First Cooper hypes the audience for what they really tuned for, namely the delicious "Chocolate Jesus" and then lays into the Iran situation as if there were going to be a war over an incident. RATHER THAN, actually presenting the facts in a way they are unfolding in an effort to find the truth and act on it internationally.

Cooper's version:

COOPER: General Marks, how much of this is directed toward Britain, I mean, this action of seizing the British? Obviously, it's -- part of it is to weaken British resolve in Iraq. But -- but also, it seems a very clever way at -- at getting at the U.S. as well.

MARKS: Well, it is. Truly, there are some -- you know, there are Quds Force forces that are being held in Iraq. And I'm sure the Iranians feel that there's a causal link between this pressure on Great Britain, the relationship between the Brits, as members of the coalition and the United States.

So, this truly may be a form of asymmetric type of pressure. Clearly, the decision is with the United States, or they have already made the decision not to get involved directly. And I would tell you that those are the communications that are taking place between both Washington and London, that this is going to be bilateral.

The Brits have got to deal with the Iranians. But the United States will remain very covert and will support in any way that the Brits are asking.

HERE COOPER CONTRADICTS the reporting of CNN.

Blair: 1,600 troops to leave Iraq
POSTED: 1:28 p.m. EST, February 21, 2007

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/21/uk.iraq.troops/index.html

"The actual reduction in forces will be from the present 7,100 -- itself down from over 9,000 two years ago and 40,000 at the time of the conflict -- to roughly 5,500," Blair said.

He said the withdrawal reflected the relative stability in Basra, where the sectarian rifts that have turned Baghdad and northern Iraq into a powderkeg are less of a problem.

EITHER THE BRITISH WERE IN IRANIAN waters or they weren't.

I don't believe that is clearly established.

The Brits and Iran are still playing volleyball with that issue and the world is left to quess. The 'idea' that Iran had ulterior motives in forcing Britain from Iraq is grossly unclear in the evidence the Brits are leaving anyway. A 5000 or so force in Iraq is for diplomatic purposes only. There is always hope that Iraq will actually become a country whereby benevolence and diplomacy including visits from international business men would become an everyday event. So, for 5000 British soldiers to remain in Iraq is more or less to assist with diplomats, consulates and United Nation personnel more than anything else. If one divides 5000 into let's say three 'on duty' shift for five days per week (in other words a forty hour week), what is left is 125 'on duty' personnel at any one time.

So, to take Cooper seriously as well as his talking head general is hideous and simply realized as an inflammatory 'newsy' SHOW.

As to what is actually happening:

It seems as though Russia is taking the lead on Iran and the trespassing issue. No surprise here. The USA just rather bomb the Iranians and invade for it's oil and gas. Russia on the other hand is always interested in 'stable political states.' SO, am I surprised Russia, under Putin's leadership, is the first to move before the UN for a truth telling session? No.

Moscow calls for UN probe into capture of U.K. seamen by Iran (click on)

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) - The United Nations secretariat should conduct an independent investigation into the detention of 15 British seamen by Iran, Russia's Foreign Ministry said Friday.

"Taking into account that the British side insists that its servicemen were fulfilling their UN Security Council mandate, we believe the UN Secretariat should prepare an independent report on the incident shortly," the ministry said following a meeting between Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Yakovenko and British Ambassador to Russia Tony Brenton.

Iran detained the British sailors in the Gulf last Friday for allegedly violating its maritime border with Iraq. Britain insists its servicemen were captured in Iraqi waters when returning to the HMS Cornwall after patrolling oil platforms under a UN mandate.

Yakovenko said the incident called for a thorough investigation, and Brenton said his country would promptly provide the UN with relevant information, the ministry said. It added that the diplomats had agreed to continue discussing the matter.

London earlier cited satellite data, saying the sailors were 1.7 nautical miles away from Iraq's maritime border with Iran.

Western agencies reported Friday that the European Union had demanded the immediate release of the seamen at an informal meeting of its foreign ministers, which was dominated by discussions of pressing international problems in Germany's Bremen Friday.

London froze official bilateral contacts, suspended the issuance of visas to Iranian officials and referred the situation to the UN Security Council Wednesday. The UN has expressed "grave concern" over the sailors' capture.

WHEN LITTLE ANDY COOPER finally grows up, he might find out that the world is actually interested in 'the truth' rather than the Jesus Hype to find a viewership he can call 'his own.' How touching.

WHY THE OPPOSITION by Bush to the Senate and House Bills demanding an exit strategy from Iraq? Is it actually for the purpose of bringing stability to Iraq? No, it's because Bush wants to invade Iran and further destabilize the Middle East.

U.S. ready to strike Iran in early April - intelligence source -1 (click on)

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russian intelligence has information that the U.S. Armed Forces have nearly completed preparations for a possible military operation against Iran, and will be ready to strike in early April, a security official said.

The source said the U.S. had already compiled a list of possible targets on Iranian territory and practiced the operation during recent exercises in the Persian Gulf.

"Russian intelligence has information that the U.S. Armed Forces stationed in the Persian Gulf have nearly completed preparations for a missile strike against Iranian territory," the source said.

American commanders will be ready to carry out the attack in early April, but it will be up to the country's political leadership to decide if and when to attack, the source said.

Official data says America's military presence in the region has reached the level of March 2003 when the U.S. invaded Iraq.

The U.S. has not excluded the military option in negotiations on Iran over its refusal to abandon its nuclear program. The UN Security Council passed a new resolution on Iran Saturday toughening economic sanctions against the country and accepting the possibility of a military solution to the crisis.

The source said the Pentagon could decide to conduct ground operations as well after assessing the damage done to the Iranian forces by its possible missile strikes and analyzing the political situation in the country following the attacks.

A senior Russian security official cited military intelligence earlier as saying U.S. Armed Forces had recently intensified training for air and ground operations against Iran.

"The Pentagon has drafted a highly effective plan that will allow the Americans to bring Iran to its knees at minimal cost," the official said.

Russian Col.-Gen. Leonid Ivashov, vice president of the Academy of Geopolitical Sciences, said last week the Pentagon was planning to deliver a massive air strike on Iran's military infrastructure in the near future.

"I have no doubt there will be an operation, or rather an aggressive action against Iran," Ivashov said, commenting on media reports about U.S. planned operation against Iran, codenamed Operation Bite.

