This moment in Simi Valley is a moment of truth. Not just for my campaign, but for the future of my party as well. For some of us, this may be our only chance to confirm the demise of the man who is solely responsible for turning the American people away from liberal philosophy.

As Democrats, we need to put small differences aside and be certain that this man is truly gone. Next, we must reclaim our country from the churchgoers, the middle America folks, and the uneducated conservative masses.

This is the whole issue that I have with Bush supporters. They, just like Bush, have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. Do you really think that a potential U.S. presidential candidate would say something this stupid?.
Does anybody bother to check out the facts before they propigate this bullshit. Nope, Just like Bush they don't care to find out what is truth and what is crap

• Ashcroft the new Göbbels
• the Patriot Act’s ending of traditional liberties
• that evangelical Christians support Bush because they want a cataclysm in the Middle East as a necessary step toward the rapture
• Bush stole the election
• a million blacks were disenfranchised in 2000
• plans to restart the draft
• that Bush invaded Iraq either because he had to show up his daddy, or to fix his daddy's mistake, or to revenge his daddy, or to enrich Halliburton.

From an e-mail: The Presbyterian Church USA has started a campaign to disinvest from companies that sell equipment used in the bulldozing, dynamitings, and other crimes committed by Sharon in the Israeli-occupied territories. . . . The leftie-sanctions lobby has finally got the nerve to put the Likud/Israel in the category of Apartheid South Africa. The money impact is irrelevant, but the political symbolism is big, if it catches on.

• What are the objects of the gerunds “bulldozing” and “dynamitings”? Villagers’ houses? Smuggling/infiltration tunnels and routes? Terrorist refuges and firing positions? Does it matter?
• What “Israeli-occupied territories”? Israeli occupation of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza ended long ago. They are occupied by the UN and Palestinian Authority now.
  
  Perhaps the Presbyterians will disinvest from the countries that sell the PA and PLF arms and the companies that supply the UN “relief” effort, which has turned a bunch of largely free-will refugees into a “people” of third-generation psychotics.
• What ”crimes committed by Sharon”? What is this Larouchean fixation on Sharon and Likud? (Lyndon LaRouche, by the way, now has street-corner stands announcing LaRouche’s support for Kerry. The Spheres tremble.)
  
  Sharon and Likud are not some alien force imposed on Israel; they are the government of a parliamentary democracy, in which all citizens, including Arabs, are enfranchised. Comparing the government to South African apartheid doesn't touch just Likud. It declares the entire existence of Israel to be illegitimate, especially since Sharon and Likud have popular support.
  
  Sharon’s approval rating dropped to a near-record low this week. But a lot of the disapproval is by people who think Sharon is not hard-line enough, who don’t like Sharon’s plan to remove settlements in PA territory. Sharon and Likud would still trounce Peres and Labor in an election.

The meeting between Sheikh Nabil Qauq, the leader of Hezbollah in south Lebanon, and a delegation of 24 leaders of the U.S. Presbyterian Church currently on a fact-finding tour in the Middle East, was broadcast Oct. 17 on Al Manar, Hezbollah's satellite television network. During the broadcast, at least one member of the delegation was shown praising Hezbollah.

Elder Ronald Stone, who identified himself as representing the East Liberty Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, said, "As an elder of our church, I'd like to say that according to my recent experience, relations and conversations with Islamic leaders are a lot easier than dealings and dialogue with Jewish leaders." Elder Stone went on to praise Hezbollah: "We treasure the precious words of Hezbollah and your expression of goodwill towards the American people." . . .

Since its founding in 1982, Hezbollah has been responsible for hundreds of attacks against Israelis and Americans, including the 1983 suicide bomb attack on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 200. Hezbollah also attacked the Israeli Embassy in Argentina in 1992 and the Israeli cultural center in Buenos Aires in 1994.

If You Can Read This, You’re Not My President.

This post is a bit personal. Maybe the parts don’t have any connection, except that they happened to me.

