Rumsfeld Sees No Need For Draft

The Bush administration sees no need to reinstate the military draft

Associated Press April 23, 2004

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration sees no need to reinstate the military draft, but it is pushing for improved Pentagon management of the 1.4 million-strong force in order to meet wartime needs, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday.

"I don't know anyone in the executive branch of the government who believes it would be appropriate or necessary to reinstitute the draft," Rumsfeld told the Newspaper Association of America's annual convention

Sporadic and violent clashes rock center of Tehran

Many angry demonstrators, especially young, retaliate

SMCCDI (Information Service)Sep 26, 2004

Sporadic and often violent clashes rocked, this evening, several areas of the Iranian Capital and some of the main provincial cities, as, few thousands of residents gathered to celebrate the "Mehr ritual" inherited from Iran's ancient legacy and qualified by the Islamist clerics as "Pagan".
The demonstrators defied the official injunctions by dancing, chanting and shouting slogans against the Islamic regime, its Islamist ideology and called for the freedom of Iran.
Regime's special troops, composed by hundreds of foreign mercenaries, moved on the crowd in front of Tehran University, Vali-e-Asr, Vanak, Mirdamad, Tehran Pars, Enghelab and Azadi squares by beating with heavy clubs and firing tear gas and plastic bullets. Tens have been reported as injured and arrested.
Many angry demonstrators, especially young, retaliated to the regime forces' brutality by throwing pieces of stones and hand made incendiary devices wounding several militiamen and damaging patrol cars and official buildings.
Heavy popularly initiated traffic jams created more problems for the security forces to deploy more personnel.

MORE http://www.daneshjoo.org/generalnews/article/publish/article_8492.shtml

Leftists still refuse to do what’s right

Wisconsin voting rules make it easy for election fraud

With Wisconsin being a swing state in the presidential election, the Democratic vote fraudsters who surfaced in 2000 will be back in droves this year. In fact, they’re already here.
An outfit called the "New Voter Project" claims to be nonpartisan but is being bankrolled and staffed by leftists. The organization is already active in Wisconsin and already involved in trouble. Thousands of "voters" registered by this group in the last few weeks have submitted registration forms without the legally required proof of identification. This has forced village and city clerks all over the region to send out notices asking for the information. Why would so many of these forms be filled out without identification?
You tell me.

There’s more. http://www.gmtoday.com/milwaukeetoday/editorials/belling.asp

U.S. soldiers start Iraq kids' ball clubs

America's pastime new to youths

Jim KraneAssociated PressSept. 26, 2004 12:00 AM

ALTUN KUPRI, Iraq - Gray-shirted Brusiks filled the bases in the final inning when the potential winning run strode to the plate - Kamaran Sabir, the team's 14-year-old slugger.Kamaran clenched his teeth. The Nawruz pitcher, Diller Fakhraddin, stared back. Parents in the stands wrung their hands. Diller's fastball whizzed in, and Kamaran hacked.Strike one. Strike two. Then, "Strike three!" yelled the umpire, U.S. Army Capt. Deron Haught. "You're out!"And what may have been Iraq's first organized baseball game was over, with the red-shirted Nawruz, the Kurdish word for New Year's, beating Brusik, or Team Lightning, 10-7.

Have you Forgotten Why We Went To War?

If youre a Dem and have forgotten why America went to war with Iraq watch the video

http://media1.streamtoyou.com/rnc/092004v2.wmv

Congress passes middle-class tax cuts

$146 billion measure goes to president for signature

The Associated Press
Updated: 8:27 p.m. ET Sept. 23, 2004


WASHINGTON - Congress on Thursday approved a $145.9 billion package of tax relief to extend three popular middle-class tax cuts, giving President Bush his fourth major tax victory since taking office

MORE http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6080198/

Our Troops Rock!

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 3 —

An 18-year-old private earned the first Silver Star medal awarded to a soldier from the 1st Cavalry Division serving in Iraq, after he helped fight off a deadly guerrilla ambush in May that killed two of his companions and wounded five. Pfc. Christopher Fernandez, of Tucson, Ariz. received the Silver Star from the division's commander, Maj. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, on Aug. 13. The Silver Star, the military's third-highest combat medal, is given for uncommon valor in combat. Fernandez, a Humvee machine gunner, is credited with holding a band of insurgents at bay while his companions gathered wounded and dead soldiers from a vehicle disabled by a roadside bombing.

The ambush took place May 5 in west Baghdad. One soldier that carried the dead and wounded to safety, 33-year-old Sgt. Timothy Buttz of Bloomington, Minn., was decorated with the Army's Bronze Star medal, with a special commendation for valor. ''After the (bomb) went off, I noticed their Humvee was taking fire, that's when I started shooting back,'' said Fernandez, a quiet, lanky man who wears glasses. Fernandez ran out of ammunition for his M-249 machine gun. He sprinted to the disabled Humvee and grabbed a damaged M-240 heavy machine gun and dashed back to his position to continue firing. The M-240's protective hand guards had been blown off and Fernandez said he burned his hands in about 10 minutes of sustained shooting.

