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A ‘Merry Christmas’ sign hangs over an intensive care ward at the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2005.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. April Payne peeks into her stocking a day ahead of Christmas, at the Air Force Theater Hospital where she works in Balad, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2005.

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld poses for photos with members of Combined Task Force Bayonet at Khandahar Air Base, Afghanistan, on Dec. 22, 2005. Rumsfeld is in Afghanistan to visit and thank the troops for their service.

And then of course Santa is there doing his part too.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
It is true that we sleep better knowing we are safer because of our troops. Thank you everyone that is in the Military that reads this Blog. Thank you Veterans and your families for giving me a wonderful Christmas. Safe and secure because of each one of you.

Wild Thing comment……….Well, well, well we all know who ole Helen Thomas is and a-hem how she just doesn’t like President Bush. He is not her type. I just don’t think she likes cowboy’s. But we know she likes the terrorists since she wants so badly for us to leave them alone. Why she even thinks we should have left Saddam alone. Now go figure!!! I guess she has a thang’ for mass graves and rapists and murderers.
Here Ladies and Gentlemen we have a little article that Helen has written all about her ‘feelings’. I would say columnist but then that would be using the term loosely. Ann Coulter is a columnist not the creature from the dark lagoon Helen Thomas. And psst Helen……it is not “who” it is whom, Helen, for whom. You call yourself a writer? yikes!
Just follow the link to the liars article to read what she had to say. Now Helen dear, NOT, you are very aware of the schools that have opened, the electricity that now exists, the water that is now running, the 30,000 businesses that now have opened and so much more since our Troops went into Iraq and got rid of Saddam in power and his two totally mad sons. Not to mention the elections, where they just voted for their own government……… tisk tisk, naughty you Helen.

If War Was Right, For Who?…Boston Channel
Poor Helen, poor bitter, lonely, hateful Helen. She’s one person who really needs her stocking stuffed. I bet it’s been years. Maybe that’s why she’s so mean.
I have an idea….Put her in the cell with Saddam. Tell him he has 71 more just like her waiting for him.

The German government secretly released a member of the terrorist group Hezbullah after he served a mere 19 years of a life sentence for murdering a US Navy diver. In spite of strong objections by American diplomats, Germany disregarded the Bush Administration’s pleas that the killer either be extradited to the US or remain behind bars in Germany.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The brothers of a U.S. Navy diver killed in a 1985 hijacking expressed outrage on Thursday that a Hizbollah hijacker had been released by Germany and demanded Lebanon turn him over to the United States for trial.
Mohammad Ali Hammadi was quietly released last week after serving nearly 19 years of a life sentence for his role in the hijacking of a TWA airliner and the murder of U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem in Beirut. He was immediately returned to Lebanon despite U.S. objections.
When Hammadi was freed, Washington vowed to recapture him and bring him to trial.
“At this point I think what I can assure anybody who’s listening, including Mr. Hamadi, is that we will track him down,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said, according to BBC. “We will find him and we will bring him to justice in the United States for what he’s done.”
The ruthless terrorist, who was convicted of killing Robert Dean Stethem in Beirut during the 1985 hijacking of a TWA flight and sentenced to life in prison, was quietly transported to Lebanon last week. Critics of this release accuse the German government of being disingenuous during the Justice Ministry news conference. To them it’s simple — serving 19 years in prison for a vicious murder is not life imprisonment.
TWA Flight 847, with 145 passengers and nine crew members, was flying from Athens to Rome on June 14, 1985 when it was hijacked by Hizbullah members to back demands for the release of hundreds of Lebanese from Israeli jails.
It began…………………….
June 1985 Friday morning, just under a half an hour into the flight two terrorist brandished their guns and grenades, TWA flight 847 a Boeing 727 would now be hijacked. TWA Flight 847 out of Athens to Rome is hijacked by Shiite Muslims who have been identified as members of Islamic Jihad, “Holy War”, a group of various fundamentalist, operating in Lebanon and other Middle East countries.
The flight included over 150 passengers and its crew. At least 100 of the passengers were Americans. Enroute, the pilot contacted Beirut tower. The pilot reports his situation, he further states, “He has pulled a hand-grenade pin and is ready to blow up the aircraft if he has to. We must, I repeat, we must land at Beirut. We must land at Beirut. No alternative.” Beirut, not wanting any involvement with the terrorist, attempts to prevent Flight 847 from landing. Beirut ordered airport crews to block the runways with trucks and buses.
However, pilot John Testrake informed Beirut tower, “They are beating up passengers. We must land in Beirut. He has pulled the pin of the grenade. We must land. He is ready to blow up the plane.” A terrorist responded over the radio, “We are suicide terrorists! If you don’t let us land, we will crash the plane into your control tower, or fly it to Baabda and crash into the Presidential Palace!”

