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Remember all that talk about digging a new canal using nukes? I think we should do it - between North and South Korea. Use large, burrowing nukes to just cut the peninsula right in half, kinda, sorta along the 38th parallel, using the DMZ as an aiming point. When we're done, tell Kimmie he has fishing rights on his side.
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Great idea - they can replace France!
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This makes no sense. Fischer must've broken his brain coming up with this idea. The "profile" of Germany was never in doubt, just the sanity of their politics and politicians. Sorry, TGA, this buries Fischer, IMO, as being beyond recovery. I have only slight animus toward the German people for their anti-Bush frenzy pre-Iraq, but for their politicans who are in lock-step with Shroeder, I say fuck 'em.
Yo Fischer, can you say UNSC veto? I knew you could.
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Germany? LOL. I don't think so, Herr Schroeder. If any country deserves a permanent UNSC seat, it's Japan. Japan is the largest donor to the UN. Japan's share even exceeds the USA's. And what prestige/power has Japan been given in return for its financial generosity? Nada, zero.
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This is a desparate move by a Schroeder government in crisis. An attempt to legitimize their opposition to the Iraq War and conjure up German nationalism in favor of Schroeder, who is going down.
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I would say when EU has a Foreign Minister who sets EU foreign policy tent the EU gets a seat on Security council,but France and Britain lose theirs,with India getting the spare seat.I would also close all US embassies to constituent members of EU,as well as ask for closing of all such embassies in US.The same for UN,Eu gets member status,the constituent members lose theirs.After all,Florida,Idaho don't have embassies around world,and we don't accept emmbassies from Alberta and Quebec.
If the EU sets foreign policy,what would be point in negotiating w/part of it?Russia doesn't negotiate w/Nebraska.
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France should not have a veto - they do not matter militarily or economically, and would not matter at all in the world had they no UNSC veto.
France should leave the permanent Security Council. Germany should not be there as a permanent member either unless they are willing to greatly increase their UN contributions, including troops.
India, the worlds largest democracy should be there.
And there is a good argument for Japan, the largest economy in Asia.
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...we don't accept embassies from Alberta and Quebec".
That's not true in the case of Quebec. Quebec maintains shadow embassies around the world. (New York is the principal representative office in the US).
Most folks aren't aware that Quebec maintains it's own immigration system separate from the Canadian Federal system. They've got a deal with Ottawa that allows them to run their own admission process and set their own criteria for entry. Quebec immigration recruiting offices are standing by to receive your application. If you are in the middle east, you will find the office in Damascus. (Need I say anymore?)
Arguments like "this country matters, this country doesn't matter, this country has nukes, this country has bases, this one is economically powerful, this one is weak" are all efforts to confuse the *reality* of power with the *moral right* to power. Or perhaps efforts to turn power de facto into power de jure.
In which case I'd simply say: "Why should I support something like that?" It's like a dictator proclaiming himself king and claiming a divine mandate proven by the evidence of his strength. It's like a mobster calling himself mayor.
If a country is so super-duper powerful by itself, then there's *less* need of it *also* having a veto, therefore increasing its power even more.
Right now German has more right to have veto than UK or France, NOT because of its economic power, but because of its greater population. And that's the same reason Japan has in turn a greater right to a veto than Germany, and that's the same reason that a unified EU would have a greater right than Japan. The relative sizes of the populations involved.
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The UN isn't the EU and even the EU has had lots of trouble with that population standard, viz. "new EUrope" and "old EUrope."
India has over a billion people, as does China. So what?
Germany has no more right to a seat on the UNSC than does France, because they're both now "sh*tty little countries" on the world scene with very little influence.
Give it to Japan.
(And if the EU could get it's stuff together, they should have one seat for all of them and as much as I hate to say it, that would include the UK as long as they're so EUrocentric).
The UN is over.
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India has over a billion people, as does China. So what?
India doesn't yet have more than a billion people AFAIK, and the answer to "so what" concerns the basic democratic principle that a democratically elected government serves to *represent* that people.
China isn't democratic.
Germany has no more right to a seat on the UNSC than does France, because they're both now "sh*tty little countries" on the world scene with very little influence.
