Worlds unite: It's not your average love story

U.S. soldier, Iraqi translator defied history, religion, danger
By MIKE BARBER
P-I REPORTER

LACEY -- Their first real date lasted only 20 minutes. It ended because darkness was falling, when unimaginable new threats and nightmares could emerge on the streets of Baghdad.

The American soldier and the Iraqi woman were fighting all the odds.

They were in love and wanted to marry.

Yeah it's a feel-good piece of fluff, but right now that's what I'm in the mood for.

I for one welcome our new Twitter overlords. @Omir55

I expect that Obama will devote a lot of effort to helping Democrats who are running for Congressional seats.  His ability to drive turnout will make him a very popular figure among those who are seeking office.

As for Bill, who gives a fuck what that asshole does. Someone suggested "car salesman". Please. I wouldn't buy so much as a bicycle off that cheap huckster.

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

From his perch as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the fall of 2002, former Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) was privy to a wide range of viewpoints about a possible invasion of Iraq. And what he decided, after doing his homework, was that war simply didn't make sense. Not only did Iraq pose a negligible threat, he concluded, but the U.S. would be diverting resources from the more important front in Afghanistan. So he voted no on the president's request for authorization of the use of military force, just one of 23 Senators to do so.

Read the rest at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/17/graham-i-never-wavered-i_n_91844.html


"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

If it wasn't then, it sure is now.

"The Clintons] have 17 field offices open in the six remaining primary states: seven in Oregon, five in Kentucky, four in West Virginia, one in Montana, and none in South Dakota or Puerto Rico. Obama, by contrast, has 44 field offices open: 17 in Oregon, 10 in West Virginia, seven in each of Kentucky and Montana, three in South Dakota, and none in Puerto Rico."

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

Obama then went downstairs and boarded one of the subways that run between the Capitol and the Senate office buildings.

All the while, a feeding frenzy of press surrounded him with cameramen backpedaling in front of him all the way across the Capitol.

Perhaps the funniest moment of the entire episode unfolded next.

When the train pulled into the Dirksen Senate Office Building subway station, a subway maintenance crew member wandered over to the car occupied by press and asked if the reporters could all disembark. He needed to take that train out of service before it continued to the next building over. No one on the press car budged since everyone was tracking Obama.

The maintenance worker then ambled over to the next car, full of Secret Service detail and Obama. He made the same request there. Obama sat there for a moment, then disembarked.

And the chase was on again as all of the press poured out of the first car.

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"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes