h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The Italians are leaving! The Italians are leaving!

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/03/15/ItalyIraq-050315.html

This is particularly interesting "And for all the worry about Osama bin Laden's sleeper cells or agents in the United States, a secret FBI assessment concludes it knows of none."

I saw a right wing site this morning that said it 'knows' that bin Laden is in the USA (he came in from Mexico.)

What's that about? (Also I heard something about the latest anthrax scare in Warshington...)

http://jacq.org/War/war-03.htm
Reasons war is peace.

Thought you may like these.

Hi anhaga - Thought you may like these.
I did not know if you want links.
please tell me if not.

I always check yours in case I have missed something we read the same sort of information , sometimes from different sources.

Thanks, Abbi, always happpy to have more links. I'm afraid I'll not be spending too much time at Chez Jacq' just now: it's the middle of the night and I just got up to hork up a lung. Bloody cold.

Ok then, thanks.
I may pop up more often!

I have a difficult time staying on for long so I do not get into many discussions but follow the information closely. I have appreciated your passion for the topics.
Sleep well.

Bloody.

'Shoot first, pay later culture pervades Iraq'

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0080ca18-97d9-11d9-912c-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=c1a5b968-e1ed-11d7-81c6-0820abe49a01,ft_acl=,s01=2.html

and

Bloody frickin' hell!

'A new "National Defense Strategy" for the first time makes the kind of preemptive strike used in Iraq part of the nation's military policy in dealing with rogue nations, Pentagon officials said today.

The plan that specifies the Bush administration's goals in protecting the nation describes a muscular policy of "active deterrence."
'

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-031905defense_lat,0,5377772.story?coll=la-home-nation

' US intelligence and military police officers in Iraq are routinely freeing dangerous criminals in return for a promise to spy on insurgents, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.

In one case where the IoS has seen documents, police rescued a doctor after a gun battle with his kidnappers and arrested two of the kidnap gang, who made full confessions. But US military police took over custody of the two men and let them go. The doctor had to flee to Egypt after being threatened by the gang.'

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=621845




hearts and minds

Bloomin' Hell!

So, why was it Afghanistan was invaded?


'The United States is spending $83 million to upgrade its two main air bases in Afghanistan, an Air Force general said Monday, the latest indication that American forces will remain in the country for years.'

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050328/w032818.html

<< the latest indication that American forces will remain in the country for years.'>>

Somehow, I am not surprised...

This is great!

'The announcement Friday that the United States is authorizing the sale to Pakistan of F-16 fighter jets capable of delivering nuclear warheads — and thereby escalating the region's nuclear arms race — is the latest example of how the most important issue on the planet is being bungled by the Bush administration.

Consider this dizzying series of Bush II-era actions:

We have thrown away thousands of Iraqi and American lives and billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars after crying wolf on Iraq's long-defunct nuclear weapons program and now expect the world to believe similar scary stories about neighboring Iran.

We have cozied up to Pakistan for more than three years as it freely allowed the operation of the most extravagantly irresponsible nuclear arms bazaar the world has ever seen.

We sabotaged negotiations with North Korea by telling allies that Pyongyang had supplied nuclear material to Libya, even though the Bush administration knew that the country of origin of those shipments was our "ally," Pakistan.

Now, Lockheed Martin has been saved from closing its F-16 production line by the White House decision to lift the arms embargo on Pakistan and allow the sale. The decision, which ends a 1990 embargo put in place by the president's father in reprisal for Pakistan's development of a nuclear arsenal, is especially odd at a time when we are berating European nations for considering lifting their arms embargo on China.
'

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-scheer29mar29,0,3428948.column


Why haven't the impeachment proceedings begun?

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This is insane!!!!

I sure can't disagree with you on this one, Apple.

Just a quick observation before I'm off to bed.

Pakistan, like Afghanistan and Iraq, has a border with Iran, part of Bush's "Axis of Evil."

Could just be coincidence, I guess.

NBY

Interesting observation....

The U.S. has finally found some Weapons of Mass Destruction!!!


http://www.silive.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/base/national-41/1112157818311580.xml&storylist=national

Remember when pundits were screaming that Yasser Arafat was the obstacle to peace in the Middle East? Remember when he died and everybody was all excited because everything was suddenly going to be hunky dory?

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/03/30/abbas-050330.html

Oh, this really is worthy of an ! (I feel very sorry for anyone living in the neighbourhood...)

Hunky dory indeed...

So, was Bush right?


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4395525.stm

Saddam killed Iraqis, which made him a bad man who needed to be eliminated.

Bush kills more Iraqis, which makes him a good man who needs to be applauded.

Bush is right. At least, he's to the right of me.

NBY