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Dems Plan to Have as Many Plans as Possible

Rush read a letter from Mitch McConnell's office yesterday about how the Democrats have tried to have a new plan all year. Then I read this on CNN this morning and cracked up laughing:

Democrats Launch Six for 06 Battle Plan

This might seem like nothing unless, you consider this:

“Time may be running out for the Democrats to let the American people know where they stand on our nation’s most important issues.”-U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell

Hoping to gain an early political edge in 2006, Congressional Democratic leaders next week will unveil the first piece of their election-year agenda by announcing a far-reaching legislative package that the party says will clean up government and stop influence peddling in Congress.

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Where's Cindy?

Get along home, Cindy, Cindy... get along home....

Click here for musical inspiration

War protester Cindy Sheehan has purchased a 5-acre plot in Crawford with some of the insurance money she received after her son was killed in Iraq.

Sheehan, from California, reinvigorated the anti-war movement last summer with her peace vigil, which started in ditches off the road to Bush's ranch. As it grew, the group also set up its protests on a private, 1-acre lot closer to the ranch.

Reinvigorated? Like the whole 1000 people that turned out for the anti-war protests here in DC earlier this year? Or maybe the 600 in San Francisco? Please.

Just go home.

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Leftists Confuse Hollywood with Reality

Hollywood	Reality
Huff Puff	Ahhnold
Who Killed the Electric Car?	Look, Ma. No Gas!
Over 40 million Americans hit the road over the July Fourth holiday, burning through pricey tanks of gas (close to three bucks a gallon nationwide), and releasing enough exhaust fumes to send even Sen. James Inhofe and Michael Crichton into coughing fits. Now just imagine if all those holiday drivers had been road-tripping in zero-emission electric vehicles. It's a thought to global-warm the heart of Al Gore and put a knot in the stomach of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (his country is OPEC's No. 2 biggest producer). How's that for an Independence (from oil) Day twofer? And it's no tailpipe dream, as is shown in Who Killed the Electric Car?, a powerful and lively new documentary that charts the all-too-short life and unnecessary death of GM's EV1 (and the burgeoning electric-car technology it represented). The film is the ultimate movie mashup. Where else would you find interviews with Mel Gibson, Ed Begley, Jr., Phyllis Diller (yep, that Phyllis Diller), former CIA head James Woolsey, and Reagan administration official Frank Gaffney, combined with disturbing doings by GM, Big Oil, the Bush administration, and the smog-fighting California Air Resources board to create a blistering and surprisingly entertaining cinematic j'accuse? "Mashup" also applies to the film's great gotcha moment: while a GM spokesperson vows that the company plans to reuse every part from the discontinued electric fleet, we see scenes shot from a helicopter showing the doomed electric cars literally being mashed up -- crushed and demolished at a GM facility in the Arizona desert. Who Killed the Electric Car? starts out as an informative history of the energy-efficient vehicles. We learn that their development was jumpstarted by the state of California, which, in 1990, choking on blankets of smog, passed regulations designed to force car companies to start producing emission-free vehicles (indeed, two percent of new cars needed to be exhaustless by 1998). Since a number of companies, including GM, were already working on electric-car prototypes, business and environmental concerns seemed in sync. In 1996, GM introduced the EV1, which you could juice up by plugging it into a wall socket. The cars quickly developed a small but passionate following (small because GM produced less than a thousand of them; passionate because they were terrific -- and terrifically efficient -- cars). But behind the scenes, numerous forces were hard at work fighting to undermine the California zero-emission mandate -- and the success of the EV1. At this point, the film shifts gears from electric-car primer to a compelling murder mystery, as the filmmakers roll out the prime suspects (and, yes, many of them are of the "usual" variety) in an effort to determine who, indeed, killed the electric car. It's like a cinematic game of Clue. But instead of "Professor Plum, in the library, with a candlestick," we get: "GM, in the boardroom, with a blunt profit motive," "Big Oil Companies (aided and abetted by the Bush administration), in the courtroom, with lawsuits forcing the rollback of California's rules," and "American Consumers, in the showroom, with a poisonous mix of an ad-fueled desire for gas-guzzling SUVs, tax incentives, and zero financing." In the end, the lobbying and lawsuits by oil companies and the Bush administration caused California to soften its rules and allowed GM, which was making money hand over fist on SUVs, to pull the plug on the EV1 -- which was never really given a fighting chance. GM had leased only 800 of them over a four-year period (none were sold) and never put even the tiniest fraction of the marketing muscle behind them that they'd put behind the giant gas-guzzlers that, over the lifespan of the EV1, had become the company's cash cow. The auto giant then claimed that the demand for the electric cars just wasn't there -- and, in a bizarre act of industrial infanticide, reclaimed almost all the EV1s and flattened them like pancakes.	