John Stewart is a fucking stooge.

He gets in Chris Matthews face and Tucker Carlson’s face and treats Kristol like he’s a beloved professor.

Ptooey.

-G

Well, I took the MSNBC quote in macks comment above, #56..

“t’s a place where Obama ran advertising endorsing Foster,”

To be against Laesch.

That’s not what it says. You’ve added the sentence about it being against Laesch. The context says that McCain ran ads for Oberweiss, Obama for Foster. Clearly that refers to the non-Primary for the seat that fills out the remainder of Hasterts term. The race where the ads were run were Foster vs. Oberweiss. Do you have specific evidence otherwise?

I’ve been to Jim Laesch’s site frequently…he never mentions ANY issues with Foster getting support from Obama, or any other Presidential candidate in their Primary.

Question: Do you feel protected by the police?

• In Central Irak 99.6% of the women said “No” to that question.
• In Baghdad 99.6% of the women said “No” to that question.

Question: Do you feel protected by religious leaders?

• Overall, 41.7% of respondents said they feel protected by religious leaders, but 41.4% of respondents did
not feel protected by religious leaders, and 16.9% of respondents didn’t know.

It’s chilling, shameful and horrifically sad.

Thank you for all you and your team do.

Erdla.

• 74.5% avoided going out of their homes;
• 63.2% have not sent their children to school, most commonly in parts of Baghdad;
• 65.9% have avoided passing or driving by police stations or other public buildings;
• 64.5% have avoided markets and other crowded areas, most commonly in parts of Baghdad, Hilla and Karbala;
• 60.7% have avoided checkpoints;
• 74.6% have avoided U.S. and other Coalition forces;
• 57% have avoided travel, most commonly in parts of Baghdad, Fallujah and Samarra;
• 59.3% have been careful with what they say about themselves to others; and
• 53.4% have avoided going to work or applying for work.

When asked who posed the biggest threat to national security, 43.9% of all respondents said U.S. and U.K. soldiers, followed by 32.6% of respondents saying militias or other groups organized by ethnicity.

Violence Against Women

In much of the country, women can only now move around with a male escort. Rape is committed habitually by all the main armed groups, including those linked to the government. Women are being murdered throughout Iraq in unprecedented numbers.

Indeed, 63.9% of respondents stated that violence against women in general was increasing. In Central Iraq and Baghdad, this number jumps to 91.8% and 72.0%, respectively.

Question: Do you feel protected by the police?

• In Central Irak 99.6% of the women said “No” to that question.
• In Baghdad 99.6% of the women said “No” to that question.

Question: Do you feel protected by religious leaders?

• Overall, 41.7% of respondents said they feel protected by religious leaders, but 41.4% of respondents did
not feel protected by religious leaders, and 16.9% of respondents didn’t know.

Some blogwhoring:

We have feeds by topic – something we’ve introduced in the last few weeks:

• Women – genital mutilation of (1)
• Women – killing of (6)
• Women – suicides (2)
• Women and Children (9)
• Women and Children (13)
• Women in politics (7)
• Women’s health – neglect of (2)
• Women’s Rights (35)

He blames Powell for not making a convincing case at the UN…but he later says that the case for WMD’s and terrorist links was overblown…that it should have been enough to show that Sadaam was a megalomaniac and had used WMD’s some 15 years before. Yeah…that would convice France and Germany and Turkey, Dougie! And, of course, he completely forgets that it was his group pushing these ridiculous memes about Al Qaida involvement with Saddam, that the Iraqi government sponsored the 9/11 attackers, and all this stuff about WMD’s currently being just a few years, if not months, away from production.

He praises Chalabi, who is known to have constantly given US military intel to Iran…and says the CIA burned him because they didn’t like exiles. Sorry, won’t fly, Dougie. They didn’t trust Chalabi (justifiably)…but they loved some exiles…heck..they made one Sunni exile the head of the Interim Authority. And the guy is just off in la-la land if he thinks that the Iraqis would have accepted Chalabi, Feith’s handpicked dictator, when he had no support by anyone in the country. The US would have been taking on at least two Shiite militias, all Sunni groups, and a goodly number of Kurds with that nightmare.

No wonder people laughed at him! And funny that the guy who pesumably had the ear of both Rumsfeld and Cheney couldn’t get his ideas across.