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What’s interesting about this development is that it happened on the “Afghanistan-Pakistan border.” Now, we all know that Pakistan has refused letting foreign militaries (i.e. our military) operate within their borders. The problem with that is that it creates a safe zone for terrorists to go without having much trouble. By using drones in this extremely mountaineous region we are limiting our own exposure while still getting some results.

Think of it this way; what do you think would happen if a Special Operations team were captured in Waziristan? Pakistan would stop giving us its already limited help and may even become hostile toward us. Furthermore, it is a hellaciously mountaineous region that none of our people (maybe a couple of our guys know the area, maybe) know and is impossible to control without a large force.

Now with the advent of drones we can monitor thousands of miles of land almost undetected. If we identify an important terrorist our drones can also fire an ultra accurate missile at and eliminate them.

Of course, this is all just conjecture on my part. This guy could have been blown up by… God. I have heard He has blown some things up in the past.

A senior al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, has been killed, senior Western counter-terrorism officials say.

News of Libi’s death first emerged on a website used by Islamist groups.

The website, ekhlaas.org, said Libi had “fallen as a martyr”, the Reuters news agency reports.

US intelligence agencies have been investigating reports that a top al-Qaeda figure was killed in the Afghan-Pakistan border area this week.

A missile attack in Pakistan’s North Waziristan area reportedly killed 12 or 13 militants.

While Western counter-terrorism officials told the BBC they believed Libi to be dead, they would not discuss how he was killed.

Libi has appeared in a number of al-Qaeda videos. He is reported to be one of al-Qaeda’s most senior field commanders in Afghanistan.

Reports say he was also active across the border in the Waziristan region of Pakistan.

‘Drone spotted’

Local officials in Pakistan said on Tuesday that 12 militants had been killed in a missile strike from “an unknown direction”.

Residents reported having seen a drone aircraft in the region before the attack.

On Thursday, Pakistani intelligence officials said 13 people had died - seven Arabs and six Central Asians.

One told Reuters: “The missile appeared to have been fired by a drone.”

Correspondents say the US has launched a number of strikes at suspected militants in Pakistan - some of them missiles fired by drones.

Pakistan has repeatedly insisted that it will not accept foreign military action on its territory.

From news.bbc.co.uk

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Hundreds of books are about how to make money quickly. These books don’t know the real secret though. Do you know what that secret is? No? Well, today only, I will tell you how to accumulate more wealth than you will ever know what to do with. Befriend Bill Clinton.

You will get to jet around with the ex-president promoting his foundation. But, in truth, that’s just the cover story. What is really going to happen is you will get to use Mr. Clinton’s influence to get a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Sure, the ex-prez will have to undermine American policy and, gasp, contradict his own wife’s official positions, but so what.

The only drawback, and there always is one or two with the Clintons, is that you will have to share the loot. It’s only 100+ million dollars, but hey, what’s $100 million when you’re going to make many times that amount?

Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in southeast Kazakhstan. Several hundred miles to the west a fortune awaited: highly coveted deposits of uranium that could fuel nuclear reactors around the world. And Mr. Giustra was in hot pursuit of an exclusive deal to tap them.

Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra was a newcomer to uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic. But what his fledgling company lacked in experience, it made up for in connections. Accompanying Mr. Giustra on his luxuriously appointed MD-87 jet that day was a former president of the United States, Bill Clinton.

Upon landing on the first stop of a three-country philanthropic tour, the two men were whisked off to share a sumptuous midnight banquet with Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev, whose 19-year stranglehold on the country has all but quashed political dissent.

Mr. Nazarbayev walked away from the table with a propaganda coup, after Mr. Clinton expressed enthusiastic support for the Kazakh leader’s bid to head an international organization that monitors elections and supports democracy. Mr. Clinton’s public declaration undercut both American foreign policy and sharp criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, Mr. Clinton’s wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

Within two days, corporate records show that Mr. Giustra also came up a winner when his company signed preliminary agreements giving it the right to buy into three uranium projects controlled by Kazakhstan’s state-owned uranium agency, Kazatomprom.

The monster deal stunned the mining industry, turning an unknown shell company into one of the world’s largest uranium producers in a transaction ultimately worth tens of millions of dollars to Mr. Giustra, analysts said.

Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton’s charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month. The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle, an exclusive club of wealthy entrepreneurs in which friendship with the former president has its privileges.

