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bin Laden urges Iraq fighters to unite and Bush is calling for more moolah.

Yep. We’re in this war for a looong time to come.

Fred Thompson, while being asked about the Terri Schiavo case, stated today that he was uncomfortable discussing it because of his own daughter’s death.

For bringing up this personal info, Fred will surely find himself up shit creek without a paddle now! (or will he?)

Fred, you state it should be something decided by families and that you’re against making a political football out of it. Then you turn around and say you don’t mind the federal and state governments sticking their noses in. Which is it?

Maybe the point you were trying to get across is that you want government to stay out of YOUR business, but you have no qualms about them sticking their noses into everyone else’s. Is that it?

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Congress has clearly made their views heard, along with those of the American majority. But it’s been to no avail, as it will continue to be so. He’ll get his money.

And Mrs. “Democratic-plan-for-responsible-redeployment-of-our-troops” Pelosi, we’ve been onto your game for a while now. Tell it to someone that still believes in you.

Bush asks for $46 billion more for wars

WASHINGTON - President Bush asked Congress for $46 billion more to bankroll wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and said he wants the money approved by Christmas. The fighting in Iraq, in its fifth year, already has cost more than $455 billion.

Democrats who gained control of Congress with an antiwar message said Bush should not expect lawmakers to rubber’stamp the request.

“The colossal cost of this war grows every day - in lives lost, dollars spent, and to our reputation around the world,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. “The American people long ago rejected the president’s planned 10-year occupation of Iraq and want the administration to provide a concrete plan to bring our troops home.

“The choice is between a Democratic plan for responsible redeployment of our troops and the president’s plan to spend another trillion dollars for a 10-year war in Iraq. We must end this war.”

DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press

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I’ve written before about the non-combat deaths in Iraq. At the time I was wondering what happened to Major Gloria D. Davis, who was found dead. We have since learned that she was involved in ( or so they say) the contractor fraud scandal. While checking to see the latest on that case today, I ran across this article by Frank Rich, which ran in the New York Times yesterday. It seems Charles D. Riechers, 47, the second-highest-ranking procurement officer in the United States Air Force - killed himself by running his car’s engine in his suburban Virginia garage, two weeks after his appearance in a front-page exposé about the contractor fraud in The Washington Post. So I guess this explains SOME of the non-combat deaths.

Now the U.S. army has sent safety experts to Iraq to study the non-combat deaths, and why they are on the rise. There have been 9 already this month. There were 29 in August and 23 in September. That’s alot of unexplained deaths. It will be interesting to see what this study comes up with. I wonder how many of the accidental deaths are due to fatigue, mental stress, and our soldiers being there too damn long. We don’t know yet the full effect that extended tours are having on our troops. I’m guessing we won’t hear about it if that’s the case. 4 out of the 10 deaths reported by the Pentagon last week were non-combat related. One of the four was a vehicle rollover. There seems to be alot of those, too. Do our soldiers not know how to drive or what? If they rolled over to avoid an attack or during an attack, that would be reported, no? So many of them are just reported as accidents. What’s up with that?

Anyway, this is something I think about. Losing so many young men and women…..and so many of them not even combat related. The point is, if we weren’t there….they wouldn’t be dying there. Maybe if they want to cut down the non-combat deaths in Iraq we should just get the hell out of Iraq!

His mother describes Lt. Michael Murphy as “someone who always stuck up for the underdog.” His father says he was “honest, kind, caring — probably the antithesis of what you would call a warrior.”

Murphy is the first U.S. service member to receive the Medal of Honor for action in Afghanistan.

Two years after he was killed in a firefight in Afghanistan, Dan and Maureen Murphy and their son John on Monday received Lt. Murphy’s Medal of Honor for heroism on the battlefield from President Bush.

Murphy’s honor is the first to be awarded from the war in Afghanistan. Two Medals of Honor have been awarded to soldiers serving in Iraq.

In June 2005, Murphy, 29, led his four-man Navy SEAL team into the 10,000-foot peaks of Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush to search for a terrorist thought to be in the region. But they were soon spotted and started taking fire from more than 40 insurgents.

According to a Navy report on the incident, the insurgents held the advantage of terrain and launched a well organized, three’sided attack on the team, forcing them deeper into a ravine.

More about Lt. Michael Murphy here and here

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Instead of attending traditional church on Sunday, Vice President Dick Cheney went to the First Evangelical Church of Hate, where he gave a sermon. In the sermon he told of a vision he had. In the vision he saw Iran as an obstacle to peace in the Middle East and said the world could not stand by and allow it to develop a nuclear weapon. I say Dick Cheney’s big mouth is an obstacle to peace. So STFU Dick.

The Republican presidential candidates met in MickeyLand yesterday for a debate. You would have thought it was Goofy and the gang. They debated what every Republican in the country is most concerned about……who’s the most conservative candidate. Fuck the war in Iraq, the shitty economy, the lack of healthcare…..Republicans want to hear about important stuff…..like who’s the most conservative!! At an event Saturday night, Fred Thompson gave them what they want. He walked on stage, stated he’s a true conservative, and walked off. Battabing, battaboom. Way to campaign Fred!!

I missed the interview on 60 Minutes with Valerie Plame. The only thing that would make my boyfriend miss that interview…..football. He thinks (wishes) she would do a Playboy spread. Men…..can’t live with em, can’t shoot em. At any rate, I hope her book,Fair Game , is a huge success for her. She blogged at Huffington Post yesterday. Take a look.

There’s been some questions about Hong Kong Hillary’s campaign contributions. Seems the poor Chinese in New York’s Chinatown are very found of Hill. And that’s all I have to say about that.

Last, but not least…..maybe the best candidate to come along!!