Stupid is as Stupid does again and again.

As I have said, there is nothing you can do about stupid.
There are 800,000 Iraqis in Jordan, who knows how many in other countries? Now this is a real long reach for a straw. "we are in Iraq to prevent another Sept. 11th attack by Terrorist". he he he he he he
Are these Neocons really that stupid?
In the first place the White House was warned about Bin Laden many times even back to Clinton. The current boy in the White House was given a PDB telling him that they were in this country and planing to use planes to attack. The report was named "Bin Laden to attack the U.S.A." Then Later the PDB was referred to as a "historical document" in Congress.
In the Second place, The Invasion of Iraq has done more to permote the use of terrorist attacks all over the world.
They only need to be right once. There seems to be no limit on the supply of Terrorist. I for one would not call all Iraqis "terrorist" but some do.. BTW, I heard they lost $9 billion in Iraq. Went missing, Is that true?

Death before dishonor a high price to pay.

WASHINGTON - One hot, dusty day in June, Col. Ted Westhusing was found dead in a trailer at a military base near the Baghdad airport, a single gunshot wound to the head.

The Army would conclude that he committed suicide with his service pistol. At the time, he was the highest-ranking officer to die in Iraq.

The Army closed its case. But the questions surrounding Westhusing's death continue.

Westhusing, 44, was no ordinary officer. He was one of the Army's leading scholars of military ethics, a full professor at West Point who volunteered to serve in Iraq to be able to better teach his students. He had a doctorate in philosophy; his dissertation was an extended meditation on the meaning of honor.

His last words; Quote

'I came to serve honorably and feel dishonored. Death before being dishonored any more.'


-- From a note found near Ted Westhusing’s body

'He could not shift his mind-set from the military notion of completing a mission irrespective of cost, nor could he change his belief that doing the right thing because it was the right thing to do should be the sole motivator for businesses.'
-- Lt. Col. Lisa Breitenbach, psychologist who reviewed Westhusing's e-mails and interviewed his colleagues

The letter shook Westhusing, who felt personally implicated by accusations that he was too friendly with USIS management, according to an e-mail in the report.

"This is a mess… dunno what I will do with this," he wrote home to his family May 18.

The colonel began to complain to colleagues about "his dislike of the contractors," who, he said, "were paid too much money by the government," according to one captain.

"The meetings [with contractors] were never easy and always contentious. The contracts were in dispute and always under discussion," an Army Corps of Engineers official told investigators.

That night in his office, a USIS secretary would later tell investigators, she watched Westhusing take out his 9-millimeter pistol and "play" with it, repeatedly unholstering the weapon.

At a meeting the next morning to discuss construction delays, he seemed agitated. He stewed over demands for tighter vetting of police candidates, worried that it would slow the mission. He seemed upset over funding shortfalls.

Uncharacteristically, he lashed out at the contractors in attendance, according to the Army Corps official. In three months, the official had never seen Westhusing upset.

"He was sick of money-grubbing contractors," the official recounted. Westhusing said that "he had not come over to Iraq for this."

The meeting broke up shortly before lunch. About 1 p.m., a USIS manager went looking for Westhusing because he was scheduled for a ride back to the Green Zone. After getting no answer, the manager returned about 15 minutes later. Another USIS employee peeked through a window. He saw Westhusing lying on the floor in a pool of blood.

The truth is in a Fathers and Mothers love for there children..

