Intelligence Community Overhaul that Pre-empts Plame's Outing.

The May 03, 2001 Intelligence Community overhaul was one of the first items Cheney pressed after settling Bush v. Gore. That let establish narrative backgrounds for eventual action in the Middle East. Other items later sided with this expansive colonial ambition.

Here was the original excerpts of Intelligence Community.gov listings:

Intelligence Office (Dep't of Energy)

The Office of Intelligence (IN) provides the Secretary, his staff and other policymakers within the Department timely, technical intelligence analyses on all aspects of foreign nuclear weapons, nuclear materials and energy issues worldwide.

Policy & International Affairs

The Office of Policy and International Affairs' role is to deliver unbiased advice to the Department of Energy's leadership on existing and prospective energy-related policies, based on integrated and well-founded data and analysis.

The Office of Policy and International Affairs has primary responsibility for the Department of Energy's international energy activities including international emergency management, national security, and international cooperation in science and technology.

National Nuclear Security Administration

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has the following mission:

• To enhance United States national security through the military application of nuclear energy.
• To maintain and enhance the safety, reliability, and performance of the United States nuclear weapons stockpile, including the ability to design, produce, and test, in order to meet national security requirements.
• To provide the United States Navy with safe, militarily effective nuclear propulsion plants and to ensure the safe and reliable operation of those plants.
• To promote international nuclear safety and nonproliferation.
• To reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction.

Associate Administrator for Facilities and Operations The Associate Administrator for Facilities and Operations provides program organizations with science and production facilities ready and available to perform NNSA's core missions. Facilities and Operations is responsible for establishing and directing, through the field elements, an overarching field operations framework that includes five major functions: support for operations, resource management, human capital, enterprise management, and contractor performance evaluation; advocacy, policy development, management oversight, and resource management for those infrastructure and facilities mutually agreed upon with the programs to be the responsibility of F&O; advocacy, policy development, and management oversight of environmental, safety, and health programs; project and construction management; and safeguards and security

The Associate Administrator for Management and Administration provides timely, cost-effective, and efficient administrative and financial support for NNSA headquarters staff.

Management and Administration customers include executives, managers, and employees across all units of the NNSA complex. Its core functions are the following:

• Design and administer the corporate planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation (PPBE) system
• Provide NNSA corporate systems and policies to manage NNSA's human resources
• Develop and implement NNSA corporate information policy and requirements to ensure that NNSA staff have the necessary tools and practices to manage information in a cost-effective, efficient, and secure manner
• Provide general administrative services and logistical support for NNSA headquarters operations
• Develop and implement NNSA-wide procurement policies and procedures, provide advisory assistance to components on contracting matters, and monitor NNSA compliance with those policies and procedures

Changes in Structure and Staffing - Management and Administration will comprise the following six offices: (1) Office of Human Resources; (2) Office of the Chief Information Officer; (3) Office of Procurement and Assistance Management; (4) Office of Administrative Services; (5) Office of Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation; and (6) Diversity Programs. M&A will consolidate administrative functions performed by both DP and NN, as well as manage several additional functions (such as personnel and procurement) required to maintain a semiautonomous agency.

Approved as of May 3, 2001 About... Associate Administrator for Management and Administration Mission Provide timely, cost-effective, and efficient administrative and financial support for NNSA headquarters staff. Functions M&A customers include executives, managers, and employees across all units of the NNSA complex. Its core functions are the following: Design and administer the corporate planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation (PPBE) system Provide NNSA corporate systems and policies to manage NNSA's human resources Develop and implement NNSA corporate information policy and requirements to ensure that NNSA staff have the necessary tools and practices to manage information in a cost-effective, efficient, and secure manner Provide general administrative services and logistical support for NNSA headquarters operations Develop and implement NNSA-wide procurement policies and procedures, provide advisory assistance to components on contracting matters, and monitor NNSA compliance with those policies and procedures Internal and External Relationships - M&A will work closely with all NNSA components to ensure that they get the support they need to adopt consistent business practices. M&A will be the primary link to the DOE-CFO organization and OMB. M&A will encourage participation by the components in the development of new business practices to ensure that the new practices meet components' needs. Changes in Structure and Staffing - Management and Administration will comprise the following six offices: (1) Office of Human Resources; (2) Office of the Chief Information Officer; (3) Office of Procurement and Assistance Management; (4) Office of Administrative Services; (5) Office of Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation; and (6) Diversity Programs. M&A will consolidate administrative functions performed by both DP and NN, as well as manage several additional functions (such as personnel and procurement) required to maintain a semiautonomous agency. There are five offices and one smaller unit in Management and Administration. M&A will have a staff of approximately 110 federal and rotational assignment employees. NNSA employees who now perform M&A functions in the program components will move into M&A. Chart 3 shows the Planned Organization of the Associate Administrator for Management and Administration: a. Office of Human Resources (HR) Mission - Work as strategic partners with the program and support component managers to ensure that NNSA's human resources management policies and practices facilitate the effective management of the entire NNSA workforce.

