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3DHS / Putin & US weapons in Eastern Europe
« on: June 05, 2007, 10:46:53 AM »

Putin denounces US plan for missile shield


· Bush endangering peace in central Europe, EU told
· Russian minister repeats retaliation warning

Ian Traynor, Europe editor
Thursday May 24, 2007
The Guardian

President Vladimir Putin travelled to the heart of Europe yesterday to denounce the Bush administration's plans to deploy a missile defence shield in the region.

In his fourth anti-US salvo in as many months, the Russian leader took the floor in Vienna's Hofburg Palace, former seat of Austro-Hungarian emperors, to ask why the Americans were threatening the peace of central Europe by putting new radars and a silo of missile defence rockets in the Czech Republic and Poland.

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"What is happening in Europe that is so negative that we need to fill eastern Europe with new forms of weapons?" he asked. "What has happened that has worsened the situation in Europe and demands such actions? Nothing."

The Russian leader's uncompromising opposition to the Pentagon's plans to install elements of its missile shield project in central Europe followed a frosty summit last week with EU leaders, unproductive talks with Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, and Britain's indictment on Tuesday of an ex-KGB officer, Andrei Lugovoy, for the London murder of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent and fierce critic of Mr Putin.

Relations between Russia and the west are at their lowest ebb for 20 years, and senior European and Nato officials expect no let-up in the confrontational rhetoric from Moscow until Mr Putin's eight-year presidency comes to an end next year and the power struggle for the succession is resolved.

While Mr Putin denounced the Americans in Vienna, a principal contender to succeed him, Sergei Ivanov, argued that the US radar station planned for the Czech Republic would be able to spy deep into Russia. Mr Ivanov, a deputy prime minister, former defence minister, and, like Mr Putin, a KGB veteran, dismissed the US's insistence that the missile shield elements are to counter Iranian ballistic missiles, and not Russia's.

"The radar the US is planning to deploy in the Czech Republic will be capable of scanning air space up to the Ural mountains," he said. Reiterating warnings of retaliation, he added: "A more efficient sword can be found for every shield."

Mr Putin's performance in Vienna appeared to be part of a campaign to win over European public opinion against the Pentagon project in Europe. The Americans are engaged in a parallel effort, dispatching senior officials and officers to Europe and to Russia in recent weeks on a charm offensive.

The Kremlin is currently embroiled in a series of disputes with countries it used to control on its borders - from Estonia in the north to Georgia in the south. All the border countries perceive Mr Putin's Russia as a bully and are eager to attract US support and cover.

Mr Ivanov yesterday accused them of trying to construct a "cordon sanitaire" around Russia. "They are hurting their own interests and splitting their own societies," he warned. But the harsh rhetoric from the Kremlin since February has only strengthened the resolve of the Polish and Czech governments to host the missile shield bases. The Polish government said this week that the silo of anti-missile rockets should be installed within five years.

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Juniorbush claims that these bases in Poland and the Czech Republic are necessary to protect Europe from attack by "rogue nations"

Has anyone actually looked at a map?

What rogue nation could lob missiles over Poland into Western Europe?

Iran?  North Korea?

Putin is a jerk, but he seems to be right to assume that this does NOT  involve any "rogue nations", but rather is against Russia.

How stupid does Juniorbush want to think the world he is?

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3DHS / Mistakes might have been made
« on: January 16, 2007, 04:15:11 PM »
Yes, you could say mistakes have been made
By CARL HIAASEN

President Bush's prime-time TV appearance on Wednesday night was way more than a speech. It was a séance.

The man was plainly in a deep trance, channeling Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.

Give us more, more, more, the president kept saying, and we'll fix this mess.

More soldiers. More money. More time.

It's what is best for the country, Bush recited somberly -- our national security is at stake.

Good morning, Vietnam!

The president didn't mention that nasty ''conflict'' by name, but he didn't need to. You remember the old script -- just scratch out ''communists'' and pencil in ``terrorists.''

