"Soldiers dying in Iraq are dying to defend the US against terrorism as a victory in Iraq is a victory in the war on terror. They are dying to defend freedom and democracy in the US and to spread freedom and democracy to Iraq. They are dying for the interests of the US, her allies, and by extension, all Americans (whether they understand it or not). They are not dying for Haliburton, oil, or any other ridiculous shit / slant the anti-war types or conspiracy theorists want to spin. Haliburton is a company (among many others, both US and foreign) that seized a chance to profit in REBUILDING Iraq. There is a big difference between that and war-profiteering. Haliburton did not start the war, terrorists and those that support them did. Putting the chicken before the egg just won’t fly."
-polymath
"[B]efore you [Europeans] write us off as just a bunch of sweaty, hairy-chested, Bible-thumping morons who are more likely to break their fast by dipping a Krispy Kreme into a diet cola than a biscotti into an espresso - and who inexplicably have won more Nobel prizes than all other countries combined,
host 25 or 30 of the world's finest universities and five or six of the world's best symphonies, produce wines that win prizes at your own tasting competitions, have built the world's most vibrant economy, are the world's only military superpower and, so to speak in our spare time, have landed on
the moon and sent our robots to Mars - may I suggest you stop frothing at
the mouth long enough to consider just what are these ideas we hold that you find so silly and repugnant?"
- LynnKramer
"Democracy may have been invented in Greece, but cowardess was invented in France where it lives and thrives to this very day."
- RedTigress
"I'm referring to the Iraqi terrorist bastard fighters. The ones liberals insist are either not in Iraq, or are there by the thousands, depending on which liberal you listen to."
- noguru
"How is it that the Left can believe absolute crazy shit, like the Bush-Saudi Arabian money connection, or the even worse and totally false Bush-bin Laden connection (based on 100% lies) and look at you straight and say there was absolutely no way that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda had ties?"
- reducto
Has anyone seen the clips they've shown of this guy on the news? I can't get enough of his accent. I don't know if he's Scottish or what, but everytime he talks I have to listen because it's one of the coolest accents I've ever heard.
Other than that, it's just funny listening to him for what he has to say. Almost everything he said had absolutely nothing to do with the Oil-For-Food charges against him, only America's illegal war in Iraq.
Prior to the hearing, Galloway blasted subcommittee chairman Sen. Norm Coleman (search), R-Minn., and his colleagues as being a "group of Christian fundamentalists and Zionist activists under the chairmanship of neo-con George Bush and the right-wing hawks."
Those silly Jews. I'm glad there's at least someone us white, Christian, males can claim is oppressing us.
For whatever reason I've had a hard time finding the exact quote online, but FNC showed the clip over and over. Galloway addressed one of the senators (I'm going to assume it was D-MI Carl Levin since he's the one who responded) and asked him how he could sit there and lecture him on illegal activities when the Senator himself had voted in favor of the illegal Iraq war.
Here's the thing, the two Senators up there, Norm Coleman and Carl Levin, did not vote for the war in Iraq. Coleman hadn't even been elected yet and Levin voted nay. So Levin put him in his place by saying he hadn't voted for it and that it had nothing to do with the charges against Galloway. I'd say he was thoroughly owned.
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers created a surprisingly large 274,000 new jobs in April and added more workers in each of the two prior months than first thought, the Labor Department (search) said Friday in a report that eased fears about economic growth.
The April jobs total far outstripped Wall Street economists' expectations for 170,000 new jobs.
Further underlining the surge, the government said 93,000 more jobs were created in February and March than it previously reported — 146,000 in March instead of 110,000 and a whopping 300,000 in February instead of 243,000.
The unemployment rate, however, which is calculated from a separate survey, was unchanged at 5.2 percent in April.
How long has this on and off thing been going on? It seems like one month there's strong job growth and the next month there's decent job growth, then the next month it's right back to strong, lather, rinse and repeat.
I just don't get how people can think the economy is worse now than it was a couple years ago.
I have to get my fix somewhere, and this whole fillibuster stuff just isn't doing it for me. Thankfully, the British decided to hold an election on my behalf. I've got the BBC's little desktop shortcut up and watching Labour gain and gain and gain.
At the moment the score is 233 Labour, 48 Conservative, and 25 Liberal Democrats.
As a conservative American, I'm torn between Labour and the Conservatives. On one hand we have the chummy relationship between Bush and Blair which results in great U.S./U.K. relations. On the other hand, we have to remember that Blair is a centre-left candidate. So I have to root for the conservatives in this one. Unfortunately, looking at the seat tally, I don't see how it's possible for the conservatives to pull out a win. But I still just love the prospect of a Britain fighting the EU.
It's great not having much at stake in this election, it makes it more fun.