Internal and External Relationships - The CIO will act as principal information management and information technology advisor to the NNSA Administrator and other senior managers. The CIO will work with DOE-CIO to ensure that NNSA has developed procedures for implementing DOE policy. The CIO will coordinate with the NNSA cyber security experts in NSSP in the development of a shared vision and corporate policies for NNSA's federal and M&O contractor information activities and champion NNSA's policies to allow the effective management of information and to provide for corporate systems that add value to the businesses of the NNSA.

The CIO will assist, as needed, the Office of Administrative Services in its coordination with the DOE-CIO Offices of Operations, Engineering, and Customer Service to provide network and telecommunications engineering and management services for NNSA programs, initiatives, and activities. The CIO will maintain liaison with, and coordinate and prepare NNSA positions and status reports for, the federal Chief Information Officer Council, OMB, GAO, Congress, and other organizations

Functions - The CIO will define the information and information technology architecture and related needs of all offices within NNSA headquarters, field elements, and Management and Operating (M&O) contractors. Customers include the Administrator, senior managers, field offices, and program and support components.

Core functions include the following:

• Chief Information Officer - Provides central oversight and, where appropriate, management of information resources activities within the NNSA headquarters, field offices, and M&O contractors
• Business Applications - Ensures that the Administration's recorded information is managed in an economical, effective, and efficient manner throughout its life cycle in support of mission accomplishment and accountability
• Operations, Engineering, and Customer Service - Provides advice and technical support to the Office of Administrative Services to ensure delivery of vital information management and information technology services in support of NNSA enterprise requirement

Changes in Structure and Staffing - The majority of CIO functions will require new positions to be created to meet the semiautonomous requirements for NNSA. Several positions will be filled from the consolidation of NNSA employees who now perform CIO functions in the program components.

c. Office of Procurement and Assistance Management (PAM)

Mission - Develop and oversee implementation of DOE and NNSA-specific policies, procedures, programs, and management systems pertaining to procurement and financial assistance, real and personal property management, and related activities.

Functions - PAM will focus on setting NNSA procurement policy, identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation, and monitoring transactions to identify and resolve system and process problems. The office oversees NNSA headquarters and field procurement staff (heads of contracting activity) and the major facility contractors' purchasing systems. PAM will rely on DOE-PAM for execution of NNSA headquarters transactions and for NNSA-unique policy deployment. Its customers include managers, directors, and staff across all units of the NNSA complex.

PAM's core functions include the following:

• Serve as the principal procurement advisor to the NNSA Administrator and assist the heads of all NNSA elements regarding procurement and acquisition management
• Serve as NNSA's Competition Advocate and ensure full and open competition in the procurement of goods and services in accordance with Public Law 98-369, the Competition in Contracting Act

PAM will also have a close relationship with NNSA's Office of Field Operations Support and Office of Project Management and Engineering Support to ensure that procurement policy is reasonably consistent with the operational needs of the field sites. Oversight and monitoring will be accomplished by using DOE-PAM performance-based and on-site techniques used agencywide (which may be necessarily tailored for NNSA's unique needs).

Changes in Structure and Staffing - New positions will be created to meet the semiautonomous requirements for NNSA, some of which may be filled through consolidation of current NNSA and DOE resources. New staff recruitment will be focused on expanding expertise in large-scale acquisition as it relates to the PPBE-style budget environment and advancing innovative practices in federal procurement management, particularly performance-based incentive contracting.

d. Office of Administrative Services (ADMIN)

Mission - Oversee and coordinate general administrative services and logistical support for NNSA headquarters, and ensure that such services are provided to the Administrator and to the NNSA program and staff offices.

Functions - The reorganization plan assumes that NNSA will utilize many of the existing services already provided by the DOE's Office of Administrative Management and Support. These functions comprise primarily central mail receipt and distribution, transportation and domestic travel, engineering and facilities services, and other services as required by NNSA. In addition, it is assumed that the administrative support capabilities currently in DP and NN are needed there and will therefore remain in those organizations. However, for those offices that do not have in-house support capabilities, the Administrative Support Staff will ensure that such services are provided. This will ensure that NNSA employees do not experience any deterioration of services.

