If his last twenty-some articles on this same subject hadn’t convinced Peter Yost’s overlords at the DNC he is earning his keep–Yost has rolled up his sleeves to really show them this time.

From the DNC’s Associated Press:

White House defense – the news media did it – crumbling in leak case

By Pete Yost
October 20, 2005

WASHINGTON – The evidence prosecutors have assembled in the CIA leak case suggests Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff sought out reporters in the weeks before an undercover operative’s identity was compromised in the news media, casting doubt on one of the White House’s main lines of defense.

For months, the White House and its supporters have argued top presidential aides did not knowingly expose Valerie Plame, the wife of administration critic Joseph Wilson, as a CIA operative.

At most, the aides passed on information about her that entered the White House from reporters, the supporters argued.

Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald now knows that Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby met three times with a New York Times reporter before the leak of Plame’s identity, initiated a call to NBC’s Tim Russert and was a confirming source about Wilson’s wife for a Time magazine reporter.

And in a new twist, presidential political adviser Karl Rove has testified that it’s possible Libby was his source before Rove talked to two reporters about the CIA operative.

In light of all the disclosures, "it’s going to be as difficult for the defense to prove the theory that the White House got the information from reporters as it is for Fitzgerald to prove that the White House leaked the information about Wilson’s wife," said Washington-based white-collar defense attorney James D. Wareham.

Where Libby first heard the information still isn’t publicly known, but a full three weeks before Plame’s name first showed up in print, Libby was telling New York Times reporter Judith Miller that he thought Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA, according to Miller’s testimony.

While Libby maintains that he didn’t know Plame’s name until it was published in the news media, the now-public evidence suggests Libby at least was aware that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA and that he spread the information.

Prosecutors must determine whether it was part of an effort to undermine the credibility of Plame’s husband who was criticizing the White House.

Until this week, "the news media did it" was a standard defense among Republicans trying to protect the Bush administration from the political fallout of Fitzgerald’s criminal investigation. Loyalists said that even if White House aides had passed on information, they didn’t get it from classified sources and were simply repeating what they heard from journalists.

As new evidence accumulates on the public record, Libby’s original source of information and how he passed the information on are becoming crucial unanswered questions. The public still doesn’t know much about what the vice president and his top aide talked about, either.

In grand jury testimony shown to Rove, Libby said he had told Rove about information he had gotten about Wilson’s wife from Russert, according to a person directly familiar with the information.

Prosecutors, however, have a different account from Russert. The TV network has said Russert told authorities he did not know about Wilson’s wife’s identity until it was published and therefore could not have told Libby about it. Russert also says that it was Libby who initiated the contact with him.

In Miller’s case, the reporter was interviewing Libby on June 23, 2003, for a story on the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when the vice president’s chief of staff suggested a CIA tie for Wilson’s wife, Miller has said.

"This was the first time I had been told that Mr. Wilson’s wife might work for the CIA," Miller wrote in a first-person account over the weekend. Miller said this week that she never wrote a story about Wilson’s wife because "it wasn’t that important to me. I was focused on the main question: Was our WMD intelligence slanted?"

An honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay.

Hey, never mind that "Punchy" Judy swore under oath to the Grand Jury that Libby was notthe source for her knowledge of Valerie Plame.

That was last week, and a reporter’s got to eat.

From the Alabama Mobile Register:

No holiday for crime on ship

Thursday, October 20, 2005

By Susan Daker Staff Reporter

Nearly 30 arrests ranging from domestic violence to drug possession have been made on the Holiday cruise ship in Mobile since Hurricane Katrina evacuees moved in a month ago, a police spokesman said.

The arrest rate on board the ship during its service as an evacuee shelter has been significantly higher per thousand people than the average arrest rates in Alabama and Mississippi, according to available criminal statistics.

Police received 98 calls summoning officers to the Carnival Cruise Line ship from Sept. 17 through Monday, Oct. 17, according to information provided by Cpl. Marcus Young, police spokesman. The Mobile Police Department is responsible for security on board the ship, which is docked in downtown.

