VERY GRAPHIC AND BRUTAL VIDEO: U.S. MARINE COMBAT FIGHT IN IRAQ

I doubt if you will ever see a video like this. Everything is shown on this video of U.S. Marines in action in Iraq from the killing of insurgents to tanks rolling over insurgents.

http://www.youtube.com/v/c4jakQBEVLE&hl=en&fs=1

WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS SCENES NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN

CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO ACTIVATE VIDEO

CAPTURED ENEMY COMBAT FOOTAGE FROM IRAQ WAR---VERY GRAPHIC

This is a first look at enemy combat footage from the IRAQ WAR.

http://www.youtube.com/v/tJOpaRU9aW0&hl=en&fs=1

CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW IN PICTURE TO ACTIVATE VIDEO

Psst!-2. COMBAT FOOTAGE FROM AFGHANISTAN: .50 CAL AND AT4

We know only too well the mainstream press in the United States has taken a powder when it comes to covering the wars in IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN.

However, we refuse to do so because there are a combined almost 200,000 YOUNG AMERICANS deployed to both war zones and the most unpatriotic thing anyone could do is to ignore their heroism.

THIS NEWS VIDEO SHOWS A FIREFIGHT IN AFGHANISTAN WHICH HAS BECOME THE NEWEST HOTBED IN THE MIDDLE EAST WAR ZONES

http://www.youtube.com/v/-L1kdptD30k&hl=en&fs=1

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Psst! NEW VIDEO: THERE IS STILL A WAR GOING ON IN AFGHANISTAN

You wouldn't know it by watching CNN, MSNBC or FOX NEWS but there is still a war going on in AFGHANISTAN as well as IRAQ.

This VIDEO shows our troops caught in a hail of crossfire in a battle in AFGHANISTAN.

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

WARNING: SALTY LANGUAGE

Click on diamond-shaped arrow in picture to activate video.

VA REFUSES TO ALLOW WOUNDED VETS TO REGISTER TO VOTE

The Bush/McCain administration obviously knows MOST veterans will vote for Obama/Biden and that is why they are telling the VA to make it impossible for wounded vets to register to vote.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) refuses to allow non-partisan voter registration at VA hospitals and nursing homes for our wounded, injured, ill, and disabled veterans. VCS believes VA is wrong, and the policy must change immediately. Pick up the phone today and urge your Senators and Representative to pass S 3308 and HR 6625, the "Veteran Voting Support Act," and restore our veterans' voting rights.

www.VeteransForCommonSense.org

BUSH AND MEDIA LIE ABOUT SECURITY IN IRAQ AND STATUS OF PULLOUT OF U.S. TROOPS

The Bush administration and the mainstream media in the United States continue to LIE to the American public about how "the surge" has calmed violence in Iraq, as well as the status of the talks between the U.S. and the Iraqi government on U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq by 2011.

HERE IS THE REAL TRUTH AND NOT BUSH, FOX NEWS AND MAINTREAM MEDIA BS.

Source: http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/english/index.tpl

5 Iraqi soldiers killed, 7 wounded in Diala blast

Diala - Voices of Iraq
Sunday , 24 /08 /2008 Time 9:59:39


DIALA, Aug. 24 (VOI) – Five Iraqi soldiers were killed and seven others wounded on Sunday when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near their army vehicle in southwestern Baaquba city, a security source in Diala province said.


5 Iraqi soldiers killed, 7 wounded in Diala blast

Diala - Voices of Iraq
Sunday , 24 /08 /2008 Time 9:59:39


DIALA, Aug. 24 (VOI) – Five Iraqi soldiers were killed and seven others wounded on Sunday when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near their army vehicle in southwestern Baaquba city, a security source in Diala province said.


Long way ahead on U.S-Iraq security deal-MP

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Sunday , 24 /08 /2008 Time 9:59:39


BAGHDAD, Aug.24 (VOI) - A lawmaker from the main Shiite bloc on Sunday ruled out signing the long-term security agreement with the U.S in the upcoming two months.

DOUBLE BOMBING ROCKS BAGHDAD SUNDAY

There has been a double bombing in Baghdad that has left nearly two dozen dead or wounded and the otherwise quiet city of Baquba has also seen the silence shattered with bombings.

Sen. John McCain keeps telling the American public that "we have won the war in Iraq" and nothing could be further from the truth.

Of course, McCain has his propaganda mouthpiece FOX NEWS spreading the same garbage to their viewers in their never-ending attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of Americans.

Five killed, 19 wounded in Iraq violence

Double bombing rocks Baghdad while shootout erupts in Iraq’s restive city of Baquba.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=27550

BAGHDAD - A double bombing in Baghdad and a shootout in the restive city of Baquba claimed the lives of at least five people and wounded 19 others on Sunday, security sources said.

Up to three people were killed and eight wounded, including five policemen, when a bomb targeting a patrol exploded on a through-road leading to Iraq's interior ministry, security sources at the ministry said.

As police ran to help a second bomb went off, wounding another five officers, they said.
Meanwhile, in Baquba, two policeman were killed and six others including a woman were wounded in a shootout, the defence ministry said.

Earlier this month Iraqi forces backed by US troops launched a massive assault against insurgents in Diyala, one of Iraq's most dangerous areas where fighters regularly carry out attacks.