The primary role of Administrative Services is coordination and facilitation. Its customers are NNSA headquarters organizations. Its core functions are the following:

• Serve as the primary interface and liaison between NNSA and the DOE headquarters offices that provide administrative services to NNSA and its program and staff offices

. Office of Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation (PPBE)

Mission - To provide direction, advice, and maintenance regarding processes and systems that facilitate NNSA's planning and budget activities.
Functions - The PPBE Office comprises the Program Analysis and Evaluation (PA&E) Division and the Budget Division. Customers of this office include the Administrator, Deputy and Associate Administrators, NNSA program managers, and the Management Council.

Core functions of PPBE include the following:

• Develop and implement the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation System (PPBES) for the NNSA
• Serve as principal advisor to the Administrator and other NNSA officials on NNSA financial issues
• Provide direction and oversight for budget formulation, presentation, and funds administration processes
• Provide direction and oversight for the PPBES implementation
• Maintain all systems and databases necessary to support the Future Years Nuclear Security Plan (FYNSP)
• Provide independent financial analysis in support of NNSA resource allocation decisions

The Program Analysis and Evaluation (PA&E) Division provides independent, analytic advice in support of the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution process to support NNSA objectives. PA&E supports the NNSA as an independent organization under the Director of PPBE. PA&E's primary responsibility is to provide its customers-NNSA program managers, Deputy and Associate Administrators, and the Administrator and his Management Council-with expert independent, analytic advice regarding the following:

• Development and evaluation of program alternatives and the cost-effectiveness of nuclear defense systems, nonproliferation projects, and the infrastructure necessary to support national defense objectives
• Optimization of resources through complexwide integration and risk mitigation strategies
• Major systems-acquisition analysis and support recommendations

f. Diversity Programs

Mission - Advise NNSA officials about the effects of NNSA policies, regulations, and other actions on NNSA's minority employees, and develop ways to increase participation of small and disadvantaged businesses in the Administration's programs and procurement opportunities

Approved as of May 3, 2001

The DoE move was the first part of the stovepipe, the rest of it comes off the OSP/WHIG, working along the Defense Undersecretary for Intelligence in the new command structure set in place on that date.

Cheney shaped the Intelligence Community prior to 9-11

Intelligence Office (Dep't of Energy)

The Office of Intelligence (IN) provides the Secretary, his staff and other policymakers within the Department timely, technical intelligence analyses on all aspects of foreign nuclear weapons, nuclear materials and energy issues worldwide.

Policy & International Affairs

The Office of Policy and International Affairs' role is to deliver unbiased advice to the Department of Energy's leadership on existing and prospective energy-related policies, based on integrated and well-founded data and analysis.

The Office of Policy and International Affairs has primary responsibility for the Department of Energy's international energy activities including international emergency management, national security, and international cooperation in science and technology.

National Nuclear Security Administration

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has the following mission:

• To enhance United States national security through the military application of nuclear energy.
• To maintain and enhance the safety, reliability, and performance of the United States nuclear weapons stockpile, including the ability to design, produce, and test, in order to meet national security requirements.
• To provide the United States Navy with safe, militarily effective nuclear propulsion plants and to ensure the safe and reliable operation of those plants.
• To promote international nuclear safety and nonproliferation.
• To reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction.

Associate Administrator for Facilities and Operations The Associate Administrator for Facilities and Operations provides program organizations with science and production facilities ready and available to perform NNSA's core missions. Facilities and Operations is responsible for establishing and directing, through the field elements, an overarching field operations framework that includes five major functions: support for operations, resource management, human capital, enterprise management, and contractor performance evaluation; advocacy, policy development, management oversight, and resource management for those infrastructure and facilities mutually agreed upon with the programs to be the responsibility of F&O; advocacy, policy development, and management oversight of environmental, safety, and health programs; project and construction management; and safeguards and security

The Associate Administrator for Management and Administration provides timely, cost-effective, and efficient administrative and financial support for NNSA headquarters staff.

Management and Administration customers include executives, managers, and employees across all units of the NNSA complex. Its core functions are the following:

• Design and administer the corporate planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation (PPBE) system
• Provide NNSA corporate systems and policies to manage NNSA's human resources
• Develop and implement NNSA corporate information policy and requirements to ensure that NNSA staff have the necessary tools and practices to manage information in a cost-effective, efficient, and secure manner
• Provide general administrative services and logistical support for NNSA headquarters operations
• Develop and implement NNSA-wide procurement policies and procedures, provide advisory assistance to components on contracting matters, and monitor NNSA compliance with those policies and procedures

Changes in Structure and Staffing - Management and Administration will comprise the following six offices: (1) Office of Human Resources; (2) Office of the Chief Information Officer; (3) Office of Procurement and Assistance Management; (4) Office of Administrative Services; (5) Office of Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation; and (6) Diversity Programs. M&A will consolidate administrative functions performed by both DP and NN, as well as manage several additional functions (such as personnel and procurement) required to maintain a semiautonomous agency.