Bush has been well-coached by the ghosts of LBJ and Tricky Dick to stoke fear, invoke patriotism and selectively skirt the facts. It helps, of course, to be in a delusional fog.

When the president said, for example, that Anbar Province has become a hotbed for al Qaeda, he didn't point out that al Qaeda was nowhere to be found in Iraq before the U.S. invasion.

By his own pig-headed blundering, he created a new home for the terrorists, and therefore we must stay and fight to the bitter end. It's vintage Vietnam-era logic, from a guy who never got within 9,000 miles of Saigon during the war.

Here's what happened in Iraq while Bush and his speechwriters rehearsed, communing with the spirits of dead presidents: Scores of Iraqi civilians were murdered, and the total of U.S. military casualties rose to 3,008. By the time you read this, it probably will be higher.

The Pentagon hasn't released the name of the most recent fatality, a soldier from the 13th Sustainment Command, who was blown up by an improvised bomb near Fallujah.

Borrowing a guilt-inducing line from Johnson and Nixon, Bush said that pulling out of Iraq would be a disservice to all the troops who've given their lives there.

Get us out

Only victory, the president declared, will do honor to our fallen heroes.

Victory, like truth, is a fluid concept in this administration. Attacking Iraq was one of the most vaingloriously stupid decisions in the history of U.S. foreign policy, and Bush desperately wants to salvage for himself a legacy other than that of bungler-in-chief.

A huge majority of Americans, including many in his own party, want the president to commence getting us out of Iraq -- not sinking us deeper.

The nation has turned against the war out of concern for the very troops whose valor and sacrifices Bush is using as a justification to send more. Our young men and women are dying at the rate of more than 100 a month with no end in sight, and it's nothing but patriotic to ask: For what?

Nearly four years after bombing Iraq, the president has finally gagged down his pride and said mistakes have been made.

Gee, you think? We bombed and occupied a neutral country because Bush claimed it had weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be a line of crap.

Now we're mired in the middle of a bloody civil war that's costing about $100 billion a year, which is sweet for the vice president's pals at Halliburton but not so good for the deficit.

Blasted to pieces

Meanwhile, our troops are getting blasted to pieces by folks they were sent to liberate.

Yeah, you could say mistakes have been made.

Yet Bush still insists that victory lies within our grasp. All he needs is 21,500 live bodies . . . for now.

Hardly anyone believes the shaky Iraqi government will be able to stop the sectarian slaughters and stabilize Baghdad anytime soon. Even after the president's speech, seven of 10 Americans oppose expanding our forces there, according to an Associated Press poll.

Bush will send the soldiers, anyway, Congress will howl, and the flag-draped coffins will keep arriving.

Top generals who opposed the troop surge have been replaced by others who are more inclined to say what Bush wants to hear. And when he's not listening to his posse of cheerleaders -- led by Dick Cheney and Condi Rice -- he's evidently listening to the ghosts of those who botched Vietnam.

Dispirited exhaustion

''Peace with honor,'' was Nixon's mantra, though he was gone from the White House by the time U.S. troops made their chaotic exit from Saigon. Bush will be out of office, too, chopping wood down in Texas when the last American soldier leaves Baghdad.

Who knows when that will happen. The Vietnam War ended in dispirited exhaustion, and so will Iraq. There's no quick and bloodless way out.

This time, though, the deeds of those men and women who served will not be diminished by the outcome. The same cannot be said of Bush's standing in history.

To the end, he'll insist that he was right and everyone else was wrong, because that's the dreamy, disconnected nature of his trance.

And he will never snap out of it.

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3DHS / 655,000 dead Iraqis, says Washington Post
« on: January 16, 2007, 03:17:41 PM »


washingtonpost.com: 

Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000

By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 11, 2006; Page A12

A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.

The estimate, produced by interviewing residents during a random sampling of households throughout the country, is far higher than ones produced by other groups, including Iraq's government.
   

A man mourns his son Friday in Baqubah, a city north of Baghdad. The child died in random gunfire near a family home in the village of Khan Bani Saad.
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It is more than 20 times the estimate of 30,000 civilian deaths that President Bush gave in a speech in December. It is more than 10 times the estimate of roughly 50,000 civilian deaths made by the British-based Iraq Body Count research group.

