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lchic
- 03:18pm Apr 13, 2003 EST (#
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what future is there for Iraq? Who should be in charge of
it?
Hospitals - damaged by war + looting - "" The dead are left
unattended, and the increasing summer heat and deteriorating
water and electricity supplies create a high risk of epidemic
disease.'
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,935651,00.html
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!! Don't recall any posts (above) over past months that
indicated what to 'practically expect' on the fall of Saddam
lchic
- 04:24pm Apr 13, 2003 EST (#
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lchic
- 01:45am Apr 14, 2003 EST (#
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The rise of the Washington 'neo-cons'
The Editor briefing
Monday April 14, 2003
The Guardian
A small group of rightwingers, known as neo-conservatives,
is shaping US foreign policy. Who are they, and what is their
agenda?
Q&A's
How did they get the name? Many of them started off as
anti-Stalinist leftists or liberals. They are products of the
largely Jewish-American Trotskyist movement of the 1930s and
1940s, which morphed into anti-communist liberalism between
the 1950s and 1970s and finally into a kind of militaristic
and imperial right with no precedents in American culture or
political history. They call their revolutionary ideology
"Wilsonianism" (after President Woodrow Wilson), but it is
really Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution mingled
with the far-right Likud strain of Zionism.
Michael Lind in the New Statesman, April 7 http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,936393,00.html
lchic
- 01:52am Apr 14, 2003 EST (#
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Regime Change / by Andrew Motion (UK)
Advancing down the road from Niniveh Death paused a while
and said 'Now listen here.
You see the names of places roundabout?
They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.
Take Eden, further south: at dawn today
I ordered up my troops to tear away
its walls and gates so everyone can see
that gorgeous fruit which dangles from its tree.
You want it, don't you? Go and eat it then,
and lick your lips, and pick the same again.
Take Tigris and Euphrates; once they ran
through childhood-coloured slats of sand and sun.
Not any more they don't; I've filled them up
with countless different kinds of human crap.
Take Babylon, the palace sprouting flowers
which sweetened empires in their peaceful hours -
I've found a different way to scent the air:
already it's a by-word for despair.
Which leaves Baghdad - the star-tipped minarets,
the marble courts and halls, the mirage-heat.
These places, and the ancient things you know,
you won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'
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lchic
- 01:53am Apr 14, 2003 EST (#
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Landmines divided by population of Iraq
Population of Iraq divided by Landmines
Landmines divided by population of Iraq
Population of Iraq divided by Landmines
Landmines divided by population of Iraq
Population of Iraq divided by Landmines
Landmines divided by population of Iraq
Population of Iraq divided by Landmines
fredmoore
- 08:25am Apr 14, 2003 EST (#
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The following joke may shed some light on the state of the
UN.
At a UN function in New York, a Swedish diplomat walked
over to a small group and attempted to make small talk.
"Pardon me, what is your opinion of the current security
shortage in Iraq".
The American looked puzzled and said, "What's a shortage?"
The Pole scratched his chin and said, "What's security?"
The Russian shrugged and said, "What's an opinion?"
The Israeli said, "What's Pardon me? .... So much meshugena
business!"
And the Frenchman said .... "I don't know, but what can we
get out of it"
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