[Peace-discuss] Progressives for War: Obama Vindicated

Wed May 4 17:58:46 CDT 2011

Where's mention of this on CCTV? Nothing was said on their news program, which I listened in to just recently? If, indeed this was reliable news, it should have been mentioned on their program.

--mkb

On May 4, 2011, at 5:20 PM, E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森 wrote:

> 
> CCTV News interviewed "OBL's" next door neighbor in Pakistan.
> 
> He said there was no Osama bin Laden there, and the American soldiers captured
> the neighbor's son and he has no idea where his son is.
> 
> OBL hasnt been heard of since 2004.  By all credible accounts he has
> been dead for awhile.
> 
> In other news the US pleads with Hamas to forsake violence... 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2011-5-4 21:43, David Green wrote:
>> 
>> ----- Forwarded Message ----
>> From: Nick Burbules <burbules at gmail.com>
>> To: todays-news at googlegroups.com
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>> Subject: [PBD - Progressive Blog Digest] 5/04/2011 06:19:00 AM
>> 
>> SUCCESS HAS A THOUSAND PARENTS, FAILURE IS AN ORPHAN
>> 
>> Heavy ironies
>> 
>> http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/05/finishing_the_story.php
>> As most of you know, back during the 2008 election, then-candidate Barack Obama said that he would not hesitate to order an attack on Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan, with or without permission, if he had good intelligence to act on. He was pilloried first by Hillary Clinton and then much more aggressively by John McCain who used the statement as evidence of Obama's inexperience. . . .
>> 
>> More: http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/torture-apologists-have-rewrite-all-
>> 
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/obama-pakistan-policy_n_856321.html
>> 
>> The GOPers want the credit to go to Bush
>> 
>> http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/how-republicans-are-claiming-credit-for-the-death-of-osama-bin-laden.php
>> Bush's one-time Chief of Staff Andrew Card claimed his former boss "made sure that everything was in place so that President Obama could have an opportunity to -- to get Osama bin Laden, and it finally happened." . . . [read on]
>> 
>> More: http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/03/osama_reactions_guide
>> 
>> http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/republicans-rush-rewrite-history-bush-and-bin-laden
>> 
>> Condi Rice, still sucking up to her old boss
>> 
>> http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_05/029259.php
>> This morning on Fox & Friends, former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joined the chorus of conservatives heaping praise onto her former boss, suggesting that Bush's bullhorn speech at Ground Zero was "probably the most important moment maybe in American history." . . . [read on]
>> 
>> Eyes on Pakistan
>> 
>> http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/pakistan-under-harsh-scrutiny-in-wake-of-raid-on-bin-laden-compound.php
>> Intelligence officials have long suspected that Pakistan's weak and fractured government may be host to rogue elements either disinterested in catching -- or actively sympathetic to -- anti-Western terrorists. But the presence of Bin Laden's heavily fortified compound in a garrison town near Islamabad magnified concerns that Al Qaeda had help from the inside in concealing its leader's location. . . . [read on]
>> 
>> More: http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2011/05/how-important-is-pakistan/
>> 
>> http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/03/cia-chief-breaks-silence-u-s-ruled-out-involving-pakistan-in-bin-laden-raid-early-on/
>> CIA Chief Breaks Silence: Pakistan Would Have Jeopardized bin Laden Raid
>> 
>> Gruesome, but politically important question: Should the US release photos of the dead Bin Laden?
>> 
>> http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/05/curious_what_you_think.php
>> 
>> The birthers are gone -- now come the deathers
>> 
>> http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/birth-of-deathers.html
>> 
>> Obama’s popularity takes a big bounce, and oh do the Repubs want to change the subject!
>> 
>> http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/republicans-the-town-halls-were-about-gas-prices.php
>> House GOP: Great News On OBL -- Now How About Those Gas Prices?
>> 
>> Glenn Beck: “Kill Obama” (Of course it was a slip of the tongue, er, right? But why does it keep happening on Fox, and nowhere else?)
>> 
>> http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/yes-folks-glenn-beck-went-there
>> 
>> Everyone knows that Greta Van Susteren gives Sarah! the friendliest of interviews on Fox News. Now Sarah! returns the favor
>> 
>> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/03/972731/-Sarah-Palin-names-Greta-Van-Susteren-most-influential-journalist
>> 
>> Bonus item: What if they gave a Presidential debate, and nobody came?
>> 
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/you_call_that_a_debate/2011/05/03/AF2eCWhF_blog.html
>> 
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