The surveyors said they found a steady increase in mortality since the invasion, with a steeper rise in the last year that appears to reflect a worsening of violence as reported by the U.S. military, the news media and civilian groups. In the year ending in June, the team calculated Iraq's mortality rate to be roughly four times what it was the year before the war.

Of the total 655,000 estimated "excess deaths," 601,000 resulted from violence and the rest from disease and other causes, according to the study. This is about 500 unexpected violent deaths per day throughout the country.

The survey was done by Iraqi physicians and overseen by epidemiologists at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health. The findings are being published online today by the British medical journal the Lancet.

The same group in 2004 published an estimate of roughly 100,000 deaths in the first 18 months after the invasion. That figure was much higher than expected, and was controversial. The new study estimates that about 500,000 more Iraqis, both civilian and military, have died since then -- a finding likely to be equally controversial.

Both this and the earlier study are the only ones to estimate mortality in Iraq using scientific methods. The technique, called "cluster sampling," is used to estimate mortality in famines and after natural disasters.

While acknowledging that the estimate is large, the researchers believe it is sound for numerous reasons. The recent survey got the same estimate for immediate post-invasion deaths as the early survey, which gives the researchers confidence in the methods. The great majority of deaths were also substantiated by death certificates.

"We're very confident with the results," said Gilbert Burnham, a Johns Hopkins physician and epidemiologist.

A Defense Department spokesman did not comment directly on the estimate.

"The Department of Defense always regrets the loss of any innocent life in Iraq or anywhere else," said Lt. Col. Mark Ballesteros. "The coalition takes enormous precautions to prevent civilian deaths and injuries."

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3DHS / Brzezinski's opinion
« on: January 11, 2007, 08:31:17 PM »
Zbigniew Brzezinski on PBS News tonight ended his interview by saying that the last four presidents (Ford, Carter, Olebush and Clinton) all opposed this latest 'surge' schtick. Then he added that he did not think this war could be won, because it was a colonial war, and the time for colonial wars had passed.


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3DHS / Time and place: some speculations
« on: December 24, 2006, 10:22:42 AM »

WHAT IS TIME?  WHAT IS SPACE?

(This was inspired by the following question in Yahoo! Answers, asked by 'homayoun_mh')

What is the difference betwin time & place?
what is time
what is place
what is the difference betwin time & place
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WHAT TIME AND SPACE ARE: A COMPARISON

What is place?  Place is a point in physical space. Where we are in space is a place we call HERE

What is time? Time is a point (moment) in temporal space.  Where we are in time is a moment we call NOW.

Everything is always in movement through time, the infinitesimal moment we call NOW is in constant movement between THEN and the future.

Time flows at a constant rate in only one direction, which, for lack for a better name, we call forward. Movement back in time, from NOW to THEN seems to be quite impossible.

Movement across space as we see it is optional: we are not obliged to move, it seems to us. We may go across the river and through the trees to Grandmother's house, or we may stay home. This is a true way of looking at movement, but it is incomplete to a high degree.

But most movement we are doing is not optional for us, in reality: the Earth is turning on its axis, and as it does so, is orbiting around the Sun, and the entire Solar System is also in constant movement across space.

The optional movements we make in space are defined in four directions: North, South, East and West, Up and Down, or in a point that combines no more than three of these.

The compulsory movements can also be defined in a similar way, but they differ from the optional ones in that they are not optional.

Time is measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millennia and so forth. Everyone agrees on how to measure time. It is related to the movement of the Earth.

Movement in space is measured in a variety of ways: inches, feet, yards, miles, or millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers. The metric system is more logical because (1) it is related to the Earth (10,000 meters from pole to Equator) and (2) it is divided into easy to understand decimals.

Decimals are easier for people to relate to because we are all  (well, nearly all ) are born with ten fingers.

