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This is LONDON 12/07/04 - News and city section Surfer bitten in half By Richard Shears, Daily Mail, in Sydney A surfer was bitten in half after losing a desperate fight for his life with two Great White sharks. Brad Smith, 29, was surfing off the Western Australian coast when a huge shark 'as wide as a car' lunged out of the water and snapped his board in half. Mr Smith's friends could only watch in horror as he fell into the sea and another of the enormous creatures moved in on him. Experts said it was almost as if they had ambushed him. The surfer lashed out with his fists to try to keep the sharks at bay as they came at him repeatedly. But after just 45 seconds he disappeared beneath the surface - and the water turned red. When his body floated back up, his friends risked their own lives to go out and drag it back to shore. Yesterday they were too upset to describe his injuries, but another surfer at Left Handers Beach near the resort of Gracetown said he had been warned: 'Don't go in there, someone's been bitten in half by a shark.' Another surfer Cameron Rowe, 17, said: 'There was nothing we could do to help him. At first I saw one shark and thought it was one of the usual ones you see swimming-around, reef sharks, which don't cause you any trouble. 'But these things were massive. When the first one came up a bit I could see its fin and it was almost a yard high. 'When it came out of the water with Brad still fighting it, I could see its body was about the width of a car and its open jaws were as wide as a man's arm. 'What happened then just ended up in a terrible feeding frenzy. It was awful.' One of Mr Smith's friends, Mitch Campbell, said: 'It was the worst thing I have seen. There was so much confusion out there it was impossible to tell which shark was attacking, but they kept coming at him time and time again. 'You could see Brad trying to whack at them to keep them away. 'We were shouting out, "Swim for your life, mate! Swim for your life!" But he obviously didn't have a chance. They were massive. 'He put up such a brave fight. He was punching away and there was water and blood everywhere.' Police have collected Mr Smith's surfboard, snapped in half by the razor-sharp teeth of one of the sharks. Throughout yesterday-marksmen in a flotilla of boats, aided by police in a helicopter, searched for the killers, to no avail. The failure to locate the maneaters has sent fear along the West Australian coast. 'If we find them, we have the authority to kill them,' said fisheries officer Tony Cappelluti. Great Whites are a protected species - unless one kills a human. 'If they've tasted human blood, then they'll remain a problem until we've tracked them down,' he added. Shark expert Sasha Thompson, from the Aquarium of Western Australia, said witness reports suggested the sharks were Great Whites, the most feared of all marine creatures and the species featured in the film Jaws. 'Judging by the size, the area they were swimming in and the power of the jaws, I'd say they were Great Whites,' she said. She said it was impossible to know what triggered the attack, but added: 'It is whale migration season and that might have something to do with it.' Great Whites are known to spend time on Western Australia's southern coast in winter before moving north to hunt whales returning to southern waters. Another marine expert, Mike Roennfeldt, said he was surprised at the nature of the ambush-style attack. 'Generally sharks are solo hunters,' he said. 'It's unusual - unheard of, in fact - for one Great White to knock a guy off his surfboard and then for another to attack, which seems to have happened here.' It was the second fatal attack in West Australian waters in less than four years. In November 2000, 49-year-old swimmer Ken Crew died from massive bleeding after one of his legs was bitten off in shallow water just north of Perth's popular Cottesloe Beach.

CAN'T KEEP HANDS OFF EACH OTHER Hugs, kisses to the cheek, affectionate touching of the face, caressing of the back, grabbing of the arm, fingers to the neck, rubbing of the knees... John Kerry and John Edwards can't keep their hands off each other! In the past 48 hours, "candidate handling" has become the top buzz on the trail. News photographers have been going wild with photos of the two Johns. "I've been covering Washington and politics for 30 years. I can say I've never seen this much touching between two men, publicly," e-mailed one wire photographer. When asked if the Johns are acting out a cynical focus group series of poses -- perhaps to show warmth to the chilly Bush/Cheney -- a Kerry spokesperson explained: "I think we're just seeing genuine affection between them." But the spokesperson added, "I hope we do not see them wearing matching outfits when they ride bikes this weekend."

