Cknolls

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jul 13, 2006 -> 11:50 AM) So they invaded Israel attacked, killed, and kidnapped soldiers, all while bombing northern Israel? Sounds to me like it is war already. You are right, this wasn't a couple of guy lobbing some missles or taking advantage of a random encounter, this was a preplanned, preemptive strike by Hezbollah. Don't tell that to Russia and France. http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle....&src=rss&rpc=22

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jul 12, 2006 -> 06:20 PM) What do you guys think the odds are that this expands into a wider war in the region? This conflict can be contained if Iran wants it to be contained. After all they are the puppeteer of Hezbollah and to a greater extent the Lebanese Gov't. But, from listening to Ahmadinejad speak, I get the sense that Iran will not intervene anytime soon. QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2006 -> 06:19 PM) There's a real obvious joke about the Israeli bomb there which I'm not going to take... Actually, I was refering to Israeli F-16's dropping conventional ordnance on Damascus and Hezbollah targets in Syria. Not the A-Bomb. Israel is not that stupid, nor are they likely to use an A-bomb on Syria. I believe the more likely target to be Iran.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2006 -> 11:45 AM) WaPo. They won't be jumping for joy when the Israeli fireworks start flying. Latest news says Israel may target sites in Syria, too.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jun 29, 2006 -> 06:49 PM) If the doctor was self-prescribing, it is not legal. I've lost track of the details on all this this on account of not caring. Ditto.

A little more background on this from the Journal. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/?id=110008585

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jun 28, 2006 -> 11:21 PM) Yes, I'll answer for him. He does. He's one of those bastards who believe in such fantasy as minimum wage, universal health care, and peace on Earth. So don't worry about what he thinks. We all know that prisoners are beyond rehabilitation. KUMBAYA MY LORD KUMBAYA

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jun 28, 2006 -> 03:43 PM) I think there should be an investigation into your punctuation. Why does the first sentence have nine question marks, While the second one has four, And the last one three? Maybe it's a sign to the terrorists... I see you have a very substantive response. Where are you doing stand-up this weekend?????????????????

QUOTE(WCSox @ Jun 28, 2006 -> 02:00 PM) And I suppose that this program was known to, say, the seven idiots who were recently arrested in Florida? For every savvy al Qaeda operative who is aware of this program, there is a low-level idiot who is just as dangerous. Bush can come out and say "we're tracking terrorist finances" (duh) without giving the details. Apparently the NYT cannot. Obviously, if the details were already known, the NYT wouldn't have had to publish it on the front page and go through the trouble of obtaining classified information. Since when is the NY Slimes entitled to classified information????????? And when are they going to call for independent investigations into these classified leaks???? If you were a member of a foreign intelligence service, would you share info. with anyone from our gov't???

QUOTE(BHAMBARONS @ Jun 27, 2006 -> 09:57 PM) Is that enough for the death talk, he might have deserved to die but there is no need for countdowns and this cheering. to minors

Subpoeana the reporters, if they refuse to reveal leakers, jail awaits.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Jun 27, 2006 -> 12:20 PM) Every sign points to retaliation for the Niger article and that they don't want similar people to go public with information about the administration. It's all intimidation. Maybe you haven't noticed yet but it seems like everyone who was involved with the administration comes out angry. Wilson lied about his trip.. It's called setting the record straight. The oft qouted last refuge of the left, the (9/11) Commision Report, said Wilson was full o' s***. The Bush administration is preparing new laws to help track terrorists through their money-laundering activity and is readying an executive order freezing the assets of known terrorists. Much more is needed, including stricter regulations, the recruitment of specialized investigators and greater cooperation with foreign banking authorities. There must also must be closer coordination among America's law enforcement, national security and financial regulatory agencies. ... Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure countries with dangerously loose banking regulations to adopt and enforce stricter rules. These need to be accompanied by strong sanctions against doing business with financial institutions based in these nations. The Bush administration initially opposed such measures. But after the events of Sept. 11, it appears ready to embrace them. The Treasury Department also needs new domestic legal weapons to crack down on money laundering by terrorists. The new laws should mandate the identification of all account owners, prohibit transactions with "shell banks" that have no physical premises and require closer monitoring of accounts coming from countries with lax banking laws. Prosecutors, meanwhile, should be able to freeze more easily the assets of suspected terrorists. The Senate Banking Committee plans to hold hearings this week on a bill providing for such measures. It should be approved and signed into law by President Bush. Do you know who said this??????

