Eric Florack on April 28th, 2004

Friends of Saddam is turning into a really great source on UNSCAM information. Highly reccomended.

Among the stroies running there today coes this little gem:

“A BRITISH-IRAQI ‘oil-for-food’ trader claims that he witnessed United Nations border staff take bribes to

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Eric Florack on April 28th, 2004

Front page is running a plea for help from Iraq.
I’m going to run the whole article; it’s that important.
In fairness, I will urge you all to frequent Front Page Online
It’s a fine site, and one I frequent,

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Eric Florack on April 28th, 2004

The Village Voice’s James Ridgeway echoes the note of desperation among Democrats that I made note of yesterday.

“John Kerry Must Go
Note to Democrats: it’s not too late to draft someone… Anyone else..

With growing issues over his

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Jon over at QandO makes note of James Taranto who catches this in today’s Best of the Web….

“If George Bush wants to make national security an issue in this campaign, I have three words for him that I

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2004

Boortz posted this one this morning. I wondered how long it would take… one of my readers mailed it to me several weeks back:

As you may know, it is a sin for a devout Muslim to see any woman

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2004

ABC’s Charlie Gibson was there, and saw John Kerry tossing medals over the fence. Kerry responds to being caught in his lie about not doing so, by charging that Gobson, arguably one of the reporters more prone to lean toward

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Eric Florack on April 26th, 2004

Insight is reporting:

“New evidence out of Iraq suggests that the U.S. effort to track down Saddam Hussein’s missing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is having better success than is being reported. Key assertions by the intelligence community that were

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Eric Florack on April 26th, 2004

VOANews.com:

“A Commerce Department report Monday said that new home sales jumped 8.9 percent last month, the biggest hike since last June.
The increase means that sales of new homes rose last month at an annual rate of nearly

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Eric Florack on April 26th, 2004

—”This comes from a President who can’t even show or prove that he showed up for duty in the National Guard.”

—”This comes from a President and a Republican Party that can’t even answer whether or not he showed up

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Eric Florack on April 26th, 2004

ABC NEWS: is reporting this morning that

“Contradicting his statements as a candidate for president, Sen. John Kerry claimed in a 1971 television interview that he threw away as many as nine of his combat medals to protest the

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Eric Florack on April 25th, 2004

Leonard Pitts asks an inportant question:

“The silence is getting loud.
It’s been nearly four months since the scandal broke. Four months since Jack Kelley, star foreign correspondent for USA Today, was found to have lied his way through his

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Eric Florack on April 25th, 2004

My Way Newssays:

“DENVER (AP) – Democrats are furious about a statement by Republicans saying that comparing one of their candidates to presidential candidate John Kerry would be worse than comparing someone to the Ku Klux Klan.”

Why, because

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Someone wrote me earlier today, wondering why I’d not written about Pat Tillman’s death. The writer also made reference to the MilBlogs ring I’ve posted.

For those who don’t know, Tillman was an NFL player, and a pretty fair one

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Eric Florack on April 23rd, 2004

Kerry continues to slide in the polls, particuarly among undecideds… but interestingly among the Democrats themselves.
But what does it mean?

For one thing, it raises the chances of exactly what I predicted a year ago, and several times since

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Eric Florack on April 23rd, 2004

Blogging will be fairly light today… working on a major project.

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