Click to scroll to commentary.

Gotta See This!--Operation Infinite Freedom!--09-15-03
AP...Reuters...AFP...Yahoo...NYT...USNEWS...Various ^ | 09-15-03 | Conservativeman55

Posted on 09/15/2003 9:33 PM EDT by ConservativeMan55

U.S. environmental groups on September 15, 2003 blasted the Bush administration for failing to appeal a Wyoming court injunction that blocked a Clinton-era rule designed to protect millions of acres of federal forest land. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) addresses supporters during a Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign fundraiser while in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, September 15. (Larry Downing/Reuters)

Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) meets with families of victims killed in a March 1988 chemical gas attack, at a memorial built on a mass grave in the northern Iraq (news - web sites) town of Halabja September 15, 2003. Powell lit candles for victims of the attack on Iraqi civilians and told their families such an attack would never happen again. (Rajiv Chandrasekaran/Washington Post via Reuters)

U. S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) moments before speaking to supporters after touring the Detroit Edison Monroe Plant in Michigan, September 15, 2003. Bush later traveled to Pennsylvania for a 2004 campaign fundraising event. REUTERS/Larry Downing

US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) removed the threat of narcotics-related sanctions against Guatemala(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)

U. S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) speaks to supporters after touring the Detroit Edison Monroe Plant in Michigan, September 15, 2003. Bush on Monday defended a change in clean air rules -- which environmentalists believe will cause more pollution -- as necessary to allow power plants to upgrade their equipment and keep the U.S. economy going. REUTERS/Larry Downing

President Bush (news - web sites) speaks at a fund-raiser for his re-election campaign in the Philadelphia suburb of Drexel Hill, Pa., Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

President Bush (news - web sites) waves before getting into the presidential motorcade after exiting Air Force One at Philadelphia Interrnational Airport Monday, Sept. 15, 2003, in Philadelphia. Bush visited Pennsylvania to attend a fund-raiser in the Philadelphia suburb of Drexel Hill. (AP Photo/Douglas M. Bovitt)

President Bush (news - web sites)'s speaks to workers at the Detroit Edison Monroe Power Plant in Monroe, Mich., on his energy agenda, Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

President Bush (news - web sites) speaks to workers about his energy agenda, at the Detroit Edison power plant in Monroe, Mich., Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. Bush told the group that new clean-air rules are good for America's energy supply -- and its economy. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

President George W. Bush (news - web sites) speaks to supporters after touring the Detroit Edison Monroe Plant in Michigan, September 15, 2003. Bush expressed concern about drug trafficking by North Korea (news - web sites) and pledged stepped-up efforts to stop it. Photo by Larry Downing/Reuters

President George W. Bush (news - web sites) shakes hands with supporters after touring the Detroit Edison Monroe Plant in Michigan, September 15, 2003. Bush defended a change in clean air rules -- which environmentalists believe will cause more pollution -- as necessary to allow power plants to upgrade their equipment and keep the U.S. economy going. Photo by Larry Downing/Reuters

U. S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) tours the Detroit Edison Monroe Plant while in Michigan, September 15, 2003. Bush on Monday defended a change in clean air rules -- which environmentalists believe will cause more pollution -- as necessary to allow power plants to upgrade their equipment and keep the U.S. economy going. REUTERS/Larry Downing

U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) (C) tours the Detroit Edison Monroe Plant with Senior Union Committeman Mike Smith (L) and Director of Monroe Power Plant Paul Fessler, in Michigan, September 15, 2003. The president will continue to Pennsylvania for an evening fundraising event before returning to the White House. REUTERS/Larry Downing

U. S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) tours the Detroit Edison Monroe Plant while in Michigan, September 15, 2003. Bush on Monday defended a change in clean air rules -- which environmentalists believe will cause more pollution -- as necessary to allow power plants to upgrade their equipment and keep the U.S. economy going. REUTERS/Larry Downing

President Bush (news - web sites) greets Mark Gayer, left with beard, and fellow workers from the Detroit Edison power plant in Monroe, Mich., Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. It was Bush's 11th trip as president to Michigan, a key state he lost to Democrat Al Gore (news - web sites) in 2000. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