Tonight I am setting in my warm home, watching T.V., watching "Born on the Fourth of July", with Tom Cruise. I am reminded of the courage and the suffering of our brave Americans in Viet Nam. We lost 58,000 of Americas best.
The Republican national convention was interrupted by "Viet Nam vets against the war". The chants of "4 more years" for Nixon drown out the words of protest from those who served. The protestors were beaten and arrested and the cameras were not permitted to film the beatings. The Nixon supporters called our vets "communist" and told them if they did not love America go to another coutry.
Our vets were also called sympathetic to the enemys.
Then 4 years later the vets were at the Democratic convention.
I am reminded now how thankful I am to my lord that i was rejected after being drafted. I was found to be 4F. I had a plate in my right leg and one leg was slightly shorter than the other.
I can not put in words how proud I am of all that did serve. How much I love America and the Red, White and Blue flag. My two Sons both served and I am very proud of tham both for that part in there life.
I also can not put in words the sadness I would have felt had I lost either of my Sons in war. War is in fact hell. In War our service men are ask to do what needs to be done, they follow orders and they do there duty well. In fact War is about killing, you must kill the enemy before he kills you. You must take the fight to the enemy. There is no room for hesitated, no room for compassion. The enemy often is on there own turf which gives them the upper hand in combat. It is often very hard to tell friend from enemy.
From Viet Nam America should have learned a lesson but America did not.
You can not win gorilla warfare, no way. The Russians were given the same lesson when they invaded Afganistand, after great loss of life and un told financial spending on the war there, they left. The Russian people paid a dear price for that war only to walk away in defeat. Poverty in Russia is even today a very great problem, the people are still paying the price of war.
Now America has spent $240 billion in Iraq, as a nation we are on a very wrong path there. We have sacrificed 2040 brave Americans and un told numbers of wounded and maimed.
My heart is heavy with sorrow for all Mothers, Fathers, Husbands and Wifes who have lost there loved ones in Iraq. I do not buy "they knew the risk when they signed up", The Guardsmen signed up for money for School and one weekend per month. They were also to serve in defense of America.
Many of the lies are the same, much of the propaganda is the same.
Iraq and Viet Nam are the same, no different. Those that permote the propaganda have different faces.

Congress is not about doing the will of the people.

Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., who is on the committee, said a public timetable for withdrawal would show the Iraqi people that the U.S. is not set to occupy the country permanently.

"The right thing for the United States right now is to refocus on the fight against terrorism," Feingold said on "This Week" on ABC. "Iraq has ended up being a real distraction. Actually, a problem. I think it's actually made us weaker rather than stronger."

Feingold, considered a presidential hopeful for 2008, voted against giving Bush the authority to go to war in Iraq. He said that, unlike his Democratic colleagues in the Senate, he thought the administration was exaggerating the threat posed by
Saddam Hussein.

"The Bush administration did a brilliant job, which has continued until today, not in getting us into the war and handling it correctly, but they did a brilliant job of intimidating us into somehow thinking that if we didn't vote for this, we weren't supporting the troops and we were soft on terror," Feingold said.

"I could tell that they were taking every piece of evidence, exaggerating it, pushing everything they could and twisting everything in favor of going into Iraq," he said.

The Senate vote on the non binding resolution was 79 for and 19 against. The provision for a phased withdrawal timetable from the White House was taken out of the resolution. In other words the Senate is still taking bribes and payoffs. The Congress is not about doing the peoples business.

Iran Charges war crimes in Iraq

You, who have used nuclear weapons against innocent people, who have used uranium ordnance in
Iraq, should be tried as war criminals in courts," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an apparent reference to the United States.

Ahmadinejad did not elaborate, but he apparently was referring to the U.S. military's reported use of artillery shells packed with depleted uranium, which is far less radioactive than natural uranium and is left over from the process of enriching uranium for use as nuclear fuel.

Since the Iraq war started in 2003, American forces have fired at least 120 tons of shells packed with depleted uranium, an extremely dense material used by the U.S. and British militaries to penetrate tank armor. Once fired, the shells melt, vaporize and turn to dust.

"Who in the world are you to accuse Iran of suspicious nuclear armed activity?" Ahmadinejad

Note, Iraq had no tanks in this invasion, all tanks were taken out in Desert Storm before Iraq surrendered the first time.
I have read some reports that Children in Iraq are having much higher rates of cancer from exposure to the uranium but I have not confirmed the stories. Also read some reports that many of our vets got sick after Desert Storm.
120 Tons is a very big bunch of shells but the count above goes back to 2003.

Withdrawal is the only way to end the needless loss of life in Iraq

U.S. Senator Russ Feingold announced today that he will introduce a resolution in the Senate tomorrow calling on the administration to report to Congress on a timeframe for achieving its military goals in Iraq and withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. The resolution calls on the President to identify the specific missions that the U.S. military is being asked to accomplish in Iraq, as well as the timeframe in which those missions can be successfully achieved. Most critically, Feingold's resolution calls on the President and his administration to report to Congress with a plan and timetable for the subsequent withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Feingold was in Iraq with four of his Senate colleagues in February. He has long called on the administration to level with the American people regarding the nature and length of the U.S. military commitment to Iraq.