Slightly more than 1,200 people are residing on the ship, although that number has been as high as 1,400, said Sheila Gurganus, Alabama Cruise Terminal manager.The Holiday has a capacity of 1,452 guests.

Police have made 27 arrests aboard the ship thus far, including four for domestic violence, six for public drunkenness, and three for disorderly conduct. There have been 11 drug-related arrests. The most serious charge appears to be possession of cocaine, a felony.

Three arrest warrants have been served on the ship, Young said. One was a forgery warrant out of Mississippi; no records were available on the other two warrants.

Also, officers have helped locate three missing children on the ship, assisted five times with mental patients and dealt with seven calls for disorderly people.

According to the FBI, which tracks arrest rates from data collected by local law enforcement agencies, Alabama had an average of 4.3 arrests per 1,000 people a month in 2004. Mississippi, meanwhile, averaged about 6.3 arrests per 1,000 people per month last year.

The number of arrests on board the Holiday for the past month computes to about 19 per 1,000 people, based on a ship occupancy of 1,400.

When evacuees first checked onto the ship, they had to pass through metal detectors and their luggage was screened, Gurganus said. People leaving the ship to run errands or make other temporary trips are required to check in and out, Gurganus said. She was unsure whether people and their possessions were being screened upon their return.

The Mobile Fire Rescue-Department has received 14 emergency calls to the ship since Sept. 17, said spokesman Steve Huffman.

In the beginning of September, the Federal Emergency Management Agency contracted with the cruise line to charter the Holiday and two other ships for evacuees.

The deal with the federal government, worth in excess of $200 million, has sparked controversy in Congress, with some lawmakers expressing concern that the government paid too much.

FEMA would prefer to dock the Holiday in Mississippi, the home state of most evacuees on board, but has not decided when the ship will depart. Gurganus said the terminal officials hear "something different every day."

Like a dog returns to his vomit, Mother Sheehan has given into her primal urge and moved to her spiritual home–Berkeley.

From aptly named, Berkeley Daily Planet:

Cindy Sheehan Moves to Berkeley, Joins Call for National Guard Return

By Richard Brenneman

One of the country’s most famous anti-war activists is now one of Berkeley’s newest residents.

Cindy Sheehan, who gained the world’s attention with her protest outside President George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, has moved into a Berkeley apartment following her separation from her husband.

“ I needed a place to stay, and some friends got me an apartment,” she said.

Not that Berkeley will see much of the mother who lost her son Casey in the Iraq war in April 2004.

“I spend most of my time traveling, and I’m home maybe seven to 10 days a month,” she said following a Friday press conference in the San Francisco office of Assembly member Mark Leno. “I spend a lot of time in Southern California, and tomorrow I’ll be in New York City.”

Sheehan said that when she told Republican Sen. George Allen of Virginia that she had moved to Berkeley, he laughed and said, “Well, of course you did.”

Berkeley, she said, was a more congenial place for her than Vacaville, where she had lived with her husband prior to the separation

Her San Francisco press conference was organized in support of a resolution by Berkeley Assemblymember Loni Hancock calling for the return of the state’s National Guard from overseas duty.

Before the press event, Sheehan met with an aide to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who listened to her concerns and promised to present them to the state’s chief executive.

Hancock’s Assembly Joint Resolution No. 36 calls on the Legislature to ask the state’s congressional delegation “to call on Congress to restore the balance between the federal government and the states vis-à-vis the National Guard, by limiting federal control to cases where there is an insurrection or a declaration of war…”

The resolution also calls on the state legislature to ask Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger “to ensure that the president and Congress take immediate steps to withdraw California National Guard troops from Iraq.”

Hancock’s aide, Armondo Viramontes, said the assemblymember will push the resolution as one of the Assembly’s first priorities when the Legislature opens for business in January. She has drawn 17 co-sponsors, numbering conservatives among their ranks.

California currently has 5,800 National Guard troops on duty overseas, with 2,300 of them in Iraq, said Viramontes.

“The National Guard and the reserves account for 50 percent of the casualties, but not 50 percent of the troops. They are not trained properly and they are not equipped properly. Their own government doesn’t support them,” Sheehan said. “I know families who have had to hold bake sales to raise money for body armor.”

