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Myths and falsehoods about progress in Iraq
Research ››› ››› RAPHAEL SCHWEBER-KOREN & ROB DIETZ
Supporters of the Iraq war -- rather than waiting for testimony by Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker on the effect of President Bush's troop increase in Iraq -- have engaged in a campaign to convince the media and public that progress is being made in Iraq and that the "surge" is "working." Media Matters has compiled some of the most pervasive myths and falsehoods advanced by opponents of withdrawal in service of the "surge is working" message, which many in the media have been complicit in perpetuating.
The week of September 10, Gen. David Petraeus, commander of Multi-National Force-Iraq, and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker are expected to testify before Congress on the effect of President Bush's troop increase in Iraq, to be followed by a written report submitted by the White House. Bush announced on January 10 that he was sending "more than 20,000 additional American troops to Iraq." Since then, the Bush administration and the congressional Republican leadership have thwarted efforts by Democrats and other proponents of legislating a timeline for withdrawal to enact legislation to begin withdrawing U.S. troops, arguing that no action should be taken until Congress hears from Petraeus and Crocker.
But supporters of the war have not simply bided their time awaiting Petraeus' and Crocker's appearances before Congress. Rather, they have engaged in a campaign starting midsummer to convince the media and public that progress is being made in Iraq. President Bush, members of the administration, Republicans, and other advocates of the president's escalation policy have been laying the groundwork for the case that the "surge" is "working" and it is premature to commence withdrawal. Many in the media have been complicit in the administration's PR offensive: ignoring that a crucial criterion for the success of the administration's strategy -- political progress in Iraq -- has in the assessment of people inside and outside the administration not occurred; repeating administration claims of military progress while ignoring evidence to the contrary; repeating distortions of comments by Democrats to claim that they acknowledge the surge is working; characterizing proponents of a withdrawal timeline as calling for a "precipitous" withdrawal; and uncritically repeating the widely dismissed claim by Bush and administration supporters that the terrorists will follow us home if the U.S. withdraws from Iraq.
Some of the most pervasive myths and falsehoods that many in the media have been complicit in perpetuating are set out below:
Myth: "The surge is working"
In recent weeks, the media have essentially allowed advocates of the president's "surge" policy to redefine the criteria on which the strategy's success would be evaluated, ignoring the Bush administration's own acknowledgment of the importance of national political progress to the overall success of its strategy. Bush specifically cited the need for political progress back in January, and the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 2007 passed in May provides the benchmarks with which progress is to be measured.
On the August 20 edition of Fox News' Special Report, host Brit Hume said that "evidence mounts that the troop surge is working as planned." An August 16 editorial in Investor's Business Daily was headlined, "A Surge of Success." And on the August 21 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, U.S. News & World Report editor-in-chief Mortimer B. Zuckerman asserted: "[T]he fact is that, by far, the consensus is that the surge is working." However, by the administration's own standards, the national political reconciliation that the Bush administration identified as essential for the success of its escalation strategy has not occurred.
As Media Matters has noted, when announcing his so-called surge strategy in January, Bush specifically stated that success had to be measured in terms of military progress and political progress by the Iraqi government on the benchmarks established by the United States. Bush declared that "[a] successful strategy for Iraq goes beyond military operations" and will include a political component: "hold[ing] the Iraqi government to the benchmarks [America] has announced." Furthermore, when appearing on the August 5 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told host Tim Russert that "a successful outcome in Iraq requires political reconciliation. There's no question about that," and that "[a]t some point there has to be reconciliation at the national level." On the February 25 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice argued, "The president's been clear with [the Iraqi leaders] that these political reconciliation measures are at the core of success for Iraq." Navy Adm. Michael Mullen, while testifying before a July 31 hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on his nomination to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated, "I still maintain that if we aren't making progress in [the Iraqi political] realm the prospects for movement in a positive direction are not very good."
However, on August 21, Crocker said reconciliation is not occurring. As an August 21 McClatchy Newspapers article reported, Crocker said: "The progress on the national level issues has been extremely disappointing and frustrating to all concerned -- to us, to Iraqis, to the Iraqi leadership itself." During his August 5 appearance on Meet the Press, Gates said the political aspect is "a disappointing picture for the central government right now, but there are some positive things happening at the local level." After returning from a trip to Iraq in mid-August, Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) noted that "[t]he purpose of the surge, by its own terms, was to have the -- give the opportunity to the Iraqi leaders to reach some political settlements. They have failed to do that. They have totally and utterly failed." In addition, the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated that national political reconciliation has not occurred. The NIE, portions of which were released on August 23, stated that "to date, Iraqi political leaders remain unable to govern effectively" and concluded that "the Iraqi Government will become more precarious over the next six to 12 months." According to the NIE: "Broadly accepted political compromises required for sustained security, long-term political progress, and economic development are unlikely to emerge unless there is a fundamental shift in the factors driving Iraqi political and security developments."
Further, a report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on September 4 found that the national Iraqi government was making little political progress. The GAO concluded that the Iraqi government had met only one of eight legislative benchmarks and partially met one other. GAO noted that six of the legislative benchmarks had not been met: "a review committee has not completed work on important revisions to Iraq's constitution" and "the government has not enacted legislation on de-Ba'athification, oil revenue sharing, provincial elections, amnesty, or militia disarmament."
- O'Hanlon and Pollack -- critics of administration handling of the war -- agree the surge is working
On July 30, Brookings Institution scholars Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack published an op-ed in The New York Times in which they described themselves as "analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration's miserable handling of Iraq" and argued that "significant changes were taking place," which justified continuing the Bush administration's surge strategy "at least into 2008." The op-ed received widespread media attention, and supporters of the administration's policy in Iraq touted the op-ed, saying that Pollack's and O'Hanlon's findings of progress were particularly credible, given their purported criticism of the war. Indeed, the weblog Think Progress noted that O'Hanlon and Pollack "appeared on at least nine major mainstream media outlets in" the 24 hours after their op-ed appeared.
In fact, O'Hanlon and Pollack are not "critics of the war"; as Media Matters has noted, both O'Hanlon and Pollack were influential proponents of the Iraq war before the invasion. Pollack wrote a book in 2002 titled The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq (Random House). Furthermore, O'Hanlon publicly supported the surge policy and wrote a January 2007 column in support of President Bush's troop escalation, claiming that it was "the right thing to try." Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald documented the litany of O'Hanlon and Pollack's support for the Iraq war, including the fact that O'Hanlon was one of the signatories to the Project for New American Century's Iraq policy letter issued in 2003, and had, as recently as February 2007, written a Wall Street Journal op-ed arguing that Democrats were wrong to oppose the war and that the surge should continue.
Media reports routinely failed to mention Pollack and O'Hanlon's support for the invasion:
- On the August 20 edition of Fox News' Special Report, national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reported that Sens. Carl Levin (D-MI) and John Warner (R-VA), after returning from Iraq, were "sounding a bit like Brookings Institution war critics Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack, who changed their views after seeing some of the military successes first hand."
- On the July 31 edition of CNN's Larry King Live, host Larry King failed to challenge Vice President Dick Cheney, who described O'Hanlon and Pollack as "strong critics of the war."
