La Marseillaise was sung at today's D-Day commemoration, but at the dinner table tonight my whole family admitted we know the French national anthem from this wonderful scene in Casablanca. Open thread below....

O'Reilly vs Coulter

Ann and Bill squared off last night over the Iraq war.

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Ann calls the bad new from Iraq "background noise." In Ann's world we shouldn't be carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. Hey "War is Hell." Her reference to D-Day is a particularly "low-brow" analogy. Coulter wants to know how we know Iraq isn't going very well. After all she's no military expert. However, she doesn't believe FOX's own experts like "biblical justice" Hunt who is saying we're in trouble over there. Annie disputes that it's worse now than it was last year.

Bill and Ann then had a little spat about Vietnam:

COULTER: Yes, we kind of did. I think we did lose that one.

O’REILLY: I don’t. I disagree with you. But that’s a debate for another day.

COULTER: They’re living under communism, Bill.

Newshounds has more on the segment: She blamed broadcasters like Cronkite and Democrats in congress for our defeat in Vietnam because they said we were losing.

Ballon-Juice : Longtime readers know my feelings about Bill O’Reilly, and when O’Reilly and Coulter debate, it is sort of akin to a Cowboys/Browns Superbowl for me.

I root for injuries.

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Watching America via ReBelleNation

Due to the cleanly erased or non-existent serial numbers, investigators believe that the late-model Beretta firearms, similar to those carried by U.S. forces, were intended for people with “substantial government backing.”

By Nunzia Vallini

May 28, 2005 Original Article (English)    

BRESCIA: The report forwarded by American intelligence officers is brief and to the point: "Hostiles" in Iraq are toting Berettas. Insurgents have a large number of Italian-made side arms, all recent-model weapons, and what is even more disturbing, with illegible or non-existent serial numbers.

These phantom weapons were apparently of recent manufacture, but investigators have been unable to attribute them to legal imports during the early 1980s. The file has been forwarded by American intelligence to the Brescia public prosecutor's office, via the Italian secret services, and magistrates are determined to find where the weapons came from. Investigators have worked in total silence since an inquiry was opened in autumn 2004.Watching America via ReBelleNation

Due to the cleanly erased or non-existent serial numbers, investigators believe that the late-model Beretta firearms, similar to those carried by U.S. forces, were intended for people with “substantial government backing.”

By Nunzia Vallini

May 28, 2005 Original Article (English)

BRESCIA: The report forwarded by American intelligence officers is brief and to the point: "Hostiles" in Iraq are toting Berettas. Insurgents have a large number of Italian-made side arms, all recent-model weapons, and what is even more disturbing, with illegible or non-existent serial numbers.

These phantom weapons were apparently of recent manufacture, but investigators have been unable to attribute them to legal imports during the early 1980s. The file has been forwarded by American intelligence to the Brescia public prosecutor's office, via the Italian secret services, and magistrates are determined to find where the weapons came from. Investigators have worked in total silence since an inquiry was opened in autumn 2004.

Yesterday, however, judicial police visited the Foreign Ministry with a warrant signed by Chief Public Prosecutor Giancarlo Tarquini for copies of documents. All the  Brescia-based magistrate would say is, “It is our duty within the context of a confidential investigation."  Read on...

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Yesterday, however, judicial police visited the Foreign Ministry with a warrant signed by Chief Public Prosecutor Giancarlo Tarquini for copies of documents. All the Brescia-based magistrate would say is, “It is our duty within the context of a confidential investigation." Read on...