Kerry Nails It

hey joe. just wondering, is Time endorsing the travel costs or are you personally paying for them. i ask not to be invasive, but because i truly have got no idea whatsoever.
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i believe the trips are valuable in order to get a hands-on feel for this, but i just haven't got a clue as to who sponsors them

What was John Kerry's position on the surge in Iraq?

So is John Kerry going to call our allies in this fight "window dressing"?

Joe:
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Are these the same babbling idiots I saw on the OutFOXed thread?
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Talk about collective far right Whack-A-Mole...

Please stay there and take that half-wit 53 (double his IQ) with you. The country would be much better off without the 2 of you!

Rock and roll, titties and beer. Thanks.

Any comment on the huge bombs set off in Baghdad this past weekend?
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BAGHDAD -- Twin car bombs that devastated three government buildings and killed 132 people Sunday underlined a new strategy in Iraq's contest for power ahead of January elections: spectacular blows aimed at destroying faith in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's ability to secure the country as the United States withdraws, officials and residents said.
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Sunday's attack, cutting through snarled traffic during the morning rush hour, was the worst in Baghdad since 2007. With an attack Aug. 19 that killed about 100 people, insurgents have now wrecked an array of pillars of the state's authority: the Foreign, Finance, Justice, and Municipalities and Public Works ministries, along with the Baghdad provincial headquarters, which are all gathered in a fortified swath of downtown.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/25/AR2009102500811.html

" .. I hate to make predictions, .."

We hate it too ..

" .. I'm heading overseas for a week or so .."

We wonder if this trip has anything to do with the elections in Afghanistan ..
If so, we hope that those Afghani keep a close,very close watch on you. We remember what happened in Iran when Israel Klein visited with them for their presidential elections ... [Maybe it will turn out as in Kenya's "free and fair", "democratic" fraudulent elections 2007 where our incumbent goon had to retain power - whatever the cost in lives and livelihoods ..]

[Curious about posting #1: Who is paying for the trip ..]

Also, we never heard about those protests in Guinea that left dozens dead:
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Soldiers reeking of alcohol menaced Guinea's capital Tuesday, a day after the military's presidential guard shot at pro-democracy demonstrators in the West African country, leaving at least 157 people dead, a human rights group said.

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New York-based Human Rights Watch said eyewitnesses also told them that security forces had stripped female protesters Monday and raped them in the streets. Other eyewitnesses said soldiers had stabbed protesters with knives and bayonets. .

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/29/world/main5348634.shtml

Joe, you might want to check that link. It points to your Outlook Exchange server logon screen.......

Be careful Joe. I look forward to your reports.

" .. Time Magazine pays all my work-related travel expenses. .."

Ahem ..
Sometimes, we wonder about this TIME ...

" .. Our policy is that we don't accept free trips from anyone."

Nice policy ..
And in addition, of course we have a policy: The USA tortures no-one. Stop.

My o' my, the liberal trolls are indeed out in force keeping Joe's miserable ratings on this site a notch above "Pee Wee's Great Adventure" blog.
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"Meanwhile, I'm heading overseas for a week or so and probably won't be blogging much."

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Perhaps you can just stay where ever it is you are going overseas, Joe. Become TIME's "foreign correspondent". I think that would be a better service to the blogosphere!
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Did you catch your beat down on Bill O'Reilly last night on the Factor, Joe? He called you out big time on your "seditious lies" comment the other day about Fox. Do you even know what the word seditious means?
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LOL you are such a joke!! Right up there with the other half-baked liberals that frequent this site, IQ53 et al.

"The right-wing hate machine is gearing up..."

Um...does it ever gear down?

Senator Kerry remembers Gary Webb, Mr. Klein.

Do you?

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/the-killing-game-gary-webbs-parting-shot/

Safe travels, Joe.

(although I'm more skeptical than the U.S. Military about our ability to create an Afghan army of 250,000 or more, plus hundreds of thousands of non-corrupt police officers).
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You should be skeptical because neither of these things is ever ever going to happen.
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Pretty soon we will have been there longer than the Soviets and will have about as much to show for it despite having actually killed or driven out some really bad people.
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The problem for us is not the corruption, the poppy fields or lack of ability to provide basic services. The problem is that we are there in country in the first place and no amount of wishful thinking is going to undo that problem. This country may one day change, but it won't be at our hands.