And once again you confuse rights with realities, and claiming that because a country doesn't *have* influence it also doesn't have the *right* of influence. Do you know the difference between things-as-they-are and things-as-they-should-be?
And as a sidenote, I doubt that a EU common foreign policy will include the UK (in the next couple centuries atleast). UK gets the rabies by the mere idea of the *rest* of the EU having a common foreign policy without UK herself being affected one bit, so I very much doubt it would consider actually *partaking* in one.
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Germany has no right to a seat as it stands today..if the EU is a polictical and ecomomic association of states..something like a United States of Europe then why should this entity two or three seats?
Give the EU one seat and give one to india or brazil and japan...
better yet pull out and the euros have all the fun
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"..if the EU is a political and economic association of states..something like a United States of Europe then why should this entity two or three seats? "
Being a "political and economic association" isn't enough to turn a simple organization into a federal nation. Or else not only the EU, but also the CIS, and perhaps even ASEAN or the African Union or a number of other "political and economic associations" would have to have only one member seat each in international organizations.
Unlike the United States, and unlike all other federal nations, foreign policy isn't in the sole authority of the central EU government. *That's* the defining criterion -- whether the constituent parts have common or separate foreign policies.
EU member states still have separate foreign policies.
If it ever becomes that, if sovereignty in this area passes fully to the EU structure (same as e.g. fisheries policy or monetary policy in the Eurozone has passed), you are ofcourse correct that individual members wouldn't have any individual seats, the same way that they wouldn't have individual foreign policies.
But up to now coordination of member-state foreign policies is something that can only be encouraged by the EU, not something that is enforced by treaty. It's voluntary on the part of the member states.
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Are we still trying to reconcile this preposterous bid of Herr Schroeder? Duhhh.
The seat warmed by France's butt should be rotated each year through the EU nation membership. All for one & one for all...pip,pip..
China should gets its disgusting giant useless butt kicked off the Security Council. End of story. It's embaressing to have China have any say in global affairs considering it's a corrupt communist theocracy and it offers zero peacekeeping troops to any global conflict and it probably offers next to zero financial support to the UN parasites. Throw China out on its ear and put Japan in the Security Council in China's place. That is, if anyone thinks the UN should continue to breathe in yen and US $.
P.S. It's amazing what clarity of vision a bottle of Cakebread Cellars Chardonnay will give a person!
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What was Sandy Berger up to when he "inadvertently" removed versions of a classified National Archives memo that critiqued Clinton administration intelligence and security efforts regarding the millennium celebrations? We still don't know.
But a bigger question is being posed by some of the well-sourced wags with whom we regularly converse. In fact, one says the thrust of the federal investigation now looking into Mr. Berger's actions should center not necessarily on what was taken from the archived files but what was placed in them. Is this possible given the way documents are controlled and archived. Did he add margin notes?
Berger has acknowledged removing his handwritten notes taken during a review of classified documents. That's a violation of National Archives policy. And he says he mistakenly took the copies of the aforementioned memo, different drafts written by Bush-bashing anti-terrorism coordinator Richard A. Clarke. Some of those copies remain missing. Lots of drafts. No action.
But a new scenario has Berger, who only took notes on an initial visit last fall, placing material -- again, related to the millennium terrorists threats -- into the files on his second and third visits. This is whacked.
And adding an entirely new layer of intrigue to the story is word that telephone calls made by Berger during those latter two visits may have been monitored by an "unauthorized agency." Wonder where those calls terminated. Berger is known to be fascinated by camera phones.
The House Government Reform Committee says it will conduct a separate investigation into the matter. We trust it will press to learn not only what was placed in those files but to whom Berger was talking and what about
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Yea and I am going to grow a new prostate too. Put a national security directive out to track these fudge packing Moose Limbs down and terminate them.
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Quana - I'm a volunteer EMT with one of our local rescue squads. We had just gotten back from a multi-car wreck on I-95 in the rain (miraculously, no serious injuries) and decided to check Rantburg before going to bed.
I forgot my posting info isn't in that computer as it is at home, and came up "Anon." (Plus, I hit post before I realized I hadn't closed the italic tag.)
Which is why I'm a little sleepy now. :-p
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Barbara, bless your heart!