''I knew I had to do something. I could've gotten myself killed to do it,'' said Fernandez, interviewed at 1st Cavalry headquarters near Baghdad International Airport. The two soldiers who died in the attack were 19-year-old Pfc. Bradley Kritzer, of Irvona, Penn.; and 18-year-old Spc. James Marshall, of Tulsa, Okla. Buttz said the two were unconscious in the back of the disabled Humvee, along with two of the wounded soldiers.

''I moved them from their Humvee to mine,'' Buttz said. Buttz also destroyed the vehicle's sensitive radios before abandoning the damaged Humvee and driving back to their base. Kritzer and Marshall died en route, he said. Some 32,000 soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division are currently serving in Baghdad. Since March 2003, 124 Silver Stars and 399 Bronze Stars for valor have been awarded in the Iraq conflict, according to Pentagon figures.

My Heros Have Always Been Cowboys

Is President Bush A Cowboy?

Damn Straight He Is!

http://www.k4concepts.com/cowboys/cowboys.html#pagetop

Kofi Annan The Fool

Quick Poll Results

Do you agree with Kofi Annan that the invasion of Iraq was illegal?

No 64% 11886 votes

Yes 36% 6819 votes



Total Votes: 18,705

Demoncrats Call For The Draft

Bill Summary & Status for the 108th Congress

S.89 Title: A bill to provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Hollings, Ernest F. [SC] (introduced 1/7/2003) Cosponsors (None) Related Bills: H.R.163Latest Major Action: 1/7/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

H.R.163 Title: To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Rangel, Charles B. [NY-15] (introduced 1/7/2003) Cosponsors (14) Related Bills: S.89Latest Major Action: 2/3/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.

COSPONSORS(14), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)
Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] - 1/7/2003
Rep Brown, Corrine [FL-3] - 1/28/2003
Rep Christensen, Donna M. [VI] - 5/19/2004
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 1/28/2003
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] - 1/7/2003
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 1/28/2003
Rep Hastings, Alcee L. [FL-23] - 1/28/2003
Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [IL-2] - 7/21/2004
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 1/28/2003
Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] - 1/7/2003
Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 1/7/2003
Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] - 1/28/2003
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 1/7/2003
Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. [NY-12] - 1/28/2003
Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes [DC] - 1/28/2003(withdrawn - 6/21/2004)

The Demoncrats Draft Plans

While most people seem to think that George W. Bush is plotting to draft your children after he wins the election this November, it would be wise to consider that there are two bills in Congress seeking to reinstate the draft- both being pushed by Democrats!

[b]H.R. 163 and S. 89 were both introduced by Democrats Charles Rangel (NY) and Ernest Hollings (SC) respectively[/b]. The bills were introduced in [b]January 2003 [/b]and would require both men and women to either perform mandatory military or civilian service. Both of these pieces of legislation are currently stalled and there's no indication that they are going anywhere anytime soon. But, just when you thought the draft debate ended here comes Republican Senator Chuck Hagel (NE).
:arrow: http://www.objector.org/positionpaper.html

Demoncrats Draft Plan REVISITED

Rangel calls for mandatory military service
Monday, December 30, 2002 Posted: 1:46 PM EST (1846 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Democratic lawmaker said Sunday he will introduce a bill in the next session of Congress to make military service mandatory.
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, said such legislation could make members of Congress more reluctant to authorize military action.

"I'm going to introduce legislation to have universal military service to let everyone have an opportunity to defend the free world against the threats coming to us," Rangel said on CNN's "Late Edition."

"I'm talking about mandatory service."

The Korean War veteran has accused the Bush administration and some fellow lawmakers of being too willing to go to war with Iraq.

In October, he voted against a joint resolution authorizing military action against Iraq. It passed 296-133 in the House and 77-23 in the Senate.
"When you talk about a war, you're talking about ground troops, you're talking about enlisted people, and they don't come from the kids and members of Congress," he said.
"I think, if we went home and found out that there were families concerned about their kids going off to war, there would be more cautiousness and a more willingness to work with the international community than to say, 'Our way or the highway.' "
Rangel did not provide specifics of his proposal.
:arrow: http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/29/mandatory.military/

No Plans for Military Draft, Official Says

no reason to bring back the draft

By Josh WhiteWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, July 8, 2004; Page A10


There are no plans to reinstate a military draft and the Bush administration does not support conscription, the Pentagon's top official for personnel and readiness told Congress yesterday.

Trying to counter recent Internet rumors that the military and the Selective Service System are girding for a potential draft to support operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, Undersecretary of Defense David S.C. Chu said there is no reason to bring back the draft. He fielded questions at a House Armed Services Committee hearing that focused on the strains on military personnel as officials plan to rotate more troops into the conflicts in coming months.