Feingold issued the following statement on his resolution today:

"While I was in Iraq in February, I was able to witness firsthand the truly amazing resolve all of our troops in Iraq - I cannot describe how very proud I am of all of those who serve. It is with that trip and those soldiers in mind that I will introduce a resolution tomorrow that calls on the President to clarify the objectives and timeframe of the current U.S. mission in Iraq, including a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops. And I will work with my colleagues to hold the Administration accountable for meeting our goals and achieving clear standards of success.

We owe our brave servicemen and women a concrete timetable for achieving clear goals, not vague, open-ended commitments. Having a timetable for the transfer of sovereignty and having a timetable for Iraqi elections have resulted in real political and strategic advantages. Having a timetable for the withdrawal of troops should be no different."

Gallup Poll. June 6-8, 2005. N=1,003 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.
"All in all, do you think it was worth going to war in Iraq, or not?"

Worth It Not Worth It
42 56

ABC News/Washington Post Poll. June 2-5, 2005. N=1,002 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3 (for all adults). Fieldwork by TNS
"All in all, considering the costs to the United States versus the benefits to the United States, do you think the war with Iraq was worth fighting, or not?"

Worth It Not Worth It
41 58

NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll conducted by the polling organizations of Peter Hart (D) and Bill McInturff (R). May 12-16, 2005. N=1,005 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.1 (for all adults).
"When it comes to the war in Iraq, do you think that removing Saddam Hussein from power was or was not worth the number of U.S. military casualties and the financial cost of the war?"

Worth It Not Worth It
40 51

Iraq is no different than Vietnam in that our brave service men do not know friend from enemy. One lesson from Vietnam was that you can win gorilla warfare. The Russians also learned that the hard way Afghanistand. It's a no win fight.
We are the invading force and 80 percent of those polled in Iraq want our troops out of there country. 45 percent think it's OK to kill Americans there. It is a bold face lie to say they want Democracy there, they do not, Iraqis hate democracy and they clearly prefer a Islamic Republic form of Government.
I love America but I dislike our sense of morality.

neocons reject the science

As Tom hanks said in the Movie "forest Gump", " Stupid is as Stupid does" and "life is like a box of chocolates". You can not change Stupid. In the mix of life there are many who take the good candy out of the box by poking a hole in it and reject what they do not want as there first choice. Given no choice, they eat the whole box.

In Antarctic Ice Scientists have found more C02 than at any other point in the past 650,000 years. C02 for the neocons is the greenhouse gas or Carbon Dioxide.

20 years ago it was 280 parts per million now it's 380 parts per million.

Neocons take short term profits over any long term damage to the Mother Earth. Fact is they don't care at all about how our kids and there kids will be forced to live.

Why do you think Neocons want to drill for oil in Awar? We all know it's because they own stock in oil companies and they will get higher returns on there investments.

Neocons are not smart enough to hold back some oil in case of war.
Without oil planes will not fly and tanks will be useless. If we ever go to war with Arab countries only the Arabs will have oil.
Idiots all...

Keep up the good work and pay your taxes.

The income distribution also can be used as a power indicator. As Table 5 shows, it is not as concentrated as the wealth distribution, but the top 1% of income earners did receive 20% of all income in the year 2000. That's up from 12.8% for the top 1% in 1982, which is quite a jump, and it parallels what is happening with the wealth distribution. This is further support for the inference that the power of the corporate community and the upper class have been increasing in recent decades.

Yes it's about oil and we all know it.

Pentagon taps 92,000 troops for one-year tours in Iraq in 2006.
America now has about 138,000 troops in Iraq. Down from 160,000. Only 53,000 are active duty Army troops and 25,000 are National guardsman. Not included in this call up are 5000 Marines, 3700 sailors and more than 3300 airmen who are also sceduled to deploy next year..

It's all about oil, we all know that.