Robert Stethem

More details HERE of what happened to Robert Stethem.
When the demands were not met, Stethem was singled out. The hijackers learned he was a member of the US military. They beat and tortured him. Then, they shot him and dumped his body on the tarmac at the Beirut airport.
Wild Thing comments……………
In 1995, the USS Stethem was named after the late Robert Stethem to recognize his heroism. But today, America must demonstrate that his death at the hands of Islamic terrorists means more than just a name on a ship.
The German goverment has not only paroled the convicted murder, Mohammed Hammadi, but they went back on their standing promise to turn him over to US custody. Bottom line, Germany now openly supports terrorism and countries that harbor terrorists. Lebanon continues to harbor people who have killed many Americans and Jews.
For more information on the terrorists please go to my Terrorists page at my website.
For more information about Israel and their fight against terrorists, please visit my page titled Israel at my website.

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within.”

“An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known, and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys,
heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor.”

“He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in hearts of men.”

“He rots the soul of a nation. He works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city. He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A Murderer Is Less To Be Feared.”
Cicero, 43 B.C.

“A VERY BIG LIE” article……….
Below is the article in U.S. News & World Report………………11/28/05 by Michael Barone……………
It is said that a big lie can work if it is repeated often enough. For weeks, leading Democrats have been hammering away at the Big Lie that George W. Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Starting on Veterans Day, Bush, Dick Cheney, and others in the administration embarked on a “pushback,” arguing that Bush–and many leading Democrats, including some now part of the Big Lie campaign–accurately characterized the intelligence at the time.

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Senator Jay Rockefeller Gave Syria Advance Warning Of Iraq War Intentions! (FNS Transcript)
Some of the Transcript…………….

WALLACE: …in October of 2002 in which you authorized the use of force, you went further than the president ever did. Let’s watch:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ROCKEFELLER: I do believe that Iraq poses an imminent threat, but I also believe that after September 11th that question is increasingly outdated.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: Now, the president never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn’t it Jay Rockefeller?
ROCKEFELLER: No. I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I’ll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq, that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11.
Now, the intelligence that they had and the intelligence that we had were probably different. We didn’t get the presidential daily briefs. We got only a finished product, a finished product, a consensual view of the intelligence community, which does not allow for agencies — like in the case of the aluminum tubes, the Department of Energy said these aren’t thick enough to handle nuclear power.
They left that out and went ahead with, “They have aluminum tubes and they’re going to develop nuclear power.”
WALLACE: Senator, you’re quite right. You didn’t get the presidential daily brief or the senior executive intelligence brief. You got the national intelligence estimate.

