Iraqi Army Takes The Lead

As Iraqi Army And Police Take The Lead With Only A Few Calls For Airstrikes Al-Sadr Pulls Fighters Off Iraq Streets

BAGHDAD - Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Sunday that he was pulling his fighters off the streets nationwide and called on the government to stop raids against his followers and free them from prison.

The Iraqi government quickly welcomed al-Sadr's apparent move to resolve a widening conflict with his movement, sparked Tuesday by operations against his backers in the oil-rich southern city of Basra.



Al-Sadr's nine-point statement was issued by his headquarters in the holy city of Najaf and broadcast through loudspeakers on Shiite mosques. It said the first point was: "taking gunmen off the streets in Basra and elsewhere."

Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh called the statement "positive and responsible." But he also warned in a telephone interview broadcast on Iraqi state TV. that security forces would continue to target those who don't follow the order.

"We expect a wide response to this call," he said. "After this announcement, anybody who targets the government and its institutions will be regarded ... as outlaws."

Scattered firing could be heard in central Baghdad hours after al-Sadr's statement was released, and rockets or mortars were fired toward the U.S.-protected Green Zone.

A U.S. public address system in the Green Zone warned people to "duck and cover" and to stay away from windows.

Iraqi security forces have been facing fierce resistance to their crackdown on militia violence in the southern city of Basra.

One of al-Maliki's top security officials was killed in a mortar attack against the palace that houses the military operations center, officials said.

The prime minister's Dawa party issued a statement of condolences identifying the slain official as Salim Qassim, known by his nickname Abu Laith al-Kadhimi.

The strength of the resistance to the week-old offensive has taken the U.S.-backed government by surprise, forcing it to come up with a new tactical plan targeting several Mahdi Army strongholds, a government official said.

The official, who was in Basra but spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information, said Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki also had brought in reinforcements and appealed to local tribal leaders to help secure the area.



The prime minister, himself a Shiite, has called the fight "a decisive and final battle" and vowed to remain in Basra until government forces wrest control from militias, including the Mahdi Army that is loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

But al-Maliki also acknowledged Saturday that he may have miscalculated by failing to foresee the strong backlash the offensive would provoke in Baghdad and other cities where Shiite militias wield power.

Several clashes have involved U.S. forces and the U.S. military launched airstrikes in Basra. The military said 16 enemy fighters were killed in when an AC-130 gunship strafed heavily armed militants attacking Iraqi troops during clashes on Saturday.

U.S. and Iraqi troops also repelled an attack against American special forces Saturday in Suwayrah, a Shiite militia stronghold 25 miles south of Baghdad, killing 13 enemy fighters, the military said in a statement.

Never Under Saddam


Iraqi police said three militants were killed and 21 detained when clashes resumed there on Sunday.

The U.S. military said separately that American and Iraqi troops unearthed 14 badly decomposed bodies in a mass grave on Saturday in Muqdadiyah, northeast of Baghdad. It was the second such find since Thursday, when 37 bodies were found.

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The Iraqi Army And Police are starting to come along just fine. A little more training and some equipment and the Iraqi Army will get rid of all the crap and this will be the beginning of the end for US troop Involvement. THIS is what Victory starts to look like. WAY TO GO IRAQI TROOPS!!!!!

Saddam Paid For Democrats Trip To Iraq

Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

The three anti-war Democrats made the trip in October 2002, while the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq. While traveling, they called for a diplomatic solution.

Prosecutors say that trip was arranged by Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a Michigan charity official, who was charged Wednesday with setting up the junket at the behest of Saddam's regime. Iraqi intelligence officials allegedly paid for the trip through an intermediary and rewarded Al-Hanooti with 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil.

Al-Hanooti With McDermott, Boinor, and Thompson


The lawmakers are not named in the indictment but the dates correspond to a trip by Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and Mike Thompson of California. None was charged and Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said investigators "have no information whatsoever" any of them knew the trip was underwritten by Saddam.

Jim McDermott (D-WA) David Boinor (D-MI)


"Obviously, we didn't know it at the time," McDermott spokesman Michael DeCesare said Wednesday. "The trip was to see the plight of the Iraqi children. That's the only reason we went."

Both McDermott and Thompson are popular among liberal voters in their reliably Democratic districts for their anti-war views. Bonior is no longer in Congress.

Thompson released a statement Wednesday saying the trip was approved by the State Department.

Mike Thompson (D-CA)


"Obviously, had there been any question at all regarding the sponsor of the trip or the funding, I would not have participated," he said.

During the trip, the lawmakers expressed skepticism about the Bush administration's claims that Saddam was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. Though such weapons ultimately were never found, the lawmakers drew criticism for their trip at the time.

Oklahoma Sen. Don Nickles, then the second-ranking Senate Republican, said the Democrats "sound somewhat like spokespersons for the Iraqi government." Seattle-area conservatives dubbed McDermott "Baghdad Jim" for the Iraq trip.

Don Nickles (R-OK)


Al-Hanooti was arrested Tuesday night while returning to the U.S. from the Middle East, where he was looking for a job, his attorney, James Thomas, said. Al-Hanooti pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, illegally purchasing Iraqi oil and lying to authorities. He was being held on $100,000 bail.

Al-Hanooti With Hillary Clinton


Between 1999 and 2006, he worked on and off as a public relations coordinator for Life for Relief and Development, a charity formed after the first Gulf War to fund humanitarian work in Iraq. FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force agents raided the charity's headquarters in 2006 but charged nobody and allowed the agency to continue operating.

