Dude, appron strings, sissors, cut now! Bout half tempted to say that the boy should be court martialed for leaking millitary information to a subject who would use it for political purposes.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: A person seeking entry to Iraq must appear before an authorized officer of the CPA at a port of entry, border control station, or at any place designated by the Senior Advisor of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior, in coordination with the Interim Minister of the Interior, for examination to determine whether the person may be granted entry to Iraq. Officers issue permits valid for up to 90 days, which may be renewed at CPA offices in Iraq. Permits will eventually be issued by Iraqi missions abroad.

I recommend 7 years of tamoxifin to get her estrogen levels down to the 'Fred' level. Being a concerned parent is one thing. Being stupid enough to put the people you're supposedly concerned about in danger, that's special.

Have her tubes tied - around her neck.

I have a gut feeling that this isn't even a true story. But, who knows? I've been wrong before.

Reasons I don't believe this story is 'true:'

1) Gallymore = Rallymore = Protest Rally More.

2) It reads lilke 'fiction' instead of 'fact.' Like a story or fairy tale instead of fact.

3) Interesting details are missing such as whether or not the robbers were Jordanians or Iraqis. What's the deal with the 'Online Essay' bit? What no URL?

Did you hit the SF Chronicle link? This story is the Chron's lead story today...appears on the front page above the fold with a 3 col wide color photo of the mother and an insert photo taken in Iraq with the son.

It's for real.

Here's the link to the print version.

http://sfgate.com/chronicle/

The mother has a website, but I'll be damned if i'll send her traffic....it's in the article. Is this the first you've heard about Code Pink's incursions into Iraq?

Look closely and you will see the mental condition in her that is called White Guilt. Here's the money-quote-reason:

"...Galleymore's early childhood in apartheid-era South Africa. "

It reads lilke ‘fiction’ instead of ‘fact.’ Like a story or fairy tale instead of fact

Let me weigh in on Jeff's observation: Yes, the form of this report is fictional. Oh, there may be some facts embedded in it but most of it is invented, imagined (the dramatic removal of the scarf, for example). The positioning of the reporter remains obscure and key details are omitted. The selection of detail resembles that of urban legends--gratuitous facts predominate over corroborative ones, tone and atmosphere predominate over anything one could check. This perversion of New Journalism is, of course, common practice at the Chronicle.

Yes, your point is well taken, Galleymore is writing a book so perhaps she will document her claims, but I wouldn't count on it. Code Pink has many such first-person accounts on their website. They seem to be accepted as factual by the media and the anti-war movement.

I find myself agreeing with Jeff on this one. And If this tale is even partly true there are plenty of ways to protest the war and the current administration without interfering with the necessary work in Iraq, which is both very dangerous and something we can not fail at. I wonder what Code Pink would have said if she had been injured or killed? I wonder what their liability insurance premiums are? I was wondering what the hell she was thinking? (if that was part of the story at all). But in the end, this piece was so poorly written that I was thinking it was a quickly manufactured story to support a stereotype of the anti-war movement.

No Sterotype .... mac33. This is an UNALTERABLE FACT. We will henceforth use the same techniques that all good liberals love so well.

I DEMAND that you give me every link and documented fact anywhere on the Internet that there is even one brain among even one person in the Anti-war movement (ANYWHERE in this world) or elsewhere. (Got to consider Dennis' Father Twilight, you know).

Macc22, If you are part of such an organization, that INCLUDES you. You are REQUIRED to DOCUMENT all instances of even a very slight suspicion of intelligence, integrity and common sense on the part of any such protestor.

If you cannot do that, then it will remain as a DEMONSTROBABLY PROVEN FACT that NO-ONE in the Anti-War Movement NOW HAS, or HAS EVER HAD any whiff of brains, common sense or integrity.

Anti-war protestors (particulary the Communist party ANSWER people) are the greratest lovers of Palestinian Hamas' killers and the al-queda Terrorists' greatest supportors. May they all receive the "72 Virgin" treatment also!

A typo .... demonstrably --- Mis-pelled. Sorry!

LeadDog2, why all the barking? You'll have the neighbors calling the cops again :0

>No Sterotype …. mac33. This is an UNALTERABLE FACT. We will henceforth use the same techniques that all good liberals love so well.

