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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (748528)	9/3/2006 2:00:46 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769667

The irony of politics in Oprahamerica: Suddenly the GOD and COUNTRY-addled Democrats are toutung their chances in yet another off-year Democrat debacle by bragging that "Bush can't influence House races much this year." Funny thing that Oprahamerica forgets: Traitor Thom Daschle, standing on the table (so he could see everyone eye-to-eye) in 2002, CRYING, and saying that "We must DO something, as a party, to counter the effects of RUSH LIMBAUGH." When did that suddenly become: We must DO something to counter George Bush or Karl Rove? Historical revisionism has been the Democrat domestic enemy's stock-in-trade since Vietnam. It's neither Rush nor Bush nor Rove that has been destroying them-simply the TRUTH. And TRUTH isn't taking a cycle off...

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (748528)	9/3/2006 2:23:36 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The Clinton legacy: Message 22776235 If it weren't for the mainstream Vietnam back stab by the left, their complicity in the moral disaster visited on America's children by William the Bastard would be their lowest hour. Special thanks to Jeraldo Rivera (now of FOX News!) and Larry King (too f----ng DUMB to know better.) But they are just the tip of the iceberg of moral and intellectual bankruptcy that constitutes America's domestic enemy...

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (748528)	9/3/2006 2:52:29 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769667

The Mexican Algore wants to make himself the Mexican Chico Chavez. But it ain't gonna happen... foxnews.com (Wonder if there's a Mexican Carville who sounds half as dumb as the American version?)

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (748528)	9/4/2006 8:38:29 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769667

I'm sure they flooded in after Saddam was run out... the Sunni insurgents were willing to take all the help they could get to counter-act the rising Shi'a power.

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (748528)	9/4/2006 8:48:32 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769667

The end of the American dream? Analysis By Steve Schifferes Economics reporter, BBC News website news.bbc.co.uk

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (748528)	9/4/2006 8:49:45 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

‘Terrorist’ arrests don’t tell the story By Boston Herald editorial staff Monday, September 4, 2006 news.bostonherald.com Something very odd is going on in the FBI, other federal law enforcement agencies, the Justice Department and perhaps the federal courts too. Most people arrested on charges related to suspected terrorist activities aren’t being prosecuted. The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, a watchdog group that often concentrates on the Justice Department, examined the records of 6,472 terrorism-connected federal cases started since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Some 64 percent of the 4,910 “disposed of” were not prosecuted; another 9 percent were acquitted or saw charges dropped. (These cases do not include prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.) Still, 1,329 convictions is a fairly large number. Of these, though, half received sentences of 28 days or less. Only 5 percent received sentences of five years or more. Perhaps some ordinary bad guys are being swept up in cases wrongly classified as related to terrorism? (Remember at the time of the London terrorist arrests when Michigan police caught up with a bunch of guys with a trunk full of cell phones? Suspicious? Yes. Terrorists? Hardly!) It is hard to tell what’s behind the numbers. But look at the cases classified as related to international terrorism, 1,391 of them: Of the 1,027 completed cases, 67 percent were not prosecuted, not much different from the larger group. And of the 213 convictions, the median sentence again was 28 days. The length of sentences is puzzling, especially in light of the median length in cases brought during the two years before Sept. 11: 41 months. Another oddity: The number of cases begun has fallen off sharply in the last two years, almost matching the number of cases brought in the two years before the Sept. 11 attacks. In comments on the report, the Justice Department said a referral alone does not mean that criminal charges should be filed, and the length of sentence does not reflect the value of breaking up a conspiracy early. True in individual cases. It’s the slender results of all the cases - two-thirds not prosecuted; median sentence only 28 days - that make us wonder if there’s not a lot of wheel-spinning going on.