Al-Hanooti With Al Gore


McDermott identified that charity as the group financing the Iraq trip. In House disclosure forms, he put the cost at $5,510. Thompson also understood the charity to be financing the trip, spokeswoman Anne Warden said.

Al-Hanooti With John Conyers


Prosecutors said Al-Hanooti was responsible for monitoring Congress for the Iraqi Intelligence Service. From 1999 to 2002, he allegedly provided Saddam's government with a list of U.S. lawmakers he believed favored lifting economic sanctions against Iraq.

Al-Hanooti With Syria's Assad


Thomas said Al-Hanooti would "vigorously defend" himself against the charges but he could not discuss the specifics of the case since he had seen none of the evidence.

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More Pictures With This Al-Hanooti Guy And Terrorists And Democrats

Was Congressmen's Iraq Trip Financed By Saddam?

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YEAH! RIGHT! God only know's how many Democrats Saddam bribed and paid for trips to Iraq. Let's Guess how these guy's voted for or against enforcing Bill Clinton's Iraq Liberation Act Jesus is the Democrat Corruption ever going to stop? Doesnt something seem quite fishy about all this?

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John McCain Recieves Most Important Endorsement Of All

Nancy Reagan Endorses John McCain



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The Gloves Are OFF Now When It Comes To Anti-War Protesters. Be Warned!!

It's now open season on anti-war proterters after this shit!

Crossposted From Melanie Morgan:

MELANIE MORGAN "Peace Activists" Slap Female Blogger Twice--Encourage Others to Violence"

"Peace Activists" Slap Female Blogger Twice--Encourage Others to Violence"

Many times I have been threatened with violence, as well as our staff at Move America Forward.

We simply shrug off the danger, and continue with our work to support our troops.

'Skye' at MidnightBlue.com wasn't so lucky yesterday in Philadelphia, Pa.

She was slapped TWICE by so-called 'peace activists'.

Video verifying 'Skye's' account coming shortly. And photos.

'Skye' with Michelle Malkin.



Skye with Larry Bailey of Gathering of Eagles.



She sent me two e-mails.

Here's the first.

Melanie,

I am saddened to report this:

Saturday around 12:10 PM, a member of the Chester County Peace Movement (CCPM) slapped a woman twice ( that would be me) who was videotaping an exchange between the two opposing groups. Police were called and an officer arrived at 12:15 PM and announced to the crowd that he was conducting an investigation.

The CCPM member was pointed out to police and the officer told the man to come forward and the man refused. The guy was totally uncooperative, belligerent and would not go with the officer. When he shoved the officer, the officer's partner took him to the ground to be handcuffed. The guy continued to resist while on the ground and the peace movement folks surrounded the officers, some as close as a foot or so away.

Photos at the bottom of http://picasaweb.google.com/rgc1946/WestChesterMarch222008 show this quite clearly.

I've prided myself in my professional conduct at this rally and to be struck twice by a 'peace' protester who has been present since the time I began covering this rally is truly disturbing.

Sincerely,
Skye
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Jackass That Slapped Skye: John Meicht


Move America Forward is going to press forward with a demand to the United States Marshall Service, Homeland Security, and the U.S. Justice Department to start ARRESTING AND PROSECUTING THESE PEOPLE!


Attack On Skye


UPDATE: Video Is Working Again

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Good For Move America Forward. Anti-Troop idiot's you brought this on yourselves. Skye, I hope you didnt get hurt in this maylay, and I hope you sue the pant's off them.

Skye's Take On This Whole Event MidnightBlue

Also Blogging Skye's Friends Including Myself:

United Conservatives Of Virginia

Sparks From The Anvil

Michelle Malkin

Melanie Morgan/Move America Forward/Free Republic

Now For Something Different

Dragonlady's Den

Right Minds

UPDATE:

Female Blogger Attacked by Peace Thugs: Melanie Morgan

Punk Ass Bitch That Slapped Skye Getting Arrested

Oh This Is Crazy

Link to Global Warming in Frogs’ Disappearance Is Challenged

In the scientific equivalent of the board game Clue, teams of biologists have been sifting spotty evidence and pointing to various culprits in the widespread vanishing of harlequin frogs.

The amphibians, of the genus Atelopus — actually toads despite their common name — once hopped in great numbers along stream banks on misty slopes from the Andes to Costa Rica. After 20 years of die-offs, they are listed as critically endangered by conservation groups and are mainly seen in zoos.

It looked as if one research team was a winner in 2006 when global warming was identified as the “trigger” in the extinctions by the authors of a much-cited paper in Nature. The researchers said they had found a clear link between unusually warm years and the vanishing of mountainside frog populations.

The “bullet,” the researchers said, appeared to be a chytrid fungus that has attacked amphibian populations in many parts of the world but thrives best in particular climate conditions.



The authors, led by J. Alan Pounds of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica, said, “Here we show that a recent mass extinction associated with pathogen outbreaks is tied to global warming.” The study was featured in reports last year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Other researchers have been questioning that connection. Last year, two short responses in Nature questioned facets of the 2006 paper. In the journal, Dr. Pounds and his team said the new analyses in fact backed their view that “global warming contributes to the present amphibian crisis,” but avoided language saying it was “a key factor,” as they wrote in 2006.

