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THE TALK SHOW AMERICAN: 10/31/2004 - 11/07/2004

Saturday, November 06, 2004

The Majority of Americans Have Spoken ... LOUD and CLEAR !

J.R.'s Take
06 Nov 2004

On November 2 of 2004 52 % of the American people sent
several messages loud and clear by re-electing
President Bush as the leader of our nation !

Message # 1: To the liberal British Press, mainly the
Guardian, stay out of our elections, we do not need
you to try to influence who becomes President. We
have minds of our own and we will decide ! Butt Out !

Message # 2: To Europe, We do not care if 70 % of you
would choose Kerry. We will decide who we choose. If
you like Kerry so much why don't you elect him to head
the EU or something like that, or maybe President of
France. Otherwise mind your own business !

Message # 3: To Osama and Al Qaeda: Your threats will
not deter us. We are not weak, but strong with
resolve to defeat you and your ilk. Your threats will
not make us run and vote for who you want to be
President. We are not Spain. Eventually we will
capture or kill you, we have patience too.

Message # 4: To the UN: Stop trying to influence our
election process. You are a bunch of spineless
jellyfish who want every leader and citizen of the
world to answer to you. We will NOT TOLERATE IT in
this country, I can assure you of that. We have
spoken and we choose to re-elect a strong, decisive,
and moral leader. President Bush is that leader. If
you think Kerry is such a great choice then appoint
him as secretary General of the UN, and then move to
the Hague. Get out of New York. We are sick of
funding you !

Message # 5: To the leftist liberal sniveling whiners,
You know who you are. The majority of America has
spoken, did you hear us? We are tired of you trying
to denigrate our country with your liberal, immoral
agenda. We will not allow you to drag our country's
moral values through the mud any longer. We do not
support abortion or partial birth abortion. We do not
support gay marriage. We believe in god and aren't
and will not be afraid to say so. We salute the flag
and are proud to recite the pledge of allegiance with
the words "Under God" in it ! We support our
President and our brave men and women in the military,
we not only support the troops, WE SUPPORT THE CAUSE !
We don't need anti American film makers and Hollywood
elites telling us what we should be and not be
supporting. Maybe Kerry can become a movie director,
or movie star. He certainly had the experience of
directing and starring in his own movie when he was in
Vietnam. Maybe he should submit it to the Cannes Film
Festival, after all, his daughter could show up
displaying her breasts through a see through dress
again, that ought to get a few votes for the film.
Hey they picked Farsenheit 9/11 didn't they?

Message # 6: To the Main Stream News Media, we are
tired of your left wing agenda. We are tired of your
distortions, half truths and outright lies. You have
proved yourselves both unreliable and despicable. You
have exposed your bias on several occasions and also
your true mission. We are tired of you attacking the
President and dishonoring our troops and our country,
by reporting only the bad news on the war on terror
and not the good things that our brave men and women
are accomplishing there. We are beginning to seek
alternative sources of news and we will continue to do
so.

Message # 7: To all of you who stated that you would
move to another country if President Bush was elected.
Many of you restating what you said in 2000. We have
two words for you, MOVE ALREADY !

Signed,
We, the majority of the People of the United States of
America !

God Bless America, our Military, and our Commander in
Chief, President George W. Bush

J.R.

Tuesday, November 02, 2004

Iraq chemical arms feared taken

Iraq chemical arms feared taken

Site looted, but experts unsure what was there

Charles J. Hanley
Associated Press
Oct. 31, 2004 12:00 AM

Looters unleashed last year by the U.S.-led invasion
of Iraq overran a sprawling desert complex where a
bunker sealed by U.N. monitors held old chemical
weapons, according to a U.S. arms inspectors report.

Charles Duelfer's arms teams say that all U.N.-sealed
structures at the Muthanna site were broken into. If
the site's "Bunker 2" was breached and looted, it
would be the second recent case of restricted weapons
at risk of falling into militants' hands.

Officials are unsure whether this latest episode
points to a threat of chemical attack, as it isn't
known whether usable chemical warheads were in the
bunker or what may have been taken and by whom.

"Clearly, there's a potential concern, but we're
unable to estimate the relative level of it because we
don't know the condition of the things inside the
bunker," said Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for the U.N.
arms inspection agency in New York, whose specialists
have been barred from Iraq since the invasion.