- In a June 30 post on The New Yorker's website, George Packer wrote that "'Hanlon and Pollack have long been critics of the war."
On Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace described O'Hanlon and Pollack as "two critics of the way the Bush administration has conducted the war." On the CBS Evening News, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin falsely described O'Hanlon as "a critic" of the Iraq war "who used to think the surge was too little too late, [but] now believes it should be continued." And on CNN Newsroom, anchor Heidi Collins introduced Pollack by saying that he "has been a vocal critic of the administration's handling of the [Iraq] war, but he says that an eight-day visit has changed his outlook a bit."
Myth: "The surge has reduced violence in Iraq"
On the August 28 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, CNN White House correspondent Ed Henry uncritically aired President Bush's assertion from his August 28 speech to the American Legion that "[s]ectarian violence has sharply decreased in Baghdad. The momentum is now on our side." Henry gave no indication that he had attempted to verify Bush's assertion. Further, The Washington Post printed an August 28 op-ed by O'Hanlon defending the New York Times op-ed he co-authored in which, relying on data supplied by the U.S. military, he repeated his previous claim that "Iraqi civilian fatality rates are down." During a report containing an interview with Petraeus, on the September 4 CBS Evening News, anchor Katie Couric did not challenge Petraeus' assertion that "if you look at the country as a whole ... the number of ethnosectarian deaths, you name it, the number of incidents has been reduced dramatically."
By contrast, an August 25 Associated Press article reported that while violence is down in Baghdad "from peak levels ... the death toll from sectarian attacks around the country is running nearly double the pace from a year ago." Moreover, McClatchy Newspapers reported on August 15 that while U.S. officials have said civilian casualties have decreased in Baghdad, they have "declined to provide specific numbers, and statistics gathered by McClatchy Newspapers don't support the claim."
On September 1, the Los Angeles Times reported that "[b]ombings, sectarian slayings and other violence related to the war killed at least 1,773 Iraqi civilians in August, the second month in a row that civilian deaths have risen." The article added: "The statistics appear to indicate that the increase in troops ordered by President Bush this year has done little to curb civilian bloodshed, despite U.S. military statements to the contrary." Further, an article in the September 10 edition of Newsweek reported that "[t]he surge of U.S. troops -- meant in part to halt the sectarian cleansing of the Iraqi capital -- has hardly stemmed the problem." The report quoted Rafiq Tschannen, chief of the Iraq mission for the International Organization for Migration, who said that "the fighting that accompanied the influx of U.S. troops actually 'has increased the IDPs [internally displaced persons] to some extent."
In fact, the GAO, the latest NIE, the Independent Commission on the Security Forces of Iraq report, and a recent op-ed by a group of seven soldiers in Iraq all suggest that the surge has not significantly improved the security situation and that violence in Iraq has not decreased. Moreover, a September 6 Washington Post article reported challenges to the U.S. military's recent assertions -- and scrutiny of a specific claim Petraeus is expected to make in his testimony to Congress -- that sectarian violence in Iraq is declining:
- According to the GAO in its report issued September 4, the goal of "[r]educing the level of sectarian violence in Iraq and eliminating militia control of local security" was "not met," meaning that "there was no clear and reliable evidence that the level of sectarian violence was reduced and that militia control of local security was eliminated." The GAO further noted: "While it is not clear if sectarian violence has been reduced, militia control over security forces has not been eliminated and remains a serious problem in Baghdad and other areas of Iraq." Further, during testimony on September 4 in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Comptroller General David Walker, the top official at the GAO, discussed data surrounding sectarian violence and asserted that "there are several different sources within the administration on violence, and those sources do not agree" and that "part of the problem that we had in reaching a conclusion about sectarian violence is there are multiple sources showing different levels of violence with different trends."
- Portions of the NIE that were released on August 23 contain the conclusion that while "[t]here have been measurable but uneven improvements in Iraq's security situation," "the level of overall violence, including attacks on and casualties among civilians, remains high; Iraq's sectarian groups remain unreconciled; [and] AQI [Al Qaeda in Iraq] retains the ability to conduct high-profile attacks."
- The Independent Commission on the Security Forces of Iraq, chaired by retired Gen. James L. Jones and created by the Congress to provide an independent assessment of the Iraqi Security Forces -- both military and police -- reported significant shortcomings with the Iraqi security forces, affecting their ability to reduce violence and provide security for the Iraq people. The commission reported: "The Iraqi Police Service is incapable today of providing security at a level sufficient to protect Iraqi neighborhoods from insurgents and sectarian violence. The police are central to long-term establishment of security in Iraq. To be effective in combating the threats that officers face, including sectarian violence, the Iraqi Police Service must be better trained and equipped." While the commission noted that it "believes that the Iraqi Police Service can improve rapidly should the Ministry of Interior become a more functional institution," its conclusion about the Ministry of Interior stated: "The Ministry of Interior is a ministry in name only. It is widely regarded as being dysfunctional and sectarian, and suffers from ineffective leadership. Such fundamental flaws present a serious obstacle to achieving the levels of readiness, capability, and effectiveness in police and border security forces that are essential for internal security and stability in Iraq." Regarding the National Police Force, the commission concluded: "The National Police have proven operationally ineffective. Sectarianism in its units undermines its ability to provide security; the force is not viable in its current form. The National Police should be disbanded and reorganized."
- As Media Matters noted, seven U.S. Army infantrymen and noncommissioned officers currently serving in Iraq wrote in an August 19 New York Times op-ed: "The claim that we are increasingly in control of the battlefields in Iraq is an assessment arrived at through a flawed, American-centered framework. Yes, we are militarily superior, but our successes are offset by failures elsewhere." The soldiers also wrote: "Given the situation, it is important not to assess security from an American-centered perspective. The ability of, say, American observers to safely walk down the streets of formerly violent towns is not a resounding indicator of security. What matters is the experience of the local citizenry and the future of our counterinsurgency. When we take this view, we see that a vast majority of Iraqis feel increasingly insecure and view us as an occupation force that has failed to produce normalcy after four years and is increasingly unlikely to do so as we continue to arm each warring side."
- In the September 6 Post article, headlined "Experts Doubt Drop In Violence in Iraq," staff writer Karen DeYoung reported that in his upcoming testimony to Congress on the status of Bush's Iraq troop increase plan, Petraeus "is expected to cite a 75 percent decrease in sectarian attacks." Citing the GAO report, the article added that "[o]thers who have looked at the full range of U.S. government statistics on violence, however, accuse the military of cherry-picking positive indicators and caution that the numbers -- most of which are classified -- are often confusing and contradictory." The Post added that "the intelligence community has its own problems with military calculations" regarding violence in Iraq. It also reported that one unnamed "senior intelligence official" specifically took issue with how the military counts acts of sectarian violence, because, according to the military, "[i]f a bullet went through the back of the head, it's sectarian .... If it went through the front, it's criminal."
