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To: SiouxPal who wrote (864123)	6/10/2015 12:10:22 PM
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Bob Woodward: Wrong, Bush Did Not Lie Us Into Iraq ............................................................................... By Jack Coleman \| May 25, 2015 newsbusters.org Future commencement speech invitations for Beltway media eminence grise Bob Woodward effectively evaporated, at least in the Northeast, after his appearance yesterday on Fox News Sunday. Woodward, who'll be known in perpetuity as the stable half of the reporting duo who brought down Richard Nixon for a scandal that now appears paltry compared to the vast money-laundering scheme dignified under lofty title of Clinton Global Initiative, admirably did his part to puncture a sacred liberal myth -- that Bush lied and people died. As Woodward sees it, only the latter half of that equation is correct. No matter, liberals will keep muttering it, usually when they're awake, since clinging to their delusions is essential for maintaining what passes for sanity among them -- HOST CHRIS WALLACE: I want to turn to a different subject in the time we have left and that is the politics of Iraq which has gotten a lot of attention in the last couple of weeks with Jeb Bush, with Marco Rubio and with a bunch of other people and these questions of was it was a mistake to go in in 2003, was it a mistake to get out in 2011, and what impact this could have both in the Republican race and also the Democratic race. ... WOODWARD: Iraq is a symbol and you certainly can make a persuasive argument it was a mistake but there's a kind of line going along that Bush and the other people lied about this. I spent 18 months looking at how Bush decided to invade Iraq and lots of mistakes, but it was Bush telling George Tenet, the CIA director, don't let anyone stretch the case on WMD and he (Bush) was the one who was skeptical. And if you tried to summarize why we went into Iraq, it was momentum. The war plan kept getting better and easier and finally at that end people were saying, hey look, it'll only take a week or two and early on it looked like it was going to take a year or 18 months and so Bush pulled the trigger. A mistake, certainly, can be argued and there's an abundance of evidence but there was no lie in this that I could find. WALLACE: And what about 2011 and Obama's decision to pull all the troops out? There had been a status of forces agreement between Bush and the Iraqi government that provided for a follow-on force. The Pentagon was talking about somewhere between 10- and 20,000 (troops) and a lot of people think, although Obama says, well we tried to negotiate and we didn't, a lot of people think he really didn't want to keep any troops there. WOODWARD: Well, I think he didn't. Look, Obama does not like war, but as you look back on this the argument from the military was, let's keep 10-, 15,000 troops there as an insurance policy and we all know insurance policies make sense. We have 30,000 troops or more in South Korea still 65 years or so after the war. When you're superpower, you have to buy these insurance policies and he didn't in this case. I don't think you can say everything is because of that decision but clearly a factor. Obama will never admit it, but he knows he was wrong to abandon Iraq in 2011 for the sole purpose of potentially embarrassing Bush by saddling him with its loss. He's tacitly acknowledged this by delaying the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, which Obama in 2008 deemed the good war to Bush's doomed misadventure in Iraq. What should haunt Obama now as a result of his callow folly is the specter of Baghdad going the way of Saigon in the spring of 1975, as vividly depicted in Rory Kennedy's most recent documentary, Last Days in Vietnam. Should this come to pass and the death toll rises to the point where genocide and not mass killings is invoked to describe the scale of slaughter, fellow Democrats will agree with Obama that this too is Bush's fault. But which is preferable -- Iraq as it is ripped asunder after six years of Obama's quixotic foreign policy, or its stability and prospects when Bush left office in 2009? - See more at: newsbusters.org

To: SiouxPal who wrote (864123)	6/10/2015 12:11:35 PM
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The Rising of the Beast: TPP is the planned Communist Utopian dream .................................................................................... canadafreepress.com ^ \| 6/10/2015 \| Doug Hagmann

To: SiouxPal who wrote (864123)	6/10/2015 12:12:24 PM
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Obama’s Gun-Control Misfire ....................................................................... Wall Street Journal ^ \| June 9, 2015 \| JASON L. RILEY Last September the Obama administration produced an FBI report that said mass shooting attacks and deaths were up sharply—by an average annual rate of about 16% between 2000 and 2013. Moreover, the problem was worsening. “The findings establish an increasing frequency of incidents,” said the authors. “During the first 7 years included in the study, an average of 6.4 incidents occurred annually. In the last 7 years of the study, that average increased to 16.4 incidents annually.” The White House could not possibly have been more pleased with the media reaction to these findings, which were prominently featured by the New York Times, USA Today, CNN, the Washington Post and other major outlets. The FBI report landed six weeks before the midterm elections, and the administration was hoping that the gun-control issue would help drive Democratic turnout. But late last week, J. Pete Blair and M. Hunter Martaindale, two academics at Texas State University who co-authored the FBI report, acknowledged that “our data is imperfect.” They said that the news media “got it wrong” last year when they “mistakenly reported mass shootings were on the rise.” Mind you, the authors did not issue this mea culpa in the major news outlets that supposedly misreported the original findings. Instead, the authors published it in ACJS Today, an academic journal published by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. “Because official data did not contain the information we needed, we had to develop our own,” wrote Messrs. Blair and Martaindale. “This required choices between various options with various strengths and weaknesses.” You don’t say. . . . (Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ..

