the uzbek authorities. ethnic uzbeks. they live in southern kyrgystan. fled across the border to uzbekistan. the majority are uzbeks. complicated, ethnic divisions across this region. i think what is interesting about looking at the people in this camp is that there are women and children. there are no men amongst them. a few around. some with quite severe injuries. they have been shot, cut with knives. the vast majority of the people in this camp and all the other camps along the border, more than 100,000 people in, are women and children who have escaped the fighting and in fear for their lives. they left their men folk, their husbands, brothers and sons back in southern kyrgystan. there is a time to protect what property and little property they have in many cases from what they describe as rampaging gan gangs, backed by the security borders. matthew, so many people are looking at the situation there
to have a discussion with the dnc. people are asking the question now, who the tea party is and what it stands for, there was an interesting letter to the editor in the new york times from columbus, ohio, its members seem to want a strong military but don t want to finance it. don t like social programs like medicare but readily accept the medicare benefits and don t like the federal bailout but would be angry if the government did nothing and their investments and retirements went down the drain. they are a mass of con contradictions. almost like you re looking at one side of the equation and trying you can tell there was not a discussion involved in those kind of statements, if you talk to any grass roots movement citizen throughout the nation, they want a strong military, yes, do they want to have security borders? yes, willing to pay taxes for