Separation of church and state, anyone? The president doesn't speak for the state in the same way that the Queen of England does, for instance. Abraham Lincoln: ``I have often wished I was a more devout man. Nevertheless, amid the great difficulties of my administration, when I could not see...

Oh ho! The Pentagon said Bush 43's military records had been destroyed. Guess what? Dulicate copies exist. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&e=16&u=/ap/bush_military_service WASHINGTON - The Associated Press asked a federal judge Friday to order the Pentagon (news - web...

|On Friday, a member of that group who was one of Kerry's supervisors in |Vietnam, George Elliott, | |Wrote in 1969: | |"In a combat environment often requiring independent, decisive action LTJG |(Lieutenant Junior Grade) Kerry was unsurpassed. He constantly reviewed tactics |and lessons...

"Says retired Air Force Gen. Merrill McPeak, a member of the group who is advising John Kerry but was Oregon chairman for the Dole campaign in 1996 and a Veteran for Bush in 2000: “I don’t think that this accusation of politics on my part will wash. It’s just this administration has gone away...

Kerry has not and will not release either of his records. View Kerry's records he http://awolbush.com/ Walt

"The big story out of Florida over the weekend was the tragic devastation caused by Hurricane Charley. But there's another story from Florida that deserves our attention. State police officers have gone into the homes of elderly black voters in Orlando and interrogated them as part of an odd...

NEW YORK — If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times from discouraged Democrats and liberals as the Republican convention here wrapped up this week. Their shoulders hunched, their eyes at a droop, they lower their voice to a whisper hoping that if they don't say it too loud it may not...

"President Bush claims that in the fall of 1972, he fulfilled his Air National Guard duties at a base in Alabama. But Bob Mintz was there - and he is sure Mr. Bush wasn't. Plenty of other officers have said they also don't recall that Mr. Bush ever showed up for drills at the base. What's...

Nineteen seventy-two was the year George W. Bush dropped off the radar screen.\ He abandoned his once-prized status as a National Guard pilot by failing to appear for a required physical. He sought temporary reassignment from the Texas Air National Guard to an Alabama unit but for six months did...

Paul Krugman, 7/20/04 NY Times: In the original version of "The Manchurian Candidate," Senator John Iselin, whom Chinese agents are plotting to put in the White House, is a right-wing demagogue modeled on Senator Joseph McCarthy. As Roger Ebert wrote, the plan is to "use anticommunist hysteria as...

More on Bush in the Air Guard http://www.glcq.com/bush_at_arpc1.htm SUMMARY An examination of the Bush military files within the context of US Statutory Law, Department of Defense regulations, and Air Force policies and procedures of that era lead to a single conclusion: George W. Bush was...

The United States is shouldering a greater debt burden today than it did during the Great Depression. This seems a no-brainer. Everyone didn't have their hands out in the 1930's, more people lived on farms, Johnson's Great Society was a socialist dream, etc. The U.S. military was very small...

BTW trying to having a debate with Walt M140 is about as entertaining as talking to a concrete wall :-) Are you -ever- going to apologize for saying that Martin Caidin fabricated the story of the B-17 that survived a head on collision with an FW-190? Should I post the serial number of that...

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ... What's Caidin's track record? Mr. Gustin: His writing "never let the facts get in the way of a good story." He wrote a lot of books, always giving far more...

Is it me, or have I heard of very few Marines killed with IED's (improvised explosive devices), road side or suicide bombs, especially when compared to the Army? As a former Marine am I being prejudiced, or is the Marine Corps doing something differently? And I don't think having a lot fewer...

From the NYT: It's hard to imagine what the Pentagon was thinking when it told the American Army and Marine replacement divisions bound for Iraq earlier this year to leave their tanks and other heavily armored vehicles behind. American military planners seem to have ignored evidence that armed...

100 Miserable Failures of the Bush Administration: 1. Failing to build a real international coalition prior to the Iraq invasion, forcing the US to shoulder the full cost and consequences of the war. 2. Approving the demobilization of the Iraqi Army in May, 2003 – bypassing the Joint Chiefs of...

Where to start? "Tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to develop a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and analyze all threat information in a single location. Our government must have the very best...

It's a culture clash between the election world, which prizes reliability, and computer scientists, who obsess over security By Steven Levy Newsweek June 28 issue - It's now official: Walden O'Dell is no longer raising funds for George W. Bush. Why should you care? That was Walden O'Dell's...

Bush Avoided Going after Zarqawi for political reasons. In his effort to claim he is the strongest candidate on national security, President Bush has lately been speaking a lot about how he is doing everything possible to track down terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi1 - the man thought to be...