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Fox News only seems biased to the right because all the others are biased to the left. Fox would look ultra rightwing compared to the hard left CBC. And if you don't watach Fox News, I suggest you lack credibility when you try to comment on it. Ahh yes. CBS of Memogate infamy; CBS' Dan Rather interviewing Bill and Hilllary Clinton and saying, "If we only could be one one-hundreth as great as you" infamy. Dan Rather who spoke at a Democratic fund-raiser; a blatant flagrant conflict of interest. CBS's 60 Minutes who always gives a full segment (or even the entire hour) to every author who has a book out bashing Bush. But according to Argus, they are striving to be accurate. For all the whining about Fox News, they cannot hold a candle to all the scandals after scandals in the liberal media. There is no contest. None whatsoever. Period.

God is punishing those who scuttled the Kyoto Agreement Boston Globe: Katrina's real name is global warming German enviromental minister: Bush to blame for Katrina Bush to blame for oil spike National Guard shortage because of Bush's "illegal war" Radio Left: Let us expose the duplicity and dishonesty of the Bush administration to all Blame the Republicans I won't contribute a dollar to Katrina many of these W-worshipping numbskulls deserve to suffer and to die. Put the Ni**ers in the Superdome Democratic National Committee: Continue looting Bush to victims: Just die Former Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal (in Germany): Blame Bush For a look at the difference between rightwing sites (link after link for help for this tragedy) and leftwing sites (few links of support for the victims, but lots and lots of Bush-bashing, I could flood this forum with the differences, but this sums it up: The hate-filled left versus the compassionate right Air America: Bush happy to see dead Democrats And we have already seen this red-hot super-nova of hatred of Bush on this very forum; one poster even suggested that Bush is happy to see ni**ers dying. Disgusting. :angry: Which reminds me of the difference between the left and the right for Iraq. While the right has link after link encouraging readers to support the troops and the Iraqi people (give anything you can spare), the left has few, if any, links to support democracy in Iraq and the troops... How low? How low will the left, and it is not just the far left...how low will these scumbags stoop? The answers are above. This is the true face of the far left; pure unadulterated Bush Derangement Syndrome. They cannot, even for quite possibly the biggest disaster in US history, put aside their political agenda. A prediction: This will backfire on the hate-filled left. The Republicans will not lose anything in the 2006 mid-term elections, and the Republicans will win the White House in 2008. Who wants to vote for someone with so much hate in their heart? What a bunch of partisan dirtbags. :angry:

I don't watch FOX, so I can't comment on their coverage. I was watching CNN, however, and a number of stations linked to CNN. CNN's coverage went well past the time it was announced everyone had survived. So either you're talking out of your ass because you reflexively want to defend a so-called "conservative" media source, or you're simply being knowingly dishonest. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You admit you never watch Fox; you are only interested in hearing one side. Yet you accuse me of talking out of my ass, when if you checked both websites, you would note that Fox's latest story was 6 days later than CNN's. But do continue raging against "so-called conservative media". Perhaps you can find some way to blame Bush for the Air France jet... You know you want to.

Argus: I would hope so. It is the mayor's job to protect the citizens of the city. If each bus could hold just 60 people, NORTA's 364 buses had the capacity to take almost 22,000 peope out of harm's way per trip. People are dying - perhaps by the thousands - because of Mayor Ray Nagin's failure to act - despite being warned for days. The project was sunk because of lawsuits by liberal enviromentalists in 1977. Blame Bush! Bush has two university degrees - one a Masters - from two Ivy League colleges. He's hardly stupid. That is why these clowns make out Karl Rove to be some kind of a super-duper evil genius; they can't admit that that "dumb chimp" outsmarts them time and time again. Tell that to Louisiana's Democrat Governor Kathleen Blanco, and New Orlean's Democrat Mayor Ray Nagin. Toro: Wear dey all too pore and stoopid to unnerstan’ an’ make dey own decishuns widdout de gaahdance of enlaahten’d libruls, dontcha no?”