Why lower yourself? I can't figure out what techniques you are talking about. The only reason my posts sound like they do is that I have been attempting to emulate rightwing techniques (combative and degrading to my 'advisaries). One thing that I refuse to do, however, is to attempt to dismiss an arguement based on such things as career choices of the people I am debating, I leave that to you. You know, Condi was an academic before she became a government employee, I've wondered at least twice how much you could possibly value her opionion since she has probably 'not worked a day in her life.' Hmmm. It's an interesting ability, being able to decern everything about a person from a single POV they might hold or a career they are pursuing, especially if either are different from your own.

I have always thought that Howard Dean was closer to the approach I would have followed. I am also a big fan of Molly Ivans. I am not a part fo the anti-war movement, I have always been a bit ambivalent about the Iraq war. I am also not now, nor have I ever been a part of the Communist Party (so much for conservative techniques.) On the one hand Saddam was a bastard and we had put so much effort into hurting him (especially in his mind although I can't speak for him, nor would I want to) he looked like a possible threat. Hell, I even thought he might have had mobile chemical weapons factories, until recently. On the other hand, there was this unfinished business in Afghanistan. I really thought we should have gone into Afghanistan with a much bigger force structure instead of going into Iraq. Cleaned out the rats nest and taught them a lesson. I guess this is the, 'what would TR do' thing. Afterall, Saddam looked to be exactly what OBL hated as much, if not more than us infidels, a bad muslem if a mulsem at all ruling in the land of Islam. Maybe it was militarily not so tractible, but we should have shocked and awed AQ, not the citizens of Baghdad. GWB seemed intent on re-fighting daddies war and nothing was to stop him. Maybe the Neocons are right and after a while all this will pay off and the Iraqis will set up a Jeffersonian democracy and the Iranians will look across the boarder and all say, I got to get me some of that, and the Saudis will plan national elections to find a new royal family. We will have to wait and see. We might even see the oil revenues pay for the rebuilding of Iraq. Unfortunately, I stopped going to Chruch years ago and my faith in man is less than my faith in God. All this could happen, we'll see.

I'm not a part of a movement or a party, I only speak for my own sense of what is going on. I hope that Iraq is a better place for our hundreds of billions of dollars we are going to be spending there, not to speak of the lives and the wounded. If its not, then I might feel compelled to join a movement.

I frequently make the point frequently about how the seeds of the current situation lies in many past administrations. Do I think that Clinton did all he could have? No, he could have done more but he could have done a lot less too. Do I think that much of the current mess is tracable back to St Ronald's term, you betcha. Do I blame him for it? Only in so much as the right likes to blame Clinton for everything including messles. Afterall, the state of Afghanistan was the result of a collaborative effort between the Soviet and American governments. Who was in charge during that collaboration? This is only stated as a counterballance to the charges like the one that Clinton didn't nab OBL when Sudan 'offered' him up. I don't think that Reagan or Clinton were totally prescient. I do think that one of the things that Clinton was doing that could have helped us out a lot was pursuing middle east peace as a priority. To try and fail at least mutes the impression that we don't care about the plight of the Arab people in general and the Palestinians in particular. Maybe you would say that they have made their own bed ... I saw on another thread the implication that this wasn't working on 'terrorism' and I would disagree with this. This is a central front line in the War on Terrorism. It's like JFK said about Central America that there will be no peace without justice.


>If you cannot do that, then it will remain as a DEMONSTROBABLY PROVEN FACT that NO-ONE in the Anti-War Movement NOW HAS, or HAS EVER HAD any whiff of brains, common sense or integrity.

Actually, if I cannot do this it would only prove that I cannot do this or that I don't possess a whiff of brains, which may be. These kind of statements do not go very far in demonstrating that you have a very commanding grasp of logic.

By the way, who is LeadDog1?

They are getting to play the Marin County, my son was brainwashed card.It is a reverse on that jerk who went to fight for the Taliban.

See? All young men have to be brainwashed to go off to war. If only we could stop the brainwashing...

