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To: Neeka who wrote (282)	4/10/2006 8:06:11 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 908

The commie NATION Magazine pulls a "Dewey defeats Truman" on the Italian election. ---------------------------------------------------------- Italy Votes for Withdrawal news.yahoo.com The Nation Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:30 AM ET The Nation -- George Bush's second closest comrade in the neoconservative "coalition of the willing" occupiers of Iraq has been swept from power. And that means that Italy will soon withdraw its troops from the coalition and Iraq. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who after British Prime Minister Tony Blair was the strongest supporter of Bush's policies in Europe, and perhaps the world, was swept from office in voting that ended Monday. Berlusconi will be replaced by Romano Prodi, whose center-left Olive coalition promised in its manifesto to withdraw Italian troops from Iraq. Exit polls for the state broadcaster RAI gave Prodi's coalition of liberals, socialists and communists a majority in both houses of parliament. Opposition to the war was not the only factor in the defeat of Berlusconi, whose five-year tenure as prime minister was characterized by corruption and totalitarian tactics, and whose reelection campaign degenerated into crude bluster and obscenity. But the prime minister's alliance with Bush, whose approval ratings are almost as low in Italy as in the U.S., certainly played a role. Prodi's says the withdrawal of Italian troops will be completed "in the technical time necessary," following consultation with Iraqi authorities. That will go over well with the Italians who marched in the millions against Berlusconi's decision to send his country's troops to fight George Bush's war.

To: Neeka who wrote (282)	4/12/2006 7:53:48 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 908

Man at center of big protests a familiar face The Yuma Sun ^ \| April 11, 2006 \| BLAKE SCHMIDT Nearly 30 years ago, before San Luis, Ariz., was a town, Elias Bermudez drove around its dirt streets hollering into a bullhorn that was strapped to the roof of his Chevy. Ever since, the name of the ex-convict and former San Luis mayor has become synonymous with protest and activism. The voice of a popular Phoenix radio show program, he has developed a reputation as a leading voice in a series of pro-immigration protests in Phoenix that are growing progressively more massive. One of the first to serve as mayor of San Luis, he is the only mayor to do hard time. He served 18 months in a federal prison after pleading guilty in 1996 to laundering drug profits. Prior to that, he served six months for a bribery charge....... He called current immigration policy "fatal," comparing the total number of illegal immigrants who have died trying to cross the border in recent years to the total number of U.S. soldiers who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. The immigration problem, he said, is a racial issue, "but not in the sense of racism ... It's about culture," he said. He said that though he discouraged protesters from wielding Mexican flags at this week’s demonstration, he said the flag is a symbol of identity for many Mexican-Americans. He said many Mexican-Americans are "caught between a rock and a hard place," because they are shunned in Mexico as traitors for leaving, and shunned in the U.S. as invaders. "A lot of my Anglo-American friends see this as an invasion. I need to invite them to walk in our shoes," he said. Born near Agua Prieta, Son., Bermudez came to the United States with a border crossing card, and lived in Los Angeles illegally for some years before marrying a U.S. citizen. (Excerpt) Read more at sun.yumasun.com ...

To: Neeka who wrote (282)	4/13/2006 7:11:17 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 908

This is a new low for the media.. White House Demands Apology for 'Labs' Scoop Editor & Publisher ^ \| April 12, 2006 \| E&P Staff The White House on Wednesday hit back at The Washington Post for its front-page story this morning which suggested President Bush in 2003 cited the discovery of mobile biological weapons labs in Iraq as "weapons of mass destruction" just after the Pentagon received a top-level report revealing this was not true. Press Secretary Scott McClellan called the account "reckless reporting" and asked media outlets who carried it to apologize. He said Bush made his statement based on multiple sources. Appearing on MSNBC Wednesday night, the Post reporter who wrote the piece, Joby Warrick, stood by the reporting, and said he had never stated that Bush "knowingly" ignored the report. That left open why the president did not know about it, and why he and others in the administration continued to press the WMD mobile lab angle for months afterward. On May 29, 2003, Bush said, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction,” after the finding of the mobile labs. However, the Post today said a Pentagon-sponsored fact-finding mission had already concluded and submitted a report finding that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons. McClellan said the Post story was "nothing more than rehashing an old issue that was resolved long ago. " He singled out ABC for featuring report. "This is reckless reporting and for you all to go on the air this morning and make such a charge is irresponsible, and I hope that ABC would apologize for it and make a correction on the air," he said. Later, without naming any network, he said, "I talked to one network about it and they have publicly -- well, they've expressed their apologies to the White House. I hope they will go and publicly apologize on the air about the statements that were made, because I think it's important, given that they had made those statements in front of all their viewers. And so we look forward to that happening, as well." McClellan did not explain why the 122-page final report was classified and kept on the shelf. Despite debunkings from various sources, the Post noted, for nearly a year the Bush administration continued to assert that the trailers were biological weapons factories. Talking to reporters today, McClellan said: “You know, I saw some reporting talking about how this latest revelation — which is not something that is new; this is all old information that’s being rehashed — was an embarrassment for the White House. No, it’s an embarrassment for the media that is out there reporting this.... "First of all, intelligence is -- when an assessment is made, it looks at a lot of different intelligence and it takes time to vet that intelligence, go through it, debate it, discuss it with the intelligence community, look at all the different intelligence coming in, whether it's human intelligence or signals intelligence or open-source intelligence. And they pull that all together and the intelligence community makes the assessment. The White House is not the intelligence-gathering agency.... "Now, I will point out that the reporting I saw this morning was simply reckless and it was irresponsible. The lead in The Washington Post left the impression for the reader that the President was saying something he knew at the time not to be true. That is absolutely false and it is irresponsible, and I don't know how The Washington Post can defend something so irresponsible." ------------------------------------------------------------ Editor & Publisher manages not to mention that two other investigative teams found that these WERE mobile biological facilities. That raises obfuscation to the level of a lie, in my opinion. The Washington ComPost merely buried that little fact at the end of the column. Editor & Publisher, springing to their defense, omits it entirely. This is getting dangerous. They are flat out making stuff up willy-nilly......because they are so deranged with hate.