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Stanley “Tookie” Williams Watch: Michael Ramirez – Political Cartoonist – “Tookie Williams’ Victims”
Thank You Michael!
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Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Clemency Hearing to Include Claim there were Errors in Trial
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Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: A Tookie Store for Conservatives is NOW Open
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Stars rally around Condemned Killer
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: California Supreme Court Refuses to Halt Execution
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: NO REMORSEStanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Tookie’s “Human Angelâ€
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Isn’t it The Truth By Cobb
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Schwarzenegger to Hold Private Clemency Hearing
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: California Governor Schwarzenegger MULLS ClemencyStanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: FLAP Over “Tookie Must Dieâ€
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Jesse Jackson, Bianca Jagger Plead for LIFE
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: SNOOP DOGG BEGS SCHWARZENEGGER FOR CLEMENCY
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: California’s Life-and-Death Politics
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Death Warrant Signed
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Gaggle – Newbusters.org
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Condoleezza Rice Watch: United States Signs Deal for First Permanent Military Base in Ex-Soviet Bloc
AFP has US signs deal for first permanent military base in ex-Soviet bloc
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed a historic agreement with Romania to establish a permanent US military base in the country, the first ever in a former Warsaw Pact nation. Rice, in Bucharest on the second leg of a four-nation European tour, signed the accord with Romanian Foreign Minister Razvan Ungureanu at a public ceremony in the Romanian capital.
“It is a remarkable thing to think that some 16 years after the collapse of communism here in Romania… we would be signing an agreement that will allow America to have forces” in Romania, Rice told a press conference at the elegant Cotroceni Palace.
“It is fitting that the United States and Romania are not just friends but our forces are brothers and sisters in arms,” she said, adding: “We know we have a great and committed partner in Romania.”
Romania has 860 troops with the US-led coalition in Iraq, as well as soldiers in Afghanistan. Romanian President Traian Basescu said at the press conference his country would stay with the Americans “to the end” of the mission.
Thanks to President Ronald Reagan for ending The Cold War.
And it is nice to have friends to help fight the Global War on Terror……now go and talk to Howard Dean.
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Howard Dean Watch: United States Won’t Win in Iraq Updated
Updated:
Michelle Malkin has HOWARD THE COWARD DEAN
Scott Ott pens the defeatist DNC chair’s Christmas theme song: “We’ll Retreat ‘fore Christmas.”
Ed Morrissey nails Dean and the MSM.
Tom Maguire comments on Dean and Dems in disarray.
Dafydd at Big Lizards tracks Dean’s descent into crackpottery.
John Hinderaker at Power Line:
It will be interesting to see whether other Democrats try to distance themselves from Dean. Frankly, I doubt that most will bother. The truth is that most antiwar Democrats not only believe we can’t win in Iraq, they hope we don’t win. They care more about scoring political points against the Bush administration than they do about the freedom of the Iraqi people or about America’s national security. So my guess is that they will see little to criticize in Dean’s latest outrage.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean gestures before his keynote speech at the annual fall DNC meetings, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2005 in Phoenix. Republicans will focus on the country’s problems from illegal immigration to divide Americans voting in next year’s midterm congressional elections, much as the GOP used gay marriage as a wedge issue in 2004, Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean says.
WOIA.com has Dean: US Won’t Win in Iraq
Saying the “idea that we’re going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong,” Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean predicted today that the Democratic Party will come together on a proposal to withdraw National Guard and Reserve troops immediately, and all US forces within two years.
Dean made his comments in an interview on WOAI Radio in San Antonio.
“I’ve seen this before in my life. This is the same situation we had in Vietnam. Everybody then kept saying, ‘just another year, just stay the course, we’ll have a victory.’ Well, we didn’t have a victory, and this policy cost the lives of an additional 25,000 troops because we were too stubborn to recognize what was happening.”
Defeatism, Cut and Run – words out of the radical LEFT playbook – the norm for the Democrat Party under Howard Dean.
Dean says the Democrat position on the war is ‘coalescing,’ and is likely to include several proposals.
