11/3/2003 ABCNOTE:Meet the Press 2 days before election-a Zell Dem putdown

[papau]

The ABCNOTE http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html
had the following on the NBC bias - in the the 2 days before the Southern election - they have 30 minutes given,, with no rebuttal, to Zell Miller's don't vote for the Dem viewpoint.


"Leading Democratic Party officials tell The Note that they are angered over yesterday's "Meet the Press." In their view, Senator Zell Miller got half the program to attack his own party and pronounce its death in the South less than forty-eight hours before polls open in two Southern governors races, with no equal time given to someone to paint a different picture. Said one Democrat: "This is the type of treatment Democrats say they have come to expect from FOX," which just might make Neal Shapiro happy.<snip>

With yesterday's deaths, the total number of U.S. troops who have died in Iraq has increased to 379 -- almost two-thirds of them since Bush, standing in front of a banner declaring "mission accomplished," announced an end to major combat operations on May 1."

Meanwhile the Wash Post notes the apparent lies from the administration about force levels and trained Iraq civil police forces in Iraq.

"Blunting new calls from Capitol Hill to dispatch more U.S. troops, Rumsfeld said that "over 100,000" Iraqi forces had been trained to provide security and that the number would double by next September. Rumsfeld's number of Iraqi forces is 15,000 higher than numbers provided by the U.S. occupation authority and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice in the past week, and it represents a 40 percent increase from administration estimates a month ago."

"But Rumsfeld said that although the number of U.S. troops in Iraq has declined from 150,000 to 130,000, "the total number of the security forces in the country has been going up steadily" because the number of forces contributed by other countries has remained steady at 30,000 and the number of Iraqi forces has "gone from zero on May 1st up to over 100,000 today." Rumsfeld said "it's the totality of those three that needs to go up, and it is going up steadily. And there has not been a need for additional U.S. forces." The administration has not explained why its estimate of the number of Iraqi forces has risen so rapidly. On Oct. 9, L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, told a news conference in Baghdad that 60,000 Iraqis were providing security to their country. On Thursday, about three weeks later, Rice told foreign reporters the overall number was "over 85,000 and growing." That same day, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz told an audience at Georgetown University the figure was "some 80,000 to 90,000." On Saturday, the day before Rumsfeld said there were more than 100,000, a senior official in the occupation authority provided a figure of nearly 85,000, which included 50,000 police, 20,000 in the facility protection service, 7,800 in the civil defense corps, 5,000 border guards and 1,400 in a new Iraqi army."


Meanwhile Roll Call's Stu Rothenberg suggests that Gore's weakest states that are in play for 04 are Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Mexico and Oregon.

As Always the ABCNote is a Must read.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html

[E_Zapata]

1. neither here nor there: But, "gore's weakest 04 states"?

Is Gore running?

[papau]

3. The states that in 00 that Gore won but are weak for 04 are the 5

steas mentioned - if you buy the analysis by Roll Call

[lovedems]

2. They tell a lie and then embellish on that lie and then

embellish on the lied lie, etc. They have gone so far from any form of truth, they lie about their lies!