Global Energy needs will surge 50 percent by 2030 and prices will rise if capacity is not significantly increased.
Source, World Energy Outlook, 2005 report.
A investment of $20 trillion (yes trillion) is needed to bring the oil and gas reserves to market.
Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are expected to climb 52 percent in the same period.
Crude oil prices are expected to moderate to $35 a barrel by 2010.
The 2030 price projections have been increased to $39 a barrel by 2030 from $29 a barrel projected in 2004..
Demand for energy will expand by more than 50 percent to 16.3 billion tons of oil by 2030.
In the Middle East and North Africa energy demand will more than double due to surging populations, economic growth and Heavy energy subsidies. Oil production in that region is expected to increase 75 percent by 2030.
Global oil production from the Middle East and North Africa regions will increase from 35 percent now to 44 percent by 2030.

Wrong direction, wrong priorities, wrong policy, and the brain dead march on.

There are 800,000 Iraqis in Jordan. That makes odds very bad for Americas brave service men. It only takes one to get ya. These Service men are willing and able to do there job. There job is killing before they are killed in the process.
In Desert Storm the U.S.A. killed far over 900,000 in Iraq. Many of the Iraqis also deserted. They left the country.
Many who returned from Desert Storm described the War there as a "turkey shoot", 300, 500 Iraqis in a line were mowed down by our military gun ships. They did there job well. I got this from eye wittiness accounts. Iraq had no planes for air support.
Iraq in fact surrendered and Iraqis were told to lay down there arms. When Iraqis put down there weapons the weapons were destroyed or taken by our force.
The supply of replacements for our service men is running very low.
We now have over 2000 dead. How many wounded?
GOD only knows the truth.

can someone tell me how to put in a html link?

I want the html link to be a clickable link..

the irony of oganized crime in the USA

There are currently over 4000 missing still in New Orleans, and the Army is busy guarding the Yacht club for looters.
I love the U.S.A. but I hate our sad and misguided sense of priorities.
The french Quarter is lookin good and The bourbon Street Money will be rolling again soon.
Housing is still a very big problem in New orleans for workers.
Bu$h is on Vacation in Asia and so is C. Rice..
Congress is cutting $54 billion spending on food stamps and Student loans for the poor while also cutting taxes for the wealthy by another $69 billion.

Congress is still stalling on the investigation of facts that led up to the Invasion of Iraq. Bu$h and his yes cronies are still saying "we all had the same information" and the Democrats voted for the funds used in the Invasion..
Kerry and Edwards have both said it was a mistake for them to vote yes on the funding and they would not repeat that mistake.
A barrel of oil is now $57 was $70 when the hurricane hit.
Congress is stalling on the investigation of the oil companies.
I love America..

Were cookin along great..

Are Neocons stupid or do they just turn there back on the truth?

By ANNE GEARAN, AP Diplomatic Writer
2 hours, 25 minutes ago

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said he is less worried that U.S. policies in
Iraq will bring on a civil war there, and pledged anew to contribute $1 billion for rebuilding that war-ravaged country's shattered infrastructure.

Relations between Riyadh and Washington suffered after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks masterminded by the Saudi-born Osama bin Laden. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, and some U.S. officials blamed the kingdom's austere branch of Islam, known as Wahhabism, for encouraging hatred of the West, Christians and Jews.

Saudi Arabia believed it was being unjustly blamed for the actions of bin Laden, who seeks to topple the Al Saud monarchy.

GDP (2002 est.): $242 billion.
Annual growth rate (2002 est.): 0.6%.
Per capita GDP (2002 est.): $10,560.
Natural resources: Hydrocarbons, gold, uranium, bauxite, coal, iron, phosphate, tungsten, zinc, silver, copper.
Agriculture: Products--dates, grains, livestock, vegetables. Arable land--1.72%.
Industry: Types--petroleum, petrochemicals, cement, fertilizer, light industry.
Trade (2001 est.): Exports--$66.9 billion: petroleum and petroleum products. Imports--$29.7 billion: manufactured goods, transportation equipment, clothing and textiles, processed food products. Major trading partners--U.S., Japan, South Korea, western Europe.

PEOPLE
Saudi Arabia's 2004 population was estimated to be about 26.7 million, including about 7 million resident foreigners. Until the 1960s, most of the population was nomadic or seminomadic; due to rapid economic and urban growth, more than 95% of the population now is settled. Some cities and oases have densities of more than 1,000 people per square kilometer (2,600 per sq. mi).

