The stark emptiness of the Zionist-controlled War Dailies saddens and sickens me.
The death toll in Iraq yesterday, as brought to you by the New York Times and Boston Globe:
Yup, nothing like surge success when you filter the reports.
Anywho, here's the shit they do shovel your way this Christmas Eve.
"U.S. Officials See Waste in Billions Sent to Pakistan" by DAVID ROHDE, CARLOTTA GALL, ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — More than $5 billion has been diverted to help finance weapons systems designed to counter India, not Al Qaeda or the Taliban, the officials said, adding that the United States has paid tens of millions of dollars in inflated Pakistani reimbursement claims for fuel, ammunition and other costs.
Nice to know that we are paying for Pakistan's military budget and arming them, while vets starve and are homeless, health care is denied, foreclosures and freezings are on the rise, and on and on from this bastard criminal government that is nothing but a wasteful, bloodthirsty War Machine!
Yeah, but murderous wars can be funded without end.
Under the Coalition Support Funds, Pakistani military officials submit bills and are paid for supplies, wear and tear on equipment and other costs, as well as for the American use of three Pakistani air bases, according to American officials.
I'm tired of the neglect of the American people.
Yeah, and how is that war front going.
"Blast Kills 9 in Pakistan"
MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) — A suicide bomber killed four Pakistani soldiers and five civilians on Sunday in an attack on a military convoy in northwestern Pakistan, the police said. The Pakistani military said it counted six dead. Sunday’s attack was in the Swat Valley.
A senior police officer said a suicide bomber used a car in the attack near Mingora, the valley’s main town, killing four soldiers and five civilians. A military spokesman, Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad, said five civilians and one soldier had been killed.
Same old, same old recyclable propaganda.
Whatever.
Oh, and this is what the War Dailies gave mo on Iraq:
"Turkey Bombs Kurdish Rebels in Iraq for 2nd Day, Kurds Say" by STEPHEN FARRELL
BAGHDAD — Turkish jets bombed separatist Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq for the second day in a row, Kurdish security officials said Sunday, although there was no immediate confirmation from the Turkish military.
Jabbar Yawer, the deputy minister for the Kurdistan Regional Government’s security forces, said that the aircraft hit a remote border region 50 miles north of Erbil but that there were no civilian casualties because the area was deserted. The Turkish military had not issued a statement confirming an operation by Sunday night.
Shortly before Sunday’s attack, Massoud Barzani, the political leader of Iraqi Kurdistan, visited refugees who had fled border areas after the Turkish bombing on Saturday and condemned the airstrikes as “unacceptable.”
Barzani, according to the Kurdistan TV channel, told the families:
“Their goal is not only the P.K.K. but the whole idea of an autonomous Kurdish region. This problem is not solved militarily and we are prepared for all peaceful solutions.”
Yeah, but the genocidal Turks don't see it that way.
And besides, after the U.S. stabbed the Kurds in the back on the intelligence and airstrikes, I can now see why the Kurds don't trust anyone!
It has proved difficult to verify the conflicting claims because the Kurdish government does not allow access to the remote areas, which have been sealed off by pesh merga security forces. After previous campaigns, the P.K.K. has buried its fighters in dedicated cemeteries in the Qandil Mountains, which are now inaccessible to the public.
In one such cemetery, Martyr Haroun, each grave is surrounded by fir trees, flowers and neatly cut grass and bears a headstone inscribed in Kurdish with the dead fighter’s name, date and place of death and whether he died fighting the Turks, or the mainstream Kurdish parties during earlier periods of internal Kurdish strife."
Well, I don't like violence or killing of any kind, but maybe the Kurds have a point on the self-resistance.
All over acceptance of language and culture.
Oh, yeah, and the biggest issue -- LAND!!!!
At it again, 'eh, LAND-STEALERS?
"Israel Rejects Hamas Overture, and Presses Housing Construction" by ISABEL KERSHNER
Sort of wonder why this is "news," but...
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel on Sunday rejected overtures by Hamas, the militant Islamic group that rules Gaza, for discussions about a temporary cease-fire.