A new U.S. carrier battle group has been dispatched to the Gulf. The USS John C. Stennis, with a crew of 3,200 and around 80 fixed-wing aircraft, including F/A-18 Hornet and Superhornet fighter-bombers, eight support ships and four nuclear submarines are heading for the Gulf, where a similar group led by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has been deployed since December 2006. The U.S. is also sending Patriot anti-missile systems to the region.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, however, was rather optimistic about the situation and said he ruled out a military resolution of the Iranian nuclear problem.

"We are constantly working on how to resolve the situation around the Iranian nuclear program and other conflicts peacefully," Lavrov said. "This policy is unchanged and we will pursue it in the future."

Russia and the U.S. are two of the six negotiators on Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran says is aimed at generating energy.

THIS IS ALSO WHY 'The New York Times' is blacking out their message boards. Too much static about an invasion that is already known to be planned.

BUSH AND CHENEY 'THE DESPERATE' are attempting WW III. Ain't it great?

EU lawmakers split on U.S. missile shield plan (click on)

By Mark John

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. plans to site a missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland (click on) sparked disagreement among lawmakers in a fierce European Parliament debate on Thursday, highlighting the risk of an EU rift over the project.

THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND POLAND IS the Russian border. Placing missile shield technology in those countries is to give Europe a false sense of security. Russia won't shot itself in the foot by embarking on a border war with ground troops. It will take on the USA military with an airstrike that will wipe out the forces in Iraq alone in no time. The USA won't have time to react as it will need a lot more Air Force clout than is available in the region. Who is kidding who here? Bush thinks the Iranians and Russians will lay down and worship their new freedoms/anarchy just like the Iraqis did. Bush is an idiot and Cheney swears to it.

No U.S. missile shield elements deployment in Russia - ministry-1 (click on)

MOSCOW, March 31 (RIA Novosti) - A spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry denied Saturday media reports that Russia proposed the United States to deploy elements of missile defense shield on its territory.

On Friday some West mass media sources reported that Russia had proposed the United States to deploy elements of missile defense shield on its territory if Washington refuses its plans for Central Europe.

"The reports do not correspond with reality and do not reflect Russia's stance on the [U.S.] missile shield issue," Mikhail Kamynin said.

BUSH IS LOSING HIS GRIP ON CONTROL for cronys. He is determined to compromise the USA security REGARDLESS of it's ability to 'handle it' militarily. Bush doesn't have loyalty to the USA actually, he has loyalty where his family has invested heavily, namely China and oil. He'll stop at nothing to obtain the world's supply of oil. He'll invade countries illegally and viciously in the face of every peace initiative 'on the table' and he'll melt down every ice field on Earth. He doesn't care.

He and Cheney need to be impeached before they set the globe on fire. Russia and China will put an end to it and the USA won't exist anymore. The reason. To benefit human dignity and salvage what is left to propagate human life.

THERE AREN'T ANY SURPRISES HERE, is there? I mean really. There isn't to me, I've just been waiting for it to build enough steam to make the appearance in public. No State of the Union address this time, they tried that already.

enough

Andy or Glen Beck aren't capable of objective reporting.

Reality check - the extremism of the USA miltary
Gwynne Dyer: How to start a war - American style

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_ [...]

...Horner is the executive officer of the USS Underwood, the American frigate that works with HMS Cornwall, the British ship the captive boarding party came from.

Interviewed after the incident by Terri Judd of the Independent, the only British print journalist on HMS Cornwall, he was obviously struggling to be polite about the gutless Brits, but he wasn't having much success.

"The US Navy rules of engagement say we have not only a right to self-defence but also an obligation to self-defence," Horner explained. "[The British] had every right in my mind and every justification to defend themselves rather than allow themselves to be taken. Our reaction was, 'Why didn't your guys defend themselves?"'

So there they are, eight sailors and seven marines in two rubber boats, with personal weapons and no protection whatever, sitting about 30cm above the water, surrounded by six or seven Iranian attack boats with mounted machine guns.

"Defend yourself" by opening fire, and after a single long burst from half a dozen heavy machine-guns there will be 14 dead young men and one dead young woman in two rapidly sinking inflatables, and your country will be at war. Seems a bit pointless, really.

...Seems a bit pointless, really.

...Seems a bit pointless, really.

...Seems a bit pointless, really.

...Seems a bit pointless, really.



THIS IS FOR THOSE THAT WOKE UP TODAY SAYING IT WAS A GOOD DAY TO GO TO WAR WITH IRAN, like CNN and Fox News !

Jerks !

AIN'T GOIN' TA HAPPEN !

GET OFF THE SUBJECT. That will be a real challenge for Glen Beck the world's worst war monger.

But, they can always count on Anderson Cooper 360 to try to bring in 'the crazies' to attempt to rebuild a constituency for Rove again. ANDY IS engaged in trying to attract people of 'odd' interests in hopes if 'the under represented' are finding a home, he can convince them everything less he is pumping out as propaganda is completely representative of 'the truth' too.

PATHETIC ! This is legitimate news? No.

“Be Honest About What You See . . .” Cooper and Symington
Looks like both The OrangeOrb (er, me) and the Heavy Stuff blog were wrong; Anderson Cooper has picked up on the Symington story. Actually, to be specific, the author of Heavy Stuff wrote that Cooper probably won’t ask Symington who ordered him to pull that trivializing stunt with his aide in an alien suit. Good question.
While Cooper does a good job of reporting on Symington’s sighting and what Symington has to say without stopping to mockery or lame little green men jokes, he didn’t ask that question.

The Stories

“Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself.” ~ Anderson Cooper

http://orangeorb.blogspot.com/2007/03/be-honest-about-what-you-see-cooper-and.html

CNN just ain't what it used to be.

How is Boston doing by the way?

Guardian Angels get mixed reception

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/03/30/guardian_angels_get_mixed_reception/

Residents hopeful; officials skeptical

AH, YEP !

Give it up Anderson, we are onto you ! CNN has become the propaganda network for Bush's agenda. This was last night's show after Andy talked about "Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh no !"

COOPER: Some of the images taken by our photographer, Jeff Hutchens from Getty Images. We've been dealing with trafficking this week in Southeast Asia, trafficking of humans as well as animals.

Tonight an update on a story about the sex trade here in Phnom Penh. It is about a former prostitute who has turned her life around and is trying to help others. CNN's Dan Rivers first brought us the report. Dan joins us now. Dan?