Saudi Arabia is known as the birthplace of Islam, which in the century following Muhammad's death in 632 A.D. spread west to Spain and east to India. Islam obliges all Muslims to make the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Makkah, at least once during their lifetime if they are able to do so. The cultural environment in Saudi Arabia is highly conservative; the country adheres to a strict interpretation of Islamic religious law (Shari'a). Cultural presentations must conform to narrowly defined standards of ethics. Men and women are not permitted to attend public events together and are segregated in the work place.

Most Saudis are ethnically Arab. Some are of mixed ethnic origin and are descended from Turks, Iranians, Indonesians, Indians, Africans, and others, most of whom immigrated as pilgrims and reside in the Hijaz region along the Red Sea coast. Many Arabs from nearby countries are employed in the kingdom. There also are significant numbers of Asian expatriates mostly from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines. There are less than 100,000 Westerners in Saudi Arabia.

The following Opinion remarks are not endorsed by above writer or the Artist in Video, Opinions are my Own..

The U.S.A. tax payers kick in $400 billion and over 2000 of our own brave American Service men and the Saudis give $1 billion. ?
Is this a joke or what? This is wrong. Saddam was a Arab problem from the start. Saddam was a Arab problem when he invaded Kuwait, the Saudi King Abdullah has got to be laughing at C. Rice and G.W. Bu$h, Arabs have a problem with Saddam and Iraq and the king get the U.S.A. tax payers and the war loving neocons to pay the bill to solve there problem.
Does anyone agree that a country with this much wealth should get others to solve there problems? Do you agree that U.S.A. tax payers should pay to solve a Arab problem?

The truth will always find you out.

Now, 56 percent disapprove of the way Bush is handling foreign policy and the war on terrorism, the poll found. Overall, only 37 percent approve of the job Bush is doing as president.

An AP-Ipsos poll last week asked people to state in their own words why they approve or disapprove of the way Bush was doing his job. Almost six in 10 disapproved, and they most frequently mentioned the war in Iraq — far ahead of the second issue, the economy.

"To use an unfortunate metaphor, Iraq is a roadside bomb in American politics," said Rich Bond, a former national Republican chairman.

Total Oil Reserves World wide as of 2001,

1) Saudi Arabia 261.7 billion Barrels.
2) Iraq, 112.5 billion barrels
3)U. Arab Emirates, 97.8 billion Barrels
4)Kuwait, 96.5 billion barrels
5)Iran, 89.7 billion barrels
6)Venezula, 76.9 billion barrels
7)Russia, 48.6 billion barrels
8) Libya, 29.5 billion barrels
9) Mexico, 28.3 billion barrels
10) China, 24.0 billion barrels

The U.S. A. is in 11th place with only 21.9 billion barrels..

According to some experts the world will be out of oil in 40 years considering current and projected useage..
The problem is consumtion not supply, we need to cut what we use if our children are to live in peace. We need to ban SUVs and ban the V8 engine, now. Congress has no will to do the peoples bussiness. Organized crime is alive and well in the U.S.A. it's called Congress by many.

Repubs. suffer Defeat, nothing is soooooo sweet

By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer 34 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - House Republican leaders scuttled a vote Thursday on a $51 billion budget-cut package in the face of a revolt by moderate lawmakers over cuts to Medicaid, food stamp and student loan programs.


But moderates countered that the spending cuts in the House budget plan were a separate issue from Arctic drilling. The cuts were too severe, moderates argued, especially when compared with a significantly milder Senate budget plan that passed last week.

Democrats mounted a furious attack on the GOP budget plan for its cuts to social programs and pounded home the message that the overall GOP plan would increase the deficit when coupled with a subsequent tax cut bill.

More good news from the Organized crime that controls Congress

* EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.

* EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media.

* EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.

* EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.

* EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.

* EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.

* EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.

* EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.

* EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.

* EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.

* EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.

* EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.

* EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.

* EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation. General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis."

