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Category: War
Three Trillion US Dollars
The real cost of the Iraqi misadventure to the people of the USA has been calculated by a Nobel winning economist at over three trillion dollars.
Police have duty to protect public
"The real problem is not that the police acted, it was the premature and unnecessary invocation of the Terrorism law to deliberately make it fail."The police raided and arrested a number of people and brought charges under gun control laws for illegal weapons and they also tried to lay terrorism charges. That failed. There is …
Ending War
It strikes me as odd how the Right Wing debate is not so much "why are we fighting" as "those dirty Democrats caused all this!". Blaming the opposition is a necessity of our political philosophy - from the cradle of conflict we believe truth will emerge. The Democrats want to withdraw the troops - at …
Homegrown Terrorists in Germany
Muslim converts target Germany - Times Online - Home grown dissent exists in every country - but for dissenters to execute terror campaigns against their neighbors for the sole purpose of killing them - only encourages militant leaders to emerge. (For example: will Islam force another Bush upon the world by scaring the votors)?Western Governments …
To Withdraw or not?
Reading the full Bush commentary rather than just sound bites - makes one appreciate how good his speech writers are to be able to frame American war involvement only against the "end game" risk factors. It is revealing that the Bush logic is based on a novel. America walked into Iraq and created havoc. Why? …
Bush predicts bloody summer in Iraq
Bush predicts bloody summer in Iraq - New Zealand's source for World News on Stuff.co.nzGeorge Bush finally looks like he has fallen over the edge - the edge when a president no longer wants makeup artists fussing before a camera explores ones frailty. As he predicts a bloody summer of violence in Iraq he does …
Al Qaeda tactics expand in Gaza
Al Qaeda tactics expand in Gaza | csmonitor.comWW III ALERTDisturbing Trends has defined Al Qaeda as a "cult". It leaches adherents from the fringes of a very large pool of disaffected young people who see the West as the puppet masters that keeps them poor. The West is still reeling from its colonial guilt, those …
The Web of Deception
Robert Fisk: Caught in the deadly web of the internet - Independent Online Edition > Robert FiskCharacter assasination has taken on a whole new meaning as the "war on terror" progresses. The Dept of Homeland Security has a massive budget for spying upon the activities of potential terrorist threats. That is a reaction to the …
Budget, American Style
Bush created a budget balancing act based on increased spending, mainly military, of three trillion dollars. A trillion is 1000 billions, using the American system of dealing with numbers that are simply too big. 1,000,000 is our familiar million. 1,000,000,000 (one billion) is becoming a more commonplace concept of the 21st Century - and already …