OBSERVATIONS ON TIME AND SPACE

It is rather strange that time is not measured decimally, but in units of 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, and 365.25+ days in a year.

This becomes a minor difficulty in programming the microwave: mine divides a minute into 100 units, not 60, so 3½ minutes are 3.50 minutes and not 3:30 minutes.


METAPHYSICAL SPECULATIONS

 Although we envision the Earth as a central point in a Creation by God, a Perfect Being, it seems to me that many people ignore that a truly logical and perfect Creator would have done a bit better than making the orbit of the Earth around the Sun a strange number like 365.25+ revolutions of the Earth. Presumably, God also created the Laws of Physics as well, and yet they are not internally consistent as one supposes that a Perfect Being would make them.

It is not possible to even have an exact number of months in a year. Again, time as defined by the movements of the Earth, Moon and Sun are not logically consistent in their orbits. There are fewer than twelve rotations of the Moon around the Earth in a year, and there are fewer than 31 rotations of the Earth on its axis in a month.

Should we dedicate a few moments to speculate on the possibly quirky nature of God Almighty every 29th of February, perhaps?

These inconsistencies cause me to wonder about what some people call the Wonder of Creation. True, it is wonderful that it was created, but the creation itself does not seem to be as well planned as it could be.

SO, IS GOD REALLY ALMIGHTY?

One observes that any computer language is considerably more logically consistent than the Laws of Physics. The Laws of Physics, which are an inherent part of Creation, we suppose to be the creation of a Perfect Being we call God Almighty
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One wonders if God Almighty, with his illogical arrangement of the Laws of Physics, could get or hold a job as a computer programmer with Microsoft or anyone in a position that uses mathematics in a creative application. One asks: would a logically consistent Perfect Being not have devised a mathematical system in which the constant pi (π) was an eternally repeating decimal (3.14159...)?
 
Perhaps He could not create a harmonious system of time and space, because the Laws of Physics cannot be arranged in this way. If this is so, then He can properly be called, not God Almighty, but only God Semi-Mighty.

Can God cause time to halt? The Bible says that this is happened once in a field of battle, but there is no empirical evidence of this.

There are no claims in the Bible that God can travel, or cause anything to travel, backwards through Time. Speculation about a retrograde movement in time seems only to have occurred to madmen until it was made a part of science fiction in modern times.

And yet if God cannot travel back in time or cause anything to travel back in time, then again, He is not omnipotent, not all powerful, not Almighty.

One speculates: if God could travel back in time, He could have ventured back to the moment of Lucifer's rebellion and squelched it in its tracks. If God did not do this because he could not, He is not omnipotent. If He did not do this because He could and did not wish to, then the presence of evil in the Universe is His doing and blaming it on Lucifer would seem to be a rather bogus proposition.

It is also true that God could have paid a bit more attention to quality control when designing Lucifer. I also speculate about God's attention to detail in the creation of human teeth. Everyone's teeth and gums are constantly being attacked by bacteria. What is THAT about?  Are we to assume that Adam and Eve had no tooth decay problems? I don't know of anyone who claims of professional dentistry in the New Testament, let alone the Old.


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3DHS / Christmas cookies
« on: December 19, 2006, 02:26:18 PM »
My favorite recipe for cookies this holiday!!!! I am making a batch tonight. You have to read it till the end!!

 

Jose Cuervo Cookies

 

 

My favorite Christmas cookie recipe

 

1 cup of water

1 tsp. baking soda

1 cup of sugar

1 tsp. salt

1 cup of brown sugar

lemon juice

4 large eggs

1 cup nuts

2 cups of dried fruit

1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequila

 

Sample the Cuervo to check quality.

 

Take a large bowl, check the Cuervo again, to be sure it is of the

highest

quality.

 

Pour one level cup and drink.

 

Turn on the electric mixer.

 

Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.

 

Add one teaspoon of sugar.

 

Beat again.

 

At this point, it's best to make sure the Cuervo is still OK. Try

another

cup...just in case.

 

Turn off the mixerer thingy.

 

Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.

 

 

Pick the frigging fruit off floor.

