It seems that every State that is trying or talking about handling the Immigration issue , is saying the same thing , We don't want a flood of Illegal Criminal Immigrants pouring into the United States !
It doesn't sound like a patchwork to me .
on the other hand what we are hearing from the Obamasiah , (and to be fair the same thing from Bush) is that they want "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" !
What the hell is Comprehensive Immigration Reform ?
Nobody Knows , it's Incomprehensible !
WashingtonPost
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says he agrees that more control must be exerted over illegal immigration, but he won't accept "a patchwork of 50 different states" acting on their own.
Obama tells CBS he believes immigration control advocates "are absolutely correct." But he also says "what we can't do is demagogue the issue." The president tells anchor Harry Smith he wants to "work with Arizona," while insisting that national immigration policy cannot be left to "anybody who wants to make a name for themselves."
Monday, August 2, 2010
Obama: Patchwork immigration policy unacceptable
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Obama played as much golf in 9 months as Bush did in 3 years
Will someone tell comrade Obama that golf is a bourgeois sport.
From Politico
CBS' Mark Knoller — an unofficial documentarian and statistician of all things White House-related — wrote on his Twitter feed that, "Today - Obama ties Pres. Bush in the number of rounds of golf played in office: 24.
Took Bush 2 yrs & 10 months."
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Iraqi shoe thrower gets hero welcome in...Switzerland
The Iraqi shoe thrower received a hero's welcome in Geneva Switzerland. Currently he is trying to raise awareness of his foundation which he set up to help suffering Iraqis.
From Breitbart
GENEVA (AP) - The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush leaned back in his chair and soaked in the round of applause.
This was not Baghdad or Damascus or Beirut. This was Geneva, where Muntadhar al-Zeidi was given a hero's welcome Monday far warmer than the subdued reception in his own homeland.
"I am one of the victims of the occupation," al-Zeidi said at a press conference alongside two local politicians, repeating his allegations that he was severely tortured, including with electric shocks, during his nine months of Iraqi detention.
His claims were often inexact
Friday, September 18, 2009
Ex-CIA chiefs seek halt to interrogations probe
Only because it is the right thing to do !
Associated press....
WASHINGTON — Seven former CIA directors asked President Barack Obama on Friday to quash a criminal probe of harsh interrogations of terror suspects during the Bush administration.
The CIA directors, who served both Democratic and Republican presidents and include three who worked under President George W. Bush, made their request in a letter Friday to the White House.
Attorney General Eric Holder announced last month that he was appointing an independent counsel to investigate possible incidents of abuse by CIA personnel during interrogations that went beyond guidelines imposed by the Bush administration.
The incidents were referred by the CIA inspector general to the Justice Department during the Bush administration, but Justice officials at the time prosecuted only one case.
"If criminal investigations closed by career prosecutors during one administration can so easily be reopened at the direction of political appointees in the next, declinations of prosecution will be rendered meaningless," wrote the former directors.
The seven former CIA directors included Michael Hayden, Porter Goss and George Tenet, who served under Bush; John Deutch and James Woolsey, who worked for President Bill Clinton; William Webster, who served under President George H.W. Bush; and James Schlesinger, who ran the agency under President Richard Nixon. Tenet also served under Clinton.
They urged Obama to reverse Holder's Aug. 24 decision to reopen the investigation of interrogations following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Thursday, September 25, 2008
$700 Billion Bail Out Plan
I might not be an economist but I don't think this $700 billion bail out plan is a good idea. First off, let the banks take responsibility for their actions. Just dishing out money to anyone and everyone is not a very sound business decision. Now Bush is going to bail out these guys?
Where is the $700 billion going to come from? Either you're going to raise taxes or you're gonna get the Federal Reserve to print out money. That'll lead to inflation. This bail out plan will not stop anything, rather it will compound the situation. National Post
Follow your damn instinct!....
WASHINGTON -- President George Bush appealed Wednesday night for Americans to embrace an unprecedented US$700-billion financial bailout of Wall Street, warning that its rejection by Congress could devastate the U.S. economy and have a global ripple effect.
