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QUOTATION OF THE DAY - "Let me tell you something important. As long as my country is under occupation, I feel that my vote means nothing." - WALID MUHAMMAD, the imam of a major Sunni mosque in Iraq. ---------------- http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/international/middleeast/23voices.html?th

So when do we invade Iran?? "I don't know where he (bin Laden) is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." George Bush Jr. 2002-03-13

That was great! "they had a prayer for the troops" yeah that will help protect them! ---------------------- People traveling in the real world may see Iraq as a place where bombings, kidnappings and assassinations are an integral part of daily life; where police officers are blown to pieces as they line up for their pay; where innocent men, women and children are slain by the thousands for no good reason; where cities like Falluja are leveled in order to save them; where America's overwhelming superiority in firepower has not been enough to win the war; and where the upcoming elections seem very much like a joke since many of the candidates have to keep their identities secret and the locations of many polling places remain undisclosed. People traveling in the real world may see Iraq that way. But in the fantasy-laden Bush realm, Iraq is a place where freedom is on the march. So why not raise a toast to freedom, and dance the night away. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/opinion/21herbert.html?oref=login&th

20+yrs of going out and I have never lost my wallet, fucking sheep if this becomes the norm. ---------------------------- There's a bar in Scotland where everyone could soon know your name — and everything else about you. Bar Soba (search), an ultra-hip Asian fusion bar and restaurant in Glasgow, is offering regulars a "digital wallet" — a microchip implanted in the upper arm that transmits unique personal information to a radio receiver on the premises. The size of a grain of rice and implanted by a medical professional, the chip guarantees entrance to the bar on crowded nights and keeps track of your bar tab, as well as other relevant information. "By the time you walk through the door to the bar, your favorite drink is waiting for you and the bar staff can greet you by name," Brad Stevens, owner of the venue, told The Observer of London. The concept's already caught on with customers at two trendy joints in Barcelona, Spain, and Rotterdam, Netherlands. "The main benefit is that you can go out without having to carry a wallet, which can get easily lost in a nightclub," said Steve van Soest, one of more than 100 people "chipped" by the Baja Beach Club (search) in Barcelona. Stevens of Bar Soba acknowledges there are risks involved. "There is a danger that, if a person's not carrying cash, they could just keep on drinking," he admitted. "But we're looking at ways of setting a limit on how much can be spent." Privacy advocates are understandably alarmed. "The chip contains your name and ID number and, as this could be read remotely without your knowledge, that is already too much information," a spokesman for NoTags (search), a British group dedicated to fighting the spread of such chips, told the Daily Telegraph of London. Barcelona club-goer van Soest had no such qualms. "It would be great if this catches on and you could put all your personal details and medical records on it," he told the Observer. "If I was involved in an accident, doctors could simply scan me and find out my blood group and any allergies." Wednesday, January 19, 2005 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,144884,00.html

Read my earlier post and don`t act like the "ugly american".

hows this?

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obby--- ...wipe the drool of your chin, pull your nose out of Bush's ass, and apologize to those of us who were intelligent enough to know the Fuhrer was lying his ass off about WMDs..... <arms crossed and toe tapping> ----------------- Here is Bush in 2003 saying that we found the WMDs that he now admits never existed. http://www.whitehouse.gov/g8/interview5.html

Given that the White House has declared the search for WMDs concluded: Please explain why are we in Iraq again. Anyone? <crickets chirping> Any dittohead Bushbots wanna step up and answer the question? <crickets chirping> <crickets chirping> <crickets chirping> <crickets chirping> <crickets chirping> I thought so.....