Sheehan said activists should organize on a state-by-state basis to hold the governors of each state responsible for the fate of the National Guard troops.

Leno, Viramontes and Sheehan declared that California needs the National Guard at home to handle domestic emergencies.

“What’s going to happen if we have an earthquake in California or fires? Who’s going to protect California?” Sheehan asked. Recent “national disasters we’ve had in this country prove that having our National Guard overseas has made our country more vulnerable.”

“Immediately recall them,” Viramontes urged. “Right now. Not this week. Not next month. But right now.”

Hancock was unable to attend because she was in Romania where her father, veteran New York Liberal Party activist Donald S. Harrington, had died last month.

Sheehan offered bitter criticism of the Bush administration, which she described as arrogant.

“They think that because they now control all three branches of government, they can do whatever they want,” she said. “They have imposed a virtual dictatorship for the past five years. It is very ironic that George Bush says he’s spreading freedom in Iraq when he’s destroying it here at home.”

Leave it to our Italian brothers at Adnkronos International to tell us what our one party media won’t.

For those noble “freedom fighters” Al-Qaeda and its champion, Zarqawi, it’s all about the religion of peace:

IRAQ: WE ARE FIGHTING FOR AN ISLAMIC STATE, SAYS AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ

Baghdad, 18 Oct. (AKI) – Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the terror group led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has released a new statement in which it explains the reasons for its terror campaign and states that they are not fighting the US occupation of Iraq, but to create "an Islamic state which is part of the caliphate and the Muslim territory."

The message from the terror group appeared on the Internet on Tuesday, just a few days ahead of a visit to Baghdad by the secretary general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa. "The secretary of the Arab League has been tasked with going to Iraq to convince the Sunnis to enter the political game so as to stop the Jihad [holy war] in the Sunni areas. With the excuse of national interest, they are trying to save the Americans," the statement says.

The terror group then goes on to reveal its real objectives, saying: "We are not fighting to chase out the occupier or to save national unity and keep the borders outlined by the infidels intact," the statement continues. "We are fighting because it is a religious duty to do it, just as it is a duty to take the Sharia [Islamic law] to the government and create an Islamic state."

In the last few weeks the Islamic forums on the Internet have regularly broadcast images relating to the possible creation of al-Qaeda’s hypothetical Islamic state, which could take shape within Iraq’s rebel al-Anbar province.

From the DNC’s house organ, the Associated Press :

Inaccurate Info May Help CIA Leak Probe

By John Solomon and Pete Yost,
Associated Press Writers
Oct 17, 7:18 PM ET

Information attributed to Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff in New York Times reporter Judith Miller’s interview notes is incorrect, offering prosecutors a potential lead to tracking the bad information to its original source.

Miller disclosed this weekend that her notes of a conversation she had with I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on July 8, 2003 stated Cheney’s top aide told her that the wife of Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson worked for the CIA’s Weapons Intelligence, Non-Proliferation, and Arms Control (WINPAC) unit.

Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, never worked for WINPAC, an analysis unit in the overt side of the CIA, and instead worked in a position in the CIA’s secret side, known as the directorate of operations, according to three people familiar with her work for the spy agency.

The three all spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the current secrecy requirements of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s grand jury investigation into the leak of Plame’s identity in 2003 to the media.

The revelation came as President Bush weighed in Monday by declining to say what he would do if one of his aides were indicted in the investigation, and the Pentagon looked into Miller’s claim that she was granted a security clearance in 2003 while reporting with a military unit during the Iraq war.

Libby previously testified to the grand jury and it is not known whether he provided the information about WINPAC during his testimony.

Whether it came from Libby or Miller’s notes, former federal prosecutors and investigators said the incorrect information provides a significant lead for Fitzgerald and FBI agents to follow. It could suggest Libby thought Plame was not an undercover spy, and therefore couldn’t have knowingly revealed her occupation, or that he got his information from uninformed sources, they said.

"The fact that the information is inaccurate may make it of even greater interest to the grand jury than accurate information," said Lance Cole, former Democratic counsel to the Senate Whitewater Committee and now a law professor at Penn State Dickinson School of law.