The Star-Spangled Mirror captures the dilemma of America's continuing reliance on an enduring fallacy of foreign policy--the assumption that other people ought to share our view of world order. Dr. Richard Kerry argues that from the time of Woodrow Wilson's aim to organize the world order in accordance with assumptions of democratic universalism, this vision of the world has remained central to U.S. foreign policy. The Star-Spangled Mirror will be considered an important addition to the history of American foreign policy and as required reading for current and future policy makers.[emphasis added--ed.]

I said, “He doesn’t have to answer if he doesn’t want to, but I’d like to know how he feels about the war.” The interpretation was—and he looked straight at me when he said it—“If I could march in Hanoi like you are marching in Washington, D.C., I would be doing it”.

NEW YORK (AFP) - Human Rights Watch listed the names of 11 senior Al-Qaeda suspects it said were held by the CIA in secret locations overseas, where some had reportedly been tortured.

The suspects were detained with no notification to their families, no Red Cross access and, in some cases, no acknowledgement that they are even being held, the New York-based watchdog said in a 46-page report.

"'Disappearances' were a trademark abuse of Latin American military dictatorships in their 'dirty war' on alleged subversion," said Human Rights Watch special counsel Reed Brody.

"Now they have become a United States tactic in its conflict with Al-Qaeda," Brody said.

Detainees profiled in the report included Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged principal architect of the September 11, 2001 attacks and Abu Zubayda, reputedly a close aide of Osama bin Laden.
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While recognizing the United States' right to gather anti-terror intelligence, Human Rights Watch argued that the secret incommunicado detention of suspects violated the "most basic principles" of a free society.

• Equating citizen political prisoners with international terrorists
  
• Implying that international terrorists are due the same treatment as lawful soldiers. If nothing else, a POW is out of it, while in contrast, the very fact of a clandestine agent's capture is a valuable--even life-saving--piece of information. Security concerns might make a trial impossible.
  
• Asserting that the capture and imprisonment of non-US citizens in foreign countries by foreign governments makes the CIA guilty of illegal restraint and murder of US citizens at home.
  
• Implying the absurdity that a clandestine terrorist can be (further) "disappeared".
  
• Counting acknowledged prisoners among the "disappeared".
  
• It would be easy to ask where HRW has been during kidnappings, beheadings, and bombings conducted by the NGO mujihadin, but they don't even acknowledge that they have no idea of where to deliver the letter of protest, and that includes a press conference for the Arab/Islamic press (predicted attendance: 0).

• Met with the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese, then pushed their "peace proposal" and propaganda
  
• Carried Vietnamese Communists' water on POWs and recognition
  
• Advocated eliminating the CIA and putting US troop deployments under UN control;
  
• Called Reagan a bully for Grenada
  
• Supported the Sandinistas, opposed the contras, and in general sniffed at attempts to combat Communism in Latin America
  
• Complained about the bombing of Libya--not that it was done, but that it was "not proportional" (shades of "right way" to go to war in Iraq)
  
• Supported the KGB's "Nuclear Freeze" movement
  
• Opposed missile defense
  
• Voted against every weapon system and intelligence appropriation for 20 years
  
• Voted against Desert Storm
  
• Carried water again for Hanoi, whose pogrom against the montagnards has reduced their population from more than 3 million to less than 700,000 in thirty years. Kerry has blocked a Senate vote on the Vietnam Human Rights Act, which would greatly restrict aid to Hanoi.
  
• Opposed ending the Bosnian arms embargo, so the Bosnians could defend themselves against Serb aggression.

We are not going to war to protect a vital national security interest. We are not even sending troops for a vital national security interest.

Whether vital national security interests are at stake is the right question to ask, Mr. President, if you are deciding whether or not to send troops to war, it is not the right question to ask when you are being asked to participate in a multilateral, internationally sanctioned effort to help keep a peace which parties have said they want. And we should remember that we are not being asked to do this alone. We are doing this in conjunction with perhaps 30 other countries.