Kerry and Israel
 

This will be difficult to do if we continue to allow Israel a veto over US foreing policy. Brent Scowcroft doesn't seem to think W does a good job handling Sharon: "Sharon just has him wrapped around his little finger," Scowcroft told London's Financial Times. "I think the president is mesmerized."

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Kerry and Israel
 

GWB is not mesmerized by Sharon. He recognizes that Israel is an ally in the war on terror and is being attacked by terrorist the same as we are and is entitled to fight back the same as we are.

Kerry and Israel
 

You think Scowcroft overlooks any of this?

Wronging the Right.
 

another Democrat trying to legislate my life. let those whose head collides decide! hmmm. maybe I can make the ballot confusing.....

Clinton
 

you said "yanked his vein" heh-heh heh-heh

Is this the October Surprise?
 

See my post earlier today. He allegedly lied about meeting with the members of the security council before the war.

Is this the October Surprise?
 

Well, to keep things in perspective, I think it quite likely he didn't meet with "all" the member of the security council as he said. Several of the "less important" have said he did not. To be fair to JFK, he may have met with all those he finds important. To be fair to our friends, he should find them all important and not make such a careless statement.

Is this the October Surprise?
 

Do you believe that this story will create a "serious problem for the Kerry campaign?"

Is this the October Surprise?
 

I don't think so, but one never knows what can tip the scales a week before an election.

to the anal....
 

Earlier, I told you all that the 380 tons of explosives were bad to lose, but that mistakes happen in war, and that your cries for perfection were unreasonable. I must apologize and retract that statement.

We have destroyed over 100000 tons of explosives and hold 140000 more. we lost 380 tons? Perspective?



http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/..._weapons14.asp

SS, if you don't retract everything you said....well you'll see

Kerry and Israel
 

In that same article, Scowcroft also states, that Sharon "has been nothing but trouble." Nice way to armchair quarterback the guy who is actually going to get Israel out of Gaza.

aV

Kerry and Israel
 

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to the anal....
 

Hank, I'm glad that we managed to destroy lots of explosives. By the way, what kind of explosives did we destroy and/or keep? Apparently the stuff we found, then abandoned, and then "lost" were especally toxic stuff.

• HOW MUCH BANG FOR THE BUCK? Most people have probably never heard of RDX, HMX, and PETN, the types of explosives that were looted from al Qaqaa. (Neither did I until I started researching this recently.) Depending on how you ask, these are either the most powerful or among the most powerful conventional explosives that exist. So how much boom do you get for 380 tons of the stuff? My friend and fellow blogger Phillip Carter, a former Army captain, e-mails with an attempt at a back-of-the-envelope calculation, using a "how many Oklahoma City bombings" metric. Here's the result:
  OK City = 5,000 pounds/2,300 kg of ammonium-nitrate and nitromethane.
  This mix has a TNT equivalent ranging from 3%-10%, i.e. the OK City bomb is the equivalent of 150 - 500 pounds of TNT.
  
  AQQ = 380 tons of RDX, HMX and PETN. RDX and PETN have a TNT equivalent value of 170%. Converted into TNT, the AQQ stockpile equals 646 tons or 1,292,000 pounds of explosives.
  
  Convert this back into my OK City metric, and this means that the lost material at AQQ equals betwen 2,584 - 8613 OK City-size bombs. That's one hell of a lot of material to be on the street -- enough to fuel a car-bomb and IED-based insurgency for years, if not decades.
  
  Chilling thought. Even if the order of magnitude is off by, say, two decimal places.

TAPPED

Heads are going to roll in the Bunning campaign tomorrow
 

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...ce_kyer103.jpg

What an unfortunate photograph.