"The administration does not support resumption of the draft," Chu said, responding to a question from Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.). "There is no secret plan on this front."

Kerry And His Demoncratic Cohorts Support The Draft, Everyone Else Says NO WAY!

Pentagon says NO DRAFT

Only The Puking Left Want The Draft

Again these wack-job lefties WHO WANT the draft, try to sell it under the guise that Bush wants the draft..idiots ALL!! this is really funny, it seems that kerrys plan if elected is to institute the draft, get a bunch of anti war people churned up more than they are now so that they will march in the streets day in and day out so he can say "THIS IS A FAILED WAR, BRING THE TROOPS HOME, LETS GIVE UP..LET THE ISLAMO-SOCIALST COMRADS HAVE THIR COUNTRY BACK'

Pentagon can't seem to kill idea of military draft WASHINGTON (AP) —

No matter what the Pentagon says, the idea of restarting the military draft never seems to go away. Defense officials say they don't want it. And polls show the American public doesn't either. So why do lawmakers keep suggesting that conscription be reconsidered?

Since the fall of 2002, when the Bush administration asked Congress to approve force against Iraq, the Defense Department has said repeatedly that it sees no reason to abandon the all-volunteer, professional military and return to the days when thousands of untrained men were forced into service.

"I don't know anyone in the executive branch of the government who believes it would be appropriate or necessary," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said again recently.

Recent polling indicates four out of five Americans surveyed oppose resuming the draft, which would appear to seal its fate as a dead issue during an election year. "It's an idea whose time may never come," said Charles Moskos, a Northwestern University sociologist who studies military issues.

Still, lawmakers keep questioning whether perhaps a draft may be needed, even as proposed legislation on it goes nowhere.


draft supporter, Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, who has unsuccessfully sponsored legislation on conscription. [Liberal] Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel It's not a shared burden," said Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., noting that most Americans have sacrificed little through the Afghan and Iraq wars that started after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-06-01-military-draft_x.htm

lefties want the draft, intelligent people say NO!

Lebanon Says Top al-Qaida Operative Caught

Al-Qaida

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanon said Wednesday it had arrested the top al-Qaida operative in the country and another man linked to Osama bin Laden's terrorist group who were plotting to blow up foreign embassies in Beirut, assassinate Western diplomats and recruit insurgents to fight U.S.-led forces in Iraq. Senior security officials said the two Lebanese men arrested Friday along with eight accomplices were also planning to attack Lebanese security and judicial targets.

Woman Palestinian suicide bomber kills two Israelis in Jerusalem

Female Palestinian Homicide bomber

MORE FROM THE RELIGION OF PEACE

JERUSALEM (AFP) A second Israeli has died after a woman Palestinian suicide bomber blew herself up near a police checkpoint in east Jerusalem, police and medical sources said. The identity of the latest victim was not immediately known, although rescue services had earlier said that a nine-year-old child had been seriously wounded in the blast..

The Religion Of Peace

'Beat me once a week'

An Iranian woman, beaten every day by her husband, asked a court to tell him only to beat her once a week. Maryam, the middle-age woman, said she did not want to divorce her husband because she loved him.


Moslems, peaceful Moslems. A great and grand religion full of hate, violence and murder the world over..how very peaceful.

MORE http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/13336034?source=Reuters

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CBS arranged for meeting with Lockhart

Joe Lockhart Top Aide To John Kerry OUSTED!!!



is it any wonder?

The puking left up to their old tricks; lying, thieving, cheating, manipulating bastrds!!

WASHINGTON — CBS arranged for a confidential source to talk with Joe Lockhart, a top aide to John Kerry, after the source provided the network with the now-disputed documents about President Bush's service in the Texas National Guard.

Allawi adamant Jan elections will go ahead

Sticking To The Timetable

LONDON/BAGHDAD, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Sunday elections would be held as planned in January despite a surge in violence across the country. "We definitely are going to stick to the timetable of elections in January next year," Allawi told a news conference after talks in London with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

MORE http://www.iraq-today.com/article.php?id=1510&sp=&searchstring=&section=7

Iraq: busload of corpses discovered

Saddam would have turned the whole region into hell


Sept. 21. (Guardian News Service):The remains of an entire busload of people, including women and children, have been discovered near Hilla, Iraq's interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, claimed yesterday
The interim government was continuing to uncover many atrocities committed during Saddam Hussein's rule, he told editors in London. ``We underestimated the scale of what happened in Iraq at that time," he said. ``So far we have discovered 262 mass graves, with tens of thousands of people. It's unbelievably shocking - truckloads, busloads of people buried."
There had been a recent discovery of a busload of people buried alive at Hilla, an hour's drive south of Baghdad. ``Men, women and children – they were still sitting in their seats," he said. Innocent people who rejected Saddam and his rule."