When Tesla, the upstart auto company based in Silicon Valley, unveiled its all-electric Roadster at a swank affair in Santa Monica last week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dropped in for surprise visit. Recognition hung in the air. The man who became famous for playing one seriously aggressive electric appliance had come to pay his respects to another. The event - where Tesla was offering its first 100 "signature edition" cars for $100,000 apiece - felt like automotive history, and I have the feeling that one day I'm going to be very glad I bothered to attend. The yare and sleek carbon-bodied sports car is, by my reckoning, the first plausible electric automobile of the 21st century. And, without electrics, the 22nd century is going to be very rocky indeed. To appreciate the Tesla, it helps to compare it to the much-lamented EV1, GM's purpose-built electric car that was, in the mid-1990s, the most advanced vehicle of its kind. The Tesla Roadster has a range of 250 miles, says the company. The EV1, with the best nickel metal hydride batteries, could go about 150 miles under ideal conditions. A full charge of the EV1 could take eight hours. The Tesla's lithium-ion batteries can be raised from the dead to a full charge in 3 1/2 hours and, unlike the EV1, the Tesla will come with its own portable charging pack so it won't be range-tethered to its home charging station. The Tesla is a toothsome sports car. The EV1, um, wasn't. Perhaps most important and most unlike the EV1, the Tesla offers something beyond mere virtue as a reward to its buyers. Fun, in large, hair-raising voltages. The company claims 0 to 60 mph acceleration in four seconds and a top speed of 130 mph. Big brakes, racy suspension, optional leather and navigation system, air conditioning, heated seats. There's even room for golf clubs. With the Tesla, the electric car seems poised to move past its groovy-granola beginnings. Big brakes, racy suspension, optional leather and navigation system, air conditioning, heated seats. There's even room for golf clubs. With the Tesla, the electric car seems poised to move past its groovy-granola beginnings. "Most electric cars were designed for people who didn't even like cars," Tesla's founder and chief executive Martin Eberhard says. This approach — this appeal to civic virtue instead of driving pleasure — limited electric cars' appeal to a small albeit enthusiastic group of environmentalists. "I wanted to build a car that I wanted to drive," Eberhard says. "And I like fast cars." Tesla isn't the only bolt of battery-powered lightning out there. A Monaco-based company called Venturi has a production-ready electric sports car, the Fetish, which is nearly identical to the Tesla in size, weight, power, range and performance. The big difference is price: Compared with the $600,000-plus Venturi, the production Tesla ( about $85,000, due on sale in late 2007) might as well be sold at Best Buy. The Wrightspeed X1 prototype, the work of another Silicon Valley startup, is based on the lattice-frame, open-wheel Ariel Atom built in England. It's even quicker: 0 to 60 mph in three seconds, with a quarter-mile time of 11.5 seconds. There's also the Tango commuter car, an oddly shaped four-wheel electric car-cum-motorcycle (sold as a kit car) whose most famous owner certainly is actor George Clooney. With its two motors serving up more than 1,000 pound-feet of combined torque, the Tango's acceleration is "like getting shot out of a cannon," says Tango president Rick Woodbury. During a summer when a popular documentary asks, "Who Killed the Electric Car?," the electric car seems to be contrarily alive and well and going like a bat out of hell. What's with all the speedy electrics?

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Put Grad School in My Grasp: Give Me More Free Money

This whining baby really enrages me. She has a bachelor's degree, but cannot secure enough funding to attend a private grad school:

Is access to graduate education in America exclusively for the upper class?

I am a single mother who qualifies for the maximum amount in federal aid for graduate students. But this amount barely covers my tuition; paying for housing, books and living expenses is up to me.

You read that right, federal aid is covering her tuition at a private graduate school, but she needs more money from taxpayers because she cannot pay for her housing and "living expenses." What a little snot. But it gets better:

The majority of students in my situation seeking graduate degrees don't have the means to just pick up and move to another city without some kind of government assistance. Yet federal Pell Grants and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants are available only to undergraduate students. There are very few alternative options for funding my graduate degree. What's even more frustrating is that if I were seeking an undergraduate degree, being a single mother would qualify me to have most of my college expenses paid for.