Now, in the March 25 issue of PLoS Biology, another team argues that the die-offs of harlequins and some other amphibians reflect the spread and repeated introductions of the chytrid fungus. They question the analysis linking the disappearances to climate change. In interviews and e-mail exchanges, Dr. Pounds and the lead author of the new paper, Karen R. Lips of Southern Illinois University, disputed each other’s analysis. Experts who have researched the amphibian said neither group had enough evidence to nail down its case and warned that this normal tussle over scientific details should not distract from the reality that humans are clearly roiling biology in ways important and yet poorly understood.

“There is so much we still do not know!” David B. Wake, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote in an e-mail note after reading the new paper. The origin of the fungus and the way it kills amphibians remain unknown, he said, and there are ample mysteries about why it breaks out in certain places and times and not others.

Dr. Pounds and Dr. Lips have both done important work, Dr. Wake said, adding, “I hope this does not turn into a ‘spitting contest,’ because we all have a lot to learn about amphibian declines.”

Ross A. Alford, a tropical biologist at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, said such scientific tussles, while important, could be a distraction, particularly when considering the uncertain risks attending global warming.

“Arguing about whether we can or cannot already see the effects,” he said, “is like sitting in a house soaked in gasoline, having just dropped a lit match, and arguing about whether we can actually see the flames yet, while waiting to see if maybe it might go out on its own.”

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Oh Please! Where do these people live? Last year we had the biggest Frog Invasion since I've lived here in Oklahoma. You couldnt open your door without one jumping in your house. So either all the frogs have moved to Oklahoma, or this is a crock of crap!

Nancy Pelosi Tick's Off China, Kwame Kilpatrick (D) Mayor Detroit Indicted

How does she do it? Every single time Nancy Pelosi leaves this Country she stirs up an International Incident! I just dont understand why? First it was Syria, now it's China. I can understand wanting to visit The Dalai Lama, but when it comes to Foreign Policy why cant Nancy just keep it zipped? Evidently she has had a little tit for tat with China and now they are none to pleased. Here's a *snip* of this beauty:

*snip* The Democratic leader said if people don't speak out against China's oppression in Tibet, "we have lost all moral authority to speak on behalf of human rights anywhere in the world."

China's official Xinhua New Agency published commentary Sunday accusing Pelosi of ignoring the violence caused by the Tibetan rioters.

'Human rights police' like Pelosi are habitually bad tempered and ungenerous when it comes to China, refusing to check their facts and find out the truth of the case," it said.

"Her views are like so many other politicians and western media. Beneath the double standards lies their intention to serve the interest groups behind them, who want to contain or smear China," it said.

Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said Sunday that Pelosi condemns the Chinese government's crackdown in Tibet and calls on it "to begin a substantive dialogue and to allow journalists and independent monitors into Tibet to find out the truth."



Oh brother now China is pissed at Pelosi, and probably the entire US now too.

Foreign Policy speeches by the Democrats need to be confined to Congress before they create one humongous International Incident. Or at least Nancy Pelosi should stay home for a while.

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And in other Democrat News LOL!

I wrote about this last week, Kwame Kilpatrick (D) Mayor of Detroit has been indicted! So far I gather the charges are Obstruction of Justice, Perjury, and Misconduct in Office. Another supposed rising star in the Democrat party down the drain. Evidently Kwame was having an affair with some woman who is under indictment also, and texting sexually explicit messages with each other. Here we go again. The Democrat culture of corruption continues.



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Happy Easter

Happy Easter To All Especially Our
Troops :-)

John McCain/Dick Cheney Pay Surprise Visit To Iraq

TROOPS RESOLUTE

FORWARD OPERATING BASE NORMANDY, Iraq — At the five-year mark since U.S. troops entered Iraq, warriors here continue fighting and dealing with the consequences.

It is doubtful that Army Capt. Vince Morris, a hard-charging company commander with the 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment normally stationed in Vilsek, Germany, is tracking the anniversary debates. He is in a military hospital recovering from the severe concussion he suffered when his armored vehicle exploded immediately outside the entrance to this base, northeast of Baqouba.



Sgt. Rob Robertson will be working from his combat operations post — without television, radio or newspapers — in the town of Himbus, in Diyala's "breadbasket." He will be conducting foot patrols and searching for improvised explosive devices (IEDs), weapons caches and terrorists who went into hiding after a major U.S. and Iraqi push into the region in January.



When he is not on combat duty, he and other men of Iron Company will comb through scores of applications from people in his area wanting to join Concerned Local Citizens groups, the armed neighborhood-watch units renamed Sons of Iraq, which are viewed as a major contributor to increased security in parts of the country.



"What about this one, this Ahmed guy?" he asked a colleague recently while sitting in his tent. "He was a sergeant in Saddam's army."



Ahmed was photographed, questioned and fingerprinted during a recruitment drive. If he passes initial vetting, he could be given a midlevel leadership spot in a Sons of Iraq unit at $450 a month.



Capt. Matt Ross and Lt. Andy Teague of Golf Company are absorbed elsewhere. They are trying to persuade Sunni residents forced from their village by Shi'ite Mahdi militiamen — who also are thought to be members of the local Iraqi police force — to identify the culprits so they can be arrested.

"I showed [one of the displaced families] the book of photographs of the IPs," Lt. Teague told the captain, referencing the records of Iraqi police.



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ABC Finds Optimistic Iraqis & Kids Playing Safely on the Street

Bush: We Can't Jeopardize Gains in Iraq

IRAQI DOCUMENTS SHOW AL-QAIDA TIES
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I forgot to post this the other day. To all the Troops who have Served and are Serving...Semper Fi

I thought this was cool that John McCain and Vice President Dick Cheney payed the Troops a surprise visit on the 5th anniversary of the Liberation of Iraq. What a wonderful bunch of men and women we have Serving in the Military

Here We Go Again Another Racial, Radical, Barack Obama Supporter Rev. James Meeks

What Kind Of Company Is Barack Obama Keeping?