To: SiouxPal who wrote (864123)	6/10/2015 12:13:14 PM
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US Intelligence:''No Comment'' To Question Of Support for ISIS ........................................................................................................................ blacklistednews.com ^ \| June 10, 2015 \| Brandon Turbeville?

To: SiouxPal who wrote (864123)	6/10/2015 12:17:26 PM
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Wounded soldier addresses Michelle Obama’s taxpayer funded plastic surgery .................................................................... Coach is Right ^ \| 6/10/15 \| George Spelvin

To: SiouxPal who wrote (864123)	6/10/2015 12:18:25 PM
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Half of Texas’ abortion clinics could close after big ruling .................................................................................. Life Site News ^ \| 06-09-2015 \| Ben Johnson

To: SiouxPal who wrote (864123)	6/10/2015 12:19:13 PM
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HPD officer shot in the back after traffic stop ......................................................................................... chron.com ^ \| June 9, 2015 \| Mike Glenn

To: SiouxPal who wrote (864123)	6/10/2015 12:21:05 PM
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Marilyn Mosby: A Case Against Affirmative Action .................................................................................... Black & Right ^ \| 6/10/15 \| Bob Parks Forget her obvious power-tripping arrogance for now; Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is clearly incompetent and should not be in the position she now holds, maybe being a lawyer at all. Seriously, given all we’ve seen recently, would YOU want her representing or defending your best interests? Mosby is a case study in a prosecutorial fuck up that will be discreetly studied for a long time. The judge presiding over the prosecution of six Baltimore Police officers involved in the arrest of Freddie Gray struck the state’s motion for a gag order in the case. Judge Charles J. Peters ruled the motion lacked standing in an actual proceeding, as it was filed by Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s office in Circuit Court on May 14. At that time, the officers’ cases were still in District Court. They weren’t transferred to Circuit Court until May 21, when the officers were indicted. In layman’s terms, she shockingly filed her motion for a gag order in the wrong courtroom. Had she been in private practice, a concerned client would’ve fired her and stop the bleeding early. But her screw ups are seemingly compounded on a near-daily basis. A week ago it was revealed this arrogant prosecutor (black halfrican activist wannabe) attempted what she assumed would be a cover-your-ass exercise that would be adhered to simply because it was what SHE wanted…. Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby plans to seek a protective order that would block the release of Freddie Gray’s autopsy report and other “sensitive” documents as she prosecutes the six police officers involved in his arrest. Mosby told The Baltimore Sun that prosecutors “have a duty to ensure a fair and impartial process for all parties involved” and “will not be baited into litigating this case through the media.” Now, why would she do this? The most recent revelation can only lead one to justifiably speculate. About three weeks before Freddie Gray was chased from a West Baltimore corner by three Baltimore police officers — the start of a fatal encounter — the office of prosecutor Marilyn Mosby asked police to target the intersection with “enhanced” drug enforcement efforts, court documents show. Activists scream about the thick police presence in minority communities, Mosby ordered a thick police presence in a well-known crime-ridden area, and now has to distance herself from her own decree. Clearly gag-worthy, considering that previous and very public “no justice, no peace” shit talk. “State’s Attorney Mosby asked me to look into community concerns regarding drug dealing in the area of North Ave and Mount St,” Joshua Rosenblatt, division chief of Mosby’s Crime Strategies Unit, wrote in a March 17 email to a Western District police commander. The email was disclosed for the first time Tuesday in a motion filed in Baltimore Circuit Court by defense attorneys for the six officers being prosecuted in Gray’s arrest and death. The attorneys said Mosby’s involvement in the police initiative means that she should be removed from the case. She clearly shouldn’t have been on the case because of her competence, but also the fact her Baltimore City Council husband represents the district were Gray was apprehended and later died. “Mrs. Mosby herself is now an integral part of the story and as such is a central witness,” the defense attorneys argued. “This is a case where the witness and the prosecutor are one and the same.” She’s a witness because of her zeal to be in charge of something of note, thus her personal insertion in the case she decided to head is also problematic. Marilyn Mosby is just one of many very high-profile halfrican-American hacks who have gone out of their way to find racism so they can achieve some self-serving sense of street-cred blackness. Whether we’re talking Obama, Holder, or now Mosby, their collective actions have emboldened the average street thug to confront and taunt law enforcement, given legitimacy and voice to the loud-mouth activist agitator, created a new civil rights niche for media exploiters, and ultimately put those of us who don’t live in gated communities with 24/7 police protection in peril. But hey, do you really think Marilyn Mosby cares about the people of Baltimore or is she now just all about salvaging her undeserved career and punchline of a reputation? The answer is clear.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (864123)	6/10/2015 12:22:03 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1585861

Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is clearly incompetent and should not be in the position she now holds, maybe being a lawyer at all. S

To: SiouxPal who wrote (864123)	6/10/2015 12:31:29 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1585861

Whether we’re talking Obama, Holder, or now Mosby, their collective actions have emboldened the average street thug to confront and taunt law enforcement, given legitimacy and voice to the loud-mouth activist agitator, created a new civil rights niche for media exploiters, and ultimately put those of us who don’t live in gated communities with 24/7 police protection in peril.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (864123)	6/10/2015 12:34:38 PM
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The Job Market Will Get Much Worse, JP Morgan Economist Warns ............................................................................................................................. Zero Hedge via Dark-Bid.com ^ \| 06/10/2015 \| Daniel Drew

To: SiouxPal who wrote (864123)	6/10/2015 12:44:04 PM
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Former Ivy League admissions dean reveals why highly qualified Asian-American students often get rejected ................................................................................. Peter Jacobs Jun. 10, 2015 How Asian-American teens are told to downplay their 'Asianness' on college applications Asian-American students may be at a distinct disadvantage when applying to highly competitive colleges, according to Sara Harberson, a former Ivy League admissions dean. In a recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Harberson — the former associate dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania and the former dean of admissions and financial aid at Franklin & Marshall College — writes that there is always a reason for a college applicant's rejection. In many cases, students are denied admission because they don't have a "tag" associated with their application — what Harberson calls "the proverbial golden ticket for a student applying to an elite institution." Students with tags may be "recruited athletes, children of alumni, children of donors or potential donors, or students who are connected to the well connected," according to the former admissions dean. However, Harberson writes, "Asian American students typically don't have these tags." As she notes: Asian Americans are rarely children of alumni at the Ivies, for example. There aren't as many recruited athletes coming from the Asian American applicant pool. Nor are they typically earmarked as "actual" or "potential" donors. They simply don't have long-standing connections to these institutions. And the fact is that Asian Americans often don't use the "connections" they do have. In all my years in college admissions, I never received a phone call or a visit from a well-connected politician, chief executive or other leader to advocate for an Asian American student. Within discussions between admissions officers, Asian-American students may also face discrimination based on their race. Many elite colleges, Harberson writes, use "holistic admission" standards, which allows race to be a factor in a student's admission decision, as long as there are no strict quotas. In some cases, the consideration of race will work against Asian-American students. "For example, there's an expectation that Asian Americans will be the highest test scorers and at the top of their class; anything less can become an easy reason for a denial," Harberson writes. "In the end, holistic admissions can allow for a gray zone of bias at elite institutions, working against a group such as Asian Americans that excels in the black-and-white world of academic achievement." Harberson's article comes in the middle of a major discussion about the use of race in college admissions, specifically regarding Asian-American students. In May, a coalition of Asian-American advocacy groups filed a federal complaint against Harvard University, alleging the school used racial quotas. This action joined lawsuits filed last year against Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, filed by a group called Students for Fair Admission. "Students for Fair Admission's complaint highlights data and analysis that strongly suggests that white, African-American, and Hispanic applicants are given racial preferences over better qualified Asian Americans applying for admission to Harvard," the group said in a press release. In a statement after the May federal complaint, Harvard University general counsel Robert Iuliano wrote: "The College's admissions policies are fully compliant with the law and are essential to the pedagogical objectives that underlie its educational mission ... the College considers each applicant through an individualized, holistic review having the goal of creating a vibrant academic community that exposes students to a wide-range of differences: background, ideas, experiences, talents, and aspirations." Some college-admissions consultants are now targeting Asian-American families to help them battle what they're calling the "bamboo ceiling" at elite schools. "Don't talk about your family coming from Vietnam with $2 in a rickety boat and swimming away from sharks," Asian Advantage College Consulting founder James Chen recently told The Boston Globe. Read more: businessinsider.com