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Latest tagged entries for 'IRAQ'

Shinseki: Embracing change to remain relevant

Sunday, 7 December 2008 4:02 P GMT+01

The tapping of General Eric Shinseki for the post Secretary of Veteran Affairs in President Obama's cabinet is quite significant for the person and the thinking of the person appointed than the position itself.

Paulson Bailout: Don't buy that rope

Monday, 22 September 2008 9:16 A GMT+01

Methinks this bank bailout business is bad rope attached to even more menacing cows - don't buy the rope and if you have been given rope give it a good tug and find out what is attached to it. This is no $700 billion bailout, it could well be twice

Boats, Threats & Videotape

Friday, 11 January 2008 7:48 P GMT+01

The boats, the threats and the videotapes from both the United States and Iran about a confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz show that someone is up to no good - but who?

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America: Maniac with razor blades

Saturday, 27 October 2007 12:15 A GMT+01

Sanctions complicate issues and makes negotiations very difficult. America's position is now seen as one of a maniac with razor blades threatening a nuclear crisis which parallels the Cuba Nuclear Crisis of the 1960s.

A Closer Look at the Failed States Index - Sudan is really worse than Iraq

Wednesday, 20 June 2007 6:36 P GMT+01

The Failed States Index really has to be studied in detail before any of its assertions are debunked outright. I am of the veiw that this study is competently and thoroughly done.

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Ghana makes Nigeria a truly failed state

Tuesday, 19 June 2007 8:07 P GMT+01

The list of Failed States in 2007 leaves Nigeria rising up the ranks of failure and concern about how others might be doing a lot better like Ghana.

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Selling their discretion, dignity and honour

Sunday, 8 April 2007 7:15 P GMT+01

Now the naval personnel have been given permission to sell their stories to newspapers. I despair.

Numbers on lifts and people

Sunday, 1 April 2007 3:06 P GMT+01

Number 13 missing in my hotel lift and numbers written on the back-hands of women and necks of men in Iraq. The danger of numbering is evident.

Four years of shock and awe

Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:34 P GMT+01

The story of Iraq tells itself without the need for analysis or excessive commentary.

Obama is one quick wit - Howard trumped

Monday, 12 February 2007 1:10 A GMT+01

Barack Obama's response to John Howard's criticism of pulling American troops out of Iraq would have the old man scratching his head and ruing why he did not keep his peace.

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Weapons of Mock Translation from Iran

Sunday, 11 February 2007 10:59 P GMT+01

Are these weapons really from Iran or is this a premise for a new war front?

These are no men of peace

Thursday, 18 January 2007 5:02 P GMT+01

If indeed the US Government rejected a peace deal with Iran which could have helped limit the bloodbath that we now have in Iraq, who are the men we have in power and why are they there?

Dummies Guide to Hanging

Monday, 15 January 2007 5:15 P GMT+01

Even the hanging of Saddam's aides seems to have missed out on a professional touch that one got decapitated in the process. There are dynamics of hanging that prevent that, but that man's family would end up with 2 pieces of him. How gruesome!

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Who pays the price? Boxer versus Rice

Sunday, 14 January 2007 6:00 P GMT+01

The exchange between Barbara Boxer and Condoleezza Rice last week in the Senate has the conservative wires in apoplectic rage. The real question however has not been answered, who really pays the price for the continuing debacle in Iraq?

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The year of Armageddon upon us

Saturday, 13 January 2007 10:59 P GMT+01

There is a possibility that the Middle-East might in view of radical American policies see the ignition of the tinder box of Armageddon - US, Iraq, Iran, Israel and Syria filling the rivers of Mesopotamia to Jordan with blood.

Diplomacy is dead, long live diplomacy

Thursday, 11 January 2007 9:25 P GMT+01

One case study that the Bush administration would offer for posterity is how to engage your allies by disparaging them especially when they are critical to your wellbeing and success. I am speechless.

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War on terror - Where suspects have no recourse

Tuesday, 9 January 2007 9:17 P GMT+01

The use of alleged, presumed and suspected in gaining the impetus to go after probable terrorists when after the skirmish, the dead are found to be anything but terrorists, is of great concern and needs to be addressed.

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Is there a ‘Nam brewing in Mess-O-potamia?

Monday, 8 January 2007 10:59 P GMT+01

The comparisons of Iraq with Vietnam would never end as history forms around the events of our times. I have just visited an old blog and pulled out a tome to the demented.

Can Bush be a great man?

Monday, 8 January 2007 10:59 P GMT+01

If Bush changed his tone in the process of changing hois strategy, would he gain more success in Iraq?

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The Iraqi Travesty - Saddam escapes justice

Monday, 8 January 2007 1:46 P GMT+01

All charges against Saddam Hussein have now been dropped and rightly so. However, I do remember that we were assured that all the charges would be tried even if he was killed, smart people knew the rush to kill him was behind that false promise.

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Enlisting the dead for Iraq

Saturday, 6 January 2007 10:59 P GMT+01

Computers would get blamed for this crass stupidity of sending letters to the dead of Iraq to reenlist in the army, I am taking none of it.

Spare and pardon the Saddam video guard

Thursday, 4 January 2007 7:29 A GMT+01

As the net closes in on the person who recorded the execution of Saddam, the fact of the matter is that the government lied to us when something different was happening. They should face up to their mistakes and learn to speak the truth.

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3,000 memorials to what?

Monday, 1 January 2007 4:38 P GMT+01

The death toll of US soldiers now reaches 3,000, what have they died for and for what would they be remembered in posterity? Who now has innocent blood on their hands?

Saddam was innocent of 9/11

Saturday, 30 December 2006 10:59 P GMT+01

Now that Saddam Hussein has been killed we can move on from that distraction and focus on the real perpetrators of 9/11 who run wild and free giving inspiration and killing American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Where is Bin Laden amd Mullah Omar?

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Old-age Rum's field day

Friday, 5 May 2006 9:43 P GMT+01

A hapless septuagenarian was heckled during an important speech to his supporters, then accused of lying. How rotten! This is in empathetic concern and commiseration. Why badger a poor old man?

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