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Saturday, February 26, 2005

ReBelle Daily Dispatch

How long can Bush get away with lies?

As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course. The White House propaganda mill will hail it as another victory for the president and ignore the fact that most Europeans still consider the war dangerous folly and the president a dangerous fool.

One hears new rationalizations for the war on this side of the Atlantic.

After the hearings on Secretary of State Rice, a Republican senator, with all the self-righteous anger that characterizes many such, proclaimed, "The Democrats just have to understand that the president really believed there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq." This justification is not unlike the one heard frequently at the White House, "The president believed the intelligence agencies of the world."

http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel25.html


---Amazing because we here in America feel he is a dangerous fool as well...If more than two people call you a horse..You may need to go out and buy a saddle just in case.----


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Lipstick Fascism
Posted by James Wolcott

Arabs of course are fair game on talk radio and the trash punditry, of which Ann Coulter is stringbean queen. Presumably Helen Thomas's very ancestry, about which I know nothing, makes her an incipient terrorist threat, though presumably commando call boy Jeff Gannon would have been coiled to pounce into action if the octegenarian made any sudden violent moves. Coulter's typically crass wisecrack is the cartoonish version of the hostile profiling of Arabs and Muslims being conducted all over the neoconservative right, as typified by Michelle Malkin's pioneer work to excuse the Japanese internment in order to justify the preemptive incarceration of Muslims and other suspicious elements.

http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2005/02/lipstick_fascis.php


---When it comes to Coultergiest..My very anti- death penalty mind keeps repeating..BURN HER BURN HER...BURN HER ALIVE...WHY?...Not because she is stupid...BECAUSE SHE IS A TRAITOR.....NO ONE can be that wrong THAT often without deliberate intent.---

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Justice Dept. Opposes Bid to Revive Case Against F.B.I.
By JOHN FILES


WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 - The government has told a federal appeals court that a suit by an F.B.I. translator who was fired after accusing the bureau of ineptitude should not be allowed to proceed because it would cause "significant damage to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."

Lawyers for the government said in a brief filed with the court on Thursday that the suit could not continue without disclosing privileged and classified information.

The translator, Sibel Edmonds, was a contract linguist for the bureau for about six months, translating material in Azerbaijani, Farsi and Turkish. Ms. Edmonds was dismissed in 2002 after complaining repeatedly that bureau linguists had produced slipshod and incomplete translations of important terrorism intelligence before and after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Ms. Edmonds also accused a fellow Turkish linguist in the Washington field office of blocking the translation of material involving acquaintances who had come under suspicion and said the bureau had allowed diplomatic sensitivities with other nations to affect the translation of important intelligence.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/politics/26whistle.html?pagewanted=print&position


---Ms Edmonds I truely hope you find justice and TAKE THEM ALL DOWN...Unlike that skank coulter, Ms. Edmonds will one day be considered a TRUE AMERICAN HERO....Don't know why?...HHMMM gee coulter don't either..Too damn bad ain't it.?...Try Googling Ms Edmonds name and welcome to hell.----

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Clear Channel Posts $4.7 Billion Loss in Fourth Quarter

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: February 25, 2005
Filed at 6:55 p.m. ET

SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Clear Channel Communications Inc. on Friday reported a loss of $4.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2004, all of it due to an accounting change to comply with federal regulations.

Excluding the charge, Clear Channel's earnings were $214.3 million, or 37 cents per share, in the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2004, up 14.5 percent from the $187.2 million, or 30 cents per share, earned in the same quarter in 2003.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Earns-Clear-Channel.html?


---HAHAHAHAHAHAHA..You mean georgie is THE ONLY ONE PROFITING FROM LIES ANYMORE?....HAHAHA..Oh ...What about angina cheney?....----

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Romney links gay marriage, US prestige


Says nation cannot lead and allow legalization
By Michael Levenson, Globe Correspondent February 26, 2005

SALT LAKE CITY -- Speaking before an adoring audience of Utah Republicans last night, Governor Mitt Romney drew a link between America's prestige around the world and the legalization of same-sex marriages in Massachusetts.

''America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home," Romney said, calling the Supreme Judicial Court's legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts ''a blow to the family."