DAN RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): We featured Samaly Mam, this former prostitute, as you say, a couple of days ago. She came from a red light district like this, she was sold into the sex trade. She escaped. And set up her own charity rescuing children from brothels. Now she's rescued about 150 kids. But one kid in particular, a six-year-old girl called Shray (ph), has really touched Samaly's heart and it's an incredibly powerful story. I met them both. It's all the more powerful when you realize that Shray is HIV positive.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SAMALY MAM, SAMALYMAM.ORG: It's hard for her to talk about her story. I don't want to remember. She had been young, five, around five years old.

RIVERS: She was five and she was working in a brothel?

MAM: Se was working in a brothel. Her mommy sell her with her sister to the brothel. Sometime she's talk about rape.

RIVERS: Talks about rape?

MAM: Yeah. She say to me like, the guy rape her. But I just say to her, if she wants to speak, she can speak, if not, but I don't want her to remember to speak. All the rest of the time I want her to play.

RIVERS: What condition was Shray in when you first saw her in the brothel?

MAM: I cannot believe it. I saw her in the brothel when the police take her. She's too small. And she's sad. She's crying a lot. And I just take her like this. You know, she look at me and -- I know that even she didn't talk to me but she say, like, please help me. Like, mommy, please. And I take her and put her in my car.

RIVERS: Tell me about the health problems that Shray has.

MAM: She's very sick. She has HIV-AIDS. She has problems of pneumonia. You know she just say to me, mommy, she call me her mother -- and I'm going to die for sure. And I say to her, no, no, no, don't worry. She say like, why I take a lot of medicine.

RIVERS: People watching this will be horrified that a girl of six was working in a brothel.

MAM: I want all of the people to, you know, like pay attention of this problem. Because this problem, like we talk a lot, more than 10 years we talk about the children trafficking, child exploitation but nothing done. She's going to die for sure. And I don't know, I just want her to be happy.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COOPER: You know, it's easy to get complacent about a lot of problems in the world but a five-year-old child, sold into slavery by her own parents. It just boggles the mind. RIVERS: Apparently, these kids are sold by their parents, sometimes for about $600. They can be sold to Cambodian men or to western sex tourists that come here. The other horrifying aspect sometimes they're rented out to johns that come here looking for a child sex for perhaps as low as $50 a week.

COOPER: And what is the future hold for his little girl? She's six years old now. She is HIV positive. Is she getting medicine?

RIVERS: She's getting medicine, she is getting treatment. The treatment here is obviously not as good as it would be in America or in Europe. But she is getting treatment. But she also has pneumonia, she has T.B. and that's apart from the psychological trauma that she suffered. You can imagine what she's gone through at such a young age when she's just being formed as a person.

COOPER: And we're in the area which is really essentially the red light district in Phnom Penh trying to highlight the issue. And yet, prostitution is illegal in Cambodia and yet it's going on all the time. The authorities know about it. It's not as if this is some sort of a secret. Nicholas Kristof has reported in the past there's collusion between the authorities and the brothel owners, sometimes even the police are owning these brothels.

RIVERS: Absolutely. And when you realize that this is probably one of the number one destinations in the world for this kind of thing, and yet last year there were only 400, I think, arrests to do with child sex, prostitution, I mean it's a really tiny fraction that the police have managed to tackle. And as you say you walk around places like this, it's all pretty open at night. No one's hiding it. You don't have to look far around here to see prostitutes. And you don't have to dig far to find children ...

COOPER: What is her organization's name? If people see this and want to ...

RIVERS: It's SamalyMam.org is the Web site. If people want to help, log on, donate money. She does a great job.

COOPER: Samaly is spelled ...

RIVERS: S-A-M-A-L-Y.

COOPER: And Mam?

RIVERS: M-A-M.

COOPER: M-A-M. SamalyMam.org. Dan, appreciate it. Thank you. Remarkable reporting. Incredible story.

Up next we'll take you back to the U.S. Remember when the nation was transfixed by the hunt for the man who fatally shot a judge in a crowded Georgia courtroom?

GUESS WHERE Attorney General Gonzalez is today?

Gonzales Seeks Damage Repair with Prosecutors (click on)

IN THE MIDWEST. And what is he talking about?

...Thursday, while in St. Louis to promote a campaign against child sexual exploitation, Gonzales met face-to-face with two federal prosecutors...

I'll be darn. Anderson Cooper 360, the propaganda king for Bush. You know, Andy, I would even back you up if these men weren't such incompetents. How can I say that about the blatant liar we now call an Attorney General? Because he is not winning any cases regarding that pleases the Bush Constituency.


Supreme Court overturns Kerby conviction (click on)

By Nathan Gonzalez The Daily Times
Article Launched: 03/22/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT

FARMINGTON — Apple grower Leslie Kerby should have never been tried on molestation charges because the victim waited too long to come forward with her allegations, the state Supreme Court ruled.
A jury convicted Kerby in April 2003 on three charges of criminal sexual contact of a minor for molesting a 6-year-old girl in the late 1980s.

However, because the victim waited more than 15 years to come forward with her allegations, the statute of limitations — a set time limit in which a person can be charged with a crime, in this case five years — should have barred any charges from being filed against Kerby, who operates Farmington's Kerby Orchard.

"Because it is clear that he would not have been convicted had the statute of limitations defense been raised, we hereby vacate the defendant's convictions," wrote Supreme Court Justice Patricio Serna.

The March 16 ruling, in which four other justices agreed, overturns Kerby's conviction.

Though Kerby's record of the case is wiped clean, Deputy District Attorney

AND

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AND, many, many more, including...

ACLU Wins Pornography Case Against Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez – Child Online Protection Act (COPA) Ruled Unconstitutional (click on)

(Best Syndication) A U.S. District Court Judge ruled in favor of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Thursday, deciding that the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) violated the Free Speech clause in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Judge Lowell A. Reed said that although he sympathized with the intent of the law, the legislation was flawed.

The ACLU called the legislation “draconian”. The COPA imposed criminal sanctions, with penalties of up to $50,000 per day and up to six months imprisonment, for webmasters who had pornography posted on their site.

Although the law was passed in 1998, the courts immediately forbade the government from enforcing it because it suppressed a substantial amount of constitutionally protected speech. ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero said "After nearly a decade of legal proceedings, the First Amendment has emerged victorious from the government’s illegal attempt at online censorship.”

THE PEOPLE ANDERSON COOPER 360 PANDERS to are treasonists against the USA Constitution and will do anything, including misleading an entire constituency down 'the Niger yellow cake (brick) road' in order to achieve their agenda of corruption.