Wild Thing’s comment…………
Syria and Iraq both had a heads up in plenty of time to move any incriminating WMD right across the border into Syria. And don’t forget that Rockefeller is the person behind the Dem’s Intel Committee memo that Sean Hannity broke the story on a couple of years ago. That memo said that the Dem’s had one shot at using the Intel committee investigation against the Republicans/President Bush. The trigger for that shot was pulled 2 weeks ago when Harry Reid demanded the “closed session.”
These people are not stupid, they are anti-American. Their enemy is the US, always has been and always will be, the only difference between 1941 and now is that they are overt rather than covert with their goals. They are now able to be overt with their hatred because the people have been softened, through media, education, drugs, sexuality, etc. just as Marx promised they would be.
These types of actions will continue until someone gets tried, convicted and executed for treason. So, whether its a Senator (i.e., Rockfeller) or a reporter (i.e., like Judith Miller), if you have sold this country out, you should be held accountable and suffer the consequences.
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§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments
Release date: 2005-08-03
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000953—-000-.html
The U.S. government’s secret memo detailing cooperationbetween Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
by Stephen F. Hayes – The Weekly Standard – 11/24/2003, Volume 009, Issue 11
OSAMA BIN LADEN and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, logistical support for terrorist attacks, al Qaeda training camps and safe haven in Iraq, and Iraqi financial support for al Qaeda–perhaps even for Mohamed Atta–according to a top secret U.S. government memorandum obtained by THE WEEKLY STANDARD.
The memo, dated October 27, 2003, was sent from Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith to Senators Pat Roberts and Jay Rockefeller, the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. …
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/378fmxyz.asp
Look at this!!!!
Al-Assad confers with US Senator
Syria-USA, Politics, 1/8/2002
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the Damascus al-Shaab palace on Monday received the US senator J. Rockefeller and members of the accompanying delegation.
The meeting was attended by the deputy premier and foreign minister Farouk al-Shara and the US ambassador in Damascus Theodore Qattouf.
Discussions dealt with results implied by the incidents of September 11, 2001 in the US at the regional and international levels.
The President stressed that fighting terrorism should be based on analyzing reasons behind it, noting that the already debated concept of terrorism is a terrorism which is too far from Islamic values.
He explained that Syria’s ancient history shows commitment of its peoples to divine religions. A matter which restores Syria’s stability.
Senator Rockefeller expressed happiness to meet with President Bashar al-Assad. He said he feels content after talking to President Bashar al-Assad not only about Syria but about the ME region as a whole.
Senator Rockefeller also stressed the need of deeper understanding of the Arab culture and civilization and of Muslims.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020108/2002010817.html
It never ends!!!!

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Wild Thing comment…..Theodore’s World is dedicated, to unhesitating support to our fighting forces and Jack Idema and Task Force Saber 7 are part of those forces that fought for us, fought for America and fought against those wanting to take down America and destory us.
Jack’s entire family has served in America’s Armed Forces with distinction. At 18 Jack Idema became the youngest Green Beret in American history. For more than 27 years Jack Idema has defended his country in Latin America, South America, Eastern Europe, Africa, the Mid-East, South East Asia, Central America, and finally, South West Asia. For more than a quarter of a century Jack has worked in counter-terrorists projects and activities which may never be known or written about but which have kept America and its allies free from oppressors and terrorists.
And now for today’s update on Jack Idema………………
Things are heating up, folks.
Parliament sat this week in Afghanistan for the first time in history, and Rabanni held a press conference (much to the American government’s dismay) and said he is standing down and throwing his support behind Yanus Qanooni. Qanooni, in case you don’t know, is the sweet quiet new head of Parliament that the Americans were trying to throw over by throwing lavish amounts of money at Rabanni. It didn’t work. Qanooni is a good friend of Jack’s, so it should be interesting to see how this all plays out.
All of this means great things for our friends who are still being held at Pulacharke, even though VP Cheney visited Afghanistan and for the first time in months, electricity was turned on. For one day. And right after Cheney left, it was turned back off again.
Contrary to what the Smear Jack Cabal has to say about it, while the electricity was on, they were able to use their computers. I’m sure it pains the Smear Jack Cabal to know that none of their allegations are true. And contrary to what the Smear Jack Cabal has to say about it, they still enjoy their wonderful accommodations, thanks to the Northern Alliance.
The hundreds of visitors per day that Jack has been receiving from Parliament and Generals in the UFMF has subsided because the new government has a tremendous undertaking ahead…they need to elect their new leaders, and the power that Karzai has been using against them is further slipping away.
As a result of the good news about Parliament sitting, electing their new representatives, and Karzai’s power being quelled as a result, we also feel confident that Jack and his men will soon be released from Pulacharke–it is only a matter of time. With the winds of change in the air, the Northern Alliance still being derided by Carlotta Gall and other clueless American journalists as “warlords” who are guilty of human rights violations (and the Taliban and Al Qaeda are not?)-it is time to smile, and soon we will be celebrating the news of Jack, Brent and Ed’s release.
Most importantly, we should be celebrating the fact that–in spite of our government’s manipulation and playing into the hands of the terrorists, the people have spoken and the Northern Alliance has the majority of seats. The Northern Alliance is clearly in control, so…we shall see what forces win in the end. And it doesn’t appear to me as though at this moment, it’s going to be the Taliban/Pashtuns of the country.
We should still continue to raise hell with our representatives, however, because their heightened awareness to what this can do to the Bush administration and the war on terror is also a key to this entire situation. The fact that the western journalists have twisted the news coming out of Afghanistan should be no surprise, but the shame of it is–they’ve completely ignored the biggest story of the war on terror to date; Jack Idema, his Taliban trial conviction and the US Government’s complicity in his torture at Sederat and later hisimprisonment along with Brent Bennett and Ed Caraballo AFTER THEY WERE DECLARED INNOCENT IN A SECOND TRIAL.