Myth: "U.S. military deaths are down this summer"
On the August 30 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, guest host Christine Romans repeatedly claimed that American troop deaths in Iraq "are down this summer." Romans also reported that "[t]he Pentagon today is citing the surge in Iraq as a reason for a drop in troop deaths this summer" by comparing casualty figures in July and August to those in May, and she later asked if lower American casualty figures were a measure of the success of the "surge." Similarly, on August 1, all three broadcast networks' evening news programs -- ABC's World News with Charles Gibson, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, and NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams -- reported that the death toll for U.S. service members in Iraq was down in July. However, none of the programs noted at the time that U.S. troop death numbers for July, while lower than previous months, meant that this July was the deadliest July of the war. Nor did any of the news reports note that the death toll for U.S. service members during the months of June and July were the highest for this two-month period since the war began. Furthermore, while the number of troops killed in Iraq for the months of June, July, and August makes the summer of 2007 the deadliest summer of the war for American soldiers, a Media Matters review of the three network evening news broadcasts found that none of them have reported this fact.
Statistics compiled by the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count on its website iCasualties.org, which publishes death count totals provided by the Department of Defense, show that more U.S. troops have died in Iraq during June, July, and August this year than the same three-month period in 2003, 2004, 2005, or 2006. The website currently lists the total U.S. death count for this period at 264.
Nevertheless, as Media Matters noted (here and here), media outlets continue to overlook the combined casualty figures for U.S. troops during June, July, and August, while claiming that there have been fewer soldiers killed in Iraq this summer.
Myth: Democrats agree the "surge" is "working"
In the last month, as several Democrats have commented on the current situation in Iraq, the Republicans and the media have routinely mischaracterized their statements about progress in Iraq to suggest that Democrats believe that Bush's troop increase is working and that the strategy has been successful. In fact, these Democrats have generally tried to make clear that their claims that progress was being made in Iraq referred specifically to military progress and not political progress, and that overall the troop increase was not working. As Salon.com's Tim Grieve noted:
We'll admit it's a fine distinction, but it shouldn't be so hard to understand. Is the "surge" having some success, in some areas, in reducing the levels of violence in Iraq? Yes. Is the overall "strategy" working -- that is, is the Iraqi government using the "breathing space" it's getting to do the things it needs to do? No. While it's certainly in the Bush administration's interests to conflate the questions and confuse the answers, the White House has people on staff paid to do just that. Journalists aren't supposed to be doing it for them.
Further, many of these Democrats had limited their claims about progress to the situation in Al Anbar province, which they often noted had nothing to do with the administration's strategy and which began 4-6 months prior to the arrival of any additional troops when local Sunni leaders agreed to assist U.S. soldiers there in fighting Al Qaeda. Nevertheless, as Media Matters has noted, media reports have repeatedly used Democrats' claims about Anbar to suggest that Bush's strategy is being successful, and sometimes to ask whether that success justifies staying in Iraq longer to give the surge a chance to work.
The following are examples of various media outlets mischaracterizing the statements of prominent Democrats to suggest that they believe Bush's escalation plan is working:
- Sen. Clinton
In an August 20 speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) said: "We've begun to change tactics in Iraq, and in some areas, particularly in Al Anbar province, it's working. We're just years too late changing our tactics. We can't ever let that happen again." An August 21 New York Times article reported that "[a]ides to Mrs. Clinton said her remarks that military tactics in Iraq are 'working' referred specifically to reports of increased cooperation from Sunnis leading to greater success against insurgents in Al Anbar Province." Several media reports following Clinton's speech, however, said that Clinton had conceded that the "surge" is "working." For example, MSNBC, the New York Post, the Associated Press, and The Washington Times all reported that Clinton said the Bush administration's so-called "surge" policy is "working."
Similarly, on the August 26 edition of CBS' Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer falsely claimed that Clinton is "saying it looks like ... maybe the surge is working in the sense that there is less violence there."
In fact, Media Matters has repeatedly noted that Clinton suggested months ago that U.S. forces were achieving progress in Iraq due to better relations between tribal leaders and American military forces, while at the same time she was opposing the so-called "surge" and calling for a withdrawal of troops from Iraq. The New York Daily News reported on August 23 that Clinton made similar comments about Al Anbar province in March: "Camp Clinton insisted she was talking only about a limited improvement in Anbar, linked to better relations with tribal leaders -- a claim she made to the Daily News in March." Indeed, on March 16, Clinton told the Daily News that "[w]e seem to be making a little progress in Al Anbar province because we have an alliance with the tribal sheiks for the very first time" and discussed cooperation in Al Anbar, noting: "I don't know anybody who has looked at this from a military perspective who says that we would need a lot of troops to keep that up." In the same interview, Clinton made clear that she didn't believe the surge was working and reaffirmed her claim that some U.S. troops should be withdrawn from Iraq: "[I]f we could start now to do what many of us believe we should -- like no escalation and forcing political solutions and international involvement and all the things I've talked about for a very long time -- then we would be on the path toward reducing drastically the number of troops we have with these remaining missions."
- Sen. Durbin
An August 9 New York Sun article on recent statements by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) regarding President Bush's troop increase strategy in Iraq, made during an August 8 CNN interview, appeared under the headline: "A Ranking Senate Democrat Concedes Surge Is Working." While Durbin cited military progress in Iraq during the CNN interview, he did not "concede" that the "surge is working" as the Sun headline stated. Rather, he specifically said that he sees "two important parts to this story... As we are seeing military progress, any political scene is discouraging. We are seeing the al Maliki government once branded the government of unity coming apart. We are seeing Sunnis and others leaving and not becoming the stability of this country."
Similarly, on the August 22 edition of Fox News' Special Report, chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle reported that Durbin "once said the surge was not the answer, but now says the 'surge has resulted in a reduction of violence in many parts of Iraq. More American troops have brought more peace to more parts of Iraq. I think that's a fact.' " According to an August 9 St. Louis Post-Dispatch article, Durbin did, in an August 8 conference call, reportedly say that it's "a fact" that "[t]he surge has resulted in a reduction of violence in many parts of Iraq." However, he also said that the president's strategy had major flaws that would prevent it from achieving success: "Iraqi politicians haven't made the type of progress that would produce "a government of national unity," he said. Durbin added: "That is the weakness in the president's strategy. I think we have to start removing the troops. We have stretched our troops to the limit."
- Sen. Obama
The August 22 edition of The Washington Post's The Trail, "A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008," cropped an August 21 comment by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) on the troop buildup in Iraq -- that "[i]f we put 30,000 additional troops into Baghdad, it will quell some of the violence short-term" -- and juxtaposed it with his January 5 comment -- that "an escalation of troop levels in Iraq was a mistake and that we need a political accommodation rather than a military approach to the sectarian violence there" -- to falsely suggest that the two statements were inconsistent. In fact, Obama reiterated his position from January on August 21, but the Post omitted the entirety of his comments: After saying what the Post quoted him saying, Obama added: "It [a troop buildup] doesn't change the underlying assessment, which is that there is not a military solution to the political dynamic in Iraq."
Myth: Democrats are calling for a "precipitous withdrawal" from Iraq
President Bush has used the term "precipitous withdrawal" to describe proposals for a timetable for withdrawal on multiple occasions, as have White House spokesman Tony Fratto and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Moreover, Vice President Dick Cheney said on August 6 that "this is no time to lose heart and make a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq, as some in Congress are demanding." In addition, a document on House Minority Leader John Boehner's (R-OH) website asks, "What would Iraq look like if the Democrats' plan for precipitous withdrawal were implemented?"