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 27, 2006 -> 10:58 AM) This supreme court aint the same one that was sitting in the 1960's and 70's. They will slam dunk the NYT if it comes to that. Ah yes the living constitution. Isn't that what liberals call it???? QUOTE(AbeFroman @ Jun 27, 2006 -> 11:57 AM) I think fearmongering is what this is. Those kooky conservatives get to blame the New York Times and get to huff and puff about how liberals are destroying america. Given that its likely that Valerie Plame was involved in an intel program on the development of nuclear weapons in Iran, that seems far worse than what the NYT did here. This is how the right can get its numbers up a little more. nothing more... nothing less BTW: Where was the outrage when high ranking members of the administration outed an undercover CIA agent to a reporter for a national newspaper? Undercover??????????? Let's play the same game. Prove there was harm with her supposed blown undercover status.. Fitz does not think so or he would have prosecuted the leakers, right?????

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jun 27, 2006 -> 12:15 AM) I get the point -- I got it the first time, thanks -- but I don't buy it. That's one hell of a stretch, especially since the program wasn't even outed in THAT much detail. Is that like being kind of pregnant?????

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jun 26, 2006 -> 10:35 PM) I love how everyone mentions the New York Times and neglects the LA Times, and the more conservative Wall Street Journal gets a pass... And now those who say they want to defend our freedom are calling for restricting the press. The Journal is not conservative. The news pages are left leaning. Their editorial pages are indeed very conservative.

A word from Lt. Cotton Lt. Tom Cotton writes this morning from Baghdad with a word for the New York Times: Dear Messrs. Keller, Lichtblau & Risen: Congratulations on disclosing our government's highly classified anti-terrorist-financing program (June 23). I apologize for not writing sooner. But I am a lieutenant in the United States Army and I spent the last four days patrolling one of the more dangerous areas in Iraq. (Alas, operational security and common sense prevent me from even revealing this unclassified location in a private medium like email.) Unfortunately, as I supervised my soldiers late one night, I heard a booming explosion several miles away. I learned a few hours later that a powerful roadside bomb killed one soldier and severely injured another from my 130-man company. I deeply hope that we can find and kill or capture the terrorists responsible for that bomb. But, of course, these terrorists do not spring from the soil like Plato's guardians. No, they require financing to obtain mortars and artillery shells, priming explosives, wiring and circuitry, not to mention for training and payments to locals willing to emplace bombs in exchange for a few months' salary. As your story states, the program was legal, briefed to Congress, supported in the government and financial industry, and very successful. Not anymore. You may think you have done a public service, but you have gravely endangered the lives of my soldiers and all other soldiers and innocent Iraqis here. Next time I hear that familiar explosion -- or next time I feel it -- I will wonder whether we could have stopped that bomb had you not instructed terrorists how to evade our financial surveillance. And, by the way, having graduated from Harvard Law and practiced with a federal appellate judge and two Washington law firms before becoming an infantry officer, I am well-versed in the espionage laws relevant to this story and others -- laws you have plainly violated. I hope that my colleagues at the Department of Justice match the courage of my soldiers here and prosecute you and your newspaper to the fullest extent of the law. By the time we return home, maybe you will be in your rightful place: not at the Pulitzer announcements, but behind bars. Very truly yours, Tom Cotton Baghdad, Iraq Posted by Scott at 06

What will it take for the gov't to finally prosecute the N.Y. Slimes? These guys are the epitome of s***bags. I didn't khow we elected Keller the head of Intelligence. He can publish classified programs with impunity? These guys should be in jail. Send them to Guantanamo. They can report on the conditions from the inside. They reported the program is not illegal , but the it is in the publics interest to know about it. This papers demise cannot come soon enough.

