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[FTSN News] WE ARE NOT GOING TO WAR OVER A BUNCH OF DEAD SAILORS PART 1 of 2 ...: Ben Gurion, an avid Zionist and the Israel’s first Prime Minister, envisioned an Egyptian terrorist attack against the U.S. in order to destroy that alliance. However, that wasn’t a probability, given the relationship between the two countries.

[Eurasia Review - Facebook Feed] European Responses To Obama's Middle East Policy | Analysis: The invasion was hugely divisive for Europe and in their eagerness to repair the rifts with Washington that emerged over the issue, the EU effectively stepped up cooperation with the US on the MEPP - notably in their stance on Hamas. As of Obama’s election, differences over Iraq and even the MEPP have ceased to be so problematic.

[News From Antiwar.com] Russia Moves Forward on Defense Missiles, Nuclear Plants for Iran ...: Do you actually not get it that Russia has delayed the Bushere plant again and again and again, and that it is precisely this that has stuck Iran with a stockpile of enriched uranium, and that it is precisly this stockpile that has been cited again and again and again as the primary public reason to suspect Iran of nefarious designs? Russia is playing a very brutal and cynical game with Iran, stringing Iran along with promises that are never fulfilled, while essentially CREATING the reason which Israel and the US manipulate as a reason for sanctions,and then coming back and throwing up their hands in the air, as they vote for sanctions, saying 'gee whiz, we can't help it, it's all because of the US and besides, Iran isn't being responsible'.

[Pakistan Daily: The Pakistan News Agency] If US attacks Pakistan | Pakistan Daily: On May 29, 2010, while quoting the US officials, under the caption, “Options studied for a possible Pakistan strike”, The Washington Post disclosed: “The US military is reviewing options for a unilateral strike in Pakistan in the event that a successful attack on American soil is traced to the country’s tribal areas”¦ties between the alleged Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad, and elements of the Pakistani Taliban have sharpened the Obama administration’s need for retaliatory options.” The Post further elaborated: “The US options for potential retaliatory action rely mainly on air and missile strikes, but could also employ small teams of US Special Operations troops already positioned along the border with Afghanistan.”

[World Blog] World Blog - 'Too Many Angel Flights' in Iraq: This war is a continuing legacy of European colonialism of the Middle East (and rest of the world). If Iraq didn't have oil, we wouldnt be there.

[AlwaysCatholic] “Soul of American Warrior” - USA World - ElizabethKilbride ...: Mike Smitley, owner of Father’s Press Publishing, said, “Having been to Iraq with our warriors, then writing about them, Kilbride knows their sacrifices first-hand, which is why she wanted to do more than just verbally give her support. We intend to help these SEALs by providing them with two strategic weapons to help them fight their battle —

[New Articles on frontpagemag.com] FrontPage Magazine - Required Reading: The Washington Times | Tuesday, April 08, 2008. The war over Iraq ”” not to be confused with the conflict actually taking place there ”” is back in the headlines. This week's report to Congress by America's top two emissaries in Baghdad, Gen. ... Consequently, I know him to be scrupulous in his command of the facts, exacting in his analysis and lucidly articulate in his writing. Still, I was unprepared for the thoroughness of the documentation, the sweeping nature of the ...

[Project Censored] Analysis of Project Censored: Are We a Left-Leaning, Conspiracy ...: The Clinton Administration and the Commerce Department have lobbied on behalf of U.S. toy and chemical manufacturers against proposed new European Union (EU) restrictions, which would prevent children’s exposure to toxic chemicals released by polyvinyl chloride (PVC) toys such as teething rings. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), suggesting that the U.S. government lobbied at the behest of toymaker Mattel and chemical manufacturer Exxon, may help explain the European Commission’s rejection of the proposed emergency ban.

[Iraq News and Information] The War Against Iraq And Afghanistan : Iraq News and Information: President’s Bush main reasons for attacking Iraq and Afghanistan may be summarized as follows; to stamp out terrorism in the world, to protect the US and the rest of the world by capturing weapons of mass destruction and to protect Iraq and Afghan citizens from abusive governments such as Saddam Hussein’s regime.

[Al Jazeera Blogs] Doctoring the Middle East | Al Jazeera Blogs: Regional commentators and analysts see Obama's policies starting by his escalation of the war in Afghanistan, issuing ultimatums to Iran, expanding US covert operations in the Middle East - as revealed in the New York Times last week - through his new rapprochement with the unrepentant Netanyahu government, as signs of more of the same aggressive (read interventionist) US strategy in the region.

[America Magazine - In All Things] America Magazine: Mind you, the only rationale for Clark’s candidacy was that as a military man who had opposed the Iraq War as a strategic blunder, he could garner the anti-war vote without appearing weak on defense. No one looked at Clark as a viable candidate because he did his own taxes and, consequently, had special insights to the tax code.

[Opinio Juris] Opinio Juris » Blog Archive » The Civil War and the Blockade of ...: Further, I believe your binary belligerent-insurgent thesis is inaccurate.  Insurgents are not always “common criminals.”  It depends upon their level of organization and the intensity of hostilities.  If a stark belligerent-insurgent dichotomy existed, one in which the former entitles fighters to POW status and the latter just to prosecution for a domestic crime, there would be no need for the second protocol to the Geneva Conventions governing armed conflicts with or between sufficiently organized non-state groups.  That protocol does not discuss the concept of a POW, does not limit the use of blockades (or, more accurately, port closures), and creates certain minimal international legal obligations on all parties to a conflict within its terms.  Related to this event, it does, however, provide that:

[LobeLog.com] Tomgram: Juan Cole, Israel's Gift to Iran's Hardliners « LobeLog.com: The flotilla attack also gave the hardliners a foreign policy issue on which they could stand in solidarity with Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and the Arab world generally, reinforcing their cachet as champions of the Palestinians and bolstering the country’s regional influence.  There was even talk of sending a new Gaza aid flotilla guarded by Iranian ships.  Because Turkey, the aggrieved party, is at present a member of the Security Council, this fortuitous fillip for Iran has denied Obama the unanimity he sought on sanctions.  Finally, the incident had the potential to push international concern over Tehran’s nuclear enrichment program and that country’s new assertiveness in the Middle East into the background, while foregrounding Israel’s brutality in Gaza, intransigence toward the peace process, and status as a nuclear outlaw.

[politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Why are none of these standing?: Jean Schmidt (R-OH) appologized yet for calling her opponent a liarr, when he said that, if elected (he wasn't) he'd be the first Iraq War vet in Congress. Because (she said) we've already got that great hero Mark Kirk!

[Blogs For Victory] Rep. Mike Pence: We Will Stand Wiith Israel » Blogs For Victory: The modern state of Israel is a non-Semitic eastern European creation that recycled the biblical name for purely political reasons. Its situation in the Middle East is an artificial circumstance set in motion back around 1917 by the UK’s well-intended foreign secretary, Lord Arthur James Balfour, who actually had no right to the land of “Palestine”

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