Anderson, get on the 'right side' of decency, including the fact we all have to live with freedom of expression in the way pronography exists while making the best laws we can to protect children. The world is not perfect Anderson. Get over it or get off the air !

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all know we are not in Kansas anymore, but, for Bush to beat around the Bush for six years with our national security hanging in the balance seems stupid to continue to live with The Wizard of Oz in the White House.

10:00 PM

Andy is still trying to find his sea legs, huh?

"A Planet in Peril" has become an excuse to promote Bush's agenda. CNN uses issues of 'human interest' and then glamorizes them such as Andy's mucking around in the Amazon Rainforest as if Steve Irwin himself.

Stolen Animals from The Steve Irwin Wildlife Center Are Recovered

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/03/19/stolen_animals_from_the_steve_irwin_wild


Then the show gets turned on it's ear in order to find some merit in Bush's 'sexual conduct' agenda and now Andy is chasing down sex slaves in Bangkok.

Find any kidnapped Americans, Andy?

Finding your CIA skills helpful?

Andy. You should have went to Japan:

Japan's Uncomfortable History (click on)

By Jeannie Suk and Noah Feldman
Word Count: 823

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reopened old wounds in Asia with his defense of Japan's participation in sex slavery during World War II. But this is much more than a debate over history. The past is never dead in Asia. To borrow from Faulkner: It's not even past.

Mr. Abe's words are likely to breed further mistrust in neighboring China and South Korea, which have long accused Tokyo of whitewashing history. Moreover, Japan needs to confront its own past as it decides the kind of nation it wants to be. After some 60 years of constitutionally mandated pacifism in ...


...but then that wouldn't have benefitted the Republican agenda, now would it ?

You keep taking the 'the safe road' to newsiness and you might even prove to be worth your ???? $ 4 million ???? contract to CNN in time.

You want to do the planet a really good turn and be a real boy scout. Link with Al Gore and talk about alternative energies, take a tour of his home with Tipper and find out what they think of those alternative energies. Promote legislation that will turn Global Warming around.

In other words, Andy, scream about Human Induced Global Warming until it hurts. After awhile you actually get attention for that. Ask Al !

9:21 PM

Mitt Romney - AKA Bush, Jr.

"Everything is so partisan in DC, I can change that..."

To begin the partisanship is caused by his party. I do believe it was Georgie that said, "I am a uniter and not a divider."

But, yet, Romney admits Georgie was never able to unit the nation. Yet, he is going to. Right.

King :: Would you vote for an atheist if that person represented every view you agreed with?

Romney never answered. He stated; "...he believed the nation is looking for a man of faith to lead the nation..."

So, therefore, Romney is a religous bigot. He is intolerant of people that are of absence of faith regardless of their agreement with all his political views.

Iraq

Stay the course.

The future of Iraq according to Romney includes the breakdown of every nation-state in the region if the USA leaves Iraq. Unless he knows differently, the USA is strickly involved in an illegal war in Iraq and not the region. Last I heard the Bush White House has so mishandled the invasion into Iraq that the USA has no residual military to even think about looking at expanding the war into Syria, Iran or the Kurdish region of Turkey. So, what is he talking about? We aren't supposed to be in any of the countries he stated would be adversely affected and if we are then it is still another illegal invasion.

There are innocent people dying in Iraq everyday.

There are innocent people dying in Iraq everyday.

There are innocent people dying in Iraq everyday.

The

USA

has

done

NOTHING

to

end

that

violence !

We serve as a stimulant to the violence in the Heart of Islam.

Iraq is another Vietnam. The USA just needs to leave.

Romeny is treating Iraq just as everyone whom justified Vietnam did. The Domino Effect. If Iraq falls into the wrong hands so will the region.

Iraq has so much rebuidling to do they will be very busy, no different than Vietnam did, when the USA troops are out of that country. Romney has no ANSWER for Iraq because it is an illegal war. Iraq today, no different than four years ago, poses no threat to the USA. NONE.

JIhadists are the enemy of Romney. That is making some very broad strokes as jihadists are in nearly every nation in the Middle East and it could be argued they are thorughout the world. So, if jihadists are his enemy, he might want to start to settle the Mideeast Peace by first settling that peace between Palestine and Isreal.

Additionally, if Mr. Romney believes the jihadists of 911 are his primary focus ... well...that was lost a long time ago by Bush. He lost Afghanistan by pursuing Cheney's oil war to benefit Halliburton. So, if Romney is stating he has to return to Afghanistan, then he needs to leave Iraq to do it. Most of the military personnel from Iraq are either dead or disabled. At least the ones the VA are willing to treat.

If it weren't for Bush's draconian and immoral recruitment of young people in the USA with every deception that can be mustered, the USA military would have packed up and returned home a long time ago. The 'larger' military of the USA has been defeated in Iraq as well. The deaths and disabled when realized the damage to the USA miltiary is significant and at this stage of the war is far higher than any of Vietnam. The years of Iraq currently could easily be reflective of the height of Vietnam in the numbers of 'affected' military with the difference being the and are being effected.

The Iraq Was is lost. By sheer numbers alone in the 'affected' military personnel the USA is already defeated. The American 'Dead Enders' just haven't gotten that message yet.

Genetic Research

This is so obvious it's a crime. Romney ranted about embryos and genetic research as it exists today as the correct methodology which has been proven to be ineffective. Yet. His wife sitting right next to him has MS. Multiple Sclerosis has no cure and Romney would deprive his wife of a cure. That is case in point of the religiously obsessed. In leadership they put their personal values ahead of the best interest of the public. There is absolutely nothing wrong with pier review gentic research when it is attempting to achieve cures for illness. The electorate either wants a change in the direction of this nation and it's is willing to wallow in religious stagnation for another decade of helplessness, hopelessness and indulgent pandering to pharmaceutical companies. I just don't see it.

Romeny answered nothing about Human Induced Global Warming. He never addressed the impoverishment of America and it's disappearing Middle Class. He stated he would continue to act as Bush has done by decreasing taxes and government spending. The exception of course would be his 'stay the course ' in Iraq as well as his world wide focus on jihadists.

In regard to homosexuals; Massachusetts was the first state to declare through their State Supreme Court that all human beings had the Civil Right of marriage. In that though, Mr. Romney has taken 'the bigoted party line' and asked General Pace to write his policy for the presidential elections.

