Over 200 WIA arriving the military hospitals in Germany in the past 3 days, and as of the latest report we have lost 22 Americans as per Lieutenant General John Sattler given a press conference via vtc, and the news about the Black Hawk Down is now official as reported by The Clear Channel Communications Network on the radio here on the left coast. Our monthly KIA count in Iraq is now up to 42 American KIA this month. We have made SOME progress in Fallujah.

CFS

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This is very shakey and this is not going to go away for some time. The counting of votes must be revamped and fixed once and for all. This is not good at all, and of course this is not a significant position the one we are discussing here, but it could happen at the US Senate Level, the House Of Reps Level, and even at the Presidential Election Level. This is from the AP and it happened on a county in Indiana:

"A hand recount of ballots cast using optical scanning technology gave a Democrat enough extra votes to bump a Republican from victory in a county commissioner's race. The erroneous tally was caused when the Fidlar Election Co. scanning system recorded straight Democratic Party votes as votes for Libertarians in southeastern Indiana's Franklin County. The recount Thursday pushed Democrat Carroll Lanning from fifth to third in the three-seat commissioners race, while Republican Roy Hall fell to fifth. Democrats had suspected a glitch after preliminary election results included a Libertarian congressional candidate winning 7.7 percent of the vote in Franklin County, more than four times better than he did across the entire district. Fidlar workers said no programming problems were found in the Accuvote 2000 ES system, but said the Rock Island, Ill.-based company is going over its programming elsewhere in the state and in Wisconsin and Michigan, which, like Indiana, have straight-party voting. Fidlar national sales manager Bill Barrett on Friday called the glitch an "isolated incident" and said no other election results were in question. A spokeswoman for the Indiana secretary of state's office said state officials were waiting to learn more from the company and Franklin County. Pre-election tests had found no problems, Kate Shepherd said, and the state was unaware of other similar troubles."

Not good at all. This stinks.

CFS

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I do not like to post any links because most of the time the link to the article will be gone by the time it is checked by some of the posters, here is an exeption to the rule, this is a great article about Yasser Arafat by a man who KNOWS the Middle East, the article "The Death of Arafat" By George Friedman is linked HERE, hopefully you will enjoy the article before it is gone from the Stratfor Site.

CFS

Originally posted in thread: 21687

Now this is getting fun, just checked some of the notes after M*Danielle's conversation 21967 was posted, some of the posters on this forum are displaying zippo class and are now entering into a pi**ing contest with the manager of the board, coming up with excuses instead of doing the honorable thing of leaving on their own. I do remember Bobswire receiving ONE warning, and immediately packing, saying Adios to the site, never to come back. Bobswire is a Viet Nam vet who displayed honor.

CFS

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The General in charge is saying that our GIs are ahead of the game plan in Fallujah. Nobody can leave the city and nobody is allowed in. About time. The only problem is that the majority of the hard core IFW members left the city prior to the operation, they had plenty of time to pack and move to a different city. So, now our GIs will have to clean Fallujah, and then move to the next city, retaking the cities from the IFW hands one at a time. Casualties in Iraq have reached 45 American KIA so far this month [only 12 days], that is more than the total for June 2004 [with 42 American KIA]. Our GIs are making progress slowly from city to city and the best is yet to come. Victory in Iraq is around the corner, soon we will declare the VI-DAY and move on.

CFS
PoliticalGurus@Yahoo.com

Originally posted in thread: 21687

Last person leaving the Bush Administration remember to turn the lights off. This time is the Sec of Education the one announcing that he is a SHORT TIMER with the GWB administration. Rod Paige, who became the nation's first black education secretary, intends to leave his Cabinet position. As reported by the AP quoting some insider "The secretary has been looking at leaving, and he's been in discussion with the White House about the right time to do so." Secretary Paige would be the 3rd member of the GWB Cabinet to make plans to leave since GWB won a second term. AG John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans also are departing. Plus remember the possible SHORT timers Colin Powell and Ronald Rumsfeld, however, Colin Powell may try to make history by getting involved with the official formation of a Palestinian State [will see if this comes true].