Argus: You mean these buses? Why didn't Mayor Nagin, a Democrat, use these buses to let the poor evacuate NO? This smirking bastard is responsible for these deaths. He failed to protect the citizens of NO through his inaction. And that goes for Louisiana's Governor Democrat Kathleen Blanco. Once again, the left shows their utter disdain for their fellow humans. Then they have the bloody gall to bitch. If they had an ounce of honor in their corrupt, incompetent bodies, they wouldn’t be busy blaming everybody else right now. But then again, if they’d had even the most passing of familiarities with the concepts of honor and responsibility, they wouldn’t have a problem today. Scumbags. :angry:

Says Argus who links to the dishonest thoroughly disgraced Michaeal Moore. The fact is that it IS the mayor's job to protect the citizens of NO. Instead of regurgitating Michael Moore pablum, you might want to educate yourself about the broken levee: Corps officials: Funding levels not to blame for flooding And just in case you're not sure, a link to the Chicago Tribune is worth more credibility points than a link to Michael Moore. Just trust me on this. Another link to educate Argus Nice try, though, and thanks for playing. You can now go back to your "Bush and his cabinet would be shot for this" agenda-driven drivel. :angry:

mirror: No, it was Gore who tried to steal the election. And only mirror and ilk would consider overethrowing 2 dictatorships, liberating 50 million people, and having free elections in Iraq and Afghanistan an "unmitigated disaster". It was NOT an illegal war. Repeating the leftwing lying mantra does not make enforcing a broken ceasefire "illegal." Apparently you are unaware that it is the job of local and state authorities to protect the state. Again, the local and state authorities knew this, but did very little. Why weren't those hundreds of buses, now underwater, used to shuttle people out of town? The mayor did nothing, and now he is wailing at Bush. Give me a break!

Argus: Blame Bush! Argus forgot to mention the fact that this project was initially sunk in 1977 by environmentalist lawsuits. And that nothing has been seriously done since then by any administration. It is a 25 year project, and had the work begun in the presidency of Jimmy Carter, its possible it would have been completed in time for Katrina. But no: it's Bush's fault. What loathsome statements. Shame on you. Bush caused this hurricane. If only he had signed Kyoto. FYI, it is the local and state authorities who are in charge of looking after NO and the state. Why do so many people these days sit on their hands and look to the almighty federal govt to care for them? What ever happened to personal responsibility? Again, this is the responsiblilty of local and state authorities.

Must be a full moon today. I see links to Michael Moore, Paul Krugman (again using anonymous sources), and Maureen Dowd. They don't seem to be asking any questions about the mayor of New Orleans or the Democrat governor - it's all Bush's fault. What a bunch of agenda-driven drivel. I can't wait until Black Dog appears to tell us that the NYT is not liberal.

Fair enough. I guess we remember it differently. I was trying to bash CNN. I am so tired of their bias. I don't know if I ever recall Jack Cafferty ever reading a pro-Bush email on the CNN morning show. Very strange that the majority voted for Bush, but apparently CNN only receives emails that bash him. And I will never forget the difference between CNN And Fox News when it came to showing the tape of that Marine general saying that it is fun to shoot the Taliban. CNN only showed that, but Fox showed the whole tape, where he said that the Taliban liked to slap women around, so it was enjoyable shooting these jerks.