At the same time, Mr. Olmert’s government raised the ire of Palestinian representatives from the West Bank, with whom Israel is embarking on negotiations for a permanent peace, by seeking budget approval to build more housing for Jewish residents in areas that the Palestinians claim for their future state.
I mean, it's the same old bullshit from the NaZionist murderers!
Israeli officials said a Housing and Construction Ministry budget proposal for 2008 included plans to build 500 apartments in Har Homa, a Jewish development in a hotly disputed part of East Jerusalem, and 240 apartments in Maale Adumim, the largest Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank with a population of more than 30,000.
Israeli officials tried to play down the significance of the request. Mark Regev, a spokesman for Mr. Olmert, said that the budget still had to be approved by Parliament, and that “there have been no new decisions authorizing building in Maale Adumim.” It was unclear whether the budget request was for new projects that had not yet been approved or for units already approved but not yet built.
Either way, the action is likely to cast a pall over a meeting of the Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams set for Monday, the second since last month’s American-sponsored peace conference in Annapolis, Md.
The chief of the Palestinian negotiating team, Ahmed Qurei, issued a statement saying the Annapolis meeting and the ensuing negotiations toward an accord would have “no meaning” if Israel continued its settlement activities. He added that the Palestinians would raise the issue with President Bush during his visit to the region in January.
Referring to the Gaza issue, Mr. Olmert said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting that “counterterrorist operations will continue as they have for months” in response to the continued rocket fire directed at Israel from the Gaza Strip.
At least five rockets were launched from Gaza on Sunday, an Israeli Army spokesman said. One hit a factory in the industrial zone of Ashkelon, a large city in southern Israel. Another hit a building in the Israeli border town of Sderot. Both caused damage but no casualties.
Before dawn on Monday, an Israeli airstrike killed two Hamas militants and wounded another two in the Gaza Strip as they were traveling in a car near the border fence with Israel, Reuters reported.
Ismail Haniya, the leader of the Hamas government in Gaza, had expressed a willingness, in a telephone call to an Israeli television reporter last week, to enter into talks with Israel for a mutual cease-fire. But Mr. Olmert said that Israel had “no interest in negotiating with elements” that did not fulfill the internationally approved conditions of recognizing Israel and renouncing violence.
Yup, and all the U.N. resolutions these stinkfuck shitters have ignored!
So tired of the damn lying of arrogant NazIonist shitters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Olmert also seemed to oppose any lull in the fighting based on an informal understanding, describing the hostilities in Gaza as “a true war” between the Israeli military and “terrorist elements.”
Defense Minister Ehud Barak also ruled out talks with Hamas, but suggested that if Hamas successfully stopped the rocket fire, Israel might reciprocate.
Mr. Barak, quoted by the Israeli news media as telling the cabinet:
“If they stop firing, we won’t be opposed to quiet.”
Ismail Radwan, a Hamas spokesman:
“The Palestinian people have a right to continue resistance.”
Besides, Israel can't go a week without murdering some Arabs, period!
Khaled al-Batch, a high-ranking official of Islamic Jihad, a militant group that has been firing most of the rockets lately, said his group would be willing to talk about a period of calm only after Israel had “paid for its war crimes” in blood.
Last week, the Israeli military killed at least eight Islamic Jihad militants, including a top commander of the armed wing. The Israeli security cabinet on Sunday allocated just over $200 million for the development of an antimissile system capable of knocking out short-range rockets like those fired from Gaza and, eventually, longer-range rockets like Katyushas. Thousands of Katyushas were fired at Israel from Lebanon during the 2006 summer war.
Olmert has pledged not to build new settlements or to expropriate additional land. But Israel has always reserved the right to build in major settlement blocs like Maale Adumim, which it intends to keep as part of any permanent deal with the Palestinians, and Israel contends that Jerusalem has a separate status.
Har Homa, known to the Palestinians as Jebel Abu Ghneim, was established in the late 1990s in an area of Jerusalem annexed by Israel after the 1967 war.
Days before the first meeting of the negotiating teams in December, the Israeli government put out a request for bids for the construction of 307 apartments in Har Homa. In an unusually forthright condemnation, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the construction would “not help build confidence” for peace talks."
Pffffft!
Hollow criticism that was just a bunch of HOT FART MIST!