 

Mix on the turner.

 

If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers, just pry it loose with a drewscriver.

 

Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity.

 

Next, sift two cups of salt, or something. Who giveshz a sheet.

 

Check the Jose Cuervo.

 

Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.

 

Add one table.

 

Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.

 

Greash the oven.

 

Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.

Don't forget to beat off the turner.


Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the Cose Juervo and

Make sure to put the stove in the dishwasher.

 

CHERRY MISTMAS

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3DHS / Evidence of Rumsfeldian Stupidity
« on: December 17, 2006, 01:36:53 AM »
In the US Embassy in Baghdad now, over three years after the war began, there are 1,000 Americans. How many know some Arabic?  66, according to Newsweek. How many can carry on a conversation with an Iraqi?  SIX (6). And that is NOW, in December 2006. This is beyond pitiful.

We have Arab-Americans, of course, who speak the language, but the FBI, CIA and State Dept mostly does not trust them. There have been numerous instances where Iraqi-Americans who applied for jobs were arrested and subjected to harsh interrogations. This has tended to drive others who could help away in droves.

It is a fact and a well-known one, that what is called "Arabic" is not one language, as is English, but a multiplicity of dialects and mutually unintelligible languages

There is something called "Koranic Arabic" that people of the region learn when they study , most often by rote memorization, the Koran. The equivalent would be for Australians, Americans, Nigerians and Canadians to communicate using King James Bible English.

There was no plan to have an obviously essential crash course in Iraqi Arabic, or specifically Iraqi dialects of Arabic prior to the invasion. Shock and Awe was all Rummy thought we needed.

Juniorbush, of course, had zero knowledge of culture and geography. He is the pitiful bumpkin that asked if Brazil had any Black people (it has more than anywhere else on the planet).

Being as his knowledge fo foreign affairs was several visits to the International House of Pancakes, he was given Colin Powell as a mentor. Naturally the Neocons never gave Powell the chance to educate him even a little bit.

He was, and still is ignorant, stupid and stubborn.

It is sad to watch him flounder and flail about like a fish out of water.
It is too bad that his optimal career choice: manager of the Midland Texas Piggly-Wiggly was not realized. He might have made president of his Rotary Club by the age of 70.

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3DHS / Joe Sacco's Iraq cartoons
« on: December 06, 2006, 03:57:48 PM »
Joe Sacco is a graphic novelist born in Malta who deals with political issues.

In this link at the bottom of the page, there is another link to two 8-page cartoons he has done for The Guardian about Iraq.
One about a couple of tortured Iraqis and the second about live on patrol with the Marines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Sacco

His books ' Palestine' and 'Safe Area Gorazde' are terrific.

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3DHS / Abner Louima is alive and rich in Miami Lakes
« on: December 04, 2006, 06:26:51 PM »
By the way, Abner Louima, the Haitian who was sodomized by the NYPD officer several years ago and won $6 million in his lawsuit, now lives in a really cushy house in a far better neighborhood than mine in Miami Lakes, with a major security system and a large portrait of Al Sharpton in his living room.

One of my students is tutoring his children.

I am not jealous of Louima, by the way. I just find it ironic that an Anglo with PhD and a 35 career as a college professor has led to a lesser degree of economic success than a one-time broomstick buggery by a racist cop. 

OJ's digs are nicer than either Louima's or mine, by the way.

Jimmy Carter pointed out that "Life is not fair" I should like to point out that it is also ironic from time to time.

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3DHS / The solution to Palisrael
« on: November 24, 2006, 05:40:57 PM »
Israel is not going to be "driven into the sea" except in the subjunctive tense and then only in the words of the propagandists of AIPAC. WHenever I hear the words "driven into the sea" I know that I am in the presence of some sort of fanatic.

It is one thing to say that it is in the interests of the US that there be extensive reform in the Middle East and quite another for the US to be capable of imposing it.

Israel is one of the reasons that this is impossible at the moment. What is wrong with most of the Middle East is the idea that religion and State be joined together, as in "Islamic Republic", but not ONLY that. The idea of "Jewish State" is equally a terrible idea, and for the same reason.