What is it with all these Hate Speech Reverends?



Another person Obama says he seeks out for spiritual counsel is state Sen. James Meeks

How many more of these "Spiritual Advisor's" are there?

More Barack Obama Tidbits:

Black conservative leaders weigh-in on Obama's 'race' speech

What Did Obama know and when did he know it?


I told everyone a while back that we were going to have to put up with the Nation Of Islam, The New Black Panthers, and Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson if Obama was to be elcted Presdent. Well it seems that we may have to put up with these freaks a whole lot sooner.

Well see this proves my point:

OBAMA WEB SITE STILL CARRIES NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY ENDORSEMENT

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DragonLady's Den

Democrat Corruption, Patterson, McGreevy, Kwame Kilpatrick

Gov. Paterson Admits To Sex With Other Woman For Years

What is going on in the Democrat Party? Cant any of them keep thier pant's zipped?

Now this guy is going to have to go, you Democrats in New York cant even keep a Governor? Especially for more than One Day?

*snip*The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state's new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs.

In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife, Michelle, 46, acknowledged in a joint interview they each had intimate relationships with others during a rocky period in their marriage several years ago.

In the course of several interviews in the past few days, Paterson said he maintained a relationship for two or three years with "a woman other than my wife," beginning in 1999.



As part of that relationship, Paterson said, he and the other woman sometimes stayed at an upper West Side hotel — the Days Inn at Broadway and W. 94th St.

He said members of his Albany legislative staff often used the same hotel when they visit the city.

"This was a marriage that appeared to be going sour at one point," Paterson conceded in his first interview Saturday. "But I went to counseling and we decided we wanted to make it work. Michelle is well aware of what went on."

In a second interview with Paterson and his wife Monday, only hours after he was sworn in to replace scandal-scarred Eliot Spitzer, Michelle Paterson confirmed her husband's account.

"Like most marriages, you go through certain difficult periods," Michelle Paterson said. "What's important is for your kids to see you worked them out."



The First Couple agreed to speak publicly about the difficulties in their marriage in response to a variety of rumors about Paterson's personal life that have been circulating in Albany and among the press corps in recent days.

They spoke in the governor's office even as scores of friends, family members and political supporters were celebrating in the corridors of the Capitol his ascension to the state's highest post.

Given the call-girl scandal that erupted last week and forced Spitzer's stunning resignation, Paterson conceded that top government officials are bound to come under closer scrutiny for their personal actions.

The governor flatly denied what he called a "sporadic rumor in Albany that I had a love child" by another woman. "That's just not true," he said.

"Don't you think he'd take care of a child if he'd had one?" Michelle Paterson said, in obvious disgust over that persistent rumor.

The romantic relationship he did have, Paterson said, lasted until sometime in 2001. He did not identify the former girlfriend.

Asked if he had stayed with anyone else since 2001 at the same West Side hotel, Paterson said, "From time to time I used to take Michelle to that hotel."

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This is incredible. This guy couldnt have mentioned any of this before he was sworn in? What is truly going on with the Democrat Party? This is totally Insane! Well No, It's to be expected!
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Mean While In Other News (Heavens)

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I WAS MCG AND WIFE'S THREE-WAY SEX STUD: EX-DRIVER

TEDDY PEDERSEN" She made the moves. We all did."

A former driver and aide to former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey yesterday made the bombshell claim that Dina Matos McGreevey must have always known her husband was gay - because he was the other man in bed with them.

In an explosive interview with The Post, the McGreeveys' self-professed man in the middle, Teddy Pedersen, gave explicit details of three-way sex romps that he claimed to have had with the now-divorcing duo, starting during their courtship and continuing into the marriage.



Pedersen - who said he had already spilled the beans on the ménage a trois arrangement under oath in a deposition for the couple's divorce battle - hinted that he thinks his presence was required to get Jim's motor running for Dina.

Matos McGreevey's basic argument in her divorce war with the former gov is that he covered up his homosexuality and tricked her into a loveless marriage. She said today that the stories of sexual trysts were "completely false."

But McGreevey confirmed the accounts. "This happened, this happened in the past, and now we need to move on with our lives," he said in an email to the Associated Press.

Pedersen - who is named in Matos McGreevey's court papers - agreed to talk about the alleged unconventional relationship after Dina sounded off to the media last week about Eliot Spitzer's sex scandal.

"It's frustrating to hear her call Gov. Spitzer a hypocrite while she's out there being as dishonest as anyone could be about her own life," said Pedersen, 29.


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This is unreal. Sex scandal After Sex Scandal. The Democrat Party as we knew it is just gone. The coluture of Democrat Corruption goes on and on and on. And this is really getting sickning. Three Somes? My Heavens!
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The walls are crumbling for embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, (D-MI) who is under increasing pressure to resign over his role in a police whistleblower settlement scandal that many say is paralyzing the already struggling city.

High-profile critics have been lining up to call for Mr. Kilpatrick's resignation. The latest is Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, a Republican who told a Detroit radio station yesterday that the mayor is a liar who lost the public trust in using the race card at a Tuesday night State of the City speech.

"It was race-baiting on par with David Duke and George Wallace — all to save his political career," Mr. Cox said in an interview on talk-radio station WJR–AM.