President Bush (news - web sites) speaks to workers at Detroit Edison's power plant in Monroe, Mich., on his energy agenda, Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. Bush says that new clean-air rules are good for America's energy supply -- and its economy. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) waves to the press as he departs the White House for a day-trip to address an environmental eventin Detroit, Michigan, Setember 15, 2003. Bush will also attend a Bush-Cheney 2004 fundraiser in the evening in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. REUTERS/Mike Theiler

President Bush (news - web sites) waves as he departs the White House, Monday, Sept. 15. 2003, for a day trip to Michigan and Pennsylvania before returning the White House Monday night. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

President George W. Bush (news - web sites) indicated he would spend 3.72 million dollars to finance an international consortium charged with implementing a now-defunct 1994 anti-nuclear deal with North Korea (news - web sites)(AFP/File/Stephen Jaffe)

U. S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) pauses while speaking to supporters after touring the Detroit Edison Monroe Plant in Michigan, September 15, 2003. Bush on Monday defended a change in clean air rules -- which environmentalists believe will cause more pollution -- as necessary to allow power plants to upgrade their equipment and keep the U.S. economy going. REUTERS/Larry Downing

U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) is photographed with Percella M. Vinson from Monroe, Michigan, after touring the Detroit Edison Monroe Plant in Michigan, September 15, 2003. Bush will continue to Pennsylvania for an evening fund-raiser before returning to the White House. REUTERS/Larry Downing

US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) waves with his dog Spot after arriving back at the White House in Washington, DC(AFP/Stephen Jaffe)

Oxfam aid group activists wearing masks of some of the G8 leaders US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) (back), Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (R) and British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) gather for a photo oportunity in a pool outside of the Fifth WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancun(AFP/Luis Acosta)

Oxfam relief workers wearing fiberglass heads of G-8 world leaders 'see and hear no evil' near the Word Trade Organization meeting in Cancun Sunday, Sept. 14, 2003. Groups like Oxfam accuse of rich nations of turning a deaf ear to the demands of poorer countries to stop subsidizing their farmers so foreign nations can compete. From left to right, Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, Jacques Chirac of France, and George W. Bush of the U.S. (AP Photo/Jaime Puebla)

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, left, tours a mass grave site near Al-Hillah, Iraq (news - web sites) in this Sept. 6, 2003 file photo. Human rights groups say that for all the focus by U.S. officials on the atrocities, the American response to the problems of the mass graves has been slow, disorganized and inadequate. (AP Photo/Matt Kelly, File)

A Sudanese asylum seeker sits on the ground to eat food distributed by an aid organization to Iraqi Kurds and Sudanese refugees near the Calais city hall, northern France, September 10, 2003. Nine months after the closure of the Sangatte Red Cross refugee camp, bands of Sudanese and Kurds wait for nightfall and the chance to stow away on a lorry bound for Britain. TO GO WITH FEATURE BC-FRANCE-BRITIAN-IMMIGRANTS REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

A United States Army Chinook helicopter door gunner keeps watch while flying over the Iraqi capital of Baghdad September 15, 2003. One U.S. soldier was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack while on patrol in central Baghdad, the U.S. military said, bringing to 73 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in hostile action in Iraq (news - web sites) since Washington declared major combat over on May 1. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)

Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) meets with families of victims killed in a March 1988 chemical gas attack, at a memorial built on a mass grave in the northern Iraq (news - web sites) town of Halabja September 15, 2003. Powell lit candles for victims of the attack on Iraqi civilians and told their families such an attack would never happen again. (Rajiv Chandrasekaran/Washington Post via Reuters)

US admnistrator in Iraq L. Paul Bremer III greets Secretary of State Colin L. Powell upon his arrival at Baghdad International Airport, Iraq, Sunday, Sep. 14., 2003. Mr. Powell is in Iraq to tour facilities and meet troops supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Robert R. Hargreaves Jr.) Released. VIRIN: 030914-F-7685H-013

Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) visits with members of the U.S. Air Force's 447th Air Expeditionary Group as he prepares to depart Baghdad International Airport, Iraq (news - web sites), Sep. 15, 2003. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force/Airman 1st Class Brian Ferguson)

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell waves to a crowd of military men and women cheering his arrival at Baghdad International Airport, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2003. Mr. Powell is walking to a waiting helicopter with US administrator in Iraq (news - web sites) L. Paul Bremer III. Mr. Powell is in Iraq to tour facilities and meet with troops supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force /Master Sgt. Robert R. Hargreaves Jr.)