Media reports have routinely suggested that Democrats have called for a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq. For example, as Media Matters noted, The Washington Post's Shailagh Murray wrote on August 31 that Gen. David Petraeus "is expected to report to Congress next month that there are some signs of progress in Iraq and that a precipitous U.S. withdrawal could be disastrous," without giving any indication that the term "precipitous withdrawal" is used by Republicans to attack Iraq withdrawal plans, or citing a single lawmaker who has called for a "precipitous U.S. withdrawal" from Iraq. On the July 31 edition of NPR's Morning Edition, NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman asserted that Navy Adm. Michael Mullen, Bush's nominee for Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, "will not be calling for, like the Democrats are, for any precipitous withdrawal of U.S. troops" from Iraq during his testimony before the Congress.
In fact, Democrats have advocated several plans -- including at least one supported by some Republicans -- that call for a "gradual" withdrawal or a "phased redeployment" of U.S. troops from Iraq, with some troops remaining in Iraq for specified missions after the withdrawal of most combat troops. Moreover, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), co-sponsor of a leading proposal dealing with troop levels in Iraq, have both specifically stated that Democrats are not calling for a precipitous withdrawal. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA), appearing on the August 26 edition of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, argued: "No one in a responsible position in government is saying that we should pull the plug in Iraq and have a precipitous withdrawal."
More recently, President Bush, members of the administration, and congressional Republicans have taken to simply arguing against a precipitous withdrawal, without attributing the position to Democrats. For example, Bush said on April 24 that "a precipitous withdrawal would increase the probability that American troops would one day have to return to Iraq and confront an enemy that's even more dangerous." In addition, Crocker and State Department Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey have both recently warned against the consequences of a "precipitous withdrawal," and media coverage is replete with examples of these claims going unchallenged (here, here, here, here, and here) and of the media failing to note that Democrats are not advocating such a position.
Nevertheless, as Media Matters noted (here and here), media outlets continue to repeat the assertion that Democrats advocate an immediate or precipitous withdrawal from Iraq.
Myth: If we withdraw troops from Iraq, the enemy will "follow us home"
For some time, President Bush has asserted that if the United States were to withdraw troops from Iraq, the terrorists "would follow us home" or would be emboldened to launch attacks against America. Media outlets have routinely reported Bush's claim without noting expert opinion that a U.S. troop withdrawal is unlikely to result in a terrorist attack on the United States.
For example, in a September 4 New York Times article, David S. Cloud and Steven Lee Myers reported President Bush's assertion that withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq would "embolden our enemies and make it more likely that they would attack us at home" -- without mentioning the numerous security and terrorism experts who have challenged this claim. Further, the article ignored a "Terrorism Index" survey by the Center for American Progress and Foreign Policy magazine, which found that only 12 percent of experts believe that terrorists are either very likely or likely to attack the United States as a direct result of a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq. Moreover, some foreign policy experts have said that it is the U.S. occupation of Iraq that increases the likelihood of a terrorist attack on the United States. An April 30 report on NPR's All Things Considered quoted retired Brig. Gen. John H. Johns saying, "It's actually leaving American forces in Iraq ... that increases the chances of a terrorist attack on the U.S."
Further, according to an April 6 McClatchy Newspapers article, "[m]ilitary and diplomatic analysts" say that a similar claim by Bush -- that "this is a war in which, if we were to leave before the job is done, the enemy would follow us here" -- "exaggerat[es] the threat that enemy forces in Iraq pose to the U.S. mainland." The article continued: "U.S. military, intelligence and diplomatic experts in Bush's own government say the violence in Iraq is primarily a struggle for power between Shiite and Sunni Muslim Iraqis seeking to dominate their society, not a crusade by radical Sunni jihadists bent on carrying the battle to the United States." The article quoted a U.S. intelligence official as saying that "[t]he war in Iraq isn't preventing terrorist attacks on America" and noted that "the likelihood that enemy combatants from Iraq might follow departing U.S. forces back to the United States is remote at best."
Similarly, coverage of Bush's August 22 speech to the convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) uncritically repeated Bush's claim: "Unlike in Vietnam, if we were to withdraw before the job was done, this enemy would follow us home." The assertion is widely challenged by security and terrorism experts, but several media outlets repeated his quote without challenge. The New York Post, The Kansas City Star, and the New York Daily News all simply quoted Bush's claim. As Media Matters has noted (here and here), assessments from a wide range of U.S. intelligence officials, security experts, and military analysts disagree with this view. In fact, retired Army Lt. Col. James Carafano, a research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, was quoted in NPR's April 30 report suggesting that "asserting that terrorists will follow U.S. troops home [is] naive and poor rhetoric." Carafano was also quoted as saying: "There's no national security analyst that's really credible who thinks that people are going to come from Iraq and attack the United States -- that that's a credible scenario."
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John Boehner's Immigration Dilemma
With primary season nearly over, we're approaching what is undoubtedly the last chance for Congress to act on immigration reform before the midterm elections. For the past two years, no issue has loomed larger over Washington. Because of its importance to the future of the Republican Party and because it's a rare issue with bipartisan support, gaming out the twists and turns of a possible legislative path for immigration reform has become a Beltway obsession.
After Mitt Romney's defeat in 2012—an election in which Hispanics voted for Barack Obama by a 71-27 margin—overhauling the nation's immigration laws and granting legal status to the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. were supposed to be GOP imperatives. As the Republican National Committee urged in its postelection autopsy, "We must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform. If we do not, our party's appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only."
Last June the Democratic-led Senate passed a hard-fought bipartisan reform bill that would have achieved this goal. But that bill died under pressure from conservatives when it got to the Republican-led House, despite support from a bipartisan majority. Speaker John Boehner, who's repeatedly said he favors reform, could easily usher it into law by letting the House vote on the bill. A minority of House Republicans would join with almost all Democrats to pass it. And President Obama has made clear he's eager to sign it. But Boehner has been unwilling to allow such a vote, because a majority of GOP members don't support it.
At a May 23 press conference, Fusion and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos asked him point blank, "Why are you blocking immigration reform?"
"Me? Blocking?" Boehner sputtered.
"Yes, you," Ramos replied. "You could bring it to a vote, but you haven't."
Boehner responded by criticizing the Senate bill and claiming Republicans couldn't trust Obama to enforce the law. What Boehner didn't say was that if he were to allow a vote on the Senate bill, he'd risk a conservative revolt that would cost him his speakership.
Some reformers had hoped that Boehner would find a way around the anti-immigration conservatives in his caucus—that even as he appeased them by denouncing the Senate bill, he would arrange to make it a fait accompli through legislative maneuvering. In January, Boehner issued a "framework" to legalize undocumented workers that might have smoothed the path to legislation, but conservatives quickly beat it back.
To maintain an appearance of working toward reform even as they reject the Senate's comprehensive approach, various House Committees have passed narrowly targeted bills.
Modest though they may be, such a bill could theoretically serve as a vehicle for more ambitious reform. Were the House to pass it, a House-Senate conference committee assembled to reconcile the two bills could—if it were stacked with reform supporters—produce something that very closely resembles the Senate's bill. "I think that moving in a piece-by-piece fashion on this in a common-sense way is the way to do this," Boehner said on May 22. Yet so far he has refused to allow the House even to vote on these narrow Republican measures.
