Guilliani will NEVER get the Repub nomination:  pro gay rights, pro
choice, etc.

While I agree that we should stay and finish the job, I worry about how
long it will take and what the cost will be.  I also worry about what
will happen if there is another terrorist attack on our nation.  Will
Bush actually go after the terrorists responsible, or will he abandon
the search after a few months to attack another random country?

I think she should run if that's what she really wants.  I don't think
she will get past the primaries if she does, though.

I would.  She has repeatedly stated that she has no desire to be
president.

Guilliani?   How in the world will he get the Republican nomination?   Last
I heard he was pro women's rights, and pro gay rights.   One of those alone
is enough to kill his nomination.

"Stabilize the area" you mean murder another 200,000 people?
No matter how long we stay there there will be no tranquility

However, I agree with Bush on one count, I think he should dres twins in the
uniform and send them to Iraq

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Another Ayatollah!

     WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) - Insider notes from United Press
International for June 8

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A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing
serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Former
chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W.
Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds comments that the official story about the
collapse of the WTC is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled
demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7. Reynolds,
who also served as director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National
Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas and is now professor emeritus at Texas
A&M University said, "If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the
World Trade Center on 9/11, then the case for an 'inside job' and a
government attack on America would be compelling." Reynolds commented from
his Texas A&M office, "It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a
scientific debate over the cause of the collapse of the twin towers and
building 7. If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe
it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis is not
likely to be correct either. The government's collapse theory is highly
vulnerable on its own terms. Only professional demolition appears to account
for the full range of facts associated with the collapse of the three
buildings."

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Two years after President George W. Bush proclaimed "mission accomplished"
in Iraq, some thoughtful officers are beginning to question who the
insurgents actually are. In a recent interview the head of the US 42nd
Infantry Division which covers key trouble spots, including Baquba and
Samarra Major General Joseph Taluto said he could understand why some
ordinary Iraqis would take up arms against U.S. forces because "they're
offended by our presence." Taluto added, "If a good, honest person feels
having all these Humvees driving on the road, having us moving people out of
the way, having us patrol the streets, having car bombs going off, you can
understand how they could (want to fight us). There is a sense of a good
resistance, or an accepted resistance. They say 'okay, if you shoot a
coalition soldier, that's okay, it's not a bad thing but you shouldn't kill
other Iraqis.'" Taluto insisted however that the other foreign forces would
not be driven out of Iraq by violence, observing, "If the goal is to have
the coalition leave, attacking them isn't the way," he said. "The way to
make it happen is to enter the political process cooperate and the coalition
will be less aggressive and less visible and eventually it'll go away."
Taluto's comments are sure to raise hackles at the Pentagon, which insist
that all insurgents are either Baathists or al-Qaida. Taluto observed that
"99.9 per cent" of those captured fighting the U.S. were Iraqis.

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Ah well, there's always Argentina. The German government is reportedly
blocking the deportation of Nazi war crimes suspects from the U.S. back to
Germany to be tried and punished. The German interior ministry has refused
to accept the suspects even though the United States already has stripped
them of their citizenship because of their World War II history and has
asked Germany to accept them; German officials worry the suspects might join
neo-Nazi groups. Deputy director of the Office of Special Investigations at
the Department of Justice Jonathan Drimmer said, "By and large we're talking
about concentration camp guards, we're talking about collaborators, people
who were involved in indigenous police forces, that kind of thing." German
interior ministry officials said that Washington had not given Berlin enough
proof that the suspects were war criminals, despite repeated requests from
Germany. Deportation in U.S. court cases requires not criminal, but just
civil, proceedings, with a burden of proof of "clear, convincing, and
unequivocal evidence." German Interior ministry officials noted that if
Germany accepted the deportees, they would be supported by the German social
system and possibly would involve themselves in the extreme right or
anti-Semitic political activities.

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The first conflict that the newly independent United States engaged in began
in 1801 with the Barbary States; now descendents of those corsairs have
participated in naval exercises with their former enemies. On June 7
Algerian and U.S. Coast Guard warships conducted a joint naval exercise,
improving interoperability and developing cooperation in securing the
western Mediterranean. The vessels conducted maritime patrol missions,
testing their joint capabilities to monitor and board suspicious vehicles
and interdict illegal migration. U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Robert Wyner said
Washington regards Algeria as a strategic partner in the war against
terrorism and that Algeria would play a major role in U.S. efforts to
bolster the stability of North Africa and counter the threat of al-Qaida.
Interestingly enough, former counterterrorism adviser Richard A. Clarke
closed Boston harbor on 9-11 because of concerns that al-Qaida terrorists
were stowaways aboard liquefied natural gas tankers from Algeria bound for
Boston's Everett LNG facility.

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Official WTC report false.

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Rudi Guiliani supports gay and lesbian rights, racial justice and
supports for the accessibility of higher education to all. These are
things some more radical republicans don't favor, so how is it the
radicalism in the party going to support a progressive individual?