CNN.com - 16 killed in Afghanistan copter crash - Apr 6, 2005
I feel sometimes with all the "anti-anything" about Iraq, we we miss the fact that military personnel are in harms way in Iraq... Remember them too, please!
(CNN) -- Sixteen people were killed Wednesday when a coalition helicopter traveling in 'severe weather' crashed in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said.
Eighteen people, including crew and passengers, were listed on the flight manifest. Two people remain unaccounted for.
A CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed near Ghazni, roughly 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Kabul.
Google Maps adds new Satellite Images geekBlue.netGoogle adds a neat feature to their Mapping venture -- is this enhancement truly needed maybe not, but it is
neat. I have been using Google Maps, more user friendly, faster, cleaner, since its launch.
Google's Map Service has been very popular as it takes the place of Mapquest and other searching tools. Google is now trying to increase its popularity by adding Satellite images. Keyhole, which is a satellite imaging company, was acquired by Google last year. It is a very interesting tool with great possibilities. By adding this service to their Map service Google will boost past their competitors and gain more positions in that area.
VOA News - President Bush, two Former Presidents to Attend Pope's FuneralWell again, Jimmy [pacifist/isolationist] Carter sent a message of exclusion -- good.
The president and Mrs. Bush are preparing to leave for Rome Wednesday to attend the funeral of Pope John Paul. They will be accompanied by two former presidents.
President Bush says he and the First Lady will lead America's delegation to pay the nation's respects to a man the president called a great world leader.
'He shows that one man can make an enormous difference, and I look forward to honoring the memory of Pope John Paul II,' said Mr. Bush.
Mr. and Mrs. Bush will be accompanied by the president's father, former president George Herbert Walker Bush as well as by former president Bill Clinton. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rounds out the five-member delegation.
Democrats Are Lost in the Shuffle While GOP Holds All the CardsAlthough most of this piece by
Ronald Brownstein is spent positioning the Democrats with an excuse for any failures over the coming years by saying they can't do anything because of GOP. I will agree Democrats the GOP has the majority but the reason is that Democrats are inept and lost, but Dems are proving they can obstruct and the blame for this reset squarely on their shoulders. But, during his "
their" polls are inaccurate and concede that change will happen?
Democrats are furiously laboring to prevent Bush from carving out private investment accounts from Social Security, but even if they succeed - which increasingly appears likely
Top News Article | Reuters.comEveryone should be aware of heroes like SFC Smith.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Monday awarded the first Medal of Honor in the Iraq war to Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith, who saved dozens of soldiers before he died in a firefight days before Baghdad fell.
Bush presented the military's highest award for bravery to Smith's young son at a White House ceremony attended by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a roomful of military men and women from all branches of the armed services.
I mentioned this hero back in February
here.
BBC NEWS | 'Bloodbath' at church in GermanyJust as demonstrated
here and
here a nut does not need a gun to kill and create mayhem... Something the "anti-gun"/"anti second amendment" crowd simply refuse to admit -- a crazed individual set on causing devastation will follow through with his attempt if all he has is a butter knife or in this case a sword.
A man wielding a sword has killed a woman and injured at least three other people during a service at a church in southern Germany.
Police said they found 'grisly' scenes, including severed limbs, at the scene of the attack in Stuttgart. "
Philadelphia Inquirer Berger admits to theftsRemind me if I am wrong, but was not the first excuse he accidentally took the documents? Now we have Berger admitting to taking and destroying them -- destroy indicating premeditation eliminating any chance of " WHY?
WASHINGTON - Samuel R. Berger, a former White House national security adviser, pleaded guilty on Friday to a misdemeanor, acknowledging that he intentionally removed and destroyed copies of a classified document about the Clinton administration's record on terrorism
USATODAY.com - Sunni Arab elected Iraq parliament speaker
Here is more good news from the fledgling government. Sunni - can you imagine that -- aren't they the ones liberals are saying were screwed in the January 30th election?
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi lawmakers elected a Sunni Arab as parliament speaker and Shiite and Kurdish leaders as his deputies on Sunday, ending days of deadlock as they sought to balance the country's predominant religious and ethnic groups in a new government.
Don't forget -- Spring forward -- set your clocks forward 1 hour.
BBC NEWS Insurgents attack Abu Ghraib jailWell more then just "alleged abuse" has fallen the prisoners of Abu Ghraib -- wonder if the liberals will be outraged? Probably not since there is no alleged US Military involvement... I would hint there maybe outrage for the fallen US soldiers, but I doubt it, I mean we are talking about liberals who have proven over and over they are more concerned about the prisoners of Abu Ghriaib and Guantanamo then any active service member. I guess we can watch and see -- maybe I will be pleasantly surprised.
Dozens of insurgents in Iraq have carried out an attack on Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
The US military said the assault began after dark with two car bombs, followed by small arms fire and grenades.
Soldiers fought back, and the Americans say they have now restored control. At least 20 US soldiers and 12 prisoners were reported wounded.
Zogby Poll: Americans Not in Favor of Starving Terri SchiavoWell now,
after the fact we get the
other poll -- for over a week many have disputed the poll results that implied the majority of Americans were for "killing" Terri, and their arguments are now validated. Unfortunately too late.
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Polls leading up to the death of Terri Schiavo made it appear Americans had formed a consensus in favor of ending her life. However, a new Zogby poll with fairer questions shows the nation clearly supporting Terri and her parents and wanting to protect the lives of other disabled patients.
The Zogby poll found that, if a person becomes incapacitated and has not expressed their preference for medical treatment, as in Terri's case, 43 percent say 'the law presume that the person wants to live, even if the person is receiving food and water through a tube' while just 30 percent disagree.
