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lchic
- 09:49pm Jan 27, 2003 EST (#8234
of 8289) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~
"That's it --- the smoking Gun" (IRAQ) 28Jan
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/cartoon/
lchic
- 09:52pm Jan 27, 2003 EST (#8235
of 8289) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~
Australia to be US-N-Korea mediator | By John Kerin |
January 28, 2003
"" AUSTRALIA will play a supporting role as a mediator
between the US and North Korea as part of a long-term plan to
stabilise the Korean peninsula.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell has asked Australia to
be part of a regular negotiating group that includes the US,
Russia, China, Britain and France, along with Japan, the two
Koreas and the European Union.
The aim is for the forum to mediate between the US and
North Korea without the Americans having direct one-on-one
negotiations with the rogue state.
Washington has refused to deal directly with North Korea
while it indulges in nuclear blackmail.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,5901339%5E2703,00.html
lchic
- 09:56pm Jan 27, 2003 EST (#8236
of 8289) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~
Saddam should be on trial: Butler | January 28, 2003
"" FORMER UN weapons inspector Richard Butler has called on
the international community to strive for an alternative
method to war in deposing Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Mr Butler today suggested similar action to that under way
against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, who is
on trial for crimes against humanity before the UN war crimes
tribunal in The Hague.
"In a more ideal world Saddam should be on trial in The
Hague next to Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity,"
Mr Butler told the ABC.
"It's an established fact that his actions have led to the
death of a million people.
"Why isn't the world community saying you have to yield
this man for trial?"
Mr Butler praised the efforts of UN chief weapons inspector
Hans Blix, who today told the UN Security Council Iraq had not
accepted international demands to disarm.
Dr Blix, the head of the UN disarmament agency, said there
were signs Iraq still had anthrax stocks, and dismissed a
12,000-page declaration made by Baghdad to the United Nations
on its weapons programs.
Mr Butler said the Iraqi leadership had persisted with
"denial in principle and then deception in practice" when it
came to UN inspection and verification.
"What Hans Blix has said is that Iraq has been reasonably
cooperative on the surface but he complained sharply about
their failure to come forward with the material that will fill
the gap in their declaration," he said.
"And I agree with him, I think that's a matter of deep
concern.
"I think it just leaps off the page that Iraq has still not
yet taken that central government decision that they need to
take which says `yes, we'll give over those weapons, we'll
give them across'."
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,5902163%5E1702,00.html
lchic
- 09:58pm Jan 27, 2003 EST (#8237
of 8289) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~
"It's an established fact that his actions have led to the
death of a million people.
"Why isn't the world community saying you have to yield
this man for trial?"
~~~~~~~
nb Exactly the point i've made above in this thread
wrcooper
- 11:36pm Jan 27, 2003 EST (#8238
of 8289)
Bob Showalter:
Email me at
wcooper@21stcentury.net
I live only a few hours from you in Chicago. We can arrange
to meet. This is your opportunity to check out the
reality of one of your delusional obsessions--namely, that I'm
George Johnson, author and journalist.
I can prove to you I am not. All you need to do is jump in
your car and drive down I-94 to Illinois. We'll arrange a
meeting place. I'll show you my driver's license and also a
picture of George Johnson from the dustjacket of my copy of
his most recent book Strange Beauty . You will note
that my picture--on my driver's license--and his, on the
dustjacket, aren't the same. Ergo, Q.E.D.
Look, I think I'm being awfully open and generous and brave
and forthcoming to make this offer. Many people would be,
quite frankly, fearful of making contact with an obviously
deluded and paranoiac--no offense--individual such as
yourself. Buit I'm not.
I bet we could sit down at a cafe and have a really
interesting conversation about math or other things. You
intrigue me.
Write me and let's set a date.
Maybe it will be a start of something new and hopeful in
your life. An opportunity to begin shedding some of your
delusions.
Best,
Will
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