Reformers are clinging to one final possibility: When the primaries are finished and Republican members no longer face the immediate prospect of being unseated by a challenge from their right, they'll act quickly to address their party's problems with Hispanics. But that hope is hard to square with how these primary races are unfolding. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who claims to support reform and faces a June 10 primary, recently sent out a campaign flier boasting that he "is stopping the Obama-Reid plan to give illegal aliens amnesty."
The Senate bill will expire when the new Congress is seated in January, so Congress has another seven months to puzzle it out. The actual window is probably much smaller. In August, House members will return to their districts to campaign for reelection, shelving all business in Washington. So Boehner doesn't have long to act—if he's still inclined to do so at all.
The bottom line: Boehner says he wants to pass immigration reform—but putting it to a vote could cost him the speakership.


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HUNTINGTON — To hear the story, Marshall offered Jeff Neubauer the head basketball coaching job and Neubauer accepted, only to have the job taken away from him while on the road to Huntington.
Even further, Neubauer was re-offered the position and "declined in no uncertain terms."
That allegation of questionable treatment appeared in the Friday edition of The Herald-Dispatch in a piece by Chuck Landon. The longtime Charleston and Huntington columnist gave an account of the Thundering Herd coaching search, almost entirely stating the process as fact.
In Huntington and in Richmond, Ky., home of Neubauer and Eastern Kentucky University, that story was disputed in, to repeat the phrase, no uncertain terms.
"Everything in [the] article about me is pure fiction," Neubauer told Michael Grant of the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky.
This is how the article described MU's interaction with Neubauer in the days leading to the announcement Thursday of Dan D'Antoni's hiring:
"On Wednesday, Marshall officials offered the job to Neubauer and he accepted. But as the Eastern Kentucky coach reportedly was driving to Huntington, a highly respected Marshall booster met with Marshall president Steve Kopp and urged him to hire Danny D'Antoni rather than Neubauer.
"As a result, Marshall officials telephoned Neubauer and told him they had changed their minds. So, he turned his car around and headed back to Richmond, Ky."
The article said the Herd offered Stephen F. Austin coach Brad Underwood, and began negotiations, but Underwood was using the offer as leverage to get the job at Southern Mississippi (that vacancy remained unfilled as of Friday evening).
The article then said, "So, Marshall called Neubauer back and offered him the job again. He declined in no uncertain terms."
Kopp's office issued a to-the-point denial Friday morning.
"We didn't offer the job to Neubauer," said Matt Turner, Kopp's chief of staff. "I don't know where Chuck got that, but it's not true. The president doesn't get involved in coaching offers anyway. He lets Mike do his job."
Turner was referring to Mike Hamrick, the fifth-year athletic director who introduced D'Antoni to an appreciative audience Friday. Hamrick was taken aback, to put it mildly.
"Totally 100 percent inaccurate," he said of the columnist's account. "Nothing that was printed today was true. The job was offered to two people, like I said today. There was no job offer to anyone else. The job was offered to Mike and Danny D'Antoni.
"What I read today, I was stunned. I was stunned. And I got calls from people on the other end of that [from EKU officials] that were stunned. That's all I've got to say. Totally inaccurate, totally false.
"[MU athletics chief of staff] Jeff O'Malley, who's an attorney, who deals with all that, was dumbfounded this morning about that. Dr. Kopp was dumbfounded."
Hamrick said he had offered Mike D'Antoni the job until it was clear the Los Angeles Lakers coach would remain under contract. Hamrick gave other interviews, but the elder D'Antoni became the next target.
Hamrick said he interviewed both brothers in person.
"We never did a phone interview with [Dan]," Hamrick said. "I'll tell you when and where and show you my plane ticket when I went to LA. But you also have to remember that Mike D'Antoni is co-chair of our vision campaign, and I visit with Mike frequently. He's one of our biggest donors.
"You know who the happiest person is right now? It's not Danny D'Antoni; it's Mike D'Antoni."
Hamrick reiterated the sensitive nature of the job search, especially with head coaches still under contract. He said the day of Tom Herrion's resignation that he would not divulge details.
Hamrick didn't give names of candidates Friday, but said he interviewed seven coaches at the Final Four in his hotel room, "several" of them sitting head coaches.
"Everybody talks about how long it took, but when Tom Herrion was hired [in 2010], you can correct me if I'm wrong, Donnie Jones left a week to 10 days to two weeks after the last game, whereas Tom resigned the following day [the second, actually] after the last game.
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Please note that I am partially ducking too, if I were standing straight up, you wouldnt see the dome lol
Thanks bro, you're awesome! the helmet doesn't look small on you, it looks just right.
and man my room is full of geeky stuff too, haven't had a love interest since 2004
oh and I wouldn't want to pick a fight with you lol
Wow, that is a nice helmet
Good job.
Buen trabajo!!!! & FELICITACIONES!!!!, como decimos en mi pais, BUENISIMO CHE!!!!
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I'm finishing up my Bobamaker Jango right now...what did you do to keep the pinstripes straight when putting them on? This is the one part that I'm thinking might be a problem.
Thanks mate! I didn't post any "build" pics cause there are already several threads on that. I will post the finished product in a couple days. Trying to get it all done by H day. Jet Pack too. It will be finished but I'm in the crunch..and to think I started all this in July. Where did the time go?
Also, could you show and tell on the method used to secure your visor?
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lol There never is enough time. As for the visor, like I said above, I had a really hard time with this one. I use hotglue to secure it in. Im being honest in that this is not as clean looking as I tried to get it.
What I do, is just use a heat gun and gradually form it by pressing it into one side of the helmet (from the inside of course). After I feel it is properly shaped, I'll use the hotglue to secure it in one side first, so that after that is in, I can adjust the other mandible, which will always be slightly flexible. I for the most part use "beads" of hotglue first, so that if there are any alignment issues with the mandibles, that I can easliy remove it.
Like I said, this is no where as clean as I wanted to get it. Just too many issues trying to get it in
Alright. Began the RF assembly today. I have the stalk attached to the RF post, and I attached the bolts to the ears, with the corrosponding holes on the helmet. They are JB welded in and I need to let them sit overnight.
Meanwhile, my stupid cat thought my brand new can of royal blue was a play toy, and broke the nozzle, and in turn, somehow resulted in the can going off on me, with out any nozzle on it. Needless to say, my hands are still very blue despite over an hour of scrubbing. I am very frustrated about this, and I need to repaint the RF box now issed:
Alright, if everything goes as it should, I should be done with this helmet this week!!
looking good man.
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Well, I actually got alot done today then I expected to. The ear/bolt construction is complete and works. I just gotta paint the inside of the ear to "clean" up the look of it. JB weld is not a pretty color on...well just about anything.
There was also a lapse in the cold weather, and I was able to finish painting the RF box. So all that is left for me to do, is just paint the inside of the ear piece, JB Weld the RFstalk/box to the ear, and then weather the setup, and thats it!
Goin to post a pic in a sec, once the batteries charge..died right when I was about to take a pic.grrrrrrrr.
