Important, researched post about embryonic stem cell advocates that the lies they tell:
But those "officially" involved in the embryonic research debate have been lying so consistently for so long that their lack of
integrity is hardly questionable: the politicians especially, and the
referendum campaigners and yes, even some of the scientists. If we
really are at the end of the debate over embryonic research, we should
look back and ask why they had to lie so much if their position was
supposedly so strong. Given what they have said in the past, who knows what they'll start saying now?
Why is Rudy doing so well? People in the know used to think the rubes just
didn't realize Rudy has dressed in drag and once lived with 2 gay guys; they
just remembered him as the star of that 9/11 show they saw on TV that one
time.
But now it's dawning on the pundits that Americans probably know all that
stuff by now, so why isn't Rudy sunk? They're shuffling around for explanations.
You could say "terrorism fears trump everything," or "the rest of the field is
weak." But Rich thinks the right answer is that Americans really aren't as
narrow-minded as they are portrayed...
As I noted last week, it had been reported that Jamal al-Badawi, had been released from prison in Aden, Yemen. Badawi is a suspect in the USS Cole Bombing, an al-Qaeda terrorist attack on our country.
Al-Qaeda terrorist Jamal al-Badawi, who particpated in the attack on the USS
Cole and has a bounty on his head from the United States, surrendered to
authorities in Yemen—and was promptly released after making a promise not to do
any more nasty terror stuff.
The Associated Press is reporting that U.S. forces in Iraq will begin leaving
in December and that the first out will be the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Cavalry
Division in Diyala province. That move would cut Army ground brigades to 19.
Soldiers from a brigade in adjacent Salahuddin province will expand their
coverage into Diyala when III Corps returns to its home base at Fort Hood,
Texas.
12 former captains in the Army wrote a piece this week critical of the Iraq War. But none of these retired captains have served in Iraq since The Surge began.
September 17, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — Members of a secret Pentagon intelligence
unit known as Able Danger warned top military generals that it had uncovered
information of increased al Qaeda "activity" in Aden harbor less than three
weeks before the attack on the USS Cole, The Post has learned.
In the
latest explosive revelation in the Able Danger saga, two former members of the
data-mining team are expected to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee next
week that they uncovered alarming terrorist activity and associations in Aden
weeks before the Oct. 12, 2000, suicide bombing of the U.S. warship that killed
17 sailors.
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, the Defense Intelligence Agency's
former liaison to Able Danger, told The Post that Capt. Scott Phillpott, Able
Danger's leader, briefed Gen. Peter Schoomaker, former head of Special
Operations Command and now Army chief of staff, about the findings on Yemen "two
or three weeks" before the Cole attack.
"Yemen was elevated by Able
Danger to be one of the top three hot spots for al Qaeda in the entire world,"
Shaffer recalled.
Shaffer and two other officials familiar with Able
Danger said contractors uncovered al Qaeda activities in Yemen through a search
of Osama bin Laden's business ties.
al-Qaeda is running out of land to operate from, the noose is tightening. Their
brutality creates a backlash among the people they ‘control’ so fierce that if
US and Iraqi forces can provide a modicum of security the locals line up to
swear on the Koran to destroy al-Qaeda. Salahadin may be al-Qaeda’s last stand
in Iraq and the final chapter of the war. Reconstruction may be just around the
corner.