ScrappleFace: Bush: Kerry Election Would Heighten Kennedy Threat

ScrappleFace: Bush: Kerry Election Would Heighten Kennedy Threat: “Bush: Kerry Election Would Heighten Kennedy Threat

(2004-09-28) — If Americans elect John Forbes Kerry to the White House, the nation faces the ‘greatest risk in a generation’ of seeing Ted Kennedy in a cabinet post, according to President George Bush.

The president’s remarks–called ‘apocalyptic’ by some pundits–come just a day after Sen. Kennedy accused Mr. Bush of making a ‘nuclear 9/11′ more likely by invading Iraq.

‘Many Americans are too young to remember the threats of the 1970s and 1980s that sent frightened schoolchildren scrambling under their desks,’ said Mr. Bush. ‘Some people actually built underground shelters as a safe haven in which to ride out a so-called ‘Kennedy winter’.’

In a preemptive move against this ‘grave and gathering threat’, Mr. Bush today ordered government agencies and public schools to gear up for civil defense drills.”

Firefox Makes Headlines !

Reuters Recommends News Article | Reuters.com: “LONDON (Reuters) - Since Microsoft won the browser wars in the late 1990s, its Internet Explorer software has been the way most people surf the Web. But with some slick new challengers on the scene, that may be about to change.

While Internet Explorer has remained largely unchanged for years, alternative Web browsers like Opera, Apple Computer’s Safari and especially Firefox are wowing users with innovative features and the promise of increased protection from hackers.

…Tabbed browsing lets you open dozens of sites within a single window, saving space on your computer desktop. If there are a number of sites you visit daily, you can group them into a folder and open them all at once….

Firefox rose from the ashes of Netscape, the first popular Web browser, which kick-started the dot-com boom before being vanquished by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Netscape was then purchased by America Online, which donated the software’s code to the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.” More >>>

Nice to see that Mozzila’s FireFox is getting the press it finally deserves. With more and more folks looking for Microsoft alternatives, this new generation of community developed browsers are likely attracting some attention out in Seattle. We use and love it. Download version 1.0PR the new pre release is still being shaken out. — ZZB

Aljazeera.Net - Musharraf: Iraq war a mistake

Aljazeera.Net - Musharraf: Iraq war a mistake: “Though an ally of the United States, Musharraf on Friday described the invasion as a mistake and said it had complicated the ‘war on terror’.

‘It has ended up bringing more trouble to the world,’ Musharraf said in a television interview.

‘The world is more dangerous because the Iraq war has aroused the passions of the Muslims more,’ he added.

‘The war in Iraq has complicated the war on terror … it has made the job more difficult.’” More…

It will be interesting to see if US mainstreet media pick up on this story on Sunday 9/26. Musharaff has been a long supporter of US efforts to eliminate Al-Quada. It is no wonder Pakistan sees the Iraqi War as a distraction from the search and destroy mission in Afganistan and in the border regions of their country.

How viable is Kerry’s exit strategy?

The article below was run in Al Jazeera earlier today. According to the article, most see Kerry’s plan very similar to Bush’s plan for democracy in Iraq. The difference being that somehow the EU will be quick to jump in if Kerry became the next president. Don’t count on it !

Aljazeera.Net - How viable is Kerry’s exit strategy?: “Will Europe help?

‘We must make Iraq the world’s responsibility, because the world has a stake in the outcome and others should share the burden,’ Kerry said in his New York address.

Some analysts, however, say a Kerry victory in November would have little impact on the international community in terms of more direct involvement in Iraq.

‘Invading Iraq has created a crisis of historic proportions and if we do not change course, there is the prospect of a war with no end in sight’

…I don’t see [the Europeans] changing their tune in terms of sending mass numbers of troops…

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry

‘I have seen nothing to suggest that the Europeans would be more willing to get involved with a Kerry administration than with a Bush administration,’ Yaphe said.

Although few analysts predict that major European countries such as France and Germany would send troops to Iraq under a Kerry administration, some suggest they might be willing to show support in other areas.

‘I don’t see [the Europeans] changing their tune in terms of sending mass numbers of troops, but I see them willing to participate [if Kerry becomes president],’ said Peter Singer, a national security fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington thinktank.” More…

That about sums it up. A good five years of occupation unless the Iraqi Gov’t can handle security themselves with their own police and army.