A U.S. soldier carries a ballot box as an Iraqi Sheikh casts his vote, to elect members for the governing council of the northern Iraqi province of Salah ad Din in Tikrit, September 15, 2003. 120 Iraqis from the province, handpicked by the U.S. army, voted to elect a 34-member governing council for the province as a first step towards democracy in Iraq (news - web sites). REUTERS/Arko Datta

Air Force Col. Dennis Ployer, 447th Air Expeditionary Group Commander (L), greets Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) upon his arrival at Baghdad International Airport, September 15, 2003. At right is U.S. Ambassador to Iraq (news - web sites) L. Paul Bremer. On the second day of the first visit to Iraq in 50 years by a U.S. secretary of state, Powell visited the site of the attack which killed some 5,000 Kurdish villagers in Halabja town in the closing months of the war between Iraq and Iran. The aim was to draw attention to human rights abuses under deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and remind the world that Saddam did once have chemical weapons, even if U.S. forces have not found any during five months of occupation. EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Robert R. Hargreaves Jr./U.S. Air Force

US Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites), left, talks with Kuwait's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Mohammed Al Sabah at Bayan Palace, Bayan, Kuwait City on Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. The American official Powell returned from a short trip to Iraq (news - web sites) and had a brief visit to the Emirate where he met with high officials. Seen at the center is a portrait of Kuwait's ruler, Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah. (AP Photo/Kuwait Ministry of Information)

US Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites), left, answers questions from journalists during a press conference at Bayan Palace, Bayan, Kuwait City on Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. Powell returned from a short trip to Iraq (news - web sites) and had a brief visit to the Emirate where he met with Kuwait's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed Al Sabah, standing on the right, and other high officials.(AP Photo/Naggih Nasser)

US Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites), left, shakes hands with Kuwait's Minister of Foreign Affaires, Sheikh Mohammed Al Sabah at Bayan Palace, Bayan, Kuwait City on Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. Powell returned from a short trip to Iraq (news - web sites) and had a brief visit to the Emirate where he met with Kuwait's high officials. (AP Photo/Kuwait Ministry of Information)

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) (R) waves to a crowd of military men and women upon arrival at Baghdad International Airport September 15, 2003, alongside U.S. Ambassador to Iraq (news - web sites) L. Paul Bremer. On the second day of the first visit to Iraq in 50 years by a U.S. secretary of state, Powell visited the site of the attack which killed some 5,000 Kurdish villagers in Halabja town in the closing months of the war between Iraq and Iran. The aim was to draw attention to human rights abuses under deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and remind the world that Saddam did once have chemical weapons, even if U.S. forces have not found any during five months of occupation. EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Robert R. Hargreaves Jr./U.S. Air Force

Air Force Col. Dennis Ployer, 447th Air Expeditionary Group Commander, left, greets Secretary of State Colin L. Powell upon his arrival at Baghdad International Airport, Iraq (news - web sites), Sep. 14, 2003. Mr. Powell is in Iraq to tour facilities and meet troops supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. At right, is L. Paul Bremer, the top US administrator in Iraq. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Robert R. Hargreaves Jr.)

