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		<title>By: shield</title>
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		<dc:creator>shield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>shm10:

Thank you and I&#039;ll pass your thanks on to our wonderful troops.  ;o)

Our Troops really get it and consider the MSM an enemy + the others we will not name here, but we all know who they are....so do the troops.

&lt;b&gt;Below is a prayer request from our military at Ft. Bragg:

Prayer chain for our Military..Please send this on after a short prayer. Prayer for our soldiers

&quot;Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they
protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they
perform for us in our time of need. Amen.&quot;

When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our troops around the world.&lt;/b&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>shm10:</p>
<p>Thank you and I&#8217;ll pass your thanks on to our wonderful troops.  ;o)</p>
<p>Our Troops really get it and consider the MSM an enemy + the others we will not name here, but we all know who they are&#8230;.so do the troops.</p>
<p><b>Below is a prayer request from our military at Ft. Bragg:</p>
<p>Prayer chain for our Military..Please send this on after a short prayer. Prayer for our soldiers</p>
<p>&#8220;Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they<br />
protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they<br />
perform for us in our time of need. Amen.&#8221;</p>
<p>When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our troops around the world.</b></p>
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		<title>By: shm10</title>
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		<dc:creator>shm10</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>shield:

Thanks for sharing.  For those of us who have an understanding of the US military it is refreshing to hear first hand what we all believe we know.

Thank your family member for their service to the country and please let them know there are many of us who totally support their missions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>shield:</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing.  For those of us who have an understanding of the US military it is refreshing to hear first hand what we all believe we know.</p>
<p>Thank your family member for their service to the country and please let them know there are many of us who totally support their missions.</p>
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		<title>By: shield</title>
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		<dc:creator>shield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was just talking to a family member at Bragg about the 60minute interview with the GREAT President Bush.  I ask the Braggie IF many in the military are now not supporting the War on Terror in Iraq as was stated on 60 Minutes.  The Braggie told me HELL NO HELL NO HELL NO!!!!  We are as much in support if not more so as EVER!!!  And we love President Bush....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was just talking to a family member at Bragg about the 60minute interview with the GREAT President Bush.  I ask the Braggie IF many in the military are now not supporting the War on Terror in Iraq as was stated on 60 Minutes.  The Braggie told me HELL NO HELL NO HELL NO!!!!  We are as much in support if not more so as EVER!!!  And we love President Bush&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: shm10</title>
		<link>http://macsmind.com/wordpress/2007/01/15/is-iraq-all-that-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-1177</link>
		<dc:creator>shm10</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here is another great example of media distortion when it comes to Iraq.  If you link please read to the end.  The article should have begun where it ended. http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2796220&amp;page=1</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is another great example of media distortion when it comes to Iraq.  If you link please read to the end.  The article should have begun where it ended. <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2796220&#038;page=1" rel="nofollow">http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2796220&#038;page=1</a></p>
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		<title>By: Renee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Renee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s the transcript.  Sorry, should have included it in the posting above.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/14/rs.01.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s the transcript.  Sorry, should have included it in the posting above.</p>
<p><a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/14/rs.01.html" rel="nofollow">http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/14/rs.01.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Renee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Renee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I caught this video over at Hot Air.  Pam Hess from UPI was on CNN and she said this:

 &quot;What we need to be asking is, what happens if we lose? And no one will answer that question. If we lose, how are we going to mitigate the consequences of this?

It&#039;s so much easier for us to cover this as a political horse race. It&#039;s on the cover of &quot;The New York Times&quot; today, what this means for the &#039;08 election. But we&#039;re not asking the central national security question, because it seems that if as a reporter you do ask the national security question, all of a sudden you&#039;re carrying Bush&#039;s water. There are national security questions at stake, and we&#039;re ignoring them and the country is getting screwed.&quot;

I don&#039;t know much about Pam Hess and her writings for the UPI, but we need more reporters asking the same question she did and getting this out to the American Public.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I caught this video over at Hot Air.  Pam Hess from UPI was on CNN and she said this:</p>
<p> &#8220;What we need to be asking is, what happens if we lose? And no one will answer that question. If we lose, how are we going to mitigate the consequences of this?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s so much easier for us to cover this as a political horse race. It&#8217;s on the cover of &#8220;The New York Times&#8221; today, what this means for the &#8216;08 election. But we&#8217;re not asking the central national security question, because it seems that if as a reporter you do ask the national security question, all of a sudden you&#8217;re carrying Bush&#8217;s water. There are national security questions at stake, and we&#8217;re ignoring them and the country is getting screwed.&#8221;</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know much about Pam Hess and her writings for the UPI, but we need more reporters asking the same question she did and getting this out to the American Public.</p>
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		<title>By: shm10</title>
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		<dc:creator>shm10</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Renee:

Yes I remember that memo also.  It is just so disconcerting that the dems keep skating away on all of these issues.

If we had been fortunate to have strong leadership in both houses when we were in the majority I believe much of this would have been exposed in its entirety and stopped.  However, that was not the case and the DOJ is hog tied by the FBI, CIA and State.

