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FALMOUTH, Maine -- They sat on two frayed chairs in a teacher's lounge, the president and the widow, just the two of them so close that their knees were almost touching.
She was talking about her husband, the soldier who died in a far-off war zone. Tears rolled down her face as she mentioned two children left fatherless. His eyes welled up, too. He hugged her, held her face, kissed her cheek. "I am so sorry for your loss," he kept repeating.
She told him she considers him responsible for her husband's death and begged him to bring home the troops. "It's time to put our pride behind us and stop the bleeding, for all of us," she recalled saying. The president demurred, unwilling to debate a mourning woman. "We see things differently," he said.
But Hildi Halley, a self-described liberal antiwar activist who met with President Bush in Maine last month, said she believes he felt her grief. "It wasn't just a crocodile tear," she said in an interview at her home. "I felt like I moved him. I don't think he's going to wake up tomorrow and say, 'Oh my gosh, I've been wrong this whole time and I'm going to change all my policies because of my meeting with this woman.' I just hope that with each soldier, he remembers my pain."
He has a lot of pain to remember. Now more than five years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Bush has served as a wartime president longer than any occupant of the White House since Lyndon B. Johnson. He has presided over more U.S. military casualties than any since Richard M. Nixon. While he travels the country defending his policy and arguing to stay the course in Iraq, he also confronts the human burdens of wartime leadership.
The two sides of Bush as commander in chief can be hard to reconcile. His public persona gives little sense that he dwells on the costs of war. He does not seem to agonize as Johnson did, or even as his father, George H.W. Bush, did before the Persian Gulf War. While he pays tribute to those who have fallen, the president strives to show resolve and avoid displays that might be seen as weak or doubting. His refusal to attend military funerals, while taking long Texas vacations and extended bicycle rides, strikes some critics as callous indifference.
This guy needs to get his story straight. Didn’t he get the Talking points fax Saturday Night? I thought the message of the day and this week for that matter is that Bush is the reason there are so many terrorists today?
On NBC's "Meet the Press," also taped Friday and aired Sunday, Clinton told interviewer Tim Russert that the biggest problem confronting the world today is "the illusion that our differences matter more than our common humanity."
"That's what's driving the terrorism," he said.
"It's not just that there's an unresolved Arab-Israeli conflict. Osama Bin
Laden and Dr. al-Zawahiri can convince young Sunni Arab men, who have - and
some women - who have despairing conditions in their lives, that they get a
one-way ticket to heaven in a hurry if they kill a lot of innocent people who
don't share their reality."
Bush will kill me: Chavez
From correspondents in CaracasVENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez accused his American counterpart George W. Bush overnight of ordering his assassination for calling the US leader the devil during his speech at the United Nations this week.
"The devil appears very sulphurous, and a few people say that he has given the order to kill me," Chavez said during a speech before scientists in western Venezuela.
"Many concerned friends have called me, (saying) that because I said 'devil' over there (at the UN), they have sentenced me to die. They will not kill me, I have much faith in life," Mr Chavez added.
The leftist Venezuelan leader called Mr Bush "the devil", "a liar" and a "tyrant" during his speech at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, one day after the US President spoke from the same podium.
Mr Chavez again showed a copy of Hegemony or Survival overnight, a book by US academic Noam Chomsky that he had first held up during his address to the UN assembly.
He said he had to wash the book "with holy water because I put it in the same place that the devil put his papers."
Holy shit. I just saw Bill Clinton Lose it. The interview on Fox News Sunday is the most revealing interview in politician has give in the last 20 years. I will have the video up in just a minute.
Here is the transcript of the Bill Clinton Interview on Fox News Sunday I got from CC. You will want to read this because you are going to want to mull this one over a bit. Maybe for a year or two. Some statements he made indicate that the American Government is employing Contract killers. In that he says he "contracted" with people to kill Bin Laden. He pretends that George Bush is not being blamed by anyone for 9/11. Hell there are millions of people that think it was a Bush operation.