"Accurate information presumably can come from any number of sources. If he got it from a particular document or in a meeting and that document or notes of that meeting are the only place that the inaccuracy is present, then that establishes the source," Cole said.

Danny Coulson, a former top FBI official who conducted several investigations of leaks, said the possibility that Libby passed on wrong information to a reporter may indicate he didn’t get his information from a credible, official source.

"What it tells me is he probably got his information from dinner talk," Coulson said. Presidential aides "had access to the official information and if they had used that, you would think they would have had the right stuff."

Even if Libby or other White House aides did not knowingly reveal Plame’s covert identity, the prosecutor could consider other charges such as the mishandling of classified information, false statements and obstruction of justice, lawyers have said.

In her story published Sunday recounting her legal battle and imprisonment for refusing to testify earlier, Miller described her breakfast meeting conversation on July 8, 2003 with Libby and the point at which it turned to Plame.

"My notes contain a phrase inside parentheses: ‘Wife works at Winpac.’ Mr. Fitzgerald asked what that meant," Miller wrote.

"I told the grand jury that I believed that this was the first time I had heard that Mr. Wilson’s wife worked for Winpac," she wrote. "In fact, I told the grand jury that when Mr. Libby indicated that Ms. Plame worked for Winpac, I assumed that she worked as an analyst, not as an undercover operative."

With the investigation nearing an end, Bush on Monday declined to say whether he would remove an aide under indictment.

"There’s a serious investigation," the president said. "I’m not going to prejudge the outcome of the investigation." He commented in response to reporters’ questions during a meeting with Bulgaria’s president, Georgi Parvanov.

Bush’s top political adviser, Karl Rove, as well as Libby have been questioned by the grand jury. Rove last week made his fourth and final appearance, where he was pressed on conflicts between his account and those of other witnesses.

At the Pentagon, officials also looked into Miller’s claim that she had a security clearance while working as an embedded reporter during the Iraq war, shortly before her conversations with Libby.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said he was unaware of Miller having a security clearance. He said security clearances are covered by privacy laws, so he couldn’t talk about it.

But Whitman said reporters who were embedded with military units during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars signed ground rules in which they agreed not to make public sensitive or secret information that they learned while with the unit.

"For a security clearance you have to go through any number of specific background investigative checks, and there are different agencies that do those. And depending on the level of clearance that’s required, there’s certain paperwork that has to be filled out and it has to be adjudicated," said Whitman.

He said commanders can’t simply give a reporter a security clearance while in the field with the unit.

Er, speaking of inaccurate information, is it rude to point out that either this story is a lie or the earlier AP story, which quotes the NY Times is a lie:

The notebook Miller used for that July 8 interview includes the reference to "Valerie Flame." But Miller said that name did not appear in the same portion of her notebook as the interview notes from Libby, according to the Times.

In other words, in the story above the AP claims Libby told Miller Plame was with WINPAC. In the AP/NY Times story from the other day, Plame’s name is reported to not even appear in the Libby section of notes.

Of course my theory is both stories are lies.

You know, it’s not just that the paid DNC stooges of the MSM are pathological liars. But they are even inept pathological liars.

Just as we suspected, the other shoe drops–and not on the White House. As I have said all along, Libby got the info from Miller, who got it from someone outside the White House–probably the Plames, or one of their pals, very likely someone in the media.

From the DNC’s Associated Press, who, to be fair, do their level best to obscure the facts:

Miller Can’t Recall Who Gave Agent’s Name

By Pete Yost

Associated Press Writer

Notes by the New York Times’ Judith Miller that were turned over in a criminal investigation contain the name of a covert CIA officer, but the reporter has told prosecutors she cannot recall who disclosed the name, the newspaper reported Saturday.

The prosecutor in the case asked Miller in recent days to explain how Valerie Plame — misspelled in those notes as "Valerie Flame" — appeared in the same notebook the reporter used in interviewing her confidential source, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, according to the Times.