Mr. Kilpatrick, a Democrat, is under investigation for reportedly lying in sworn testimony in a police whistleblower trial about an affair with his chief of staff and a secret $8.4 million settlement he brokered without the City Council's knowledge,



On Wednesday, three top Detroit-area business leaders met with Mr. Kilpatrick to discuss the current situation facing the city. Though they didn't call for him to leave, they let him know that his remarks, asserting that his detractors displayed a "lynch-mob mentality" and used the "n-word," were polarizing to the city, which is struggling to revive itself amid significant economic woes.

The mayor, through his spokesman, reiterated yesterday that he would not resign and would continue to push forward his agenda for growth. However, his time in office may be limited. The City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to order Mr. Kilpatrick, along with his former chief of staff and suspected mistress, Christine Beatty, as well as others involved in the police whistleblower settlement case to appear before the City Council.

Council members, meeting after Mr. Kilpatrick blamed race and the news media for his legal and political problems, said if the mayor did not comply, they would use subpoena power to force him and other figures in the scandal to appear before them in an effort to resolve the matter.

Even as the calls for him to "Just go!" continued outside his speech, Mr. Kilpatrick, giving the annual State of the City message Tuesday night, strayed from prepared text in the last portion of his remarks to fight back angrily against his detractors, saying that he and his family have been the victims of attacks fueled by racial hatred.

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Oh Heavens, this is almost laughable at this point. If it wasnt all so sad. All this hate speech, all this immoral activity, all this corruption, how much more of this Democrat Corruption is going on out there that we dont know about? And do we need to know because this is sick. I think we do no matter ho sick it is. These Democrat Pride themselves on being so moral and it looks like the tide has turned this time. The Democrats are no better than the Republican, THEY ARE WORSE!!!

Obama's Speech On The Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Full Text Of Speech On Drudge

*Here is a snip*

“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”

Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.

The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations.

This Picture Explains Alot


Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution – a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.

And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part – through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk - to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time.



This was one of the tasks we set forth at the beginning of this campaign – to continue the long march of those who came before us, a march for a more just, more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous America. I chose to run for the presidency at this moment in history because I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together – unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction – towards a better future for of children and our grandchildren.

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Obama, Seizing on Divisive Comments, Aims for Unity

Obama's Stand on Rev. Wright Clear: Barack Obama’s record is now clear for all to see. For two decades, Obama has been attending a church where paranoid hatred of America is preached on a regular basis.

Grassroots leader: Obama should step away from his church, former pastor
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Uh.......What?.............How does Obama know what was said, he was never there remember? He cant get rid of this Hate Speech Preaching Crazy Old Uncle If He Wanted To? C'Mon, he just want's this story to go away.

What Are Barack Obama's Ties To The Weather Underground, And Who Is The Weather Underground?

Barack Obama Visited '60s Radicals

In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.

William Ayers/Weather Underground


Now, as Barack Obama runs for president, what two guests recall as an unremarkable gathering on the road to a minor elected office stands as a symbol of how swiftly he has risen from a man in the Hyde Park left to one closing in fast on the Democratic nomination for president.

“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn.

Barack Obama and Palmer “were both there,” he said.

Barack Obama’s connections to Ayers and Dorhn have been noted in some fleeting news coverage in the past. But the visit by Barack Obama to their home — part of a campaign courtship — reflects more extensive interaction than has been previously reported.

Neither Ayers nor the Barack Obama campaign would describe the relationship between the two men. Dr. Young described Barack Obama and Ayers as “friends,” but there’s no evidence their relationship is more than the casual friendship of two men who occupy overlapping Chicago political circles and who served together on the board of a Chicago foundation.

But Barack Obama’s relationship with Ayers is an especially vivid milepost on his rise, in record time, from a local official who unabashedly reflected a very liberal district to the leader of national movement based largely on the claim that he can transcend ideological divides.

In one sense, Barack Obama’s journey toward the cultural and political center is not unusual among national politicians. But its velocity is.

Politicians of an earlier generation had their own relationships with figures now far to their left. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for instance, interned at a radical San Francisco law firm while in law school.

The relationship with Ayers gives context to his recent past in Hyde Park politics. It’s milieu in which a former violent radical was a stalwart of the local scene, not especially controversial.

It’s also a scene whose liberal ideological features — while taken for granted by the Chicago press corps that knows Barack Obama best — provides a jarring contrast with Barack Obama’s current, anti-ideological stance. This contrast between past and present — not least the Ayers connection — is virtually certain to be a subject Republican operatives will warm to if Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee.

The tension between the present and recent Chicago past is also evident in some of his positions on major national issues. Many national politicians, including Clinton, have moved toward the center over time. But Barack Obama’s transitions are still quite fresh.

Weather Undergound Suppoter's


A questionnaire from his 1996 campaign indicated more blanket opposition to the death penalty, and support of abortion rights, than he currently espouses. He spoke in support of single-payer health care as recently as 2003.

Like many of the most extreme figures from the 1960s Ayers and Dohrn are ambiguous figures in American life.

They disappeared in 1970, after a bomb — designed to kill Army officers in New Jersey — accidentally destroyed a Greenwich Village townhouse, and turned themselves into authorities in 1980. They were never prosecuted for their involvement with the 25 bombings the Weather Underground claimed; charges were dropped because of improper FBI surveillance.

Both have written and spoken at length about their pasts, and today he is an advocate for progressive education and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; she’s an associate professor of law at Northwestern University.

But — unlike some other fringe figures of the era — they’re also flatly unrepentant about the bombings they committed in the name of ending the war, defending them on the grounds that they killed no one, except, accidentally, their own members.

