Coalition

What if you put all 120,000 US troops + coalition forces to seal Iraqi border instead of slugging it out in the streets of Baghdad and other combat zones?

Granting it’s almost impossible to put ground forces on all points in & out of Iraq (particularly those it share w/ Iran, Syria), my impression is that, with US superiority in electronic warfare capabilities (satellites, drones, remote sensors), it doesn’t even have to put ground forces everywhere.

Not enough equipments? What it lack in equipments…they can build.

What about the Billion-$ price tag to maintain it? I’m sure money is no object if to consider the moral and political value of each soldier killed. Besides, it is already an expensive war.

This way, US and Coalition forces can hand over the combat duties to Iraqi forces where it should be. With no weapons and supplies coming in for the militias, even a weak Iraqi security force can now handle the job.

It may be easier said than done…but it sure can be done.

This is actually being done by British forces around Basra, and Australian forces in the south, they carry out interdiction and interception missions with quite some success!..The American forces, because of the rigidity of their command and engagement structure appear to incapable of doing this! By the time an American field officer has received approval to engage, the enemy has invariably bolted and the opportunity lost, usually with unnecessary US casualty’s!..You have to intercept and destroy the insurgents before they do the deed, not sit back and wait for it to happen!..What has to happen is someone in US politics has to have the ‘balls’ to get the bungling bumbling political general officers out of it, and replace them with officers with field experience who know how to fight a war like this!..They have to follow what the Brits and the Aussies are doing, or they cant win!

that placing a coffin on the law of Missouri Democrat Rep. Russ Carnahan was for a prayer service?

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/3/25/850564/-A-Coffin-Isnt-A-Threat-or-Intimidation

daily kos is not a reliable source and Bill Hensey is the St Louis spokesperson for the TEA party, I know as I have been going to their rallies, even Russ "heavy breahter" Carnahan found humor in it, according to his spokesperson this am on the morning show at KMOV

Bush Jr. never did listen to Daddy, did he?
"We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect rule Iraq. The coalition would have instantly collapsed. … Going in and thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations mandate would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different – and perhaps barren – outcome."

- George H.W. Bush, 1992
Nice one Iss
East Coaster – The point is, you dumb azs, Bush senior recognized the trap invading Iraq would be. His son wasn’t that smart.
East Coaster – The point is, you dumb azs, Bush senior recognized the trap invading Iraq would be. His son wasn’t that smart.
East Coaster – The point is, you dumb azs, Bush senior recognized the trap invading Iraq would be. His son wasn’t that smart.

That is so true and makes Bush Sr. look like a genius and his son look like a petulant little child who thought he could out do his father. Now, all of America is paying for his folly, not to mention the Iraqi people.

Should he have kept his rear-end in the lab and out of ‘YouTube’??

Feb 23, 2009
Calls Mount for Obama to Fire NASA Climate Chief
By James M. Taylor
Calls are mounting for President Barack Obama to fire James Hansen, the controversial figure in charge of climate studies at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Hansen has a record of allegedly doctoring temperature data to hype his argument that global warming is a crisis. The new calls for his resignation or termination come following his appearance in a video calling for civil disobedience at a protest at a power plant in Washington, DC.
“It is plainly improper for someone on the U.S. government payroll to advocate civil disobedience on behalf of a non-government advocacy group,” said Dan Miller, executive vice president of The Heartland Institute and former chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission. “As long as a public official is on the public payroll, his first loyalty is to his constituency, not to some outside pressure group calling on people to break the law,” Miller said.
A video featuring Hansen is prominently displayed on the Web site of a group called Capitol Climate Action. In it, Hansen says “please join us” at a protest at a power plant in Washington, DC. The facility burns coal to generate electricity. The Web site calls on people to “surround the plant, disrupting access, and refusing to leave when asked.”
Incredibly, he has even called for Nuremberg-style trials for scientists who disagree with him about the causes and possible consequences of climate change.
“If I did what Jim has done while I was a NASA employee, I would have been drawn and quartered and then fired,” said Dr. Roy Spencer, principal research scientist for the University of Alabama…
“I have been following Jim Hansen’s travails over many years,� said Hans Labohm, a climate policy expert based in The Netherlands. “My impression is that he has been acting like a climate activist rather than a climate scientist. We in Europe tend to regard NASA as a serious scientific organization. I have always wondered how someone like Jim Hansen could be part of it. As an expert reviewer of the IPCC�s Fourth Assessment Report, I believe I express the concerns of many people.”
“Hansen’s questionable and often outrageous use of rhetoric, ploys, and tactics should call his continued employment by the taxpayer into question,” said Chris Horner, author of Red Hot Lies.
“It is surprising that he has been allowed to remain in such a sensitive public post,” said Terry Dunleavy, executive vice-chairman of the International Climate Science Coalition. Dunleavy, writing from New Zealand, goes on to say, “I’m not sure which is worse: Hansen’s disrespect for science or his flouting of American public service values.”
“Hansen is primarily responsible for making climate and climate change a political rather than a scientific issue, and for that alone he should be fired, especially since his position as a scientist and a bureaucrat must be apolitical,” said Dr. Timothy Ball, former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. “He has made it so that if you agree with AGW [anthropogenic global warming] you are politically left and if you disagree you are politically right and in my opinion there is no greater indictment of the politicizing of climate science,” Ball added.
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I find it troubling that a "scientist" and government employee is encouraging civil disorder, it is probably in breach of NASA’s code of conduct and other regulations for government workers.

Having someone so obviously politically motivated in charge of the global climate record scares me when someone in such a position should be completely impartial. The fact that he has also predicted continuous warming also concerns me, as even subconciously he may bias the climate record to fit the projections he conjured up, which he obviously whole heartedly believes in.

NASA should have put him out to pasture a while ago, the longer he carries on like this, the more credibility NASA lose as a respected institude of science.

Than he has the nerve to claim NASA muzzled him!

If only they had…

On March 22, the Stamp Act of 1765 was passed

The Stamp Act of 1765 (short title Duties in American Colonies Act 1765; 5 George III, c. 12) was a tax imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies of British America. The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London and carrying an embossed revenue stamp.[1][2] These printed materials were legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies. Like previous taxes, the Stamp tax had to be paid in valid British currency, not in colonial paper money.[3] The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America after the British victory in the Seven Years’ War. The British government felt that the colonies were the primary beneficiaries of this military presence, and should pay at least a portion of the expense.

The Stamp Act met with great resistance in the colonies. It was seen as a violation of the right of Englishmen to be taxed only with their consent—consent that only the colonial legislatures could grant. Colonial assemblies sent petitions of protests, and the Stamp Act Congress, reflecting the first significant joint colonial response to any British measure, also petitioned Parliament and the king. Local protest groups, led by colonial merchants and landowners, established connections through correspondence that created a loose coalition that extended from New England to Georgia. Protests and demonstrations initiated by the Sons of Liberty often turned violent and destructive as the masses became involved. Very soon all stamp tax distributors were intimidated into resigning their commissions, and the tax was never effectively collected.[4]

Opposition to the Stamp Act was not limited to the colonies. British merchants and manufacturers, whose exports to the colonies were threatened by colonial economic problems exacerbated by the tax, also pressured Parliament. The Act was repealed on March 18th 1766 as a matter of expedience, but Parliament affirmed its power to legislate for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever” by also passing the Declaratory Act. This incident increased the colonists’ concerns about the intent of the British Parliament that helped the growing movement that became the American Revolution

Yesss!!!!

Love this fact.

Creepy stuff, man.

History repeats itself…

Your recent endorsement of Barack Obama raises some questions that I think the voters deserve to have answered:

1. Mr. Obama has repeatedly stated that he wishes to be
president so that the next four years are "not like the last eight." You
were the Secretary of State during the first three years of "the last
eight." Do you reject the value of your own efforts and work during your
time as Secretary of State?
2. Mr. Obama has largely achieved his success as an
"opponent" of American involvement in Iraq, though he was not a member of Congress at the time that Congress authorized American military action. It was you who presented the case of the Administration for the authorization. Do you now reject your own actions? Were you misinformed at the time or intentionally misinforming?
3. You claim that one of the decisions that Mr. Obama has
made wisely was the selection of Mr. Biden as his running mate. Was it
sagacious for Mr. Biden to vote against authorizing American military
action in the first Gulf War or for it in the second? What specific
policy achievements of Mr. Biden do you admire? Do you admire his
dishonesty during his 1988 presidential campaign, causing it to come to aninglorious end, or do you admire his unbridled verbosity, which often
leads to indefensible gaffes?
4. You claim that Mr. McCain’s selection of Mrs. Palin as a
running mate was a reason that you cannot support him, largely due to her "inexperience." You claim that you have only known Mr. Obama for "two years." Would you please clarify what experiences Mr. Obama has had that Mrs. Palin lacks?
5. The organized "Left" has embraced Mr. Obama as the first
"post-racial" candidate for President yet African-American leaders, such
as Congressman John Lewis have compared Mr. McCain and Mrs. Palin to the worst segregationists when they have raised legitimate questions about the ties between Mr. Obama and several rather unsavory characters, such as Tony Rezko, William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and a host of others. Do you think the characterizations offered by Mr. Lewis and others have been helpful in healing the nation’s racial wounds?
6. If Mr. Obama is, indeed, a "post-racial" candidate should
the electorate reflect any racial divisions? Was race the primary factor
in your endorsement? If not, what other factors aided your decision?
7. You state that Mr. Obama is best suited to improve the
nation’s economy? What qualifies you to make such a judgment? What
economic expertise do you offer? What in Mr. Obama’s agenda do you see as most helpful to the economy, increasing tax rates on higher income payers, nationalization of large portions of the economy, such as health care, or something else?
8. You state that the Republican Party has become "narrower
and narrower," yet Mr. McCain is arguably the most moderate Republican to receive his party’s nomination in nearly seventy years and Mr. Obama is clearly the most liberal Democratic nominee ever. The Republican Party has nominated both African-Americans who have served as Secretary of State, including you. The Democratic Party has slowly become a coalition of academic elites and urban dwellers with almost no strength in suburban or rural areas. Please clarify how you reached your conclusions about the narrowing of the Republican Party.