Chief arms hunter Duelfer said by e-mail Friday from
Iraq that he was unaware of "anything of importance"
looted from the chemical-weapons complex. The report
his Iraq Survey Group issued on Oct. 6 said, however,
that it couldn't vouch for the fate of old munitions
at Muthanna.

One chemical-weapons expert said that even old,
weakened nerve agents, in this case sarin, could be a
threat to unprotected civilians.

The weapons involved would be pre-1991 artillery
rockets filled with sarin, or their damaged remnants,
weapons that were openly declared by Iraq and were
under U.N. control until security fell apart with the
U.S. attack. They are not concealed arms of the kind
President Bush claimed Iraq had but which were never
found.

In its Oct. 6 report, summarizing a fruitless search
for banned weapons in Iraq, Duelfer's group disclosed
that widespread looting occurred at Muthanna, 35 miles
northwest of Baghdad, after of the fall of the Iraqi
capital in April 2003.

A little-noted annex of the 985-page report said that
every U.N.-sealed location at the desert installation
had been breached in the spree, and "materials and
equipment were removed."

Bunker 2 at Muthanna State Establishment, once Iraq's
central chemical-weapons production site, was put
under U.N. inspectors' control in early 1991 after it
was heavily damaged by a U.S. precision bomb in the
first Gulf War. At the time, Iraq said 2,500
sarin-filled artillery rockets had been stored there.

The U.N. teams sealed up the bunker with brick and
reinforced concrete, rather than immediately attempt
the risky job of clearing weapons or remnants from
under a collapsed roof and neutralizing them.



The looting at Muthanna, a 35-square-mile complex in
the heart of the embattled "Sunni Triangle," is the
latest example of how sensitive Iraqi sites,
previously under U.N. oversight, were exposed to
potential plundering by militants or random looters in
Iraq's wartime chaos.

Last Monday, U.N. officials confirmed that almost 380
tons of sophisticated explosives, also under U.N.
seal, had disappeared from a military-industrial site
south of Baghdad, a location left unsecured by U.S.
troops advancing to Baghdad in April 2003.

Thousands of tons of other munitions are also
unaccounted for across Iraq. The issue has become a
flashpoint in the U.S. presidential race.





WHY POLICE OFFICERS BACK W

WHY POLICE OFFICERS BACK W

By FRANK FERREYRA
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November 1, 2004 -- IN the face of one of the most
bitter presidential races this country has ever seen,
a first-ever event occurred in the nearly 90-year
history of the National Fraternal Order of Police, the
largest law-enforcement labor union in the United
States, when the entire organization unanimously
supported the endorsement of President George W. Bush.
That endorsement represents over 318,000 members and
their families. (I was privileged to have our National
Trustee Charles Caputo represent the New York State
FOP at this meeting and cast our vote. )
The obvious question is: Why the FOP has displayed
such unity in its unwavering support of the president?
Put simply, it is because under this president,
promises made are promises kept. However, the reasons
are many, easy to understand and have far-reaching
benefits to every citizen in this country.

First and foremost, the Bush administration has
repeatedly made good on its commitment to law
enforcement. Through key legislation and budget
appropriations, our nation's police officers are being
provided the necessary tools and support so vital to
performing in exemplary fashion day in and day out, in
every city, town and village in the United States.

Police officers are the very first line of defense in
any crisis situation. But post-9/11, police officers
have a new enemy to face with bravery and valor:
terrorism. So, in addition to often being first on the
scene of a health emergency, car accident or fire,
police officers now must contend with the ever-present
danger of a terrorist attack anytime, anywhere.

President Bush completely understands this scenario,
and has responded by providing federal funds for
important aspects of emergency management such as
Interoperable Communication and Emergency Operations
Centers.

Under his leadership, the administration has rolled up
its sleeves and worked hard to change the laws to
better protect America. In just four short years,
they've enacted some of the most beneficial changes to
American law enforcement in the past five decades.

One key piece of legislation, the "Law Enforcement
Officers Safety Act," allows off-duty and retired law
officers to remain armed. That puts more enforcement
professionals on the street to act in a time of
crisis. Under the previous administration, this
legislation sat stagnant in Congress. President Bush
identified it as an important law for homeland
security, and did everything in his power to make it a
reality.

President Bush also recognizes the role and importance
of law-enforcement families. He has worked with the
FOP on countless issues affecting those of us who have
lost a loved one in the line of duty and has helped
the FOP pass the most significant expansion of the
federal public-safety officer's survivors-benefit
program in a generation.