LOL ouch!!!

by John Hawkins 1) "John Kerry. In his 20 years in the Senate, he's been a standard-issue Massachusetts liberal, with a lifetime rating from Americans for Democratic Action of 93 on their 0-100 scale. By contrast, the other Senator from the Bay State, Teddy Kennedy, has a lifetime rating of 88. "That makes Kennedy the conservative of the two," chortled Republican National Chairman Ed Gillespie as he visited New Hampshire last week on an anti-Democratic strafing run." -- James Pinkerton, 1/26/04 2) "Speaking on a live local broadcast at a campaign stop in Toledo, Ohio in front of 300 people, Kerry blasted Bush for being an illegitimately elected president in 2000 when he was "selected" by the U.S. Supreme Court. When an elderly Democratic voter in the audience accused Vice President Dick Cheney of murdering women and children in Iraq for the sake of oil profits, Kerry responded by saying, "I know exactly where you're coming from." Kerry added, "I know where that anger comes from, I know where the frustration comes from." -- John Kerry, May 2004 3) John Kerry's official blog links to the link to the Democratic Underground, a left-wing website with very popular forums that is often quoted from by conservative bloggers and radio hosts because it's such a cesspool of lunacy. If you're looking for people who think Americans are just as bad as Al-Qaeda, the US Gov't had Nick Berg killed, or just a little America trashing, there's no better place on the internet to go than the Democratic Underground. In fact, just to give you a better idea of what it's like, here's the #1 quote from The 10 Worst Quotes From The Democratic Underground For 2003... "I realize that not every GI Joe was 100peeercent behind Prseeedent Booosh going into this war; but I do know that that is what an overwhelming number of them and their famlies screamed in the face of protesters who were trying to protect these kids. Well, there is more than one way to be "dead" for your country. They are not only not accompishing squat in Iraq, they are doing crap nothing for the safety, defense of the US of A over there directly. But "indirectly" they are doing a lot. The only way to get rid of this slime bag WASP-Mafia, oil barron ridden cartel of a government, this assault on Americans and anything one could laughingly call "a democracy", relies heavily on what a sh*t hole Iraq turns into. They need to die so that we can be free. Soldiers usually did that directly--i.e., fight those invading and harming a country. This time they need to die in defense of a lie from a lying adminstration to show these ignorant, dumb Americans that Bush is incompetent. They need to die so that Americans get rid of this deadly scum. It is obscene, Barbie Bush, how other sons (of much nobler blood) have to die to save us from your Rosemary's Baby spawn and his ungodly cohorts." -- Starpass If John Kerry thinks it's appropriate to link a website where those sort of views are expressed, is he fit to be President? 4) Do you want to allow the United Nations to control where American troops are sent? John Kerry said he did... "I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations." -- John Kerry, 1970 5) Thanks to George Bush, we've backed away from the economy crushing Kyoto Protocol, the ABM Treaty which would have prevented us from building a missile defense, and the International Criminal Court which could have put our military & government officials under threat of frivolous prosecution. 6) George Bush is a strong supporter of a Federal Marriage Amendment which is the only way to stop liberal judges from imposing gay marriage on the states against the wishes of the voters and state legislatures. 7) If you believe it's important to increase funding for education, "President Bush's overall Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 budget represents a 49% increase for elementary and secondary education since FY 2001". 8) George Bush is a staunch supporter of the pro-life movement and signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban into effect. 9) A rudimentary nuclear missile defense system will for the first time go online later this year thanks to George Bush. 10) George Bush's five-year, $15 billion Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is the most significant strike against the spread of AIDS/HIV in the history of mankind. 11) "...Lynn Faulkner, his daughter, Ashley, and their neighbor, Linda Prince, eagerly waited to shake the president's hand Tuesday at the Golden Lamb Inn. He worked the line at a steady campaign pace, smiling, nodding and signing autographs until Prince spoke: This girl lost her mom in the World Trade Center on 9-11." Bush stopped and turned back. "He changed from being the leader of the free world to being a father, a husband and a man," Faulkner said. "He looked right at her and said, 'How are you doing?' He reached out with his hand and pulled her into his chest." Faulkner snapped one frame with his camera. "I could hear her say, 'I'm OK,' " he said. "That's more emotion than she has shown in 21/2 years. Then he said, 'I can see you have a father who loves you very much.' " "And I said, 'I