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  • Recent US led Afghan Airstrike Violate International Law

    International Law is explicit about civilian protection, including but not limited to Article 51, 52 and 57 of Protocol 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Violation of these articles are demonstrable by the recent U.S. raid on an Afghan Village as reported in early May of 2009. Article 51: Protection of the civilian population Paragraph ...
    Posted to War Stories by KCBWES on May 9, 2009

  • Who said, "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer"

    I agree that during the campaign she was remarkably racist and sexist. Both are incredibly manipulative. She is fantasic at what she does though, and brilliant. I think a lot of the abuse they ground through from the a holes of the GOP all those years made them who they are. They had to adopt an ''if you can't beat em, join em.'' I do love them ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by redneckliberalpostbush on November 30, 2008

  • The Great Game -- Anglo Amero Brits and Kamchatka!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waziristan Honestly, I do not know why it is, that I both love to read Christopher Hitchens every week, and disagree with his every point almost without exception. Maybe it is his ''the sun never sets on the British Empire'' world girdling perapatetic meanderings around the World Map of Current Events and political ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard2 on September 19, 2008

  • Hitch, The Brits Started This Mess, Along With Reagan

    Christopher Hitchens engages in breathtaking and broad stroke, decades long perspective in cataloguing the burning of world war through the 20th Century, from the beginnings of World War One through World War Two through to the conclusion of the Cold War, to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Yet he dates this Iraqi Twin War Conflict only to 2003? ...
    Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard1 on March 25, 2008

  • Petraeus Was following orders - Dumb ones!

    Theoretical Solutions to Non-Sequiturian Problems Military officers are trained to do two things. They know how to give orders and they know take orders. General David Howell Petraeus was ordered to devise a comprehensive strategy for counter insurgency and that he did. http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24.pdf The problems was, why and for ...
    Posted to War Stories by hotlicks on September 22, 2007

  • Petraeus Was following orders - Dumb ones!

    Theoretical Solutions to Non-Sequiturian Problems Military officers are trained to do two things. They know how to give orders and they know take orders. General David Howell Petraeus was ordered to devise a comprehensive strategy for counter insurgency and that he did. http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24.pdf The problems was, why and for ...
    Posted to War Stories by hotlicks on September 22, 2007

  • FEDERAL EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & the Neo-Con

    (Ring....Ring...) ...''Hello! This is the White House. I'm sorry that no one is here to answer the phone right now but with THIS administration IS THAT REALLY A BIG surprise? ... Anyway... Should someone show-up next week, I'd be happy to pass along your distress for having no one here to respond to your distress in your hour of need! ... I ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by Qtec90 on August 16, 2007

  • Re: Back into shadows...

    So.... What’s next for ''Karl''? It’s ANYONE’S GUESS... but here are just a FEW of the possibilities: Lull the ''Opposition'' into a false sense of security while:  Plotting how to once again ''Manipulate'' (Steal?) the 2008 Elections?  Orchestrating, overseeing, & implementing measures to regain CONTROL that was compromised by the 2004 ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by Qtec90 on August 15, 2007