We cannot imagine what conclusions are being drawn by the various leaders in the Middle East who are now being presented with Mr. Bush's Greater Middle East Initiative (GME). They are being asked to launch democratic reforms in their own countries while at the same time, witnessing the flagrant duplicity of the Administration's actions in Haiti.

Make no mistake; this form of despotism is now backed by the full force of the United States Military, the gendarmes of the new economic order. Aristide is just the latest victim.


Al-Qa'ida has never uttered a threat against Shias - even though al-Qa'ida is a Sunni-only organisation. Yet for weeks, the American occupation authorities have been warning us about civil war, have even produced a letter said to have been written by an al-Qa'ida operative, advocating a Sunni-Shia conflict.

But I do worry about the Iraqi exile groups who think that their own actions might produce what the Americans want: a fear of civil war so intense that Iraqis will go along with any plan the United States produces for Mesopotamia.

It's not that I believe al-Qa'ida incapable of such a bloodbath. But I ask myself why the Americans are rubbing this Sunni-Shia thing so hard. Let's turn the glass round the other way. If a violent Sunni movement wished to evict the Americans from Iraq - and there is indeed a resistance movement fighting very cruelly to do just that - why would it want to turn the Shia population of Iraq, 60 per cent of Iraqis, against them?

The Iraqi police keep announcing that they have found the bombers' passports


McNamara survived the 1960s, when he contributed more than most to the slaughter of 3.4 million Vietnamese (his own estimate). He went on to run the World Bank, where he presided over the impoverishment, eviction from their lands and death of many millions more round the world. And now here he is, the star of Errol Morris's much- praised, in my view wildly over-praised, documentary The Fog of War, talking comfortably about the millions of people he's helped to kill.

I don't think Morris laid a glove on McNamara, who should be feeling well pleased. Like Speer, he got away with it yet again. We have so many sponsors of mass murder hanging around, it would be nice to see one of them, once in a while, take a real pasting. But no, they live on into happy old age, vivid in their worries about the human condition, writing in The New York Review of Books, passing on no honest records about the evil it really takes to run an empire.

"And thousands of years before the time of the so-called Jesus, there are these interesting facts in the legend of Horus of Egypt: he was born of the virgin Isis-Meri on December 25th in a cave/manger with his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men; he performed miracles, exorcised demons and raised El-Azarus (El-Osiris) from the dead. Horus also walked on water and delivered a "Sermon on the Mount." He was crucified between two thieves, buried for three days in a tomb, and resurrected"

Some insist Christianity is a completely plagiarized religion. The first four Gospels which are the sole foundation of Jesus's existence didn't even show up until around the 4th century. And some of the forgery is so bad that they forgot to check their history with such small items like Nazareth not being in existence in Palestine at the time of Jesus.

When one takes into account that Howard is Jewish in the context of results of a recent poll which found that 45 per cent of the British public would not vote for a Jewish Prime Minister, then the choice for Britons is further diminished.

Short of an anarchical response, or a ban on the ballot box, there is little the voter can do to change the status quo.


mred:if your vote gets suicided, its a glitch or a snafu

"I love it when the people go to the polls and they flex their muscles and they let their voices be heard," Schwarzenegger said at a rally Tuesday, a month after public opinion polls had all but declared his $15 billion proposition dead.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040303/D812TT900.html
its amazing how frequently those stoopid pollsters get it wrong. I HAVE A MANDATE.

"Voters also resoundingly endorsed Proposition 58, a companion measure Schwarzenegger says will balance future state budgets, while rejecting Proposition 56, a proposal the governor didn't favor."

"Analysts say the former body builder and Hollywood icon is flexing political muscles not seen for years in California."

"I think the propositions are flawed, but it's better than doing nothing. We're already in debt, so what's $15 billion more?" said Los Angeles resident Andre Fonseca, 25.

"When we started our work we were 17 points behind. And you know something, everyone wrote us off," Schwarzenegger said. "We knew better. We knew that we can work together."


WND: Does the president, as a leader who is deeply concerned about the health of all Americans, believe that it was at all wise for California to cancel the requirement of blood tests for marriage licenses, given California's rise in AIDS cases?
McCLELLAN: Les, I think that's a matter that you need to address to the state of California. We certainly ?
WND: The president ? does he feel that it's wrong to have a blood test for marriage?
McCLELLAN: Les, I think that California issues you can address to California. I'm not familiar with all of the specifics of it. I'll be glad to look into it and get you more information if I can.


In the dozens and dozens of panic-stricken articles the New York Times has run on Mel Gibson's movie, "The Passion of the Christ," the unavoidable conclusion is that liberals haven't the vaguest idea what Christianity is.

The Times may have loopy ideas about a lot of things, but at least when they write about gay bathhouses and abortion clinics, you get the sense they know what they're talking about.

But Christianity just doesn't ring a bell. The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is "conservative Christians," meaning people you're not supposed to hire.

And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of "intellectual curiosity."

Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity"

mred - ann coulter is clearly out of her mind.

"Now that's rich - the vice president wants to include the details of my private life in the U.S. Constitution yet laments a lack of privacy for his daughter?" Aravosis said. "The vice president can't have it both ways."