Black Dog: Laurie Myrolie is an internationally recognized expert on Iraq and terrorism. She was an Assistant Professor in Harvard's Political Science Department, before becoming an Associate Professor in the Strategy Department at the US Naval War College. She was a member of the staff of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. She also served as advisor on Iraq to the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign and has worked as a consultant on terrorism to the Departments of Defense and Energy She is the author of Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein.s Unfinished War Against America. Published in paperback, as The War Against America, the book was hailed by Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz: "argues powerfully"; and Richard Perle, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, "splendid and wholly convincing". J. Gilmore Childers, lead prosecutor in the World Trade Center bombing trial, described it as "work the US govt should have done". Her first book, Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf, (co-authored with Judith Miller) was a #1 New York Times bestseller, translated into 13 languages. Her articles have appeared in The American Spectator, The Atlantic Monthly, Commentary, Jane.s Intelligence Review, The National Interest, The New Republic, and Newsweek, as well as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, among others. But according to BC, she is a crackpot because some guy writing in a liberal magazine raged about her and 'neocons'. Ditto for Judge Harold Baer. Able Danger. Ever heard of that? People are starting to call the 9/11 Commission Report the 9/11 Omission Report. What do you suppose that means? How gracious of you. 1) Abdul Rahman Yasin was the only member of the Al Qaeda cell that detonated the 1993 World Trade Center bomb to remain at large in the Clinton years. He fled to Iraq. US forces discovered a cache of documents in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, that show that Iraq gave Yasin both a house and monthly salary. 2) Bin Laden met at least 8 times with officers of Iraq's Special Security Organization, a secret police agency run by Saddam's son Qusay, and met with officials from Saddam's mukhabarat, its external intelligence service, according to intelligence made public by Colin Powell, who was speaking before the UNSC in February 2003. 3) Sudanese intelligence officials said their agents had observed meetings between Iraqi intelligence agents and bin Laden starting in 1994, when bin Laden lived in Khartoum. 4) Bin Laden met the director of the Iraqi mukhabarat in 1996 in Khartoum, according to Colin Powell. 5) An Al Qaeda operative now held by the US confessed that in the mid-1990s, bin Laden had forged an agreement with Saddam's men to cease all terrorist activities against the Iraqi dictator, Colin Powell told the UN. 6) In 1999 the UK's Guardian newspaper reported that Farouk Hijazi, a senior officer in Iraq's mukhabarat, had journeyed deep into the icy mountains near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in December 1998 to meet with Al Qaeda men. Mr. Hijazi is "thought to have offered bin Laden asylum in Iraq," the Guardian reported. 7) In October 2000, another Iraqi intelligence operative, Salah Suleiman, was arrested near the Afghan border by Pakistani authorities, according to Jane's Foreign Report, a respected international newsletter. Jane's reported that Suleiman was shuttling between Iraqi intelligence and Ayman al Zawahiri, now Al Qaeda's #2 man. 8) As recently as 2001, Iraq's embassy in Pakistan was used as a "liaison" between the Iraqi dictator and Al Qaeda, Colin Powell told the UN. 9) Spanish investigators uncovered documents seized from Yusuf Galan - who was charged by a Spanish court with being "directly involved with the preparation and planning" of the Sept. 11 attacks - that show the terrorist was invited to a party at the Iraqi embassy in Madrid. The invitation used his "Al Qaeda nom de guerre," London's Independent reported. 10) An Iraqi defector to Turkey, known by his cover name as "Abu Mohammed," told Gwynne Roberts of the Sunday Times of London that he saw bin Laden's fighters in camps in Iraq in 1997. At the time, Mohammed was a colonel in Saddam's Fedayeen. He described an encounter at Salman Pak, the training facility southeast of Baghdad. At that vast compound run by Iraqi intelligence, Muslim militants trained to hijack planes with knives - on a full-size Boeing 707. Colonel Mohammed recalls his first visit to Salman Pak this way: "We were met by Colonel Jamil Kamil, the camp manager, and Major Ali Hawas. I noticed that a lot of people were queuing for food. The major said to me: 'You'll have nothing to do with these people. They are Osama bin Laden's group and the PKK and Mojahedin-e Khalq.'" 11) In 1998, Abbas al-Janabi, a longtime aide to Saddam's son Uday, defected to the West. At the time, he repeatedly told reporters that there was a direct connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda. 12) The Sunday Times found a Saddam loyalist in a Kurdish prison who claims to have been Dr. Zawahiri's bodyguard during his 1992 visit with Saddam in Baghdad. Dr. Zawahiri was a close associate of bin Laden at the time and was present at the founding of Al Qaeda in 1989. 