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From My Way News: Bush Warns of Nuclear-Armed Iran

President Bush warned Wednesday of a nuclear-armed Iran but did not rule out that the United States would negotiate with its provocative leader if he gives up his suspected nuclear weapons ambitions.

Bush said it's important for the United States to stay engaged in neighboring Iraq to convince the Iranians that the U.S. is committed to democratic reform in the region. "There would be nothing worse for world peace than if the Iranians believed that the United States did not have the will and commitment to help young democracies survive," Bush told businessmen and women where he took questions after a talk on government spending.

"If we left before the job was done, there would be chaos," Bush said about withdrawing U.S. troops prematurely from Iraq. "Chaos would embolden not only the extremists and radicals that would like to do us harm, but it would also embolden Iran. What you don't want is to have a nuclear arms race taking place in the Middle East."

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Rachel Lucas recently raised a discussion on the topic of surveillance cameras and the paranoia that seems to be raised over the matter. Here is part of that discussion:

...many of you said that basically, everything you do will be recorded and watched by some anonymous flunkie government stooge. That every minor infraction, misdemeanor, questionable activity, et cetera will be logged and duly noted. That the government will eventually become oppressive using this technology and that any citizen who the government decides they don’t “like” will become a target, watched 24/7.

All of those things are absolutely possible, I don’t dispute that. But y’all. Think about the logistics involved here. I mean, do you REALLY think that it’s physically possible for every minute of footage to be watched by a human being? How about even 0.01% of the footage? The national average for cop-to-citizen ratio is 2.08 to 1,000. I know there are other people in law enforcement besides cops, but they already have full-time jobs to do. It just seems to me that the idea that anyone is sitting around watching the footage of millions of cameras is, well, mathematically illogical.

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From FOX News: Limbaugh Broadcaster Comes to Radio Host's Defense

The owner of the company that airs Rush Limbaugh's show has come to his defense, telling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that while he isn't certain to whom Limbaugh was referring when he used the term "phony soldiers," the radio talk show host has a long history of supporting U.S. troops.

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In an attack that began with the first words of the show and continued throughout his daily three-hour broadcast Tuesday, Limbaugh compared Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, claimed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is using a liberal media watchdog to suppress her opposition and said he feels sorry for Sen. Tom Harkin's family for having to be associated with the Iowa Democrat's statements on the Senate floor a day earlier.

He then said the attacks aren't really about him personally.

"It's about them and they are desperately trying to salvage themselves with their own lunatic fringe base who they are not only disappointing but they are deceiving because the dirty, little secret, as I also predicted, was that if the Democrats win the White House in '08 they are not pulling out of Iraq. All the top tier Democrats have said so," Limbaugh told his audience.

"Time to distract those peasants with pitchforks out there who are fit to be tied over being betrayed by Harry Reid, (House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats," he said.

The conservative talk radio host was fighting back after Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate lambasted him over remarks he made last week suggesting veterans who oppose the Iraq war are "phony soldiers."

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