Sorry for the delay, the pics I promised! This is how it will look completly finished (minus the weathering). Just remembered that I need to do the keyslot vent mesh!
This is the inside, to show how the bolts are holding it all together. I may change it up..the look of it does appeal to me too well..
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BATON ROUGE – Gunner Kiel, the No. 1 ranked high school quarterback in the nation, did not show up at LSU Monday for a meeting of early football enrollees and is not expected to begin classes with the rest of the LSU student body Tuesday.
"From what I have been told, he is no longer coming to LSU," recruiting expert Michael Scarborough of Rivals.com/TigerBait.com said Monday night. "He wants to come to LSU, but his mother (Aleta Kiel) got very emotional Monday and did not want her son to leave. He plans to enroll in classes at Notre Dame on Tuesday."
Kiel, who is 6-foot-4 and 220 pounds and Rivals.com's No. 1 pro style quarterback in the country out of East High in Columbus, Ind., verbally committed to LSU on Dec. 27 over Notre Dame and a host of other schools, including Indiana. He had committed to Indiana and broke that pledge before saying he was LSU bound.
"If you follow his recruiting story, he has changed his mind a lot," Scarborough said.
Early in 2011, Kiel had said Alabama and Oklahoma were his finalists.
"What has been relayed to me is that he wants to come to LSU, but his parents want him at Notre Dame because it is closer to home," Scarborough said.
Columbus, Ind., is 172 miles from South Bend, Ind., where Notre Dame is located. Baton Rouge is 673 miles from Columbus, Ind.
Had Kiel signed and enrolled at LSU, he would have been the highest ranked quarterback to come to LSU since Ryan Perrilloux signed with the Tigers in February of 2005 as the No. 1 dual-threat quarterback in the country out of East St. John High near New Orleans. Kiel was hailed as one of the most significant recruits in LSU history, partly because he was from so far away.
LSU's coaches are not headed to Indiana Tuesday to try to win Kiel back, Scarborough said. Rather, they will try to rally for 14th-ranked dual threat quarterback Jeremy Liggins of Lafayette High in Oxford, Miss., or No. 1-ranked dual threat quarterback Jameis Winston of Hueytown, Ala., but Winston (6-4, 200) is a long shot. He is already committed to Florida State and head coach Jimbo Fisher, a former LSU offensive coordinator.
Liggins is not committed, but LSU does not have a history of landing players from northern Mississippi. Alabama, Auburn, Arkansas, Georgia, Ole Miss and Mississippi State are among the schools after Liggins (6-3, 270).
Kiel is the third major recruit LSU has lost over the last several weeks. Denzel Devall, the No. 5 inside linebacker in the country out of Bastrop, committed to Alabama on Dec. 7. And Landon Collins, the No. 1 safety in the nation out of Dutchtown High just 20 minutes from LSU's campus, committed to Alabama on Jan. 5 - just four days before Alabama beat LSU 21-0 in the Superdome in New Orleans for the BCS national championship.
"I think a lot of LSU fans are overreacting to what has been happening," Scarborough said. "There is a whole lot of piling on going on. Gunner Kiel going to Notre Dame has nothing to do with LSU losing to Alabama. LSU does need to sign a quarterback in this class, but none of this is going to set the program back. This is still a program that is going to be a preseason No. 1 going into next season."
Before the loss of Kiel, LSU's 2012 recruiting class was ranked No. 8 in the country by Rivals.com with 20 commitments. Alabama is currently No. 1 with 26.


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Everyone talks about how design is finally becoming recognized as an important part of building businesses -- of any kind. People have gone from thinking that good advertising and the right "branding" are what sell products to understanding that well-designed products sell themselves. But it's critical that design doesn't become simply the business strategy du jour. If design becomes "design" -- an aesthetic add-on emptied of emotion and ideas -- then we will lose the impact that made design powerful to begin with.
When I hear A.G. Lafley, the president and chairman of Procter & Gamble (PG), declare that "mass marketing is dead" or have another Fortune 100 client tell me that advertising budgets 10 years from now will be half of what they are today, I wonder: Where will that money will go?
My hope is that investments will go toward innovation -- more specifically, toward financing the costs and risks demanded by innovation: New infrastructures, operation changes, and manufacturing facilities. Good design starts with good R&D.
My fear is that companies will jump on the "design" bandwagon, bringing a lot of resurfaced, shiny objects to market in an effort that will inevitably fail when these products neglect to deliver on the promise of a better experience and long-term brand attributes. This would give design a bad name. Unfortunately, we already see this happening with the proliferation of me-too iPod products, messages, and marketing. When design is skin deep, it fails to build anything of long-term relevance.
So, how do we -- as a profession -- avoid this? It's not easy. It means giving up some short-term design contracts and going cold-turkey on the idea that there's even such a thing as a quick design fix. What follows is what I call a "design-for-design's-sake recovery program"
Step 1: Say no to "me-too" briefs
If the client asks for the next iPod, your answer should be, "Are you the next Steve Jobs?" Original thought is what defines Apple (AAPL) and what every company needs. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year, every other booth showed a different take on the popular MP3 player -- none of which brought any significant innovation to the market. Original thought and unique strategy was completely and obviously absent from those me-too products. Why? I'll get to that, but first my next point.
Step 2: Design from the inside out
The word "experience" is overused these days, but it is clear that people are not looking for just another product, they want emotional connection with what they own. According to research presented by nVision at the Future Foundation Conference in 2004, people today want to "fulfill themselves." In the last 10 years, the ranked value of "new experiences" moved from ninth to fourth place. Conversely, "owning things" dropped from fourth to ninth place.
To return to the me-too iPods, the main reason for their failure is the fact that they all work around the same basic platform. By letting Microsoft (MSFT) dictate the internal workings of the units, designers are reduced to making endless new book covers for the same story. In contrast, look at the new Apple Shuffle. The designers did more than just remove features, they created a new category of music player with a totally new story -- and inevitably another hit for Apple.
Step 3: Go for the fringes
The fringe is the new middle. Mass marketing is dead because the mass is being displaced by varied and divergent small groups. These new consumers, (dubbed "prosumers" for their proactive stance by Bruce Mau in his Massive Change project), are globally informed, sophisticated, and, most of all, will not accept being treated like a mass. Conventional marketing measures can't predict their taste. The mediocre middle -- the so-called mass market -- is shrinking as early adopters and cultural creatives increasingly influence the mainstream.
I assure you that no focus group told Apple that what they really wanted was a digital music player that held less music and had fewer features -- including no screen. Besides, what was the last successful product that actually passed this mighty test? Not the Aeron chair, not the iPod, not the laptop.
Besides, clients spend way too much time and money on focus-group testing. They would be better off looking beyond the answers given by consumers today in order to try to anticipate the needs and wants of tomorrow. A company's CEO or president needs to exercise the responsibility for art direction. CEOs might tell you that they are in touch with the world and know what consumers want, but do CEOs have the vision to make creative decisions two to four years out?
That's our job as designers. Today in the design profession really means several years from now, because technology development and product innovation take years. The development of a unique vision and the ability to resolve and direct the evolution of that vision is a priority that is often delegated rather than harnessed by top management. Looking into the future is easier than it sounds, but to see it coming you must first...
