his Crawford ranch, the anti-war protest right outside his ranch is getting a lot more media attention. ABC7 looks at who is financing the operation and who's providing on-the-ground support. The camp at Crawford is full of Cindy Sheehan supporters, people from all walks of life. But off to the side are a small group of professionals, skilled in politics and public relations who are marketing her message. Cindy Sheehan kneels before a cross with her son's name on it, touches his picture, wipes her tears. It's an outpouring of emotion that is part of a scheduled news event organized daily for the television radio and print reporters who crowd in to capture a mother's grief. Cindy Sheehan: "And I'm never going to see him again, I'm never going to hold him again, I'm never going to hear his voice again." Sheehan's message hasn't changed since she got here but the support staff interested in getting that message out to the world has grown considerably. Organizers are set up in this house trailer. Their meetings are closed to reporters. Leading the group is Fenton Communications employee Michele Mulkey, based in San Francisco. Fenton specializes in public relations for liberal non profits. Their bills are being paid by True Majority, a non-profit set up by Ben Cohen, of Ben and Jerry's ice cream fame. Ben Cohen: "People are willing to listen to her and we want to do as much as we can to make her voice heard." Cohen's liberal group has teamed up with Berkeley-based moveon.org, an anti-Bush group co-founded by Joan Blades. Earlier this month, MoveOn.org helped organize anti-war vigils in support of Cindy Sheehan. Current Democratic National Party chair Howard Dean's organization, Democracy for America, is also involved. As is the more radical anti-war group Code Pink, organized by San Francisco's Medea Benjamin. Money donated through these groups and others is helping to pay for Gold Star families whose children have been killed in Iraq to attend anti-Bush protests. This week, Simi Valley, California Gold Star wife Melanie House flew to Idaho for a protest and then flew to Crawford. Reporter: "Can you tell us if you're getting help in airfare to come down here?" Melanie House: "What difference does that make?" There is real reluctance to talk about whose paying. And the PR machine that's promoting Cindy Sheehan. But not everyone here is completely comfortable with it. Gold Star mother Karen Meredith went to Crawford from Mt. View. Her son Ken Ballard died last year. Karen Meredith: "Sometimes things don't feel quite right to me. They don't feel wrong but maybe that's how they do it in the marketing business." ABC7's Mark Matthew: "You feel you're part of a marketing business?" Karen Meredith: "Possibly. Yeah I think so."

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (65833)	8/26/2005 9:50:26 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

chinu. Will this help you at all in understanding what is really going on and where in this war against islam terrorists? US predicts Zarqawi Africa flight Thursday, 25 August 2005 news.bbc.co.uk A top US general has said al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, will try to relocate to the Horn of Africa if Iraq is stabilised. Major-General Douglas Lute cited Yemen, Somalia, Sudan and Ethiopia as likely "safe havens" for jihadists. He said that "vast ungoverned spaces" of east Africa were likely to appeal to Zarqawi's insurgents as operations in Iraq and Afghanistan become difficult. US troops based in Djibouti already aim to stop infiltration from the Red Sea. "There will come a time when Zarqawi will face too much resistance in Iraq and will move on," Maj Gen Lute said. He warned that Zarqawi's network remained determined to demonstrate a "show of force" in the run-up to Iraq's constitutional referendum and subsequent elections. "He has to go down fighting," Maj Gen Lute said. Wider concern The warning is the latest in a series issued by the US that al-Qaeda would try to reconvene in east Africa after its safe haven in Afghanistan was removed in 2001, when a US-led attack ousted the Taleban. Since then the 900-strong US force has been deployed to Djibouti in an effort to stop militants entering the Horn of Africa at its tip. US troops also train Eritrean and Ethiopian forces. The BBC's Martin Plaut says US work in Somalia, where Islamic fundamentalists already have a foothold, has been hampered by the absence of an effective government. The US recently warned that Africa's Sahel countries, including Mauritania, Mali, Niger and Chad, could become a terrorist haven, and has carried out troop exercises and training efforts in the region. Maj Gen Lute is operations head at US Central Command, and is responsible for planning the way ahead over 12 to 18 months for almost 140,000 US troops, 8,000 British soldiers and 15,000 other foreign troops currently in Iraq.