SHOCKING VIDEO: SEXUAL ABUSE AND RAPE BRING SHARP RISE IN SUICIDE WITH AFGHAN WOMEN

There has been an alarming rise in suicides and suicide attempts by Afghan women after they were sexually abused or raped.

The Afghan women were hoping the ouster of the Taliban by U.S. and NATO forces would bring about change, but the women are still waiting for that happen.

WARNING: THIS VIDEO IS VERY GRAPHIC:

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

Click on diamond-shaped arrow to activate video.

78 AFGHAN CIVILIANS KILLED BY U.S. AND AFGHAN TROOPS

Afghanistan has exploded with violence and a Marine General is calling for a "surge" to try and stop the Taliban who have emerged as a threat to U.S. and NATO forces in the country.

Meanwhile, the Afghan government is complaining that U.S. and Afghan soldiers KILLED 78 civilians.

Karzai condemns civilian killings
Afghan human rights group claims at least 78 killed in operation in west
The Associated Press
updated 5:14 p.m. CT, Sat., Aug. 23, 2008

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26353890/

KABUL, Afghanistan - Scores of Afghan civilians who had gathered in a small village for the memorial ceremony of a militia commander were killed when U.S. and Afghan soldiers launched an attack in the middle of the night, officials and villagers said Saturday.

President Hamid Karzai condemned the early Friday operation in western Afghanistan and said most of the dead were civilians. The U.S. coalition, however, said it believed only five civilians were among those killed and said that it would investigate the Afghan claims.

An Afghan human rights group that visited the site of the operation said Saturday that at least 78 people were killed. The Ministry of Interior has said 76 civilians died, including 50 children under the age of 15, though the Ministry of Defense said 25 militants and five civilians were killed.

Meanwhile, a school principal and police official said Afghan soldiers tried to hand out food and clothes Saturday in Azizabad — the village in Herat province where the operation took place. But villagers started throwing stones at the soldiers, who then fired on the villagers and wounded up to eight people.

15 houses destroyedAn Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission researcher visited Azizabad in Herat province and found that 15 houses had been destroyed and others were damaged, said Ahmad Nader Nadery, the group's commissioner.

Nadery said the information was preliminary and the group would publish a final report. He did not provide a breakdown of how many were civilians or militants, and said 20 women were among the dead and that children also were killed.

Nadery confirmed reports from villagers that a memorial ceremony was being held for a deputy militia commander allied with the Afghan police named Timor Shah, who had died in a personal dispute several months ago. Because of the memorial, relatives and friends from outside Azizabad were staying overnight in village homes, he said.

Click on link to read the full story http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26353890/

NEW VIDEO: FOX NEWS' DICK MORRIS CLAIMS WE DIDN'T INVADE IRAQ

Dick Morris, who used to work for President Bill Clinton, made a total fool of himself on FOX NEWS' "Hannity and Colmes" when he said the United States DIDN'T INVADE IRAQ, but was invited into IRAQ by the IRAQI government.

Morris, who never did have any credibility, has now gone off the deep end and is just another pathetic fool appearing on FOX NEWS.

Watch the VIDEO here: http://www.youtube.com/v/8QhK2lA6NKs&hl=en&fs=1

Click on the diamond-shaped arrow in center of picture to see Dick Morris grilled by "Hannity and Colmes" co-host, ALAN COLMES.

KISS YOUR KIDS GOOD-BYE: JOHN McCAIN FEELS A DRAFT

John McCain, War Games And The Draft

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-hansen/john-mccain-war-games-and_b_120659.html

My friends, John McCain feels a draft.

And I'm with you all the way, good buddy.

We Southerners are famous for firing the first shot when we're in a snit. I'm with you when you say the new draft should not be like the old one. You did not, of course, offer us any idea as to how you would amend the Selective Service. So, liberal or not, I'm going to do my patriotic duty.

If we're going to fight the good fight for the next hundred years, we need some damn rules.

We need a draft again.

A shiny new one. The old Selective Service was just that -- selective.

There were easy deferments for those who had the money to stay in college. Lots of Vietnam-era privileged guys got a sudden yen for graduate degrees. And others, like George W. and Dan Quayle, could avoid the draft altogether because daddy had money, had power, had influence. Daddy just pulled a few strings and got you bumped ahead of every other poor guy on the National Guard waiting list, or got you into grad school even when your academic record put you so low on the list of applicants you left skid marks.

Nope. We can't have that. We're going to play fair this time. No matter whose keester winds up in a sling.

Look to games to define the rules of fair play for games. Let's do it like, say, the NBA. You know, first round draft picks, second round, third round and so on. And no deferments. None. Here's how it goes:

First Round: The kids, nieces, nephews and/or grandchildren of every member of the executive branch who supports the war. The president and vice-president are the first Americans to send all of their family's kids off to war. Every last one of them.

Second Round: Legislative branch kids. Legislators who vote to authorize war send their own children. Along with executive branch kids, they are the first wave to the front lines.

Third Round: DOD, Pentagon and war-mongering think tank policy makers/writers. All their young'uns are gone.

Fourth Round: Hit up corporate America. Kids of defense contractors, oil company execs and the like.

If you love the notion of a war, if you promote it, vote for it or stand to make a profit from it -- then you are certainly happy to do your patriotic duty. You'll want to share, to the fullest extent, the power and glory of your righteous war. You've earned the privilege.

John McCain has it on good authority (George W.) that The Hundred Years' War is more than a boring chapter in European history. It's Chapter One in the Bush/Cheney foreign policy crisis handbook, War Games: The Pre-emptive Punch Power Play.

The Bush/McCain doctrine is clear: It is imperative to strike the first blow when we have a notion someone out there means to hurt America. Or even piss us off. Especially if they've got oil. Or a pipeline. We hit first and we hit hard. Any perceived enemy is fair game. No verifiable evidence of evil intent required.

These Grand Ole Pugilists know evil when they see it. Dubya has sixth sense enough to look into the eyes of another power player and see right into the guy's soul (a skill, one can hope, he will share with McCain should November bring us a GOP victory).

Bellicose, saber-rattlin' War Games. That's what Bush/McCain foreign policy is all about. America is not alarmed.

Our role, as defined by the current administration, is to go to the mall. We are the Shop-for-Freedom Fighters. The vast majority of us are non-military families. And it's just fine to play the War Game when the "pieces" -- the toy soldiers -- belong to somebody else.

But what do you do when the troops are worn slap out?

GUNMEN USE PISTOLS WITH SILENCERS TO KILL TOP IRAQI OFFICIAL

There is still a war going on in Iraq and our troops are still in dangerous situations all across Iraq including provinces supposedly rid of violence by "the surge."

Here is a brief report on what took place in Iraq on Friday.

War News for Friday, August 22, 2008

Source: http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/

Baghdad:#1: Gunmen using pistols with silencers shot Major General Ahmed Rasheed Majeed, the director of the government office that issues identification cards near the national theater in Karrada neighborhood in downtown Baghdad around 7:30 p.m. Majeed was injured seriously.

#2: A civilian was killed and another one was injured when a member of a security company opened fire in Bab al Sharji neighborhood in downtown Baghdad around 8:00 p.m., Iraqi police said. The US military had no immediate comment.

#3: Three civilians were wounded by a sound bomb in Karrada neighborhood in downtown Baghdad around 9:00 p.m.

#4: Thursday Police found two unidentified bodies throughout Baghdad. One body was found in Zayuna and another in Shoala.

#5: A colonel in the former Iraqi Army suspected a bunch of strangers standing next to his parked car in Amil where he was shopping, of wrong doing and reported this to the police. The police found that an adhesive bomb had been stuck to his car which they were able to defuse without casualties at 9 a.m. Friday.

#6: A mortar round targeted the Green Zone at 9 a.m. It fell near the Ministry of Planning. No casualties were reported.

#7: A man who works as a guard in one of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's offices was killed during raids conducted by the Iraqi army in eastern Baghdad's Sadr City, a source in Sadr's office said. Another man was also killed, police said.

Diyala Prv:Bahraz:#1: An Iraqi soldier was killed and eight others were wounded on Friday in a roadside bomb blast in south of Baaquba, a police source said. "An improvised explosive device went off targeting an Iraqi army vehicle patrol on the main road in south of Bahraz district, south of Baaquba, killing a soldier and injuring eight,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq.

Samarra:#1: A member of a U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrol in central Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, wounded fellow guards when he opened fire on them, police said.

Hawija:#1: Three civilians were killed on Friday by unknown copter fire in southwest of Kirkuk, the local police chief said. "Unknown helicopter opened fire today against a civilian car on the road between al-Huwaiyja and Kirkuk, southwest of Kirkuk, killed three civilians onboard,” Brigadier Sarhad Qader told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq.

Mosul:#1: A policeman with the Iraqi Police was found dead with a bullet wound in his head in Jamia neighbourhood, central Mosul on Thursday 21 August.

#2: A policeman was killed by light arms fire at a checkpoint near al-Maash market yesterday.

HARDBALL VIDEO: WILL CLINTON SUPPORTERS VOTE FOR OBAMA?

One of the founders of "Just Say No Deal," a blog devoted to defeating Barack Obama by Democrats and a journalist were guests on Chris Matthews' MSNBC "Hardball" show on Thursday night discussing how Democrats will not vote for Barack Obama.

The VIDEO from MSNBC is very revealing on several levels. The founder of "Just Say No Deal" says she is a Democrat, but I suspect she is Republican because near the end of the interview she says McCain would "loose me if he picks a pro-choice candidate for Vice President."

Watch VIDEO here. Sorry about the short ad at the beginning:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26338084#26338084

PICTURE OF OBAMA'S ONE HOME AND VIDEO OF McCAIN'S SIX MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR HOMES

The hottest topic on TV is the gaff John McCain made when he was asked how many homes he owned and he said he didn't know and would have to check with his staff.

It turns out John McCain owns SIX multi-million dollar homes and Barack Obama owns ONE home in Chicago estimated to cost one million dollars.

VIDEO OF McCAIN'S SIX MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR HOMES:

http://www.youtube.com/v/ek3jAkx9m10&hl=en&fs=1

Click on diamond-shaped arrow in center of picture to activate video.