We should make it clear that we know what has gone on here and that it’s an outrage and all men from TF Sabre/7 should be released, exonerated, their names cleared. And we should be also pushing for a Congressional investigation as to who was involved, the how and the why. Nobody fighting in Afghanistan or Iraq should EVER have to worry about being hung out to dry like this by a government that is employing stalinist tactics and turning its back on all the freedoms and rights that have been provided and guaranteed us by our founding documents and the blood of our forefathers, many of whom are laying at Arlington cemetary–as well as old standards which all men in uniform think they have as safeguards such as the Geneva Conventions. Are we to apply the Geneva Conventions to terrorists to whom these safeguards don’t apply and ignore them for our men in uniform for whom they were written???
If so, we’re setting ourselves up for FAILURE in this TERROR WAR!!!!
This is the “Free Jack” campaign.
To join the campaign, email Cao From Cao’s Blog and tell her you want to join the Free Jack Idema blogburst. You will be added to the blogroll and she’ll send you the html code to put up for that week in case you’re pressed for time and can’t put something together…or you can write your own.
We will be blogging on this every Wednesday until he and his team are released, and when they are, we’ll be blogging about a congressional hearing.
Cao will maintain an email list, and will email you the post of the week along with a picture (if there is one for that week) to host at your blog.
Join the fight. No American should ever have to worry about ending up in this predicament ever again. But first, we must make sure they get home safely and in one piece.
Blogs who are not posting on this and linking back to me will be deleted from the blogroll. I will be checking.
These are the blogs so far who are participating:

Contact your representatives and ask them why Idema, Bennett and Caraballo are STILL being held at Pulacharke when they were all declared innocent by the Afghans since at least December of last year. Read further for addresses, names and phone numbers of who you can contact.

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WWE with a tribute to the troops in Afghanistan. World Wrestling Entertainment RAW TV show will featured a special “Tribute to the Troops”

Entertainment is something our troops need. And the show was great and even though it was wrestling it had a tremendous amount of moments that brought tears to my eyes. Watching the troops having such fun, laughing and really enjoying themselves.

Apache helicopters and A-10 Warthogs with soldiers perched on top formed the backdrop.
As the show opened Vince McMahon ripped the media and commended the troops. Before anyone decides to make a comment about Vince McMahon I want to say how I feel about this…………….I don’t care whether Vince said it for ratings or said it because he truly means it–the point is IT WAS SAID, directly and pointedly at the media, with all the spite and vinegar he could muster.
They met with thousands of men and women in the U.S. military carrying the message “America Supports You.”

Monday Night RAW emanated from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan as RAW presented a special Tribute to the Troops.
The show also profiled U.S. servicemembers talking about their experiences in Afghanistan and sending messages to loved ones back home. This is the third straight year that the WWE has entertained U.S. servicemembers stationed abroad.