In a prime time television speech held amid a showdown with lawmakers on Capital Hill over the rescue plan, Mr. Bush said any delay could plunge markets into a "financial panic" that would cause enormous damage to ordinary Americans.
"I'm a strong believer in free enterprise, so my natural instinct is to oppose government intervention," Mr. Bush said in a televised address to the nation."Under normal circumstances, I would not have followed this course. But these are not normal circumstances. The market is not functioning properly. There has been a widespread loss of confidence, and major sectors of America's financial system are at risk of shutting down."
The market wasn't functioning properly because the bankers weren't following fundamental rules.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Bush Approves Raids into Pakistan
It has been revealed that President Bush approved orders for limited commando raids inside Pakistan back in July of this year. This past month has seen a significant increase in US Predator missile attacks against taliban and al Qaida compounds in Pakistan. US commandos also raided a village in Waziristan that killed 20 al Qaida terrorists and several terrorists were detained. NY Times
As long as the US doesn't notify the Pakistanis in advance. The Pakistanis have been known to warn the taliban of US attacks....
WASHINGTON — President Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials.
The classified orders signal a watershed for the Bush administration after nearly seven years of trying to work with Pakistan to combat the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and after months of high-level stalemate about how to challenge the militants’ increasingly secure base in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
American officials say that they will notify Pakistan when they conduct limited ground attacks like the Special Operations raid last Wednesday in a Pakistani village near the Afghanistan border, but that they will not ask for its permission.“The situation in the tribal areas is not tolerable,” said a senior American official who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on condition of anonymity because of the delicate nature of the missions. “We have to be more assertive. Orders have been issued.”
The Pakistanis don't want to fight the taliban. They're on the same side as the taliban. The Pakistanis are playing a game where they seem to fight the taliban in order to get money from the US. Then the money is given to the terrorists by the Pakistani army!
The new orders reflect concern about safe havens for Al Qaeda and the Taliban inside Pakistan, as well as an American view that Pakistan lacks the will and ability to combat militants. They also illustrate lingering distrust of the Pakistani military and intelligence agencies and a belief that some American operations had been compromised once Pakistanis were advised of the details.American commanders in Afghanistan have complained bitterly that militants use sanctuaries in Pakistan to attack American troops in Afghanistan.
The only way to win the war in Afghanistan is to fight the taliban and al Qaida in Pakistan. There is no other way.
“I’m not convinced we’re winning it in Afghanistan,” Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday. “I am convinced we can.”
Toward that goal, Admiral Mullen said he had ordered a comprehensive military strategy to address the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan.The stepped-up campaign inside Pakistan comes at a time when American-Pakistani relations have been fraying, and when anger is increasing within American intelligence agencies about ties between Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, known as the ISI, and militants in the tribal areas.
The ISI is not only implicated in the Kabul embassy bombing, but in kidnappings, giving training and information to the taliban.
Analysts at the C.I.A. and other American spy and security agencies believe not only that the bombing of India’s embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, in July by militants was aided by ISI operatives, but also that the highest levels of Pakistan’s security apparatus — including the army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani — had knowledge of the plot.
“It’s very difficult to imagine he was not aware,” a senior American official said of General Kayani.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Afghanistan Waiting for Pakistan to Secure Border
In a meeting with President Bush, Pakistan's Prime Minister Gilani had promised to secure the border with Afghanistan and stop terrorists from infiltrating Afghanistan. Now the Afghan government wants to see some action after months of talk from the Pakistani government. Reuters
I wouldn't be holding my breath.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan said on Tuesday that after the Pakistani prime minister made a commitment to U.S. President George W. Bush to secure the border with Afghanistan, it was now time for Pakistan to take action.
