haven’t read all comments yet to see if you posted it later.

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and dosido, epu’d–i wrote this to newshour about last night’s body slam by muller, since you left a link….i watched it last night. was a good boxing match.
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Margaret Warner, as usual, did an excellent job with her troops report last night, Thursday April 10th…

However, I just heard that Col.(?) Ralph Peters is a policy advisor for the McCain campaign. If this is true, viewers should have been informed of that fact. And you missed a possible question for him– he kept using as his argument that he visits troops all over the country, in what capacity? He is retired. How is he getting access to bases to speak to troops? I would like an answer to that. And it wasn’t asked.

You did an excellent job keeping the intense interview on topic, however I think in doing that, you missed the big fish when Col. Peters kept mentioning his visits to bases. He wasn’t talking about hospitals, where the public can go, he said bases, restricted to the public, he used that point over and over again. He’s retired and acted like he was just a concerned citizen, unless I missed something in his introduction.

Bobby Muller, I could listen to him for hours. Sticks to the facts. And there are a lot of facts that aren’t getting aired. Please have him back as a guest. Hope Bill Moyers finds out about him, too.
Really enjoyed him. Was informed by him.

Sincerely,
D
Athens, Ohio

[Iran?] ‘has a choice to make. It can live in peace with its neighbor, enjoy strong economic and cultural and religious ties. Or it can continue to arm and train and fund illegal militant groups, which are terrorizing the Iraqi people and turning them against Iran,’ he said.

Whew. I thought for a moment that Bush was describing his own policies in the Middle East.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20…..0410223446
h/t Dan Froomkin

The Cheneys donated $166,547 to charity in 2007, the White House said.,on >3,000,000,000.00 income….REAL SPORTS!

The Washington Post reports: “The Bush administration has assured Congress that it does not seek to establish ‘permanent’ U.S. military bases in Iraq. But an exchange yesterday among Sen. James Webb (D-Va.), State Department Iraq coordinator David Satterfield and Assistant Defense Secretary Mary Beth Long at a Foreign Relations Committee hearing suggests that permanence lies in the mind of the beholder:

“Webb: What is a permanent base?

“Satterfield: Senator, the administration has made quite clear that we are not seeking permanent bases in Iraq. . . .

“Webb: Right. But what is a permanent base? Are our bases in Japan permanent bases?

“Long: I have looked into this. As far as the department is concerned, we don’t have a worldwide or even a department-wide definition of permanent bases. I believe those are, by and large, determined on a case-by-case basis. . . .

“Webb: Well, I understand that. But basically my point is it’s sort of a dead word. It doesn’t really mean anything.

“Long: Yes, Senator, you’re completely right. It doesn’t.”

But, isn’t it so much more romantic to postulate widespread, totally successful, ‘BLACKMAIL’?

Note: The preceeding snark is snark, except where it is not …