do, Mr. President, but I miss her mother every day.' It was a special moment." Special for Lynn Faulkner because the Golden Lamb was the place he and his wife, Wendy Faulkner, celebrated their anniversary every year until she died in the south tower of the World Trade Center, where she had traveled for business. ..."The way he was holding me, with my head against his chest, it felt like he was trying to protect me," Ashley said. "I thought, 'Here is the most powerful guy in the world, and he wants to make sure I'm safe.' I definitely had a couple of tears in my eyes, which is pretty unusual for me." -- More stories like this here 12) John Kerry missed 64% of his votes in the Senate last year and has missed more than 80% of them this year. If John Kerry isn't bothering to do the job he has, wouldn't it be a mistake to give him a promotion? 13) John Kerry claims to believe that life begins at conception. Yet, he voted against bills that would have banned partial birth abortion 6 times and he "also voted three times against bills requiring parental consent or notification for a minor to get an abortion. He also opposed making it a federal crime for anyone other than a parent to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion." Kerry also usually receives a 100-percent rating from pro-abortion groups like NARAL and Planned Parenthood while the National Right to Life Committee regularly scores him at 0-percent. (Source: Peter Kirasow) 14) "Kerry then went on to promise that the 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens in the U.S. would be given a "path to citizenship" in his first 100 days in office." -- Matt Hayes at FOXNews describes a promise made by John Kerry in a speech at the national conference of the race identity group La Raza (The Race). 15) "The average middle-class family - which he defines as people in the middle-fifth of earners - would have paid an additional $1,933 in taxes this year if Kerry had prevailed on tax votes during the first Bush term. Over the next 10 years, that same family would pay an additional $15,440." -- The (Wheeling, WV) Intelligencer on May 18, 2004 16) John Kerry publicly supported a 50 cent gas increase. 17) When the going got tough, George Bush got going and fought tooth and nail to give tax relief to American families. He worked hard to end the marriage penalty, increased the size of the child tax credit, gave Americans their hard earned tax dollars back in the form of rebates, and saw to it that 92 million Americans got to keep an average of $1,083 more of their own money. Most importantly, by taking the government's hand out of the American's people's pockets, George. W. Bush gave the American economy the stimulus it needed to grow and create jobs again. 18) We've had 10 straight months of job growth and over a million jobs have been created this year so far thanks to George Bush's tax cut 19) "The 17 percent productivity growth from the first quarter of 2000 to the first quarter of 2004 stands head and shoulders above the growth rate for any comparable period. In fact, it is better than any eight-year period since 1976. In the first 13 quarters of the Bush Administration, the basic determinant of our standard of living increased by almost as much as during the entire 32 quarters of the Clinton Administration." -- Arnold Kling at Tech Central Station 20) Over the last nine months, the economy has been booming. In the 80s, the average GDP was +2.9%. In the 90s, the average GDP growth was 3.1%. Over the last quarters, the average GDP growth of the economy has been a sizzling 5.4%. 21) "(M)any analysts are forecasting that the overall economy, as measured by the gross domestic product, will grow by 4.6 percent or better this year, the fastest in two decades. There were strong 4.5 percent growth rates in 1997 and 1999, when Bill Clinton was president and the country was in the midst of a record 10-year expansion. But if this year's growth ends up a bit faster than that, it will be the best since the economy roared ahead at a 7.2 percent rate in 1984, a year when another Republican president - Ronald Reagan - was running for re-election." -- Associated Press, July 6, 2004 22) "With respect to getting our troops out, the measure is the stability of Iraq. [Democracy] shouldn't be the measure of when you leave. I have always said from day one that the goal here . . . is a stable Iraq, not whether or not that's a full democracy." -- John Kerry waffles on Democracy in Iraq, April 2004 23) Almost a year after we invaded Iraq, in an interview with Time, John Kerry still was not able to explain whether he was for the war in Iraq. Can we trust anyone that indecisive to be President? Time: What would you have done about Iraq had you been the President? Kerry: If I had been the President, I might have gone to war but not the way the President did. It might have been only because we had exhausted the remedies of inspections, only because we had to-because it was the only way to enforce the disarmament. Time: But it turns out there was nothing to disarm. Kerry: Well, if we had kept on inspecting properly and gone through the process appropriately, we might have avoided