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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8'Crooks and Liars' (an American liberal/anti-war blog) attempted to place this ad in the 'Young Republican National Conference' official program. (big white ad)
but the answer was:
' We are sorry but we must regretfully reject this advertisement. We feel that the tone of the message is too negative.'
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/6/21/16116/8359
ad for 'Young Republican National Conference'
Q Scott, how concerned is the administration about the potential for Iraq to become a sort of training ground for Islamic extremists who may go back to their home countries and use these techniques to destabilize their governments? There's a new report on that recently.
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, let me mention a couple things. As the President has said for some time now, Iraq is a central front in the war on terrorism. Wherever you stood before the decision to go into Iraq, I think we can all recognize that the terrorists have made it a central front in the war on terrorism.
[snip]
Q Just following up on that question, you said at the outset of that, the terrorists have made it a central front in the war on terrorism. I thought it was a central front in the war on terrorism before we invaded.
MR. McCLELLAN: It is. It's part of the war on terrorism, yes.
Q It was.
MR. McCLELLAN: No, it is.
Q It is now --
MR. McCLELLAN: Both.
Q Was it prior to --
MR. McCLELLAN: Both. It's part of the war on terrorism, David.
NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/22/international/middleeast/22intel.html
A new classified assessment by the Central Intelligence Agency says Iraq may prove to be an even more effective training ground for Islamic extremists than Afghanistan was in Al Qaeda's early days, because it is serving as a real-world laboratory for urban combat.
The assessment, completed last month and circulated among government agencies, was described in recent days by several Congressional and intelligence officials. The officials said it made clear that the war was likely to produce a dangerous legacy by dispersing to other countries Iraqi and foreign combatants more adept and better organized than they were before the conflict.
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'''N' if you can find a Afghan rebel
That the Moscow bullets missed
Ask him what he thinks of voting Communist...''
The Clash
Washington Bullets
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/1028/lyr_sandinista_2.html
Porn star's dream:Sex with Bush twins
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44905
Now that the presidential fund-raiser is over, hard-core porn star Mary Carey doesn't mind the public knowing about one of her secret desires – having sex with the twin daughters of the president.
Carey was the guest of her boss, pornographer Mark Kulkis of Kick A– Pictures, at the National Republican Congressional Committee's multimillion-dollar dinner with the president here last week.
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"Oh my God, his daughters!" she said. "I'd love to party with his daughters. I'd love to meet them. I totally want to have sex with them. You can write it the day after I leave here."
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Porn star candidate to attend GOP dinner
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/09/gop.pornstar.ap/
Carl Forti, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is co-hosting the dinner, had no qualms about Carey and her boss, adult film executive Mark Kulkis, attending.
"Their money was donated to the NRCC. The NRCC's job is to elect Republicans. We'll take that money and use it to elect more Republicans," Forti said.
posted at Eschaton
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_06_19_atrios_archive.html#111961547456527869
The Secret Service says it will let the U.S. Attorney's Office decide whether to file criminal charges of impersonating a Secret Service agent against a volunteer who ousted three people from a presidential speech in Denver on March 21.
The move passes responsibility for the politically touchy decision from the president's bodyguard agency to the Denver district's acting U.S. attorney, William Leone.
Karen Bauer, Leslie Weise and Alex Young say a man who looked and acted like a Secret Service agent ousted them from the president's Denver appearance because of a "No More Blood for Oil" bumper sticker on the car in which they arrived.
The Secret Service and the White House know the man's identity but have not revealed it.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3879017,00.html
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Interview with the 'Denver Three'
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/05/05/int05019.html
Denver Three appeal denial of data by Secret Service
http://colorado.indymedia.org/newswire/display/11129/index.php
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The Tenacious Trio
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/AR2005062101583.html
Individually, they are ordinary citizens and political unknowns. But collectively, they are the Denver Three -- a political sensation in Colorado that is causing agita to a White House that has bested far more sophisticated foes.
The Denver Three's quest: to learn the identity of the "Mystery Man" who, impersonating a Secret Service agent, forcibly removed them from a taxpayer-funded Social Security event with President Bush three months ago because of a "No More Blood for Oil" bumper sticker on one of their cars.
They and their attorneys have filed 10 freedom-of-information requests. They won support from eight of Colorado's nine members of Congress and persuaded lawmakers to send letters of protest to the White House and Secret Service. Working from a Denver coffee shop and from a loft apartment, they spend hours each day contacting reporters, producing almost daily news coverage and provoking questions at White House briefings. They have a Web site and bumper stickers, and they got a well-funded liberal group to send them to Washington. Now they're talking about public meetings and a lawsuit.
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The Denver Three's Website
http://www.denverthree.org/
Help save the youth of america
Help save the youth of the world
Help save the boys in uniform
Their mothers and their faithful girls
Listen to the voice of the soldier
Down in the killing zone
Talking about the cost of living
And the price of bringing him home
http://billy-bragg-lyrics.wonderlyrics.com/Help-Save-The-Youth-of-America.html
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Young Republicans support Iraq war, but not all are willing to join the fight
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9556221.htm
By Adam Smeltz
Knight Ridder Newspapers
NEW YORK - Young Republicans gathered here for their party's national convention are united in applauding the war in Iraq, supporting the U.S. troops there and calling the U.S. mission a noble cause.
But there's no such unanimity when they're asked a more personal question: Would you be willing to put on the uniform and go to fight in Iraq?
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Lee said she supports the war but would volunteer only if the United States faced a dire troop shortage or "if there's another Sept. 11."
"As long as there's a steady stream of volunteers, I don't see why I necessarily should volunteer," said Lee, who has a cousin deployed in the Middle East.
In an election season overwhelmed by memories of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military's newest war ranks supreme among the worries confronting much of Generation Y'ers. Iraq is their war.
"If there was a need presented, I would go," said Chris Cusmano, a 21-year-old member of the College Republicans organization from Rocky Point, N.Y. But he said he hasn't really considered volunteering.
At age 16, Chase Carpenter has.
"It's always in the back of my mind - to enlist," Carpenter, a self-described moderate Republican visiting Manhattan this week from Santa Monica, Calif., said Wednesday on the convention floor. He said he's torn over whether he'd join the military if he were 18.
Others said they could contribute on the home front.
"I physically probably couldn't do a whole lot" in Iraq, said Tiffanee Hokel, 18, of Webster City, Iowa, who called the war a moral imperative. She knows people posted in Iraq, but she didn't flinch when asked why she wouldn't go.
"I think I could do more here," Hokel said, adding that she's focusing on political action that supports the war and the troops.
"We don't have to be there physically to fight it," she said.
more at
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9556221.htm
For President Bush, it is bad enough that his campaign to sell Americans on his overhaul of Social Security has not been considered a brilliant success. Now a flap over who got to go to one of the president's recent Social Security events has erupted in a swing state, showing the power of a dogged little anti-Bush group now called the Denver Three to irritate the Goliath of the White House.
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The White House was having none of it.
"It's clear that these three protesters are trying to advance their own political agenda," Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary....
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In the meantime, the Denver Three's exploits are chronicled almost daily in the Colorado press. They have a Web site and pass out bumper stickers, playing on Mr. Bush's plan to add private accounts to Social Security, that say "Don't Privatize My Freedom." During their trip to Washington, the cameras were rolling when they tried, unsuccessfully, to hand-deliver a letter to the White House demanding answers from Mr. Bush.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/27/politics/27letter.html?
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The Denver Three