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Clinton gets terribly aggressive with Wallace. Insinuates he is part of a conspiracy. He uses Richard Clark to be the end all be all information source on anti-terror so why didn’t he listen to him. He says he didn’t attack the Taliban and Bin Laden is because people at the CIA and FBI were against it. Isn’t it his job to over rule them and listen to Richard Clarke?
“You did Foxes bidding”, “You did your little Right Wing Hit Job.” “That little Smirk on your face” Hey Bill, am I part of it too and everyone else with two brain cells to rub together? What an insulting elitist he is.
He thinks no one on the Fox network ever gets to criticize George Bush. That is bullshit they always have at least one Token liberal at all times ready to read the Democratic party talking points for us. Former President Bill Clinton insinuates that the question it’s self is dishonest. “You falsely accuse me of giving aid and comfort to the enemy”, he says. That is a complete exaggeration. He only asks Bill Clinton to respond to the belief that a lot of people have that he could have done more to get Bin Laden. He says about any criticism about him “It always comes from one Source” sounds kind of paranoid too me, and it does not always come from the same source. We can make up our own minds people, he is mistaken.
He says that “We” the United States, “contracted” with people to Kill Bin Laden. What you have to be kidding me? Why would he say such a thing. What if a republican said such a thing? Can you imagine the international outrage? He bases his entire response to the questions on the Richard Clarke book Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror , I don't think this is going to help him. No body ever asks them about 9/11 ? That is just stupid.
What does “move your bones mean” ? He accuses Wallace of "moveing his bones".
Bill Clinton asserts the only reason anyone thinks he did a bad job in dealing Was the movie, “Wag the Dog”. Why was the movie made? Who made it? He complains about people creating impressions. Who is creating all of these impressions about American Policy? It is his Hollywood friends, they are a Multi-headed Hydra . The guy who made the movie is a big time democratic contributor. Why would they try to influence American Policy like this, and why did he let them? Why did he listen to his critics to our detriment? Is it because he was a coward?
This is a redo of a previous article but I still mean itHugo Chavez doesn't like me. He used a racial slur to describe me and anybody else who is white and lives in North America and has any kind of Celebration on Halloween.I have a couple of problems with that. One is that I think that he should take his raciest ass dictatorship and piss up a rope. I hope he knows that I will buy a hybrid car in his honor. I hope he eats shit and dies and I don't care if Pat Robertson sends a Hit squad down and busta cap in his face. I love all of the people of Venezuela, even the commies that live there. I really wish harm and ill will upon their tin horn dictator. When he makes these stupid statements I hope that they all know that he is a moron and he is wasting all of the money that should be going to their country and sending it too his own bank accounts and to equally stupid dictators around the world there by making the whole world a more dangerous place. I think the thing that made him spew this was his anger over some of his citizens making fun of him by putting his name on scary skeletons and ghouls for a little bit of fun. This is because he is scarring them with all of the human rights he is violating in order prop up his regime and he really doesn’t understand the free speech thing too much with him being a dictator and all. Not a dictator you say? Freely elected you say well so was Hitler you stupid hippy. Get real. The difference between America and some bandanna republic is you can go anywhere and make fun of the president or say something mean about him and you won’t get thrown in jail or get your head beat in by homeland security. You may lose some album sales and people may walk out of your Vegas show but you can say what ever you please even if it is stupid. I hope you will read his comments below.
President Hugo Chavez cautioned Venezuelan
parents to protect their children from Halloween with a spooky warning
that the US tradition is rooted in "terrorism."
"What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism," Chavez said, quoted in the local press. "They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture." Chavez often lashes out at the US government, which he has described as "terrorist" and accused of plotting his assassination. But this time his warnings were directed at the American celebration that combines costumes and candy. He issued "an appeal for reflection by parents" not to encourage their children to dress up for the holiday. His comments came after authorities in Caracas recently seized pumpkins, cardboard skeleton costumes and other traditional Halloween items inscribed with anti-Chavez messages. US families were celebrating Halloween, during which disguised children go door to door saying "trick or treat," on Monday. 
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