Iran Tests Strategic Missile

: “TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Saturday it successfully tested a ’strategic missile’ and delivered it to its armed forces, state-run radio reported.

The report did not say whether the missile was the previously announced new version of the Shahab-3 rocket, which already was capable of reaching Israel and U.S. forces stationed in the Middle East, or was a new missile.

Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani declined to give details about the missile for ’security reasons,’ but said Iran was ‘ready to confront all regional and extra-regional threats,’ the report said.

Defense Ministry officials could not be reached for comment on the report.

‘This strategic missile was successfully test fired during military exercises by the Revolutionary Guards and delivered to the armed forces,’ Shamkhani was quoted as saying. The exercises were held Sept. 12-18.”

Earthquakes Reported At Mount St. Helens

Earthquakes Reported At Mount St. Helens: “LONGVIEW, Wash. — Seismologists in Washington state report hundreds of tiny earthquakes at the Mount St. Helens volcano, but the activity is unlikely to threaten anyone outside the crater, they said” More…

In addition to the smoke and steam, indications are that anothr major erruption may be about to occur this month. Scientists have sensors and monitoring devices strategically placed in and around the crater to make critical measurements.

The last eruption of Mt. St. Helens took 57 lives and dessimated miles of timerland, vegetation and animal life.

"Nothing’s Perfect In Life" - Rumsfeld

Partial democracy is better than no democracy at all. Rumsfeld makes clear his perspectives on the January vote in Iraq.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - Washington, D.C.: Bush: Terrorists may plan more attacks: “‘Let’s say you tried to have an election and you could have it in three-quarters or four-fifths of the country - in some places you couldn’t because the violence was too great,’ Rumsfeld said. ‘So be it. Nothing’s perfect in life. You have an election that’s not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet.’” More…

The pressure will be stepped up to control insurgents in the days leading up to the “election”. Assuming of course there will be an election.

CBS Insiders beginning to Sweat

Instapundit.com -: “CBS insiders are increasingly worried that the credibility of the network’s news division has been grievously damaged by anchor Dan Rather’s persistent defense of a story which relied on questionable documents about George W. Bush’s National Guard service. ‘This has clearly hurt us,’ one veteran correspondent told NEWSWEEK. Network sources describe finger-pointing within the news division, with concerns greatest among ‘60 Minutes’ producers, who fear the issue has tainted their entire program. While CBS News president Andrew Heyward has publicly backed Rather, the network has quietly assembled a team of additional producers to work the case. Rather is privately telling colleagues he remains ‘confident’ that the story, and the memos, will be vindicated. . . .

Emily Will, a documents expert approached by CBS to examine the memos, told NEWSWEEK that she was told by a CBS News producer that the network’s source had received the memos anonymously through the mail.”

CBS defense of Rather hints at bigger story

Well if this don’t beat all ! Dan Rather is intimating that HE would believes there is a news story BEHIND that of his going on the air with fradulent documents? I wonder if there is any credibility left with this guy at CBS. Maybe the CBS executives should be thinking about what size golden parachute to order for Mr. Rather. Maybe it might even be packed by John Kerry and the DNC.

CBS defense of Rather hints at bigger story: “Of all the loopy statements made by Dan Rather in the 10 days since he decided to throw his career away, my favorite is this, from Dan’s interview with the Washington Post on Thursday:

”If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I’d like to break that story.”

Hel-looooo? Earth to the Lost Planet of Ratheria: You can’t ”break that story.” A guy called ”Buckhead” did that, on the Free Republic Web site a couple of hours after you and your money-no-object resources-a-go-go ”60 Minutes” crew attempted to pass off four obvious Microsoft Word documents as authentic 1972 typewritten memos about Bush’s skipping latrine duty in the Spanish-American War, or whatever it was.

The following day Charles Johnson of the Little Green Footballs Web site drove a stake through your phony ’70s memos by overlaying them with modern MS Word documents, whose automatic word wrap is amazingly an exact match with Lt. Col. Killian’s ”typewriter.” And every document expert agreed with Johnson your memos are junk, including your own analysts.” More….

The 10 Dumbest Quotes of Campaign 2004

Read a list of the 10 dumbest things said during the 2004 presidential campaign, including idiotic statements by George W. Bush, John Kerry, Dick Cheney, Teresa Heinz Kerry, and others. ? Related: Bushisms, Funny Quotes, Today’s Jokes… More…