Keith doing comment on "Sacrifice"

[Zemo]

Coming up in a few minutes.
See it on MSNBC before it's posted on Youtube.
Keith is commenting on Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq.

[Zemo]

If in your presence an individual tried to sacrifice an American serviceman or woman, would you intervene?

Would you at least protest?

What if he had already sacrificed 3,003 of them?

What if he had already sacrificed 3,003 of them — and was then to announce his intention to sacrifice hundreds, maybe thousands, more?

[Only registered and activated users can see links]


This is where we stand tonight with the BBC report of President Bush’s “new Iraq strategy,” and his impending speech to the nation, which, according to a quoted senior American official, will be about troop increases and “sacrifice.”

The president has delayed, dawdled and deferred for the month since the release of the Iraq Study Group.

He has seemingly heard out everybody, and listened to none of them.

If the BBC is right — and we can only pray it is not — he has settled on the only solution all the true experts agree cannot possibly work: more American personnel in Iraq, not as trainers for Iraqi troops, but as part of some flabby plan for “sacrifice.”

Sacrifice!

More American servicemen and women will have their lives risked.

More American servicemen and women will have their lives ended.

More American families will have to bear the unbearable and rationalize the unforgivable —“sacrifice” — sacrifice now, sacrifice tomorrow, sacrifice forever.

And more Americans — more even than the two-thirds who already believe we need fewer troops in Iraq, not more — will have to conclude the president does not have any idea what he’s doing — and that other Americans will have to die for that reason.

[Zemo]

The BBC story Keith mentioned.

[Only registered and activated users can see links]


US President George W Bush intends to reveal a new Iraq strategy within days, the BBC has learnt.

The speech will reveal a plan to send more US troops to Iraq to focus on ways of bringing greater security, rather than training Iraqi forces.

The move comes with figures from Iraqi ministries suggesting that deaths among civilians are at record highs.

The US president arrived back in Washington on Monday after a week-long holiday at his ranch in Texas.

The BBC was told by a senior administration source that the speech setting out changes in Mr Bush's Iraq policy is likely to come in the middle of next week.

Its central theme will be sacrifice.


Mike Malloy is a big Olberman fan and might cover this tonight.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

O-M-G.

This one tops 'em all you guys, IMO. Be watching for the link on C&L. It's worth it.

What a relief to hear this after at least two weeks of "Jingle Bells".

Welcome back Mr. Olbermann.

[TOhioLiberal]

YouTube links:
Part 1
[Only registered and activated users can see links]

Part 2
[Only registered and activated users can see links]

[teech]

WOW!!!! keith is my hero!!!

a true american patriot--glad he used his talent for something besides espn

[Radio_Guy]

I love Keith for what he says. Sometimes I think he'd do more good by running for office. Doesn't he still live in Connecticut? I'd love to see him be the next Democrat nominee and beat Lieberman.

[101Scout]

I really miss Kieth.... as I refuse to pay into the higher rates on sat tv. I sure wished he'd get himself a national radio show. Think of how many more millions of ppl he'd reach via radio!

[The_Bammo]

I really miss Kieth.... as I refuse to pay into the higher rates on sat tv. I sure wished he'd get himself a national radio show. Think of how many more millions of ppl he'd reach via radio!

I hear ya' Bro', Keith O tells it like he see's it--without a doubt!

Tell you what Bro', will give ya' a low interest loan so you can listen to Keith! LOL


All seriousness, very good video on "Sacrifice" by Keith O !

This is all I have to check out for sacrifice for lies and greed by the NeoCon nation -


[Only registered and activated users can see links]

US wounded in Iraq try to live with new disabilities


Alderman, 22, is one of thousands of US soldiers treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for serious wounds sustained in Iraq.

By Virginie Montet – WASHINGTON
Daniel Alderman keeps telling himself it could be worse as he learns to live with his new artificial limb at the hospital in Washington that tends to maimed US soldiers from Iraq.

"It could always be worse, you could be in Arlington, you know what I mean?" he tells a visitor, referring to the national cemetery outside the US capital.

Alderman, 22, whose wife is expecting a baby girl, is one of thousands of soldiers treated at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center near Washington for serious wounds sustained in Iraq.

Last month, he lost his left leg when an improvised explosive device blew up under his vehicle as he was patrolling in the Iraqi northern city of Kirkuk just three months into his deployment in the country. He was flown to Walter Reed on November 7 and has since been learning to adjust to his new artificial leg.

On the third floor of the hospital, where physical therapists and specialists work with the amputees, a big poster greets the soldiers with words of encouragement.

"Share your story, never give up," "Fight for it, Take one day at a time", "Set goals, stay positive," the poster says.

Since the start of the Iraq war in March 2003, Walter Reed has treated 5,437 soldiers from "Operation Iraqi Freedom". Other soldiers are treated at the Brooke Army Medical Center in the southern state of Texas.

Soldiers amputated below the knees remain at Walter Reed an average six to eight months. Those amputated from above stay for more than a year.

Luis Puertes, a 20 year-old from New York was in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad when a bomb tore off both his legs just above the knees. His face is drawn as he tries out his new titanium prostheses.

"You've got to get used to it," he grimaces as he walks down the corridor.

Electronic chips inserted at the knee level help his artificial legs to walk without losing his balance, which happens often to Puertes.

His face lights up when the orthopedist comes up with a solution -- inserts for the heels of his shoes.

The artificial limbs for the soldiers are assembled at the Walter Reed hospital, in a special room filled with legs, hands and hooks. In an adjoining therapy room, patients learn how to use their artificial limbs such as picking up a small object with a metal hook.

Corey Smith, 19, a native from the midwestern state of Michigan, was injured on September 11 while stationed in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold 70 miles west of Baghdad.

"I'm not leaving until I can do all I could do before," he says determinedly while learning to use her new leg.

Doctors at Walter Reed speak fondly of Bryan Anderson, an Illinois veteran who just recently left Walter Reed.
Anderson, 25, who lost both legs and one arm in a roadside explosion in Iraq, has made the cover of Esquire magazine, clad in shorts.
[Only registered and activated users can see links]

[USA#1]

Way to go Olbermann !!!