WWE, a member of the Defense Department’s America Supports You program, wanted to do this tour to give something back to the troops overseas, Gary Davis, a WWE spokesman, said.
“WWE has a tremendous fan base within the U.S. military, and it seemed fitting that we do something out of the ordinary for that fan base, as our men and women in the military are being deployed around the world to fight for our freedom,” Davis said. He went on to say, “We were just overwhelmed by the appreciation shown by the troops for having us come over to entertain them, and yet we were so humbled by the devotion, the morale and the dedication of the troops,” he said. “Anything anyone can do for those troops, we should be doing.”
An addition to this year’s tour was the attendance of MSNBC correspondent Rita Cosby, Cosby covered the tour for MSNBC, hosting two live shows from Afghanistan that featured most of the WWE RAW superstars on the tour and discussed the U.S. military’s accomplishments in Afghanistan.
Rita Cosby, “I will always be thankful to have had such a powerful and meaningful opportunity. I hope by sharing it with all of you, you too will think about our soldiers in Afghanistan and throughout the globe this holiday season. They have given us the greatest gift — the gift of freedom, and it’s something we can never repay.”
Cena: “These are the heros … without you, we ain’t got nothin'”.
Another nice montage to finish up with Creed’s Scott Strapps’s, “The Great Divide” playing, “… You set me free to live my life, you became my reason to survive the great divide.”
Very Nice!
I thought the whole show was awesome. I think the sentiment was genuine from all the wrestling superstars. Quite an uplifting Christmas present to our troops.
Trish Stratus, Mick Foley and JBL, Shawn Michaels took on Triple H., WWE Champion John Cena defeated Chris Masters in a non-title match, Intercontinental Champion Ric Flair defeated Coach in an impromptu challenge match for the Intercontinental Championship, Big Show defeated Carlito and Snitsky defeated Shelton Benjamin.
Trish Stratus

Maria

Candice Michelle

Here are photos

Here are Videos

Wild Thing’s comment……..
I received an email about this today, from the Dept. of Defense, and that it was going to be on TV tonight. My husband and I watched it, and it was really awesome. We never watch wrestling, but this really did justice to our troops. The whole thing was well done and all about our service members. It showed the wrestlers visiting the injured, and the rest of the troops. Goofing around with them, dancing with them and just having tons of fun with them. It gave many of the service men and women a chance to say Hi and a message back home to their families as well. I was very impressed and it brought tears to our eyes to watch the show. I hope they show it again. It was on USA channel at 9:00 Monday night.
The entire feel of the show was how much the troops are appreciated and how we owe them so very much. I thought it would be neat to share about this since there is so much, way too much negative out there and this is such a feel good happening to be shared. The performers were sincere and it could be felt strongly in all they did and said.

Vice President Cheney visits the troops in Baghdad

US Vice President Dick Cheney (C) poses with US troops at the Taji Air Base in Iraq. Cheney also met with Iraqi leaders and US Military Command to discuss security and the latest elections during his surprise visit.(AFP/Pool/Lawrence Jackson)

U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney talks with U.S. soldiers after touring the 9th Mechanized Infantry Division of the Iraqi Army at the Taji Air Base in Iraq

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney (C) greets an Iraqi soldier with the 9th Mechanized Infantry Division of the Iraqi Army at the Taji Air Base in Iraq December 18, 2005

U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney eats with U.S. and Iraqi soldiers at the Taji Air Base in Iraq December 18, 2005.

