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I should think the White House might want to contact this man. Probably won’t happen but I post the first part here for your reading.

My fellow Americans,

I hope you won’t mind if I ask for a few minutes of your evening to discuss with you a matter of national importance.

Earlier this week, the emergency spending bill was sent up from Congress for my approval. After carefully reviewing the bill, discussing it with senior military and administration leaders, and exploring alternatives, I am officially announcing that I will to veto this bill tomorrow morning.

Now, I have only vetoed a single bill that has made it to my desk since I took office in 2001. And I don’t veto this one lightly. Congressional Representatives and Senators are elected to their offices by the people of the United States, and the people of the United States are the ones who ultimately run the American government.

But this bill, originally written to fund the efforts of our military overseas and at home in the War on Terror, includes a requirement for a deadline to withdraw American forces from Iraq. And that requirement is simply unacceptable.

Withdrawal from Iraq before that nation is fully prepared to provide for its own security and stability, particularly a requirement to withdraw by an artificial deadline sometime next year, would be devastating for our troops, for our military, and for our nation.

Many commentators and pundits are fond of comparing the situation in Iraq to the war in Vietnam. While some of these comparisons are valid, many of them simply do not hold water. But if playing Vietnam games is what gets everyone’s attention, I’ve got a Vietnam analogy for you: In the decade following our withdrawal from Vietnam in the early 1970s, over ONE MILLION civilians were killed by Communist forces in the region. Some of these killings were retaliation for choosing to stand with America during the war. Some of these killings were politically motivated. But many of the murders were committed simply because killing is how the enemy we fought in Vietnam interacts with the rest of the world; death and destruction are the language they use to communicate with those who do not convert to their cause.

THAT is what will happen in Iraq if we allow the extremists and the terrorists free reign. Perhaps a million dead, or more, because America decided that it was just taking too long.

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Not really a surprise but just another blogger being kept from the China continent. You wonder why the terrorists don’t touch China? Hmmmmm…. perhaps they can’t get past the firewall.

I am, my dear Atlasites,  banned in China. Surprised? Me neither. I am everything the chicoms wish to destroy, muzzle, snuff out. I have exposed China here too many times to recount. They are monstrous aggressors against their own people.  I am sure we can thank google  for China’s stealth censorship.

Their malevolence is in every action whether domestically when harvesting the organs of long  oppressed members of the Falun Gong, or regionally when $upporting the murderous Islamic regime of Sudan or internationally, “actively pursuing an “Assassin’s Mace” (shashoujian) space warfare program--the elusive term refers to an astonishing array of futuristic technologies–while advocating arms control accords aimed at preventing the United States from developing and deploying defensive and offensive space-based weapons.” (more on Assasin’s mace over at China Confidential here.)

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I really wish I could have thought of a shorter title. But what else could I say. Strickland is a bully when it comes to educational choice. Strickland’s idea of educational choice reminds me of the early Ford cars… you can have any color you want as long as it’s black. From Right Angle Blog.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gov. Ted Strickland on Saturday signed the state’s two-year, $7.8 billion transportation budget but vetoed a provision on charter school busing that traditional public schools said would make them lose too much money.

The transportation budget also imposes tougher regulations on school bus drivers over objections by the state’s largest school employees union.

It’s the first piece of legislation Strickland has agreed to sign since the Democrat took office in January. The bill, which provides funding for highway and road projects for the next two years beginning in July, unanimously passed the Republican-controlled Legislature on Wednesday.

Strickland, who has the power to cut certain provisions in spending bills without vetoing entire measures, took out the provision that allows charter schools to create their own transportation systems.

Charter schools are privately run schools that receive public money.

State law now requires that charters use the transportation system of the traditional school district in which they’re located, unless they can get an agreement to opt out. Just like the public money that follows the students, the state transportation dollars would then follow them to the charters.

Is Publican Education now the new AMTRAK? So parents…. we want to make the choice painfully clear to you… public education needs your money and we want you to make the right choice for your children…. whether you like it or not.

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