Yes, Joe safe travels, and hopefully while you're over there, out of reach of DC mind control you will be able to shed the mantel of prescribed village orthodoxy in favor of a more reality based prism from which you will finally be able to see the remarkable changes taking place in that part of the world. As an expert in group dynamics it doesn't take much to see that the national media corp suffers from a particularly egregious case of group think. The 8 years of Clinton derangement that directly led to the last 8 years of Bush denial and is poised to repeat itself as evidenced by the first 9 months of Obama's failure to be a magical president that can wave away 40 years of neglect and extreme crisis with a stroke of a pen.

We have an overwhelming amount of information that reveals how bad this kind of media group think is for the country. Hopefully, being away from that kind of stifling influence you will be free to see and write something closer to the truth when it comes to Obama's successes abroad that until now have been completely ignored. If only you could take a few more of your brethren with you, you would begin to understand why your industry is not doing well.

It's funny, you've talked about the GOP shrinking because it has insisted on ideological purity to the point it is no longer appealing to those in the center. Yet, the national media corps has done exactly the same thing. You've insisted on a strict adherence to village narrative even though this narrow view that ignores nuance and promotes the orthodoxy of the right wing despite any proof to the contrary is precisely what is turning off your market yet you don't stop -- no you double down and have begun this ridiculous coverage of the Obama administration from the same perspective that had the media inventing white water.

It is clear that like the GOP's demand for club purity is shrinking their party, so is the national media's demand that they dictate who will be welcome in the district club house. While they originally wanted to claim the cool kids represented by the Obama family, they find now they can't accept them for a variety of reasons -- no doubt because of major infractions to club protocol like the Obama's failure to join Sally Quinn's church, not wanting to attend Maureen Dowd's shindig and not allowing somebody's children to attend the private concert of the Jonas Brothers with the girls.

Not as often as Bill Clinton does.

Have a safe trip, Joe.

Have a safe trip, Joe.

Bill O'Reilly sends his regards.

What's Colin Powell's view on what the Administration is doing in Afghanistan? Strange that we haven't heard from him.

Obama can have as many as 150,000 additional security and peace keeping troops in Afghanistan authorized by the UN Security Council whenever he wants them.

All we have to do is rent them from China. We are buying everything else there so why not get mercenaries?

Besides, China has the military force available and it will reduce their unemployment, China has as much of a vested interest in our economy rebounding as we do, China has a huge development investment in Afghanistan that they can protect, and China will be able to prove to the world that it is a “peaceful country” while doing something that neither Alexander, the Russians, or the US could do in bringing “civilization to a country that thrives on drugs and corruption.

rusty;
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“You see dearest Dee, the problem on the left is that you and the others like Joe, simply spout out unsubstantiated garbage. When those lies do not work, then you attempt to change the name of the words. If that doesn't work, then you resort to your 3rd grade name calling.”
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Let me just cite some examples of the unsubstantiated garbage Fox News spews out on a daily basis:
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Sean Hannity's ad-nauseum attack on Nancy Pelosi's use of a military jet, saying that it was unprecedented, despite the FACT that the White House and the Defense Department agreed in 2001 (after 9/11) that military planes should be made available to the speaker of the House for national security reasons. The first speaker to use such a plane was Dennis Hastert (R-IL).
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Glenn Beck: On his June 10, '09 program, he said: "Why do we have automatic citizenship upon birth?" Beck asked. "Do you know? We're the only country in the world that has it. Why?" - FACT: A report from NumbersUSA, a group dedicated to reducing immigration levels, found that in addition to the United States, there are 33 countries that offer automatic, unconditional citizenship to children born within their borders. (In April, Rep. Nathan Deal, a Republican candidate for governor of Georgia, proposed H.R. 1868, the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009.) This is, perhaps, the basis for Beck's rant. He should have checked his facts before throwing a statement out there in his usual “professorial” style.
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Fox News was caught in a huge lie, in print, right after the September 12 March on Washington, when they ran a full-page ad in the Washington Post asking how all the other networks had missed the story. Rick Sanchez exposed them as liars. The punch line at the end was him showing a clip of Bill O'Reilly referring to “CNN's coverage of the march”. WOW! FOX refused to comment, and never retracted. Here is the link.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lESv9TkfoCE
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This other video shows a Fox employee caught on camera coaching the crowds during the September Tea Party march on Washington.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFCBeKcd-Wk
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Of course, none of this matters to Sean Hannity, Beck, or to Fox. They are collecting their fat checks, Fox is raking in the ratings, and all is well.
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To say that Fox is “fair and balanced” is ludicrous. MSNBC has its liberal edge, so it is not “fair and balanced” either. There are examples of “unsubstantiated garbage” on both sides of the aisle. It is disgraceful, though, when Senators and Congressmen (past and present) are used as pawns to perpetuate these lies.