Police officers have the opportunity to be heroes any
day they go to work. Many times, that tag of "hero"
costs the ultimate price, as we saw with so many the
day America was attacked. Yet law-enforcement
professionals do not do their jobs for accolades or
recognition. They do it instinctively, without
consideration for their own safety.

President Bush recognizes that trait in the police
officers across the country. He has shown his
appreciation by continually supporting the issues that
affect the lives of each police officer their
families, and that is why we have responded in kind,
with one common voice, to support President Bush on
Election Day.



Frank Ferreyra is president of the New York State
Fraternal Order of Police, which has more than 20,000
members representing virtually every police department
in the state.







Monday, November 01, 2004

Al-Jazeera broadcasts bin Laden tape

Al-Jazeera broadcasts bin Laden tape
Neither Bush nor Kerry can protect U.S., he says

NBC, MSNBC and news services
Updated: 7:11 p.m. ET Oct. 29, 2004


Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, in a videotape
broadcast Friday on Al-Jazeera television, claims full
responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the
United States and warns Americans that �?your security
is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al-Qaida. Your
security is in your own hands.�?

White House press secretary Scott McClellan said U.S.
intelligence analysts, who were reviewing the tape,
believed that the message was authentic and had been
produced recently.

U.S. officials told NBC News that there was no plan to
raise the terrorist threat level, currently at yellow,
or �?elevated,�? because bin Laden makes no specific
threat. He does, however, warn that the �?main reasons�?
for the Sept. 11 attacks �?are still existing to repeat
what happened before.�?

A senior official said the main message appeared to be
�?I'm still here; I�?m still standing.�?

Al-Jazeera, an Arabic-language broadcast by satellite
from Qatar, would not say how it obtained the
18-minute tape, about seven minutes of which it aired.


A senior State Department official told NBC News that
the Qatari government told the United States about the
tape within the last day. The U.S. ambassador, Chase
Untermeyer, unsuccessfully lobbied Qatari officials to
persuade Al-Jazeera not to air it, the official said.

�?We are a free people�?
In the tape, bin Laden �? wearing traditional white
robes, a turban and a tan cloak �? reads from papers at
a lectern against a plain brown background. Speaking
quietly in an even voice, he tells the American people
that he ordered the Sept. 11 attacks because �?we are a
free people�? who wanted to �?regain the freedom�? of
their nation.

�?Do not play with our security, and spontaneously you
will secure yourself,�? he says, according to a
translation by NBC News.


U.S. officials told The Associated Press that one part
of their analysis would be to discern whether there
were hidden messages or clues about a possible future
attack. But they said it was too early to know that
yet.

Bush was informed of the tape aboard Air Force One
late Friday morning by national security adviser
Condoleezza Rice. �?Americans will not be intimidated
or influenced by an enemy of our country,�? he told
reporters at the airport in Toledo, Ohio. �?I�?m sure
Senator Kerry will agree with me.�?

�?I also want to say we are at war with these
terrorists,�? said Bush, who added that he was
�?confident we will prevail.�?

Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential
candidate, was informed by his senior foreign policy
adviser, Rand Beers, who was briefed by the
administration.

�?As Americans, we are absolutely united in our
determination to hunt down and destroy Osama bin Laden
and the terrorists," Kerry said as he boarded a
campaign plane in West Palm Beach, Fla. �?They�?re
barbarians, and I will stop at absolutely nothing to
hunt down, capture or kill the terrorists wherever
they are, whatever it takes, period.�?


Change of rhetoric
NBC�?s Richard Engel reported that bin Laden spoke in a
modern style of Arabic, in contrast to the flowery
Quranic language he has used in previous messages. He
appeared to be speaking in a fashion he thought would
be better suited to this target audience, the American
people.

Although he mentions Kerry, most of bin Laden�?s
message is in regard to Bush, who faces Kerry in next
week�?s presidential election. He accuses President
Bush of �?misleading�? the American people for the three
years since the Sept. 11 attacks.


In no previous authenticated message �? audio or video
�? had bin Laden explicitly stated that he ordered the
2001 attacks, which killed almost 3,000 people.

But in the new tape, he claims full responsibility.
�?We decided to destroy towers in America so they may
taste what we have tasted,�? he says, clearly referring
to the World Trade Center.

In the course of his comments, bin Laden revealed just
how patiently he awaited his opportunity to strike the
West. He said he first vowed to destroy �?the buildings
of tyrants�? after the devastating Israeli invasion of
Lebanon in 1982 �? 19 years before he directed
followers to fly four jetliners into the World Trade
Center, the Pentagon and an unknown third target.