Angry Iraqi Shiite Muslim fighters of the 'Badr Brigade' chant slogans as they lift their rifles during a military parade in their camp in a suburb of Darbandikhan city.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)

Fouad Issa, bodyguard of Col. Khedeir Mekhalef Ali, police chief in Khaldiya, Iraq (news - web sites) lies in a hospital bed with gunshot wounds after their car was attacked Monday Sept. 15, 2003. In Khaldiya, three men, their faces covered with red and white Arab headdresses shot and killed Col. Ali on the outskirts of the volatile western city of Fallujah as they were driving home. His driver was wounded in the attack, police said. (AP Photo/Samir Mezban)

In this image made from television, the fire damaged corridor and taped off cells of the al-Haer prison in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia are seen on Monday Sept. 15, 2003 following a blaze that killed 67 inmates. Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef ordered an investigation into the fire's cause, the Saudi news agency said. (AP Photo/APTN)

Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, is seen at his office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in this Feb. 6, 2002 file photo. A fire broke out Monday in a prison in the south of the Saudi capital Riyadh, killing 67 inmates. Twenty inmates and three security men were wounded. Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef has ordered an investigation the Saudi Press angency said. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, left, and Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada greet people in Arequipa, 465 miles, south east of Lima, Peru, on Monday, Sept.15, 2003. Sanchez de Lozada is on a one day-visit to Peru. (AP Photo/Oscar Paredes-Prensa Palacio)

Ted Costa, head of the Peoples' Advocate, one of the groups that put Governor Gray Davis' recall on the ballot, talks with reporters following a news conference held on the steps of the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., in this July 14, 2003 file photo. A federal appeals court threw California's tumultuous recall campaign into complete turmoil Monday, Sept. 15, 2003, by postponing the Oct. 7 election. Costa said an appeal is certain. 'Give us 24 hours,'' he said. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File

Damaged vehicles are shown near the Garrett Snuff Mill complex in Yorklyn, Del., after a flash flood moved through the area Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. (AP Photo/Jim Graham)

A suntan washed chiffon and cotton mesh dress is modeled from the spring 2004 collection of DKNY in New York, Monday Sept. 15, 2003. (AP Photo/Louis

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., campaigns on the campus of the University of Iowa, Monday, reminding students about his experiences in Vietnam, Sept. 15, 2003, in Iowa City, Iowa. The Old Capitol is shown in the background. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Buzz Orr)

Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-Ma) addresses the crowd during a campaign fundraising concert September 10, 2003 in Boston. On Sept. 14, Kerry urged a freeze on tax cuts for wealthy Americans as Democrats seized on the rising costs of Iraq (news - web sites) reconstruction as a political theme. (Jim Bourg/Reuters)

A sunshine chiffon trench cover-up is modeled over a sunshine halter bikini from the spring 2004 collection of DKNY in New York, Monday Sept. 15, 2003. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)

This is the daily market chart for Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. (AP Photo)

California Governor Gray Davis (R) and former US president Bill Clinton (news - web sites) (L) chat with supporters during the inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton Elementary School in Compton, California. A US appeals court ordered the delay of the scheduled 07 October recall vote aimed at ousting Davis, citing a flawed voting system.(AFP-Getty Images/J. Emilio Flores)

Anna wears a pearlized washed leather jacket with a cactus one piece bathing suit and a khaki washed silk skirt from the spring 2004 collection of DKNY shown in New York, Monday Sept. 15, 2003. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)

Supporters of President Bush (news - web sites) take photos and applaud as he speaks at a fund-raiser for his re-election campaign in the Philadelphia suburb of Drexel Hill, Pa., Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) "Why are all these Muslims taking pictures?"

Mariana models a nude washed leather jacket over a hot pink washed silk wrap skirt during the showing of the spring 2004 collection of DKNY in New York, Monday Sept. 15, 2003. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)

Actress Jane Seymour, left, gets a hug from an unidentified woman as she leaves the funeral for country music legend Johnny Cash in Hendersonville, Tenn. on Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. Cash, 71, died Friday, Sept. 12, of respiratory failure caused by complications from diabetes. (AP Photo/John Russell)

A Thunderbird jet slams into the ground during an air show Sunday, Sept. 14, 2003, at Mountain Home A.F.B., Idaho, in this image from video. The pilot, Capt. Chris Stricklin of Shelby, Ala., successfully ejected from the single-engine F-16C Fighting Falcon a split second before the crash. The 31-year-old pilot was not seriously injured. The $23 million aircraft exploded on impact in front of a crowd of 85,000 people. (AP Photo/ABC-TV via APTN)