The fact that this "Jewish State" is a trucculant, expansionist and colonialist enetity makes it worse. And the fact that it is financed by the US makes it intolerable to the Muslims of the area.

How hypocritical it is for the US to say that Iran has no right to be an Islamic Republic, when we have done everything in our power since 1948 to finance a Jewish Republic, in which Muslims and even Christian Arabs are clearly second-class citizens!

The US is not capable of making the Middle East peaceful, particularly if it continues to support Israel and favor it over all other causes..., including cheap oil for Exxon Mobil, Shell, and so forth to peddle. We are all for a democratic Lebanon, but we care not a fig for it if even a couple of Israelis are kidnapped. In that case, we are all for hundreds of Lebanese civilians to die and hundred of thousands to be bombed out of their homes.

There is only ONE country with the talent capable of saving the Palisrael mess, and it is not the US, which has always been far too biased.

It is the Netherlands, the only country who knows how to turn salt sea into dry land. The entire gibbering mess of Israeli and Palestinians need to be put under the stern Dutch uncle authority and enlisted to build another country of equal size on the Mediterranean. Perhaps the entire Golan Heights could be dumped in the Sea.

Once the land has been reclaimed from the Sea, then lots could be drawn as to who gets the new country, with ample aid and a fair division of ancestral bones, and who  gets to stay put. I think I'd make sure that there was at least 10 kms. of water between the two, just to be on the safe side.





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3DHS / Barbara Juniorbush robbed in Argentina!
« on: November 22, 2006, 03:25:39 PM »
I spent nearly two weeks in San Telmo and felt pretty safe.
Perhaps the Secret Service guards with her were former Intel people who advised about WMD's.
There seems to be a bit of a contradiction here. Either it was Barbara or Jenna. The Argentine newspaper was unable to say which one was robbed, but this story says it was Barbara.

I wonder if they have dialed her number to see who answered.

"You're under arrest!" they could say. Or perhaps they could trace the phone to the thieves.


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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - U.S. and Argentine media reported that one of President Bush’s 24-year-old twin daughters had her purse stolen while being guarded by the Secret Service during a visit here.

ABC News, citing unidentified law enforcement reports, reported on its Web site Tuesday that Barbara Bush’s purse and cell phone were taken while she was dining in a Buenos Aires restaurant.

La Nacion newspaper, citing anonymous government sources, said in its online edition early Wednesday that one of Bush’s daughters had her purse taken Sunday afternoon in the popular tourist district of San Telmo.

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A pair of thieves removed the purse from under a table while Secret Service agents stood guard at a distance, La Nacion reported. La Nacion said its sources did not reveal which of the Bush daughters had her purse stolen.

Argentine police told The Associated Press they had no complaint of any such incident on file, and the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires said it would have no comment. In Washington, the White House, Secret Service and State Department also declined comment.

CNN cited a law-enforcement source who was briefed on the incident as saying that “at no point were the protectees out of visual contact and at no point was there any risk of harm.”

Argentina’s largest-circulation daily, Clarin, ran an online report citing the government news agency Telam as saying that Barbara Bush had her purse taken along with a cell phone that was inside it. Telam cited an official source who did not wish to be identified by name and who provided no other details.

Barbara’s twin, Jenna, visited neighboring Paraguay last month to take part in a UNICEF program for young professionals.


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3DHS / Treaties and consistency
« on: September 20, 2006, 11:45:09 PM »
Juniorbush wants to be able to "clarify" the Geneva Convention, a treaty the US signed many years ago and has normalLy followed.
Iran signed some sort of non-nuclear proliferation thing when it was run by the Shah, who was deposed by the will of the Iranian people. Since then, Iran has elected a government that rejects the Shah. The percentage of royalists even among exiles is minuscule. Under the Shah, Henry Kissinger did all he could to convince the Shah that Iran needed nuclear energy.

Yet, Juniorbush seems to be unable to see how utterly one-sided and ironic this is.


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