almost a $200 billion expenditure, the loss of lives and the scorn of the world and the breaking of so many relationships. Time: Would you say your position on Iraq is a) it was a mistaken war; it was a necessary war fought in a bad way; or c) fill in the blank? Kerry: I think George Bush rushed to war without exhausting the remedies available to him, without exhausting the diplomacy necessary to put the U.S. in the strongest position possible, without pulling together the logistics and the plan to shore up Iraq immediately and effectively. Time: And you as Commander in Chief would not have made these mistakes but would have gone to war? Kerry: I didn't say that. Time: I'm asking. Kerry: I can't tell you. Time: Might the war have been avoided? Kerry: Yes. Time: Through inspections? Kerry: It's possible. It's not a certainty, but it's possible. I'm not going to tell you hypothetically when you've reached the point of exhaustion that you have to [use force] and your intelligence is good enough that it tells you you've reached that moment. But I can tell you this: I would have asked a lot of questions they didn't. I would have tried to do a lot of diplomacy they didn't. ... Time: Obviously it's good that Saddam is out of power. Was bringing him down worth the cost? Kerry: If there are no weapons of mass destruction- and we may yet find some-then this is a war that was fought on false pretenses, because that was the justification to the American people, to the Congress, to the world, and that was clearly the frame of my vote of consent. I said it as clearly as you can in my speech. I suggested that all the evils of Saddam Hussein alone were not a cause to go to war. Time: So, if we don't find WMD, the war wasn't worth the costs? That's a yes? Kerry: No, I think you can still-wait, no. You can't-that's not a fair question, and I'll tell you why. You can wind up successful in transforming Iraq and changing the dynamics, and that may make it worth it, but that doesn't mean [transforming Iraq] was the cause [that provided the] legitimacy to go. You have to have that distinction. 24) As Larry Kudlow points out in his latest column, "A new poll of Iraqis shows that 68 percent have confidence in the interim government, 73 percent approve of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, and 84 percent approve of President Ghazi Yawar. Nearly 80 percent of Iraqis expect that the new government will "make things better" for Iraq after the handover." In January, the Iraqis are scheduled to have national elections. Iraq is steadily moving towards freedom and Democracy because of George Bush's planning and steady leadership. 25) So far, artillery shells containing mustard gas, sarin, & cyclosarin have been found in Iraq. Furthermore, former chief weapons inspector David Kay also pointed out that Iraq was "working to produce a (chemical) weapon using the poison ricin until the American invasion last March". Also, Kay noted in his interim report that the Iraqis planned to produce more weapons, "Even those senior officials we have interviewed who claim no direct knowledge of any on-going prohibited activities readily acknowledge that Saddam intended to resume these programs whenever the external restrictions were removed.". Thanks to George Bush, Saddam's WMD's, however many he had of them, aren't going to be a threat in the future. 26) Without question, Iraq was a nation that provided "safe haven" for terrorists with "global reach". Among them were terrormaster Abu Nidal, Abdul Rahman Yasin, one of the conspirators in the 1993 WTC bombing, "Khala Khadr al-Salahat, the man who reputedly made the bomb for the Libyans that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over...Scotland,"Abu Abbas, mastermind of the October 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking and murder of Leon Klinghoffer," & "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, formerly the director of an al Qaeda training base in Afghanistan" who is now believed to be leading Al-Qaeda's forces in Iraq. Quite frankly, any war on terrorism that didn't tackle that nest of vipers would have been a war in name only. Going after them showed George Bush's leadership against the global scourge of terrorism. 27) In Iraq, we removed Saddam Hussein, an anti-American tyrant & sponsor of terrorism who started two wars of aggression in the region while he simultaneously raped, tortured, and butchered his own people with a zeal matched by few figures in modern history. Once the war began, the performance of our military was incomparable. Saddam's forces were defeated, scattered to the four winds in less than a month, even as the press, a week into the war, was again baying the dreaded "V word" loud and often. George Bush made it possible. 