John F. Kennedy Assassinated, November 22, 1963

John F. Kennedy assassination President Kennedy, with his wife, Jackie, and Texas Gov. John Connally in the Presidential limousine shortly before the assassination. The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 PM Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC). Kennedy was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding in a presidential motorcade within Dealey Plaza. He was the fourth U.S. President to be assassinated, and the eighth to die while in office. An official investigation by the Warren Commission was conducted over a 10 month period and published its report in September 1964, and concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, was the assassin. A later official investigation by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was conducted from 1976 to 1979, and concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald probably acted with at least one other person. The assassination is still the subject of widespread speculation, and has spawned a number of Kennedy assassination theories.

How this mess got started...treason runs in the family

Prescott Bush-Nazi collaborator Like his grandfather before him, George W. Bush is the most despicable and egregious type of traitor-men who benefit from the sacrifice of our young men in the military. War profiteers who choose money over country. "Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951" - Federal Documents

"After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal. Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators. Bush's partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman. The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment".

Hmmm. I wonder why..?

Well, at least somebody liked him...

George, the cowboy who is afraid of horses, goes to Mongolia. It was a rough eight days in Asia for George. He didn't accomplish anything and he made an absolute fool out of himself (and us) with his temper tantrum that led to his embarrassment at the 'locked door'. But he did finally get a 'warm' reception in Mongolia where they have long history of admiring brutal dictators. Sons of Genghis Khan roll out the red carpet for Bush

DESCENDANTS of Genghis Khan, the man who conquered half the world in the 13th century, rolled out the red carpet yesterday for the most powerful man of the 21st century. "George Bush stood to attention in the biting cold before an honour guard of Mongolian soldiers in blue and red uniforms and with sabres at the ready as the United States national anthem played to welcome the first serving American President to set foot in Ulan Bator. Mongolia’s force of 130 in Iraq makes it, with its population of 2.8 million, the third-largest contributor per capita to the coalition. “US armed forces are proud to serve beside such fearless warriors,” Mr Bush said. Mongolia’s soldiers in Iraq serve within the Polish-led division and their work is confined largely to construction and logistics outside the town of Hilla. The last Mongolian forces to go to Iraq, led by a grandson of Genghis Khan in 1258, sacked Baghdad and killed an estimated 800,000 people".

George still has a way to go before he breaks ole' Genghis's grandson's record but he's trying his damnest!

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a Marine's Mom

"Bush came here when he needed votes. When the marines were killed, there was no sign of him. He wasn't here for the death and the pain, why is he here for the glory?" --Peggy Logue, a Marine's Mom Link

"They are all children. They are not terrorists"

Is there any wonder why over 80% of Iraqis want us out of Iraq? What, are we killing them so they can have a phony 'democracy'? We've put our troops into a situation where they are now reacting to everything that moves and it leads to what happened here. Children killed as US troops fire on van at roadblock

"FIVE members of the same Iraqi family, three of them children under the age of 4, were shot dead yesterday when US troops opened fire on their minivan outside a military base, fearing a suicide car bomb attack. The family were returning from a funeral in Balad to nearby Baquba, north of Baghdad, when they came across a patrol of US military vehicles forming a roadblock near the base. “The soldiers started shooting at us from all over,” Ahmed Kamel al-Sawamara, 22, the driver, said at the hospital where the dead and three wounded were taken. “I slowed down and pulled off the road, but they continued firing. I saw my family killed, one after the other, and then the car caught fire. I dragged their bodies out.” The dead were two men and three children aged 1, 2 and 3, according to Mr al-Sawamarra, Iraqi police and hospital workers. Two women and a child were wounded. An American spokesman confirmed the shooting but put the toll at three dead and two wounded".

Pegged!