In response to questioning by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, Miller replied that she "didn’t think" she heard Plame’s name from Cheney’s aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

"I said I believed the information came from another source, whom I could not recall," Miller wrote, recounting her testimony for an article that the newspaper posted on its Web site Saturday afternoon.

"Valerie Flame" actually was the name in the notebook, and the Times said Miller should have written Valerie Plame.

Fitzgerald has focused on three conversations Miller had with Libby as the prosecutor investigates whether a crime was committed in the leaking of Plames identity to reporters. The public disclosure of Plame’s identify followed strong criticism of the Bush administration by Plame’s husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson.

The newspaper said that Miller and Libby met for breakfast at a hotel near the White House on July 8, 2003, two days after Wilson stated that the Bush administration had manipulated prewar intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat. Miller had been assigned to write a story about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

The notebook Miller used for that July 8 interview includes the reference to "Valerie Flame." But Miller said that name did not appear in the same portion of her notebook as the interview notes from Libby, according to the Times.

At the breakfast, Libby provided a detail about Wilsons wife, saying she worked in a CIA unit known as Winpac. The name stands for weapons intelligence, nonproliferation and arms control. Miller said she understood this to mean that Wilsons wife was an analyst rather than an undercover operative.

In a July 12, 2003, phone call with Libby, another variant on Plames name appears in Millers notes — "Victoria Wilson." The newspapers account Saturday says that by the time of the July 12 phone call, Miller had called other sources about Wilson’s wife. The Times said Miller would not discuss her sources for the newspaper’s account.

Miller spent 85 days in a federal jail in Virginia for refusing to cooperate with Fitzgerald’s investigation. Other reporters already had cooperated with the prosecutor.

Miller relented when she received a personal waiver of confidentiality in September from her source. Miller then testified before the grand jury in late September and this month.

The Times said Fitzgerald questioned Miller about a letter that Libby sent her while she was in jail. Libby assured her that he wanted her to testify, but the letter also said, according to the Times, "the public report of every other reporters testimony makes clear that they did not discuss Ms. Plames name or identity with me."

Fitzgerald questioned Miller about Libby’s letter, the newspaper said. Miller said she told Fitzgerald in her sworn testimony that the letter could be perceived as an effort by Libby "to suggest that I, too, would say that we had not discussed Ms. Plame’s identity." But she added, "My notes suggested that we had discussed her job."

It’s pretty clear Miller had Plame’s name in her notes to remind herself to ask Libby about Plame when they talked.

Meanwhile, a million lies later, where do Libby and Rove go to get their reputations back? Or does being a one party media means never having to say you’re sorry?

Anyway, Miller got a million dollar book deal out of it all. That (in addition to her NY Times pay) is the reward Miller got for misleading the American public for months, so that Libby (and Rove) could be endlessly smeared by the pathological liars in our one party media and guttersnipes like the Plames.

By the way, whatever happened to those laws which were to prevent criminals from profiting from their crimes? I guess like most rules, they don’t apply to our overlords in the press.

Reading the between the lines, it looks like the DNC's Associated Press is warning the party faithful that no Bush officials will be indicted. Too bad, so sad.

Prosecutor weighs move in CIA leak probe

Pete Yost, Associated Press

Posted on Sat, Oct. 15, 2005

WASHINGTON – With the criminal investigation into who leaked the identity of a covert CIA officer apparently nearing an end, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald could seek indictments of top White House aides or quietly close up shop.

The grand jury that heard several hours of testimony Friday from President Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove, is set to expire Oct. 28. Rove's lawyer said Fitzgerald has "affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges."

Even if Fitzgerald decides not to prosecute anyone, that may not be the end of the matter: The prosecutor could write a final report detailing his investigation. But unlike past special prosecutors, such as Ken Starr in the Monica Lewinsky affair, who operated under the now-expired independent counsel law, Fitzgerald is not required to produce a public report.

Nevertheless, some Democrats on Capitol Hill are pressing him to do so.

"Such a report would ensure Congress and the American people that the investigation of this serious matter has been undertaken with the utmost diligence and has been free of partisan, political influence," wrote Reps. Jane Harman of California, John Conyers of Michigan, Rush Holt of New Jersey and Tom Lantos of California. Fitzgerald has never addressed whether he will make a public report.