HERE IS A PICTURE OF THE ONLY HOME BARACK OBAMA OWNS IN CHICAGO: ESTIMATED PRICE: ONE MILLION DOLLARS:

http://tinyurl.com/5jbddp

Compiled by BILL CORCORAN, Editor: CORKSPHERE: url: http://corksphere.blogspot.com/

MILITARY DRAFT ON ITS WAY---SELECTIVE SERVICE RUNS DRAFT TEST

The government has been secretely working on a plan to re-instate the military draft.

This CNN video gives details of what the plan might look like.

Watch video here: http://www.youtube.com/v/nKLlpNlwKfI&hl=en&fs=1

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NEW VIDEO: McCAIN 'I MIGHT CONSIDER A DRAFT'

This blogger has been saying it for months and now the words are coming out of Republican Presidential candidate John McCain's own mouth. In this video you will hear McCain tell a group of people he "might consider a draft."

If McCain pursues war with IRAN there will have to be a draft.

Watch video here: http://www.youtube.com/v/7t76K8fymsY&hl=en&fs=1

Click on diamond-shaped arrow in picture to activate video

CNN: NATO: RUSSIA NOT HONORING CEASE-FIRE TERMS

The United States is between Iraq and a hard place when it comes with how to deal with Russia.

Russia is refusing to honor the cease-fire and are actually digging in for what looks like it will be a long stay in Georgia.

NATO: Russia not honoring cease-fire terms

BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- NATO has accused Russia of failing to honor the full terms of the cease-fire agreement brokered by the European Union last week aimed at ending the fighting in Georgia.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/19/georgia.russia.war/index.html

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Tuesday that Russian forces were still inside Georgia despite the agreement to withdraw -- and despite Moscow saying they had begun pulling out Monday.

"We do not see signals of this happening," Scheffer said. "There can be no business as usual with Russia under the present circumstances."

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said NATO's accusations were "biased."
Lavrov said NATO was taking the side of Georgia, whose forces he said had failed to withdraw to their barracks.

"They blame us as if there were no requirements for the Georgian side in the six points" of the cease-fire agreement, he said. "I mean the requirements to bring back their troops to the places where they are on a permanent basis."

Speaking later in Tbilisi with British Foreign Secretary David Milliband, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili called the NATO statement encouraging, saying Russians "are not and have never been after just small pieces of Georgian territory."

"They want to demoralize my people and put them into panic," he said. "They want to not only get rid of the Georgian government but get rid of all idea of Georgia's independence and freedom."

Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of staff of Russia's armed forces, said Tuesday that some troops remained in place to protect South Ossetia's borders.

"Every day that goes by after the deadline ... is a day that the world can see that Russia is not living up to its word," Milliband said. "With every commitment and every failure to live up to the commitment, international pressure will grow."

NATO plans to set up a NATO-Georgian Commission to oversee Georgia's relationship with the international alliance, supervise its bid to join the alliance and assist Tbilisi with support in the wake of the Russian invasion, Scheffer said.

A team of 50 NATO staff members will to go to Georgia to help assess the needs of the Georgian military, help with the resumption of air traffic and assist in the investigation of cyberattacks on the former Soviet republic's computer networks.

The conflict began when Georgia launched a large-scale attack on South Ossetia on August 7 after a week of what it said were separatist attacks on Georgian villages that border the enclave. Russian troops responded in force the next day, pouring across the international border with hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles and driving into Georgia from South Ossetia and Abkhazia, another Russian-backed separatist territory.

The fighting has devastated parts of Georgia and South Ossetia, with many casualties reported. The U.N. refugee agency said that more than 158,000 people had been displaced by fighting in Georgia, mostly from districts outside the breakaway territories where the fighting began.

Watch residents of Georgian villages flee »

Both Russia and Georgia accuse the other of ethnic cleansing during the conflict.

VETERANS SAY THEY NEED HELP...BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. 300,000 TROOPS SUFFER PTSD SYMPTOMS

This story from Veterans for Common Sense http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/ArticleID/10958 should infuriate you.


Washington, DC - About 300,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans suffer symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, according to a Rand Corporation study.

Veterans say a lack of mental health services needs immediate attention, but the Department of Veterans Affairs says it's providing veterans with the care they need.

Nick Morgan is a 24-year-old Iraq War veteran who came home in Feb. 2005. He was treated for PTSD at a veterans' clinic in Morgantown, Penn. When the treatment failed, he took matters into his own hands.

Morgan says his condition has improved, but he still needs help.

After filing a claim with the V.A. for healthcare two months ago, Morgan says he still has not heard anything.Dr. Antonette Zeiss is Deputy Chief Consultant of mental health services at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

She says V.A. policy requires all veterans who request care to get a call back within 24 hours.

Since 2004, V.A. funding and its number of mental health staff have increased significantly. Zeiss says the V.A. is prepared to help all veterans who need it.

Source: http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/ArticleID/10958

FORMER POW WITH McCAIN SAYS McCAIN'S FINGER SHOULD NOT BE NEAR 'RED BUTTON'

I Spent Years as a POW with John McCain, and His Finger Should Not Be Near the Red Button

By Phillip Butler, Military.com http://www.military.com/

Posted on August 21, 2008, Printed on August 21,
2008

http://www.alternet.org/story/95825/

John McCain is a long-time acquaintance of mine that goes way back to our time together at the U.S. Naval Academy and as Prisoners of War in Vietnam. He is a man I respect and admire in some ways. But there are a number of reasons why I will not vote for him for President of the United States.