Once you aspire beyond a bachelor's degree, the financial aid door is pretty much closed unless you, or your family, have the economic ability to finance whatever costs are not covered by your guaranteed federal student loans.

GET A JOB! GO TO GRAD SCHOOL IN TEN OR TWENTY YEARS LIKE MANY PEOPLE DO! WHAT AN OUTRAGE!

Higher degrees mean higher salaries. But the disparity between those who have access to a higher degree due to their economic resources and those who have the desire to attend graduate school but not the money is increasing. Graduate students are forced to take on a significantly higher economic burden than undergraduates. It seems that graduate-level education is open only to the select few who can afford it -- people who usually come from wealthy, upper-class families.

We are failing to redistribute the wealth in America, and the divide between the upper and lower classes is widening. It's clear that a federal need-based grant program for graduate students must be created. This would help level the playing field by creating access to graduate programs for students -- access based on merit and ambition rather than economic resources.

I wish I could send her to Stalin's Russia in the hayday of redistribution of wealth. Doesn't this make you simply sick? She's already received FREE MONEY TO GO TO SCHOOL and HAS HER DEGREE. I didn't get any free money!

The real zinger is that she is receiving her master's in Public Adminsitration.

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Kicking Terrorist Ass

The Dem Chairman Howard Dean characterized our soldiers' actions as allowing UBL to lollygag around the mountains of Afghanistan:

"I'll tell you one thing, if we get back in power we're going to make a real effort to get OBL. We're not going to let him lolly-day [sic] around for four years."

I hope Howie doesn't read this:

KABUL, Afghanistan — More than 600 suspected Taliban militants have been killed since a U.S.-led offensive began last month in southern Afghanistan, a coalition spokesman said Tuesday.

Col. Tom Collins said the 600 militants have died in combat since Operation Mountain Thrust started June 10. The offensive is aimed at crushing the deadliest spate of Taliban violence since the hard-line regime's 2001 ouster.

I suspect they were just lollygagging around the bazaars of Kabul...

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It's Workers' Paradise, Comrade the American Dream, Stupid!

This woman is really not as leathal as people describe her. She's smart, but still comes across as a rich person wanting to meddle:

Senator Clinton unveiled her 2008 domestic policy platform — er, sorry, the Democratic Leadership Council's "American Dream Initiative"— yesterday in Denver. Though members of the DLC are supposed to be New Democrats, this latest policy gruel is enough to make us wonder just exactly how they differ from the old Democrats.

Faced with a homeownership rate that for every single quarter of the Bush administration has exceeded every single quarter of the Clinton administration, Mrs. Clinton decided to tackle a problem that doesn't exist by creating a vast federal government program to expand homeownership. She proposes expanding the home-mortgage interest deduction to those who don't itemize their taxes, and she proposes $35 billion in new federal spending on "down payment assistance."

Faced with an innovative and dynamic hedge fund industry that is generating vast wealth in her home state of New York, Mrs. Clinton's "American Dream" is to subject it to new government regulation. She calls for "Greater oversight over hedge funds, which tend to encourage a focus on short-term factors rather than the long term; the SEC may need the authority to exercise appropriate oversight over hedge funds to ensure that they account for the needs of longterm investors." Given the nearly $100,000 that Mrs. Clinton made during 10 months of trading cattle futures contracts in 1978 and 1979, we don't doubt her ability to differentiate between short-term and long-term investors.

Do you think that anyone will ask her to finally explain that investment during her campaign?

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It Ain't Feisty Irish Spirit, Folks

It's called Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS). Nobel Peace prize winner would LOVE to assassinate the president of the United States:

NOBEL peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W.Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren.

"Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered.

They call the right haters? This is insane. The audience applauds her murderous proclivities toward Bush, but I wonder what they would have done if she said she wanted terrorists who kill women and children whiped out too.

Here's the money quote:

"There can be no sustainable peace if we fail to rise to the global challenge presented by climate change."

Because that is why Hezbollah is reigning rockets down on Israel - they didn't sign the Kyoto Protocol. Oh,wait, they did! Lebanon did not.

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What a Big Man!