General brands gays as ‘immoral’ (click on)

By Pauline Jelinek - Associated Press
Mar 15, 2007, 20:35 Email this article
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Pace expresses regret for airing personal view, refuses to apologize

JUST FOR A POINT OF REFERENCE. Immorality in sexual conduct is a religious bigoted attitude, personal or not. It is not dictated by society. Although being bigoted while the USA Military is in Islam and an occupier, it is not globally viewed as a reasonable point of view. This is typical of the macho military identity. Considering the generals of the USA are becoming an endangered species, I imagine they could get away with murder and Bush would find no fault in it.

Bush, Jr. Romney is the son Bush never had. He should endorse him.

6:23 pm

CNN, "The Old World Mindset"

Lou Dobbs - General "Strange" Grange - We are in denial of who we are as Americans and need to stay 'in the fight' in Iraq.

OTHERWISE STATED :: We are allowed to kill and continue to kill just because we can.

Human Rights Violators.

Just that simple.

In Iraq, war is the name of the game so why not play it. It is not as though the war is going to be abandoned by it's prime player, the al Qaeda training ground of the USA military occupation. There is no chance Iraqis will have a life otherwise:

Iraqi insurgents keep up car bomb campaign (click on)

Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:24PM EDT

By Claudia Parsons

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four car bombs, two of them in Baghdad, killed 16 people in Iraq on Thursday as a U.S. commander said a security crackdown in the capital was reducing casualties from the weapon of choice of insurgents.

In the deadliest attack, a suicide car bomber targeting an Iraqi army and police checkpoint killed eight policemen and soldiers in the Karrada district of central Baghdad. The blast wounded 25 people, including two bodyguards of city mayor Sabir al-Issawi, who was unhurt, witnesses said.

South of the capital, six people died when a car bomb exploded as a bus carrying state employees passed by in a stronghold of Sunni Arab insurgents fighting the U.S.-backed Shi'ite-led government.

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OH, YEAH, the Bush Surge is such a huge sucess. It is nothing more than the General Petraeus' attempt to save the embarrassment of the USA, still again in a war that was illegally conceived for the purpose of corporate profit. The people dying now in Iraq are not considered to be anything except pawns in the politics or targets as insurgents, while, the reality is that four years of chaos, anarchy and war has created loyalty to finding their own solutions.

The Petraeus war might even be successful, but, only be the sheer numbers of dead people, he achieves while calling it a mission.

Open Letter to General Petraeus (click on)

James Petras March 9, 2007

I am told by the Manchester Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post that you have impeccable academic and battlefield credentials. Bush has appointed you “Commander of the Multinational Forces in Iraq”, and so you have the power to implement your highly publicized counter-insurgency theories. You are nearly my namesake – having a Romanized version of my Hellenized name (Petraeus/Petras). You are dubbed a ‘warrior’ or ‘counter-insurgency intellectual’. I hold credentials as an ‘insurgency intellectual’ or as Alex Cockburn calls it ‘a fifty-year membership in the class struggle’. You publicists have billed you as ‘America’s last best hope for salvation (of the empire) in Iraq.’ Predictably the Democrats in Congress led by Senator Clinton went down to their knees in praise and support of your professionalism and war record in Northern Iraq. So let it be recognized that you enjoy an advantage: the support of both parties, the White House, Congress and the mass media, but still being an insurgent intellectual, I am not convinced that you will or should succeed in saving Iraq for the empire. Better still; I think you undoubtedly will fail, because your military assumptions and strategies are based on fundamentally flawed political analyses, which have profound military consequences.

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was no surprise to the USA. His status was known for a long time before 911. More reason to believe, actions against these known terrorists before they could act on September 11th was possible.

Mohammed says responsible for 9/11 (click on)
Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:22 PM EDT

By Andrew Gray
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top al Qaeda suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has claimed he organized the September 11 attacks on the United States and other major attacks, according to the transcript of a hearing released on Wednesday.

"I was responsible for the 9/11 Operation, from A to Z," Mohammed, speaking through a personal representative, said according to the transcript of the hearing on Saturday at the U.S. military's Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba.

Mohammed, a Pakistani national, also said he was responsible for a 1993 attack on New York's World Trade Center, the bombing of a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia, and an attempt to down two American airplanes using shoe bombs.

U.S. officials have said Mohammed, who was arrested in Pakistan in March 2003 and handed over to U.S. custody, was the mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks which destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon.

"I was the operational director for Sheikh Usama (Osama) Bin Laden for the organizing, planning, follow-up, and execution of the 9/11 operation," he said through his representative, a member of the U.S. military.


IT IS AMAZING THE DEGREE people like Laura What's Her Name will believe in order to tow 'the patry line' - "The President can fire anyone he wants to." "W"rong. US Attorneys aren't part of the Cabinet. There has to be good reason to fire US Attorneys. Neer before in the history of this country has there been eight US Attorneys fired. Never.

Andy is simply trying to provide more blind and bland stenography to the RNC.


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Federal agents join New Orleans police to target offenders

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/police/6455597.html

NEW ORLEANS — Forty-six suspects have been charged with federal felony offenses since federal agents joined local police in patrolling crime-prone parts of the city starting in late January, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said Monday.

All but one of the 46 suspects have been arrested, and 44 of them remain in federal custody.

Twenty of the 46 suspects were charged with illegal possession of firearms, and some face drug charges.

Federal grand juries have indicted 35 people.

Letten and New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley said the arrests are evidence the new partnership between federal and local officials is yielding results in New Orleans, which has been racked by a wave of violent crime in recent months.

THE AMERICAN MEDIA would have the nation full of propaganda before the fourth anniversary of the illegal invasion into Iraq.

http://www.icasualties.org/oif/

It sincerely doesn't look that way.

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 14
14 Mar 2007 22:27:28 GMT

* BAGHDAD - Three U.S. soldiers died as a result of injuries sustained during combat operations in Diyala province on Wednesday, the U.S. military said. Nine soldiers were wounded.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi troops raided a complex in eastern Baghdad occupied by Palestinian refugees after receiving information that a car bomb was inside the compound, Interior Ministry spokesman Brigadier Abdul Karim Khalaf said. Khalaf said shooting broke out and three men gunmen were killed and 25 others were arrested, including Iraqis and Palestianians.

FALLUJA - A U.S. Marine was killed in combat on Tuesday in Anbar province, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.