Country musician Randy Scruggs, second from right, serves as pallbearers as the body of country music legend Johnny Cash is taken from the church following his funeral in Hendersonville, Tenn. on Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. Cash, 71, died Friday, Sept. 12, of respiratory failure caused by complications from diabetes. (AP Photo/John Russell)

John Carter Cash, right, arrives with his family for the funeral for his father, country music legend Johnny Cash, in Hendersonville, Tenn. on Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. Cash, 71, died Friday, Sept. 12, of respiratory failure caused by complications from diabetes. (AP Photo/John Russell)

Friends, family and some of country music's biggest stars bid farewell to Johnny Cash at a funeral service September 15, 2003, filling a Tennessee church with music, songs and memories of the 'Man in Black.' Cash's hall of fame brass plaque is draped in black with red roses at the side at the County Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, September 12. Photo by John Sommers/Reuters

Kid Rock, left, and Hank Williams Jr. leave the funeral for country music legend Johnny Cash in Hendersonville, Tenn. on Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. Cash, 71, died Friday, Sept. 12, of respiratory failure caused by complications from diabetes. The lady at left is not identified. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Country music star George Jones arrives for the funeral of country music legend Johnny Cash in Hendersonville, Tenn. on Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. Cash, 71, died Friday, Sept. 12, of respiratory failure caused by complications from diabetes. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Former Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) arrives for the funeral of country music legend Johnny Cash (news) in Hendersonville, Tenn. on Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. Cash, 71, died Friday, Sept. 12, of respiratory failure caused by complications from diabetes. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Kid Rock, right, and Hank Williams Jr., center, arrive for the funeral of country music legend Johnny Cash in Hendersonville, Tenn. on Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. Cash, 71, died Friday, Sept. 12, of respiratory failure caused by complications from diabetes. (AP Photo/John Russell)

Members of the Church of God show their feelings for the Cash family at their Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee, September 12, 2003. Fans of country music singer Johnny Cash (news) are mourning the death of the 'the man in black' who died at Baptist Hospital in the early morning hours September 12 of complications from diabetes. REUTERS/ John Sommers (news) II

US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) (L) congratulates Country singer Johnny Cash (C) along with First Lady Laura Bush (R) in Washington,DC, where Cash was awarded the National Medal of Arts.(AFP/File/Stephen Jaffe)

Soldiers from the "New Iraqi Army" wait in line during exercises at the US military base of Kirkush, 90 kms east of Baghdad. Paul Bremer, the US overseer in Iraq (news - web sites), said earlier this month three battalions had been recruited for an Iraqi civil defence corps, some 2,500 border personnel had been signed up, and one battalion of the new Iraqi army was in training. Overall, he said, nearly 60,000 Iraqis were currently in uniform.(AFP/Thomas Coex)

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) (2nd R) and Suhayba Abdul-Rahman, who lost her husband, all of her five children, and was blinded by a March 1988 chemical gas attack, light candles at a memorial built on a mass grave in the northern Iraq (news - web sites) town of Halabja, September 15, 2003. Powell on Monday lit candles for victims of a 1988 chemical weapons attack on Iraqi civilians and told their families such an attack would never happen again. REUTERS/Rajiv Chandrasekaran/The Washington Post ** Mandatory Credit. WASHINGTON TIMES OUT, NEW YORK TIMES OUT, USA TODAY OUT, MAGAZINES OUT, NO RESALE ** REUTERS

This poster obtained from Iraq (news - web sites)'s US led administration, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) shows a 25 million USD reward for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).(AFP-CPA)

Rabia'a Kamash, driver of Col. Khedeir Mekhalef Ali, police chief in al-Khaldiya, Iraq (news - web sites) lies in a hospital bed with gunshot wounds after their car was attacked Monday Sept. 15, 2003. In Khaldiya, three men, their faces covered with red and white Arab headdresses shot and killed Col. Ali on the outskirts of the volatile western city of Fallujah as they were driving home. His bodyguard was wounded in the attack, police said. (AP Photo/Samir Mezban)