Approved as of May 3, 2001 About... Associate Administrator for Management and Administration Mission Provide timely, cost-effective, and efficient administrative and financial support for NNSA headquarters staff. Functions M&A customers include executives, managers, and employees across all units of the NNSA complex. Its core functions are the following: Design and administer the corporate planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation (PPBE) system Provide NNSA corporate systems and policies to manage NNSA's human resources Develop and implement NNSA corporate information policy and requirements to ensure that NNSA staff have the necessary tools and practices to manage information in a cost-effective, efficient, and secure manner Provide general administrative services and logistical support for NNSA headquarters operations Develop and implement NNSA-wide procurement policies and procedures, provide advisory assistance to components on contracting matters, and monitor NNSA compliance with those policies and procedures Internal and External Relationships - M&A will work closely with all NNSA components to ensure that they get the support they need to adopt consistent business practices. M&A will be the primary link to the DOE-CFO organization and OMB. M&A will encourage participation by the components in the development of new business practices to ensure that the new practices meet components' needs. Changes in Structure and Staffing - Management and Administration will comprise the following six offices: (1) Office of Human Resources; (2) Office of the Chief Information Officer; (3) Office of Procurement and Assistance Management; (4) Office of Administrative Services; (5) Office of Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation; and (6) Diversity Programs. M&A will consolidate administrative functions performed by both DP and NN, as well as manage several additional functions (such as personnel and procurement) required to maintain a semiautonomous agency. There are five offices and one smaller unit in Management and Administration. M&A will have a staff of approximately 110 federal and rotational assignment employees. NNSA employees who now perform M&A functions in the program components will move into M&A. Chart 3 shows the Planned Organization of the Associate Administrator for Management and Administration: a. Office of Human Resources (HR) Mission - Work as strategic partners with the program and support component managers to ensure that NNSA's human resources management policies and practices facilitate the effective management of the entire NNSA workforce.

Internal and External Relationships - The CIO will act as principal information management and information technology advisor to the NNSA Administrator and other senior managers. The CIO will work with DOE-CIO to ensure that NNSA has developed procedures for implementing DOE policy. The CIO will coordinate with the NNSA cyber security experts in NSSP in the development of a shared vision and corporate policies for NNSA's federal and M&O contractor information activities and champion NNSA's policies to allow the effective management of information and to provide for corporate systems that add value to the businesses of the NNSA.

The CIO will assist, as needed, the Office of Administrative Services in its coordination with the DOE-CIO Offices of Operations, Engineering, and Customer Service to provide network and telecommunications engineering and management services for NNSA programs, initiatives, and activities. The CIO will maintain liaison with, and coordinate and prepare NNSA positions and status reports for, the federal Chief Information Officer Council, OMB, GAO, Congress, and other organizations

Functions - The CIO will define the information and information technology architecture and related needs of all offices within NNSA headquarters, field elements, and Management and Operating (M&O) contractors. Customers include the Administrator, senior managers, field offices, and program and support components.

Core functions include the following:

• Chief Information Officer - Provides central oversight and, where appropriate, management of information resources activities within the NNSA headquarters, field offices, and M&O contractors
• Business Applications - Ensures that the Administration's recorded information is managed in an economical, effective, and efficient manner throughout its life cycle in support of mission accomplishment and accountability
• Operations, Engineering, and Customer Service - Provides advice and technical support to the Office of Administrative Services to ensure delivery of vital information management and information technology services in support of NNSA enterprise requirement

Changes in Structure and Staffing - The majority of CIO functions will require new positions to be created to meet the semiautonomous requirements for NNSA. Several positions will be filled from the consolidation of NNSA employees who now perform CIO functions in the program components.

c. Office of Procurement and Assistance Management (PAM)

Mission - Develop and oversee implementation of DOE and NNSA-specific policies, procedures, programs, and management systems pertaining to procurement and financial assistance, real and personal property management, and related activities.

Functions - PAM will focus on setting NNSA procurement policy, identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation, and monitoring transactions to identify and resolve system and process problems. The office oversees NNSA headquarters and field procurement staff (heads of contracting activity) and the major facility contractors' purchasing systems. PAM will rely on DOE-PAM for execution of NNSA headquarters transactions and for NNSA-unique policy deployment. Its customers include managers, directors, and staff across all units of the NNSA complex.

PAM's core functions include the following:

• Serve as the principal procurement advisor to the NNSA Administrator and assist the heads of all NNSA elements regarding procurement and acquisition management
• Serve as NNSA's Competition Advocate and ensure full and open competition in the procurement of goods and services in accordance with Public Law 98-369, the Competition in Contracting Act

PAM will also have a close relationship with NNSA's Office of Field Operations Support and Office of Project Management and Engineering Support to ensure that procurement policy is reasonably consistent with the operational needs of the field sites. Oversight and monitoring will be accomplished by using DOE-PAM performance-based and on-site techniques used agencywide (which may be necessarily tailored for NNSA's unique needs).