BAQUBA - Police found four decapitated heads in the insurgent stronghold of Baquba, officers said. It was not clear who the victims were.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Mudhafer al-Ubaidi, the leader of Baghdad's Adhamiya Municipality, and one of his guards, an aide to Ubaidi said. Ubaidi's son was wounded in the attack.

NEAR HILLA - Gunmen killed three off-duty policemen just south of Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, a hospital source said.

TUZ KHURMATO - A suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded 15 in a market in Tuz Khurmato, south of Kirkuk, police said.

MOSUL - Several mortar rounds landed on a residential district in Mosul killing a man and his child and wounding four, a hospital source said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded near an Iraqi army checkpoint, killing one person and wounding four in Baghdad's western Yarmouk district, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed two policemen in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen killed one civilian in his store and kidnapped his brother in the northern city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

NEAR KIRKUK - A motorist was killed when a roadside bomb blew up next to his vehicle on a main road south of the city of Kirkuk, police said.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army found 1,600 litres of nitric acid in 64 small containers prepared as roadside bombs in Baghdad's northern district of Adhamiya, police said.

NEAR FALLUJA - The bodies of two men were found, with gunshot wounds and signs of torture, near the Sunni Arab stronghold of Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen killed two police officers and wounded another on Tuesday night in a drive-by shooting in the southern city of Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

ISKANDARIYA - A Sunni mosque was badly damaged on Tuesday when militants planted bombs inside it in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO460349.htm

THE OTHER ISSUES OF THE HOUR, surrounded the escalation of violence in the USA, which is easily seen in a gun BATTLE in Manhatten

4 Dead in Manhattan Gunfight (click on)

Two unarmed auxiliary police officers were fatally shot last night during a chase with a gunman on a busy stretch of bars and restaurants in the heart of Greenwich Village, the authorities said....

...It was the second night in a row that city officers were attacked in the line of duty. On Tuesday night, one police officer was shot in a Harlem restaurant only 90 minutes before another was stabbed in the head at a Brooklyn subway station. Both survived....

THE VIOLENCE of the nation is directly related to the number of guns returned to the street by the Bush White House and the promotion of violence by his administration in the way of war, confrontational police force that freely uses barrage of bullets in reaction to crime at any indication (There recently was a killing of several Black Men at a night club on the Eve of his wedding.) as well as the deprivation of Civil Rights across the board at a federal level.

The 'Police State' of the Bush Administration is sparking violence and not preventing it.

Then there was a focus on a soldier that actually committed suicide while waiting for services at the VA. That is directly related to the lack of funding by the Bush White House of the VA. Just another lack of support the troops actually get.

ON the other hand, this is a lesson to families in that 'waiting' for treatment is deadly. They need to act to contain the threats of suicide with motions of commitment. While held in less optimal facilities possibly, the veterans are still alive and when they are moved to the top of the VA list, they will then be able to be transferred to those facilities for treatment.

THAT problem solving lacked on this program, so much as simply complaining to spark action through embarrassement of the federal government. The federal government is incompetent, embarrassing them doesn't accomplish higher competency so much as simply throwing money 'at the problem' in hopes someone will find that enough of an answer. The money needed by the VA also needs competent practitioners within it's administration so that it translates into 'state of the art' care of our veterans.

There is now a child without a father due to the high incompentency of committment by the VA in pursuing 'state of the art' care. A father that survived the war. And a lack of committment which needs to include public oversight with recommendations to a House and Senate willing to find answers for those surviving the war. A war that has many more casualities when realizing very few returning soldiers are actually untouched by the rigors of survival in Iraq.

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Paula Zahn consents to the mass deaths of people of other nations...


The media promoted the illegal invasion into Iraq. They never raised doubt. There is a lot of money in such a venture. There is also the advantage of a stockholder of CNN, in that war that leads to confrontation of the Shia works to satisfy the ambitions of the Sunnis of Saudi Arabia. Promoting war in the unstable Middle East also provides opportunity to attack Israel and attempt to eliminate from the map of the region. Although there is rarely a time when Israel is not under the attacks of the regions complaints of one kind or another, the most recent complaints are a profound attempt to destablize the government of Israel in a way that says the country is not allowed to defend itself.

Winograd final report will 'sentence' country's leaders
By ANSHEL PFEFFER AND YAAKOV KATZ

The Winograd Commission's final report expected in the late summer will include full "personal recommendations" concerning Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz, as well as senior ministers and IDF officers on their conduct during the Lebanon War, a source close to the committee said Wednesday.

The "partial" report to be published next month will contain a full judgment on the actions of Olmert, Peretz and former chief of General Staff Dan Halutz during the five-day period in July between the capture of IDF reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser and the official decision to launch the campaign against Hizbullah....

... Regarding the individuals involved - Olmert, Peretz and Halutz - the decision was to deliver the "verdict" as to their actions but to reserve the "sentencing" for the final report, which would describe their actions throughout the war. The source didn't discount the possibility that other parts of the report might be published in advance of the final version.

HIZBOLLAH is a terrorist organization. It is Shia as well. The dynamics of the region, including those being killed in Iraq, has resulted because of Arab bigotry between the two major religious divisions. Rather than confronting the Sunnis, it has been all too simple for organizations such as Hizbollah to focus on Israel as a the enemy wishing to displace the nation and claim that area of the region as their own.

Israel has a right to defend itself. That is all that needs to be understood about the retaliation into Southern Lebanon. Hizbollah's rockets were killing the children of Israel. To scrutinize the methods of the Isreali military in regard to it's defense of the nation when it was completely abandoned by it's ally, is to continue to disarm a country in need of more allies everyday. The Middle East is in need of an ally such as it had with Bill Clinton. One committed to resolve the deadly dynamics of the region and not escalate it. The form of diplomacy that seeks resolve of all issues including the bigotry that exists against the Shia which radicalizes them.

U.S. failed to give Israel all drafts of UN resolution ending Lebanon war (click on)

By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service

The U.S. government failed to give Israel all the drafts of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 ending last summer's Lebanon war in real time, so Israel had to obtain some of the documents from other sources, Israeli government sources said.

The sources, however, said senior government officials ultimately did get all the drafts in time, and there were no delays or information gaps that impeded decision-making during the war.

According to some sources, Israel obtained the drafts not supplied by the Americans from intelligence sources....

...The resolution underwent several drafts, some tilted more toward Israel and others toward Lebanon, and these drafts affected Israeli moves during the war, particularly toward the end. As a result, it was critical for Israel to obtain real-time versions of the drafts. However, American-Israeli coordination on this issue was imperfect.