a letter from two United Nations weapons inspectors to the President of the Security Council from 1999: 550 Artillery shells filled with Mustard 33. Iraq declared that 550 shells filled with mustard had been "lost" shortly after the Gulf War. To date, no evidence of the missing munitions has been found. Iraq claimed that the chemical warfare agents filled into these weapons would be degraded a long time ago and, therefore, there would be no need for their accounting. However, a dozen mustard-filled shells were recovered at a former CW storage facility in the period 1997-1998. The chemical sampling of these munitions, in April 1998, revealed that the mustard was still of the highest quality. After seven years, the purity of mustard ranged between 94 and 97%. Thus, Iraq has to account for these munitions which would be ready for combat use. The resolution of this specific issue would also increase confidence in accepting Iraq’s other declarations on losses of chemical weapons which it has not been possible to verify. A 94 to 97 percent purity after seven years strikes me as pretty long lasting. Presuming that the rate of degradation is stable (is there a reason deterioration would accelerate in year eight or later?) the year 2003 would mean that at the time of the invasion, these shells had a purity of 88 to 94 percent. Sounds pretty potent to me.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Jun 21, 2006 -> 11:15 AM) I couldn't really understand what he was saying as he butchered the English language with his horrible south philly accent... How about advocating proper English and grammar? How about if you don't like it go to PAT'S across the street.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 19, 2006 -> 04:44 PM) http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/19/neworlean...g.ap/index.html My only question is where the hell is the NOPD during all this? Las Vegas???????

Can anyone tell me why Amnesty Int'l does not have anything to say about the torture of our soldiers? f***ing hypocrites is why.

QUOTE(Balance @ Jun 19, 2006 -> 05:26 PM) Exactly. Let's look at this in three or six months. If this is really a "turning point," then we're going to see a reduction in violence in Iraq. Like I said, I'll believe it when I see it. Otherwise, it's just a bit of good news amidst a deluge of bad news. thanks to the MSM. QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 11:47 AM) A lot of that depends on how you count the contributions. For example, do you total up the literally hundreds of millions of dollars that Newscorp and Rev. Moon lose on publishing the Washington Times and NY Post as contributions? Your rose colored glasses are fading...

Just wondering if Olbermann will nominate himself as worst person in the world on his first show back from vacation?

Washington Post continues blackout on positive news from Iraq The front page of today's hardcopy Washington Post is all about Iraq. The top story focuses on the House debate on the war. Below that is a piece on alleged Shiite militia "control" of Iraqi prisons (that's the headline, anyway; the story documents infiltration, not control). The Post serves up two more Iraq stories on page 22. One is a story about the release at long last from Abu Ghraib (the featured ex-detainee spent his time there playing soccer and listening to the radio). The other is about the resignation of an aide to Prime Minister al-Maliki. What about the seized document in which al Qaeda acknowledges that its situation in Iraq as "bleak?" The Post does not mention this item until the 21st paragraph of the story about the aide who resigned (which, again, appears at page 22). Moreover, the Post devotes its discussion to questioning the document's authenticity. It notes that, unlike "typical statements issued by al-Qaeda in Iraq" the seized document fails to refer to the U.S. as "crusaders" and Shiites as "rejectionists" or "dogs." But of course the documents aren't statements issued by al-Qadea for external consumption; they purport to be an internal assessment of its situation on the ground. In order to vanquish any positive thought a reader nonetheless might have after reading about al Qaeda's gloomy assessment, the Post immediately follows this discussion by rehearsing the American death toll in Iraq, a point it also makes in the second paragraph of its lead front page article. When it comes to Iraq, the news section of the Post has become an anti-war spin machine, and nothing more.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 16, 2006 -> 10:33 AM) Not turning up? The security crackdown is working, violence is coming down to Los Angeles levels, the full government is in place, a huge amount of actionable intelligence has been found which has led to raids netting hundreds of insurgents and killing a couple hundred more. You put that all together and it would seem that Al Quada is in the process of being rolled up as we speak. To say that things are not getting better is a major mistake. Where did you here about the actionable intelligence? Certainly not from ABC NBC CBS or CNN. Actually NBC's Richard Engel said this morning that those documents they found in the Zarqawi house might be fake. LMAO!!!!!!!! And all the people they killed in those raids as a result of the intelligence were innocent I presume???? :finger the MSM!!!!!!! These people are off their f***ing rockers.... God forbid something positive is reported.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 02:01 PM) Dictionary: Elude Well, as far as I can tell, that is an accepted usage of the word "Elude". Not the most common one, but it's at least included by several dictionaries (not all). Did he avoid the grand jury 5TIMES?????????????????????????????????????