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National: Women, Children Killed During a U.S. Raid; Palin is Smearing His Name, Obama Argues; Noted Black Chemist and Educator Dies
October 6th, 2008Women and children are killed during a U.S. raid. Eleven people – mostly women and children – were killed Sunday during a U.S. raid on a house in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul, The Associated Press reports. The deaths, which U.S. military officials blamed on al-Qaeda forces who used innocents as human shields, included five “terrorists,” three women and three children, AP reported. “This is just another tragic example of how al-Qaeda in Iraq hides behind innocent Iraqis,” U.S. military spokesman Rear Adm. Patrick Driscoll said. U.S. troops were blasted as they went into a house searching for a suspected insurgent, U.S. officials said in a statement. Once inside the home, the officials said, a man exploded his suicide vest, killing the 11 people, including a 7-year-old boy. No American lives were lost in the incident. But locals blamed the tragedy on U.S. troops disregard for Iraqi lives. “Most of the Mosul residents live in fear because of such raids conducted by U.S. forces, and even sometimes the Iraqi forces,” Thaier Ahmed, a 32-year-old teacher, told AP. “It is a horrible incident that has led to the killing of innocent people, including children.” Another Iraqi, 35-year-old Abu Tiba, told AP that “the blood of Iraqis is worth nothing to the U.S. Army.” The deaths could not have come at a worse time for the Bush administration, which has been pointing out that violence in Iraq is 80 percent lower than it was a year ago.
Palin is smearing his name, Obama argues. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah is merely trying to distract voters from the real issues confronting Americans by stating that he “pals around with terrorists,” Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Sunday. He called her comments “smears” and said that the economy and its effect on struggling workers are the issues that are paramount during this election season. But Palin wasn’t backing down. Throughout the weekend she repeated her charges, saying that Obama is buddies with Bill Ayers, a former member of the radical Weather Underground who acknowledged a role in several bombings, including one that killed a San Francisco policeman more than three decades ago. He and Obama have served on the same charity and live near each other in Chicago. Obama was 8 years old when Ayers was rabblerousing. “The comments are about an association that has been known but hasn’t been talked about,” Palin said in Long Beach, Calif. “I think it’s fair to talk about where Barack Obama kicked off his political career, in the guy’s living room.” Hours later, while speaking to an exuberant crowd in Omaha, Neb., Palin took it a step further. “In fact, Obama held one of his first meetings hoping to kick off his political career in Bill Ayers’ living room,” she said. Obama adviser David Axelrod described Palin’s claims about the Obama-Ayers association as exaggerated. And Obama, speaking at a rally in North Carolina said that McCain and his campaign “are gambling that he can distract you with smears rather than talk to you about substance.”
Noted Black chemist and educator dies. Dr. Joseph Gayles Jr., a noted chemist and mathematician who helped create the Morehouse School of Medicine, died of heart failure last week at his home in Atlanta. He was 71. “Dr. Gayles played a key role,” Dr. Louis Sullivan, the former U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Sullivan, a founding dean and president of Morehouse School of Medicine, said that Gayles was a “great team player and very intense and committed” to the plan to start the new medical school for minorities, according to the newspaper. Raised in Birmingham, Ala., Gayles earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry and mathematics from Dillard University in New Orleans. He then earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Brown University, the Journal-Constitution reports. Before going to Morehouse to teach, he worked at the IBM research lab for three years. Between 1977 and 1983, he served as president of Talladega College in Alabama. He returned to Morehouse School of Medicine, where he was the vice president of institutional development until 1996. He is survived by a daughter, Monica Dorsey of Fairburn; a son, Jonathan Gayles of Atlanta; and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Cascade United Methodist Church in Atlanta. Murray Brothers Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
She and her party are grasping for straws at this point,Does she recall that Bush himself was friends with Bin Laden??,the man who brought down the Worl Trade Ceter??,the worlds most wanted??……..She really has some nerve bringing up this Ayers person when Obama was only 8yrs old when Ayers was involved in all that!
dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
once again,,the repub are using fear to win,,,that is how bush go house to go to war,,on the same people that he has been friends with for year,,,Now once again,,,Trying to use fear because the are losing,,WE ARE NOT GOING TO LET THEM HAVE FOUR MORE YEARS,,,SO STOP WITH THE FEAR TACS,,,PALIN NEEDS TO GO HOME TO HER CHILDREN,,,HER SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD NEEDS HER,,,HOW ABOUT BEING A MOTHER TO HER AND THE OTHER TEENS THAT SHE HAS ,THAT SHE CANT CONTROL,,SO HOW CAN SHE HELP RUN THE COUNTRY???