Hours after gay marriage supporters in Boston criticized him for his recent, strident criticism of same-sex marriage, Romney delivered a half-hour speech laced with references to religion, family values, and praise for Ronald Reagan's foreign policy. In the latest in his recent series of out-of-state political appearances, he smiled as Utah Republicans made fun of Massachusetts' liberal reputation in

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/02/26/romney_links_gay_marriage_us_prestige/


----If Romney wanted to preach to the chior...He might wanna try someplace other than UTAH...See there this funny thing about that gay marrige amendment that would destroy LARGE parts of the Mormon way of life...Namely POLYGAMY...The Mormons are not as afraid of gays as they are afraid of the US Gov. also naming them as breakers of a FEDERAL LAW... Funny Funny Funny...----
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Transcript
White House Talk

Dan FroomkinWhite House Briefing Columnist
Wednesday, February 23, 2005; 1:00 PM


Dan Froomkin: Hi everyone. My column today was about some of the fault lines that have emerged during Bush's European trip. But I'm eager to respond to your questions and comments about anything White House-related. Bring it on.

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Burlington, Vt.: Hi Dan -- When I heard it on the NPR news last night, I thought that the loud, spontaneous laughter after the president's "US won't attack Iran, but all options are still on the table" was rather a big deal, as you implied in today's column. Yet this morning NPR (and reportedly others) edited their broadcasts of the Bush quote, and the laughter was gone. If the reaction of Europe to our leader and our foreign policy is derisive laughter, I kinda think we ought to know. And now my question: Are you bringing home Belgian chocolates?

Dan Froomkin: I'm not on the trip myself, wasn't in the room, and suppose it's possible that the reason the laughter hasn't been widely reported (though it was mentioned in the New York Times and a few other places) was that the audience wasn't considered representative. (And it's quite possible the loudest guffaws were from the traveling press.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36003-2005Feb18


----You mean they edited out anything that would make georgie look stupid?...No, No , REALLY i am shocked.---

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Oil Pipeline Destroyed in Northern Iraq

February 26, 2005 — Saboteurs blew up an oil pipeline in northern Iraq in the latest attack against the country's vital petroleum industry, while a roadside bomb killed two people in the capital, officials and witnesses said.

The U.S. military also said Saturday that a soldier had died during a sweep for insurgents west of Baghdad.

The violence came one day after the government announced the arrest of a man it described as a key figure in the country's most feared terrorist group, and a top official said the noose was tightening around the group's leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.


http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/022605_nw_pipeline.html


---GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!!!!!!!....oh wait...I'm a little behind ...----

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Top U.S. General Sees Lasting Iraq Insurgency

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Reuters) - The insurgency in Iraq is not likely to be put down in a year or even two since history shows such uprisings can last a decade or more, the United States' top military commander said on Friday.

Air Force Gen. Richard Myers said that in the past century, insurgencies around the world have lasted anywhere from seven to 12 years, making a quick fix to the problem in Iraq unlikely.

"This is not the kind of business that can be done in one year, two years probably," said Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council here.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20050226/wl_nm/iraq_myers_dc


---Is this not one of the cake-eaters who said our boys should be home for Christmas of 2004?..Oh thats right I forgot yall not only cancelled all leave and all discharges but you bastards have now gone and cancelled Christmas too...Let me guess.. YALL SUCK AT EMPIRE BUILDING....this is what happens when LITTLE men try to build BIG EMPIRES......----

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U.S. Says 'Thousands' of Missiles Missing

WASHINGTON (Feb. 25) - It has been known for years that thousands of light and lethal shoulder-fired missiles are in black-market circulation. What is not known is exactly who has them and whether many have fallen into the hands of terrorists or criminals.

A worrisome puzzle, it explains why the United States and Russia signed an agreement Thursday to cooperate in destroying surplus Soviet-era SA-7s and other portable anti-aircraft missiles. The smallest of these are durable, relatively cheap and easy to smuggle.

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050224171009990023


---A WORRISOME puzzle...Gee, ya think?...Tell you what darlin, do not worry your pretty little head about it... We who lied to get into immoral wars, we will take care of all that WORRISOME stuff.....No, REALLY, it will be ok..Thank you and sleep well....----

--Pinche Putos---

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US Army doles out $12m bonus to Halliburton

The US Army has approved $ 9.4 million ($12 million) in bonus payments to a Halliburton subsidiary on more than $US1 billion of work supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though the Government has not approved the costs and terms of the contracts.

The Army Field Support Command said on Thursday that Kellogg Brown & Root's performance had been rated as excellent or very good on 14 task orders and it had therefore authorised interim "award fees". These amounted to $US5 million on $US392 million of logistics work in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, and $US4.4 million on $US758 million of logistics work in Kuwait for the war in Iraq.

Democrats in Congress have been critical of the Halliburton subsidiary's war effort contracts because they were awarded mainly without bidding. Dick Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive before he stood for the vice-presidency in 2000.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/After-Saddam/US-Army-doles-out-12m-bonus-to-Halliburton/2005/02/25/1109180112360.html?oneclick=true

---Lets play the add game shall we?...If you say up-armored maybe ummmmm 40 humvees...HOW MUCH DOES THAT COST?....Anyone?....----

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