MORE `http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/001200409211115.htm`

Comrad Kerry

Kerry lied while good men died

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE http://kerrylied.com/otherdocs/flash.htm

Decorated Soldier Reportedly Attacked At Concert

Socialist Scum Attacks American Soldier



Foster Barton, 19


COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A local soldier back from the war in Iraq said he was beaten at an area concert because of what was printed on his T-shirt, NBC 4's Nancy Burton reported.
Foster Barton, 19, of Grove City, received a Purple Heart for his military service in Iraq. He almost lost his leg last month after a Humvee he was riding in ran over a landmine.

http://www.nbc4i.com/news/3746350/detail.html

Another Attack on patriotic Americans by the socialist scurge In our nation, The left wing Lunatics are off their rockers and deserve to be treated as enemies of The United States Of America, for indeed they are just that!

Do not go gentle into that good night

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they do not go gentle into that good night.



Dylan Thomas -

FULL AUDIO http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1159

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL ON ISLAM

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."

Kerry Campaign Stop Angers Pennsylvania Neighborhood

See How the Democrats Set Up a Campaign Show!


''Good Tuesday morning!'' John Kerry brought his ''front porch meeting'' to our Canonsburg, PA neighborhood on Labor Day morning. Since you will never hear the truth from the TV or print media I thought that you should know from someone who was ''almost'' there.
The residents who live on the street where the event took place were not allowed to attend. Kerry shipped in approximately 90 invitation only VIPs. In addition, there was a hard luck case who was about to lose her job at US Air and another was an elderly woman who was having healthcare problems. Neither one was from this neighborhood. The street was closed to all traffic the night before and all residents on the street were REQUIRED to remove their Bush/Cheney signs.

READ IT HERE http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=9764

US and Syria discuss military co-operation

Military-To-Military Relationship


20.09.2004 12.24 pm

WASHINGTON - Despite deep differences with Syria, Washington has initiated talks with Damascus in an effort to create a military-to-military relationship to help stabilise war-torn Iraq, Time magazine reported on Sunday.
Talks could even lead to joint US-Syrian patrols along Iraq's border with Syria

MORE http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3592902&thesection=news&thesubsection=world

Israel kills top militant in Gaza Strip

Airforce Drone

A senior leader of Hamas's military wing was killed in an Israeli missile strike on his car as it drove through a Hamas stronghold in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, witnesses said.
The missile, which witnesses said was fired by an airforce drone, ripped through a car carrying a senior field commander of Hamas's Izz el-Deen al-Qassam brigades, Khaled Abu Selniya, 33. He was killed and six passersby were wounded.
Hamas vowed to avenge the death of Selniya, whom it described as a senior field commander of the group's armed wing, which has been behind scores of suicide bombings and other attacks against Israel over the past decade.
"It was a clear assassination of one of our mujahideen (Muslim fighter) ... Hamas will be able and capable of teaching the enemy a painful lesson," said Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas spokesman.
The Israeli army said in a statement that Selniya was targeted by the airforce because he played a central role in the manufacture and development of Qassam rockets which Hamas militants have fired at the nearby Israeli city of Sderot

MORE http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-09/20/content_375952.htm

John Kerry, Criminal

“Aid and Comfort”


For years it was said that Jane Fonda committed treason when she went to Vietnam in July 1972. In the late 1990s, with increasingly widespread use of the Internet, the charge became a staple of discussion by conservatives and veterans. However, their belief in Fonda’s criminality was not substantiated. We undertook to do just that, and laid out the definitive case against her in our 2002 book, “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda In North Vietnam.
A current parallel has arisen in connection with the presidential candidacy of John Kerry. For the past several weeks, the Internet has been ablaze with charges—as yet unexplained, let alone legally substantiated— that by traveling to Paris for meetings with the North Vietnamese communists and their Viet Cong allies in 1970, Kerry violated American criminal statutes. Indeed, one well-intentioned group, Patriot Petitions, has disseminated a petition to President of the Senate Richard Cheney, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and Attorney General John Ashcroft, seeking Kerry’s prosecution.

Just as Fonda’s critics turned out to have been correct about their gut feelings regarding her treasonable actions in North Vietnam, so, too, Kerry’s critics—who feel strongly that his trip violated the law, without quite knowing why—are correct.

MORE http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15127

Ex-Guardsman: I Contacted Kerry Campaign

The Kerry Campaign Directly Linked to Fradulent Documents

By KELLEY SHANNON, Associated Press Writer

AUSTIN, Texas - A retired Texas National Guard official mentioned as a possible source for disputed documents about President Bush (news - web sites)'s service in the Guard said he passed along information to a former senator working with John Kerry (news - web sites)'s campaign.

Nine Innings from Ground Zero

Video Clip

HBO recently aired a documentary titled Nine Innings from Ground Zero that tells the story of the 2001 World Series in New York. The series helped to bring back hope and optimism to the people of America following September 11. Through interviews with players, fans, families, and even the President, the film recalls a difficult time that we came through together.