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http://www.wtov9.com/news/4075655/detail.html President George W. Bush used the threat of Iraq's banned weapons as a reason for pre-emptive war. The chief U.S. weapons hunter is to deliver his final report on the search next month. In his early findings, Charles Duelfer reported in September that Saddam Hussein neither had weapons of mass destruction nor the ability to make them. Bush insists the invasion of Iraq was justified. http://www.boston.com/dailynews/012/wash/White_House_says_Iraq_weapons_:.shtml Chief U.S. weapons hunter Charles Duelfer is to deliver his final report on the search next month. ''It's not going to fundamentally alter the findings of his earlier report,'' McClellan said, referring to preliminary findings from last September. Duelfer reported then that Saddam Hussein not only had no weapons of mass destruction and had not made any since 1991, but that he had no capability of making any either. Bush unapologetically defended his decision to invade Iraq. http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3993404 It was Saddam Hussein’s alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction – none were ever found – which was given as the principal reason for the invasion of Iraq. ----------------------------------------- A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: January 11, 2005 Filed at 10:57 p.m. ET As of Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005, at least 1,356 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,068 died as a result of hostile action, the Defense Department said. The figures include three military civilians. The AP count is one higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The British military has reported 76 deaths; Italy, 19; Poland, 16; Ukraine, 16; Spain, 11; Bulgaria, seven; Slovakia, three; Estonia, Thailand and the Netherlands, two each; and Denmark, El Salvador, Hungary, Latvia and Kazakhstan one death each. Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 1,218 U.S. military members have died, according to AP's count. That includes at least 959 deaths resulting from hostile action, according to the military's numbers. Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 10,372 U.S. servicemembers have been wounded in hostile action, according to a Defense Department tally released Tuesday. --

Like they were there in the first place...... oh thats right we invaded because he was a baddd man. Clinton lied about a BJ = 0 deaths Bush lied about Iraq = 10,000k`s... But he`s the moral leader my @zz

If your talking about Encase? than all you`ll be able to do is look at the raw data - but its no longer mp3 format. Well now you`ll learn to back up your stuff, its sucks but I think 90% of users have to learn this the hardway. I have my hd partioned 5 times at 20gigs per and short of the hd taking a shit the data is safe, even than I have backups of eveything on encrypted disks at another local.

< just a snip of nfo > http://www.fireblades.org/forums/showthread.php?t=4892 For those who've never heard of it, labusas.org (for Los Angeles Hayabusas) has been one of the larger internet forums catering to Hayabusa enthusiasts. Recently there's been alot of fear being spread among the members who were talking about being infiltrated by the police. Not a big surprise really, since these guys' reputation was one of alot of illicit behavior; hot parts, drug addled parties, online porn and other indiscretions seemed to be prevalent on the site. Imagine then, the stupidity of this: one of the board fathers threw a big party. They allegedly blew up a car and were firing automatic weapons. Pictures of the festivities were posted on the site afterwards. ---------- Theres more....

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LOL your welcome

If Only I Were A Dictator, by George W. Bush * * * "You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier." Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas. (Governing Magazine 7/98) -- From Paul Begala's "Is Our Children Learning?" "I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator," Bush joked. -- CNN.com, December 18, 2000 "A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it, " [bush] said. -- Business Week, July 30, 2001

Eyewitness Interview: "Iraq Is An Absolute Disaster": http://207.44.245.159/article7484.htm Journalist Michael Ware is the Baghdad Bureau Chief for Time Magazine. He was embedded in Fallujah during the recent US offensive earlier this month, and has covered the war in Iraq since February 2003.

US strategy 'based in fantasyland' http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1379095,00.html America's handling of the occupation of Iraq came in for scathing criticism yesterday, with government officials accused of living in a "fantasyland" and failing to learn from mistakes made in Vietnam. A report issued by the independent Centre for Strategic and International Studies charged that the occupation had been handled by "ideologues" in the Bush administration who consistently underestimated the scale of the problems they were facing and this had contributed to a culture in which facts were wilfully misrepresented.

Ignoring Reality in Iraq A recent study by the Pentagon’s Defense Science Task Force on Strategic Communications concluded that in the struggle for hearts and minds in Iraq, “American efforts have not only failed, they may also have achieved the opposite of what they intended.†This Pentagon report flatly states that our war in Iraq actually has elevated support for radical Islamists. It goes on to conclude that our active intervention in the Middle East as a whole has greatly diminished our reputation in the region, and strengthened support for radical groups. This is similar to what the CIA predicted in an October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, before the invasion took place. Then, earlier this month we learned that the CIA station chief in Baghdad sent a cable back to the US warning that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating, and not expected to improve any time soon. Other CIA experts also warn that the security situation in Iraq is likely to get even worse in the future. These reports are utterly ignored by the administration. These recent reports are not the product of some radical antiwar organization. They represent the US government’s own assessment of our “progress†in Iraq after two and a half years and the loss of thousands of lives. We are alienating the Islamic world in our oxymoronic quest to impose democracy in Iraq. http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2004/tst121304.htm

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2004/tst122004.htm Those who believe a police state can't happen here are poor students of history. Every government, democratic or not, is capable of tyranny. We must understand this if we hope to remain a free people.