You're one of our fabulous first responders!
Your country and your community love you for it.
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Thanks, Jen, but I don't think of myself as special. I've been volunteering at one thing or another most of my life - it's just the way we were brought up. Emergency Services just seems to be my best fit - been doing it since 1978 in one capacity or another. Guess I'm an adrenaline junkie. :-p
Now if you really want fabulous, I can point you to lots of volunteers who do far more than I do.
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Dickie's a trooper, loyal and full of shit to the bitter end, not to mention the ultimate ass-coverage expert insider. This asshole was responsible for anti-terror intelligence and actionable advice and left us wide open -- for 8 long years while the opposition organized itself. Everything except the 9/11 attack itself occurred while this self-proclaimed genius was on the job - including the planning, scouting, and recon for it. The first WTC attack was linked to Iraqi Intel, but this clown blew it off. The USS Cole, Africa, multiple opportunities to grab or ace OBL - all on his watch. Now, his only recourse is distraction and obfuscation: attack first, keep the dust stirred up, blur reality by charging others with his own failings. 8 Months vs 8 Years. A classic ass-kissing, self-serving, gutless turd. He ought to be busting rocks in Leavenworth - instead of getting speaking engagements and "press" interviews to reinforce his bullshit.
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Please note: Dickie gives no reference to his buddy, Bergler. He conveniently avoids mentioning that his Y2K plan was a bust, and that the only thing that kept a terrorist attack from happening was a diligent border guard who never had heard of Dickie. Oh, and about those bin Laden family members he sidestepped during his 9/11 Commission hearing, he forget to mention admitting giving approval for the flight.
He wouldn't make a pimple on a good man's behind.
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I hold the person in very low esteem. Ass covering magot. Book deal!
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"Pay attention to me! Me! Right here!" he fumed, stamping his tiny feet in impotent rage. It had been months since Clarke had been the focus of media attention, and his frustration had finally exploded into a tantrum.
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Clark repeats the tired charge about Iraq being a distraction from the WOT. But what about the problem of failed, piratical, and dsyfunctional states? In a sense, the Islamic jihad is like a deadly mutant species that has found an ecological niche in the weak, failed, and outlaw states. In that sense, not only is "WOT" an imprecise designation for the current war, but so is the 9-11 Report's alternative. The war is not only about tracking down and killing jihadis, it is about dealing with the failed states where terrorism breeds.
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"In pulling its bipartisan punches, the commission failed to admit the obvious: we are less capable of defeating the jihadists because of the Iraq war."
I don't know how this roaring asshole comes to this "obvious" conclusion- we've got over a hundred thousand US troops, armed to the teeth, on a huge land base right next door to three of the biggest trouble spots in the Middle East: Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia. We've also got dibs on a huge supply of oil that is not subject to being shut off by angry Arab princes.
These are the two essential ingredients we've never had before in dealing with the Arab/Islamic problem, and I expect they were the main reason we went into Iraq in the first place.
The notion that we are somehow less capable of dealing with the jihadists now is just plain asinine.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Fisk University's new president, Clinton administration Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary, was had her butt kicked off escorted off a flight and questioned by the FBI after she became abusive and tried to get into the cockpit while the plane was delayed on the tarmac, authorities said. It's been an awesome week for the Clinton Alumni Association. As someone smarter than I said..."She confuses fame with wisdom."
O'Leary said she simply wanted to get off the plane. Yeah, you and a about 100 other passengers and crewmembers...but you didn't see them trying to break into the cockpit, did you? Hello, anybody home up there?
"I regret the unfortunate misunderstanding stupid, idiotic thing that I did that occurred," she said in a statement. "The fiascosituation was resolved I ain't goin to the slammer. At no time was I rude or disrespectful to anyone." Unless you consider being loud, obnoxious, profane, and threatening rude or disrespectful.
The United Airlines crew told police that O'Leary was "getting loud and abusive" after the flight was diverted to Richmond, Virginia, because of storms Thursday night, said Cpl. Frank Donkle of the Richmond International Airport Police. Let me out NOW. Don't you know who I am? I wuz an important Mericun, I wuz once.