How the Bush administration got spooked By Tom Engelhardt It's finally Wizard of Oz time in America. You know - that moment when the curtains are pulled back, the fearsome-looking wizard wreathed in all that billowing smoke turns out to be some pitiful little guy, and everybody looks around sheepishly, wondering why they acted as they did for so long. Starting on September 11, 2001 - with a monstrous helping hand from Osama bin Laden - the Bush administration played the fear card with unbelievable effectiveness. For years, with its companion "war on terror", it trumped every other card in the American political deck. With an absurd system for color-coding dangers to Americans, the president, vice president and the highest officials in this land were able to paint the media a "high" incendiary orange and the Democrats an "elevated" bright yellow, functionally sidelining them.

DOD New Release(s)

U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) News Release On the Web: http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/nr20051121-5121.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- No. 1206-05 IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 21, 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DoD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pvt. Christopher M. Alcozer, 21, of DeKalb, Ill., died in Mosul, Iraq, on Nov. 19, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire and grenades. Alcozer was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Fort Wainwright, Alaska. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) News Release On the Web: http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/nr20051121-5120.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- No. 1205-05 IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 21, 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DoD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Luis R. Reyes, 26, of Aurora, Colo., died en route to Ali Al Salem, Kuwait, on Nov. 18, when the bus in which he was riding rolled over. Reyes was assigned to the Army National Guard's 947th Engineer Company, Durango, Colo. --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Scanlon cops a plea-Tom Delay & Bob Ney soon to follow

Looks like Michael Scanlon will after all be the stoolie that brings down the 'Hammer'. Scanlon, Abramoff `Backroom Guy,' Points Probers at DeLay, Ney Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- For more than a year, Michael Scanlon has been a shadowy presence behind former partner Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist at the center of a corruption probe. Now, Scanlon may help prosecutors raise the investigation to a higher level. Scanlon, a former aide to Representative Tom DeLay, is scheduled to appear today in U.S. District Court to present a plea bargain with the Justice Department likely to lead to his cooperation with investigators. His testimony would ratchet up the pressure on Abramoff and aid prosecutors in widening the investigation to members of Congress, such as Republicans DeLay and Representative Robert Ney of Ohio.

Our World Representative...Dubya

Come on Uncle Dickie...hello, Karl...open the door..the mean old reporter asked me a question that wasn't on my script...uncle Dickie... Locked doors thwart Bush's bid to duck question BEIJING (Reuters) - Irked by a reporter who told him he seemed to be "off his game" at a Beijing public appearance, President George W. Bush sought to make a hasty exit from a news conference but was thwarted by locked doors. At the end of a day of meetings with Chinese President Hu Jintao and other Chinese officials, Bush held a session with a small group of U.S. reporters and spoke at length about issues like religious freedom, Iraq and the Chinese currency. The final reporter he called on critiqued Bush's performance earlier in the day when he stood next to Hu in the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square to deliver a statement. "Respectfully, sir -- you know we're always respectful -- in your statement this morning with President Hu, you seemed a little off your game, you seemed to hurry through your statement. There was a lack of enthusiasm. Was something bothering you?" he asked. "Have you ever heard of jet lag?" Bush responded. "Well, good. That answers your question." The president then recited a list of things of that he viewed as positive developments from his Beijing meetings, including cooperation on North Korean nuclear disarmament and the ability to have "frank discussions" with his Chinese counterpart. When the reporter asked for "a very quick follow-up," Bush cut him off by thanking the press corps and telling the reporter "No you may not," as he strode toward a set of double doors leading out of the room. The only problem was that they were locked. "I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn't work," Bush quipped, facing reporters again until an aide rescued him by pointing to him toward the correct door.

" Republicans are feeling like chumps "

They should feel like chumps; it's what they are and it's what they've made the 79% of this country who were dumb enough to go along with it! Chalabi played the fools like a fiddle and all the sheep grabbed their ankles as most cowards do. When red and blue turn purple

"Interviewer Ray Suarez homed right in on Chalabi's prewar role and the tales of menace he peddled to an eager audience. What did he tell the United States? All he did, Chalabi purred, was make a few introductions. The Bush administration chose to believe what it heard, and it fell to the White House with all its intelligence resources to verify the accuracy of what it learned."