�?God knows that it had not occurred to our mind to
attack the towers, but after our patience ran out and
we saw the injustice and inflexibility of the
American-Israeli alliance toward our people in
Palestine and Lebanon, this came to my mind,�? he says.


At one point, bin Laden ridicules Bush for reacting
slowly to the 2001 attacks.

�?We never thought that the high commander of the U.S.
armies would leave 50,000 of his citizens in both
towers to face the horrors by themselves when they
most needed him because it seemed to distract his
attention from listening to the girl telling him about
her goat butting,�? he says, referring to Bush�?s
decision to wait more than seven minutes after being
informed of the attacks before leaving an elementary
room classroom in Florida where a student was reading
a story called �?The Pet Goat.�?

�?It appeared to him that a little girl�?s talk about
her goat and its butting was more important than the
planes and their butting of the skyscrapers. That gave
us three times the required time to carry out the
operations, thank God.�?


Bin Laden admits setbacks
U.S. officials told NBC News that in parts of the tape
not aired by Al-Jazeera, bin Laden acknowledges that
the recent Afghan elections were not a success for him
because �?they came off with minimal violence.�? And he
admits that �?aggressive Pakistani operations�? in South
Waziristan, where he is believed to be hiding, have
hurt his operations.

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Rick Francona, a Middle
East specialist and former military official at the
U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, said the tape was
surprising in that it appeared to demonstrate that bin
Laden was in good health. Bin Laden�?s condition has
been the subject of intense speculation since the
United States launched massive airstrikes in
Afghanistan in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The last authenticated contemporaneous video message
from bin Laden appeared in December 2001, when he
discussed a U.S. attack on a mosque. U.S. officials
told NBC News that all subsequent videos of bin Laden
were believed to have been recorded around the time of
the Sept. 11 attacks and broadcast much later.

The last audio message from bin Laden was on May 6,
when he offered rewards in gold for the assassination
of top U.S. and U.N. officials in Iraq. On Oct. 1, bin
Laden�?s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, issued an
audiotape calling on young Muslims to strike the
United States and its allies.


Labor Memo Suggests Bush to Win Election

Labor Memo Suggests Bush to Win Election



Oct 29, 3:53 PM (ET)

By LEIGH STROPE

WASHINGTON (AP) - Labor Department staff, analyzing
statistics from private economists, report in an
internal memo that President Bush is likely to do
"much better" in Tuesday's election than the polls are
predicting.

The Kerry campaign said the analysis was an improper
use of taxpayer money, and the Labor Department
acknowledged Friday, "Clearly, this kind of armchair
political analysis doesn't belong in government memos,
even if they are entirely internal."

The Labor Department report, obtained by The
Associated Press, includes an analysis of economic
models that suggest Bush will beat Democrat John
Kerry. Titled "In Focus: Predicting the Election
Outcome," the memo says, "Nearly every single model
has him winning."

"Some show the margin of victory being smaller than
the models' inherent margin of error, while others
report the lead as substantial. And this is without
the consideration of a third-party candidate."

Bush's win of the popular vote could be 57.5 percent,
55.7 percent or 51.2 percent, said the paper, dated
Oct. 22 and prepared by the department's Employment
and Training Administration staff for the assistant
labor secretary.

The Bush administration blamed midlevel employees for
preparing inappropriate government material.

"This appears to be an internal ETA document prepared
by midlevel ETA staff," said Labor Department
spokesman Ed Frank.

Kerry's campaign contended the Bush administration was
wasting taxpayers' money.

"If the Bush administration focused more on the
economy and less on politics, George Bush would not be
the first president in 70 years to lose jobs," said
Kerry campaign spokesman Phil Singer. "George Bush has
turned the government into his own taxpayer-funded
political machine."

The document also includes a Washington Post story, an
article from Monster.com and charts and briefs on the
latest economic indicators.

One factor in the election that has been "downplayed
is the president's popularity," a variable the report
says may be important. "Fortunately, there are models
(that) incorporate this concept," it says.

The economic models are not infallible, but they do
"systematically measure past data, which is a far cry
better than relying on anecdotal evidence," the paper
says. The models looked at an array of economic
indicators, including gross domestic product,
unemployment and inflation.

The analysis also discusses a futures market that lets
players bid on a probable election outcome. It also
checked Web sites of oddsmakers in America and abroad.