Step 4: Stop looking at what everyone else is doing
How many times have I seen and heard about businesses and marketing folks so focused on competing against each other that they lose any character of their own in the process? So here's another piece of advice: Invent your own strategy, your own product specs, your own character. The time of the faceless, aimless corporation is over: What people want is personality, point of view, and character.
Designers are so used to this "fact of business" that often they themselves have forgotten the road to originality. We need to stop judging designs by the Eames scale. The genius of Charles and Ray Eames was in the way they responded to the social and industrial contexts of their time. Today's contexts are different. Designers face new and different challenges that require new processes and different ways of solving problems.
The impetus for our work is not found in what others do, but in the fundamental blend of personal belief and vision, and the empathic understanding of the client's unique challenges.
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All businesses need to focus on culture. If your product or design is not participating in the culture, you are on your way to irrelevance. Designers must remember who the real client is -- the culture at large. And if you practice design with the meter running, solutions will soon be detached from the culture they are hoping to reach. We must not forget that the main reason to be a part of culture is that it makes us better at what we do -- touching the emotions and desires of the public.
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Raymond Andrews
|Raymond Andrews
June 6, 1934
Plainview, Georgia
|November 25, 1991
(aged 57)
Athens, Georgia
|Notable works
|Appalachee Red
|Adelheid "Heidi" Wenger (1966-1980)
|Benny Andrews (brother)
Raymond Andrews (June 6, 1934 – November 25, 1991) was an African-American novelist.
Early life and education[edit]
Raymond Andrews was born June 6, 1934 in Plainview, Georgia and grew up in north central Georgia. Andrews' parents, George and Viola Andrews, were sharecroppers and he was the fourth of their ten children. At age fifteen Andrews moved away to Atlanta, Georgia where he began working and attending high school at Booker T. Washington High School.[1] Andrews graduated from Washington High School in 1952. Following his graduation, he served four years in the United States Air Force.
After he finished his tour of duty in Korea, he attended Michigan State University before moving to New York City where he held a variety of jobs. Andrews lived in New York City until 1984. While living there he got married and worked numerous of jobs such as an airline agent, air courier, and proofreader.[2]
Andrews' first national publication was in an issue of Sports Illustrated and was written about the first time the game of football had ever been played in the Plainview community where he grew up. In the early 1970s he began publishing his Muskhogean trilogy which told about the life of an African American in the south from the end of World War I to the beginning of the 1960s. The trilogy consists of Appalachee Red, Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee, and Baby Sweet's.[1]
The books written by Raymond Andrews have been applauded by numerous critics and other writers. Novelist Richard Bausch described Andrew's writing as having "a smiling generosity of spirit."[1]
Marriage and children[edit]
Andrews married Adelheid "Heidi" Wenger in 1966 in New York City. The couple divorced in 1980.
Death and afterward[edit]
Andrews died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Athens, Georgia on November 25, 1991.[3]
Published works[edit]
- Appalachee Red (Dial Press, 1978)
- Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee (Dial Press, 1980)
- Baby Sweet's (Dial Press, 1983)
- The Last Radio Baby (Peachtree Publishers, 1990)
- Jessie and Jesus; and, Cousin Claire (Peachtree Publishers, 1991)
- Once Upon a Time in Atlanta (Chattahoochee Review, 1998)[4]
- 1979: James Baldwin Prize
- 2009: inductee, Georgia Writers Hall of Fame[5]
- ^ a b c "Raymond Andrews (1934-1991)". New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- ^ "Finding Aid : Raymond Andrews papers, 1947-1992".
- ^ "Raymond Andrews, author of books and articles, 57". The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution. 1991-11-28. p. E26.
- ^ "Silenced voice speaks through writings". The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution. 1998-03-26. p. J13.
He later wrote about his pain, joy and revelations in segregated Atlanta in the autobiographic "Once Upon a Time in Atlanta". When Andrews committed suicide in 1991, the work could have died with him. But it was picked up by DeKalb College's literary magazine, The Chattahoochee Review...
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Napoleon's two-cornered hat up for grabs at French auction
By Alexandria Sage
PARIS (Reuters) - Rarely have a man and his hat been so linked in the collective imagination as Napoleon and his black, two-cornered hat.
Next month, a "bicorne" felt hat thought to have belonged to the French emperor will be up for auction in Fontainebleau in what the auctioneer calls the "sale of a century" for fans of the legendary leader.
Nearly 1,000 objects will be put on sale by auction house Osenat on Nov. 15 and 16, with the highlight being one of the iconic black hats said to have been worn by Napoleon during the Battle of Marengo in Italy in 1800.
"Napoleon and his hat is one and the same," auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat told Reuters TV. "There is no other object in France's history that is more symbolic of the person it represents."
His trademark look was not accidental, Osenat added.
In the early 19th century, such bicorne hats were worn with the corners pointing front and back, but Napoleon, "to make himself noticed", changed the angle, Osenat said, wearing his with the points facing the sides.
During the 15 years of the empire, Napoleon went through about 120 hats, usually supplied by the Poupart & Cie company, located in what is now known as the Palais-Royal in Paris, and costing about 60 francs.
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Pike conger eel (hamo)
***** Location: Japan
***** Season: All Summer
***** Category: Animal and Humanity
dragontooth . Muraenesox cinereus
The best hamo come from the Inland sea and Awaji Island.
hamo 鱧 / 海鰻 pike conger eel
ikihamo 生鱧(いきはも)life hamo
matsuri hamo 祭鱧(まつりはも)"hamo for festivals"
especially the Gion festival in Kyoto, see below
mizuhamo 水鱧(みずはも)"water hamo"
kohamo 小鱧(こはも)small hamo
hihamo 干鱧(ひはも)dried hamo
hamo ichiyaboshi ハモ一夜干し dried for one night
gongiri 五寸切(ごんぎり)"cut is small pieces"
This is a special expression used in haiku, refering to the honegiri cutting of bones. It is also used as another name for the fish when prepared as food.
also the chinese characters 風海鰻 are used for hamo.
hamo no kawa 鱧の皮 (はものかわ) skin of the hamo
..... hamokawa 鱧皮(はもかわ)
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hamo-otoshi はもおとし / 鱧おとし hamo on ice
bite-sized pieces on ice or in a wooden tub, to keep you cool in summer
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hamozushi 鱧鮓(はもずし) sushi with hamo
a kind of oshizushi. The fish is first grilled and covered with special sauce.
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hamo sashimi はも刺身, a speciality of the Kyoto area in Summer. It is hacked very finely because of the many small bones and takes an experienced cook to prepare it properly.
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Hamo has two food seasons,
one is in summer, just after the rainy season is over. He is then eaten for the Gion Festival in Kyoto or the Tenjin Festival in Osaka (matsuri hamo). The Gion Festival is sometimes even referred to as "Hamo Festival".
In former times, this rather strong fish had to be carried in barrels of sea water from the coast to the captial in Kyoto, taking a few days.
His second best season to eat is in autumn when he is much fatter and called "gold hamo" 金鱧 or matsutake hamo 松茸鱧.
He is rich in vitamin A and calcium and iron.