“I think we need a strategic redeployment over a period of two years,” Dean said. “Bring the 80,000 National Guard and Reserve troops home immediately. They don’t belong in a conflict like this anyway. We ought to have a redeployment to Afghanistan of 20,000 troops, we don’t have enough troops to do the job there and its a place where we are welcome. And we need a force in the Middle East, not in Iraq but in a friendly neighboring country to fight (terrorist leader Musab) Zarqawi, who came to Iraq after this invasion. We’ve got to get the target off the backs of American troops.
Dean didn’t specify which country the US forces would deploy to, but he said he would like to see the entire process completed within two years. He said the Democrat proposal is not a ‘withdrawal,’ but rather a ‘strategic redeployment’ of U.S. forces.
“The White House wants us to have a permanent commitment to Iraq. This is an Iraqi problem. President Bush got rid of Saddam Hussein and that was a great thing, but that could have been done in a very different way. But now that we’re there we need to figure out how to leave. 80% of Iraqis want us to leave, and it’s their country.”
Howard the COWARD………
Dean also compared the controversy over pre-war intelligence to the Watergate scandal which brought down Richard Nixon’s presidency in 1974.
“What we see today is very much like what was going in Watergate,” Dean said. “It turns out there is a lot of good evidence that President Bush did not tell the truth when he was asking Congress for the power to go to war. The President said last week that Congress saw the same intelligence that he did in making the decision to go to war, and that is flat out wrong. The President withheld some intelligence from the Senate Intelligence Committee. He withheld the report from the CIA that in fact there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq), that they did not have a nuclear program. They (the White House) selectively gave intelligence to the United States Senate and the United States Congress and got them to give the go ahead to attack these people.”
Are you kidding me…….and the Democrats expect to WIN elections with this MORON as their leader?
Keep it up, Howard!
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Iraq War Watch: John Kerry – Americn Troops are Terrorists
In this photo provided by CBS, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., appears on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ in Washington Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005.
On Sunday, Sen. John Kerry, (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Face The Nation.
JOHN KERRY: I don’t agree with that. But I think what we need to do is recognize what we all agree on, which is, you’ve got to begin to set benchmarks for accomplishment; you’ve got to begin to transfer authority to the Iraqis, and there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the — of — of — of — historical customs, religious customs, whether you like it or not. Iraqis should be doing that. And after all of these two and a half years, with all —
So, Senator are you saying our American soldiers are terrorizing the Iraqi people?
And if they are then that is wrong because the Iraqis should be doing that themselves?
And you wonder why you are a MORON?
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The Weblog Awards Watch: VOTE for Flap – Part Two
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Is Arnold Better Off Without the GOP?
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (L) listens as his new chief of staff Susan Kennedy answers questions during a news conference in Sacramento, California in this November 30, 2005 photo.
Dan Schnur (a Republican political consultant who advised former Gov. Pete Wilson and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC and the Institute of Government Studies at UC Berkeley) has a commentary piece in today’s Los Angeles Times, Is Arnold better off without the GOP?
SHOULD GOV. Arnold Schwarzenegger run for reelection as an independent?Schwarzenegger is a centrist — conservative on taxes, crime and illegal immigration, and moderate on cultural and environmental issues. That balance is what attracted the support of swing voters when he was elected two years ago. But it has also kept him from forming a stronger relationship with the most ideologically committed members of his Republican Party.
So, when the governor announced last week that he was hiring a longtime Democratic operative and abortion-rights activist as his new chief of staff, conservative Republicans erupted in anger. Already unhappy over his proposal for a multibillion-dollar bond measure and uneasy with his decision to hold a clemency hearing before deciding the fate of Stanley Tookie Williams, GOP activists were furious when Schwarzenegger tapped former Davis advisor Susan Kennedy as his top government aide.
Yes and the California Republican Party Board of Directors have sent this e-mail to all Republican activists.
The conservative California Republican Assembly has an online petition asking Schwarzenegger to rescind the Susan Kennedy appointment.
THE UNIQUE dynamics of the recall election had allowed Schwarzenegger to run from the center, helping him avoid a GOP primary in which his moderate social and environmental positions could have caused him problems with a right-leaning electorate. Running for reelection as an independent would allow him the same opportunity. State law would have to be changed to allow him to alter his party registration so close to an election. But leaders of both major parties would have a vested interest in persuading their supporters to approve such a change.
