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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi Interior Ministry ordered police yesterday to begin rounding up beggars, homeless people, and mentally disabled people from the streets of Baghdad and other cities to prevent insurgents from using them as suicide bombers.
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The decision, which elicited concern from advocates for the mentally disabled, came nearly three weeks after twin suicide bombings against pet markets. Officials said those blasts were carried out by mentally disabled women who might have been unwitting attackers.

What’s the concern for the so called advocates?

The people detained in the Baghdad sweep will be handed over to social welfare institutions and psychiatric hospitals that can provide shelter and care for them, Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Abdul-Karim Khalaf said.

Yes and the point being??

It is not clear that such people would be safe in psychiatric hospitals.

Says who? Unnamed advocates, that’s who. Could it be that the media is acting in this role here? Is it not better to be in a welfare institution than be used as a human carrier of bombs that will not only kill you, but many other people as well? I guess the advocates aren’t sure.

The soft death throes of Hillary’s screams are getting louder and louder.

But now, with 10 straight losses to well-funded rival Sen. Barack Obama, Clinton is trailing in both delegates and the popular vote, the first drafts of her campaign’s obituary are already written, and she finds herself fighting for more time. And with a devastating loss in Wisconsin, where Obama bested her among her once core supporters, and only a dozen days before voters in Texas and Ohio decide whether her on-life-support campaign can rally, Clinton’s quest has taken on an air of desperation.

Does this signal the end of the Clinton error era? Will we see more tears of desperation and despair? Will the attacks become more and more childish? I think so.

And she’ll dig deep into her pockets to hand out the cash…

So the Clinton strategy? Good debate performances, heavy ad buys, and superdelegates, superdelegates, superdelegates—the party’s top elected officials, national committee members, and assorted bigwigs. Neither candidate, her aides predicted, will have enough delegates secured through the primary and caucus system to lock up the nomination, and they will continue their courting of the uncommitted superdelegates.

…to pay off superdelegates for their support. Or so she thinks. Clinton’s idea of courting includes threatening, conniving, conning and buying off. But Obama is a serious contender. He’s got what it takes, as they say. His campaign of CHANGE directly challenge Clinton’s campaign of EXPERIENCE.

I think she’s going to cry a lot in the coming days.

The sweet irony of John McCain and immigration is this: The Democrats cannot attack him on this issue. McCain can use his steadfast (although very wrong) support of immigration reform as a carrot stick to the Hispanic vote.

For Democrats, 2008 was supposed to be the year of the Mountain West, when three years of relentless Republican attacks on undocumented immigrants would fuel a backlash among Hispanics that would change the playing field in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, and perhaps alter the landscape of presidential politics for a generation.

But the emergence of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) as the likely standard-bearer for the GOP may have scrambled the equation, cooling a potential political revolt among Hispanics and sending Democrats in search of a new playbook.

“It completely screws it up,” said Charles Black, a senior McCain adviser. “We nominated the one person who will not suffer that backlash.”

Rep. Raul M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), whose Tucson district is heavily Hispanic, said Democrats should change their tack toward Latinos and emphasize the economy, education and health care before even raising the immigration issue. Perhaps Democrats seeking the Latino vote would be best served challenging McCain on the Iraq war, suggested Guillermo Nicacio, Arizona state coordinator for Mi Familia Vota, an effort to encourage Latinos to apply for citizenship, register and vote.

There are few differences between McCain and the Democrats on this issue. The question is, will McCain have the nerve to seek the support of Latinos and perhaps alienate his base even more?