A flight attendant restrained O'Leary when she tried to get into the cockpit, Donkle said,DOWN GOES FRAZIER!!! DOWN GOES FRAZIER!!! and she was escorted off the Nashville-to-Washington flight and questioned by the FBI.
Airport spokesman Troy Bell said he was not aware of any charges filed. That was good a good boy, Troy. Yes, we will give you an autographed copy of Bill's book.
O'Leary, 67, became president of Fisk, in Nashville, earlier this month. Fisk has enough trouble and now they go and hire a travel queen who is not even smart enough to sit down and shut up. That's just the sort of image Fisk wants to portray to incoming freshmen and their parents.
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Fisk U's Prez just tried to grow a brain
Hazel O'Leary became a bully on the plane
To keep her from the cockpit, a stu' had her restrained
It'll be a hot time with the FBI tonight!
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!
--To the tune of the Chicago fire song
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A dupe from yesterday, but hey, it's another chance to post a little graphic I knocked off just for the story. I tried to indicate the "rainbow" mentality of this loser - and the Clinton losers that she fit right in with. Certainly, as a moonbat loonie, she has no business running anything.
The Rev. Donald Sensing is taking the weekend off because he's taking his son Stephen to Nashville to begin his career as a United States Marine:
After a once-over-lightly physical exam and a urinalysis, his grandfather, Col. (ret.) George D. Stephens, USA, will administer him the enlistment oath. After lunch, Stephen will depart for boot camp at Parris Island, SC...
Semper Fi, Donald. Semper Fi, Stephen. Here's hoping the Army of Steve® can make room for a(nother) Jarhead!
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Semper Fidelis indeed. When we ask "where do we get such men", look no further.
I'll be going thorugh this myself soon - my kid, who doesn't seem like he is 18, is set to become Airman First Class Michael J. Kozlowski II, USAF/SCANG, 169 FW (The Swamp Foxes). The USAF has survived Cold War, Hot War, and helped to defeat a dozen dicators in its day. I hope they're ready for my kid...
The above is just kidding - I am intensely proud of my son in ways I can never put into words.
Mike
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Mike, congratulations and best wishes to you and your son.
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Thank you, Steven and Michael.
And thank you too, Donald and Mike.
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Congrats Mike! As an Ex-Zoomie I can tell you that they only take the smartest and best looking recruits. I got in under some equal rights program for dumb/ugly people.
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(Sigh) As the oldest son of parents who BOTH served in WWII, married to someone whose father spent 30 years in the Air Force, and after spending 26 years myself, I end up with three kids that are "physically unacceptable for military service (4-F)". My best friend just sent HIS oldest off to Lackland the first of this month... Glad there are folks out there that can take up the slack! Good luck and Godspeed to all new recruits, even though "You'll be sorry!!!!"
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There aren't enough words to say how much we appreciate what your/our fine sons and daughters are doing by serving their country in the military!
(And the sacrifice their parents, spouses and children make to do without them at home.)
May God bless them and bring them home soon safe, sound and victorious.
By Michael A. Levi
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has pronounced judgment on prewar assessments of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, and despite the continued partisan bickering, one bipartisan point of agreement seems clear: Had the intelligence been done right, the decision on whether to go to war would have been clear. It's a convenient conclusion, absolving lawmakers of responsibility for any errors in judgment they might have made. It's also naive, shortsighted and dangerous. How closely can intel 'thread the needle'? It's naive because even immaculate intelligence would not have produced the sort of certainty on Iraq that would have made decisions of war and peace obvious; in fact, better intelligence would have made the waters muddier. Before the war, widespread opinion properly held that the absence of evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction should not be confused with evidence that they were absent. There is nothing to suggest that U.S. intelligence assessments, had they been more careful, would have found conclusive evidence of the weapons' absence. The closest to such an offering before the war was the host of individual Iraqi accounts asserting that Iraq had no such weapons. These have frequently been cited as the overlooked silver bullet -- had they not been discounted, some say, we could have concluded that Iraq was WMD-free. More at the Link
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A quote from Power Line:
The Sept. 11 Commission says that the attacks were due, in part, to a "failure of imagination" on our part. My brother (the credit card magnate, not the prof) responds: "Would that be like a failure to imagine that Iraq could acquire nuclear weapons?"