Doctor Phillip Butler is a 1961 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former light-attack carrier pilot. In 1965 he was shot down over North Vietnam where he spent eight years as a prisoner of war. He is a highly decorated combat veteran who was awarded two Silver Stars, two Legion of Merits, two Bronze Stars and two Purple Heart medals. After his repatriation in 1973 he earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at San Diego and became a Navy Organizational Effectiveness consultant. He completed his Navy career in 1981 as a professor of management at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is now a peace and justice activist with Veterans for Peace.

Read full story from Military.com here: http://www.alternet.org/story/95825/

ANN COULTER,RUSH LIMBAUGH AND SEAN HANNITY SMEAR OBAMA WITH FALSE CLAIM ABOUT ABORTION

Coulter, Limbaugh and Sean Hannity smeared Obama with false claim that he "believes it is proper to kill a baby that has survived an abortion"

Summary: Rush Limbaugh stated that Sen. Barack Obama "believes it is proper to kill a baby that has survived an abortion" and Ann Coulter said that Obama "wants the doctors ... chasing it through the delivery room to make sure it gets killed." They based their claims on Obama's opposition to an Illinois bill that he and other opponents said posed a threat to abortion rights and was unnecessary. Indeed, the Illinois Department of Public Health reportedly said that conduct alleged by proponents of the bill, if it had occurred, would have violated then-existing law.

SOURCE: http://mediamatters.org/items/200808200007?f=h_latest CLICK ON THIS LINK TO SEE VIDEO OF ANN COULTER AND SEAN HANNITY DISCUSSING TOPIC OF ABORTION.


Radio host Rush Limbaugh and right-wing pundit Ann Coulter each echoed a false claim on August 18 when they asserted, respectively, that Sen. Barack Obama "believes it is proper to kill a baby that has survived an abortion" and that he "wants the doctors ... chasing it through the delivery room to make sure it gets killed." The conservative commentators made their claims based on Obama's opposition as an Illinois state senator to a bill amending the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975, which, as Media Matters for America has repeatedly noted, Obama and other opponents said posed a threat to abortion rights and was unnecessary because, they said, Illinois law already prohibited the conduct being addressed by the bill.

Indeed, as Media Matters noted, when tasked by the Illinois attorney general's office with investigating allegations that fetuses born alive at an Illinois hospital were abandoned without treatment, the Illinois Department of Public Health reportedly said that it was unable to substantiate the allegations but said that if the allegations had proved true, the conduct alleged would have been a violation of then-existing Illinois law. Obama himself has cited specific provisions of the Illinois Compiled Statutes in stating that the "born alive principle was already the law in Illinois."

On Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity said to Coulter: "The Born Alive Infant Protection Acts. They induce these abortions," adding, "Barack Obama was the only senator to speak out against a bill that would have protected babies in that situation. ... Is that infanticide?" Coulter responded: "[O]f course it's infanticide," later adding, "I mean, this is a child that is not bothering the woman anymore, is not going to make her depressed or affect her health. It's out of the woman's body. They tried to kill it, but somehow the baby made it out alive. Sometimes missing an arm, but alive. And Barack Obama wants the doctors, you know, chasing it through the delivery room to make sure it gets killed."

On his nationally syndicated radio program, Limbaugh asserted: "We know that Barack Obama believes it is proper to kill a baby that has survived an abortion."

From the August 18 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:

HANNITY: Ann Coulter, I'll start with you. The Born Alive Infant Protection Acts. They induce these abortions. I --
COULTER: Right.
HANNITY: I interviewed Jill Stanek. She's a nurse. Illinois.
COULTER: Right.
HANNITY: Testified before Obama's committee. A baby with Down syndrome aborted, thrown in a soiled utility room. She cradles this baby that's breathing for 45 minutes, and Barack Obama was the only senator to speak out against a bill that would have protected babies in that situation. Is that the --
COULTER: Right.
HANNITY: Is that infanticide?
COULTER: It's shocking.
HANNITY: It is.
COULTER: It's -- of course it's infanticide. Yeah, he's for a woman's right to choose through the fourth trimester. And even Barbara Boxer, whom until now was the most staunchly pro-abortion senator, even she spoke in favor of this bill. I mean, this is a child that is not bothering the woman anymore, is not going to make her depressed or affect her health. It's out of the woman's body. They tried to kill it, but somehow the baby made it out alive.
HANNITY: Yeah.
COULTER: Sometimes missing an arm, but alive. And Barack Obama wants the doctors, you know, chasing it through the delivery room to make sure it gets killed. And moreover, you know, his remark about -- the glib remark about, "Oh, when life begins, it's above my pay grade." What kind of moral principle says, "I don't know when life begins, so kill it"? No, if you don't know when life begins, you err on the side of life, at least if you're a decent human being.