Now I ask you this. Would any sain person not know that all Members of Congress took a oath to "protect and defend the Constitution"? The President and Vice-President also took the same oath. If government can Take Guns from all homes, then the gun freaks have no "right to keep and bear arms, None, gone, Zip.
If the postmaster keeps a list of the gun freaks address's and knows exactly where to go to pick them up.
We have also lost our rights to food and water storage to protect our family from starvation and dehidration.

America crys for the truth.

19 August 2005: Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer is a true American patriot of great character and integrity. Placing the unbridled truth over potential negative career ramifications and harassment, the Army intelligence officer yesterday publicly charged that the unit in which he worked had identified two al Qaeda cells inside the U.S. and 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta more than a year before the terrorist attacks. Properly handled, according to Lt. Colonel Shaffer, that information might have prevented the terror attacks. Lt. Col. Shaffer stated that his unit, code-named Able Danger, provided this very information to the 9/11 commission headed by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean; nonetheless, the commission failed to include any reference to this vital information in its final report. Kean, the very person who promised all Americans that he would “tell it right,” referring to the events leading up to 9/11, and other commission staff members initially denied ever receiving any information about Able Danger and its findings. When it could not be denied any further, Kean and his commission members ultimately admitted that yes, they were told of the information developed by Able Danger. Now, Kean and his commission members are dismissing the information as "historically insignificant." Also missing from the final report are any references to declassified documents proving that State Department analysts repeatedly warned the Clinton administration as early as 1996 that Osama bin Laden posed a major threat to U.S. interests. From an outright lie to a twisting of the facts and onward to a minimization of the “significance” of the data, the 9/11 commission continues to fail every American citizen to cover their own failings and political cover-ups.

gotcha

I got Verizon and Altel good. Verizon told me they could not activate my Motorola phone because of the FCC rule about GPS tracking.
Altel said they could activate but i would need to sign a waivor of fact, that the phone can not be located in a 911 emergency.. Altel would not be responsible.
Verizon wanted $39.95 to activate and I wanted a prepaid, no contract, deal. I would pay $20 per month.
Altel also wanted $39.95 plus a 2 year contract at $39.95 a month.
Page plus gave me activation for $20 and I pay $10 per month. I got 100 mins free with activation. My 100 mins. will expire in 120 days. If I buy a new refill card for $10 I keep my unused mins..

The buck stops here, right, right, right

"In my administration, we will ask not only what is legal but what is right, not just what the lawyers allow but what the public deserves," Bush said Oct. 26, 2000.

In June 2004, Bush said he stood by his pledge to "fire anybody" in his administration shown to have leaked Valerie Plame's name. His press secretary, after checking with Libby and Karl, assured the public that neither man had anything to do with the leak.

It turns out they both were involved, though Rove has not been charged and neither man has been charged with breaking the law against revealing the identity of an undercover agent.

The president's own supporters call that a Clintonesque distinction that violates the spirit of Bush's pledge from 2000. Some say Bush should publicly chastise Libby and Rove while insisting on a public accounting of Cheney's role.

A White House official privately put it this way: Bush has to step up somehow and be accountable.

These allies said they would only speak on condition of anonymity because they did not want to be viewed as disloyal.

Responding to the friendly fire, White House communications director Nicolle Wallace said, "As he did in a major speech today about the avian flu, the president is going to continue to speak with clarity and conviction in that straight-talking manner (he's known for) about the risks ahead."

The public's loss of faith in Bush goes back many months to the early weeks of the Iraq war, when nearly two-thirds of Americans found him trustworthy. Less than half felt that way in October, according to the Pew Research Center.

One issue is the failure to find weapons of mass destruction, Bush's chief rationale for overthrowing
Saddam Hussein. Rather than admit a mistake, Bush emphasized other reasons for war.

The president's credibility and competency took another hit when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. The sluggish relief effort left some wondering whether a government that failed to provide food and water to refugees could protect them from terrorism.

Bush accepted responsibility, but the belated and reluctant nature of his mea culpa did not go over well with Americans who like their leaders to be buck-stops-here accountable.

"I think it's hard for the president to admit mistakes," said Chris DePino, former chairman of the Connecticut GOP. "It would be better if he did."

The percentage of people who call Bush a strong leader has dropped more than 15 points since September 2003.

I did not write this.