John Kerry is tough. He's a man's man. Read this hard hitting commentary (on his own website):

“Rush Limbaugh’s ignorance and willingness to divide Americans knows no bounds. His latest statement about Israel is beyond offensive to all of us who have fought to protect Israel in the face of enemies committed to its destruction.

The people of Israel and the Jewish community don’t need Rush Limbaugh to tell them who stands with them, and no one has time for right wing trying to score cheap political points while Israel fights to defend its very existence.”

Yes. Donuts.

I think he makes a point he was not intending to make: the Democrats continue to ride the coattails of their past leaders. Yes, Democrats were the first to recognize Israel - 50 years ago. Now? Well....

Comments (something is wrong with our blog at the moment):

So let me get this straight. You think that your LA Times link shows that Democrats no longer support Israel? The article proves strong bi-partison support in spite of the factual errors that are contained in the article.

Unless you are a propogandist, then of course it proves that the Democrats don't support Israel.

KeithS. The people that voted present went to the floor and made speeches condemning Israel.

Also, check the poll numbers below in the post about Jews being in the wrong party showing only 30+% of democrats supported Israel's response compared to 60+% of republicans.

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Blogger Fired from CIA for Comments on Classified Server

The only thing that would make this story perfect is if this woman is a blonde:

A contract employee working for the Central Intelligence Agency said she had been fired recently for posting a message on a classified computer server that said an interrogation technique used by the agency against some terror suspects amounted to torture.

The employee, Christine Axsmith, kept the “Covert Communications” blog on a top-secret computer network used by American intelligence agencies. Ms. Axsmith was fired on Monday after C.I.A. officials objected to a message that criticized the interrogation technique called “waterboarding,” a particularly harsh practice that the C.I.A. is known to have used on Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who is widely regarded as the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.

She is getting paid for this? There's more:

Ms. Axsmith, a computer security expert with a law degree [like that matters], posted the message this month, shortly after the Bush administration decided to grant some protections of the Geneva Conventions to suspected terrorists in American custody. She said that her message began, “Waterboarding is torture, and torture is wrong.”

Ms. Axsmith’s firing was earlier reported on several blogs including Wonkette.com on Thursday, and in Friday’s Washington Post.

A computer security expert decides she's also a human rights attorney.

“I wanted an in-house discussion,” Ms. Axsmith said in an interview on Thursday in her home in Washington. “Something where I would be educating people on the background of the Geneva Conventions."

Instead, Ms. Axsmith was fired by her employer, B.A.E. Systems, which has an information technology contract with the C.I.A.

Ah, yes. She wanted to educate people on the Geneva Conventions and instead learned about a little thing called "at will employment."

Besides losing her job, Ms. Axsmith also lost her top-secret security clearance, which she had held since 1993 and used for previous work for the State Department and National Counterterrorism Center.

She said she feared that her career in the intelligence world was over. “It was like I was wiped out,” she said.

Too bad, so sad. Cutting her teath at the State Department during the Clinton administration is the likely reason she lost all since of reality and perspective.

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Poor Performance

I ridiculed the poor performance by Nancy Pelosi on Meet the Press a couple of months back. I just got done watching Dennis Hastert on Fox News Sunday and he sucked just as bad. There were several awkward pauses and incoherent answers. I'll look for a transcript later to link.

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More on Greenwald's Plageristic Tendencies

Ace is putting the heat on Glenn Greenwald (the gentleman who labelled me a racist) and his knack for lifting ideas from blog comments.

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For Democrats, History Begins Each Morning

This is a great review of just how wrong, wrong, wrong, Democrats have always been on defense issues:

All of which makes the U.S. political debate over missile defenses worth revisiting, not least because some Democrats are still trying to strangle the program. In the House, John Tierney of Massachusetts this year proposed cutting the Pentagon's missile-defense budget by more than half. His amendment was defeated on the House floor, but it won the support of more than half of his Democratic colleagues, including would-be Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

When Mr. Bush informed Vladimir Putin that the U.S. intended to exercise its legal right to withdraw from the ABM pact, the world didn't end. The Russians moved on to bigger issues, and much of the rest of the world decided that they'd like to join the missile-defense club. Six nations now participate with the United States in developing new missile-defense technology and nearly a dozen others use some of what's already been developed.

