VIDEO: McCAIN STUTTERS AND STAMMERS TRYING TO ANSWER REPORTERS QUESTION ON THE RACE CARD AND WHAT HE HAS EVER DONE FOR BLACK PEOPLE

During a recent campaign rally in Panama City, Florida, GOP hopeful Sen. John McCain stumbled and stammered and never did answer a reporter's question about what he has ever done for Black people and how Obama played the race card.

McCain's people still want 10 Town Hall meetings. What if he got a question like this at a Town Hall meeting and stuttered and stammered through the answer like he does on this video?

Watch video here:

http://www.youtube.com/v/JVgT__TZNdQ&hl=en&fs=1

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PENTAGON PLANS TO SELL $9 BILLION IN WAR ARMS TO IRAQ

Iraq seeks buying $9 billion of US arms

Pentagon notifies Congress of proposed military sales to Iraq that include helicopters, tanks.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=27226

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said Friday it has notified Congress of proposed military sales to Iraq valued at more than nine billion dollars, including helicopters, tanks and armored vehicles.

The biggest proposed sale was for 392 Light Armored Vehicles, radios and anti-tank weapons at an estimated cost of three billion dollars, the Defense Security and Cooperation Agency said.

Congress also was notified of a possible sale of 140 upgraded M1A1 Abrams tanks as well as armored Humvees, tracked logistics vehicles, armored ambulances, vehicles to carry shelters and command posts, and trucks to transport heavy equipment.

It was valued at 2.16 billion dollars.

A separate 2.4 billion dollar helicopter deal would provide the Iraqi government with 24 Bell Armed 407 helicopters or 24 Boeing AH-6 helicopters, along with engines, missiles, mortars, machineguns, and rocket launchers.

Another proposed sale involved technical assistance in the construction of garrisons, training areas and operational facilities for the Iraqi security forces.

"The total value, if all options are exercised, could be as high as 1.6 billion dollars," the DSCA said.

MORE SIGNS "THE SURGE" IS NOT WHAT MEDIA IS TELLING AMERICANS: 35 KILLED IN BAGHDAD BLAST

The mainstream media in concert with the Bush White House and the Bush White house parrot, FOX NEWS, continue to LIE to the American public about the success of "the surge."

On Sunday in a part of Baghadad, 35 people were killed following a bomb blast.

35 killed, wounded in northern Baghdad blast

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Sunday , 03 /08 /2008 Time 10:17:17
http://tinyurl.com/5rog6c

BAGHDAD, Aug. 3 (VOI) – Nearly 35 civilians were killed or wounded in a car bomb blast that ripped through a northern Baghdad area, the Iraqi police said on Sunday.

"A car bomb parked near a passports department on al-Maghreb St. in Baghdad's northern area of al-Adhamiya detonated, killing 12 civilians and wounding 23 others, who are mostly in critical condition," a police source, who preferred anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq -

(VOI)."The explosion caused damage to six vehicles and several nearby stores," an official spokesperson for Baghdad's operations command, Maj. Gen. Qassem Ata, told VOI.

McCAIN SECURITY REMOVE BLACK REPORTER FROM RALLY

McCain security ousts BLACK reporter

By Paul Flemming FLORIDA CAPITAL BUREAU

SOURCES: http://floridacapitalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articleAID=/20080802/CAPITOLNEWS/808020312 and http://www.legitgov.org/ Lori Price, Managing Editor

Tallahassee Democrat senior writer Stephen Price on Friday was singled out and asked to leave a media area at the Panama City rally of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain.

Price was among at least three other reporters, and the only black reporter, surrounding McCain's campaign bus — Gov. Charlie Crist and his fiancee, Carole Rome, were already aboard — when a member of the Arizona senator's security detail asked the reporter to identify himself. Price had shown his media credentials to enter the area.

Price showed his employee identification as well as his credentials for the Friday event.
"I explained I was with the state press, but the Secret Service man said that didn't matter and that I would have to go," Price said.

When another reporter asked why Price was being removed, she too was led out of the area. Other state reporters remained.

Jonathan Block does advance work for McCain's campaign. He was in Panama City on Friday but was not present when reporter Stephen Price was asked to move from a restricted area.

"Access to the senator is tightly controlled," Block said. "I would first express regret that your reporter was moved, and I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that race had nothing to do with it."

Tallahassee Democrat Executive Editor Bob Gabordi said the incident was unwarranted.
"We're deeply concerned and disturbed that our reporter — of all of those in that area — was asked to move," Gabordi said. "My understanding is that Stephen was the only reporter approached and asked to leave the area, and the only reporter in that area who is black. Another reporter who stood up for Stephen was then asked to leave."

A Panama City police officer approached while Price was speaking to the security member. Panama City police were unavailable for comment Friday night.

Block said the area where Price was standing was restricted to members of the traveling national press corps that accompanies McCain on the campaign trail.

"At the end of the day, your reporter was in the wrong place. I do not know why the other reporters were not moved. The rest of the local press should have been moved as well," Block said.
The campaign advance man said there were many reasons that could have prompted Price being asked to move, depending on how visible his press identification was, whether he had a bag and possibly information about McCain's movement, which could have prompted the security person to move people in one area and not in another.

"It's really like a pressure cooker with security," Block said.

COMMENTARY: JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE BLATANT RACISIM IN THE McCAIN CAMPAIGN.

CNN: MINIBUS BOMBING IN BAGHDAD KILLS 12

FOX NEWS and much of the mainstream press keep telling the American public "the surge" has been a roaring success in Iraq, and in particular Baghdad.

This report proves how wrong FOX NEWS and the mainstream press can be:

Minibus detonates, killing 12 in Iraq

Story Highlights
Bus packed with explosives detonates in northeastern Baghdad, killing at least 12
Roadside bomb explodes near hospital in eastern Baghdad
Two people wounded by bomb in southeast Baghdad

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/08/03/iraq.main/index.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A minibus packed with explosives detonated in northeastern Baghdad Sunday morning, killing at least 12 people and wounding 22 others, according to an Iraqi Interior Ministry official.

Most of the victims of the blast near a passport office, were civilians, the official said.

Another roadside bomb exploded near eastern Baghdad's al-Kindi Hospital wounding nine people, the official said. Three police officers were among those hurt, he said.

Two people were wounded by a bomb that targeted but missed a convoy of SUVs in southeast Baghdad's al-Ghadir neighborhood Sunday morning, the official said.

Meanwhile, a U.S. soldier was killed in a vehicle accident north of Baghdad Saturday, military officials said. Another soldier was injured in the mishap, the military said.

It is the first American troop death in Iraq for August. July marked the lowest monthly toll of the war in Iraq with 11 U.S. troop deaths -- six killed in hostilities and five others dying from non-battle related causes, according to figures released by the Pentagon.

THE WAR SHIFTS TO AFGHANISTAN---COMBAT VIDEO

The war has shifted to Afghanistan where it should have been fought from the beginning. The loss of 4,127 American lives in Iraq did not have to happen because Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and Iraq did not have a nuclear program or any weapons of mass destruction.

However, Afghanistan is where Usama bin Laden was hiding out and the focus of the U.S. military action should have been on Afghanistan from the beginning.

The terrain and the combat situation in Afghanistan is entirely different than in Iraq as you will see in this raw combat video taken as a U.S. patrol engages the Taliban in Afghanistan:

http://www.youtube.com/v/Emr1tFK5wBc&hl=en&fs=1

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