Source: nytimes.com

I just thought that this article was particularly delicious because it is a perfect response to another article at Now Public, by Mountaineer, about how John McCain is in the pocket of the investment world. I don’t want to defend McCain, so I won’t. But I do think it is more than just to point out that when other politicians are getting hundreds of thousands for their presidential campaign the Clintons, particularly Bill Clinton, are getting hundreds of millions for his foundation. A foundation (which has to do some good, maybe) that allows the former president to jet around the world and live it up.

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Rush might not vote for president.

CALLER: But, Rush, there’s enough of us… We all have problems with the fact that none of them are true conservatives, but isn’t something better than nothing?

RUSH: Well, let me try and explain it to you this way. If one such as myself happens to believe that there’s not too much of a substantive difference between Mrs. Clinton and a couple of the Republican potential nominees — and if I believe that either the Republican or Democrat nominee is going to cause great damage and harm to the country — I would just as soon it happen on the watch of a Democrat.

CALLER: Well, that certainly helps. That makes me feel a little better.

RUSH: Look, that statement I made is based on substantive analysis. It was a knee-jerk, and I didn’t just throw it out there to be picked up. I knew it would be, but that’s not why I threw it out there, and I’ll tell you, Dee, it’s rooted in the fact that — I’m blue in the face here — I’m a conservative first and a, quote, unquote, Republican second — and party unity, at the expense of conservative principles and values to me is not advancing things.

CALLER: Well, in the case of Rudy Giuliani… I know you’re not going to back anybody. I’m not really quite sure who I’m going to back, who I’m going to vote for, but at least he said he would appoint conservative judges. And fiscally he’s good. Crime he’s good. I mean, you know, if you really have to weigh it all, to me, that’s where it is right now.

RUSH: I have weighed it all. I didn’t say that there are no Republicans that I would vote for. Did you assume I meant that?

CALLER: Yes, I did.

RUSH: Oh, no, no, no. No. Just a couple, maybe one. (sigh) It’s not all of them by any stretch of the imagination.

Having listened to Rush for nearly a decade now I think I have a good feeling as to who he’s talking about - Senator McCain. I know I won’t vote for the man. I wouldn’t vote for Governor Huckabee either. Assuredly, they are both fine men who have a number of accomplishments to point to. Unfortunately, they aren’t conservatives.

The only problem with this tactic is that it means we are opening ourselves up to possibly another two-term Clinton presidency. Senator Hillary Clinton, being decidedly more statist/socialist/communist than her husband will try much harder to push through far-reaching social programs that will collapse our economy. Universal health care, destruction of the military, illiberal trade policies, an ever-increasing nanny state, and, unfortunately for Rush and every other conservative on radio, the Fairness Doctrine.

If a liberal gets the presidency they will, without a doubt, push through the Fairness Doctrine. They will probably have both the House and the Senate and will not have much of a problem getting some type of anti-1st Amendment legislation passed into law. This would be a no-brainer for Hillary (or Obama) because one of the biggest roadblocks to President Bill Clinton’s term in office was talk radio. The man said so himself on a number of occasions that he hated talk radio; he even accused talk radio hosts of encouraging those behind the Oklahoma City bombing.

Of course a lot has changed since those wild days when talk radio was the only form of media that wasn’t dominated by liberals. Still, re-implementing the Fairness Doctrine would be a major blow to the conservative movement because radio is still the medium most used by conservatives today. Rush, Hannity, Hewitt, Ingraham, Prager, and every other conservative’s voice would be silenced.

Unfortunately the same thing could happen if McCain or Huckabee were elected president. McCain hates talk radio because he’s not a CONSERVATIVE and would gladly sell them out so he could get his legislation passed. Likewise, Huckabee holds no allegiance to talk radio and probably doesn’t understand its significance or, if he does, doesn’t like it (like McCain).

So what should we do? Should we elect a democrat liberal or a republican liberal? The answer is - neither. We need to make our voices heard in the primaries so we can stave off a Carter-like presidency. Thompson, my choice, is out. That means we are left with Romney (second choice) and Giuliani (third choice). A lot is going to be settled shortly with Super Tuesday just around the corner. Do we want to have 4-8 years of liberal leadership or do we want to restore conservatism to the top office?

If Romney or Giuliani don’t get the republican nomination we might as well turn off our radios because the government will be turning them off for us soon after the election. BigT

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