At the White House, the waiting has been filled with a string of no comments about Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who both were involved in conversations with reporters about covert CIA officer Valerie Plame in 2003, according to evidence that has emerged over the past three months.

Plame's husband is Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson, who became a focus of White House attention when he suggested publicly that intelligence had been twisted before the war to exaggerate the threat that Iraq might be working on nuclear weapons.

All White House spokesman Scott McClellan would say Friday is that his statements in the summer that Rove retained the president's confidence remain true. However, McClellan declined repeatedly to utter words of confidence outright.

"Karl continues to do his duties as deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to the president," McClellan said. "What I said previously still stands."

Prosecutors had warned Rove before his latest grand jury appearance that there is no guarantee he will not be indicted.

Rove spent about four and a half hours inside the federal courthouse, and left without commenting to reporters.

Fitzgerald "has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges," Rove's lawyer, Robert D. Luskin, said in a statement. "The special counsel has indicated that he does not anticipate the need for Mr. Rove's further cooperation."

New York Times reporter Judith Miller testified twice in recent days to the same grand jury as Rove. Miller had three conversations with Libby in June and July 2003 regarding Wilson and Plame.

I do love this part especially:

Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald could seek indictments of top White House aides or quietly close up shop.

That's right, AP, those are the only two options. There's no chance any reporters or any Plames or their pals could be indicted. Uh-huh.

Note too, that in their usual subtle way, the DNC/AP is already insisting on some report on this totally trumped-up charge, so they get something out of the smear–besides the months of above the fold slanders headlines.

And lest we forget, John Conyers (D-Iraq) has a place on his government-provided website where he asks for people to leak intelligence secrets that will help the terrorists war against civilization. He even provides translations into Arabic.

Conyers is so concerned about leaks, you know.

From the UPI:

Man pays blood money to Saddam relatives

SANAA, Yemen, Oct. 15 (UPI) — A Yemeni security source said Saturday a Yemeni businessman was released from prison after paying blood money for killing an Iraqi related to Saddam Hussein.

The official said on condition of anonymity that Ahsan al-Hatha paid one million dollars to relatives of toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein for killing Hamad Hassan al-Majeed, a nephew of Ali Hassan al-Majeed, Saddam’s cousin known as Chemical Ali.

Al-Hatha was accused of shooting al-Majeed in a Chinese restaurant in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, last February during an argument about Saddam Hussein.

The official told United Press International the Yemeni businessman was released according to tribal laws, in which the families of the killer and victim settled out of court with al-Hatha paying one million dollars as compensation.

The victim’s uncle, Chemical Ali, was arrested in Iraq in August 2003, or five months after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. The Kurds gave him the nickname for his alleged role in using chemical weapons in an offensive that killed thousands of Kurds in northern Iraq in 1987.

Now if he had only killed someone with a bounty on his head, like Chemical Ali, he could have turned a profit.

But speaking of the rule of law, I suppose the vote on the Iraqi constitution must be going in favor of it or we would be hearing about it from the DNC MSM.

No news is always means good news when it comes to Iraq and our one party media.

Gee, it turns out that despite the claims by our one party media, the teleconference between President Bush and the soldiers fighting for our freedoms was not staged.

From the blog of one our of great fighting men, Sgt Ron Long, who just happened to be there:

14 October 2005

Speaking with President Bush

Yesterday, I (bottom right corner in the picture) was chosen to be among a small group of soldiers assigned to the 42ID’s Task Force Liberty that would speak to President Bush, our Commander-in-Chief. The interview went well, but I would like to respond to what most of the mass-media has dubbed as, "A Staged Event."

First of all, we were told that we would be speaking with the President of the United States, our Commander-in-Chief, President Bush, so I believe that it would have been totally irresponsible for us NOT to prepare some ideas, facts or comments that we wanted to share with the President.

We were given an idea as to what topics he may discuss with us, but it’s the President of the United States ; He will choose which way his conversation with us may go.