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More Left-wing Lies Exposed

All those great quotes (some even used in the comments on this blog by lefties) turns out to be false. From CQ:

For the last several years, a trashy political version of the Weekly World News has made a number of salacious and lurid claims about key political figures, mostly George Bush. Capitol Hill Blue originated stories about Bush being addicted to drugs, falling off the wagon, and so on. The allegation that he had referred to the Constitution as "just a G******d piece of paper" came from one of their articles, as did the explosive, supposedly first-person account of Bush being briefed that the Niger claim was bogus before his State of the Union speech. (Interestingly, the Senate's Intelligence Committee later confirmed that the Niger story was true, but that didn't stop CHB.)

However, it looks like neither one ever actually existed. Eric at Classical Values has an amazing post showing a tremendous effort on his part to identify Harleigh without success at either SIU or within either administration. He also has cached pages from CHB where a Stailn-like process of erasing both sources from these stories has taken place. CHB has no answer despite repeated attempts by Eric to get an explanation for all of these activities.

I don't think too much fault should be placed on people who used these quotes because it looks like they appeared to be credible. But it still strikes at the underlying assumptions about President Bush. If you believed that Bush said that the constitution is just a God Damn piece of paper, then you would be concerned about domestic spying. Now, however, the foundation for those beliefs continue to crumble.

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HASSAN NASRALLAH in HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PT. I

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Simply Stated

When your position matches that of a enemy, you need to reexamine your position:

Defense lawyers for Saddam Hussein released a letter on Thursday that he recently wrote in prison that attempts to persuade the American people to demand a troop pullout because President Bush misled them into the Iraq war.

The 5,000-word letter is a rambling treatise outlining what Mr. Hussein asserts are the false reasons that the Bush administration used to justify the war in Iraq, from weapons of mass destruction to Iraqi links with Al Qaeda. Mr. Hussein blames Iran and pro-Israel interests for helping lead the Americans into war. He invokes the specter of Vietnam and the spirit of Mao Zedong, saying the Chinese revolutionary is “laughing in his grave because his prediction has been fulfilled and America is a paper tiger.”

He's speaking truth to power! Harry Reid got the talking points from Baghdad:

Declaring that he believes the situation in Iraq has devolved into a civil war, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday he plans to try to bring the war back up for debate on the Senate floor.

The Nevada Democrat said he has been "somewhat gingerly approaching this.... No longer. There is a civil war going on in Iraq. In the last two months, more than 6,000 Iraqis have been killed. That's averaging more than 100 a day being killed in Iraq and we need to make sure there is a debate on this."

Dems have no stomach for this fight. The best way for us to support Israel is to STAY PUT.

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Jews Take Note

You're in the wrong party:

A plurality of 46% say protecting Israel's right to exist is more important than securing an immediate ceasefire. Again, men (55%) and Republicans (62%) are more likely than women (37%) and Democrats (36%) to say protecting Israel should be the priority.

These numbers should be very disturbing to Jews who vote Democrat.

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BROTHER ALGORE, "POP IDOL"?

He may be an enviromental-wacko preacher, but he'll always be a doofus to me.

Changing the Climate: How Al Gore tamed Hollywood.
With his global warming doc ''An Inconvenient Truth'' rising at the box office, the ex-VP describes his life as a movie star.
...
Miraculously, over the past few months, "An Inconvenient Truth" has accomplished something many people once thought inconceivable: It's made Al Gore cool. ... the 58-year-old pop idol.

* The hilarious video making interblogatory rounds: Al Gore's Global Warming

* Here's a Sean Delonas cartoon dated 16 Nov. 1992. The newspaper on the ground has the (true) headline: Vice President-Elect Al Gore gets lost in woods while hunting with secret service.

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MSM in Full Effect

Next week's issue ala Rush:

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Like Clockwork

The Dems are pulling a Katrina on Lebanon:

In a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, three prominent Democrats mentioned "enormously troubling" reports that Americans seeking a way out of Lebanon are not being removed quickly enough.

So, now, not only is Bush supposed to walk on gulf coast waters and pluck people from New Orleans in hours, he is also supposed to evacuate tens of thousands across the globe in mere moments.

France got their people out yesterday and we are getting our people out today (and France had a 4000 mile head start). Hmmm.

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Falling like a deck of cards

Sunnis want US to stay in Iraq. The New York Times piece is wrapped in spin. What we see here is "strategery."

DEMS ALL WRONG AGAIN!