Dohrn, however, was jailed for less than a year for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating other Weather Underground members’ robbery of a Brinks truck, in which a guard and two New York State Troopers were killed.

“I don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do enough,” Ayers told the New York Times in 2001.

And their rehabilitation in establishment circles, even in Hyde Park, has its limits.

Though he is a respected figure in liberal educational circles, Ayers wrote recently about how in 2006 he was informed he was persona non grata at a progressive educators’ conference in the summer of 2006.
“We cannot risk a simplistic and dubious association between progressive education and the violent aspects of your past,” he quoted the conference organizers, whom he described as friends, as writing to him.

But the couple has been embraced, by and large, in the liberal circles dominating Hyde Park politics.

“Bill Ayers is one of my heroes in life,” said Sam Ackerman, a longtime local activist. “I knew Tony Rezko, and he ain’t no Rezko.”

(The Same Tony Rezko That Dumped Money Into The Barack Obama Campaign)


But others in Hyde Park, whose intellectual and political life revolves around the University of Chicago, view the couple with ambivalence

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More Interesting Tidbit's On Obama And The Weather Underground, and Jeremiah Wright/Obama's Hate Speech Pastor

Obama Attended Hate America Sermon

Obama Visited Home Of Weather Underground Terrorists In '90s
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Oh Brother! The more we find out about Barack Obama, the worse this is getting. Not only does he have ties to his Pastor that Preaches "Hate Speech", Now we find he had ties to the Weather Underground who blew up a Greenwitch Village Townhouse instead of thier intended target Army Officers in New Jersey. And Ayer's claims he wished he could have done more! Just who else is Barack Obama Tied to? STAY TUNED!

Barack Obama's Pastor: The Epitome Of Racial Divisiveness

Oh This guy is nuts! Jeremiah Wright, Obama's Pastor is a RACIST!!! He blames America for getting attacked, he say's we have oppressed the Palestinians, blames Israel for them getting attacked and bombed every single day. These Videos are worth the watch! And they are short.

Jeremiah Wright


Louis Farrakhan


Jeremiah Wright/God D**n America


Obama A Closet Muslim?


Do you want someone who has been preached to by this guy to be your next President? I think NOT!
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In The Meantime Here Is A Post I Just Had To Crosspost From My Friend DD over at Our World As We See It

*Reverend Jeremiah Wright . Has Been Saying Things like "God D**n America" Long Enough!


In fact too damn long!




As much as I want to see Obama kick HerThighness’s ass, I’m getting sick and tired of hearing these Anti-American, Anti_Semitic rages coming from his "Pastor" I’m sick and tired of hearing his explanation for 9-11. And I’m sick and tired of him and/or anyone else that uses a church to spread hatred and fear After viewing the video of the sermon where Pastor Wright spoke in the vulgar and Anti-American way he did in the pulpit, I am just disgusted to think that Obama would allow his children to go to church and see that type of action in a place of god! Lets remember that this is the same Pastor that married Obama and Michele, the same Michele that has never seen anything good about America before in her lifetime.
This MOONBAT of a Pastor has the Audacity to speaks of the US government and how it did the black people wrong. So therefore, Obama BELIEVES in what this pastor says and he condones the actions and words of this Pastor Are we talking about American doing such wrongs to a Black man that he is now the favorite of getting the nomination for the Presidency? If this guy O’bambi don’t separate himself from this LUNATIC Pastor and fast, I’m telling you he’s toast.How could Obama sit in the church pew and listen to this crap for 20 years? Maybe hes deaf?
Do we want a person like this having access to the White House?*

I still say NO!!!!!

Here Comes The Fairness Doctrine- Bush Will Veto

Bush: ‘Fairness Doctrine’ unfair

In Nashville today, during a speech to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, President Bush said there’s nothing fair about the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” that once required broadcasters to offer air time for competing ideologies.

The FCC got rid of it about 20 years ago. Now, some Democrats in Congress - long the target of popular conservative radio talk-show hosts - think it’s time to bring it back.

Perish the thought, Bush told the religious broadcasters in the following passage that ends with a veto promise.

“This organization has had many important missions, but none more important than ensuring our airways - America’s airways - stay open to those who preach the ‘Good News.’ The very first amendment to our Constitution includes the freedom of speech and the freedom of religion. Founders believed these unalienable rights were endowed to us by our Creator. They are vital to a healthy democracy, and we must never let anyone take those freedoms away.”

” I mention this because there’s an effort afoot that would jeopardize your right to express your views on public airways. Some members of Congress want to reinstate a regulation that was repealed 20 years ago. It has the Orwellian name called the Fairness Doctrine. Supporters of this regulation say we need to mandate that any discussion of so-called controversial issues on the public airwaves includes equal time for all sides. This means that many programs wanting to stay on the air would have to meet Washington’s definition of balance. Of course, for some in Washington, the only opinions that require balancing are the ones they don’t like.”



“We know who these advocates of so-called balance really have in their sights: shows hosted by people like Rush Limbaugh or James Dobson, or many of you here today. By insisting on so-called balance, they want to silence those they don’t agree with. The truth of the matter is, they know they cannot prevail in the public debate of ideas. They don’t acknowledge that you are the balance … The country should not be afraid of the diversity of opinions. After all, we’re strengthened by diversity of opinions.”