(2004-07-24) -- The Pentagon announced today that the newly-released payroll records from President Bush's 1972 National Guard service were discovered in the socks of Clinton-era national security advisor Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger.
"We're still going through the trove of documents from Mr. Berger's socks," said an unnamed spokesman for the FBI. "It's like an archeological dig. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find 18 minutes of Nixon White House tapes as we work our way down through the various strata of the Berger hosiery."
Mr. Berger released a statement to the media denying intentional wrongdoing in the matter, and claiming that "static electricity" often attracts items to his socks.
"In the future, I shall employ a popular dryer sheet which dissipates electrical charges," Mr. Berger said. "My failure to do so previously is just plain sloppiness."
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Vietnam service or not. If you got your Honorable discharge, then everybody else just back off. Or bring up your own heroism. (since that will play well with the dead heros)
I've written before here aboout an interview with a survivor of the Indianopolois(?, forgive me if I missed the right name) The ship that was sunk in the Pacific, WW2, known for the shark attacks that took so many seamans lives. PBS had a surviver explain why he had never mentioned his experiences regarding that. He said something that made so much sense. He said "I didn't want to say anything to another vet as I couldn't know what kind of hell he had gone through. Better to let that lay" or some such. Man!
Bush trained as a Pilot in aircraft that were being absoleted. Typical of Guards units of the time, the front line birds were being used to fight. His class prolly sent very few pilots to fight. A lot of people got out of fighting in VN. Me included, so just back off.
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And another thing, I heard an interview of GW, while a canidate, telling how he trained as a pilot. "A Jet Jockey" he said proudly. Hey RBrs, wouldn't you be proud to be a trained Jet Jockey? I know I would. Out of my comfort zone though!
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For those of you who missed this link previously, a nice short read about GWB's Nat'l Guard service: http://www.ngaus.org/ngmagazine/main101.asp
National Guard Association Magazine, Number 19
January 2001 âGeorge W. Bush is the latest in a long line of U.S. presidents who once served in the National Guardâ By Lisa Daniel
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Are there any missing Da Vinci Codas? What about Rembrandts - is Sandy into art? I'm sure there are Dead Sea Scroll experts who'll want to talk to him, too. And what about the Edmind Fitzgerald? I'll bet he had the Atocha's gold on him, too. Hell, the whole Bermuda Triangle thing might be related to Sandy's boxers.
Malaysia is pushing for a campaign before the end of the year to detain and deport more than a million illegal workers, mostly from neighbouring Indonesia.
'Whether we are able to deport all or deport part (of them), we do not know yet but there is definitely a plan to go hard on these illegal immigrants because it is causing a problem.' --
Home Minister Azmi Khalid said the high number of foreign workers in the country was causing security problems and placing a burden on public services meant for Malaysian citizens.
A comprehensive plan has been drafted and would be tabled at a special meeting under the Cabinet committee soon to be chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, he said.
Datuk Azmi said Malaysia has about 1.2 million foreign workers with valid work permits and an equal number of illegal workers.
He also said foreign missions in Kuala Lumpur would be informed about the impending deportation.
'Whether we are able to deport all or deport part (of them), we do not know yet but there is definitely a plan to go hard on these illegal immigrants because it is causing a problem,' Datuk Azmi told reporters after presenting 403 immigration officers and staff with Excellent Service Awards for 2003.
'The (local) population is not comfortable with the situation.'
Asked if the exercise could be launched by the end of this year, Datuk Azmi said: 'Yes, provided all supporting infrastructure and logistics are ready.'
He said there was no timeframe for the deportation and that it would be 'a continuous process'.
Nearly 300,000 people, mostly Indonesians and Filipinos, fled or were deported from Malaysia during a crackdown on illegal immigrants in 2002, which prompted claims of widespread mistreatment.
Datuk Azmi said a 290,000-strong government volunteer force was being given special training to help immigration officers and police identify illegal workers.
He said the government would ensure adequate holding centres and introduce certain laws for more effective checks on foreign workers. He did not elaborate.
Malaysia, one of South-east Asia's wealthiest countries, employs hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from neighbouring nations, especially Indonesia, and relies heavily on them for menial tasks in construction and other labour-intensive industries.