Bush told about 1st Amendment

Opposition to war not unpatriotic, Bush says

BEIJING- After fiercely defending his Iraq policy across Asia, President Bush abruptly toned down his attack on war critics Sunday and said there was nothing unpatriotic about opposing his strategy. "People should feel comfortable about expressing their opinions about Iraq," Bush said, three days after agreeing with Vice President Dick Cheney that the critics were "reprehensible."

Looks like someone read the 1st Amendment of the Constitution to our Boy Genius! Now if we could only get the other Republicans to read it.

The '.com' site is more factual than the '.org' site

GOP sues to shut down Web site The Hamilton County GOP is suing to shut down a Web site critical of local Republican officeholders. www.hamiltoncountyrepublicanparty.org/ The site - www.HamiltonCountyRepublicanParty.com - is similar to the party's site, www.HamiltonCountyRepublicanParty.org. "It's illegal for another person to hijack our name," said Brad Greenberg, executive director of the Hamilton County GOP. "His use of our name is dishonest and deceptive." He said the site's address violates trademark law. The lawsuit, filed Friday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court by attorney Martin Miller of Dinsmore & Shohl, seeks a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to shut down the site. The operator of the site, Michael Dalton, called the filing "frivolous" in an e-mail to The Post Friday. "I intend to fully defend the right to free speech," he said. "The Republicans have a history, when they don't like the message, to attempt to discredit and shoot the messenger."

al-Zarqawi may have been killed in Mosul

The Elaph Arab media website reported on Sunday that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of the al-Qaida in Iraq terror group, may have been killed in Iraq on Sunday afternoon when eight terrorists blew themselves up in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The unconfirmed report claimed that the explosions occurred while coalition forces surrounded the house in which al-Zarqawi was hiding. American and Iraqi forces are looking into the report.

Bush threw us a 'Curveball'

Bush used information from Curveball to charge in his 2003 State of the Union address that Iraq had ‘mobile biological weapons labs’ designed to produce ‘germ warfare agents’. He knew many agencies and other governments had said otherwise... Let's see, we've learned recently that the Bush administration knew Al-libi was lying about the Iraq/al-Qaida connection and still used it to scare the sheep. We know they knew the Niger documents were forgeries and we also now know they were lying about the aluminum tubes and the mobile 'laboratories'. So now take some time and read the 13 page report from the LA Times investigation of 'Curveball', who is the Iraqi 'source' the administration used to manipulate the fears of the weak, even after they were told his information shouldn't be trusted. The evidence against Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice and others is clear, and mounting. THE CURVEBALL SAGA How U.S. Fell Under the Spell of 'Curveball'

"The Iraqi informant's German handlers say they had told U.S. officials that his information was 'not proven,' and were shocked when President Bush and Colin L. Powell used it in key prewar speeches".

Sorry, George, I'm In the Majority ...from Michael Moore

Dear Mr. Bush: I would like to extend my hand and invite you to join us, the mainstream American majority. We, the people -- that's the majority of the people -- share these majority opinions: 1. Going to war was a mistake -- a big mistake. (link) 2. You and your administration misled us into this war. (link) 3. We want the war ended and our troops brought home. (link) 4. We don't trust you. (link) Now, I know this is a bitter pill to swallow. Iraq was going to be your great legacy. Now, it's just your legacy. It didn't have to end up this way. This week, when Republicans and conservative Democrats started jumping ship, you lashed out at them. You thought the most damning thing you could say to them was that they were "endorsing the policy positions of Michael Moore and the extreme liberal wing of the Democratic party." I mean, is that the best you can do to persuade them to stick with you -- compare them to me? You gotta come up with a better villain. For heaven's sakes, you had a hundred-plus million other Americans who think the same way I do -- and you could have picked on any one of them! But hey, why not cut out the name-calling and the smearing and just do the obvious thing: Come join the majority! Be one of us, your fellow Americans! Is it really that hard? Is there really any other choice? George, take a walk on the wild side! Your loyal representative from the majorityMichael Moore www.michaelmoore.com mmflint@aol.com