Relations between Afghanistan and its neighbor Pakistan have sharply deteriorated in recent months with Afghan officials repeatedly accusing Pakistani agents of secretly backing Taliban insurgents fighting Afghan and foreign troops on Afghan soil.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani sought to reassure Bush of his government's commitment to securing the border with Afghanistan during a visit to Washington on Monday. The Afghan government has told the United States and NATO allies that "the source of the terrorism in Afghanistan goes back to the sanctuaries inside Pakistan territory," Hamidzada said.
But, he said, "unfortunately we have seen a lot of talk from the Pakistani side and less action, we are hoping that they will walk the talk, it is a time to implement."
Pakistan's new civilian government has turned to talks with militants in its tribal border region in order to defuse violence that has killed hundreds of Pakistanis in the last year.
GILANI DEFENDS NEGOTIATIONS, ISI
But Afghan and NATO leaders say the talks have eased pressure on the militants allowing them to send more insurgents into Afghanistan where attacks along the eastern border are up by some 40 percent this year.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
President Bush Praises Pakistan Will to Fight Terrorism
President Bush praises Pakistan's commitment to fighting terrorism. UH...either President Bush doesn't want to admit that he made a mistake by making Pakistan an ally, he is delusional or the Pakistanis are extorting the US. What else could it be?!?!?!?New York Times
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WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday praised Pakistan’s commitment to fighting extremists along its deteriorating border with Afghanistan, only hours after an American missile strike destroyed what American and Pakistani officials described as a militant outpost in the region, killing at least six fighters.
Mr. Bush, meeting with Pakistan’s prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, at the White House, sought to minimize growing concerns that Pakistan’s willingness to fight extremists was waning, allowing the Taliban and Al Qaeda to regroup inside Pakistan and plan new attacks there and beyond.
Senior American officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice just three days ago, publicly scolded Pakistan for not doing more to root out safe havens like the one bombed on Monday in Azam Warsak, a village in South Waziristan near the Afghan border.The meetings on Monday carefully sidestepped the political and diplomatic sensitivities that have strained relations ever since political opponents of the country’s authoritarian president, Pervez Musharraf, won elections this year and formed a governing coalition lead by Mr. Gilani.
Neither Mr. Bush nor Mr. Gilani discussed the American strike inside Pakistan, nor recent episodes like the American bombing of a border post in June that killed 11 Pakistani soldiers and inflamed anti-American sentiment. The two leaders appeared eager to show that they were working together closely and respectfully.
With Mr. Gilani by his side on the South Lawn, Mr. Bush praised Pakistan as “a strong ally and a vibrant democracy” and expressed appreciation for “the prime minister’s strong words against the extremists and terrorists.”
“We talked about the need for us to make sure that the Afghan border is secure, as best as possible,” Mr. Bush said before the leaders continued their discussions. “Pakistan has made a very strong commitment to that.”
Pakistani PM Warns US of Unilateral Action
After Gilani met with President Bush, he went on CNN and stated that the US should not act unilaterally. If the US hadn't acted unilaterally then some high ranking al Qaida terrorists would still be alive. AFP
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani held talks with US President George W. Bush here Monday and called on the United States not to act "unilaterally" against Islamic militants in Pakistan.
Gilani, whose new government has been facing intense US pressure to crack down on Pakistan-based militants, told reporters after his meeting with Bush at the White House that Pakistan was committed to fighting extremists.
"We are committed to fight against those extremists and terrorists who are destroying and making the world not safe," he said. "This is a war which is against Pakistan, and we'll fight for our own cause."Speaking to CNN television just hours after seeing Bush, Gilani said the United States needs to be more patient and should not take unilateral actions against militants in Pakistan.
Asked by CNN about a suspected US missile strike on an Al-Qaeda leader in Pakistan on Monday, Gilani said he had told Bush that "unilaterally it should not be done."
"We must have more cooperation with each other and it's our job because we are fighting the war for ourselves," he said.
Gilani declined to directly accuse the United States of being behind the missile attack, which security officials in Pakistan said had targeted Egyptian militant Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar, Al-Qaeda's top expert on chemical and biological weapons.
