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  Monday, May 29, 2006


Nedra Pickler should know that there is a war going on.  'Ol Nedra piles on the 'more bad news' story, in keeping with the 'Bush polls at new low' theme, it's no wonder people like Nedra would think of the war as 'his mission' rather than our war.  Maybe Nedra's citizenship had a bearing on the use of 'his' rather than 'our?'  But I doubt it. 

His Mission snippet:

Add the trouble to the continuing daily violence in Iraq — at least 33 were killed in a series of bombings Monday, including two from a CBS News crew — and Bush could be in danger of losing even more support for his mission.

If wars nowadays are measured in body count, I doubt that WWI and WWII would have occurred, and we might be speaking a different language here in North America.   It's tougher on the psyche nowadays to wage a long term war when the media has a microwave mentality on fighting them, and is effective in mis-characterizing the war to all but about 33% of Americans.  Can't be too long or too many dead you know.   Well, how long, and how many?   Because they have politicized the war so much, the answer depends solely on who is in the White House, a Republican or a Democrat.  

The picture attached to this article is the reporter's admission that it was Memorial Day.  There is not one mention of Memorial Day and honoring our war dead in the article.  All 16 paragraphs are accentuating the negative.

I'm on the side of making sure we can live in the U.S., instead of being killed in the U.S. by an enemy we left standing in Iraq, Afghanistan, and wherever else they are breeding.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace, left, salutes as President Bush, center, arrives on stage as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, right, applauds during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery Monday, May 29, 2006 outside Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Bush gets more bad news from Iraq (AP). AP - Just when President Bush was trying to accentuate the positive in Iraq and declare a new beginning in the war on terror, a rash of bad news comes from multiple fronts in the global struggle.


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True, it may.  But not as much as the gift that keeps on giving, like John Murtha.  After the funerals, there's still John Murtha out there bashing the effort and boosting enemy morale.  Takes 'courage' to do that nowadays.  He ought to get an award for that. 

Murtha: Iraq killings may hurt war effort (AP).

This image taken from a videotape made by a Haditha, Iraq journalism student and obtained by Time Magazine via the Hammurabi Human Rights Group, shows a scene in what appears to be a morgue following an alleged fatal raid by United States forces which took place on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2005, in Haditha, Iraq. The U.S. military is bracing for a major scandal over the alleged killing of Iraqi civilians in Haditha - charges so serious that they could threaten President Bush's effort to rally support for an increasingly unpopular war. (AP Photo/Hammurabi Human Rights Group, File)AP - The fallout from the killing of as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians by Marines could undermine U.S. efforts in Iraq more than the Abu Ghraib prison scandal did, a lawmaker who is a prominent war critic said Sunday.


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Making a government based on race is racist. 

Native Hawaiians seek right to self-govern (AP).

Native Hawaiian independence advocate, Kekuni Blaisdell, poses at his home May 22, 2006 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The long struggle for Hawaiian recognition faces several hurdles _ including opposition from some Native Hawaiian groups, who fear it will put them forever under the thumb of the Interior Department. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)AP - Hawaii politicians are scrambling to gather enough votes in Congress to pass a bill that would grant Native Hawaiians a degree of self-government and possibly a share of the land ruled by their ancestors.


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