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 | | From: | sordo ™ | | Subject: | Boxer Fudged Calif. War Casualties | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:53:22 GMT |
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 | Sunday, Jan. 23, 2005 11:55 a.m. EST
Boxer Fudged Calif. War Casualties
After accusing Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice of
trafficking in "falsehoods" during hearings last week before the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Barbara Boxer is the new hero
of the Howard Dean-Michael Moore wing of the Democratic Party.
However, it appears that Boxer may have indulged in a few falsehoods
of her own while questioning Dr. Rice.
To justify her tough grilling, the Golden State Democrat repeatedly
invoked war casualties from her home state, saying they amounted to 25
percent of the 1,400 GIs killed in the fighting.
But after checking with the Web site Casualties.org,
OpinionJournal.com says that's not true. "The number of California
servicemen who've died is 157, which is about 11.5% of the total, less
than half the proportion Boxer claimed," they noted.
The Marin County demagogue also had her facts wrong when she claimed
that her fellow senators voted to authorize the Iraq War based solely
on Bush administration claims about weapons of mass destruction.
In fact, the Senate's Iraq War resolution also cited Saddam's "brutal
repression of its civilian population thereby threatening
international peace and security in the region" and its refusal "to
release, repatriate, or account for non-Iraqi citizens wrongfully
detained by Iraq, including an American serviceman, and by failing to
return property wrongfully seized by Iraq from Kuwait."
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| | From: | Capitalist Pig | | Subject: | Re: Boxer Fudged Calif. War Casualties | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:07:22 -0800 |
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| Ahhh the weeping and gnashing of the teeth of the vanquished left. One is
reminded of the screeching of a thousand rusty wheels of a long slow moving
freight train, its rattling empty box cars, their doors ajar, make an
occasional boom, but it is destined to fade into a long dark tunnel that
leads to nowhere. The flashing red signal light abruptly stops; the clanging
signal of the grade crossing falls silent. I start the car, put in gear and
move forward.
Capitalist Pig
"sordo T " wrote in message
news:0ce8v059vsje6rqhgkorf16dvsdq7dt0j1@4ax.com...
> Sunday, Jan. 23, 2005 11:55 a.m. EST
>
> Boxer Fudged Calif. War Casualties
>
> After accusing Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice of
> trafficking in "falsehoods" during hearings last week before the
> Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Barbara Boxer is the new hero
> of the Howard Dean-Michael Moore wing of the Democratic Party.
>
> However, it appears that Boxer may have indulged in a few falsehoods
> of her own while questioning Dr. Rice.
>
> To justify her tough grilling, the Golden State Democrat repeatedly
> invoked war casualties from her home state, saying they amounted to 25
> percent of the 1,400 GIs killed in the fighting.
>
> But after checking with the Web site Casualties.org,
> OpinionJournal.com says that's not true. "The number of California
> servicemen who've died is 157, which is about 11.5% of the total, less
> than half the proportion Boxer claimed," they noted.
>
> The Marin County demagogue also had her facts wrong when she claimed
> that her fellow senators voted to authorize the Iraq War based solely
> on Bush administration claims about weapons of mass destruction.
>
> In fact, the Senate's Iraq War resolution also cited Saddam's "brutal
> repression of its civilian population thereby threatening
> international peace and security in the region" and its refusal "to
> release, repatriate, or account for non-Iraqi citizens wrongfully
> detained by Iraq, including an American serviceman, and by failing to
> return property wrongfully seized by Iraq from Kuwait."
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| | From: | GLC1173 | | Subject: | Re: Boxer Fudged Calif. War Casualties | | Date: | 24 Jan 2005 01:14:56 GMT |
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| Sordo quoted some news article:
>However, it appears that Boxer may have >indulged in a few falsehoods
>of her own while questioning Dr. Rice.
>To justify her tough grilling, the Golden >State Democrat repeatedly
>invoked war casualties from her home >state, saying they amounted to 25
>percent of the 1,400 GIs killed in the >fighting.
>But after checking with the Web site >Casualties.org, OpinionJournal.com says
>that's not true. "The number of California
>servicemen who've died is 157, which is >about 11.5% of the total, less
>than half the proportion Boxer claimed,"
Boxer is a chronic liar - and chronic committer of felonies. As for Iraq,
even lefty National Public Radio says Red Nation kids die there at double the
rate of either ghetto or suburban kids. And then there's her href="http://www.alamanceind.com/newfol~2/nation_45.html">crimes while in
Congress.
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