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Former General quotes Bush saying: Kill them! Be confident! Prevail! We are going to wipe them out

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:55:28 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: Nice, ain't it.

I'm thinking of another insider, former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez. He got next to no attention for a presidential outburst he recorded in his memoir, Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story, so bloodthirsty and cartoonish that it should have caught the attention of the nation -- and so eerily in character, given the last years of presidential behavior, that you know it has to be on the money.

'If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! This Vietnam stuff, this is not even close. It is a mind-set. We can't send that message. It's an excuse to prepare us for withdrawal.

"There is a series of moments and this is one of them. Our will is being tested, but we are resolute. We have a better way. Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Be confident! Prevail! We are going to wipe them out! We are not blinking!'"

Tags: war, warmonger, war crimes, iraq, bush

60 Music Websites for Great Free Music

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:00:56 GMT

clipped by: boozich

Clip Source: www.webupon.com

Music Rules 2: Top 60 Music Websites That Deliver the Greatest Free Music

iMesh

Pandora

Last.fm

IMEEM

Songza

thesixtyone

Grooveshark

SpiralFrog

Mp3eq

Ruckus

Israel to build new homes in occupied West Bank

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:03:32 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: Oi! Here we go again!

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel announced plans on Sunday to build hundreds of new homes in an area of the occupied West Bank the Israeli government considers part of Jerusalem, despite U.S. and Palestinian calls to halt settlement expansion.

The announcement came two days before Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sets off for Washington for a three-day visit where he will meet U.S. President George W. Bush.

Housing Minister Zeev Boim instructed his office to publish a tender to build an additional 763 housing units in Pisgat Zeev and 121 housing units at Har Homa, an area Palestinians refer to as Jabal Abu Ghneim.

Olmert later praised the housing plan at a meeting of his Kadima faction.

Both sites are located on lands captured by Israel during the 1967 Middle East war, and were incorporated into the municipal borders of Jerusalem in an act not recognized internationally.

Tags: israel, middle east, insanity, conquest, occupation

More Headaches for McCain’s Camp

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:57:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: CONT:
NEWSWEEK has learned that UBS is also currently the focus of congressional and Justice Department investigations into schemes that allegedly enabled wealthy Americans to evade income taxes by stashing their money in overseas havens, according to several law-enforcement and banking officials in both the United States and Europe, who all asked for anonymity when discussing ongoing investigations.

Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

For weeks now, 's presidential campaign has faced awkward questions about the outside activities of several top advisers. Add one more name to the list: former Texas senator , McCain's longtime friend and one of his five campaign co-chairs.

According to McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker, the co-chair position affords Gramm "broad input into the structure, financing and conduct of the campaign." She added that Gramm, who has a doctorate in economics, is also "a valued voice on economic policy." Gramm is not a paid McCain adviser, but his day job—vice chairman of a U.S. division of Zurich-based financial giant UBS—could pose new tests for a candidate who has promised high ethics standards and ditched advisers who failed to meet them.

UBS has recently written off huge losses in subprime-mortgage-based securities, and last week liberal bloggers noted that Gramm was a registered UBS lobbyist on mortgage-securities issues until at least December 2007.

Tags: mccain, mcsame, mcthief, mcbush, mcproblem

Lolz Doggy stylez!

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:16:08 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: Yeah totally ridiculous, but so what!

Clip Source: ihasahotdog.com

Tags: lol, catz, dog, i has a funny

Going to Hell? Take the test!

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:57:08 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: Don't pass Go, don't collect $200!

Clip Source: www.rightwingwatch.org

Normally, people love it when other people link to their websites because it means they get more attention, more traffic, and their message reaches more people,. But the American Family Association has apparently decided that it doesn’t want the kind of attention our Right Wing Watch blog has been sending their way..

The other day we noticed that all of our links back to the AFA’s OneNewsNow website no longer take readers to the link in question, but instead redirect them to the Good Person Test (go ahead and click the OneNewsNow link above or any of these other links to see what we mean.)

Tags: far right, hell, test, funny, no way to win, no way to loose

Coalition of the...Hey where are you going! Australia bugs out of Iraq

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:39:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "We are out of here mate! Good luck with your crummy war!"

Australia bails out of the Iraq disaster.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

SYDNEY, Australia — Australia, a staunch U.S. ally and one of the first countries to commit troops to the Iraq war five years ago, ended combat operations there Sunday, a Defense Department official said.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was swept into office in November largely on the promise that he would bring home the country's 550 combat troops by the middle of 2008.

Rudd has said the Iraq deployment has made Australia more of a target for terrorism.

In February, the head of Australia's defense force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, told a Senate inquiry that the troops were no longer needed in Iraq.

Rudd remains committed to keeping Australia's 1,000 troops in Afghanistan.

Tags: australia, iraq, war, aussies, smart