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06/25/2006 11:52 ||
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Having known officers like Custer, I have to wonder that when the only two men left standing were the RSM and Custer, if the RSM debated with himself whether he should save the shot for himself...
SANAA - Yemens long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday he would stand for re-election in September -- after saying earlier in the same speech he would not seek a new term.
Addressing hundreds of thousands of Yemenis gathered in the capital Sanaa to demand that he run again, Saleh said: In response to your calls and statements I say I am with you ... to sail together to the shore of security and stability, freedom and democracy.
"You like me, you really like me!"
Under his enlightened tutelage, for which there is no substitute ...
Earlier in the same speech, Saleh had reiterated his assertions since last July that he would not run: My decision has been and until this moment remains not to run. This is not due to lack of ability to steer the ship in the future, he said.
Saleh has ruled the poor Arab state since its unification in 1990, after 12 years as president of North Yemen. The constitution allows him to stay in office for one more seven-year term. Saleh won Yemens first direct presidential election in 1999 with an overwhelming majority. His party still holds most of the seats in parliament, which must first approve candidates before they can run in the election.
So it's a done deal.
Posted by: Steve White ||
06/25/2006 00:00 ||
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and our RB prayers are with you, and him, and your husband, Blondie. Parenthood is the most demanding...and rewarding ....thing I've ever done. From your "history" on RB, you sound well-grounded for the experience. My prayers and hopes go with you and the czar!
Posted by: Frank G ||
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When all else fails [like moving the country into to a productive, law abiding, modernization direction] do something symbolically to show that you are morally superior. The left does it all the time.
By the way, what the body count on the executions carried out by the thugs and terrorists in your country? Guess they have more power and influence than you do. And will from now on.
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Typical. Just when a country needs the death penalty the most, when muzzie radicals have infiltrated or taken over many of it's territories, they abolish it.
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Body count will now rise dramaticly, the problem here is they didn't get the (Pick your favorite, Insurgent, Terrorist, Freedom Fighter, etc.) to also agree to the terms.
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AT his home yesterday, East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao accepted weapons handed over by civilians. Mr Gusmao said he expected more people to turn in their arms as the political crisis dragged on. The popular president, embroiled in a stand-off with Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri over recent violence, was handed seven rifles by civilians. However, he declined to allow the civilians to be named or be photographed. "The priority of this government is to have all the weapons in the hands of civilians returned to government hands," he said.
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"The priority of this government is to have all the weapons in the hands of civilians returned to government hands..." Why? So it will be easier to kill and/or cow them next time?
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Does this mean Morley won't be at Kenneth's retirement party?
Unauthorized Bio: Dan Rather Told Marines They Should Have Shot Morley Safer
...a biography to be published right around the time Katie Couric takes over the CBS Evening News does juicily report that Rather endorsed the bumping-off of a prominent CBS colleague.
Here's part of today's New York Post Page Six item on the book:
In "Lone Star," an unauthorized bio of Rather out this September, Alan Weisman writes that [Morley] Safer "has not been a friend of Rather's for years, since their days in Vietnam." The final straw came when Rather took over for Safer not long after Safer's jolting report about the burning of a Vietnam village by a platoon of U.S. Marines.
"When Rather replaced me . . . he went to a group of Marines and said, 'If I were you guys, I would have shot him.' Or words to that effect," Safer tells Weisman. "And that my report should never have gone on the air." Asked whether Rather had ripped his fellow newsman to cozy up with the troops, Safer bristles, "Who the hell knows why? Have I ever confronted him about it? No. Now we just have a polite relationship."
Rather is also raked over the coals by co-workers for the dubious handling of his report on President George W. Bush's alleged lousy Air National Guard service record. Rather continued to defend the story even after it was found to be based on forged documents. "It's the same thing he did over and over again. You know, 'Don't tell me I'm wrong,' " former CBS News president Ed Joyce told Weisman, who himself was a CBS newswriter and producer.
"In my opinion he was guilty of journalistic malpractice," Joyce says. "To go out on a limb with that sort of thin sourcing and then, when you get caught, go on the 'CBS Evening News' defending it in such an arrogant fashion was wrong."
Producer Richard Cohen said, "This is the story of Macbeth. It's about someone who was so seized by his own ambition that he forgot everything else. All he wanted to do was anchor the 'Evening News' - in fact, he wanted to be the 'Evening News.' "
Rather, who quit last year, has cooperated with other books but snubbed Weisman.
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SANAA - Yemens long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday he would stand for re-election in September -- after saying earlier in the same speech he would not seek a new term.
AT his home yesterday, East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao accepted weapons handed over by civilians. Mr Gusmao said he expected more people to turn in their arms as the political crisis dragged on. The popular president, embroiled in a stand-off with Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri over recent violence, was handed seven rifles by civilians. However, he declined to allow the civilians to be named or be photographed. "The priority of this government is to have all the weapons in the hands of civilians returned to government hands," he said.