28) "There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 calibre machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages. All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare, all of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions and all of this is ordered as a matter of written established policy by the government of the United States from the top down." -- John Kerry, April 18, 1971 29) "(Kerry) encouraged our enemies to rebuild and hang on when they were near defeat, as they were after the Tet offensive in 1968. Did you know our POWs had John Kerry's words quoted to them by their interrogators?" -- Retired U.S. Navy SEAL captain with service in Vietnam, John Bailey 30) "John Kerry's recent admissions caused me to realize that I was most likely in Vietnam dodging enemy rockets on the very day he met in Paris with Madame Binh, the representative of the Viet Cong to the Paris Peace Conference. John Kerry returned to the U.S. to become a national spokesperson for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, a radical fringe of the antiwar movement, an organization set upon propagating the myth of war crimes through demonstrably false assertions. Who was the last American POW to die languishing in a North Vietnamese prison forced to listen to the recorded voice of John Kerry disgracing their service by his dishonest testimony before the Senate?" -- John O'Neil in May, 2004 31) "Hundreds of former commanders and military colleagues of presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry are set to declare in a signed letter that he is "unfit to be commander-in-chief." They will do so at a press conference in Washington on Tuesday. "What is going to happen on Tuesday is an event that is really historical in dimension," John O'Neill, a Vietnam veteran who served in the Navy as a PCF (Patrol Craft Fast) boat commander, told CNSNews.com. The event, which is expected to draw about 25 of the letter-signers, is being organized by a newly formed group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. "We have 19 of 23 officers who served with [Kerry]. We have every commanding officer he ever had in Vietnam. They all signed a letter that says he is unfit to be commander-in-chief," O'Neill said." -- Every commanding officer John Kerry had in Vietnam says he is unfit to be President 32) "The USA Patriot Act brought down the artificial wall separating law enforcement and intelligence officers and allowed them to talk to each other as they work to prevent future attacks." The Bush Administration's support of the Patriot Act has helped to make America safer from terrorist attacks. 33) Thanks to George Bush's diplomacy, Libya gave up its WMD program and an illicit arms network run by a Pakistani scientist have both been put out of business. 34) We smashed Al-Qaeda's training camps in Iraq, killed or captured more than 2/3rd's of Al-Qaeda's leadership, have blocked Al-Qaeda from attacking inside the US for more than 2 1/2 years, and according to the 9/11 commission, Al-Qaeda's funding has started to dry up, "Since the September 11 attacks and the defeat of the Taliban, as Qaeda's funding has decreased significantly. The arrests or deaths of several important financial facilitators have decreased the amount of money al Qaeda has raised and increased the costs and difficulty of raising and moving that money. ...Moreover, it appears that the al Qaeda attacks within Saudi Arabia in May and November 2003 have reduced - perhaps drastically - at Qaeda's ability to raise funds from Saudi sources. Both an increase in Saudi enforcement and a more negative perception of al Qaeda by potential donors have cut its income." 35) In Afghanistan, we were told going in that the war would be long, difficult, and perhaps even unwinnable. A lesser man than George Bush might have gotten weak kneed at the prospect of sending our troops into a "mountainous Vietnam" and found some sort of excuse not to go. But, not only did we take the fight to our enemies in Afghanistan, we bombed Al-Qaeda's camps, decimated the Taliban, drove them out of power in less than two months, and sent our enemies running to Pakistan and remote caves on the Afghan border, where they live even today as hunted men. This is even more impressive than it sounds since our defeatist press was crying "quagmire" & "Vietnam" as we bombed our enemies into oblivion. 36) "Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts said during last night's Democratic presidential debate that the threat of terrorism has been exaggerated. "I think there has been an exaggeration," Mr. Kerry said when asked whether President Bush has overstated the threat of terrorism. "They are misleading all Americans in a profound way." -- Washington Times on Jan 30, 2004 37) "Running For Senate In 1984, Kerry Called For Cancellation Of At Least 27 Weapons Systems And Reductions In 18 Other Systems. "[Kerry] recommended cancellation of 27 weapons systems including the B1 bomber, the cruise missile, MX missile, Trident submarine, Patriot air defense missile, F15 fighter plane, Sparrow missile, stealth bomber and Pershing II missile. He recommended reductions in 18 other systems including the joint tactical air system, the Bradley fighting vehicle, the M1 Abrams tank and the F16 fighter plane." -- RNC Research 38) "In 1994, Kerry Proposed Amendment To Gut Intelligence Budget By $6 Billion Across The Board. The amendment cut $1 billion from FY 1994 and $5 billion for FY 1995 through 1998". -- RNC 39) Kerry did, in fact, vote over 350 times for higher taxes. Good day