By Petty Officer 3rd Class John R. Guardiano, USN
American Forces Press Service

Vice President Dick Cheney made a surprise visit to Iraq today to hail the country’s successful Dec. 15 parliamentary election in which more than 70 percent of Iraqis — 11 million-plus voters — participated. Meanwhile, the vice president’s wife, an historian, took to the airwaves today to provide historical context for the elections.
“It’s an honor for me to be here to mark the tremendous success of the Iraqi people,” the vice president told reporters in Baghdad. “The participation levels [in the election] all across the country were remarkable. ”
In fact, the biggest change in last Thursday’s election was the dramatic rise in Sunni participation compared to that in Iraq’s last two elections, in January and October.
Indeed, “the Sunni Arabs participated in very large numbers” this time, Zalmay Khalilzad, the U. S. ambassador to Iraq, told Wolf Blitzer today on CNN’s Late Edition. He noted that in Anbar province, “the heartland of the Sunni world here,” voter participation rose from 10 percent in January to 62 percent on Dec. 15.
Khalilzad said he does not expect the same spike in violence that occurred in the aftermath of the Jan. 30 elections. To be sure, violence and fighting in Iraq will continue. However, Khalilzad explained, it likely will “not escalate in the same way that it did after the previous election, which the Sunnis had boycotted. ”
“I think,” he said, “if a good government is formed — if Sunnis feel that their concerns are dealt with — I think violence will decrease over time significantly, and terrorists and Saddamists will be increasingly isolated. ”
“That’s exactly what needs to happen,” Cheney said in Baghdad today, “as you build a political structure in a self-governing Iraq that can unify the various segments of the population and, ultimately, take over responsibility for their own security. ”
“This obviously has been a joint venture, with a great deal of effort on the part of the United States and our coalition partners,” he said. “But ultimately, the responsibility for the future of Iraq clearly rests with the people of Iraq. ”
Cheney visited Iraqi and U. S. soldiers at Taji Military Training Base, observing their training and congratulations them or providing security for the successful elections, Multinational Force Iraq officials said.
While on base, the vice president was escorted and briefed by Army Lt. Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, commander of the Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq, and Iraqi Maj. Gen. Bashar Mahmoud Ayoub, commander of the 9th Iraqi Mechanized Division, who discussed the unit’s recent successes and their equipment.
This was followed by a demonstration of traffic control point training by Iraqi soldiers and their U. S. advisers and lunch with U. S. and Iraqi soldiers and airmen assigned to the base, officials said.
Historian Lynne Cheney said today that, in comparison to where the United States was at a comparable point in its own history, the Iraqis are doing remarkably well.
An estimated 100,000 Americans, just 3 percent of all eligible voters, participated in America’s first election under the new U. S. Constitution, she noted. And more than half of the U. S. population — all women and slaves — were ineligible to vote. In Iraq, by contrast, women are eligible to vote, there are no slaves, and more than 70 percent of the population voted.
In fact, the Iraqi constitution gives women equal rights and a mandatory 25 percent of all seats in the newly elected parliament, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Tim Russert today on NBC News’ Meet the Press. “The Iraqis are now going to engage in a process which gives them a real chance for a broadly representative government,” she said.
Iraq, the vice president’s wife said, obviously has benefited from U. S. experience and guidance. “We’ve been able to bring our knowledge to the people of Iraq,” she said.
It took Iraq three months to form an interim government after its January elections, and Khalilzad said Iraq will move quickly to form a new government. However, he quickly added, the United States will not rush these efforts.
“I want to emphasize that forming a government quickly is an important value,” he said. But so, too, is “having a good government, a government that has good people in it — technocrats, people who have the confidence of Iraqis
“So will we emphasize both factors: a good, moderate, cross-sectarian, cross-ethnic government [and one that is formed] as soon as possible,” Khalilzad said.
Iraq’s newly elected representatives “will have to make compromises,” Khalilzad explained, because “no party will have the votes to make the government by itself. So coalitions will have to be formed. And now, unlike the previous parliament, a lot of Sunnis will also be in parliament. So it’s going to take time. ”
Iraqis “recognize that they need to sustain the momentum out of this election,” Rice told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. “They need to sustain the momentum for the expectations of the Iraqi people. They need to sustain it because of the insurgency and the terrorists. And they need to send a strong message that the political process is moving forward. ”
“As the year ends,” Lynne Cheney said, “I think it’s important not only to see what’s gone right in Iraq and Afghanistan, but to look at ourselves and say, ‘You know, our fighting men and women have accomplished something quite remarkable. ‘”
“There have been missteps in our history and many a backward step,” Cheney writes in her book, “A Time for Freedom. ” But “the overall thrust of our story has been the expansion of human freedom. And if we have not always understood that our freedom is caught up with the freedom of people around the globe, we do now, and we fight for them as well as for ourselves. ”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Count on it the left will make something out of this that is NOT true. Let’s not let them spoil the nice surprise visit that VP Cheney did today. I am fed up with the left turning everything into something ugly and untrue, especially when it comes to our troops!

I could also have titled this….. RHINO’s and Democrats try hard to protect the terrorists!!!!!!

