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Come out and meet the next President of the United States.

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The Rudy Giuliani Files

U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) speaks at the California Democratic Party convention in San Diego April 28, 2007.

Remember Mayor Giuliani’s quotes regarding America’s healthcare from last week?

“They’re moving toward socialized medicine so fast, it’ll make your head spin,” Giuliani said of the debate, adding that private competition and limits on malpractice lawsuits could help bring down the cost of care. “When we want to cover poor people, as we should, we give them vouchers.”

“I’ll be darned if I’m going to concede that Democrats care more about poor people than we do.”

Now, Hillary responds……..

CLINTON SICK OVER DR. GIULIANI’S RX

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday blasted Republican presidential rival Rudy Giuliani’s continuing criticism of the Democratic Party’s health-care ambitions.

Republicans “are basically taking positions diametrically opposed to us,” Clinton told a packed press conference following her speech at the California Democratic Party’s convention.

“One of the candidates has called universal health care ‘socialized medicine,’ ” she said, not mentioning Giuliani by name.

But it was clear to the crowd that her remarks were pointed at the ex-mayor’s standard campaign statements that the private sector is best equipped to manage America’s health care and that too much government involvement amounts to European-style socialized medicine.

A pretty weak sauce response.

So, Hillary tell us the details of your UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PLAN nee Socialized Medicine.

Or do you plan to keep them secret like you did when your husband Slick was first elected?

The fact is the Democrats will copy their healthcare model from the Europeans, raise taxes and redistribute wealth.

No?

The Rudy Giuliani Files

Day By Day by Chris Muir

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The Day By Day Archive

Iraq War Watch: Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid – War in Iraq is LOST

“War in Iraq lost”: US Democrat leader

The war in Iraq “is lost” and a US troop surge is failing to bring peace to the country, the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, said Thursday.

“I believe … that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week,” Reid said, on the same day US President George W. Bush was giving a speech at an Ohio town hall meeting defending the war on terror.

Sen. Reid an embarrassment to LDS Church membership

David Broder: The Democrats’ Gonzales = Harry Reid

Hailed by his staff as “a strong leader who speaks his mind in direct fashion,” Reid is assuredly not a man who misses many opportunities to put his foot in his mouth. In 2005, he attacked Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, as “one of the biggest political hacks we have here in Washington.”

He called President Bush ” a loser,” then apologized. He said that Bill Frist, then Senate majority leader, had “no institutional integrity” because Frist planned to leave the Senate to fulfill a term-limits pledge. Then he apologized to Frist.

Most of these earlier gaffes were personal, bespeaking a kind of displaced aggressiveness on the part of the onetime amateur boxer. But Reid’s verbal wanderings on the war in Iraq are consequential — not just for his party and the Senate but for the more important question of what happens to U.S. policy in that violent country and to the men and women whose lives are at stake.

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The Michael Ramirez Files

An Iranian technician works at the control room of the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility, February 2007. A rain of missiles could degrade Iran’s nuclear programme and set it back years, a German weekly quoted Israel’s prime minister as saying, sparking a warning from Tehran that such a strike would be a dangerous.

‘A 10-day attack could delay Iran’s nuclear race by years’

“Iran’s nuclear program can be thrown back by years in a ten day attack using thousands of Tomahawk cruise missiles,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted as saying in an interview published online by the German magazine Focus on Saturday.

Olmert had reportedly said that it would not be possible to completely halt Iran’s race to attain nuclear capability, but that a brisk attack that would delay it significantly was “technically feasible.” While saying that Israel does not seek military confrontation, Olmert added that “nobody excludes it.”

Only a few hours after the publication of the Focus article in Israeli media outlets, the Prime Minister’s Office issued a statement denying the report.

This statement, although quickly denied, is another shot across Iran’s bow. A quick surgical strike or a more bold takeover of Iran’s oil exporting facilities would cripple Iran’s nuclear program and its economy.

But, will Israel and the United States have the will. Certainly Iran will respond by launching missiles against Israel and United States ships. This is in turn could result in an all out war against Iran – which is coming anyway.

Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert delivers a speech during an event marking the 90th anniversary of the New York Jewish Federation in parliament in Jerusalem April 25, 2007. Iran’s disputed nuclear programme could be severely hit by firing 1,000 cruise missiles in a 10-day attack, Olmert was quoted as saying on Saturday.

According to Focus, Olmert said military measures would be considered only if existing UN sanctions, and “other sanctions” would fail to bring success.

Weighing the consequences of such a scenario, Olmert said that “we must also ask ourselves whether after a military procedure, the Iranian people as a whole would not become our enemy. And would not such an action pit other Muslim nations against us, thus creating even more problems?”

The Arab World is united against Israel. So, what is the Prime Minister talking about?

The main question is: Will Israel and the United States allow Iran to have a nuclear weapons program and a nuclear bomb?

The “NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN” is at hand.

It is time to act.

A ‘Tomahawk’ type cruise missile shortly after being launched. These missiles can typically be launched from submarines.

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Iran Watch: US-Iranian Nuclear Worker Steals Nuclear Plant Software for Iran

John McCain Watch: Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Moves Ahead with Uranium Enrichment

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Will Respond to United Nations Sanctions

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran To Build Two Additional Bushehr Nuclear Power Plants

The Iran Nuclear Files

The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.

Day By Day by Chris Muir

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The Day By Day Archive

Is there a Global War on Terror?

Clinton: Yes

Dodd: Yes

Obama: Yes

Richardson: Yes

Biden: No

Edwards: No

Gravel: No

Kucinich: No

U.K. Labour Party: No

Remember this question.

Flap KNOWS the YES candidates will be asked to clarify and elaborate upon their answers.

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United Kingdom Watch: No More WAR ON TERROR