Mr. Powell, you have served our country well as a military leader, and the Republican Party has served you well. If you believe that you entitled to make a public statement of your preferences, the American people are entitled to understand your reasoning.

An Indiana Voter

give us the main reason for your choice. we know what it is, but want an honest answer. politics is not the honest answer.

Manchester, England. 23 February 2004. George Galloway speaks at the North West Convention of the Left. This rally launched the new anti-war political coalition Respect in the North West of England.

Galloway had been kicked out of the Labour Party for his anti-war stance in 2003. He stood for Parliament as a Respect candidate in 2005 and beat the sitting Labour candidate in east London to become Member of Parliament for Bethnall Green and Bow. In Manchester, Respect got 21% of the vote in the 2006 local council elections.

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More than forty days after the Mohawks of Tyendinaga reclaimed a
portion of the Culbertson Tract, the community continues to hold
strong and the Ontario government continues its refusal to revoke the
license legitimizing the quarry operation located on the land.

Over the past month, the battle for the Culbertson has escalated on
all sides. In the face of government refusal to reverse an age-old act
of robbery and injustice, the Mohawks of Tyendinaga blockaded rail
lines running through stolen land for upwards of 30 hours. Dozens of
trains were stopped, business as usual in Ontario was ground to a
halt, and the Canadian public was forced to consider the hundreds of
years of ‘inconvenience’ lived by First Nations peoples. The
community removed the blockade once this message had been sent.

In response, CN Rail has served suit against three Tyendinaga
community members and the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte (MBQ) Band
Council in an unprecedented move, for ‘damages arising from a First
Nations blockade of its tracks’ to the tune of $108 million. CN is
also seeking a ban on future blockades. Furthermore, criminal charges
have been laid against Mohawk spokesperson Shawn Brant. The decision
to press charges came directly from OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino.
Toronto lawyer Peter Rosenthal will be in court on Thursday, for an
initial appearance regarding the civil suit filed by CN Rail.

The Culbertson Tract, was stolen from the Mohawks in 1832. And while
the government and the Mohawks began in 2003 to negotiate a deal to
repatriate the land, and compensate the community for its losses, the
land in question continued to be exploited by non-native developers
while the negotiations dragged on.

While the government stalled, the land itself was literally being
trucked away by quarry operator Thurlow Aggregates at a rate of more
than 100,000 tonnes per year. Additonally, illegal dumping of waste
was allowed to continue at the quarry, undiscovered until the rightful
holders of the land reclaimed it in March.

Now this robbery has been stopped. Rock from the quarry is being used
on the Territory. But the Mohawks of Tyendinaga continue to demand an
expedient and just return of the land to their community. It has been
more than 170 years too long. Join us to hear more about the struggle
for the Culbertson Tract.

Public Meeting with speakers:
Peter Rosenthal: Lawyer with Roach, Schwartz, and Associates
Shawn Brant: Tyendinaga MT

Wednesday, May 16th
7pm
Parkdale Community and Recreation Centre
1499 Queen Street West

This event is hosted by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.

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KIWA brings workers from targeted low-wage industries together with community members and students in a broad, multi-ethnic vision for social justice. Its strategies include grassroots organizing and leadership development, strategic industry-based campaigns that target employers directly, advocacy and multi-ethnic coalition building.

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