13) Following the defeat of the Taliban, almost two dozen bin Laden associates "converged on Baghdad and established a base of operations there," Colin Powell told the UN in February 2003. From their Baghdad base, the secretary said, they supervised the movement of men, materiel and money for Al Qaeda's global network. 14) In 2001, an al Qaeda member "bragged that the situation in Iraq was 'good,'" according to intelligence made public by Colin Powell. 15) That same year, Saudi Arabian border guards arrested two Al Qaeda members entering the kingdom from Iraq. 16) Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi oversaw an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. His specialty was poisons. Wounded in fighting with US forces, he sought medical treatment in Baghdad in May 2002. When Zarqawi recovered, he restarted a training camp in northern Iraq. Zarqawi's Iraq cell was later tied to the October 2002 murder of Lawrence Foley, an official of the US Agency for Int'l Development, in Amman, Jordan. The captured assassin confessed that he received orders and funds from Zarqawi's cell in Iraq. His accomplice escaped to Iraq. 17) Zarqawi met with military chief of Al Qaeda, Mohammed Ibrahim Makwai (aka Saif al-Adel) in Iran in February 2003, according to intelligence sources cited by the Washington Post. 18) Mohammad Atef, the head of Al Qaeda's military wing until the US killed him in Afghanistan in November 2001, told a senior Al Qaeda member now in US custody that the terror network needed labs outside of Afghanistan to manufacture chemical weapons, Colin Powell said. "Where did they go, where did they look?" said the secretary. "They went to Iraq." 19) Abu Abdullah al-Iraqi was sent to Iraq by bin Laden to purchase poison gases several times between 1997 and 2000. He called his relationship with Saddam's regime "successful," Colin Powell told the UN. 20) Mohamed Mansour Shahab, a smuggler hired by Iraq to transport weapons to bin Laden in Afghanistan, was arrested by anti-Hussein Kurdish forces in May, 2000. He later told his story to American intelligence and a reporter for the New Yorker magazine. 21) Documents found among the debris of the Iraqi Intelligence Center show that Baghdad funded the Allied Democratic Forces, a Ugandan terror group led by an Islamist cleric linked to bin Laden. According to a London's Daily Telegraph, the organization offered to recruit "youth to train for the jihad" at a "headquarters for international holy warrior network" to be established in Baghdad. 22) Mullah Melan Krekar, ran a terror group (the Ansar al-Islam) linked to both bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Mr. Krekar admitted to a Kurdish newspaper that he met bin Laden in Afghanistan and other senior Al Qaeda officials. His acknowledged meetings with bin Laden go back to 1988. When he organized Ansar al Islam in 2001 to conduct suicide attacks on Americans, "three bin Laden operatives showed up with a gift of $300,000 'to undertake jihad,'" Newsday reported. Mr. Krekar is now in custody in the Netherlands. His group operated in portion of northern Iraq loyal to Saddam Hussein - and attacked independent Kurdish groups hostile to Saddam. A spokesman for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan told a UPI correspondent that Mr. Krekar's group was funded by "Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad." 23) After October 2001, hundreds of Al Qaeda fighters are believed to have holed up in the Ansar al-Islam's strongholds inside northern Iraq. Absolutely no evidence of any working relationship... A few pointers for our reality-impaired friend: The editor for the NYT - in an op-ed - admitted that the paper was liberal, and said that anyone who didn't notice this has not been paying attention. Pay attention, BD. As for Judith Miller, I don't know if she is "leftwing", but the fact that she works for the self-admitted liberal NYT, and the fact that liberal Tom Brokaw visited her in jail and demanded her release, might make a reasonable person conclude she is a liberal. However she does not seem to be a LLL. I just can't envision Brokaw visiting, say a Mark Steyn, in jail and demanding his release. Er, yes you can. Logic 101. Study it. I never said it was "smoking gun evidence". I said that there were many suspicious happenings between the two - which might make a reasonable person conclude that Iraq might have been involved with 9/11. Certainly the Boeing 707 at the terrorist training camp at Salman Pak is very suspicious. Yet you have claimed that there is absolutely nothing to conclude that the two were tied. Where is your evidence to back up your claim? Since when did the Telegraph, Judge Harold Baer, and the US Military become "fringe right-wing web sites, bloggers and discussion forum posters"? That's rich coming from someone who links to the far-left Washington Monthly. And the Bush Administration has not specifically mentioned that Iraq was involved with 9/11, but they have repeatedly and strongly told the public about Al Qaeda's ties with Iraq. Again, if you are so cocksure that there was absolutely no involvement by Iraq whatsoever in 9/11, where is your proof? And no, I don't mean "proof" like your ludicrous claim that the Duefler Report (which was about stockpiles of WMD) "proves" that Iraq and Al Qaeda had no link. Buh-bye.

