Senate denies funds for new border fence
| Less than two months after voting overwhelmingly to build 370 miles of new fencing along the border with Mexico, the Senate yesterday voted against providing funds to build it. |
| It was supposed to be a light-hearted photo opportunity showing the gentle side of the world’s most powerful man.
Unfortunately, nobody told the baby. Despite being closely vetted by both the U.S. secret service and German intelligence agents, the startled infant voiced a noisy protest as it was handed to George Bush. |
Most Americans Plan to Vote for Democrats
| Republicans are in jeopardy of losing their grip on Congress in November. With less than four months to the midterm elections, the latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that Americans by an almost 3-to-1 margin hold the GOP-controlled Congress in low regard and profess a desire to see Democrats wrest control after a dozen years of Republican rule. |
| Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas fired rockets at northern Israel Thursday, killing a woman and injuring several others in the border town of Nahariya and the Galilee town of Safed. The retaliation by the Jewish state led the Iranian president to threaten “a very fierce response†if Israel attacks Syria. Since Former President Clinton said at 2002 Jewish fund-raiser in Toronto, Canada that if the Jewish state were really threatened by Iran he’d “grab a rifle and get into the trench and fight and die” for Israel, will he soon be fitted for a pair of combat boots? |
| Russia, the president said, was seeking a “multipolar” world in which the United States would no longer be “the sole superpower that tries to dictate to the world how to behave.” The Russian leader was careful not to give the impression that he wanted to revive the Cold War in any form. |
President Bush’s Plan to Deploy Ineffective Missile Defense System . . . .
| The National Missile Defense System is wasting billions while other critical priorities go underfunded. The Bush Administration has been spending money on the ineffective NMD system at a rate of $7 billion to $9 billion annually. For Fiscal Year 2005, the Administration has requested more than $10 billion – the largest amount for a single weapons system in the history of the Defense Department. Over the next five years, the Administration hopes to spend an additional $60 billion on this flawed system against a threat that the intelligence community agrees is years away.
Meanwhile, the Administration has refused to devote adequate resources to bolster security in our nation’s ports, on railroads and public transit systems, in airports and airplanes, and at chemical and nuclear facilities – infrastructures which are far likelier and far more susceptible targets for terrorists. To put the Administration’s priorities in perspective, the Administration’s ballistic missile request is roughly double the amount the Administration requested for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Services. The amount is triple what the Administration requested for the Transportation Security Administration. The request is more than triple the request for state and local first responders. |
Russia’s emerging alliance with Iran, Syria
| Over the past year:
* Russia has signed a $1 billion deal to sell missiles and other weaponry to Iran, despite the fact that Iran has called on the Muslim world to envision a world without the United States, repeatedly called for Israel to be “wiped off the map,” and denied the Holocaust ever happened. |
Russia’s emerging alliance with Iran, Syria??? Perhaps emerging in the way that they are ow being discovered to have been supporting these two terrorist states for some year now… so perhaps emerging is the correct term…but hardly fledgling…which you didnt imply either..;) What am I doing..trying to put words in your mouth… nary a one..;)