“David”, how could there be any truth in what Palin is saying about Ayers and Obama when he was only 8 YEARS OLD when Ayers was involved in all of that stuff! How is speaking the truth, playing it off? If you don’t like Obama, that’s fine, but at least agree that Palin is going to far saying that Obama “pals around with terrorists” in association with Ayers. Let’s just be fair here.
David u are 1 stupid ass muthafucker! If it was me and someone was smearing my name with false info then i would respond back and take up for myself too! I bet u that if he hadn’t responded back you would probably be saying, “Obama likes to play anything off that is said about him that there is truth to or he wouldve released a statement about it”. So let me guess… u must be voting for McCain? or better yet u probably NOT even registered to vote! Grow up, Get informed, and GET THE REAL FACTS!
Palin is an idiot sorry but this mindless woman was never heard of ever and now she thinks she can comment on the past of other yet has an issue once hers is surfaced this woman is a joke and I’m praying every nite that these republicans dont win there not honorable, trustworthy, or even considerate these two (McCain & Palin) don’t deserve to b anywhere near the white house
Mitch,
Don’t waste your breath takling to david because he’s a dumb, ignorant, racist #$*%* just like McCain and Palin. He NEVER have anything positive to say about OBAMA, always bashing him, and will NEVER give him credit when it’s due.
I’t’s NOT even worth the reading of Palin’s non-sense anymore. The republican’s are full of so much CORRUPTION, LIES, CHEATERS, AND ENVYNESS that they are programmed to lie, and slander his good name. Nonsense like this, is what they live for to do instead of their job, fixing the real problems in this fuc….. up economy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How DARE PALIN even go there, WHEN OUR SO CALLED PRSEDENT AND HIS FATHER IS FRIENDS WITH BIN LADEN; THEIR MONEY IS TIED ALL UP INTO ONE. PALIN is pulling out anything she can; to try and catch up with OBAMA, but she WON’T he will always be on top: Her ignorance and cluelessness has already made her look like an as…….. and the TRUE person that she really stands for: A RACIST DUMB WHITE WOMEN:
OBAMA 08:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To eliminate any further questions or doubts, everyone should do research before they start making accusations. There are so many places on the web (non-partisan) to “check the facts”. Start with CNN, and go from there. Both sides are doing the “slight of hand trick” with partial truths, but to find out the true facts, check before you speak!
Trevor,
You are right, for the record David is always on our site bashing ANY intelligent black person that’s doing something constuctive . He’ s a white racsist jack ass who hates on anyone with knowledge and knows more than he does and his clueless idols: Mccain and Palin: He’s a fuck…..joke just like they are:
So david, We are in control now, get use to it buddy, The only thing MCcain is going to win is: that special spot at the old folks home and Palin is going to win: that special spot at the hair and nail salon:
Leave the real work to the real man OBAMA; OUR NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
OBAMA 08:HELP IS ON THE WAY:
First of all the economy has fallen very short ! David is a bored guy who obviously doesn’t have a life! It’s time for a change. I work very hard day in and out.(legally) We need someone in office that’s just not concerned about there issues and that their children may already b alright. I am not one looking for handouts and I’m not raising my child(while single-parent) to either. God knows what’s best for our trying times, if we could put our mind on FAITH we won’t worry the nonsense they think is accurate. GOD BLESS US ALLalong with that an extended pray to those who just don’t understand the world needs help and NO! to MCCAIN &WHO IS SHE?…..
I have officially lost all respect for Gov. Palin.
What a hater. I mean seriously, the GOP is desperate and now they’ve got their little token bimbo spreading lies Barack rolling with terrorists.
I hope she never resurfaces in politics once OBAMA and BIDEN crush the republicans on November 4th.
OBAMA 08
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She’s really one to talk when her husband spent seven years as part of a group that wants Alaska to secede from the U.S. and whose founder made anti-American statements that make Rev. Wright seem timid by comparison.