American soldiers from 4th infantry division, Lt.Col Ryan Gonsalves left, of Fort Hood Texas, and Lt.Col Jeff Springman right, of Fort Carson Colorado with Ahmed Ali Khalaf, chief judge of Sommara region in Tikrit, Iraq (news - web sites), Monday, Sept. 15, 2003, count votes for the interim provisional council for the Salahuddim Provence. Delegates from the eight major regions of Salahuddimn Provence gathered to elect their first ever 34 member interim provisional council to administer Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s birthplace of Tikrit.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

An unidentified woman in Tikrit, Iraq (news - web sites), Monday, Sept. 15, 2003, places her vote into the ballot box for the interim provisional council for the Salahuddim Provence. Delegates from the eight major regions of Salahuddim Provence gatherd to elect their first ever 34 member interim provisional council to administer Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s birthplace of Tikrit.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

Being sworn in are 34 newly elected members for the interim provisional council for the Salahuddim Provence right, stand in front of American soldiers and other deligates in Tikrit, Iraq (news - web sites), Monday, Sept. 15, 2003, to take the oath of office. Delegates from the eight major regions of Salahuddimn Provence gathered to elect their first ever 34 member interim provisional council to administer Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s birthplace of Tikrit.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

In this image made from television in the early hours of Tuesday Sept. 16, 2003, the exterior of the al-Haer prison is seen following a blaze on Monday that killed 67 inmates in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef ordered an investigation into the fire's cause, the Saudi news agency said. (AP Photo/APTN)

US Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) meets with families of victims killed in a March 1988 chemical gas attack, at a memorial built on a mass grave in Halabja, Iraq (news - web sites) Monday Sept. 15, 2003.The family members are holding photographs of their dead loved ones. Powell visited Halabja to highlight perhaps the single biggest human-rights abuse of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s brutal regime _ the chemical weapons murder of some 5,000 people. (AP Photo/Rajiv Chandrasekaran, The Washington Post)

How often do you barbecue? While just 9% of adults say they never barbecue at home, more than a third (34%) cook on the grill several times a month.(National Pork Board survey of 1,702 adults 20 and older/By Anne R. Carey and Chad Palmer, USA TODAY)

Glance : A soldier from the "New Iraqi Army" glances at his fellow soldiers during an exercise at the US military base of Kirkush, 90 kms east of Baghdad. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch will give her first television interview to ABC News' Diane Sawyer in prime time on Nov. 11, her publisher said September 15, 2003. Lynch talks to reporters upon her return to Elizabeth, West Virginia, July 22, 2003. Photo by Blake Sell/Reuters

A view of the eye of Hurricane Isabel is shown in this image taken from the International Space Station (news - web sites), September 15, 2003. U.S. East Coast residents prepared Monday for one of the most powerful storms in recent memory as Hurricane Isabel whirled through the Atlantic toward possible landfall Thursday in North Carolina. Isabel's top winds weakened slightly to 125 mph (205 kph) as it took a path that could bring it ashore near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and north along the Chesapeake Bay near Washington D.C., through Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (news - web sites) said. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO SALES REUTERS/NASA (news - web sites)/Handout

A model wears a orange and white silk chiffon gown and gold leather strap sandal at the presentation of designer Oscar de la Renta's Spring 2004 collection in New York on September 15, 2003. REUTERS/Peter Morgan REUTERS

Models come onto the runway together at the end of the showing of the spring 2004 collection of DKNY in New York, Monday Sept. 15, 2003. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)

President Bush (news - web sites) is greeted by his dog Spot after returning from a campaign fundraiser outside of Philadelphia at the White House in Washington Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and first lady Laura Bush walk off Marine One with their dog Barney, after returning to the White House, September 14, 2003. The president and first lady spent the weekend at Camp David. REUTERS/Mannie Garcia

President Bush (news - web sites) waves as he walks off of Marine One with first lady Laura Bush and dog spot, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2003, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. President Bush will address the nation Sunday evening to talk about Iraq (news - web sites) and the war on terrorism. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

1 posted on 09/15/2003 9:33 PM EDT by ConservativeMan55

Gotta See This PING!!!
Let me know if you would like on or off this list.