For California’s conservative movement, an independent Schwarzenegger candidacy would present its members the opportunity to support a more ideologically acceptable candidate. Could that candidate take 35% to 40% of the vote against Schwarzenegger and the Democratic nominee? It’s certainly more attainable than the 50% required in a traditional two-party race. Although Democrats would have to be wary of a centrist Schwarzenegger repeating his recall performance and attracting enough independent and moderate Democratic support to win reelection, organized labor and other party mainstays could support another candidate, one more strongly committed to their most important policy goals.
Who is Schnur kidding?
There is NO WAY the Democrats in the legislature nor would Schwarzenegger be suckered into this deal.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has already “JUMPED THE SHARK’!
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Stanley “Tookie” Williams Watch: Danny Glover – “I Think There is a Chance Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Grant Clemency”
Actor Danny Glover took to the stage in a packed San Francisco theater to urge celebrity governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to spare a condemned gang founder turned anti-gang advocate.
AFP has Actor Danny Glover urges Arnold Schwarzenegger to spare condemned inmate
Actor Danny Glover took to the stage in a packed San Francisco theater to urge celebrity governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger to spare a condemned gang founder turned anti-gang advocate.Schwarzenegger is the only person with the power to cancel the date convicted killer and Crips gang co-founder Stanley “Tookie” Williams has with San Quentin Prison’s death chamber on December 13.
Glover drew cheers and a standing ovation from the standing-room-only audience that showed up for an anti-execution fund-raising screening of the film “Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story.”
“I think there is a chance Arnold Schwarzenegger will grant clemency,” Glover told AFP. “He should grant Tookie Williams clemency; that will let Williams touch lives and change lives.”
Glover derided the death penalty as “immoral” and out of tune with most of the civilized nations in the world.
“The international community has a chance to make the United States look at itself in the mirror, sit down and abolish the death penalty,” Glover said while noting support for Williams has spread past US borders.
Schwarzenegger has granted Williams a private clemency hearing on December 8 and is to decide whether to use his muscle as governor to convert Williams’ sentence to life in prison with no chance of parole.
But, Mr. Glover, what about justice for Tookie’s four murdered victims?
The charges that put Williams on death row “weren’t proven beyond a shadow of doubt” and “it’s a trick” to blame Williams for the deeds of the notorious Crips gang he helped form in Los Angeles decades ago, Glover said.
“To blame Tookie Williams for The Crips is barking up the wrong tree,” Glover said. “It would be like blaming all white people for slavery.”
Are you kidding me?
The charges were proven and Tookie has had 24 years of legal appeals, including the California and United States Supreme Court.
Stanley Tookie Williams is a renown “Crips” gang leader and is responsible for many crimes.
Danny should stick to acting and investing his money in Planet Hollywood with Arnold before he makes pronouncements that are factually FALSE.
“Tookie’s example breathes life not only into gang members, former gang members, and wannabe gang members, it breathes life into us. He shows us we can be a value to society as well.”
Glover recounted Williams’ influence helping in truce talks he, now US secretary of state
Condoleezza Rice and others brokered with street gangs slightly more than a decade ago.African-American film maker Kevin Epps warned that hardship-shaped young people who relate to Williams will react if Williams is executed.
“They are on the street, and they are watching,” Epps said. “They will make a decision on how they are going to respond.”
“We have to save this brother’s life,” the young filmmaker said, pressing his open hands to his troubled face. “Because, if we save this brother, we are going to save a generation.”
If you save this brother (grant clemency) from the “BIG JAB” all you are saving is a savage murderer who shotgunned four innocent victims to death.
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Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Clemency Hearing to Include Claim there were Errors in Trial
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: NOT Afraid to Die
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: A Tookie Store for Conservatives is NOW Open
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Stars rally around Condemned Killer
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: California Supreme Court Refuses to Halt Execution
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: NO REMORSEStanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Tookie’s “Human Angelâ€
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Isn’t it The Truth By Cobb
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Schwarzenegger to Hold Private Clemency Hearing
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: California Governor Schwarzenegger MULLS ClemencyStanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: FLAP Over “Tookie Must Dieâ€
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Jesse Jackson, Bianca Jagger Plead for LIFE
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: SNOOP DOGG BEGS SCHWARZENEGGER FOR CLEMENCY
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: California’s Life-and-Death Politics
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Death Warrant Signed
Technorati Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stanley Tookie Williams, Crips
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