We practiced passing the microphone around to one another, so we wouldn’t choke someone on live TV. We had an idea as to who we thought should answer what types of questions, unless President Bush called on one of us specifically.

President Bush told us, during his closing, that the American people were behind us. I know that we are fighting here, not only to preserve our own freedoms, but to establish those same freedoms for the people of Iraq. It makes my stomach ache to think that we are helping to preserve free speech in the US, while the media uses that freedom to try to RIP DOWN the President and our morale, as US Soldiers. They seem to be enjoying the fact that they are tearing the country apart . Worthless!

The question I was most asked while I was home on leave in June was, "So…What’s REALLY going on over there?" Does that not tell you something?! Who has confidence in the media to tell the WHOLE STORY ? It’s like they WANT this to turn into another Vietnam. I hate to break it to them, but it’s not.

Tomorrow morning, the Iraqi people will vote on their constitution. The success of our mission or the mission of the Iraqi security forces is not defined by the outcome of that vote. If the people of Iraq vote this constitution down, that only means that the FREE, DEMOCRATIC PROCESS is at work in Iraq. They are learning to voice their opinions in the polling stations, not through violence. If it is voted down, they will have the chance to draft an even better version; One that may better serve the people of Iraq. This is up to them. It is history in the making and I will not let the media or anyone else (who has not spent more than two weeks here) tell me otherwise. I have been here for almost a year . I have seen the progress made in so many ways from January’s elections to this referendum. Don’t tell me what the Iraqi people can or can’t do. They will tell you with their VOTES!

So once again the media has lied in their never-ending efforts to smear Bush. You could knock me over with a feather.

More well-poisoning from those champions of the proletariat at the New York Daily Worker News :

Terror tip for rich

E-mails warned bigs of city attack

October 13, 2005

By Alison Gendar

The city's rich and well-connected were tipped off to last week's subway terror threat days before average New Yorkers, the Daily News has learned.

At least two E-mails revealing the purported plot were sent to a select crowd of business and arts executives early last week by New Yorkers who claimed to have close connections to Homeland Security and other federal officials, authorities said.

The NYPD confirmed that it learned of the E-mails on Oct. 3 – three days before Mayor Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and the FBI went public with the threat.

"I have just received a most disturbing call from one of my oldest friends from growing up in Washington," one E-mail began. "He called with a very specific caution to not enter or use the New York City subway system from Oct. 7 through 10th."

A second E-mail sounded a similar ominous tone: "As some of you know my father works for Homeland Security, at a very high position and receives security briefings on a daily basis.

"The only information that I can pass on is that everyone should at all costs not ride the subway for the next two weeks in major areas of NYC."

One of the E-mails was dated Oct. 3 with a 6:05 p.m. time stamp, about 90 minutes before Bloomberg was fully briefed on the threat, a police source said.

The early warning infuriated several police officials, who noted that Homeland Security officials had challenged the credibility of the threat after the city and FBI warned the public.

"We're briefing the mayor, ratcheting up security, talking about when to go public – and Homeland Security is downplaying the whole thing while their people are telling friends to stay out of the subways," a police source said. "It's pretty bad."

NYPD investigators obtained copies of the E-mails on Oct. 4, as Bloomberg and Kelly were finalizing a plan to respond to the threat, and police officials gave the E-mails to the Homeland Security Department, police said.

'Members of our corporate security network informed the Police Department of the E-mails' existence days prior to any announcement of the threat," NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said yesterday.

Homeland Security officials confirmed that they were told about the early E-mail warnings.

"We have looked into them, but do not consider them to be of great significance," Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said yesterday.

"At best, they were based on anecdotal accounts of very limited information," he added, declining to reveal whether the feds were investigating.

The News obtained copies of two E-mails, one with the foreboding subject line: "Alarming call from Washington." Unsigned versions were also posted on Snopes.com, a site that examines urban legends.

One of the E-mail senders, when reached by The News, declined comment.

The plot, calling for terrorists to detonate bombs hidden in briefcases, suitcases or strollers, has been largely discredited since the public warning.

Bloomberg has defended his response, arguing the city had no choice but to act on the "specific threat." He has said he held off alerting the public until Oct.6 to give authorities time to round up suspects in Iraq.

