Another KO Special Comment tonight...Breaking..

[rsmith6621]

Breaking at the end of the AM coverage on Fords funeral

[malaise]

1. here comes the lynching and the US's

association with this barbarism. I love you KO

On second thoughts he'll probably compare Ford with Bush.

Edit - reword. add.

[Cassandra]

2. Maybe he'll re-rewrite the history...

from Kissinger's eulogy.

[SoFlaJet]

3. So he's back today and tonight right?

doesn't he now have an afternoon slot like at 5 or something?

[pacalo]

4. My guess is it will be about the lynching that was orchestrated

by the one who deserves to be lynched.

[xultar]

5. I hope he calls BULLSHIT on that spin that the US told Iraq not to rush the hanging.

[madokie]

6. heres a clip from his email

Tonight on Countdown
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We're back, Keith's back, anchoring from Washington, and he has a Special Comment about the war in Iraq, President Bush, and "sacrifice".

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US President George W Bush intends to reveal a new Iraq strategy within days, the BBC has learned. The speech will reveal a plan to send more US troops to Iraq to focus on ways of bringing greater security, rather than training Iraqi forces. The move comes with figures from Iraqi ministries suggesting that deaths among civilians are at record highs. The BBC was told by a senior administration source that the speech setting out changes in Mr. Bush's Iraq policy is likely to come in the middle of next week. Its central theme will be sacrifice. The speech, the BBC has been told, involves increasing troop numbers. The exact mission of the extra troops in Iraq is still under discussion, according to officials, but it is likely to focus on providing security rather than training Iraqi forces. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6223923.stm

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hundreds of Sunni Arabs gathered to show their anger and grief for Saddam Hussein on Tuesday as the Iraqi government promised an investigation into illicitly filmed footage of Shiite officials taunting him on the gallows. The sectarian passions that have pushed Iraq toward civil war could be further inflamed by the video of the execution, apparently shot on a mobile phone, showing people chanting the name of Shiite cleric and militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16438087/

The nation honored Gerald R. Ford on Tuesday under towering cathedral arches, high-powered fanfare for a common man propelled to the presidency by the Watergate crisis that drove his predecessor from office. Inside, more than 3,000 people, including the three living ex-presidents, mourned the man who was charged with restoring trust in government after Richard Nixon's downfall in 1974. They remembered an unassuming leader who was content with his congressional career until history called him to higher office. Inside the cathedral, former presidents Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter chatted with each other as the gathering waited for the procession. Carter, the Democrat who defeated Ford in 1976, also had an animated conversation with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16393733/