WikiLeaks 'Afghan War Diary' Provides Ground-Level Account Of Afghanistan War

Ex-CIA chief: Strike on Iran seems more likely now

The Associated Press

Sunday, July 25, 2010; 12:31 PM



WASHINGTON -- A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program.



Michael Hayden, a CIA chief under President George W. Bush, says that during his tenure a strike was "way down the list" of options. But he tells CNN's "State of the Union" that such action now "seems inexorable."]



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/25/AR2010072500978.html
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Alberto Gonzales On U.S. Attorney Firing Scandal: 'I Feel Angry That I Had To Go Through This'

Once again, Obama's failure to step up has let these people crawl out from their holes.
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Alvin Greene Nomination 'Breaks My Heart': DSCC Director

And what's gotten little, if any, coverage is this:



==A leading abortion rights group called on its members Sunday to pressure the White House to reverse course and make sure abortion coverage is included when new insurance coverage becomes available under the health care law President Obama signed last March.



"To our dismay, the Obama administration just announced it will exclude abortion coverage in the temporary health-insurance pools that will transition us into the new health-care system," wrote Nancy Keenan, who is the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.



"I am outraged that such a decision would come from a pro-choice president that we helped elect," Keenan said.==



http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/07/18/abortion-rights-advocates-outraged-at-obama-white-house-over-h/
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Alvin Greene Nomination 'Breaks My Heart': DSCC Director

The problem we have is with ourselves for letting these characters continue to betray us, and with the DLC, whose members we've long needed to purge from the party.



The DLC controls the Democratic Party, has for about 20 years. We the People, the base of the Democratic Party (liberals, most people who voted for Democrats) actually beat the DLC this past election. We thought that by putting Obama in over Hillary, that ended the DLC's control. We thought that by adopting Howard Dean's 50-state strategy over Rahm 'Blue Dog' Emanuel's "focus on a few electoral states to sink DNC's resources" -strategy, we were taking back the party. It's too bad more of us didn't know that Obama's a Blue Dog at heart, a DLCer, and he hearts Rahm. So when Rahm sailed with Obama into the White House, they tossed Howard out on his keester.



We've got to stop looking to Democratic Party celebrities' positions & opinions for what's possible, what we should do. We know what we want and need and, in fact, THEY work for US.
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Alvin Greene Nomination 'Breaks My Heart': DSCC Director

2/9/05 Writer Alexander Sanger said that on many levels, he has been pleased that politicians have begun to rethink the approach to abortion rights. "There is no question in my mind that we, the pro-choice movement, ought to be leading the way to reframing how we talk about abortion," he said. "So if various leaders of the DemocraticParty are beginning to have this discussion that is all to the good." But he warned, "We have to differentiate between the pro-choice movement and Democratic Party." What the politicians are saying may be sound, but their strategy may be suspect. "The Democrats are looking for a scapegoat for the loss in November, and they've picked the wrong one [in abortion]."

http://dir.salon.com/story/mwt/feature/2005/02/09/choice/print.html



Dean is not for single payer, and never has been.



Dean talks a good populist game, but he's as much a corporate Democrat when push comes to shove as any DLCer. Deanwho wants desperately to be in with the DLC insiders, but they don't want him. They play with him, toy with him, and they get him to do heavy lifting for them (keeping us liberals on the hook), but in the end they slam the door in his face and break his heart every time.



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Alvin Greene Nomination 'Breaks My Heart': DSCC Director

Most voters judge politicians by their personalities and mistakenly assume politicians' ideological positions for their own when they've decided they personally like the politician. That's certainly true of Howard Dean. He's a nice guy, but he's not a liberal and definitely not married to what I would say are sacrosanct Democratic Party positions, like pro-choice and public health care.



Just about all professional Democratic politicians want to make the Democratic party hospitable to anti-choice people, as noted in this article from 12/04 -

http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/washington/wnb121504.htm



The only way to do that is for the party to not take a stance on abortion, to remove any reference to 'choice'. During Dean's tenure as chairman of the DNC, he indicated in several interviews that the intent was to move the DemocraticParty from referring to abortion at all in its platform. Here's one of those interviews, from 11/1/05:



Video - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/9882255#9882255

Transcript - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9883824/



Dems May Waver on Choice, Repro Rights 01/14/05 http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2144/context/archive



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Pay Czar Criticizes 17 Bailed-Out Banks For Huge Pay Packages -- But Won't Go After Money Already Paid

This article isn't about repaying the TARP monies; it's about the HUGE PAY PACKAGES that the banks receiving bailouts gave to their executives as the economy was tanking from the bad business practices of THOSE EMPLOYEES.



Your defense means you're either ig.no.rant of the issue, or you're on the payroll, a recipient of taxpayer money and one of those who fleeced the American people.
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