“If Congress truly supports the free and open exchange of ideas, then there is a way they can demonstrate that right now. Republicans have drafted legislation that would ban reinstatement of the so-called Fairness Doctrine. Unfortunately, Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives have blocked action on this bill. So in response, nearly every Republican in the House has signed onto what’s called a ‘discharge petition,’ that would require Congress to hold an up or down vote on the ban. Supporters of this petition are only 24 signatures away.”



“I do want to thank (Indiana Rep.) Mike Pence, who is with us today, and Congressman Greg Walden (of Oregon), for pressing this effort and defending the right for people to express themselves freely. And I urge other members to join in this discharge petition. But I’ll tell you this: If Congress should ever pass any legislation that stifles your right to express your views, I’m going to veto it.”

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Gee! I thought the Democrat party was all about Freedom Of Speech? If it isnt in favor of the left, "It must be silenced"! The left have the MSM, Print Press, School Teachers, etc.. And all we have is Talk Radio? Just Leave My Rush Alone!!

GOV. D-NY ELIOT SPITZER CAUGHT UP IN PROSTITUTION RING: EXPECTED TO RESIGN

ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, according to a person briefed on the federal investigation.

A Wiretap recording, made during an investigation of a prostitution ring called Emperors Club VIP, captured a man identified as Client 9 on a telephone call confirming plans to have a woman travel from New York to Washington, where he had reserved a room. The person briefed on the case identified Mr. Spitzer as Client 9.

The governor learned that he had been implicated in the prostitution probe when a federal official contacted his staff last Friday, according to the person briefed on the case.



The governor informed his top aides Sunday night and this morning of his involvement. He canceled his public events today and scheduled an announcement for this afternoon after inquiries from the Times.

The governor’s aides appeared shaken, and one of them began to weep as they waited for him to make his statement at his Manhattan office. Mr. Spitzer was seen leaving his Fifth Avenue apartment just before 3 p.m. with his wife of 21 years, Silda, heading to the news conference.

The man described as Client 9 in court papers arranged to meet with a prostitute who was part of the ring, Emperors Club VIP, on the night of Feb. 13. Mr. Spitzer traveled to Washington that evening, according to a person told of his travel arrangements.

The affidavit says that Client 9 met with the woman in hotel room 871 but does not identify the hotel. Mr. Spitzer stayed at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on Feb. 13, according to a source who was told of his travel arrangements. Room 871 at the Mayflower Hotel that evening was registered under the another name.

Federal prosecutors rarely charge clients in prostitution cases, which are generally seen as state crimes. But the Mann Act, passed by Congress in 1910 to address prostitution, human trafficking and what was viewed at the time as immorality in general, makes it a crime to transport someone between states for the purpose of prostitution. The four defendants charged in the case unsealed last week were all charged with that crime, along with several others.



Mr. Spitzer had a difficult first year in office, rocked by a mix of scandal and legislative setbacks. In recent weeks, however, Mr. Spitzer seemed to have rebounded, with his Democratic party poised to perhaps gain control of the state Senate for the first time in four decades.

Mr. Spitzer gained national attention when he served as attorney general with his relentless pursuit of Wall Street wrongdoing. As attorney general, he also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state’s organized crime task force.

In one such case in 2004, Mr. Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high-end prostitution ring out of Staten Island.



“”This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure,” Mr. Spitzer said at the time. ”It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring.”

Albany for months has been roiled by bitter fighting and accusations of dirty tricks. The Albany County district attorney is set to issue in the coming days the results of his investigation into Mr. Spitzer’s first scandal, his aides’ involvement in an effort to tarnish Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, the state’s top Republican.

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Holy Cow! Isnt this one of Hillary Clinton's Buddies? Ethics Reform Spitzer? Oh the Culture Of Democrat Corruption Continues.

My Space Ready To Rock The Troops *LIVE* From Kuwait

MySpace Set to Rock Troops in Kuwait TODAY 2:00 PM EDT

OPERATION: MySpace

Troops in Kuwait preparing to deploy into Iraq will get a crash course in rock-and-roll MySpace style when the online social network hosts its “Operation MySpace” concert March 10.

“For years, troops stationed all over the world have utilized MySpace as a lifeline to communicate with their loved ones back home,” said Tom Anderson, a MySpace co-founder. “Many of them have been generous enough to share their unique experiences with me through messages on MySpace. I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to thank them in person and bring along the entire MySpace community.”



MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe expressed pride in being able to entertain the troops and bring them a small piece of home, though they’re thousands of miles away.

“We’re incredibly proud to host this one-of-a-kind concert,” he said. “Unlike past variety shows or concerts of this nature, Operation MySpace will connect people, content, and culture a world apart through the live webcast of the show and interaction on the Operation MySpace profile.”

The concert, part of the MySpaceLive! series, is being presented in cooperation with the Defense Department’s Armed Forces Entertainment and America Supports You programs. Some of today’s most popular music acts -- including Filter, Disturbed, The Pussycat Dolls, DJ Z-Trip and Jessica Simpson -- will rock the Kuwaiti desert for the troops stationed in the country. Comedian Carlos Mencia will host the three-plus hour event, which will stream live on the MySpace Web site at 2 p.m. Eastern Time on March 10.

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“This MySpaceLive! concert is an exciting event because it communicates to our troops that people from all walks of life and from all types of companies support their service to our country,” said Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense of internal communication and public liaison. “MySpace is a great medium to connect our military members and their families, who serve in 177 countries, to the folks back home. We are so glad to have MySpace as part of the team working with both America Supports You and Armed Forces Entertainment.”