2 posted on 09/15/2003 9:34 PM EDT by ConservativeMan55 (If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
 | To 1 | 

Thanks for posting the pictures of Johnny Cash's funeral. May he rest in peace.

3 posted on 09/15/2003 9:39 PM EDT by hedgetrimmer
 | To 2 | 

nice!

4 posted on 09/15/2003 9:40 PM EDT by MonroeDNA (No longshoremen were injured to produce this tagline.)
 | To 1 | 

No Problem. He was a great man. Prayers go out to his family.

5 posted on 09/15/2003 9:40 PM EDT by ConservativeMan55 (If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
 | To 3 | 

Thanks!

6 posted on 09/15/2003 9:40 PM EDT by ConservativeMan55 (If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
 | To 4 | 

My heart... George Jones... drinking a bottle of WATER!!!

7 posted on 09/15/2003 9:41 PM EDT by pierrem15
 | To 2 | 

JIHAD Around the World -- Today's Links of Interest...

On The Net...JIHAD ONLINE.net: Taliban : English: "THE FACE OF AFGHANISTAN'S RESISTANCE; INVERVIEW TALIBAN LIEUTENANT" -Posted by "Admin" (September 15, 2003)

On The Net...AS-SAHWAH.com: IslamicAwakening.Com Discussion Board: Jihaad: "AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI: A MESSAGE FROM AL-QAEDA" -Posted by Abdul Aziz (September 14, 2003) (Note: Abdul Aziz lists this e-mail address alhaqq@jeeran.com and this web site url http://alhaqq.jeeran.com/ on his profile page.)

8 posted on 09/15/2003 9:41 PM EDT by Cindy
 | To 1 | 

Type like a hurricane, ConservativeMan55.

========= Tikrit =========

Today, while many in the USA do nothing, and while quisling PLOwell
and his US State Dept Arabists support terrorists with millions of dollars,
REAL HEROES from the 1st Battalion combat terrorists.
Here they raid Baathist strongholds. Five of Saddam's men were taken with weapons and money.

Fly like the wind, heroes.

9 posted on 09/15/2003 9:41 PM EDT by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
 | To 2 | 

You will stay right where you are on the thread.
Please take a moment and Thank a Service Man or Woman.
Just Click on the graphic to send an e-mail.

10 posted on 09/15/2003 9:52 PM EDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Have you said Thank You to a service man or woman today?)
 | To 1 | 

PING for a Gotta See by ConservativeMan55 (and two more, ;-)X)

========= Kabul =========

Today, FREED BY THE USA, in Kabul, a young girl learns to read
as freedom percolates through the streets.

11 posted on 09/15/2003 9:57 PM EDT by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
 | To 8 | 

Thanks for the thread Cman55.
And thanks for the ping Dioge.
Freedom and news bump.

12 posted on 09/15/2003 10:04 PM EDT by Darksheare (Ever try surfing FR while sitting upside down? Not for the soft of head, sorry DUers.)
 | To 11 | 

13 posted on 09/15/2003 10:19 PM EDT by TexKat
 | To 10 | 

There are some who might believe that this wasn't worth fighting for. Let's hope the violence will end with her generation. An education and more opportunities to pursue a better life.

Thanks to you both for the great pics.

14 posted on 09/15/2003 10:19 PM EDT by swheats (Bush....4 more years!)
 | To 11 | 

Angry Arabs waving guns in front of eager and complicit photographers. Now there's a sight you don't see every day....

15 posted on 09/15/2003 10:38 PM EDT by Theo
 | To 2 | 

Ping! Check it out, gents.

16 posted on 09/15/2003 10:39 PM EDT by HiJinx (The Right person, in the Right place...)
 | To 14 | 

Great many thanks for the ping to this thread, Diogenesis. Outstanding job.

17 posted on 09/15/2003 10:47 PM EDT by Victoria Delsoul (There aren't enough conservatives in CA to vote for Tom and still have him to win. That's a fact)
 | To 11 | 

Thanks for all the photos. Especially those of our people in Iraq.