Senate Blocks Vote to Extend Patriot Act
As Congress raced toward adjournment, the bill’s Senate supporters were not able to garner the 60 votes necessary to overcome a threatened filibuster by Sens. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and other lawmakers who opposed the provisions. The final vote was 52-47.
America will revert to its pre-9/11 status in terms of law enforcement tools.

I declare that the blood is on their hands when another terrorist’s attack is successful here in America.
RHINO’s, and Dems all the same DNA are all traitors to America!
Are you so fucking stupid as to think that attacks have not been attempted since 9-11? Are you?????? God help us that you sit in power in our government! God help us that you so blatantly say NO to protecting our country, YOUR country too but then you could give a rats ass.
And this goes for the N.Y. Times too, FUCK YOU!
The N.Y. Times chose to disclose classified information in a pathetically obvious bid to move the Iraqi elections off the front pages.
As a result of the NSA program, buried down in the 11th paragraph, we learn that the terrorist plot involving convicted al Qaeda operative Iyman Faris was uncovered–possibly saving untold lives, not to mention New York bridges and possibly Washington, D.C. trains.
If the Bush administration chose to pursue FISA warrants, failed to obtain them, let the information go to waste, and allowed another attack to occur as a result, is there any question the finger-waggers at the N.Y. Times would be the first to attack the President for failing to do everything necessary to prevent it?
The President gave a live address on Sat. Dec. 17th, in which he said that he authorized the NSA to intercept communications between suspected terrorists in the U.S. and their Al Qaeda contacts overseas, after 9/11/01. He did not equivocate, saying he ensured the authorization he gave was reviewed by the Justice Department and senior members of Congress. Russ Feingold immediately followed on CNN claiming that the President, in his efforts to stop terrorists, was breaking the law. “No one is above the law,” says Russ Feingold, who is obviously trying to lay the case for impeachment. FUCK you Feingold, I could care less how , when , why, what it takes to stop terrorists! Feingold feels the terrorists are entitled to due process and privacy while they are plotting their attacks!!!!!
Here is President Bush’s Radio address from yesterday
I hope President Bush gives them HELL tonight in his address, I hope he brings this passion and anger with him and delivers a right upper cut right to the faces and brains of the lefties and the RHINO’s . Hang em’ High President Bush! I am with you President Bush!!!! I am sick and tired and furious (blood boiling) at the RHINO’s that have constantly stabbed our President in the back every step of the way along with the Democrats.
WASHINGTON — President Bush said Saturday he personally has authorized a secret eavesdropping program in the U.S. more than 30 times since the Sept. 11 attacks and he lashed out at those involved in publicly revealing the program.
“This is a highly classified program that is crucial to our national security,” he said in a radio address delivered live from the White House’s Roosevelt Room.
“This authorization is a vital tool in our war against the terrorists. It is critical to saving American lives. The American people expect me to do everything in my power, under our laws and Constitution, to protect them and their civil liberties and that is exactly what I will continue to do as long as I am president of the United States,” Bush said.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS President Bush I agree with you!!!!
Here is a complete breakdown of the voting
Hey RHINO’s and Democrats! Did you forget?????
Hey RHINO’s and Democrats do you know anything about Terrorists????
Hey RHINO’s and Democrats WATCH THIS IF YOU DARE!!!! necessary! Click here to see what happened to a man named Eugene Armstrong. He was beheaded and this video shows it ! And he is not the only one that this has happened to! R= rated or should it be TRUTH rated. This is what YOU RHINO’s and Demcorats promote!!!!
NEVER EVER FORGET! NEVER!

“We stand here on the only island of
freedom that is left in the whole world.
There is no place left to flee to …
no place to escape to. We defend
freedom here or it is gone. There is no
place for us to run, only to make a stand.
And if we fail, I think we face telling our
children, and our children’s children, what
it was we found more precious than freedom.
Because I am sure someday —
if we fail in this —
there will be a generation that will ask.”
–Ronald Reagan

Come on Bloggers speak UP! Where is the outrage across the internet world!!???!!
There are some discussing this and I applaud them!!
Go To Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
And also here at MVRWC, Beth does an awesome job!

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