Read more here: http://mediamatters.org/items/200808200007?f=h_latest

Pt.2 OF BREATHTAKING VIDEO ON PNAC--THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU THE IRAQ WAR

This is the second part of a two-part video series on how we got into the war with IRAQ. PNAC, an evil cabal of neocons inside the BUSH White House lied to the American public to get us into the war.

See video here: http://www.youtube.com/v/zQi9lXyj0HM&hl=en&fs=1

Click on diamond-shaped arrow in picture to activate video.

BREATHTAKING VIDEO: FROM THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU THE IRAQ WAR---PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICA CENTURY Pt.1

Few people know the history of how we got into the war with Iraq, but this video shows the neocons in the Bush administration---known as the Project for the New America Century---or PNAC, and how they had one goal....world domination.

The VIDEO traces the rise of PNAC which includes Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and other neocons inside the BUSH administration who lied to the American public..

Watch VIDEO here: http://www.youtube.com/v/VgdPY_U6lqg&hl=en&fs=1

Click on diamond-shaped arrow to activate video.

UPDATE ON NAMES, HOMETOWNS, CAUSE OF DEATH AND PLACE OF DEATH FOR US TROOPS IN IRAQ

This is not easy to do, but the mainstream media doesn't care anymore about how many US troops die in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The following is a list of 18 American GIs killed in the war. Click on the names in BLUE and obtain more information.

Source: http://icasualties.org/oif/prdDetails.aspx?hndRef=4-2008


Date
Total
Name
Place of Death - Province
Cause of Death
19-Aug-2008
1
US: 1 UK: 0 Other: 0



US
NAME NOT RELEASED YET
Amarah - Maysan
Hostile - hostile fire - Rocket fire
17-Aug-2008
1
US: 1 UK: 0 Other: 0



US
Lance Corporal Travis M. Stottlemyer
Manama - NA
Non-hostile
14-Aug-2008
2
US: 2 UK: 0 Other: 0



US
Private Janelle F. King
Baghdad
Non-hostile

US
Private 1st Class Daniel A. C. McGuire
Falluja - Anbar
Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
13-Aug-2008
1
US: 1 UK: 0 Other: 0



US
Corporal James M. Hale
Baghdad (northwestern part)
Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
10-Aug-2008
2
US: 2 UK: 0 Other: 0



US
Sergeant Michael H. Ferschke Jr.
Tikrit (southwest of) - Salah Ad Din
Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire

US
Sergeant Kenneth B. Gibson
Tarmiya - Salah Ad Din
Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
09-Aug-2008
1
US: 1 UK: 0 Other: 0



US
Sergeant Jose E. Ulloa
Baghdad (Sadr City)
Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
07-Aug-2008
3
US: 3 UK: 0 Other: 0



US
Main Sergeant Danny E. Maybin
Camp Arifjan - NA
Non-hostile

US
Corporal Stewart S. Trejo
Karma - Anbar
Non-hostile

US
Corporal Adam T. McKiski
Karma - Anbar
Non-hostile
04-Aug-2008
3
US: 3 UK: 0 Other: 0



US
Private Timothy J. Hutton
Baghdad
Non-hostile

US
Specialist Jonathan D. Menke
Baghdad
Hostile - hostile fire - IED

US
Sergeant Gary M Henry
Baghdad
Hostile - hostile fire - IED
03-Aug-2008
1
US: 1 UK: 0 Other: 0



US
Specialist Ronald Andrew Schmidt
Baghdad
Non-hostile - vehicle accident
02-Aug-2008
3
US: 3 UK: 0 Other: 0



US
Sergeant Brian K. Miller
Abd Allah - Salah Ad Din
Non-hostile - vehicle accident

US
Private 1st Class Jennifer L. Cole
Baiji - Salah Ad Din
Non-hostile - gunshot wound

US
Specialist Kevin R. Dickson
Balad - Salah Ad Din
Non-hostile
Total
18
US: 18 UK: 0 Other: 0

ARMY TIMES: WHY WE COULD NEVER GO TO WAR WITH RUSSIA

Overhaul of Guard training to cost over $128M - Army News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Army Times or click on this link to read ARMY TIMES story:
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/08/ap_guard_training_081908/

There is no way in hell the United States could ever go to war with Russia, or anybody else for that matter.

The story above from the ARMY TIMES is a perfect example of how broken and stretched the ARMY is and how the National Guard is now thinking of all kinds of ways to keep troops happy by letting them live at home during training and hold down the rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan.

John McCain is blowing smoke up the ass of Americans with his bravado speeches about how the U.S. will kick Russia's ass if they don't fall into line.

The media is as much to blame as McCain because the mopes in the media don't know, or don't want to believe, the United States Army is broken.

As this story from the ARMY TIMES points out, the Army is doing everything they can to try and keep troops happy and entice more people to join the Army or the National Guard.

It will not work.

The ONLY thing that will work is a DRAFT and nobody wants to touch the thought of a DRAFT because it is the third-rail of politics right up there with Social Security.

TODAY Russia thumbed their nose at the United States and NATO and took dozens of Georgia troops hostage and stole six HUMVEES from a dock in Georgia. Russia has seen what has happened to the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan and they know the United States is now a paper tiger.

Russia, like anyone with half a brain and IQ over 75, knows "the surge" was a farce and it was the Sunni Awakening who calmed things down in Iraq and NOT the U.S. military.