In their endless efforts to engender class warfare, the comrades at the Daily News failed to present anything to indicate that these emails were only sent to the rich. (Are children of government bureaucrats "rich"? I don't think so.)

As the article noted, even the folks at Snopes got the same email.

Oh, well, mustn't let such details get in the way of their agenda. "Power to the people!"

I’m truly appalled. The following email was forwarded to me from a person who a) should know better b) is a major powerbehind the most prestigious and powerful organ of our one-party main stream media.

It’s just the latest brain fever from one of Soro’s many paid stooges, those public health experts at MoveOn.org:

Subject: Tell your friends: Replace Simonson, Prepare for a Flu Pandemic

Dear friend,

Apparently the Bush administration did not learn anything from the Michael Brown/FEMA debacle. The Bush administration’s point man for a flu pandemic is another crony with no experience related to his job. Stewart Simonson, the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has no public health management experience. He got his job because he is close with former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson.

Will you join me in urging the Bush administration to replace Simonson with a more obviously qualified person?

http://political.moveon.org/flupandemic/

We can’t sit by and let another unqualified appointee put our public health at risk.

Thanks.

Because of some guy being appointed to be the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness--an office I’m sure nobody at MoveOn had ever even heard of before– we are all going to die.

And notice how this lie is built upon the lie that FEMA did such a terrible job with Katrina. It simply didn’t. In fact, it was probably FEMA’s quickest and most effective response to any national disaster to date. But never mind, the lie is now established thanks to the MSM/DNC.

It matters not a sous that Simonson has no public health background. The fact is he is just going into a management job in a bureaucracy. He’s managed other bureaucracies.

The puppet-master Soros, and his fellow America-hating well-poisoners on the left, never rest.

At least in the imagination of the love-struck fan writing headlines for the DNC’s Associated Press :

Cindy Sheehan hugs [one of the little people] in front of the Arizona State Capitol War Memorial Monday, Oct. 3, 2005, in Phoenix.

‘Peace Mom’ Cindy Sheehan returns home to hero’s welcome

Thu, Oct. 06, 2005
Justin M. Norton

Oakland, Calif. – Peace mom Cindy Sheehan, after wrapping up her tour of the country, returned home to northern California where she plans to continue her protest of the Iraq war.

The mother who staged a 26-day vigil in front of President Bush’s Texas ranch this summer received a hero’s welcome Wednesday night from a hometown crowd attending a fundraiser for anti-war groups.

"I’ll be a grieving mom until I die because of the lies that took my son," said Sheehan, making her first public appearance in the liberal San Francisco Bay area since the August vigil. "I plan on keeping this up until the troops are brought home."

Sheehan’s 24-year-old son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, died in April 2004 in Iraq.

She has spent much of the time since speaking out against the war. After the monthlong vigil in Texas, she traveled the U.S. and also met with politicians, including Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, and Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-North Carolina.

Last week, she was arrested with more than 350 other people after a protest outside the White House.

Sheehan said she has received encouragement and support in Vacaville, Calif. the San Francisco suburb where her three surviving children still live. Sheehan, whose husband filed for divorce while she was staked out in Texas, has since moved to Berkeley.

"People come up to me and say, ‘Cindy, thanks for doing what you are doing and welcome home,’" she said.

Sheehan’s speech at an Oakland movie theater was a benefit for several anti-war groups, including Gold Star Families for Peace, an organization she co-founded to mobilize families of soldiers who died in Iraq.

Sheehan’s return to her home state does not signal a break in her activism. She is scheduled to participate on Saturday in a silent peace walk in Los Angeles where she will be joined Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk who spent 40 years in exile from his native Vietnam.

Sorry, but I missed the part describing the "hero’s welcome." Is that the AP editorializing again? Or is showing up for a speech at a local movie theater (for which Cindy is getting at least $30,000) somehow a hero’s welcome? It was a "benefit" all right.

The bit about the Buddhist monk is a nice touch. Do you think Mother Sheehan will ever figure out that he is in exile because of a murderous Communist government that she happily supports?