Increasing ethnic strife and crime involving foreign labourers in recent years prompted Malaysia to carry out mass deportations of illegal immigrants and institute more stringent entry requirements. -
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Iran was yesterday threatened with international legal proceedings and possible Canadian sanctions after a court acquitted the sole defendant accused of the killing in custody of Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi. The judiciary said the intelligence agent who stood trial for the murder had been found not guilty due to "lack of proof" and declared itself unable to find the real killer. In the absence of a guilty verdict, the Iranian government has been ordered to pay "blood money" to Kazemi's family. Blood money in Iran for a woman — half that for a man — currently amounts to 120 million rials, or around $13,700. "The investigation was flawed and the court overlooked these," complained Nobel Peace Prize winner and lawyer Shirin Ebadi, who has been representing Kazemi's enraged family. "I will follow the case until my last breath," she said. "I hope this case, with a fair trial, is solved in Iran. But if it is not, since human rights is a universal issue ... I will use all international options in order to see justice done." She said her legal team would be appealing the verdict, in the hope of widening the probe. The judiciary has been accused of trying an innocent man to cover up for one of its own senior officials.
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I hope Shirin Ebadi survives the upheaval. Her country could do a lot worse than having her take a position of power in a Post-mullah governement.
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Republican senators Rick Santorum, representing Pennsylvania, and John Cornyn of Texas introduced the âIran Freedom and Support Act of 2004â earlier this month.
Santorum isn't a Senator and he doesn't daydream. He walks the walk.
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Sudan yesterday questioned the need for foreign troops in strife-torn Darfur, while a rebel movement called for their rapid deployment to combat the humanitarian crisis in the western Sudanese region. "We are asking the United States, the United Nations secretary general, the European Union and the African Union for the urgent deployment of troops in the coming days to ensure the delivery of food aid to millions of refugees," rebel spokesman Abdel Wahed Mohammed Nur said. Contacted by telephone, the spokesman of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) added that the intervention would "avert a humanitarian disaster of great proportions".
But Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail, speaking to BBC television yesterday, dismissed the need for foreign intervention, saying his government was doing all it could to disarm Arab militias. "Why should we have to rush and to talk about military intervention as long as the situation is getting better?" Ismail asked. "My government is doing what can be done in order to disarm the militia." In Khartoum, the ruling National Congress party took opposition to foreign intervention a step further, with a threat to use force to counter it, a press report said yesterday. "Anybody who contemplates imposing his opinion by force will be confronted by force," NC Secretary-General Ibrahim Ahmed Omar said, quoted by the official Al-Anbaa daily.
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"Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail, speaking to BBC television asked "Whats a little genocide between friends?"
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Because they live on an island and Hadrians wall hasn't been operational in centuries.
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Good Question. I'd like to hear Blair's response. If honest, it would involve the words "EU", "consensus", "can't", "rock" and "boat". Blair's already toeing an unofficial EU common foreign policy, at least as regards Israel.
A group calling itself Mohammed's army on Sunday called on Muslims to prepare to fight Western forces sent on any mission to western Sudan, where the United Nations says the world's worst humanitarian crisis is unfolding. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has not ruled out military intervention in Darfur, where the U.S. Congress has labeled as genocide a campaign by Arab militias against black Africans. The United States has also circulated a draft U.N. resolution threatening sanctions against Khartoum if it does not prosecute the leaders of the militia.
"We have seen and heard of the American and British interference in Darfur and there is no doubt that this is a crusader war that bears no relation to the citizens of Darfur," the previously unknown group said in a statement distributed at a central mosque in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. "We call upon you to speedily head toward Darfur and dig deep into the ground mass graves prepared for the crusader army," it added. Witness said young Sudanese men were handing out the statements to worshippers at the mosque.
Australia said on Sunday it was likely to contribute troops to any U.N. peacekeeping mission in Darfur, where the U.N. says some 30,000 people have been killed and one million displaced. Many countries have called on Khartoum to disarm the Arab militias, known as Janjaweed. Britain's top commander has said he could send 5,000 troops to Sudan.