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FBI email embroils Bush in jail abuse Correspondents in Washington December 23, 2004 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11765305%255E2703,00.html THE White House says it expects new documented accounts of torture at Guantanamo Bay to be "fully investigated", but has denied claims George W. Bush personally approved the use of abusive methods against detainees at the US prison camp. Responding to documents obtained by the leading US civil liberties group, White house spokesman Scott McClellan said any allegations of torture had to be taken seriously. "People need to be held accountable and brought to justice if they're involved in wrongdoing," he said. "Preventive measures and corrective measures must be put in place to prevent it from happening again." He rejected claims the US President had issued an order allowing inhuman interrogation methods against detainees in Iraq and elsewhere, saying there was "no executive order relating to interrogation techniques. When it comes to military detainees and interrogation methods, those are determinations made by the US Department of Defence". But the American Civil Liberties Union released copies of a two-page FBI email dated May 22 that refers repeatedly to an executive order signed by Mr Bush which, according to the ACLU statement, "states the President directly authorised interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation, stress positions, the use of military dogs, and sensory deprivation through the use of hoods". The FBI email was sent to a number of senior FBI officials from "On Scene Commander -- Baghdad". It states that the bureau had prohibited its agents from employing the techniques Mr Bush had authorised. Other documents made public by the ACLU under freedom of information legislation include: A heavily edited "Urgent Report" in June addressed to FBI director Robert Mueller, mentioning that an FBI agent "observed numerous physical abuse incidents of Iraqi civilian detainees", including "strangulation, beatings, and placement of lit cigarettes into the detainees' ear openings". The document states that "(blanked out) was providing this account to the FBI based on his knowledge that (blanked out) were engaged in a cover-up of these abuses". An August 2 email from another FBI agent who witnessed Guantanamo detainees under interrogation shackled hand and foot in a fetal position on the floor for 18 to 24 hours at a time, and most had "urinated or defecated" on themselves. One detainee was held in an unventilated room at a temperature "probably well over 100 degrees (38C)". "The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his own hair out throughout the night," the agent wrote. A July 30 FBI agent's account of an interrogation at Guantanamo "apparently conducted by Defence Department personnel -- in which a detainee was wrapped in an Israeli flag and bombarded with loud music and strobe lights". Suggestions two US army officers were involved in the deaths of at least two detainees in Iraq. -- "The first casualty of war is not truth, but perspective. Once that's gone, truth, like compassion, reason, and all the other virtues, wanders around like a wounded orphan." Ente Grillenhaft

First, the Secretary of Defense--Donald Rumsfeld--admits to the world something that we as military families already know: The United States was not prepared for nor had any plan for the assault on Iraq. Our children were sent to fight an ill-conceived and badly prosecuted war. Our troops were sent with the wrong type of training, bad equipment, inferior protection and thin supply lines. Our children have been killed and we have made the ultimate sacrifice for this fiasco of a war, then we find out this week that Rumsfeld doesn't even have the courtesy or compassion to sign the "death letters"--as they are so callously called. Besides the upcoming holidays and the fact we miss our children desperately, what else can go wrong this holiday season? Well let's see. Oh yes. George W. Bush awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to three more architects of the quagmire that is Iraq. Thousands of people are dead and Bremer, Tenet and Franks are given our country's highest civilian award. What's next? To top everything off--after it has been proven that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, there were no ties between Saddam and 9/11 and over 1,300 brave young people in this country are dead and Iraq lies in ruins-- what does Time Magazine do? Names George W. Bush as its "Man of the Year." The person who betrayed this country into a needless war and whom I hold ultimately responsible for my son's death and who was questionably elected, again, to a second term, is honored this way by your magazine. I hope we finally find peace in our world and that our troops who remain in Iraq are brought home speedily--after all, there was no reason for our troops to be there in the first place. No reason for my son and over 1,300 others to have been taken from their families. No reason for the infrastructure of Iraq to be demolished and thousands of Iraqis being killed. No reason for the notion of a "happy" holiday to be robbed from my family forever. I hope that our "leaders" don't invade any other countries which pose no serious threat to the United States. I hope there is no draft. I hope that the five people mentioned here (and many others) will finally be held responsible for the horrible mistake they got our country into. I hope that competence is finally rewarded and incompetence is appropriately punished. These are my wishes for 2005. This isn't the first time your magazine has selected a questionable man for this honor--but it's the first time it affected my family so personally and so sorrowfully. Cindy Sheehan