Innocent Teenager Executed in Texas

'Houston Chronicle' Suggests Innocent Man was Executed "It is often said that while many innocent men and women have been released from death row in recent years, there might not yet be one fully documented case of an innocent person actually put to death by the state. But an article in the Houston Chronicle for its Sunday edition strongly suggests that an innocent man--or rather, a teenager--was executed, 12 years ago. Ruben Cantu, 17, was executed in Texas in 1993, convicted of murder. He'd had no previous convictions and claimed he was framed in this one. Now the Chronicle investigation, it says, "suggests that Cantu, a former special-ed student who grew up in a tough neighborhood on the south side of San Antonio, was likely telling the truth. "Cantu's long-silent co-defendant, David Garza, just 15 when the two boys allegedly committed a murder-robbery together, has signed a sworn affidavit saying he allowed his friend to be falsely accused, though Cantu wasn't with him the night of the killing. "And the lone eyewitness, the man who survived the shooting, has recanted. He told the Chronicle he's sure that the person who shot him was not Cantu, but he felt pressured by police to identify the boy as the killer." The forewoman of the jury says: "The bottom line is, an innocent person was put to death." The prosecutor says that at a minimum Cantu should not have been charged with capital murder, based on testimony of one eyewitness. The Chronicle found other problems with Cantu's case as well: "Police reports have unexplained omissions and irregularities. Witnesses who could have provided an alibi for Cantu that night were never interviewed. And no physical evidence tied Cantu to the crime. "Worse, some think Cantu's arrest was instigated by police officers because Cantu shot and wounded an off-duty officer during an unrelated bar fight. That case against Cantu was dropped in part because officers overreacted and apparently tainted the evidence, according to records and interviews." ruben cantu

sunday morning

"Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo."

Exposing rightwing lying hypocrites who are not only partisan Republican-loving, America-hating fools but a little off in their 'forecasting' of events. 'Kosovo will be worse than Vietnam'? Republicans demanding Clinton tell them 'how long will this take', what's the 'exit strategy, how much is this going to cost? I tell you one thing, NO American lost their life in Kosovo and U.S. troops are but a fraction of the troops that went there! Unlike Bush's and the 'hate America' Republican boondoggle in Iraq. "The suspicion some people have about the president's motives in this attack [on Iraq] is itself a powerful argument for impeachment," Armey said in a statement. "After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reasons." Rep. Dick Armey, GOP Majority Leader "I cannot support this military action in the Persian Gulf at this time," Lott said in a statement. "Both the timing and the policy are subject to question." Sen. Trent Lott, GOP Majority Leader "President Clinton is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy." -Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) "No goal, no objective, not until we have those things and a compelling case is made, then I say, back out of it, because innocent people are going to die for nothing. That's why I'm against it." -Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/5/99 "American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy." -Representative Tom Delay (R-TX) "You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo." -Tony Snow, Fox News 3/24/99 "Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?" -Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99 "Bombing a sovereign nation for ill-defined reasons with vague objectives undermines the American stature in the world. The international respect and trust for America has diminished every time we casually let the bombs fly." -Representative Tom Delay (R-TX) From the Daily Kos

DOD News Release

U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) News Release On the Web: http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/nr20051119-5119.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- No. 1209-05 IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DoD Identifies Army Casualties The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died of injuries sustained in Bayji, Iraq, on Nov. 17, when their HMMWV was involved in a vehicle accident during convoy operations. Both soldiers were assigned to the 3rd Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky. Killed were: Spc. Vernon R. Widner, 34, of Redlands, Calif., in Tikrit, Iraq, on Nov. 17. Pfc. Anthony A. Gaunky, 19, of Sparta, Wis., at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, on Nov. 18. --------------------------------------------------------------------------