CFS

Originally posted in thread: 21687

Just took a look and the number of KIA in Iraq is on the rise again as some of the WIAs can not make it all the way back to life and have gone to serve the Lord, the KIA number is now at 47 for the month of November and it is expected that the number will go up, we have a lot of WIA in extremely critical condition and it is only a matter of time for them to go and meet the Lord. War is hell and the innocent will die. All in the name of FREEDOM.

CFS

Originally posted in thread: 21687

Say what, are you kidding me? As reported by Reuters, the Presidential Race Still Undecided in New Mexico. So at the end of the day will GWB win 286 or 281 Electoral Votes. "Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry has conceded, President Bush has laid out his plans for a second term and New Mexico still does not know who won the election in the sparsely populated state. New Mexico is the only state that does not have a clear-cut winner in the presidential vote, and state officials were red-faced over the slow count. The state had vowed to speed up counting ballots after it took about a month to tally the vote in the 2000 presidential race, where Democrat Al Gore beat Bush by 366 votes. Bush has about 373,000 votes to 365,000 for Kerry with most of the ballots counted, and several media outlets have projected Bush winning New Mexico's five electoral votes. On Friday, all of New Mexico's counties had to complete a count in their regions, but one rural county still had problems and did not meet the deadline. The secretary of state's office said Bush's lead over Kerry has narrowed to about 6,800 votes, according to initial tallies of the provisional ballots submitted to the office on Friday. The main problems this time were the narrow margin between Bush and Kerry, troubles sorting through provisional ballots and not learning from the 2000 count, critics said. It will still take more than 10 days to find out who took the last state up for grabs in the Nov. 2 election." "I will not be declaring a winner until Nov. 23," said New Mexico Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron. "About 750,000 people voted in New Mexico, and Republicans said money that should have gone to getting the vote counted ended up in a marketing campaign aimed at getting out the vote in the state run by Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson."
"The counties were unprepared for the volume of voters because the money wasn't there," said New Mexico Republican Party Executive Director Greg Graves.

You got to be kidding me.

CFS

Originally posted in thread: 21687

The Lowest Rated Monologue continues and the Lowest Rated Poster is flying solo here today. Okay, let us talk about the operations in Fallujah, they continue
and will run for the next couple of days and maybe for the next couple of weeks. How long are we going to be in Iraq. That of course depends on who you ask. As per General Franks he says the US invasion of Iraq will eventually succeed but US troops will likely have to stay in the country for up to three more years, and he believes the assault on Fallujah would be a turning point and elections will be able to go ahead as planned in January. One thing that is for sure, the number of casualties is escalating and the latest number I can find is 39 KIA since November 8th, for a total of 48 KIA this month in Iraq. Things are about to get REAL UGLY for the IFWs in Iraq but we must be careful, must accept the fact that our troops will suffer casualties. Reality Check.

CFS

Originally posted in thread: 21687

After multiple starts, counts, stops and restarts, we finally got a total (I think) late yesterday in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. There were 3 at seats that were supposedly going Republican, but all three went Democratic.

"Democrats swept all three at-large county commissioner seats, giving them a 6-3 majority and ending two years of Republican rule. That restores the result from election night, thrown into doubt because of errors in how early-voting totals were tallied...

Unless a recount or a challenge changes the results, three Republicans will leave the county board: Chairman Tom Cox, who did not seek re-election, along with Samuelson and Vice Chairman Dan Ramirez, who lost their races. Three new members will join: Rembert, Roberts and District 5 Republican Dan Bishop.

As expected, Democrats dominated by a 2-to-1 margin in the provisional ballots, which were cast by voters who were registered, but could not be found in poll books on Election Day. Elections officials spent the last three days preparing and counting those ballots."

Full story

MaryAnn

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