. Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Amsterdam … … yesterday on a two-day state visit to the Netherlands aimed at boosting cooperation with the country that is one of Russia’s key trading partners. The...
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Bush to Nominate Alito to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON – President Bush will nominate Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, The Associated Press has learned, choosing a long-time federal judge embraced by judicial conservatives to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
Bush plans to announce the nomination at 8 a.m. EST, the officials said.
The choice likely will mend a rift in the Republican Party caused by his failed nomination of Harriet Miers.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to preview Bush’s remarks, said Alito was virtually certain to get the nod from the moment Miers backed out. The 55-year-old jurist was Bush’s favorite choice of the judges in the last set of deliberations but he settled instead on someone outside what he calls the “judicial monastery,” the officials said.
Bush believes that Alito has not only the right experience and conservative ideology for the job, but he also has a temperament suited to building consensus on the court. A former prosecutor, Alito has experience off the bench that factored into Bush’s thinking, the officials said.
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Pentagon: 26,000 Iraqis Killed Since January 2004
Killed by insurgents, add to this number the Iraqis killed by U.S. and Coalition forces, plus our own soldiers who have died in Bush | NeoCon adventure in the Middle East, the number of people killed is equivalent to ::
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 ICC has learned that the pattern of persecution against Christians in Indonesia has taken a dramatic turn for the worse with the beheading of 3 Indonesian Christian high school girls, Yarny Sambual, Tresa Murangke & Alfina. Two others were attacked as well but survived. The survivors also had their throats slit (one in serious condition).
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Indonesia sends extra police to Poso after beheading of three girls.
Poso (Sulawesi) experienced a brutal wave of persecution from ’98 to 2002″ with hundreds murdered and a 1000 or so homes burned down. 2003-2004 saw a series of assassinations of pastors and Christian leaders.
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Cheney – Rove – Bolton – Miller :: Case to be made.
I will present the case soon, I wanted to publish the Press Release of Patrick Fitzgerald in this diary, as most references I need are presented in quite some detail.
An Eye Opener – thanks CT Man!
Do you want to see how PFitz will nail Cheney?
Go check out this link over at TPM
TalkingPointsMemo by Josh Marshall
You will like what you read there!
Good morning to you!
(And goodnight for me… lol)
by Connecticut Man1 on Sat Oct 29th, 2005 at 11:32:15 PM PST
Questions to be asked from the additional information provided by the I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Indictment that was not known before yesterday.
Crucial information needed by DoJ Patrick Fitzgerald was the testimony of Judith Miller. After reading through the Indictment and concentrating on the timeline May-July 2003, some specifics come in focus and surrounds Aspen Leaf Judith Miller.
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