Evidence was given. Are you not aware of the passenger jet at Salman Pak? Pay attention - like Judge Harold Baer did.

Odd. I remember it being the opposite, CNN dropping the story the very SECOND that it was reported that there were no fatalities. Indeed, the last story on Flight 358 on Fox's website is 6 days later than CNN's. I suppose if CNN doesn't get a chance to solemnly intone, on an hourly basis, the death of another US soldier in Iraq, and solemnly announce that this brings the death toll of US soldiers to XXX in Iraq, they aren't interested in reporting other stories.

Welcome to the winning team, Bill Good on you for leaving those biased liberals at CNN; the station that allowed Paul Begala and James Carville to continue to host Crossfire while both were campaign advisors for John Kerry - a blatant conflict of interest; the station that admitted they ignored Saddam's atrocities so they could keep their Baghdad bureau open (which makes one wonder what atrocities they are ignoring so they can keep their Havana bureau open), and the station whose chief news executive - Eason Jordan - resigned in disgrace over his unfounded accusations against the US military (typical military-hating liberal). You will get tremendous exposure at the news channel that gets higher ratings than CNN, CNN Headline News, MSNBC, and CNBC combined. People are hungry for fair and balanced reporting; you have the opportunity to continue Fox News' tradition of providing this. Thank goodness the Liberal Party lifted its 5 year ban of the Fox News Channel (after tremendous pressure because they approved Al Jazeera 5 months earlier). What a breath of fresh air Fox News is versus the stench that passed as news and commentary at the state-run, taxpayer-funded, Soviet-style CBC.

BD, I love it how you talk about FOX News with such authority and conviction. Interesting coming from someone who does not have access to FOX and who gets his information from cut and paste clips of O'Reilly and literature from the far left. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> BD is too busay regaling the forum about the Duelfer Report proving that Saddam and Al Qaeda were not linked with each other.

Unlike James Carville (who - along with Paul Begala were campaign advisors for Kerry at the same time as they were hosting CNN's Crossfire - a blatant conflict of interest) who put on one of the most disgusting displays of rude behaviour against O'Neill from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - screaming at him until Carville's face was red as a tomato. I thought Carville's head was going to explode. Simply disgraceful.

I swear you, Eureka and Black Dog live in a cocoon. All you had to do was type "Guardian calls for Bush's assassination" into Google's search engine if you doubted me. Is that too difficult? I'm sure you can do it. Then when clicking one of the links that come up, you will see that the Guardian pulled the article, and issued a limp apology. The Guardian newpaper is one the English speaking most credible international publications. Yeah. As we all know, credible newspapers always give out addresses of Clark County, Ohio (a critical Ohio county in the US election) voters and encourage their readers to write them and tell them who to vote for (Kerry). But it backfired as Bush took the county again. Perhaps the people of Clark County resented foreigners named Nigel telling them who to vote for? *Counting down the minutes until Mirror calls this a "sicko accusation" and demands links to prove it, even though anyone with the slightest knowledge of world affairs knows that Al Guardian did this*

When I think of poverty, I think of someone destitute or nearly so. That hardly describes the "poverty" in the US. But even if you disagree, the fact is that the US unemployment rate is 5.0%; it's not too tough to find a job there.

Hey is there a mural of her in Baghdad? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There never were any links between Al Qaeda and Iraq. Indeed, there never was even a link. Honest.

prove it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Are you capable of typing something like "air america bush's assassination" into Google's search engine? You are? Prove it.

Black Dog: That was Bush's strategy. The Islamofascists are attracted to the US troops like moths to a lightbulb. They are now mostly all in one area; easier for the US to track 'em and whack 'em. As the other poster perfectly summed it up; how naive of you. Hahaha. Ninety percent of Newsmax's news report come fom the AP. Sure their commentary tilts to the right; it is a conservative magazine. Duh. [sarcasm]But the Kos Kidz and the DUers NEVER do that.[/sarcasm] Leaving Iraq too early would result in Iraq being overrun by Al Qaeda, and would be a huge win for Al Qaeda. Illogical, indeed.

Hot off the press: The Iraqi links the 9/11 Commissioners left out of their report

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That's right. Only the "progressives" at Air America are allowed to call for the assassination of world leaders (they've called for Bush's assassination twice - the last time alledgedly earning them a visit from the Secret Service). And ditto for the UK's Guardian newspaper who also called for Bush's assassination.

Germany's environmental minister already has blamed it on Bush. As has the ultra-popular leftwing site, The Democratic Underground. This Bush Derangement Syndrome by the left is turning into an epidemic.