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

To: PROLIFE who wrote (56401)	3/23/2006 11:21:55 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

HILLARY : GOP WOULD HAVE BOOTED JESUS By MAGGIE HABERMAN NY POST March 23, 2006 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton ratcheted up her talk about religion yesterday - saying a GOP-sponsored bill making it a felony to be in the United States illegally would have "criminalized" Jesus. Clinton, who's considered the Democratic front-runner for the 2008 White House race, made the comments at a hastily scheduled news conference about the House-passed bill aimed at illegal immigrants. Clinton blasted Republican leadership, which "is constantly talking about values and about faith [but put] forth such a mean-spirited piece of legislation." "It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scriptures," she added. "Because this bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself." The House bill passed last December. Clinton said, "Many of us think it's a political bill" - but didn't back any of the competing Senate versions. "We want the outcome to be that [backers of the House bill are] on the wrong side of the politics, as well as the wrong side of history and American values," she said. She added that she would support a bill that includes stronger border controls. She also called for employers who exploit illegal immigrants to face penalties. In addition, she wants to set up a system to allow illegal immigrants currently living in this country to earn their citizenship.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (56401)	3/23/2006 11:37:43 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

NY TIMES CAN'T STOP STEPPING IN IT LOL Another Bad Slip for 'NY Times': Katrina Victim Unmasked By EDITORAND PUBLISHER March 23, 2006 10:10 AM ET NEW YORK For the second time in less than a week, The New York Times today admitted to a serious error in a story. On Saturday it said it had misidentified a man featured in the iconic "hooded inmate" photograph from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Today it discloses that a woman it profiled on March 8 is not, in fact, a victim of Hurricane Katrina--and was arrested for fraud and grand larceny yesterday. As it did in the Abu Ghraib mistake, the Times ran an editors' note on page 2 of its front section, along with a lengthy news article (this time on the front page of Section B). Again mirroring the Abu Ghraib episode, the newspaper revealed a surprising and inexplicable lapse in fact-checking on the part of a reporter and/or editor. The original article, more than 1000 words in length, was written by Nicholas Confessore. He also wrote the news article about the error today. Without saying that he wrote the first story, he wrote today: "The Times did not verify many aspects of Ms. Fenton's claims, never interviewed her children, and did not confirm the identity of the man she described as her husband." The editors' note states: "An article in The Metro Section on March 8 profiled Donna Fenton, identifying her as a 37-year-old victim of Hurricane Katrina who had fled Biloxi, Miss., and who was frustrated in efforts to get federal aid as she and her children remained as emergency residents of a hotel in Queens. "Yesterday, the New York police arrested Ms. Fenton, charging her with several counts of welfare fraud and grand larceny. Prosecutors in Brooklyn say she was not a Katrina victim, never lived in Biloxi and had improperly received thousands of dollars in government aid. Ms. Fenton has pleaded not guilty. "For its profile, The Times did not conduct adequate interviews or public record checks to verify Ms. Fenton's account, including her claim that she had lived in Biloxi. Such checks would have uncovered a fraud conviction and raised serious questions about the truthfulness of her account." Last Saturday, the Times editors' note disclosed that Ali Shalal Qaissi, pictured on the front page "as the hooded man forced to stand on a box, attached to wires, in a photograph from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal of 2003 and 2004," was not that man. "The Times did not adequately research Mr. Qaissi's insistence that he was the man in the photograph," it related. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E&P Staff (letters@editorandpublisher.com)

To: PROLIFE who wrote (56401)	3/23/2006 12:00:27 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

But you said that Saddam failed to heed the UN. But the UN didn't see the need for war at that juncture. Only the US saw the need and the desire for war. I don't think that the UN hated America either. They were being calm and rational about the situation in Iraq, and about the larger war on terror. Was the UN opposed to going to Afghanistan to root out Al Qaeda? No. The coalition for that effort included France, Germany, Russia and Pakistan. Now you say that the difference between Afghanistan and the war in Iraq was about hatred of the US? Why must you continue to lie to us and yourself? You're truly delusional. Orca