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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] Or a post on some things that I've been thinking about that don't really fit in any current thread. [b]A favorite recent headline comes from The [i]Scotsman[/i] on 26 Feb 2006.[/b] [QUOTE][URL=http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=297002006] [b]US leader crashed by trying to 'pedal, wave and speak at same time'[/b][/URL] MURDO MACLEOD POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT HE MAY be the most powerful man in the world, but proof has emerged that President George Bush cannot ride a bike, wave and speak at the same time. Scotland on Sunday has obtained remarkable details of one of the most memorably bizarre episodes of the Bush presidency: the day he crashed into a Scottish police constable while cycling in the grounds of Gleneagles Hotel. The incident, which will do little to improve Bush's accident-prone reputation, began when he took to two wheels for a spot of early-evening exercise during last year's G8 summit at the Perthshire resort. After a hard day's discussion with fellow world leaders, the president was looking for some relaxation. Instead, he ended up the subject of a police report in which the leader of the free world was described, in classic police language, as a "moving/falling object". It was "about 1800 hours on Wednesday, 6 July, 2005" that a detachment of Strathclyde police constables, in "Level 2 public order dress [anti-riot gear]," formed a protective line at the gate at the hotel's rear entrance, in case demonstrators penetrated the biggest-ever security operation on Scottish soil. The official police incident report states: "[The unit] was requested to cover the road junction on the Auchterarder to Braco Road as the President of the USA, George Bush, was cycling through." The report goes on: "[At] about 1800 hours the President approached the junction at speed on the bicycle. The road was damp at the time. As the President passed the junction at speed he raised his left arm from the handlebars to wave to the police officers present while shouting 'thanks, you guys, for coming'. "As he did this he lost control of the cycle, falling to the ground, causing both himself and his bicycle to strike [the officer] on the lower legs. [The officer] fell to the ground, striking his head. The President continued along the ground for approximately five metres, causing himself a number of abrasions. The officers... then assisted both injured parties."[/QUOTE]*Emphasis added. [b]An interesting cover to the March edition of [URL=http://www.harpers.org/Newsstand200603.html]Harper's[/URL][/b] [IMG]http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/19/HarpersImpeach.jpg[/IMG] [b]New Phraseology: "The Long War"[/b]. [QUOTE] [URL=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/02/AR2006020202296_pf.html]Rumsfeld Offers Strategies for Current War[/URL] Pentagon to Release 20-Year Plan Today By Josh White and Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, February 3, 2006; A08 The United States is engaged in what could be a generational conflict akin to the Cold War, the kind of struggle that might last decades as allies work to root out terrorists across the globe and battle extremists who want to rule the world, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday. Rumsfeld, who laid out broad strategies for what the military and the Bush administration are now calling the "long war," likened al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin while urging Americans not to give in on the battle of wills that could stretch for years. He said there is a tendency to underestimate the threats that terrorists pose to global security, and said liberty is at stake. "Compelled by a militant ideology that celebrates murder and suicide with no territory to defend, with little to lose, they will either succeed in changing our way of life, or we will succeed in changing theirs," Rumsfeld said in a speech at the National Press Club. The speech, which aides said was titled "The Long War," came on the eve of the Pentagon's release of its Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), which sets out plans for how the U.S. military will address major security challenges 20 years into the future. The plans to be released today include shifts to make the military more agile and capable of dealing with unconventional threats, something Rumsfeld has said is necessary to move from a military designed for the Cold War into one that is more flexible. He said the nation must focus on three strategies in the ongoing war: preventing terrorists from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, defending the U.S. homeland and helping allies fight terrorism. He emphasized that these goals could take a long time to achieve. Indeed, the QDR, mandated every four years by Congress, opens with the declaration: "The United States is a nation engaged in what will be a long war."[/QUOTE]On 13 March 2006, Mr. Bush, speaking to Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said [URL=http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060313-3.html]this[/URL] about the current conflict. [QUOTE]The mission of this Foundation is to defeat terror by promoting democracy -- and that is the mission of my administration. Our strategy to protect America is based on a clear premise: the security of our nation depends on the advance of liberty in other nations. ---- And so America is committed to an historic, long-term goal: To secure the peace of the world, we seek the end of tyranny in our world.[/QUOTE]Which of course begs the question, how does one keep prisoners of war, excuse me, enemy combatants, locked up in a generational conflict or until we defeat tyranny. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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