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Sudan Militants Threaten Attacks on Western Troops
All the more reason to strafe the sh!t out of them with some AC-130H Spectres. Kinda hard to bring those birds down with small arms fire. Crazy Fool, you're on the money. Sudan's politicians all need a trip to the wall. I'd like to see a cluster of Tomahawks arrive for one of their full house government assemblies.
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If we free all the Sudanese Anamists and Christians, can we call our "reparations" bill square with Jesse?
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One word...to get the message across to the deaf Muslim Sudanese gov't and the butchering Muslim militia ....MOAB in Khartoum...hello, killer Muslims! Allah sends his love, and because you are so special, we sent you all a.s.a.p. to visit him and the 72 virgins...tah, tah
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EFL. Another story you won't get from the LLL press.
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In an interview I conducted over the weekend with Deputy Commanding General Brigadier Nigel Aylwin-Foster, a British General who is the second in command of the Multi-National Force's efforts to train the Iraqi security forces, he noted that "[t]he Iraqi people are extraordinarily resilient and the American people should understand this. On a daily basis, there are more Iraqis dying than Coalition and they just keep going." This brought to mind a press release I received from Multi-National Forces Public Affairs, written by U.S. Army Sgt. Jared Zabaldo, which describes the courage and resilience of one particular Iraqi soldier. It is worth quoting at length: Yes it is.
April 9, 2003," [Iraqi Army Lt. Col. Ahmed Lutfi] Ahmed [Raheem] said. "I don't forget this day."
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07/25/2004 7:24:31 PM ||
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It is never a bad thing to set people free from tyrrany.
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07/25/2004 19:29 Comments ||
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Mike - not to normal people. The LLL, on the other hand....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
07/25/2004 19:40 Comments ||
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This ALONE, I consider to be the only casus belli I ever needed.
Godspeed, devil dog, I hope you made it and are still with us - and if you ain't, then God and Archangel St. Michael keep you. :)
P.S. Accidentally typed "Sgt." instead of "St." ... how telling ;-)
Posted by: Edward Yee ||
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"Instead he came to the position of attention and saluted me as an officer," Ahmed said, "And said, âSir you can go.â"
Marines are amazing folk. The Sgt recognized that he was facing probably the only Iraqi officer within 200 miles that had the guts and honor to walk home in his uniform. Who else would have thought to salute the man?
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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In 1748, the novelist Horace Walpole had cause to draw attention, in a letter, to the outrageous behaviour in France of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the exiled leader of 1745's failed Jacobite revolt. Prince Charles Edward Stuart was terrorising Louis XV - the rebellion's mentor, on whom Charles relied for everything - with endless threats and the most insolent demands. Walpole could not help remarking on the narrowness of Britain's escape.
"What a mercy," he wrote to the Duke of Newcastle, the then Prime Minister, "that we had not him here!" If, said Walpole, the Pretender was prepared to bully the government of France, even though he was entirely in its power, what would he have done with a British government under his control?
And what, I have been asking in recent articles, would Islam's equally insouciant "exiles" in Britain do with a UK government in their power? Indications from the Leicester South and Birmingham Hodge Hill by-elections were not encouraging.
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07/25/2004 11:22:32 AM ||
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From the WTF? files...
Israel's Security Minister warned Saturday of a possible attack on a Jerusalem mosque that is Islam's third holiest shrine by Israeli right wing groups seeking to derail a plan to pull out of Gaza.
The comments follow a report by Israel's secret service that there is an increasing threat of an attack on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon by right-wing groups who oppose his plan to pull troops out of Gaza and dismantle all 21 settlements.
"The level of threat (of an attack) on the Temple Mount by Jewish extremists and fanatics, in order to ... be a catalyser for the change of the entire political process, has risen during the past few months, especially during the last few weeks, more than ever before," Internal Security Minister Tzahi Hanegbi said. Hedid not say whether the security services had received a specific threat by a group or individual. Keep an eye on this story...somehow I think it's gonna get twisted...bet Rooters won't mind using the "T-word" if something happens.
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07/25/2004 3:12:22 AM ||
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Not too surprising, actually. The Dome of the Rock is a sitting duck for extremist Jewish retaliation. F&%k knows that the local Arab population has been begging for some sort of major object lesson about why you need to respect other people's shrines.