Changes in Structure and Staffing - New positions will be created to meet the semiautonomous requirements for NNSA, some of which may be filled through consolidation of current NNSA and DOE resources. New staff recruitment will be focused on expanding expertise in large-scale acquisition as it relates to the PPBE-style budget environment and advancing innovative practices in federal procurement management, particularly performance-based incentive contracting.

d. Office of Administrative Services (ADMIN)

Mission - Oversee and coordinate general administrative services and logistical support for NNSA headquarters, and ensure that such services are provided to the Administrator and to the NNSA program and staff offices.

Functions - The reorganization plan assumes that NNSA will utilize many of the existing services already provided by the DOE's Office of Administrative Management and Support. These functions comprise primarily central mail receipt and distribution, transportation and domestic travel, engineering and facilities services, and other services as required by NNSA. In addition, it is assumed that the administrative support capabilities currently in DP and NN are needed there and will therefore remain in those organizations. However, for those offices that do not have in-house support capabilities, the Administrative Support Staff will ensure that such services are provided. This will ensure that NNSA employees do not experience any deterioration of services.

The primary role of Administrative Services is coordination and facilitation. Its customers are NNSA headquarters organizations. Its core functions are the following:

• Serve as the primary interface and liaison between NNSA and the DOE headquarters offices that provide administrative services to NNSA and its program and staff offices

. Office of Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation (PPBE)

Mission - To provide direction, advice, and maintenance regarding processes and systems that facilitate NNSA's planning and budget activities.
Functions - The PPBE Office comprises the Program Analysis and Evaluation (PA&E) Division and the Budget Division. Customers of this office include the Administrator, Deputy and Associate Administrators, NNSA program managers, and the Management Council.

Core functions of PPBE include the following:

• Develop and implement the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation System (PPBES) for the NNSA
• Serve as principal advisor to the Administrator and other NNSA officials on NNSA financial issues
• Provide direction and oversight for budget formulation, presentation, and funds administration processes
• Provide direction and oversight for the PPBES implementation
• Maintain all systems and databases necessary to support the Future Years Nuclear Security Plan (FYNSP)
• Provide independent financial analysis in support of NNSA resource allocation decisions

The Program Analysis and Evaluation (PA&E) Division provides independent, analytic advice in support of the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution process to support NNSA objectives. PA&E supports the NNSA as an independent organization under the Director of PPBE. PA&E's primary responsibility is to provide its customers-NNSA program managers, Deputy and Associate Administrators, and the Administrator and his Management Council-with expert independent, analytic advice regarding the following:

• Development and evaluation of program alternatives and the cost-effectiveness of nuclear defense systems, nonproliferation projects, and the infrastructure necessary to support national defense objectives
• Optimization of resources through complexwide integration and risk mitigation strategies
• Major systems-acquisition analysis and support recommendations

f. Diversity Programs

Mission - Advise NNSA officials about the effects of NNSA policies, regulations, and other actions on NNSA's minority employees, and develop ways to increase participation of small and disadvantaged businesses in the Administration's programs and procurement opportunities

Approved as of May 3, 2001

The above exceprt of the Intelligence Community.gov's original listed press publicity page backgrounds the overhaul of internal review within the Intelligence Community that Dick Cheney's influence helped to shape within the DCI. Adding Energy Dep't to the IN was the swing vote to override all opinion within the framework of review for what would be presented to the President to shape policy.

PAM, under the NNSA, in the Dep't on Energy, most likely the introductory characters were in place under the diversity program. Cheney is an energy baron's wet dream, he changed how the balance of review was seated to favor his odds, and used politically correct language to justify the personnel overhauls...

Youre On Notice! - The Stephen Colbert "On Notice Board" Generator

Youre On Notice! - The Stephen Colbert "On Notice Board" Generator

New Polling Standards for GWB.

We've been told often that more persons would rather have a beer with George Bush. than any other politician. Perhaps those who believe David Broder is a Man of the People feel this way.

Most Americans clearly despise the notion, or harbor a chance to tell him how poor a supposed leader he is given such a chance, or would only the on the notion Bush is buying. Or they're too proud to even make that part of the arrangement and prefer to go dutch so they can the enjoy the brand of beer as they do their own opinion, and not feel obligated to associate loyalty or respect position in the company of thier own valued time to enjoy drink.

So let us forego the notion most Americans would want to have a beer with George Bush. Granted it would perhaps be the most benign that man could be depicted, minus driving inferiority and Oedipal motivations he apparently harbors or projects as motivation.

The more important issue is would you let the man have your car keys? Friends don't let friends drive drunk. Would most Americans trust the President to drive their car?