WATCH THE VIDEO CLIP http://www.georgewbush.com/NineInnings

Comrad Kerry In Action

Comrad Skerry Meets with War-Monger Daniel Ortega




Kerry: "I am willing...to take the risk in the effort to put to test the good faith of the Sandinistas." (John F. Kerry, The Complete Biography by the Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best, p.217)

Days later, Ortega went to Moscow to collect a $200 million loan from the Soviets, leaving Democrats "embarrassed," in the words of then-Speaker Tip O'Neill.

and this guy wants to be The President?

I dont think so!

Quotes John Kerry

John Kerry on Ronald Reagan

Reagan's deployment of the MX missile is 'destabilizing' and that it increases the chances that the Soviets will launch a nuclear strike." (John Ellement, States News Service, 3/19/95)

President Reagan should reorder his priorities. We don't need expensive and exotic weapons systems." (Lt. Gov. John Kerry, Letter To Constituent, April 1983)

The defense expenditures of the Reagan Administration are without any relevancy to the threat this nation is currently facing...." ("Kerry Asks $54 Billion Cut In Reagan Defense Budget," Berkshire Eagle, 5/30/84)

We don't need another Ronald Reagan type in Washington. Let me tell you that." (PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, 6/5/96)

I'm proud that I stood against Ronald Reagan, not with him." (Deborah Orin, "Real Reason I Want To Be A Dem: Clark," New York Post, 10/4/03)

'We've seen governors come to Washington who don't have the experience with Washington and they get in trouble real fast. And they don't have the experience in foreign policy, and they get in trouble pretty fast,' Kerry said. 'Look at Ronald Reagan. Look at Jimmy Carter and now, obviously, George Bush.'" (Ron Fournier, "Kerry Seeks Shift Amid War Funds Request," Associated Press, 9/8/03)

Of the Reagan White House, "They were willing to literally put the Constitution at risk because they believed there was somehow a higher order of things, that the ends do in fact justify the means. That's the most Marxist, totalitarian doctrine I've ever heard of in my life.... You've done the very thing that James Madison and others feared when they were struggling to put the Constitution together, which was to create an unaccountable system with runaway power . . . running off against the will of the American people." ("Not Too Late For A War Crimes Trial," OC Weekly, 2/1/02)

I think it was a silly and rather immature approach," of Reagan's dismissal of a "peace offer" from Sandinista junta leader Daniel Ortega.

More Kerry: "I am willing...to take the risk in the effort to put to test the good faith of the Sandinistas." (John F. Kerry, The Complete Biography by the Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best, p.217)

Days later, Ortega went to Moscow to collect a $200 million loan from the Soviets, leaving Democrats "embarrassed," in the words of then-Speaker Tip O'Neill.

When Reagan bombed Libya in response to a Berlin disco bombing (killed one U.S. soldier and wounded 51): "It is obvious that our response was not proportional to the disco bombing and even violated the Administration's own guidelines to hit clearly defined terrorist targets, thereby minimizing the risk to innocent civilians.... We are not going to solve the problem of terrorism with this kind of retaliation. There are numerous other actions we can take, in concert with our allies, to bring significant pressure to bear on countries supporting or harboring terrorists."

When American troops invaded Grenada, Kerry denounced the action as "a bully's show of force."

While ripping Wesley Clark in a Democratic debate: "I'm not going to characterize other people, but while he (Clark) was voting for Richard Nixon and for Ronald Reagan, I was fighting against both of their policies and what they did, frankly, to the average working person in this country and to some of our hopes and dreams."

http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerry200406090827.asp

Kerry Honored by Vietnamese Communists

Communist Vietnamese honor John Kerry, the war protestor, as a hero in their victory over the United States in the Vietnam War

In the Vietnamese Communist War Remnants Museum (formerly known as the "War Crimes Museum") in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), a photograph of John Kerry hangs in a room dedicated to the anti-war activists who helped the Vietnamese Communists win the Vietnam War.



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Troops in Iraq to Get Combined Lethal/Nonlethal Weapons System

A new sheriff is coming to town

By Sandra Jontz,
Stars and Stripes European Edition

ARLINGTON, Va. — A new sheriff is coming to town.

