Immigrant Rights march, LA yesterday
Bob Morris @ Oct 17th 2004 09:53 - Category: Unfiled ;
Archive for October 17th, 2004
Iraqis are shooting back, imagine that
Bob Morris @ Oct 17th 2004 09:49 - Category: Unfiled ;
From the NY Times front page
We’ve seen the Enemy and they are … who, exactly?.
A year and a half after Baghdad fell, the insurgency has yet to develop a full-fledged political wing, or a coherent political program.
Well, sort of. Yes, many insurgent factions disagree with each other on politics and ultimate goals. However, they are completely united on one goal - driving out the US.
A senior official in the Muslim Scholars Association, a group of Sunni clerics that has close ties to insurgent leaders, acknowledged that the goals of the cells are “sometimes even antithetical to each other.”
“But they all have one goal, and that is to kick the Americans out of Iraq, and I don’t think they’ll be flexible in this goal,” the official, Muhammad Bashar al-Fadhi, said.
The Pentagon didn’t understand this in Vietnam and they don’t understand it now. And the end result will be the same, a US defeat.
John Kerry For President:: more newpaper endorsements today.
Bob Morris @ Oct 17th 2004 07:32 - Category: Unfiled ;
From Kos
The NY Times and (I’m shocked, it’s baseball season) the Boston Globe, sure. But the (Suburban Chicago) Daily Herald? There’s also the Daytona Beach News and there will be others. Post them if you’ve got them… a running tally can be found here. Note the numbers:
In E&P’s exclusive daily endorsement tally, this gives Kerry a 15-13 edge on President Bush but widens his margin in the combined circulation of the papers that back him from 3-1 to nearly 5-1, with an edge of about 4 million to 850,000 (a complete chart will follow later today).
