This is Not Safe For DemocratsAs the title implies... If you are a democrat or a liberal this is NOT for you! Leave now! If you stay and get upset don't blame me.Saddam Capture Drives Dems, Media Mad - By Lt. Col. Oliver North- December 20, 2003 "All of this twisted, blame-America-Bush-bashing and mind-numbing negativism has obscured some very important facts that need to be re-emphasized:Saddam is responsible for two horrific wars and the deaths of hundreds of thousands. His record is replete with the kind of atrocities that brought the United States into two world wars, as well as a bloody campaign in Korea and the war I fought in - Vietnam. He raped, tortured, robbed, starved and murdered his own people. He acquired and used weapons.http://www.prebleny.com/archives/2003_12_01_NSFD.html#107190239252895902 FOXNews.com - Politics - Albright: Bin Laden Comments Were 'Tongue-in-Cheek'- December 17, 2003 'She said, 'Do you suppose that the Bush administration has Usama bin Laden hidden away somewhere and will bring him out before the election'' said Fox News analyst and Roll Call executive editor Mort Kondracke. 'She was not smiling.'http://www.prebleny.com/archives/2003_12_01_NSFD.html#107168852843762124 Dean Working to Be Seen as Foreign Policy Centrist (washingtonpost.com)- December 16, 2003 "Dean said it was not worth trying to woo French support on foreign policy initiatives. 'The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy,' he said. "I spotted this on Andrew Sullivan.com. You guys should really check him out.http://www.prebleny.com/archives/2003_12_01_NSFD.html#107161254185522403 MSNBC - Deanoutlines foreign policy- December 14, 2003 "The interview, the first time Dean has been questioned in detail about his foreign policy views, appeared to be part of an effort to transform Dean from a candidate known largely for a single, defining issue - opposition to the war in Iraq - to someone with the gravitas to be president and deal with the complex foreign policy challenges of the age."HEY! Look, I found the gravitas... Is anybody surprisedhttp://www.prebleny.com/archives/2003_12_01_NSFD.html#107138923007444341 2004 Will Be the U.S.'S Best Year Economically in Last 20 Years, The Conference Board Reports in a Revised Forecast- December 12, 2003 "NEW YORK, Dec. 11 PRNewswire -- Revising its year-end economic forecast sharply upward, The Conference Board today projected that real GDP growth will hit 5.7% next year, making 2004 the best year economically in the last 20 years.The forecast, by Conference Board Chief Economist Gail Fosler, expects worker productivity, which set a 20-year record in the third quarter, to rise at a healthy 3.6% next year. That would follow a gain of 4.3% this year."More...:http://www.prebleny.com/archives/2003_12_01_NSFD.html#107120048227528024 Iraq behind the cameras: a different reality- December 10, 2003 December 05, 2003"BAGHDAD, Iraq - It's a little-known footnote in postwar Iraq that an unassuming Army Civil Affairs captain named Kent Lindner has a bevy of blushing female fans.Every time Lindner checks in on the group of young, deaf Iraqi seamstresses at their factory here, the women swarm him with admiration. 'I love you!' one of them writes in the dust on Lindner's SUV.Such small-time adoration is not the stuff of headlines against the backdrop of a country painfully and often violently...http://www.prebleny.com/archives/2003_12_01_NSFD.html#107107644608229912 Citing 'Best Chance,' Gore Endorses Dean in '04 Race- December 9, 2003 "A crowd of about 100 people attended, and roughly half of them were members of the news media.""This is huge," said Donna Brazile, who was Mr. Gore's campaign manager in 2000. "It gives Dean what Dean has been missing most: stature."What, no gravitasIn 2000, Dr. Dean, then the governor of Vermont, considered running for president and met with Mr. Gore, who dissuaded him in what one former Gore aide described as "awkward conversation." At the time, the aide said, Dr. Dean told Mr. Gore that...http://www.prebleny.com/archives/2003_12_01_NSFD.html#107099604629288906 |