18 posted on 09/15/2003 10:58 PM EDT by WaterDragon (America the beautiful, I love this nation of (legal) immigrants.)
 | To 1 | 

I can't believe nobody mentioned the babes!

Argggggg

19 posted on 09/15/2003 10:59 PM EDT by ConservativeMan55 (If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
 | To 18 | 

Excellent thread, as always! Thanks for the ping, Diogenesis!

20 posted on 09/15/2003 11:13 PM EDT by nutmeg ("The DemocRATic party...has been hijacked by a confederacy of gangsters..." - Pat Caddell, 11/27/00)
 | To 1 | 

Bump for the babes, lol.

21 posted on 09/15/2003 11:18 PM EDT by blam
 | To 19 | 

Where can we get Bill and Hitlery Klintoon, algore, Dean, Kerry, LIEberman, Sharpton, Terry McAuliffe, etc. heads like these for our FReeps? LOL ;-D

Oxfam aid group activists wearing masks of some of the G8 leaders US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) (back), Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (R) and British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) gather for a photo oportunity in a pool outside of the Fifth WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancun(AFP/Luis Acosta)

Oxfam relief workers wearing fiberglass heads of G-8 world leaders 'see and hear no evil' near the Word Trade Organization meeting in Cancun Sunday, Sept. 14, 2003. Groups like Oxfam accuse of rich nations of turning a deaf ear to the demands of poorer countries to stop subsidizing their farmers so foreign nations can compete. From left to right, Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, Jacques Chirac of France, and George W. Bush of the U.S. (AP Photo/Jaime Puebla)

22 posted on 09/15/2003 11:26 PM EDT by nutmeg ("The DemocRATic party...has been hijacked by a confederacy of gangsters..." - Pat Caddell, 11/27/00)
 | To 1 | 

Nice!

23 posted on 09/16/2003 12:08 AM EDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Stop the violins!! Visualize whirled peas...)
 | To 11 | 

SECRET SERVICE CODE NAMES JUDAS AND RATBOY

The only other geezer with that hair is--aaack! COMSYMP!

24 posted on 09/16/2003 12:10 AM EDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
 | To 11 | 

LOL! Thanks for the ping PhilDragoo. Another great thread Diogenes

25 posted on 09/16/2003 12:15 AM EDT by SAMWolf (The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
 | To 24 | 

Thanks for the pictures!!

26 posted on 09/16/2003 12:23 AM EDT by RoseofTexas
 | To 1 | 

Good job, CM55! The models were a nice touch, too. They were totally unexpected. :-)

27 posted on 09/16/2003 12:24 AM EDT by LibWhacker
 | To 1 | 

bump- good work!

28 posted on 09/16/2003 1:15 AM EDT by Prodigal Son
 | To 1 | 

29 posted on 09/16/2003 1:33 AM EDT by EternalVigilance (Prayers for the Cash family)
 | To 19 | 

Well, I did like the outfits. I'll leave it to you to ogle the 'babes!' LOL

30 posted on 09/16/2003 1:55 AM EDT by WaterDragon (America the beautiful, I love this nation of (legal) immigrants.)
 | To 19 | 

Great pic of the girl back in school. Just awesome.
BUMP!

31 posted on 09/16/2003 4:13 AM EDT by risk
 | To 11 | 

Outstanding post! Keep up the great work!

32 posted on 09/16/2003 5:09 AM EDT by johnnybobs
 | To 1 | 

The only other geezer with that hair is--aaack! COMSYMP!

Ewwww! huffington and now these guys. I've got to go look at somebody who's pretty just so I can keep breakfast down!

LOL. Thanks for the ping Phil.

33 posted on 09/16/2003 6:46 AM EDT by snippy_about_it (Pray for our troops)
 | To 24 | 

Bump for a wonderful array...

34 posted on 09/16/2003 8:38 AM EDT by eureka! (Rats and Presstitutes lie--they have to in order to survive.....)
 | To 11 | 

Thanks for the pics CM55 and thanks for the extra ping Dio you two are great to have around here.

35 posted on 09/16/2003 8:49 AM EDT by Rightly Biased (<><)
 | To 1 | 

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.