Another Zogby question his directly on Terri's circumstances.
'If a disabled person is not terminally ill, not in a coma, and not being kept alive on life support, and they have no written directive, should or should they not be denied food and water,' the poll asked.
A whopping 79 percent said the patient should not have food and water taken away while just 9 percent said yes.
Rich Lowry: The WMD scandal that wasn'tRich Lowry has great thoughts about the study of flawed Iraq and WMD(s) intelligence -- but don't expect the liberals to buy it or stop, nothing has stopped their rhetoric before from the 9/11 commission that did not give them the "smoking gun" they hoped for to the Iraqi elections -- so expect business has usual. Nevertheless, is it such a bad thing? Look we have Dean as the DNC head; he and many on the left keep spewing their hate proving that they are unwilling the work together, heal, and that their only desire - only goal is the Whitehouse forget anything else.
The commission studying the intelligence failures that produced disastrously flawed estimates of Iraq's weapons-of-mass-destruction capabilities has finally produced its report, and it's devastating. Not just for U.S. intelligence, which is portrayed as hapless and bungling, but for Bush critics who have vested so much in the argument that Bush officials pressured intelligence agencies to support the case for war.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is the epitome of this school of thought. The very morning the report was released she wrote that "political pressure was the father of conveniently botched intelligence," and fingered Dick Cheney as the lead culprit. Cut to Page 50 of the WMD report: "The Commission found no evidence of political pressure to influence the Intelligence Community's prewar assessments of Iraq's weapons programs."
Pay particular attention to what Mr. Lower says here.
No. The change began in 2000, when President Clinton was still in office. It was based on information from a (totally dishonest, as it turns out) source code-named Curveball. That year, the National Intelligence Estimate was updated to say: "New information suggests that Baghdad has expanded its offensive BW program by establishing a large-scale, redundant and concealed BW agent production capability.
Google Doubles E-Mail SpaceCould not let the day go without saying something about this -- some bloggers have a problem with Google News, and I must admit their "news" standards need to be worked out and better defined, but they do take care of users. So look for the link on the right and
Gmail me! Gmail is the new standard for web-based mail continuing to improve, and others are struggling to keep up… There are many other features then just the 2+ Gigabytes of storage - check it out!
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- A year after unveiling a free e-mail service with a full gigabyte of storage, Google Inc. is doubling the capacity of each account and plans to keep bumping up the limit in the future.
Once the upgrade takes effect Friday, Gmail users will be able to store up to 2 gigabytes of e-mail and attachments for each account. Even more capacity will be made available after that as it becomes feasible, the company said.
'Our goal is to make sure storage is no longer an issue for Web mail users,' said Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products.
BBC NEWS | Americas | Ex-Clinton aide took secret files
I have heard many liberals talking of how the Bush administration has ruined our reputation for intelligence in the world -- of course, they leave out the little fact we were operating with an agency that had been revamped over the previous eight years and Bush had just under eight months before 9/11... Now we have a former Clinton aide pleading guilty to sneaking papers out -- if our reputation is ruined or is in question I guess Clinton and his administration get a pass, gotcha, I understand -- that is I understand their motivation but their story is lacking foundation.
A former top aide to US President Bill Clinton has admitted taking classified documents from the National Archives.
Former national security adviser Samuel Berger pleaded guilty to removing copies of a classified memo before his testimony before the 9/11 Commission.
The New York Times > Clerics Urge Sunni Arabs to Join Iraq's Police and Army
Well this is good news and I am pleasantly surprised to see it in the New York Times...
Teaming up against evil is always a good thing.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 1 - A group of Sunni clerics, including some hard-line figures who fiercely oppose the American presence here, issued a statement today urging Iraq's Sunni Arabs to join the Iraqi army and the police.
The edict, signed by 64 imams and religious scholars, was a striking turnaround for the clerics, who have often lashed out in their sermons at the fledgling army and police, branding them collaborators.
No since in repeating the idiotic statement you can see it and the contrasted pictorial facts
here.
Michelle Malkin hits the nail on the head - again!
Remember when Sandy was seen sneaking classified papers out during the 9/11 commission, when all was denied or trivialized, when the NY Post again investigated it in January (mentioned
here). Well Sandy plead guilty today.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former national security adviser Sandy Berger will plead guilty to taking classified material from the National Archives, a misdemeanor, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Berger is expected to appear in federal court in Washington on Friday, said Justice spokesman Bryan Sierra.
The charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material is a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine.
The former Clinton administration official previously acknowledged he removed from the National Archives copies of documents about the government's anti-terror efforts and notes that he took on those documents.
Now for the major question --
WHY or WHAT was he wanting to hide? Of course, since it does not involve a
gotcha for the Bush administration I am sure the question will not be asked by the MSM -- Democrats are constantly allowed "honest mistakes" which was Sandy's
reason excuse.
Top News Article | Reuters.com
I don't think this no apology will heal the wounds created by "Hanoi Jane" -- but maybe we need to wait and see the full interview. The real question is does she [Jane Fonda] really care what the Vietnam Veterans think of her or even more what the former POW(s) think.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jane Fonda regrets her visit to a North Vietnamese gun site in 1972, the actress and fitness guru said in an interview with CBS television show '60 Minutes' to be aired on Sunday.
The actress defended her trip to Vietnam in 1972, which won her the nickname 'Hanoi Jane.' But she said her visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site used to shoot down U.S. pilots was a 'betrayal' of the U.S. military.
'The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter ... sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal,' she said, calling the act, 'The largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine.'
But she said she did not regret visiting Hanoi, or being photographed with American prisoners of war there.
'There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs,' she said. 'Both sides were using the POWs for propaganda. ... It's not something that I will apologize for.