Webb turns corner, Dean should arrive to the same point.

Carville is already carving up the turkee and trying to get Dean into a retaliatory sound byte.

Howard's learned the art of restraint and will play it low key when confronted with the issue. You'll be surprised how he changes the topic towards key domestic issues.

He should make the point that nobody questions health care for the troops, but some groups don't fulfill the obligation.

We need to expand this concern towards all Americans, we can model health care availability and pricing upgrades towards our troops as a way to help do the same for all Americans.

Bring medicine costs down with bulk purchase power.
Oh, since everyone says "President Bush" or "Senator McCain" we need to say "Dr. Howard Dean" and emphasize his health care expertise.

You saw how James Webb turned the corner from foreign policy towards socioeconomic concerns. Let's see every Democrat find a way to do that. Take an issue of the war and contrast it to similar concerns in your local/national races.

Carville thinks he called Dean out. Howard should not hammer him, he should keep his focus on the message.

Ark. Reps make 1st District race into the worst district race...

"First District race about style"

"Rep. Marion Berry is being challenged by Cabot mayor Stubby Stumbaugh"
by Chuck Bartels (AP)

"US.Rep.Marion Berry says he'll be able to do more for his district if he is re-elected and Democrats regain the majority in the House. His Republican opponent, Mickey "Stubby" Stumbaugh, says Berry doesn't have much of a record to build on.
These men are running for the 1st District seat in Congress that Berry has held since 1977.
Stumbaugh, 39, is mayor of Cabot and worked 15 years as a police officer in Little Rock, where he drew 33 days worth of disciplinary suspensions. He has also gone through two divorces and one bankruptcy, though he says he has "learned from" all of his mistakes."

Please add this to the list of scandals on the GOP scorecard, and add mention of your note that the Arkansas republican party has ties to DeLay's dirty ARMPAC/Abramoff funding.

Lebanon's Engagement Narrative.

We as a country must address the Mideast war that is raging from an engaged point of view. Isolationism after Word War One led directly towards the accelerated rise of state fascists. These catalysts were borne of polar opposites across the spectrum of post industrialized cronies. It was evident that a state of engagement was the only way to deal with problems that accompany development. Thus determinism is weighed in matters of exchange, both parties in matters must have their needs met or at least considered and integrated within any accord met.

Growth can metasticize unchecked, we've seen the record marks hailed by venture interests collapse under its ambitious speculation when the reality it shapes incites reactionary terror. The gains and advance of technology, along unprecedented pace, takes repeated body blows from the dual pronged burnback that manifests.

Across a broad base of scale economies there is record disenfranchisement and inequity. Items that must be(and usually are) addressed at peacetime now languish as collective empowerment is rendered quaint. This produces counter developmental sentiment that adheres to traditional old model cultural doctrines and still does assimilate within the new interconnected model of value exchange.

That is the second prong, a new movement inside the ranks of the established that sees opportunism in playing the same previous held bias and norms against other such schools of belief and institutions. These young, affluent, upward moving, mobile profiles form the teeth of terror that can work across the awareness of long perceived assumptions. Yet they can easily move within the spheres of influence whose ideals and underpinning they claim, and shed them at a moment's notice when it best suits their appetite.

This background simply helps establish the narrative our world community must encounter to win the interests of a better tomorrow. We've seen little coordinated progress within the hot point of scale geopolitical economies in the Mideast. This is where the strongest hands of each interested party play, and each with the most loss of capital. Human capital, spiritual capital, and of course the base mores of our world economy find key elements within this crucible. Myrrh and anger are the cup which is being partaken of. The baptism of bloodletting makes for more such moments in other regions of the world community.


Within such context does Prof.Juan Cole develop conversations, his Informed Comment often highlights the realities our world must now deal with. A reply that could pertain to each of the threads he has currently placed at the site is as follows:

'Well to hear Neutered Gingrich speak, Israel is on the side of peace and justice and is the biggest victim.

This is email sent to a friend on the same topic:
"The Newt Gingrich formula for casualties magnifies casualties in Israel on a comparative scale with USA population. Every eight people to him equals the equivalent of 500 Americans.
Well, Lebanon has comparative scales of populace as well. Over forty people killed would equal 2,500 people.

So think of Lebanon having undergone a 9-11 worth of deaths for its defense of soil against a contractor and retaliation afterwards when Israel went full scale reactionary.

Gingrich and his fuzzy math... Meat the Press and Timmeh.

