International:
Blair Rules Out Military Move On Iran
Tony Blair has declared himself at odds with hawks in the US Administration by saying publicly for the first time that it would be wrong to take military action against Iran. The Prime Minister’s comments came hours before the UN’s nuclear watchdog raised the stakes in the West’s showdown with Tehran. Read On...
Iran has speeded up N-plans, says UN
Iran has speeded up its nuclear programme and plans to complete a large-scale uranium enrichment facility by May, the United Nations atomic watchdog said on Thursday.
Blair Rules Out Military Move On Iran
Tony Blair has declared himself at odds with hawks in the US Administration by saying publicly for the first time that it would be wrong to take military action against Iran. The Prime Minister’s comments came hours before the UN’s nuclear watchdog raised the stakes in the West’s showdown with Tehran. Read On...
Iran has speeded up N-plans, says UN
Iran has speeded up its nuclear programme and plans to complete a large-scale uranium enrichment facility by May, the United Nations atomic watchdog said on Thursday.
By that time, according to a long-awaited report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran plans to install and start using 3,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium – despite UN demands that it suspend uranium enrichment related activities.
If they functioned smoothly, the 3,000 centrifuges – organised into “cascades” of 164 machines apiece – could produce sufficient highly enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb within a year. More here
National:
Scott Ritter’s Dire Warning Former UN Weapons Inspector Discusses possible ramifications of
a US attack on Iran. Click here
Sen. Democrats Seek to Narrow Mission of Troops in Iraq to Training, Fighting Al Qaeda
Senate Democrats are drafting legislation to scale back the mission of U.S. troops in Iraq in an effort that would reduce the broad war-making powers Congress granted to President Bush in 2002, officials said Thursday. More here.
Detour From High Road in Clinton-Obama Clash
After weeks of watching in frustration as Senator Barack Obama presented himself as a fresh face gliding above partisan politics, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has drawn Mr. Obama onto a muddy political field, engaging him in a back-and-forth that recalls the kind of Washington bickering Mr. Obama has decried.
Mrs. Clinton’s effort to identify Mr. Obama with an attack made by one of his chief Hollywood supporters was widely viewed among Democrats as carrying some cost to Mrs. Clinton. The remarks at the heart of the dispute, by David Geffen, the Hollywood executive who was once a big fund-raiser for the Clintons, were a sharp reminder of Clinton family history that has led some Democrats to believe Mrs. Clinton cannot win a general election. Full story
The Democrat Party Owns Defeat
I'm going to introduce a new phrase on the program today, and I want it to be picked up by as many people as possible in this audience regarding the Democrats, the war on terror, the war in Iraq. I keep saying they are invested in defeat. The new phrase that I think is really good: They own defeat. They will have ownership of defeat. Full monologue here
In Other News:
GQ has gone through the trouble of drafting and publishing six articles of impeachment for Richard B. Cheney.
Drums Of War - McClatchy: “‘I still believe, at the end of the day, that he will bomb the Iranian (nuclear) facilities,’ said Joshua Muravchik, a neoconservative scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank with close ties to the Bush administration. Muravchik, who favors military action, sees Bush’s current focus on diplomacy as a prelude to attack.”
14,000 National Guard troops will return to Iraq next year, "shortening their time between deployments to meet the demands of President Bush's buildup." "The accelerated timetable illustrates the cascading effect" Bush's escalation plan is putting on the entire armed forces.
Detour From High Road in Clinton-Obama Clash
After weeks of watching in frustration as Senator Barack Obama presented himself as a fresh face gliding above partisan politics, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has drawn Mr. Obama onto a muddy political field, engaging him in a back-and-forth that recalls the kind of Washington bickering Mr. Obama has decried.
Mrs. Clinton’s effort to identify Mr. Obama with an attack made by one of his chief Hollywood supporters was widely viewed among Democrats as carrying some cost to Mrs. Clinton. The remarks at the heart of the dispute, by David Geffen, the Hollywood executive who was once a big fund-raiser for the Clintons, were a sharp reminder of Clinton family history that has led some Democrats to believe Mrs. Clinton cannot win a general election. Full story
The Democrat Party Owns Defeat
I'm going to introduce a new phrase on the program today, and I want it to be picked up by as many people as possible in this audience regarding the Democrats, the war on terror, the war in Iraq. I keep saying they are invested in defeat. The new phrase that I think is really good: They own defeat. They will have ownership of defeat. Full monologue here
In Other News:
GQ has gone through the trouble of drafting and publishing six articles of impeachment for Richard B. Cheney.
Drums Of War - McClatchy: “‘I still believe, at the end of the day, that he will bomb the Iranian (nuclear) facilities,’ said Joshua Muravchik, a neoconservative scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank with close ties to the Bush administration. Muravchik, who favors military action, sees Bush’s current focus on diplomacy as a prelude to attack.”
14,000 National Guard troops will return to Iraq next year, "shortening their time between deployments to meet the demands of President Bush's buildup." "The accelerated timetable illustrates the cascading effect" Bush's escalation plan is putting on the entire armed forces.
$36 billion: Amount the military needs for equipment and reconstruction costs, "denied earlier by the administration in its $481 billion defense appropriations request for the new fiscal year." Among the requests are "more than 5,000 armored vehicles [and] another $153 million for systems that defend against the deadly improvised explosive devices in Iraq."
From The Right: Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats disingenuous in their anti-war rhetoric
Why did a majority of Democratic Senators - such as Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Harry Reid, Jay Rockefeller and Chuck Schumer - vote to authorize a war with Iraq on Oct. 11, 2002? And why is this war now supposedly George Bush's misfortune and not theirs?
From The Left: Supporting The Troops?: Wife Speak Out on Poor Conditions at Army's Top Medical Facility The Army's Vice Chief of Staff General Richard Cody admitted on Wednesday there has been a "breakdown in leadership" at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. His comments came three days after the Washington Post revealed that hospital rooms at Walter Reed were infested with mouse droppings, cockroaches, stained carpets, rodents and black mold.
Quote Of The Day:
“If we launched attacks on Iran and Syria today and went heavy metal, pedal-to-the-wall, this country would be cheering. The Democrats and the media would be in panic, but the people in this country would be cheering.” Rush Limbaugh
(Sources: TownHall, DemocracyNow, RushLimbaugh, RandiRhodes, FOXNews, Iconoclast, GQ, TimesOnline, DrudgeReport, ThinkProgress, FinancialTimes, MercuryNews, NYT, ThePolitico)
From The Right: Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats disingenuous in their anti-war rhetoric
Why did a majority of Democratic Senators - such as Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Harry Reid, Jay Rockefeller and Chuck Schumer - vote to authorize a war with Iraq on Oct. 11, 2002? And why is this war now supposedly George Bush's misfortune and not theirs?
From The Left: Supporting The Troops?: Wife Speak Out on Poor Conditions at Army's Top Medical Facility The Army's Vice Chief of Staff General Richard Cody admitted on Wednesday there has been a "breakdown in leadership" at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. His comments came three days after the Washington Post revealed that hospital rooms at Walter Reed were infested with mouse droppings, cockroaches, stained carpets, rodents and black mold.
Quote Of The Day:
“If we launched attacks on Iran and Syria today and went heavy metal, pedal-to-the-wall, this country would be cheering. The Democrats and the media would be in panic, but the people in this country would be cheering.” Rush Limbaugh
(Sources: TownHall, DemocracyNow, RushLimbaugh, RandiRhodes, FOXNews, Iconoclast, GQ, TimesOnline, DrudgeReport, ThinkProgress, FinancialTimes, MercuryNews, NYT, ThePolitico)
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