BTW: You won't see the above story from the ARMY TIMES getting much press coverage because that would send a signal to Americans that the U.S. is not the super-power we pretend to be, and McCain was wrong.

Commentary by BILL CORCORAN, editor of CORKSPHERE

NEW VIDEO: WORLD WAR 3 IS UPON US. "OPERATION BRIMSTONE" US FLEET STEAMS TOWARD IRAN

President Bush and Vice President Cheney have been itching to get into another war before the election and this NEW VIDEO shows how preparations are being made with a component of the U.S. Navy within striking distance of IRAN. Late news developments indicate John McCain could pick Joe Lieberman as his running mate and Lieberman has been wanting the U.S. to go to war with IRAN to save ISRAEL from a nuclear strike by IRAN.

Watch video here:

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

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VIOLENT, GUT-WRENCHING VIDEO ABOUT IRAQ WAR: DECONSTRUCTED--COURTESY MICHAEL MOORE WEB SITE

I doubt if you will ever see a war video like this one. It will make you angry and make you cry at the same time. The video captures US soldiers in Iraq talking about the "mission" and what a waste of time and blood the war has been and how "the surge" is a joke.

Watch video here:

http://www.youtube.com/v/4iWGYWLv7-Y&hl=en&fs=1

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AUGUST ALREADY TOPS JULY IN US DEATHS IN IRAQ: 2 MORE GIS COMMIT SUICIDE

U.S. Death Toll in Iraq for August Already Tops July -- As Two More Soldier Suicides Reported

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/us-death-toll-in-iraq-for_b_119396.html

When the U.S. military death toll in Iraq dropped to 13 last month it received wide attention. But now, midway through August, the toll this month has already topped the July rate. Meanwhile, two more Iraq vets have killed themselves here at home.

A U.S. marine killed by gunmen in Fallujah west of Baghdad on Thursday became the 15th American to die in August. A troubling seven had died in noncombat incidents. The 15 tally tops July by two.

And the war at home? Each week -- some time each day -- brings the report of another Iraq vet suicide. One of today's stories appears in the Mansfield News Journal in Ohio., and concerns Derrick Hendon who was buried in Rittman after suffering from severe 'behavioral problems," according to those who knew him.

He died at home in Akron, three years after leaving the fighting. But he was one of the war's casualties. ''I think our whole family was a casualty of war,'' ex-wife Maya Hendon said in an e-mail from Israel, where she now lives. Derrick Hendon, 25, was found in the early morning of July 31, hanging by an extension cord in the garage of his North Akron home. ''I'm just tired,'' the Ohio Army National Guardsman wrote in a suicide note.

Both Maya Hendon, who moved to Israel in 2007 with the couple's two children, and Tina Evans, the soldier's sister, say Hendon was changed by the war. They believe all returning servicemen and women should be required to get psychological counseling.

''I think he died in Iraq,'' Evans said.

Then there's this:
Hendon opposed war. Maya Hendon said her ex-husband got an early discharge from the National Guard because he opposed the fighting, even though he had great love for America and initially supported the war. From the moment he was sent to Iraq, she said, ''he was trying to get out. I know he went through some traumatic experiences, but he didn't really want to talk about it.''

She said after he returned home, Hendon, whom she had met in an Akron clothing store in 2001, never sought help. ''Derrick was the love of my life,'' Maya Hendon said.

Also, the Leaf Chronicle in Clarksville, Tenn., reports the suicide of Spc. Carl B. McCoy, 23, a likely PTSD victim who had problems with alcohol. His wife, Sgt. Maggie McCoy, said he didn't get adequate help from the military after two deployments to Iraq. He saw friends lose limbs and die next to him during the recapture of Fallujah.

"He saw a lot of things that he didn't care to go into detail about," Maggie McCoy said. "He couldn't hear the fireworks go off at the Fourth of July. ... He'd have nightmares about this and that."

VIDEO PEEK OF McCAIN'S $12,000,000 PALACE

The house is up for sale now, but for many years Cindy and John McCain lived in what only be called a palace in Phoenix, Arizona. The house...errr mansion....is on the selling block for a mere $12,000,000.

Any takers from the Democrats?

Get a tour of the McCain palace in this VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/v/cB_rEeO3Ccs&hl=en&fs=1

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STARTLING VIDEO: McCAIN'S SEVEN MANSIONS, $520 SHOES AND WIFE CINDY'S PRIVATE JET

Republican hopeful Sen. John McCain likes to make it sound like he is living on a shoestring, but nothing could be further from the truth as this VIDEO shows. Thanks to his wife Cindy's multi-million dollar inheritance from a beer distributorship her father owned, McCain lives in the lap of luxury with SEVEN multi-million dollar mansions, $520 a pair shoes, and a far cry from the way Sen. Barack Obama grew up living off food stamps and in small apartments with his mother and grandparents.

McCain dumped his first wife after she was in a car accident and took up with Cindy who he would soon marry leaving his ex-wife just over $1,200 a month to live on and raise his daughter.

