Interesting post. I came across this blog by accident, but it was a good accident. I have now bookmarked your blog for future use. Best wishes. Sofia Vergara….

Bred Pitt

Jessica Simpson

great idea!

House and Senate conferees have approved $2.5 billion in assistance for Israel. The approval last week in a voice vote returns the full foreign-operations package to both houses of Congress for final approval before it goes to President George W. Bush for his signature. The package keeps funding to Israel at current levels, but the final votes ‹ likely to take place next week ‹ still could cut foreign aid by an across-the-board percentage because of the cost of recent hurricanes.

The legislation includes an additional $40 million in refugee resettlement assistance for Israel, money that helps absorb Ethiopian Jews, and cuts up to $75 million annually in administrative costs related to the aid, provisions that were included at the behest of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

The package also preserves $150 million in assistance to the Palestinians, as requested by Bush, though the money is subject to tough congressional oversight. Also left untouched is $1.8 billion in assistance to Egypt, despite attempts in Congress to decrease the portion of aid that goes to Egyptian military spending and increase the amount used to encourage democracy.

http://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=4344&TM=58.018

Republicans start at rank 45 (Barack Obama is first) with only one ‘Democrat’ ranked below any Republican. Guess who?

Wallace – you are simply wrong about the president’s war record. Are you so ignorant that you can’t read the above articles and realise that? You’ve been manipulated by the WH. Read the facts and use your brain, if you can. But then most right-wing followers are incapable of independent thought.

“These are very serious time; we’re facing challenges today at home and in the world the likes of which we have not faced together in a long, long time. It’s a time for change from George Bush, but its not a time for rookies.”

Correct me if I’m wrong, but that was Joe Lieberman on ABC’s This Week, October 19, 2003. I mean, Lieberman is proving that Bush hasn’t learned a damned thing, even after the FEMA fisaso with Brown being put in charge.

Comment by Ryan Neat — December 4, 2005 @ 11:25 pm

Ryan, I took a look a “Wingmen(nuts) for Bush” site, and found a testimonial with the following from a commander of his, who never actually says that he saw Bush, only that he (and most others at the time) hadn’t received any bad reports about Bush – and that is all. In addition I found this classic bit of nuttiness:

“[. . .] I am proud to fully support him and to know that he successfully graduated and went on to serve honorably in the Texas Air National Guard–flying more than his share of cold war missions along the southern border of the United States. His objective was to identify bombers from the Soviet Union who probed our defenses constantly in that area. If ordered, he would have taken offense action against any invading force, a mission that he was fully qualified and capable of performing. Had a war been initiated by the USSR, he would have been in the first line of defense.

So I looked up this supposed “threat”, and found this, from
The Kremlin’s Nuclear Sword: The Rise and Fall of Russia’s Strategic Nuclear Forces, 1945-2000
[. . .]
“When Krushchev visited the plant to inspect the new [Myasishchev 2M] bomber, he was shown a profile of the bomber’s flight profile against US targets. The final stage of the flight took the bomber over Mexico, where the crew was expected to bail out, on the assumption that Mexico would be neutral. Krushchev rebuked Myasishchev for such a preposterous scheme….”

So George was protecting the border from a lamebrained threat which had never materialized because it had been stopped by Krushchev years before.