MR. GINGRICH:" No. I mean, I think it is explicitly wrong and I think Senator Biden and I are basically in agreement on this. It is explicitly wrong to bring pressure on the victim. I mean, Israel did everything it could to withdraw from south Lebanon, and the result was terrorist missiles. Israel withdrew from Gaza, creating an opportunity for a self-governing Palestinian people to create a place of prosperity, and they’ve created a place of terror. And I think for us to now say—imagine that was Miami. Imagine Miami had missiles being fired at it every day. Remember that when Israel loses eight people because of the difference in population, it’s the equivalent of losing almost 500 Americans. Imagine we woke up this morning and 500 Americans were dead in Miami from missiles fired from Cuba. Do you think any American would say, “Now, we should have proportionate response. We shouldn’t overreact”? No. We would say, “Get rid of the missiles.” And, and John F. Kennedy, a Democrat who understood the importance of power in the world, was prepared to go to nuclear war to stop missiles from being in Cuba.
I don’t, I don’t think that, that any realistic
As for the replies in you site, can you confirm if the soldiers were captured in Israel?
Were the rockets launched in retaliation to bombings done after the soldiers' capture?"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13839698/page/2/
What is this of eight casualties, I only heard of two soldiers kidnapped. Have they padded the casualty total to craft a victimization narrative?

The total killed has changed, the location has been changed three times, I could have sworn the original report was a border 'patrol' that was over the border in Lebanon.

I'll apologize if wrong about the soldiers' location...

The timeline seems to be have been blurred. The specifics and chronology are at issue. The google function sends such a mix of events and blurs the time distinction.

Again the other post I sent it was noting how a biographer on cspan went into the Kennedy archives that England housed. She found a wealth of information and one of Kennedy's most trusted advisers was from there. His time in England while father was Ambassador in 1938 gave him a wealth of insight to someone whose politics were the opposite of his family philosophy.

He saw Winston Churchill's directive to make statements and reach accord as a starting point as a key.

Doing so in this instance would help shape the Mideast but if we only side with one country then it will lead to mistakes down the road. Alienating one side of the conflict will simply harbor resent. Lebanon could be Afghanistan on steroids."

Bush already fumbled such initiative and left himself to antics of foreplay with an EU member before getting the cold shoulder(literally). From Cold Wars to cold shoulders, how far we've fallen.

Note again that Kennedy saved strongest words for the times he was least expected to state such(early debates, meetings with the supreme Soviet).

He used golden tones and exchange, the flavor of engagement, to establish support at other key times.

As others note he may not have the kind of arching support necessary to do this now. Lebanon has been prepped for a campaign by assassins and pysops, so the targeting of infrastructure fits the entire paramilitary approach we see Israel exhibit at this point in time.

Syria was bullied out after its closest sympathy was shot. Bush now expects Syria to be the major player in this? Has he really lost his mind? How could he remain this adroitly uninformed?

Lebanon is the end of the trans Arabian pipeline. That is a big key in terms of energy. Post peak Sauds hid dwindling supplies with oil for food, channeling the under the table purchases to hide their own shortcomings.

The post peak OPEC states all have stakes in this(Lebanon and Iraq) by proxy.

Look at the USA and where its bases have been established- along the route of a northern Iraqi pipeline that is matching to the same destination of the transarabian pipeline, inLebanonrn lebanon and overlooked by Golan.

Follow the Money. Negroponte's broGreekis a greek shipping magnate and the Mediterranean is the doorstep to EU's market, postpeak.

It looks like we're steering an increased concentration of state funds towards the neocons established money operatives. The Wolfowitz way...

Israel has indeed employed ethnic cleansing in Lebanon, Sharon made a name doing it. The sister state of Rumsfeld/Lebanon in the early 80s, the same place the bin laden magnates profited off the pork. Osama decided to shed the disco daze of excess and apply rigid idealogues towards new ends. Strangely enough it crafts and shapes the same outcome for contractors.

War is a means to a means. War forever. In Iraq until 2016 with a blank check and diebold to control the domestic backlash. Israel will develop burnback and needs it to maintain its own victims narrative. See also the Mossad unit that celebrated WTC collapse after shadowing the Embry-Riddle flight crews that we trained under the guise of Saud allies.

The brazen neocons don't even hide it anymore.

As for the initial stats in your thread the numbers, when tweaked under the Gingrich model, are quite disturbing indeed:

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Latest Lebanese casualty figures (info from major Italian daily "La Repubblica", Rome:
http://www.repubblica.it/2006/07/dirette/sezioni/esteri/mediorient/18luglio/index.html - item timelined 17.00 hours)

240 deaths in Lebanon due to Israel's bombings so far.

Breakdown:

- 212 civilians
- 23 Lebanese Army soldiers
- 5 (five) Hizbollah militants.

"In addition to Lebanese citizens, the civilian deathtoll includes 7 CanBrazilianBrasilians, 2 Kuwaitis and a Jordanian.

Immense damage to Lebanon's infrastructures:ports, airports, major highways and hundreds of buildings."