Watch the VIDEO here:

http://www.youtube.com/v/ek3jAkx9m10&hl=en&fs=1

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MARY MATALIN AND JEROME CORSI TEAM-UP FOR OLD-FASHIONED SWIFT-BOATING OF OBAMA

Jerome Corsi and Mary Matalin team up for an old-fashioned swift boating

Submitted by meg on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 2:51pm. Analysis

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSISby Meg White
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/358

One of the favorite adages of journalists was once, "If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out." Now it seems that we've shifted to "I read it in a best-selling non-fiction book; it must be true... oh, it's not? Well, who cares."

Jerome Corsi's new, widely discredited book The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality sustained its number one spot on The New York Times bestseller list yet again this week. And for some reason, I find myself thinking of the waves of untruths that have passed through the hands of editors of late.

In 2006, James Frey's A Million Little Pieces sat atop the bestseller list for 15 weeks and was a selection for Oprah's Book Club. Thanks to revelations from The Smoking Gun, the book was shown to be a lie. Since Frey didn't have the passion of a political campaign backing him, his book is now printed with author's and publisher's notes. Random House even agreed to compensate some readers for the lies.

There's been a serious rash of discredited memoirs much like Frey's over the last few years. Writers and editors have paid hefty prices, including monetary ones and jail time, for lying in print. In response to the rash of memoirs that have been uncovered lately, I jokingly invented the word "semoir" to refer to the new genre. I haven't heard anything back from William Safire yet, but I'll let you know when I do.

But what we really need is a word for books filled with lies that are known by editors and publishers to be falsehoods, but are never retracted. The historical prevalence and modern popularity of deceptive nonfiction closely mirrors that of the "semoir." However, the shame and punishment don't exist. And that's because they are written, edited, and published by people who don't care about journalistic integrity. They are out to do two things: make money and win elections.

Enter Mary Matalin. She's been a pundit for years, after starting out in Washington serving first the RNC and then President George H.W. Bush. She has served as an aide to both President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Now she is the editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster's Threshold Books. Matalin publicly took up the mantle for The Obama Nation, the newest offering from Threshold.

Corsi is perhaps best known for co-authoring the attack book, Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, which was part of the campaign credited for defeating Kerry in his presidential bid in 2004.

While Unfit for Command was culturally successful (heck, we might not even have the phrase "swift boating" to rely upon were it not for Corsi's libel), the book was widely denounced as fabricated. Still, it worked. And the larger body of evidence shows that Corsi and others are bent upon "swift boating" Obama with this new book.

The Obama Nation has also been largely discredited in the media. Media Matters, a Web site run by one-time right-wing columnist David Brock, deemed the book "unfit to publish" listing pages of lies and misrepresentations as support. Still, there are no plans to print retractions or corrections. Just keep that printer crackin' 'em out as is, says Matalin.

The fact is, the book is marketed as a political attack job. Jerome "I apologized for saying that racist stuff so long ago oh and be sure to catch me on white supremacist radio" Corsi admits that he was inspired by the election. He told The New York Times that he wrote the book for a very specific reason:

"'The goal is to defeat Obama,' Mr. Corsi said in a telephone interview. 'I don't want Obama to be in office.'"

Just today, the political action committee Save Our Republic sent out an e-mail supposedly written by Corsi soliciting contributions to pay for political ads that will "stop Barack Obama and the radicalism he represents from creating an America where the values and philosophies that made America great become just a distant memory to some or dead history to others." Oh, and the postscript of the e-mail notes that anyone who donates $125 or more to the PAC will get a free copy of The Obama Nation.

In addition, the book's cover boasts that, "The Obama Nation is the definitive source for information on why and how Barack Obama must be defeated."

This stands directly in conflict with what editor Mary Matalin told The New York Times about the book:

"Ms. Matalin said in an interview that the book 'was not designed to be, and does not set out to be, a political book,' calling it, rather, 'a piece of scholarship, and a good one at that.' She said she was unaware of efforts to link it to any anti-Obama advertising."

But maybe she never read it. Timothy Noah wrote a piece on Slate.com about Matalin and her contribution to the conservative publishing world. He said he received a response from Matalin that explained that "editor" doesn't really mean "editor" anymore:

"I do not deal with any mechanics (like print runs, reprints, financial relationship with authors), or for that matter, editing of the Threshold books. I am more akin to a consultant relative to the issue of potential interest among political readers."

Matalin's very own Web site bio says she "runs" Threshold. How she can do that as a consultant is beyond me (not that I'm the only one to wonder). I guess when you run a business dedicated to peddling lies, it's a lot easier to lie about your job. Those years working for the current administration couldn't have hurt, either.

But, as Noah noted, "conservative imprints aren't required to adhere to the same standards of truth as the grown-up divisions." Noah criticizes the book, but then lets both the writer and the editor off the hook because they are part of a tradition of lies.

Well, what can be done? Not much, I suppose. Those who read such books are much more likely to rely upon FOX News than BuzzFlash, Slate.com, or Media Matters. Readers of Corsi's books might believe every last lie in them, and there's little anyone can do.

But this election year, I would, at the very least, like to see the same amount of outrage that is currently devoted to PACs, lying campaign ads, and 527s be spread out to cover the right-wing lie publishing empire. Just because the people willing to believe these lies probably live in red states anyway doesn't mean we shouldn't care. Obama is slowly learning from John Kerry's grand mistake in ignoring these liars.

So should the rest of us.