Armed Forces Entertainment is a supporter of the Defense Department’s “America Supports You” program, which connects citizens and companies with servicemembers and their families serving at home and abroad.

The connection Barber mentioned is already happening. Troops’ families and friends, as well as the entire MySpace community, can post videos and messages of support via a video blog section on the myspace.com/operationmyspace Web site, set up just for the concert. That same site will feature scrolling goodwill messages during the live webcast of the show.

MySpace and Defense Department officials aren’t the only ones excited about entertaining the troops. The musicians are thrilled with the opportunity.

“It’s truly an honor to perform for the troops,” Jessica Simpson said. “Through Operation MySpace, I get to serve my country by doing what I love to do in front of thousands of brave men in uniform. It’s every girl’s dream!”

The Pussycat Dolls had similar sentiments. “We're so excited to be performing for the troops and supporting our Armed Forces overseas,” the group said in a statement.

FX television network will broadcast a condensed one-hour version of the show on April 12 for those who won’t be able to catch it live.

For more information on the Operation MySpace concert, visit the MySpace Web site.

America Support's You.Mil

Operation MySpace

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This is so cool :-) Streaming Live from MySpace, America Support's You. Mil, Fox News and various other locations. GO TROOPS!!!!!!!!

Where's Bill?

Is this what it's come down to? LOL! I knew they were trying to keep Bill Clinton low key for a bit but this is embarrassing!

Democrat Party Officialy In Civil War! Chaos Insues, Name Calling, Mud Slinging, Etc..

Obama, Hillary in Civil War

With Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's decision to stay in the Democratic race to the bitter end, she has signaled a delegate fight all the way to the party's convention in Denver this August.

Political strategists have concluded that Clinton cannot overcome Sen. Barack Obama's pledged delegate lead by winning additional primaries.



And despite his lead in electoral and delegate wins, Obama cannot seal his nomination without the support of the party's superdelegates.

Clinton's decision, after winning in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island this week that she would not capitulate has opened up the first skirmishes in a looming Democratic civil war.

Already the intraparty battle described by the Boston Globe as "trench warfare" has cost the Democrats a whopping $275 million. The war has no end in sight and is shaping up to be a take-no-prisoner's battle.

Cash: Both sides are now swimming with the ammunition that politicians need to wage war. Obama announced this week that he raised a stunning $55 million in February. Clinton hasn't matched those numbers, but she is playing catch-up. Since Tuesday, she raked in a cool $3 million.



'Monster' Hillary: Obama foreign policy aide Samantha Power told Britain's Scotsman that Clinton is "a monster . . . she is stooping to anything" and described her circle as being on the "warpath."

Ken Starr: Clinton's campaign lashed out at Obama Thursday, accusing him of becoming another "Ken Starr" because he promised to be more criticial of his opponent. The Obama campaign has complained Clinton has dragged her feat in releasing her tax returns and her documents as first lady.

Florida and Michigan. Both the Obama and Clinton camps are deadlocked on the matter of the Florida and Michigan delegates. Party Chairman Howard Dean says he wants a new vote in those states but he won't use party money to pay for it. That benefits Obama, because Clinton would have likely won those states in a re-vote. If Dean and the Obama can keep the current slate of Florida and Michigan delegates off the convention floor, Clinton's position is further undermined.

Black Revolt: Influential African-Americans like Donna Brazile, Al Sharpton and former Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder are warning that the Democratic Party may be fractured and crippled if it does not abide by the will of the pledged delegates in picking the nominee.

Meanwhile, the fraternal struggle among Democrats may be netting Republicans support.

Former Bush strategist Karl Rove notes Thursday in The Wall Street Journal "the interesting electoral phenomenon is the emergence of the 'McCainicrats' Democrats backing Mr. McCain."

Rove continued: "In three recent polls, (Fox, LA Times/Bloomberg and Gallup), almost twice as many Democrats support Mr. McCain as Republicans support Mr. Obama. Three times as many Democrats support Mr. McCain as Republicans back Mrs. Clinton."

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Boy did Howard Dean Screw the Pooch on this one. What a friggen mess. Why should Florida and Michigan pay for a do-over election and mess created by the Democrats to begin with? Well Hillary and Obama can rip each other to shreds for all I care, we have our Nominee. And I heard this morning some people are going to jump off the Obama ship and Vote for McCain should he become the Nominee. Slug it out you guy's, this is just entertainment at this point!

In The Meantime: Party Donations Show G.O.P. Edge

Party Donations Show G.O.P. Edge

*COWARD* Bombs Times Square Military Recruiting Office

Security camera footage shows a person approach a Times Square military recruiting office and ride away on a bicycle shortly before a bomb damaged the building Thursday morning.


Security video shows a bicyclist approach a Times Square recruiting station moments before a bomb went off.



1 of 3 Authorities consider the bicyclist the chief suspect in the bombing, which occurred about 3:45 a.m. and caused no injuries.

The video, shown by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, shows the person approach the station on the bicycle, get off and walk up a metal ramp to the door. After about a minute the person returns to the bike and rides away.



Less than two minutes later a bright flash and a cloud of white smoke signal the explosion.

A witness and an officer at a police substation just steps away from the recruiting office saw a man riding a bicycle, Kelly said.

They did not see the man's face, but he was wearing a backpack, Kelly said.

A bicycle was later found in a trash bin not far from the scene, he said.



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UPDATE:

8 House Dems Get Letters, Photo Of New York Recruiting Station Before Bombing: Words Included "We Did It"

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What a COWARDLY Son of a bitch!! This is the Peace Movement?