In particular, the second-to-last draft, which Prime Minister Ehud Olmert received on the morning of August 11, seemed to him much less favorable than the version on which he and Washington had agreed the previous night.

He later said this draft convinced him to launch a major ground operation during the war's final days in an effort to influence the Security Council. During these three days of fighting, 33 soldiers were killed.

IT SEEMS TO ME, the actions of Israel were manipulated with the lack of information it's leaders were looking from the USA and UN. No matter which way one looks, Israel and the region gets a bad rap by the West. Pawns.

The Paula Zahn hour about Vietnam was not about Vietnam, it was about promoting the Iraq War.

ZAHN: Ilario Pantano is a former United States Marine lieutenant who has been on the ground in Iraq, and has written a provocative bestseller called "Warlord: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" about his experiences there.

Welcome back.

ILARIO PANTANO, AUTHOR, "WARLORD: NO BETTER FRIEND, NO WORSE ENEMY": Thank you so much, Paula.

ZAHN: You have heard a number of Vietnam vets, including Senator Max Cleland, describe that they feel like they are reliving their Vietnam War experience through this war in Iraq.

What are the similarities you see?

PANTANO: Oh, I -- I think that there are several in the -- the way that Iraq has become the four-letter word for Vietnam.

But I think that Senator Cleland's remarks were particularly haunting, given his sacrifice, because, on the one hand, he feels tremendous pain and empathy for what's happening. And, on the other hand, his remarks and his actions are actually fueling a lot of the political division that is weakening our effort.

ZAHN: And -- and what do you mean by that?

PANTANO: Well...

ZAHN: What is he doing that -- that's spurring that on?

PANTANO: I think that there are some -- some very -- and I -- and I don't mean to diminish his motivations. I think that anybody who served his country with the honor and the distinction that he has, has every right to express himself. And I think that that comes from the best of intentions.

But I think that there is a political game of schadenfreude, where they are entrenched oppositions to various policies that, sadly, often delight when the other party fails. And you saw that, certainly, in Vietnam. He lived that firsthand 30 years ago. And, in a weird twist of irony , he now is on the other end of that.

ZAHN: So, to what extent do you really think politicians have compromised what is happening militarily in Iraq?

PANTANO: I think that the -- the blame for the decay of public sentiment can be... (CROSSTALK)

ZAHN: And we should make it clear that Max Cleland is not in power now.

PANTANO: That's -- that's correct, and a very important point.

But I think that the blame for -- in fact, I think that the reason we're even having this program tonight, asking the question, is this another Vietnam, can be apportioned fairly across not just politicos and generals, but, certainly, the media bears a -- a level of responsibility, as does the American people and their ambivalence and -- and their antipathy.

We do have a professional military fighting this fight. And I think that that's allowed the large majority of the population to become bored and disengaged. And now they are no longer understanding why.

And I just want to point out, we have seen some unbelievable statistics tonight comparing Vietnam casualty rates, numbers of troops in country.

ZAHN: Chilling numbers.

PANTANO: I would agree.

But what we haven't seen is, what's so interesting is that Vietnam, geographically, was insignificant compared to Iraq. And, yet, we committed five times the resources for five times as long, with five times the casualty rate. And, here, we're talking about Iraq, which is almost the crossroads of the Middle East and the center of our energy concerns, and we're -- we're uncomfortable to do anything similar.

ZAHN: You say the American public perhaps bears part of the blame.

That is one similarity with the Vietnam War, when the public tide turned. The -- the American public today, when polled, two-thirds of them will say they are adamantly opposed this war. They are engaged. They don't like this war.

How does that affect those men and women on the ground in Iraq?

PANTANO: I have to say, Paula, I -- I am so grateful that we still have men and women that are volunteering to do the hard thing, even when it's unpopular and when it's hard.

I mean, maybe I should rephrase that: especially when it's unpopular and hard. If George Washington had listened to his generals at Valley Forge complaining of men with frozen feet, or the colonists, two-thirds of which who wanted to give up, we would probably be doing this interview on the BBC, instead of CNN.

I say we have to push. ZAHN: Always good to see you.

PANTANO: Thank you so much.

ZAHN: Thank you so much your time tonight, Ilario Pantano.

When it comes to the home front, is Iraq another Vietnam? Coming up, we're going to take you back from today's computer-connected generation to the wild days of the '60s, and look at the media's role in covering the war, something Ilario just touched upon -- more when we come back.

PAULA ZAHN NOW is interested in promoting war in the face of the dynamics of the region which desperately needs clarification with goals for peace and inclusion of acceptance of the Shia as a religous authority within the Arab nations.

Louis should know better.

CNN sliced and diced the interview with Louis Farrakhan to place their own emphasis on it. The words of bigots won out.

SANCHEZ: Strong opinions. Our Don Lemon's going to join us live in just a little bit for more on this one-on-one conversation that he's had with Louis Farrakhan. Now Farrakhan doesn't usually...

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...to the media all that well. So this is a rare interview....

THE SEGMENT JUST GETS WORSE FROM THERE. CNN's Sanchez and Lemon attempt though their 'shadow discussion' to victimize both Mr. Farrakhan and Senator Obama by attempting an endorsement by the inflammatory Mr. Farrakhan of Senator Obama. It won't be a bad endorsement actually considering Mr. Farrakhan's million man march. In the same instance Louis is never asked his opinion of the Seantor's work or that of all the other candidates. Louis is retiring from his activism, which everyone knows has been essential in securing a 'better' place for Black Men in America's landscape.

A good opportunity to allow Mr. Farrakhan to make a closing statement to his career and hopes for Black Candidates was lost in this victimizing interview. Nothing relevant was discussed. The Iraq War, the poor performing economy, outsourcing of jobs, terrorist networks and the pathetic approach by the USA, Katrina and the estrangement of the Black Vote in vitally Democratic districts in Florida in the year 2000 or the actions of the NEW Florida Governor to reverse that. The interview was an embarrassment to CNN, but, then we have come to expect same.

SANCHEZ: And there's this story. Some say that he is brutally honest. Others say he's just downright brutal. Louis Farrakhan, he talks to CNN's Don Lemon. And Don's going to join me in a little bit. He's going to be talking about Farrakhan's thoughts on a couple things.

First of all, President Bush and also something a lot of people have been talking about all over the country, the use of the "n" word, good or bad.

And we've got some new information coming in on this. Remember this story we told you about a little while ago, the old woman that's beaten up by this thug?