I don't have time for this children. Back to class!!!!! Recess is over!!!!!! Good weekend!

Finally, someone who understands.

I already did silly. I played your game already. What's next? Duck Duck Goose? Try scrolling up.

Same formula it takes to "connect the dots" You may want to direct that question to Reuters. Sure you won't though. Here you go though U Atomic Number : 92 Relative Atomic Mass 238.0289 U-233, U-235 and U-238 238U(ny) 239U -> 239Np -> 239Pu But I am sure you knew that already.

Ewwwwww sorry. I hate to burst your bubble but your both wrong (It happens). Try reading this. I am sure you won't find this on CNN. or You could just put on your horse blinders and decide not to ingest this info. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5621857 Who's next????? You can't vote so you don't count. Sorry By the way, your "freedom of speach" is a result of years and years of us (Americans) fighting to preserve it.

A+ for effort

LOL Don't make me bust how my husky!!!!!!!!

The SOTU crew will be passing by after Pearl

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They probably will BUT after they stop us from drilling our own oil here in the states.

LOL No you just didn't write that!!!!!

I'll break a bone in that back!!!!!!!!

Did someone call me?

I never said he would. I just claimed what I would have liked. I have allot of Respect for Powell. Let me get a little blunt here. Straight up..... It doesn't matter. Liberalism may sell in urban areas, but America is not one big metropolis. Despite having the press and Hollywood doing their best to prop up the demz and tear down the repz, Bush is going to win. The emotional roller coaster our politicians will put us through until Nov. will be just that. An emotional roller coaster. As for POLLS,,,,,lol,,,they mean diddly-squat. This country is evenly split. This election will start going one way or the other after the debates,,PERIOD. If polls tickle your pickle, then by all means,,,,indulge yourself. But for the love of God, they amount to a hill of beans. PLEEEEEASE. 1 billionaire and 1 millionaire vs.. 2 millionaires. Kerry married into his billions(1 billion+), Edwards got it( 70+ million) via lawsuits. Bush inherited his 17 million+ dollar fortune and Cheney earned most of his (55 million+)via hard work. So, a prez and a candidate who basically were born into money. 1 vp and vp candidate who both came from humble beginnings and worked hard to get where they're at today. At the end of the day, IT DOESN'T MATTER! Bush/Cheney r gonna win. I say let the demz enjoy their circle jerk this month. Bush/Cheney will have their turn. For those who hate Bush & are voting against Bush, I understand. I disagree and find that logic insane, but I understand. Now, for those nuclear physicists who claim they're voting for Kerry because he has a better plan and vision,,,,,,,,,,,huh? (Hold on, I'm pissing my pants). The guy has not elaborated on one thing. The moment he details anything he has planned, he can't finish the sentence w/out completely contradicting himself. Kerry is an opportunist who tangled himself in a web of lies which come debate time, will all come back to haunt him. So, again, for those who claim they like Kerry because he'll do a better job....HAHAHAHAHAHA! How? hahahahahahaha PLEASE....EXPLAIN??? hahahahahahahaha! 3 millionaires and 1 obscenely filthy rich billionaire all running for the white house. One pair has been doing their job and have had to prove themselves under extraordinary circumstances (recession, 9/11, war). They others claiming to understand the pain of the average man.........(hold on,,,I'm pissing again...lol). BUSH/CHENEY 04! Get used to it or crawl back under that rock of conspiracies. 10 out of 10 terrorist agree. ANYBODY BUT BUSH................ENOUGH SAID!

Any comments from those of you who claimed that we used WMD as an excuse to invade Iraq??????? Conspiracy theorist unite!!!!!

I hear ya!!! If it was up to me it would actually be Bush/Powell Kerry's inconsistency has left me baffled. When John Kerry’s first choice for a running mate turned him down, he turned to the polls. After stating that he needed a vice president who could step in as President, John Kerry chose the one man he called "too inexperienced to be President" just months ago.

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or look at some of these posts!!!!!! ________________________________________________ OK, let me get this straight. You guys feel comfortable with Edwards being a the Vice President of our Country and maybe having to become President in the case of Kerry being assassinated or some emergency????? You guys feel comfortable with this knowing that Edwards has been in the Senate for ONLY one year??????? You guys feel comfortable with this in our time of war????? I'll be the first to admit that they both look nice together but that's all it is....a pretty picture. Sorry guys, I won't feel safe with that decision. Like Bush bluntly stated........the deference between Cheney and Edwards is the Cheney can actually be President. Remember: If you DON'T vote or CAN'T vote then you DON'T count.