My biggest concern now though is exactly what Mac alluded to in his original post.  If we do not somehow impress on the people in this country the dangers we face, Iraq will look like a walk in the park.  Do you see anyone but the President, Vice President and certain cabinet members who are willing to do that?  Some courageous bloggers and a few commentators..most of the others, including our elected members of Congress are governing like dems...poll driven nonsense.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Renee:</p>
<p>Yes I remember that memo also.  It is just so disconcerting that the dems keep skating away on all of these issues.</p>
<p>If we had been fortunate to have strong leadership in both houses when we were in the majority I believe much of this would have been exposed in its entirety and stopped.  However, that was not the case and the DOJ is hog tied by the FBI, CIA and State.</p>
<p>My biggest concern now though is exactly what Mac alluded to in his original post.  If we do not somehow impress on the people in this country the dangers we face, Iraq will look like a walk in the park.  Do you see anyone but the President, Vice President and certain cabinet members who are willing to do that?  Some courageous bloggers and a few commentators..most of the others, including our elected members of Congress are governing like dems&#8230;poll driven nonsense.</p>
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		<title>By: Renee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Renee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Carol,
  I remember seeing this memo a couple of years ago.  Found it &quot;The Hill&quot;

http://www.hillnews.com/news/110603/memo.aspx

I was waiting for something big to pop last summer.  Nothing.  Our DOJ is spineless when it comes to the crimes of the Democrats.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Carol,<br />
  I remember seeing this memo a couple of years ago.  Found it &#8220;The Hill&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hillnews.com/news/110603/memo.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.hillnews.com/news/110603/memo.aspx</a></p>
<p>I was waiting for something big to pop last summer.  Nothing.  Our DOJ is spineless when it comes to the crimes of the Democrats.</p>
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		<title>By: Carol Johnson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carol Johnson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mac,

Off topic but I thought you might like to blog or comment on this.  I found these comments over at Free Republic today:

.....

Here is another interesting clip from Rocky&#039;s memo:

1) Pull the majority along as far as we can on issues that may lead to major new disclosures regarding improper or questionable conduct by administration officials. We are having some success in that regard.

For example, in addition to the President&#039;s State of the Union speech, the chairman [Sen. Pat Roberts] has agreed to look at the activities of the office of the Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, as well as Secretary Bolton&#039;s office at the State Department.

So...Rocky admits they want to (are) investigating the SOTU....and they got the FBI to investigate the Niger stuff. The two are directly related...I think Rocky&#039;s fingerprints are all over the Special Investigation and we know that Fitzy is no bipartisan individual.

I note the following excerpt for consideration as to who/how the FBI began investigating and questioning Libby:

&quot;B) Once we identify solid leads the majority does not want to pursue, we would attract more coverage and have greater credibility in that context than one in which we simply launch an independent investigation based on principled but vague notions regarding the use of intelligence.

In the meantime, even without a specifically authorized independent investigation, we continue to act independently when we encounter footdragging on the part of the majority. For example, the FBI Niger investigation was done solely at the request of the vice chairman. We have independently submitted written requests to the DOD and we are preparing further independent requests for information.&quot;

Focus on the second to last line of the second paragraph.

.....

Anyone else besides me get an &quot;ah ha&quot; moment?  PS:  Chucky Schumer is in on this somewhere too...any bets?

Carol</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mac,</p>
<p>Off topic but I thought you might like to blog or comment on this.  I found these comments over at Free Republic today:</p>
<p>&#8230;..</p>
<p>Here is another interesting clip from Rocky&#8217;s memo:</p>
<p>1) Pull the majority along as far as we can on issues that may lead to major new disclosures regarding improper or questionable conduct by administration officials. We are having some success in that regard.</p>
<p>For example, in addition to the President&#8217;s State of the Union speech, the chairman [Sen. Pat Roberts] has agreed to look at the activities of the office of the Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, as well as Secretary Bolton&#8217;s office at the State Department.</p>
<p>So&#8230;Rocky admits they want to (are) investigating the SOTU&#8230;.and they got the FBI to investigate the Niger stuff. The two are directly related&#8230;I think Rocky&#8217;s fingerprints are all over the Special Investigation and we know that Fitzy is no bipartisan individual.</p>
<p>I note the following excerpt for consideration as to who/how the FBI began investigating and questioning Libby:</p>
<p>&#8220;B) Once we identify solid leads the majority does not want to pursue, we would attract more coverage and have greater credibility in that context than one in which we simply launch an independent investigation based on principled but vague notions regarding the use of intelligence.</p>
<p>In the meantime, even without a specifically authorized independent investigation, we continue to act independently when we encounter footdragging on the part of the majority. For example, the FBI Niger investigation was done solely at the request of the vice chairman. We have independently submitted written requests to the DOD and we are preparing further independent requests for information.&#8221;</p>
<p>Focus on the second to last line of the second paragraph.</p>
<p>&#8230;..</p>
<p>Anyone else besides me get an &#8220;ah ha&#8221; moment?  PS:  Chucky Schumer is in on this somewhere too&#8230;any bets?</p>
<p>Carol</p>
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		<title>By: pagar</title>
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		<dc:creator>pagar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How can any American support the terrorists? That is all the US &quot;we can not win in Iraq&quot; crowd is doing, Supporting terrorists, why?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How can any American support the terrorists? That is all the US &#8220;we can not win in Iraq&#8221; crowd is doing, Supporting terrorists, why?</p>
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