Does anyone else remember how the Arabs turned The Wailing Wall into a pissoir during their occupation of the Temple Mount? I seem to recall similar desecration of The Church of the Nativity during that other recent standoff as well.
If only because of the immense bloodshed to follow, I have to hope that The Dome of the Rock is not vandalized. If it somehow is, I will be obliged to wonder if Islam will suddenly become a little more sensitive about the vulnerability of their remaining shrines.
They really need to be acutely aware of how Mecca and Medina will go into the crosshairs after a few more terrorist atrocities.
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07/25/2004 01:05 ||
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Got no problem wiht this - they want oil contracts, fine. Supply the troops to guard the oil company workers, infrastructure, and the offices and port facilities.
I'm sure US troops would be more than happy to have some Russian Airborne and mech patrolling. And I'm sure we woudl not complain about Spetznatz over there working against the insurgents to take care of things in their, umm, "unique" way of handling terrorists.
The European Union warned Sudan's foreign minister that the country will likely face international sanctions if there is not quick progress in ending the bloodshed in the western region of Darfur.
Define "quick."
"If the situation doesn't improve quickly, sanctions by the international community will inevitably follow," the news agency ANP quoted Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot as saying following a meeting with visiting Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail.
"Yeah, buddy! Yer gonna get it!"
"There has been improvement, but it is not sufficient," said Bot, whose country currently holds the EU presidency. The UN estimates up to 50,000 people have died in Darfur and about 1.2 million have been driven from their homes since a revolt against the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum broke out among indigenous black African ethnic minorities in February 2003. The UN considers this to be currently the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
Now that they've noticed...
Earlier, the EU's foreign and policy chief, Javier Solana, called on the Sudanese government to disarm the Arab Janjaweed militias accused by rights groups of slaughtering civilians and demanded unfettered access to the region for humanitarian groups. Solana's demands brought the European Union into line with the United States, which has demanded that Sudan halt the violence by the Janjaweed militias or face sanctions. On Thursday the United States presented a draft UN Security Council resolution authorizing sanctions against Sudan if it fails to prosecute leaders of the Janjaweed. Sudanese leaders have warned sanctions would only escalate and complicate the crisis in Darfur.
Jug the Janjaweed and there won't be any...
In his meeting with Ismail, Solana "urged the government to arrest the leaders of the Janjaweed, as a first significant step towards the dismantling of these militias, which are held accountable for most of the human rights violations in Darfur," said his spokeswoman Cristina Gallach. She said he had "acknowledged improvements in terms of humanitarian access to Darfur, but underscored the European Union's wish for full and unhindered humanitarian access." "He also expressed the European Union's satisfaction with the decision by the government of Sudan to send a high-level delegation to the start of the political talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia," she said. "Javier Solana hoped that the next round of talks scheduled for the beginning of August would provide more concrete outcomes."
"Would you like some warm milk to go with that mush?"
Posted by: Fred ||
07/25/2004 12:48:26 AM ||
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No more cocoa for Sudan. Cocoa growers show concern.
"They still get cake" complains Juan Valdez of the Cocoa pickers union. "And French Vanilla"
via SwissInfo - EFL Would you buy a used intefada from this man?
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat says he will accept any government changes proposed by his prime minister, as militants demanding anti-corruption reforms keep up a campaign of unrest. Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie, widely viewed as a moderate voice in the Palestinian Authority, has led calls for reform and submitted his resignation to Arafat last week over the issue. "I accept anything he presents and I have high confidence in him," Arafat, who has rejected Qurie's resignation, told reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Arafat, who dismissed reports of problems between Qurie and himself, said he also welcomed a proposal by Palestinian lawmakers to replace some ministers. ...more...
Reality, Rooters-style. There are only "militants" and "gunmen" in PaleoLand.
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07/25/2004 12:35:31 AM ||
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(psst... Fred or dotcom...fix the linky to the pic)
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I think that's the one it was pointing at. Apparently the original's dead already.
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07/25/2004 1:32 Comments ||
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Yup, that's what I was pointing to - but Google's got some strange HTML games going on - sorry. When I want something from there in the future I'll grab it and point to my own copy.
I thought his devious ugly mug helped make the point, heh.
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