Its the same old peace crap. They're spitting on their warrior relatives...and hogging the camera.

mac33,

"You proved my point" !!!! You provided NOT ONE SHRED of EVIDENCE or any links that proved that ANYONE in the ANSWER group or Moveon.org or any other part of the Anti-America movement has ever had any "whiff of intelligence", decency, or even common sense.

The Links Man! The Links! You have to provide proof or you are GUILTY.

What do they NOT KNOW and WHEN DID they NOT KNOW it? Proof! Proof! Proof!

If you cannot provide Proof with pictures, links, time of day and all supported sounds, smells, tastes and feelings you are HERBY CONVICTED of NO SENSE and NO BRAINS.

At least, I have a sense of humor. The above describes all of the ranting and raving from the Left.
It is their standard method of operation. If you cannot see that, then I pity you.

LOL, a sense of humor, I thought that's what I had...

In any case, I can't speak for organizations that I don't have anything to do with. First I'm too busy and second there are too many unanswered questions that too many people act as if they possess certitude that cannot possilby exist, like Powell at the UN (sorry I have no link, I looked up PowellattheUN.org and .gov but they weren't there) At the moment, knowing what I think I know (you are in the same boat, you too only think you know things about the current situation in Iraq) my opinion is that it was a big mistake at the time it was accomplished and in the manner it was executed. I said in the lead up over and over that it was probably a good thing to get rid of Saddam, but these guys are going to totally screw up the aftermath. There was no proof to what I was saying, I just looked at how they viewed the world, as near as I could determine that, and knew that reality and their vision were at odds. This is one of those things where the proof is in the pudding, but looking at the recipe one gets a good idea about the taste something is likely to leave in ones mouth. Far better to savagely attack the people who actually attacked us and teach the lesson that we will avenge our dead to the tenth degree than to suddenly move off course and get all tied up in a long and painful occupation of a major ME power. My impression of the Bush team is that they never really had to balance books in their personal lives like we do. There are 200,000,000 tax payers here (conservatively probably less) and the Iraq occupation is costing us around $200,000,000,000 in the next two years. McCain today said we were going to be in Iraq for 'many years to come.' I think that it is within my rights to question whether it was the right thing to do for the right reasons and something people should be more skeptical of than whether or not what Bill Clinton should have done more to capture OBL, who is still out there more than two years after he killed allmost 100 times more Americans than he did under Clinton's watch. I think that it is also more important than even asking if Bush's tax cuts raised or lowered the total tax burden on the middle class. I am all for shifting the burden of taxation to the local level, I live in a 'blue' state and the blue states give more per capita to the federal treasury in proportion to per capita services than the 'red' states do. The Red states should bear more of their own burden, personal responsibility is what I say! The 'Blue' state stand to win big under the current tax shifts, until the bills start coming due. I don't know, maybe this tax restructuring will bring forth a new guilded age and the treasury will swell. We'll have to see, won't we. Maybe I'm stupid, all I know is that I am not a part of the organizations you listed just because I might share some of their concerns.

It sounds like you are just itching to call HUAC back into session. (Just a little humor)

Assuming this story is true, the woman is an idiot and monumentally selfish.

And yet...

It's precisely the fact that she can protest US actions in the Middle East, without being thrown in prison for it, that makes "our way" better than "their way".

Endangering troops is quite another matter. But I'll let the military courts deal with that, or not, as they will.

mac33,

You said you are a scientist. I thought surely you had heard of "Satire". Apparently not!

Leaddog2, it's lost on me.

It was a bit over aped so I thought I would play it as served. There is always a bit of truth in the absurd so I figured you were using their techniques but with your intended questions and emotional content. I've seen your posts for a while and the attitude wasn't inconsistent. You never bother to answer my questions so I also figured it was fair game.

CNN's Headline News is "crawling" this story tonight.

Heh.

>“I don’t know if he hasn’t been responding to my e-mails because he can’t, or because of something else,” Galleymore said.

Probably because he's embarassed at the fact that this loon is actually his mother. Thank goodness he didn't inherit the tinfoil beanie gene that is obviously so present in mom!

Maybe the woman is seriously mentally ill. I'd bet on it. That could very well be why her son escaped into the military in the first place! I hope she gets the help she so obviously needs.

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