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Oy Vez! Clinton: I'll take up arms for Israel, but not for my country or the South Vietnamese

Bill "Fight and Die for Israel" is at it again:

Former US President Bill Clinton who many Arab thoughts was more even-handed on the Palestine question than his predecessors shocked many when he asserted in Toronto last week that had Israel been attacked by Iraq or Iran during his presidency, he would have been ready to "grab a rifle, get in a ditch and fight and die."

"The Israelis know that if the Iraqi or the Iranian army came across the Jordan River, I would personally grab a rifle, get in a ditch, and fight and die," Clinton told the crowd at a fund-raising event for a Toronto Jewish charity Monday.

There is no end to this man's obsession with himself! [At least he's pointing in the correct direction in the picture]

Bill Clinton's statement about his "obsession with bin Laden" was also such a lie:

"I remember exactly what happened. Bruce Lindsey said to me on the phone, 'My God, a second plane has hit the tower.' And I said, 'Bin Laden did this.' that's the first thing I said. He said, 'How can you be sure?' I said 'Because only bin Laden and the Iranians could set up the network to do this and they [the Iranians] wouldn't do it because they have a country in targets. Bin Laden did it.'

I thought that my virtual obsession with him was well placed and I was full of regret that I didn't get him.

And yet, he wasn't obsessed enough to take him*:

He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan. And we'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America. So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan.

But I just cannot get over how Clinton would "fight and die" for Israel, but run like a coward to Moscow (while we were at war with communists) and protested against that war. Below's the timeline.

August 19, 1964 - Clinton registers for the draft --[Washington Post Sep 13 92]

September 1964 - Clinton, age 18, enters Georgetown University --[The Comeback Kid, CF Allen and J Portis, p. 20]

November 17, 1964- Clinton is classified 2-S (student deferment). This will shield him from the draft throughout his undergraduate years.---[Wash Post Sep 13 92]

February 16, 1968 - "The Johnson administration unexpectedly abolished graduate deferments." --[Wash Post Sep 13 92]

March 20, 1968 - Clinton, age 21, is classified 1-A, eligible for induction, as he nears graduation from Georgetown. --[Wash Post Sep 13 92]

Comment: Bill Clinton was the only man of his prime draft age classified1-A by that draft board in 1968 whose pre-induction physical examination was put off for 10.5 months. This delay was more than twice as long as anyone else and more than five times longer than most area men of comparable eligibility.--[Los Angeles Times Sep 02 92]

Summer 1968 - Political and family influence keeps Clinton out of the draft. Robert Corrado -- the only surviving Hot Springs draft board member from that period -- concluded that Clinton's draft statement (the long delays) was the result of "some form of preferential treatment." According to the Times, "Corrado recalled that the chairman of the three-man draft panel ... once held back Clinton's file with the explanation that 'we've got to give him time to go to Oxford,' where the semester began in the fall of 1968.

Corrado also complained that he was called by an aide to then Senator J. William Fulbright urging him and his fellow board members to 'give every consideration' to keep Clinton out of the draft so he could attend Oxford.

Throughout the remainder of 1968, Corrado said, Clinton's draft file was routinely held back from consideration by the full board. Consequently, although he was classified 1-A on March 20, 1968, he was not called for his physical exam until Feb 3, 1969, while he was at Oxford.

Clinton's Uncle Raymond Clinton personally lobbied Senator Fulbright, William S. Armstrong, the chairman of the three-man Hot Springs draft board, and Lt. Comdr. Trice Ellis, Jr., commanding officer of the local Navy reserve unit, to obtain a slot for Clinton in the Naval Reserve.

Clinton secured a "standard enlisted man's billet, not an officer's slot which would have required Clinton to serve two years on active duty beginning within 12 months of his acceptance." This Navy Reserve assignment was "created especially for the Bill Clinton at a time in 1968 when no existing reserve slots were open in his hometown unit."

According to the LA Times, "after about two weeks waiting for Bill Clinton to arrive for his preliminary interview and physical exam, Ellis said he called (Clinton's uncle) Raymond to inquire - 'What happened to that boy?' According to Ellis, Clinton's uncle replied - 'Don't worry about it. He won't be coming down. "It's all been taken care of.' " --[LA Times Sep 02 92]

Fall 1968 - Because of the local draft board's continuing postponement of his pre-induction physical, Clinton is able to enroll at Oxford Univ. --[Wash Post Sep 13 92]

February 2, 1969 - While at Oxford, Clinton finally takes and passes a military physical examination. --[Washington Times Sep 18 92]

April 1969