Well, she's talking tonight about this. We've been talking to her. And don't forget to call us now about the sexual predators? Do you think that they should be cured? Or should they just be locked up and left there like throw away the key? Our number, 1-800-807-2620. We're going to read some of your responses. That's coming up in about, oh, 30 minutes. Stay with us.

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FARRAKHAN: The world is urinating on you. And you have to have a place where you can purify yourself from politics, so you can be a real human being that doesn't promise people what you know you can't deliver.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SANCHEZ: Boy, you talk about some colorful language. Now that's Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan last month in what may have been, may have been his final public appearance.

Now this is a guy who doesn't usually talk to those of us in the media. So CNN'S Don Lemon is joining us here now. Got a chance to go inside his home. How you did get that?

DON LEMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, I was persistent. And also, I came from Chicago.

SANCHEZ: Right.

LEMON: And he is - you know, lives in Chicago. And I happen to know a few people who went to -- at least one person, a very good friend of mine who went to school with his daughter, and is friends with his daughter. And said I said, you know what? Your dad is sick. I would really want to talk to him. She told me who to call. And I just kept bugging him for months and months because I knew he was going to give a speech. And I knew he had been ill.

SANCHEZ: You're from Chicago. There's somebody else from Chicago...

LEMON: Yes.

SANCHEZ: ..or at least certainly well known in that area. And that is Obama.

LEMON: Yes. And I had to ask him that during the thing. I mean, they live in the same neighborhood, not that far apart. And since, you know, Obama is this rising star now...

SANCHEZ: Right.

LEMON: ...that's the quote, "rock star," right, I had to ask him about Barack Obama.

SANCHEZ: What did he say?

LEMON: He said - well, he likes him, and then, but he's not so sure. Why don't we take a listen?

SANCHEZ: All right. Let's listen up.

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FARRAKHAN: I think he's capable of being an answer. But who will provide him with the money so he can contend with Mrs. Clinton and her big bank or Giuliani and Mccain and their growing bank? So the people that bankroll you, they're the ones that ultimately call the tune.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SANCHEZ: So he's saying if you got to collect a hundred million dollars to run for president, those are a hundred million dollars worth of favors you've got to pay back.

LEMON: Well, I don't know if he's saying that, but what he's saying is that the poor people...

SANCHEZ: Don't give him the money. LEMON: ...they don't have the money to give him. So the people who are giving him the money ultimately once he is in he White House, if he ever gets to the White House, he's going to owe those people. That's what he's saying.

SANCHEZ: Well, you know what's interesting about him? He says controversial things.

LEMON: Yes.

SANCHEZ: And a lot of people hate him for it.

LEMON: Yes.

SANCHEZ: But he says it oftentimes like it is. Is that why he -- among African-Americans, some people like him, some people don't like him. And everybody wants to hear what he has to say.

LEMON: I got to tell you this. Out of all the stories I've done, and also I did an interview with Barack Obama not long after I got here, but this has generated more response from African-Americans inside this building, outside the building. People are saying I can't wait to see that story you're doing on Farrakhan. Or I saw your story on Farrakhan. Or the radio stations are calling me.

People say, the people who write about him and you know, talk about him in the media like we do...

SANCHEZ: Right.

LEMON: ...say he's the ultimate free black man because see, there are no repercussions.

SANCHEZ: That's what he does.

LEMON: He doesn't have a corporation to...

SANCHEZ: Well, what -- I'm interested in finding out what he said about the president of the United States, George Bush right now.

LEMON: He said the president should be impeached.

SANCHEZ: Did he?

LEMON: And he said the president lied to the American people knowingly and also convinced the Congress to give him the powers to go to war. He should be impeached.

Not only should he be impeached, but don't leave Dick Cheney in here because if you leave Dick Cheney, and this is his quote, you're leaving his boss in and the person who orchestrated this whole thing.

SANCHEZ: His boss.

LEMON: His boss.

SANCHEZ: He says Cheney's -- do we have that on tape?

LEMON: Cheney, Bush's...

SANCHEZ: Do you have on that tape?

LEMON: We don't have it on tape, but we do have it. We do have it for you. So if you want to hear it, I'll play it for you. But he said if you leave him in, you're leaving in President Bush's boss.

SANCHEZ: Don Lemon.

LEMON: Yes.

SANCHEZ: Good stuff.

LEMON: Yes.

SANCHEZ: Good scores. A good get as they said in this business.

LEMON: But also talked about the "N" word? You know, we've been doing that whole thing about keeping them honest about the "N" word and about language in rap music. Well, he talked about that as well.

He said, and this is very interesting, I've been doing this thing on James Brown.

SANCHEZ: Right.

LEMON: Two people said the same thing to me, Usher and Farrakhan. He said James Brown didn't say, you know, say it loud on the "N" word and I'm proud. He said say it loud, I'm black, and I'm proud. He doesn't understand the music now. Let's listen real quick.

SANCHEZ: He talks about this?

LEMON: Yes.

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FARRAKHAN: You can try to put a pretty face on a gargoyle, but it is what it is. The word is a degrading term. And we who use it use it in a degrading manner.

It's not a love term. Because if it were love, the black community would not suffer what it is suffering from black-on-black violence, black-on-black crime.

And those of us who understand want to see black-on-black love. And Jesus didn't say love your "N" as you love yourself. He said love your brother as you love yourself. So -- or your neighbor. So you need to change the language that our people are using. Or we need to change it.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SANCHEZ: That's a castigation. LEMON: Yes.

SANCHEZ: And it's a castigation aimed not necessarily at white people...

LEMON: Yes.

SANCHEZ: ...but at black people, right?

LEMON: Absolutely.

SANCHEZ: As I read him?

LEMON: Yes. And he will tell you. He says I'm critical of everyone if I don't think they're doing the right thing.

SANCHEZ: Because black people use it as much, if not more, than white people do.

LEMON: Absolutely. I mean, specifically talking about in the music about calling people dog. He goes why would you call someone a dog? Am I -- are you a dog?

SANCHEZ: Right.

LEMON: What kind of language is that? Why would you call someone the "N" word? What kind of language is that? That is not a word that is complimentary.

SANCHEZ: That's interesting. And some would probably find agreement amongst all kinds of people.

LEMON: Yes.

SANCHEZ: Don, we thank you.

LEMON: Rick Sanchez, always a pleasure, sir.

SANCHEZ: Pay us a visit once.

LEMON: I will. Absolutely. Thank you for having me.