The Pentagon’s Office of Force Transformation is designing a combined lethal and nonlethal weapons system to be fielded to Army and Marine Corps units in Iraq by summer, 2005, in an experiment called “Project Sheriff.”
The concept is to retrofit ground vehicles already in the services’ inventories with an array of new lethal and nonlethal systems, giving troops working in urban terrain more options, especially when deciding how to deal with potential noncombatants or civilians being used as shields, said program director and transformation strategist Col. Wade Hall, a 23-year veteran of the Marine Corps.
Like a sheriff, Hall says.
“He’s not there to cause destruction. He’s there to keep the peace, but has the option to go to destruction status if he needs it,” Hall said.
The Pentagon hopes to launch the system in Iraq in June or July, equipping four to six Army and Marine Corps vehicles with a combination of off-the-shelf technology and systems being developed.
Vehicles under consideration include the Army’s new Stryker armored personnel carrier or the Armored Security Vehicle, or ASV, and the Marine Corps’ Light Armored Vehicle, or LAV, already proven to work well in cities, said Hall.
A goal of the Office of Force Transformation is to cut through the years and years it used to take the department to introduce a new system, he said, while assuring that the technology employed is well-studied and the office is not sacrificing safety for the sake of speed.
Designers see the systems being used for missions such as armed reconnaissance, raids, crowd control, security patrol and vehicle checkpoints.

MORE http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,SS_091404_Weapon,00.html

First Young Marines Class Graduates

"Boot Camp"


MCRD/ERR PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. --

After 12 demanding weeks of Marine Corps "Boot Camp," dozens of anxious youngsters from Class 1-04 crossed the stage to graduate as Parris Island's first class of Young Marines at the Depot Saturday. Approximately 39 members, ranging from ages 8 - 17, walked across the stage with their brand-new, freshly-pressed uniforms to receive a certificate of participation and to have their boots bloused by their drill instructors, which signified their transformation into Young Marines. To earn their new title, they had to go through 26 hours of training, which was led by a group of dedicated active-duty drill instructors, who volunteered three hours each Saturday to help guide the children through the recruit training-style program. Throughout the duration of the program, the "recruits" were taught close order drill, Marine Corps history, customs and courtesies, military rank structure and they also went through several hours of physical training. Colonel John Valentin, Depot Chief of Staff, took the floor as the guest speaker during the ceremony and congratulated his young audience on their success though the program. "You were all here each week," he said. "You all made it through the classes and the physical training, but let me tell you what you didn't do ... you didn't quit. No matter how hard things may have gotten, you all stuck with it. It shows that anyone here will start what they finish and that quality will take you far in life."

MORE http://www.military.com/Recruiting/Content/0,13898,090204_grads,,00.htm?ESRC=recruiting.nl

3 million new voters

We did it!



Because of your hard work I am proud to announce that the RNC has met and exceeded our goal of registering 3 million new voters in this cycle!

As of today we have registered 3,047,073 voters.

Now is not the time to rest. With 46 days left before Election Day we can register more voters and we can continue to spread our Party's message.

President George W. Bush is attracting new voters and has historic levels of support from Republicans around the country. We are expanding our party and building coalitions that will lead us to victory in November.

We've been aggressively reaching out to all voters--Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans--Republicans, Democrats and Independents. On Wednesday, for example, I was in Milwaukee for the sixth stop on our African American Economic Empowerment Tour.

We see a particular opportunity with all newly registered voters who may be more interested in a leader with solutions to the challenges we face, than party allegiance. They will be hearing from the RNC and Republican state parties.

We will reach out to them with the President's positive agenda for America. Our Party's action and optimism provides a sharp contrast to the Democrats protest and pessimism.

That's why our Party is growing while their Party is shrinking.

As the Democratic Party becomes smaller, it becomes more liberal, more angry, and more hate-filled. And as the Democratic Party becomes more liberal, more angry, and more hate-filled, it becomes smaller.

Earlier today, during a press conference, I outlined the Kerry Campaign's latest strategic shift to a so-called "character based critique," a euphemism for character assassination. The Kerry Campaign's "character based critique" is based on some of the most dubious characters ever to engage in the American political process, which you can see in detail in this press conference transcript here.

We can expect to see more personal attacks as they continue down this path.

We believe voters will make their decision based on the clear distinction between these candidates. During our convention, President Bush outlined his Agenda for the future of America, which includes strengthening education and job training, creating new opportunity zones in our cities, increasing affordable housing and expanding homeownership, reform of the tax code, strengthening social security, and making health care more affordable.

President Bush's positive vision for a safer world and a more hopeful America are expanding out Party and energizing Republicans, Democrats, and Independents to go to the polls on November 2 and vote for Republicans.

Keep up the great work!

Sincerely

Ed Gillespie RNC Chairman

Eritrea Arrests Five More Evangelicals

Three Protestant pastors kept incommunicado.


LOS ANGELES, September 15 (Compass) -- Eritrean security police pounced on five evangelical Christians holding a prayer meeting in their church office in Asmara last week, hauling them off under arrest to a local police station.

Five members of the newly formed New Covenant Church meeting at an office building in the capital were taken into custody about 7:30 in the evening on September 7.

Reportedly six or seven security officials were systematically searching through an entire corridor of offices in the building when they came upon the small group praying together in their office.

In the Face of Evil

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In the Face of Evil: Reagan’s War in Word and Deed is a man and nation’s journey through the heart of darkness—and what that journey means for us today. This film is not a biography of Ronald Reagan, but a hard-hitting look at leadership and moral courage.


