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Associate Press leftist-in-residence Helen Thomas decided that today was the day she would question White House Spokesman Scott McClellan on the country's invitation in Afghanistan and Iraq and attempted to impune his credibility.
Here is a partial transcript.
Q The other day -- in fact, this week, you said that we, the United States, is in Afghanistan and Iraq by invitation. Would you like to correct that incredible distortion of American history --
MR. McCLELLAN: No, we are -- that's where we currently --
Q -- in view of your credibility is already mired? How can you say that?
MR. McCLELLAN: Helen, I think everyone in this room knows that you're taking that comment out of context. There are two democratically-elected governments in Iraq and --
Q We're we invited into Iraq?
MR. McCLELLAN: There are two democratically-elected governments now in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we are there at their invitation. They are sovereign governments, and we are there today --
Q You mean if they had asked us out, that we would have left?
MR. McCLELLAN: No, Helen, I'm talking about today. We are there at their invitation. They are sovereign governments --
Q I'm talking about today, too.
MR. McCLELLAN: -- and we are doing all we can to train and equip their security forces so that they can provide for their own security as they move forward on a free and democratic future.
Q Did we invade those countries?
At that point McCellan moved on to rational members of the White House Press Corps.
When will the Associated Press decide that Thomas' ability to function is, at best, long past it prime? When will the AP decide to have a rational thinking person in the White House? When will the AP force Thomas to retire? The answer to those questions is "never."
Complete transcript.
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The prominent left-leaning human rights organization Amnesty International has released it annual report.
In the 300 plus page document it singled out the Unites States as one of the "most damaging assaults on global values."
It called the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay Cuba "the gulag of our time" and called for the base to be closed.
Amnesty Secretary General Irene Khan complained that despite the outrage generated by the Abu Ghraib scandal and allegations of abuses at other American facilities, neither the U.S. administration nor the Congress has called for a full and independent investigation.
WorldNetDaily: Amnesty International calls Guantanamo 'gulag'
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Although he failed to win the presidency because he was not always straight with the press or the public, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) continues to dodge questions about his Naval record.
Kerry told the Boston globe editorial board that he has signed Standard Form 180 and will send it to the Navy in a few days.
''I have signed it," Kerry said, according to Globe columnist Joan Vennochi, who noted the senator added that his staff was ''still going through it" and ''very, very shortly, you will have a chance to see it."
It? Does that mean the Form 180 or your records Senator. Even Kerry Communications Director David Wade could not clarify when the senator signed the form and when the records will be made public.
So, it is still a question of when he signed it and when he will (if ever) send it to the Navy. The bigger question will be when the Kerry campaign (yes, he is still campaigning) will release any portion of his Navy records to the public. My guess after he loses the Democratic nomination in 2008.
Kerry's military record became part of the campaign when several veterans questioned his ability to lead and his Vietnam War record and medals he received. During the campaign Kerry would not comment in detail on the record and his staff threatened lawsuits against television stations that ran anti-Kerry ads about his service.
The campaign also asserted that "all" of Kerry's records were on the campaign website. Several mainstream news organizations reported that there were more than 100 pages missing from his record that could only be retrieved after Kerry signed Standard Form 180.
Since the election, Kerry has dodged the question of his military record and Form 180. In January he told Meet the Press host Tim Russert that he would sign the form. It took 111 days for him to sign the form. Bloggers are now starting a new count to see how many days it will take for the form to reach the Navy and for the records to become public. Like I said, not until he loses the 2008 nomination.
WorldNetDaily: Kerry signs release of Navy records
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