His many bones are bothering when eating, so they must be cut very finely (honegiri 骨切り "cutting the bones") and the chef who prepares them must learn how to do that. In a span of one SUN 寸 (about 3 cm) you have to make cuts for 26 times in the flesh without cutting the skin below. A special hamo knife is used for this purpose. When it is then dipped into hot water it curls like a cherry blossom flower.
For tempura, the backbone of the fish is also used as some kind of "bone cracker" (hone senbei).
Hamo soup (suimono) is a delicate broth and the fish is slightly covered with kuzu arrowroot starch.
Referenc : Hamo cuisine in Kyoto
Botan-hamo 牡丹ハモ Hamo in Brühe
Genpei Yaki 源平焼き Gegrillter Hamo in 2 Varianten
suzuhamo スズハモ Muraenesox bagio
hashinaga hamo ハシナガハモ Oxyconger leptognathus
watakuzu hamo ワタクズハモ Gavialiceps taiwanensis
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Gion matsuri 祇園祭り (ぎおんまつり)
Gion Festival in Kyoto
The Gion Festival (祇園祭 ) takes place annually in Kyoto and is one of the most famous festivals in Japan. It spans the entire month of July and is crowned by a parade, the Yamaboko Junkō (山鉾巡行) on July 17.
Kyoto's downtown area is reserved for pedestrian traffic on the three nights leading up to the massive parade. These nights are known as yoiyama (宵山) on July 16th, yoiyoiyama (宵々山) on July 15th, and yoiyoiyoiyama (宵々々山) on July 14th. The streets are lined with night stalls selling food such as yakitori (barbecued chicken skewers), taiyaki, takoyaki, okonomiyaki, traditional Japanese sweets, and many other culinary delights. Many girls dressed in yukata (summer kimono) walk around the area, carrying with them traditional purses and paper fans.
During the yoiyama eves leading up to the parade, some private houses in the old kimono merchant district open their entryways to the public, exhibiting valuable family heirlooms, in a custom known as the Byōbu Matsuri, or Folding Screen Festival. This is a precious opportunity to visit and observe traditional Japanese residences of Kyoto.
This festival originated as part of a purification ritual (goryo-e) to appease the gods thought to cause fire, floods and earthquakes. In 869, the people were suffering from plague and pestilence which was attributed to the rampaging deity Gozu Tennō (牛頭天王). Emperor Seiwa ordered that the people pray to the god of the Yasaka Shrine, Susanoo-no-mikoto. Sixty-six stylized and decorated halberds, one for each province in old Japan, were prepared and erected at Shinsen-en, a garden, along with the portable shrines (mikoshi) from Yasaka Shrine.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
. Gion Matsuri / Gion Festival
and its kigo
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by Ad Blankestijn, Japan Navigator
Hamo is Daggertooth Pike-Conger, a white-meat fish from the eel family. As its English name reveals, it has a deep ripped mouth with sharp teeth at the upper and lower parts of the jaw. The name hamo comes from hamu, an old term for eating, because the fish uses its sharp teeth to eat almost anything from shrimps and crabs to small fish.
Guide to Japan
izushi no hamo natsukashiki Kyoto kana
pike conger vegetable sushi -
how fond the memories
of Kyoto
Kikaku 宝井其角(たからいきかく)
izushi is a kind of sushi when fish is pickled with vegetables like radish or turnips (kaburazushi 蕪鮨(かぶらずし).
take no yado hiru mizuhamo o kizamikeri
lodging in a bamboo grove -
for lunch they are cutting
pike conger in water
Matsuse Seisei 松瀬青々 (1869~1937)
Kyoo ni arite matsurihamo kuu hitasura ni
I am in Kyoto
and all I do is eat
festival pike conger
Kaneko Tohta 金子兜太
Oosaka no matsuri tsugi tsugi hamo no aji
Osaka Festival -
one after the other
the dishes with pike
Aoki Getto 青木月斗 (1879―1949)
Related words
***** . Gion Matsuri 祗園祭 Gion Festival
***** WASHOKU : FISH and SEAFOOD SAIJIKI
Hamo pike conger
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ATLANTA, June 11, 2014 – Beginning this summer, the High Museum of Art will present an exhibition featuring more than 70 drawings from the Museum's permanent collection, including works by such world-renowned artists as Ellsworth Kelly, Jasper Johns, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Salvador Dalí and John Singer Sargent.
"Top Drawer: Select Drawings from the High's Collection," on view June 28, 2014 through Jan. 4, 2015, includes diverse works ranging from the 1500s to the present, which represent some of the very best drawings from the High's collections of American, European, folk, and modern and contemporary art.
Included in the exhibition are two significant recent acquisitions on view for the first time at the High. Ellsworth Kelly's "Peony" (1979) is a precisely observed contour drawing of a single stem of a flower drawn from Kelly's memory and personal experience. Leaves cascading down the stem evoke his more reductive shaped paintings and sculptures. Also on view for the first time is Jasper Johns' "Untitled" (2010). The graphite on paper drawing revisits a series of images that first appeared in a cycle of his partly autobiographical paintings titled "The Seasons" in the mid-1980s.
Other recent acquisitions on view for the first time at the High include: Sulpice-Guillaume Chevalier's "The King of Laughter (Le Roi des Drôles)" (ca. 1850), Adolph Menzel's "Mountainous Landscape" (1885), Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain's "A Classical Landscape" (ca. 1750), and Edmond Geffroy's "Talbout" (ca. 1851-1865).
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Lynette Clark, a leader of the Alaskan Independence Party, said that she was encouraged by the news of out of the Badger State.
Karl died as a result, and Lynette later miscarried one of her twins.
She was "our greatest female war poet" and yet today almost no one has heard of Lynette Roberts.
Lynette becomes a CEO and she and Tom (Doug Savant) move to New York City, buy a penthouse, and have six grandchildren.
So said Sir Gareth, and when he had ended that saying, Lynette laughed and laughed again with all her might and main.
You're artful, Lynette Mildare, trying to change the conversation.
Lynette sat still upon the boulder, thinking, long after the red umbrella had departed.
"But I am a dunce, dear, and so I leave you to read him to me," said Lynette triumphantly.
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This blog has been able to obtain an exclusive interview with our beloved Comrade Vladimir Putin who was speaking from the inner sanctum of the Kremlin.
M: So, Comrade Putin, how do you respond to Western claims that Russian troops are now in Ukraine?
P: Gallant courageous young men from our beloved Russia heard there were Nazi troops on our border, they did the only thing a patriot could do-they are standing up for freedom
M: But, do they have the right to enter another nation?
P: The people of Ukraine are really Russians at heart, they called out for our boys, and our boys came to their rescue.
M: But, Ukraine is a separate nation.
P: I have been forced by the fascists in Ukraine to aid the people of Ukraine secure their freedom.
M: But, the Ukraine army is fighting to unite their country.
P: And, we Russians are fighting to free the people of Ukraine from Nazi Fascists!
M: But, you could create a war in Europe.
P: Then again, we could go to the Arctic and secure control over this area.
M: Huh? What does the Arctic have to do with Ukraine?
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M: And, what comes after that?
P: My dream: THE WORLD!