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Anti-Christian Fundimentalists and Free Speech

TRIAL OF VIETNAMESE ACTIVIST PASTOR BELIEVED TO BE ON FAST TRACK

25th August 2004

Reliable sources in Vietnam have informed Christian Solidarity Worldwide that authorities are working hard to put activist Pastor Nguyen Hong Quang on trial as soon as possible.

A court decision to prosecute is expected in early September 2004. This would then be followed by publication of the indictment and the trial.

Based on previous human rights cases, it is believed that the goal of the authorities will be to convict Quang of “possessing and distributing materials harmful to the State”, based on the evidence he has compiled on numerous human rights infractions by State officials. This crime, if deemed to be in the severest category, carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.

Those close to the case say authorities have admitted that they are surprised and upset at the unprecedented amount of negative international attention the arrests of Quang and his fellow Mennonites have attracted.

Quang was arrested on June 8, 2004 and originally charged with “inciting others to interfere with officers doing their official duty”. Five other workers of the Vietnam Mennonite Church, of which the Rev. Nguyen Hong Quang is General Secretary, are also incarcerated on related charges, some having been held since March 2, 2004.

At the time of Quang’s arrest, authorities seized all of the documents and files belonging to the Mennonite Church. They also removed many files that Quang and his colleagues had compiled which expose official corruption, religious liberty violations and other human rights abuses.


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THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS

THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS

Samuele Bacchiocchi, Ph. D., Andrews University


God has always had a heart to warn people before He executes His judgment. God warned the people before the Flood, and He warned Niniveh before it was ruined. The Feast of Trumpets reflects God’s desire to summon His people to repentance so that He can vindicate them on the day of His judgment.

The Feast of Trumpets fell on the first day of the seventh month, a month which stood out in the religious year as the Sabbatical month that ushered in the last three annual feasts, namely, Trumpets, Atonment and Tabernacles. These feasts, which became known as "The High Holy Days," marked the conclusion of the religious year and typify the conclusion and consummation of the plan of redemption.

Teach Your Children Well

Teach Your Children
( Crosby, Stills and Nash )

You, who are on the road,
Must have a code that you can live by.
And so, become yourself, Because the past is just a good bye.
Teach your children well, Their father's hell did slowly go by.
And feed them on your dreams, The one they picks, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
And you, of tender years, Can't know the fears that your elders grew by.
And so please help them with your youth,
They seek the truth before they can die.
Teach your parents well, Their children's hell will slowly go by.
And feed them on your dreams, The one they picks, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you

Sex in Art

The Erotic Christian Imagination

by John Peck

How do the three words "Christian," "sex," and "art" fit together? This is a vital question in our time, not only for the Christian doing art but also for the Christian encountering art.

Our culture confronts us with art products which have to do with sex and which are unacceptable to our moral sense as Christians, and we call these products "pornographic." We are also confronted with some art products that offend the social standards of the larger society to which we belong. These products have usually been called "obscene."

If we want to talk about what obscenity is and is not in art, we might look for an example of sex in art in the Bible. When we do, our minds go to one book: The Song of Solomon. If we look at that book, we have to admit that in the Scriptures themselves there is artwork about sex, and, furthermore, there are points in chapters 4 and 7 that are so potentially explicit that most translations muff them.1 Nevertheless, we would not call these passages pornographic or obscene. We could call them "erotic."

Christ-Killers: Anti-Semitism and Jesus

Christ-Killers: Anti-Semitism and Jesus

by Jon Trott



In 1977 I worked for a time for a Jewish maker of furniture, a survivor of Auswitz. Mark carried his tattoo and his story with a reticent humility; it was only with difficulty that my co-worker and I were able to draw from him any information at all about that dreadful past. It was such a painful topic for him that we soon learned to avoid it. We tried, a few times, to discuss our faith in Christ, yet this made him so distinctly uncomfortable – threatened, it seemed to us – that we silently agreed to only discuss our faith if he first raised the topic. I like to think I prayed for him when I was alone, but more than likely that is fanciful wishing. A few years later, he died.



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A Wake-Up Call for America's Jews

A Wake-Up Call for America's Jews


By Aisha Siddiqa Qureshi

Muslim World Today September 17, 2004

Dear Jews, everywhere, I would like to point out the time bomb likely to explode in your faces. It has already been detonated in France. When it happens in the country you call home, you may be shocked and unprepared, so I present this letter to you as a warning. In it, I will inform you of some basic facts – facts that can never be changed.

1. You are a Jew, whether you like it or not.

It doesn't matter if you change your name. It doesn't matter if you convert. You say you don't think of yourself as Jewish? Perhaps Judaism is just too far beneath your enlightened consciousness. Well tough luck – it's still a part of who you are. I know, I know, this is the modern world. In America, Jews are first class citizens. But it really is "only in America" where Jews enjoy equal status.

