Archive for January 20th, 2006
Appalling!
AFP - Between 3,000 and 4,000 Iraqis are killed every month, rendering “ridiculous” US President George W. Bush’s estimate of about 30,000 civilian casualties since the start of the War, veteran British journalist Robert Fisk said Wednesday. The figures were compiled during several recent trips to the country occupied since March 2003 by US-led forces.
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January 20th, 2006
Björn Hallberg
While clearly isolationist, and coming from a fairly bigoted web site, even blind chickens find a kernel of corn every now and again.
Deanna Spingola - Warfare, the road to globalization (Part 4) - “If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” James Madison.
We have [...]
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January 20th, 2006
Björn Hallberg
One can only hope that the pessimists are right for once.
Paul Craig Roberts - Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard University budget expert Linda Bilmes have calculated the cost to Americans of Bush’s Iraq war to be between one and two trillion dollars. This figure is 5 to 10 times higher than the $200 [...]
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January 20th, 2006
Björn Hallberg
Or how to stop your dog from chasing his / her own tail. It would seem that someone summoned phantom Osama again. I suppose something had to take the pressure from domestic US “problems” (or should I say agenda) and prod the nation a little farther down the slope.
Another Day in the Empire - Phantom [...]
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January 20th, 2006
Björn Hallberg