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Tha would be almost 500 Canadians, 370 Brazilians, 120 Kuwaitis, and 60 Jordanians killed as collateral effect.

Then you would have roughly 350 Hizbollah party members inflatere inflator formula, party members are being called terrorists regardless. if such is the designationscignation for the Likud, and can their membership be included in terror rankings for human rights and NGO groups?

Twenty three Lebanese army members is the equivalent of about 1,750 Americans lost under the Gingrich formula. That would not make much headlines in today's media as we've seen with Iraq. For the first three months of the invasion they told up close life stories of almost every casualty in America, now they're a closing list, in PR terms a 'tease.' That is to say they are a fifteen second feature.

Now comes the Gingrich formula as we must apply it to the following list:

212 Cilivians in theformulach formula is the equivalent of thirteen thousand, two hundred and fifty Americans, per capita.

That's genocide numbers in any book. Prof. Cole makes a valid point. The projected total 13,250 is no small amount of lives.

Let's apply this Gingrich formula for civilians to both sides to see exactly how much urgency this war has created. Go a step beyond that, as the example set by Mr. Berg, a candidate who lost his son to torture and beheading. Upon hearing of another's death, the person credited in his son's killing, he said no man's death is to celebrate, every loss in this war has become his loss as well. By channeling the energy and spiritual capital of people on both sides of this we've created an immense deficit of value and to end this we must end the fighting.

-Chris H.'

In addition, one must take into account the numbers of our world population, one person in four is of Muslim faith, so the Gingrich per capita multiplier manifests much more resent towards the side given the freest hand in this matter. Both sides are targeting people who are of not of strategic or tactical value outside of creating retaliatory victim narratives or reverse spin. There's no other reason to go after them thjustifiede justifed. If the supposed narrative applies towards them, it should apply towards both sides.

Since religious belief flavors most opinions in favor of either side in total, let us examine some of the possible words that could determine asatisfactorytsifactory to that set of values.

Luthertin luther King Jr. spoke briefly in Birmingham, having been stabbed, about the bold approach towards enemies in forgiveness and love. Matthewrs matthew Chapter Five in the speech and applies it in modern terms towards hate crimes.

"...basic content is the same, new insights and new experiences naturally make for new illustrations.

So I want to turn your attention to this subject: "Loving Your Enemies." It's so basic to me because it is a part of my basic philosophical and theological orientation the whole idea of love, the whole philosophy of love. In the fifth chapter of the gospel as recorded by Saint Matthew, we read these very arresting words flowing from the lips of our Lord and Master: "Ye have heard that it has been said, "Thou shall love thy neighbor,thinhate thine enemy." But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven."

Certainly these are great words, words lifted to cosmic proportions."

The context of the sermon on the mount was one of instruction. Christ toured the region teaching, and numbers of people followed beyond the ability of a building to hold them. Fittingly he relied upon the environment to host such throngs, outside the scope of one particular institution or denomination, a body of many varied backgrounds.

In today's terms the scope of such would be the body that most governments find agreed principals with in the UN. Unfortunately its own internals allow disinterested groups to block any such dialog in real terms. The Security Council has within its design impeding roadblocks towards consensus.

So we must broaden the scope of the sermon, of King's inspiredo inspried by it, towards the context of its instruction. The Chapter before backgrounds the travels of Christ leading towards the fifth chapter. He brought many with him along the way, its symbolism is of heightened importance towards today's regional conflicts.

"19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

20 And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.

22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, ... and he healed them.

25 And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan."

Syria, the land of his mother's birth, is explicitly mentioned. This design so includes its sentiment with that of the traditional great symbols of faith within the Holy Land, judea,Jerusalem, Jordan all follow.

Also the call was to leave the father and the profession and life's trade towards a greater purpose. Both sides must cede some key points to find agreement. Leave the suppositions and instructions of the father, with respect towards such but in new and tolerant accord.

Remember, much of the world is watching. To call for a ceasefire and an end to violence is the fiGeopoliticallyolitically, we see other reasons emerge. The post peak OPEC interests see both a putsch for fiscal gain and divergence from their owntacticsl tactiics take precedence over any supposed loyalties. Tribalism takes on different meanings as a result, in terms of subjective value.

America has already helped set the table for such actions, pressuring Syria out then moving in upon their former partner. Such a move isolates the land from much of the Mediterranean sphere. This is done to a country that was one of first supporters on 9-11 and just thereafter.

Israel continues its real time apartheid under the modicum of monotheism. Plurality is the design of true democracy and should essentially be a fundamental tenet of Abrahmaic faith. As stated above, we're all sons of Beruit, we're all sons of Jerusalem. All within the world community, to establish tiered society based on differences is to dilute the potential of all societies.