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The Democratic Party's Anti-Semitism Problem

The Democratic Party's Anti-Semitism Problem


By Edward Alexander
The Seattle Times August 24, 2004


One of the most prominent figures at John Kerry's nominating convention was the Rev. Al Sharpton, who seemed almost as fixed a presence at Kerry's side the night of his acceptance speech as were the nominee's wife and vice presidential candidate John Edwards.
Yet, it is common knowledge that this failed contender for the Democratic nomination incited anti-Jewish violence in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn in 1991 and in Harlem in 1995. In the latter incident he encouraged the explicitly anti-Semitic boycott and picketing of a Jewish-owned store named "Freddy's." Eight employees of the store were killed in a fire started by one of Sharpton's followers.
But none of this unpleasantness has kept Sharpton from being treated with oily sycophancy by the Democratic leadership.

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Anti-Christian Fundamentalists

Democrats see Christian America as enemy terrain



By Don Feder
FrontPageMagazine.com
September 14, 2004

The Democratic Party isn’t inciting church arson – just yet. But, despite its occasional pious pretenses, the Democrats see Christian America as enemy terrain. Here, at least, the party of Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich is willing to overcome its ingrained pacifism and engage in the rhetorical equivalent of total war.
The latest issue of The New Yorker contains a 12,000-word profile piece on Al Gore, in which the former vice president disgorges his views on a variety of subjects.
Only a hopelessly partisan media would consider the reflections of a man who once defined e pluribus unum as “out of one, many” worthy of a dog’s obituary, let alone 12,000 words.

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Police Reportedly Torture Christian To Death

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Two Christians Murdered, Others harassed

Anti-Christian Islamic gunmen


As Shia Muslims become more aggressive and vocal in their demands for an Islamic State based on Shari?ah the anti-Christian violence which Christians in Iraq have long feared seems finally to have arrived with the brutal murder of two Christian men.Britain?s Daily Telegraph reports the deaths of Sabah Gazala and Abdul Ahed who were shot and killed by two Islamic gunmen within ten minutes in separate incidents in Basra on 8 May.

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Four Christians Murdered in Colombia

Four Christians Murdered in Colombia

Four Christians Murdered in ColombiaEvangelicals Call for Armed Groups to Respect Lifeby Deann AlfordAUSTIN, Texas, May 8 (Compass) -- Twenty-five armed men entered a rural church in northern Colombia Tuesday night, May 6, and murdered its 80-year-old evangelical pastor and three other believers, confirmed the head of the nations evangelical alliance.Among the dead is Miguel Mariano Posada, pastor of Sardis, a church in the Association of Caribbean Evangelical Churches denomination. The murders took place in his church, located in the town of Tierralta in Cordoba department, near Panama.

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Four Dozen Nigerian Christians Murdered in Church

Muslims raided the dominantly Christian Nigerian town of Yelwa, in Plateau State, yesterday. Four dozen people, including women and children

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Christians Murdered in Ambon

Muslims and their War Against Christians

By Stan JeterCWN Senior Producer
May 3, 2002


There's been a fresh attack on a Christian village in Indonesia's Maluku Islands.
CBN.com - There's been a fresh attack on a Christian village in Indonesia's Maluku Islands. The attack came as a few Christians celebrated the 52nd anniversary of a failed independence movement. Now, the radical Muslim group, Laskar Jihad, has called all Muslims in the islands to renew their war against Christians.
About a dozen men armed with guns, grenades and daggers stormed the Christian village of Soya on the last Sunday in April, leaving a trail of death and destruction. Thirty or more homes were torched. A church was destroyed. And at least twelve Christians were murdered.
Among the victims was a six-month old child. Witnesses said the attackers went from house to house, shooting residents..

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Somali Christians Murdered

shot dead in the Islamic world

( ANS) -- Several Christians and Westerners have been killed in violent attacks as anti-Christian violence spreads throughout the mainly Islamic, impoverished African nation, Barnabas Fund said Friday Dec. 19.
The Barnabas Fund, which supports Christians in the Islamic world, identified Italian nun Annalena Tonneli, known as the Mother Theresa of Africa, as among those Christians murdered in recent weeks along with several other missionary workers.
Sister Tonneli, who had served in Somalia for thirty years "founding a TB hospital, orphanages and schools," was killed October 5 by two armed men in front of the hospital, said Barnabas Fund in a statement seen by ASSIST News Service (ANS).
Soon after British couple Richard and Enid Eyeington, working for SOS Children's villages in Somaliland were shot dead October 20 by several gunmen in their home inside the school compound, while watching television, added the organization.
Last month a Kenyan Christian working for the Seventh Day Adventist mission in Gedo, South West Somalia, was reportedly murdered by Islamist radicals, although no more details were given.
The Barnabas Fund said "the attacks appear to be deliberately anti-Christian and anti-Western," and are likely linked to radical Somali Islamist group, Kulanka Culimada, which threatened violence earlier this year.

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