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She's baaaaack
Cindy Sheehan is back at Camp Casey seeking the unconditional surrender of
America to the terrorists. The
Associated Press reports:
Sheehan, who has continued encouraging anti-war demonstrations, asked
protesters to return to Crawford this week during Bush's family Thanksgiving
gathering.
The protesters' camp is on the same 1-acre private lot that a sympathetic
landowner let them use in August.
For the holiday Thursday, more than 100 war protesters ate a traditional
Iraqi meal - salmon, lentils and rice with almonds - saying they wanted to
call attention to the civilians killed in the war. More than 2,100 U.S.
soldiers have also died since the war began in March 2003.
"It's significant because the people of Iraq are suffering under our
occupation, and for people in America it's business as usual stuffing
themselves on fat turkeys," said Tammara Rosenleaf, whose husband is an Army
soldier to be deployed in a few weeks. "We in good conscience cannot behave
that way while our troops are over there."
MoveOn.org’s surrender ad
MoveOn.org is helping with the campaign to surrender to the terrorists
by running a new ad on CNN.
The 30-second ad opens with a family having Thanksgiving dinner. Their heads
are bowed in prayer. "Some folks won't be home this holiday season," the
voice over says.
The ad moves to soldiers in Iraq with mess kits," The voice over states,
"150,000 American men and women are "stuck in Iraq."
The next scene is of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. The voice
over says, "Their president misled America to send them in and has no plan
to get them out."
The ad returns to the Thanksgiving dinner with a woman wiping her eyes with
a handkerchief. The voice over says, "Democrats in Congress are leading the
way home."
The scene moves in on one empty chair: "Where are the Republicans?" Asks the
voice over.
The tag line urges Americans, "Tell your representative. Support our troops.
Bring them home."
Iranian myths
The President of Iran is calling for President Bush to be tried as a war
criminal because of using spent uranium
"You, who have used nuclear weapons against innocent people, who have used
uranium ordnance in Iraq should be tried as war criminals in courts,"
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.
The
Irish Examiner reports:
Ahmadinejad didn’t elaborate, but he was apparently referring to the US
military’s use of artillery shells packed with depleted uranium, which is
far less radioactive than natural uranium and is left over from the process
of enriching uranium for use as nuclear fuel.
Since the 2003 start of the Iraq war, US forces have reportedly fired at
least 120 tons of shells packed with depleted uranium, which is an extremely
dense material used by the US and British militaries for tank armor and
armor-piercing weapons. Once fired, the shells melt, vaporize and turn to
dust.
"Who in the world are you to accuse Iran of suspicious nuclear armed
activity?" asked the Iranian president during a nationally televised
ceremony marking the 36th anniversary of the establishment of the volunteer
Basij paramilitary force.
Iran continues to defy the world in its development of nuclear weapons.
Abramoff update
The
Washington Post has an update in what's going on in the lobbyist Jack
Abramoff investigation now that his former partner has pleaded guilty and is
cooperating:
Former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R), now facing separate campaign
finance charges in his home state of Texas, is one of the members under
scrutiny, the sources said. Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), Rep. John T.
Doolittle (R-Calif.) and other members of Congress involved with Indian
affairs, one of Abramoff's key areas of interest, are also said to be among
them.
Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) has long been a suspect in the investigation. Iowa's
Sen. Tom Harkin found recently that he failed to pay for use of a sky box
provided by Abramoff as well.
Richardson’s fantasy baseball
Gov. Bill Richardson has been found out and admitted that he never was
drafted by the Kansas City "A’s" according to the
Associated Press:
Gov. Bill Richardson is coming clean on his draft record _ the baseball
draft, that is, admitting that his claim to have been a pick of the Kansas
City A's in 1966 was untrue.
For nearly four decades, Richardson, often mentioned as a possible
Democratic presidential candidate, has maintained he was drafted by the
Kansas City Athletics.
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